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Also: the morph brush is amazing for allowing me to "paint in" projected details. I had to re-project/re-import fixed so many times, but it was very cool that I could project the battle damage of the messed up part, and paint it back onto the new part with that history-state brush instead of redoing the battle damage each time (the posed fella has some of that, I left the symmetrical one "clean")

Parts-assembly-wise this one went together very smoothly compared to the War minion (which was the first kit, so I encountered all my problems on that one hah) but the real challenge on this one was the god-dang clear resin parts! Which is why this kit was a limited edition one (unless perhaps I farm out the red resin bits, they took way too much time to clean up and finish - tons of sanding, and clear-coating at the end) The issue: transparent resin, especially in this shape, can create lensing effects that distort the curing light coming through, and can cause for some heavy banding and pretty big tolerance issues... The other issue is that the hollowed shape acted like suction cups, which made the hourglass-halves unprintable until I added adequate venting (you need a hole at the base and somewhere at the top, the latter had to be placed carefully so it would be obscured by the rest of the sculpture upon assembly.) Just some things to think about, if anyone reading this is attempting anything similar! A little tip if you are trying to print hollow transparent resin: it WILL become frosty, thanks to the layer lines once you clean off the uncured resin, and it's very difficult to clean up the inside unless you have some two-part system. Initially I had the little skull set inside, but decided to smear it against the side of the glass in sort of a reverse effect as those cut-gemstone sculptures, which made the "skull with its soul getting sucked out" effect readable again. Clear resin was an even bigger mess than this red - the pigmentation probably helped scatter a little less light, but it is tricky to work with. I will need to run some tests sometime if more solid objects have less issue, as I want a transparent sculpted base for another project in the works! A bit funny to me that the main sculpt assembly went together without a hitch first shot off the printer, buuuuut I spent a few weeks problem-solving the clear-resin part! You never know what will bite ya