For me, the most difficult part of doing detail cleanup on miniatures is seeing the paint, not the figure. The default behavior of the human visual apparatus is to build objects out of the visual field. Once it's in your head as an object, the specific visual details are abstracted away and you literally aren't aware that there's an anomalous speck of color.
But when you're painting, you need to be able to hold the actual visual field in mind as well as the abstract object representation. And when you're doing detail cleanup, you don't want the abstract object representation at all.
Posted by Greg at February 6, 2008 10:52 AM