I’ve done a lot of the “one-woman miniature company” pipeline over the years—concepting minis, painting, box art, photography, tutorials, even releasing minis—but I’d somehow never properly tackled the one bit that feels like actual wizardry: sculpting. So I set myself a silly little challenge: 7 days, about an hour a night, zero professional training, and I’d see how close I could get to making my own 3D minis. I used an iPad Air and Nomad Sculpt because my friend Tina (an absolute monster sculptor) said it’s intuitive, and honestly… she was right. I start in full toddler mode—clicking everything, making a scrun little goblin face, and googling tiny problems as they came up (big love to the tutorial guys; backbone of society). Then I level up with a structured mushroom man using simple shapes, masking + gizmo for recesses, and tools like lathe and tube. After that I replicate a Tamagotchi to learn clean forms, then corrupt it into a demon chaos Tamagotchi with textures, horns made via the array feature, and an asset-library style workflow. Finally, I attempt a Space Marine helmet from the default blob and lean into a creepy chaos/bone vibe. I export STLs, get help prepping/printing, and the results are way better than expected—plus I learn the big lesson: details need to be deeper than you think to survive at 32mm scale. If I can do this in a week, you can absolutely give it a go too.