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I have been painting the face on my Dark Eldar Succubus and 'enjoying' the challenge of painting the details on a a face around 6mm high. As my eyes slowly recover from the strain, I began to wonder if there's a better way. Which brings me to my question. Do any of you use any sort of magnifying glass/glasses when you paint? There are all sorts of things out there, are any of them any good?

I have a big magnifying glass with a light on a bendy arm on my painting table. Most of what I do doesn't require magnification, but I do make occasional use of it.

100 shop reading glasses of various strengths. I need to get one of those magnifying glasses with a light too. I figure that would be less strain.
Sadly, these days I occasionally need to use those reading glasses....to read........

Not really an answer to your question, but my solution has always been "don't worry about it," heh.

Auxryn wrote:I have a big magnifying glass with a light on a bendy arm on my painting table. Most of what I do doesn't require magnification, but I do make occasional use of it.

I have something similar and use it for everything! Wish I'd started using it years ago!

my solution has always been "don't worry about it,"

In general I don't, but I DO like to make an extra effort on my Character models and what have you. BUt painting eye shadow on s female elf is quite hard without some sort of assistance.

I've found that rather than magnifying, a really good strong light source helps a lot. Bearing in mind that light loses brightness exponentially with distance, you sometimes have to hold the mini right close under your desk lamp (or whatever you're using) to really see what's going on under your brush.