A miniature painting project for my mother-in-law

Surprised last week by a request from my mother-in-law to paint a figurine she had, I set about the task to - at the very least - do a half decent job that didn't elicit any major disappointment. With this not being a personal project that I could take my own sweet time on (read procrastinate), I imposed a time limit of one week to finish painting the figurine. Luckily for me, the previous week