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Okay, I screwed up on my airbrushing and sanding. Anyways, some things I've learned...

-Spray in thin layers
-Make sure paint in thinned like milk or near water fluidity.
-Don't overspray to try to compensate some area
-Don't use brush to try to smooth out bumps or else you'll end up having to sand off everything. Which I DID and ended up having to sand off the paint on the body.
-During sanding, I discovered rubbing alcohol removes acrylic very easy.
-Sand with water
-Sand at lower grits first to remove all scratches, than move to higher grits afterward.
-Vallejo Primer and Acrylic primer does not sand very well.
-Gesso paint should dry completely before sanding

Clay lesson
-Don't condition and not touch clay after a while. It gets really dry and hard to work with.
-Try to fix all problem before baking as baked clay is super hard.

Somehow I ended up working on just the nekoatsume and not my nitori figure...But I'm trying to learn on the stuff before I can screw up my figure. Also I've been watching video on Mold/Resin Casting which might be useful for me if I don't want to ruin the original polymer clay model and use duplicates to paint my figures with paint that's not acrylic. Acrylic has too much plastic look.

Here's my progress so far:

Clay sculpt

After baking

After sanding

After airbrushing primer

I did airbrush acrylic, but screwed up...so I'll take photos once I respray the body.

So I'm still trying to get the hang of sculpting. I've even baked some clay in the oven and sanded it down. SO TEDIOUS!!! Because I'm gonna use the oven again and its not worth baking just one thing, I've started another cat sculpt! Some progress here:

Anyways, I tried gessoing the first neko with paintbrush but it there was too much paint brush texture and I had to appy more gesso and sand it down. But I have no patience with it drying and end up scraping off the gesso that the clay showed up. The best method is to spray primer, but I bought the wrong one. I needed water-based acrylic primer. After researching, I've decided I should just buy airbrush! Since I want to have even coat on my Nitori figure as well. This morning I did a lot of research on airbrush...and well spent 200 buck on a set and supplies on Amazon. I learned I can just use Acrylic Airbrush Thinner with my existing acrylic so I didn't have buy more color. So I hope that will work out! I never tried airbrush, so I'm excited to try something new!

When it comes to new hobby, I do get addicted haha. I bought a lot of material for my Nitori plush as well during my plush making phase...

We completed our first Visual Novel! Yay!

lucathia_rykatu wrote a better post about it haha.

Copy pasting some stuff I posted everywhere:

Poyo Yo! Demon Preview 1.0
FINISHED one month NaNoRenO 2013 challenge! As I’ve said before, its still a rough version. But playable throughout! We could only finish one route with our busy schedule.
Enjoy! Feedback through note, comments, email (POYOSTUDIO at gmail) would be awesome! If it has enough interest we will go back and work on it some more this year…or else it’ll be like all my other projects floating around XD;;

Synopsis:
Yuu* holds no love for demons. Because of them, Yuu has always had to crossdress to hide her identity. When she joins GateLight Corp, a supposedly ordinary, renewable energy company, she never thought she would end up having to confront them.