So today, I didn’t get very far, but learned a lot!
Started painting the floor.
Then I discovered that I had made a mistake with laying out my UV’s. The barrel was overlapping part of my floorboards…
All that painting had to be re-done!
But then again, I need the practice, so that wasn’t too bad.
Still no good at hand painting, but this is the result so far. (I know it looks awful..):

I thought I’d give it another try tomorrow;)
Tested out some lighting, to see how that would look and found that with this kind of lighting, almost all of the paint details get lost!
Maybe I’ll have to use more contrast?
Also, painting them singularly, they weren’t so bad, but from the Camera view….
Tomorrow’s another day with new hopes!
Here’s one of my renders (luckily this is eevee, so I could do 23 test renders in not time!):
