>>10639301pricing was to some extent why I ended up making my custom girl with 30ms instead of MD... but in the end I think I probably didn't actually spend less.
>buy a complete girl to get limbs>buy an option body to have the right rack, and another one to steal colored parts from to save some paint>buy option hair to get the right style and then I had to get paint for it>get option limbs to get brown blank face (used the hands too, but I could have just used the ones that came with the girl whose limbs I ganked)>get decal sheet to put eyes on the blank faces>two armor sets to mix bits from, had to paint one>multiple weapon sets, ultimately including a koto one>get a 30mm spinatio to steal more gear from>ended up getting a dogebot to carry stuff she isn't using at the time>bought a swimsuit body so she can be flashier when she wants>paints in various formats and some other crafty crap for more decorationand eventually I'll have to get more faceplates so I can try to do a better job with the eye decals because I couldn't get the spacing quite right...
so I start to wonder if I might have actually spent less if I'd gone koto. assuming minimal fit issues, I could have gotten the girl herself done in two kits without paint. granted, custom gear would still be a thing, but... I dunno, ultimately. that's the nature of doing more than just swapping bits and calling it a day, ain't it?
>>10638119occasionally that first glosscoat can trip you up if your positioning isn't quite right by making things stick a bit -too- easily. it may be good to get some practice in before adding that to one's procedure.
