Customer Painted Micro Minis

I spent most of today unwrapped lots of tiny pewter micro minis. When the box arrives from the casting company, each one is wrapped in....toilet paper. Yup, I'm not kidding. Jeff our pewter casting guy wraps each in a square of toilet paper. The stock area here looks like a Charmin factory exploded when we're done. After they're counted, we make sure each little guy stands okay. The legs often bend when the big box is shipped. By the way, if you get your micro and he doesn't stand right, gently...ever so gently, bend the legs. They do bend a bit no matter how carefully they're packed. For micros with a flat base, if they don't stand up okay, just take a rasp or heavy sandpaper and give it a few passes. When they come out of the mold they often have little metal tags or flakes on them, and because they're so small, even the little bits can make them off balance.

(above: micros painted by Gretchen O'Neal)

I thought today's pictures should be micros...customer painted micros! So without further ado, enjoy the handiwork of our model horse friends. Micro minis can be found on our home page, with links to our book, Tiny Treasures.

(new Kladruber painted by Kollean Gouyton)(Paso Fino painted by Andrea Bernard)