The Nerikson Contest is over, the holiday is finished, and normal life has returned. Naturally, this means starting the next miniature project before the suitcase is properly unpacked. For the pevious competition, I had already printed a figure from the Nerikson portfolio: Lia vs the Giant, in 140 mm scale. A massive stone giant facing a woman in battle. Small Hero, Very Large Problem What fascinates me most about this model is its energy. The giant is heavy, brutal and almost immovable. Lia, by comparison, is small, fast and determined. The contrast between the two characters creates the entire story…
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The Long Road to “Done”. Welcome to a small corner of the hobby world where tiny and not so tiny figures demand surprising amounts of time, patience and emotional commitment. This blog is not about perfect tutorials or flawless results. It is about my own journey from an unpainted miniature to the moment when I finally decide that it is finished — or at least finished enough to stop making it worse. Along the way, I share the ideas, mistakes, colour choices, unexpected problems and small victories behind each figure. Some projects begin with a clear plan. Others begin with…
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Strange Flames The burning side had been quietly waiting for a while. Not because I had forgotten it. No, no. More because I was slightly afraid of it. The clothing was clear from the beginning: turquoise. That part had already been decided, changed, questioned, abandoned, rescued, and finally accepted again. So at least one thing was certain. Everything else? Not so much. At first, I interpreted the shapes coming out of the vessel in the middle of the card — and the forms growing up from the ground — as flames. It made sense in my head. Fire side, dramatic…
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By mid-May, I could finally start. My printer had produced a reasonably good version of Temperance, and I was more than ready to begin priming. After all the failed prints, waiting, adjusting, hoping, and occasionally staring at the printer as if pure disappointment could improve its performance, I was very happy to finally hold something usable in my hands. So I started preparing the model. And then, of course, I noticed something. Layer lines. Everywhere. Not just a tiny little line here and there. No, the kind of layer lines that suddenly become impossible to ignore once you have seen…
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At this point, I realised something very important: I am completely insane. I had never painted lava before. I had never really painted fire before. I do not exactly have a deep and meaningful relationship with UV resin either. And, naturally, I also do not have endless time to experiment, fail, try again, fail in a more interesting way, and somehow make it work. From the very beginning, the idea for Temperance was clear to me. This is not just one figure. It is a figure shown in two different “states,” two sides, two energies, two moods trying to exist…
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In April 2026, my favourite 3D sculptor, Nerikson, announced a painting contest — and naturally, I immediately thought:“Yes! That sounds fun, relaxing, and totally manageable.” Famous last words. The contest officially started on May 1st, 2026, and will run until June 30th, 2026. Two full months sounds like plenty of time, right? Well… only if you conveniently ignore a full-time job, real life, and a two-week holiday that cuts a rather impressive hole into the available painting schedule. But where would the fun be without a little pressure? The first challenge was choosing a model. Nerikson has created so many…