The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

I printed Sister Corazon last year at the scale she was issued at (28-30mmish).  She printed well enough but then the swords broke off long before I removed the scaffold.  They were bent and they were paper thin.  They aren’t made of enough material to survive being straightened or for the glue to bite in to to hold them on.  No way I could drill a pin in to them.  Not a chance.  Even if they had survived as far as priming, they;d have snapped off under the weight of a 00 brush on them so I opted to leave them off and try and carefully file down the hilts from the hands.

It feels like they were designed at a much larger scale and they didn’t check the integrity of the components when it was downscaled.  Pretty sure I asked them about this and they insisted every model was designed at 28mm scale and everything had printed fine for them.  I didn’t push the issue but either they aren’t being entirely honest, or every test print is done with the highest of high end machines and the bestest of resins.

I got this next guy in an AssetDrop Monster Box last year along with a basic MDF boat.  I didn’t really have much interest in either, but he’s come out OK. He fell over at one point and a finger broke off.  I didn’t notice at first and had a panic search before finding it.  I’ve glued it back on as best as I can.  Its quite noticeable if you know what you’re looking for, but otherwise I think I’ve gotten away with it as best as I could without filing down and filling the gap and I’d already done a few layers of the flesh at that point.

I made the base myself from coffee stirers.  Word of advice for anyone doing the same: The planks will expand as they absorb glue so leave a little room at each end.  I had to do repairs once they pushed themselves up.