Over the last two years since I got back into the hobby I’ve painted several hundred minis and have slowly but steadily improved my painting skills. I thought it would be fun to test my painting skills by doing something I’ve never done before, painting a 1/10th scale bust. For my first attempt I didn’t feel like purchasing a pricy high end bust, because I wasn’t quite sure whether my painting chops would be up to the challenge. I did a bit of looking around online and found a decent looking second-hand bust made of cast alabaster (ground up stone mixed with a resin). The bust is a copy of the famous Diana/Artemis of Versaille, a Roman marble statue that is thought to be a copy of a Greek original in bronze that is now lost. Analysis of paint residues on classical statues has shown that these originally were not the white colour they are today, but were often painted in very bright (and garish) colours. It therefore seemed fitting for my first bust to be a copy of a classical statue....