Episode 18 is a simple experiment you can try with your own work. When you spend hours at the bench, it is easy to assume you are seeing your miniature clearly. But familiarity has a way of smoothing things over. You begin to see what you expect to be there, not always what someone else will actually notice.

In this episode, I walk through a series of short tests using one piece: looking at it up close, stepping back, viewing it through a phone, reducing the detail, and checking what remains in memory. At each step, the question is the same: what changes? Not what you already know, but what you can still see clearly when the conditions shift. Your miniature doesn’t exist as one fixed image. It changes with distance, attention, and context. And once you see that, you can start using it.

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