Miniature painting is meant to be relaxing… unless you’re me and I use it to summon intense stress on purpose. In this video I set myself another extreme painting challenge: pro-painting a 1/144 scale Gundam pilot miniature—specifically tiny, spindly little Char Aznable—after realizing my Warhammer Epic scale projects were, honestly, starting to feel a bit too easy. These Bandai pilots might be similar in height to Epic minis, but the details are so fine you can’t even see them properly with the naked eye, which means every layer of paint matters and every correction is basically a gamble. I take you through the whole process: carefully cleaning up tiny mold lines and nub marks (full “they did surgery on a grape” energy), priming without obliterating the sculpt, then working through reds, tiny whites, and a black cape with a cursed little gold freehand. I also share my favourite freehand trick at this scale—carving the shape back in with the background colour instead of trying to nail perfection in one go. The final boss is the face, where I even “fudge” the sculpt by painting the eyes and helmet brim higher with shading and highlights. Somehow, it works… and yes, he can have a little wink.