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The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no
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As someone who has had to paint mini faces before, this isn't aweful, not great by any means but could have been much worse. They definitely need to thin their paints, probably use a smaller brush, and go slower. But in the person would painted this' defense, faces are so hard to do well, and even harder to fix if you fuck it up.
"Thin your paints"
"Or I shall thin your ranks"
Those are ok-ish for your own stuff if you don't care too much. If you want to sell a product you have to do better.
Also, paintjob aside, those mold lines are insulting.
This has got to be machine printed right? They're no worse than Wizard's usual minis, but yeah they always suck. The biggest problem IMO is the sculpt, they look like they're made out of mud. I assume it has to do with the rubber they use. I don't know, I'm way too spoiled by printing my own to consider buying something that looks this bad.
Their plastic/resin is garbage, and you're right that the sculpts are flawed, especially in the finder details. I bet if they tried this in metal it would have worked out better.
I think about half of them are pretty awful. And painting aside, I wouldn't have recognized Gale (guy with the beard) if not for the context