I really should’ve paid more attention to this sentence 
They ended up all looking like the Michelin Man…
From this…
To this…
Lost all the detail and texture… whoops
That said, the primer made a HUGE difference. None of the colors ran off the figurines anymore.
Well, I was just trying to find the optimal ratio of effort in vs results out… trying to maximize beauty per unit of fucks given 
Ended up spending about 10 minutes priming them, thick enough to be body armor, and then an additional 10 minutes per mini painting them.
Pretty hideous, lol, but slightly better than the grey blobs.
It’s still quite a lot of effort. The priming, especially, was horrendously toxic 
Probably lost a few billion brain cells. The painting is also really hard on the back and eyes… I could barely see the details to begin with, much less paint them with a fat, felt-tipped market. Lower back hurts now from bending over so much. I gotta find a more ergonomic set up, maybe some watchmaker’s claws…
Ah, still, for $30 in markers, they’re at least more visually interesting now than the gray blobs I started with. 6 down, 30 to go… 