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This California quail family was spending a lot of time in this British Columbia yard.

Family of quail in British Columbia

It is pretty much impossible to find a suitable method to clamp or secure these tiny figures for painting…other than just using your fingers. Many times I would just paint the upper half, let it dry, then paint the lower half.

Here is an example of an acceptable video to the National Science Teaching Association's International Film Festival and Share-a-thon. We wish to encourage creativity so feel free to use whichever format you prefer. the only real requirements are that they are under 7 minutes and focus on visual elements rather than text. More information and the call for abstracts to this event can be found at...

I had so few "officers" that I was compelled to repair one that had broke while handling. The first, unsuccessful, attempt was with CA (Crazy glue). This time I used UV resin which worked well, but I botched cleaning up the mend afterward. I ended up just buying an .stl file of a WW2 USN officer and printing off my own.

Starting to paint 1:200 miniatures. I later abandoned this method where I stuck the figures to tack putty and painted one side first, let them dry, and flipped them over.

A pair of owls were hunting in our neighbour's yard. This one does some interesting moves to watch its prey.

I go through the process of making a wooden pen from wild choke cherry.