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I'm going to be painting the Dorothy figure from the Wild West Oz set soon, and I'd like to paint her in the character's classic blue gingham dress. Any hints for how to get the effect of all those small checks? Is it better to just paint it all blue since form a distance the checks kind of disappear anyway? Or is it better to paint it checkered, just with much bigger, paintable, checks? Or is there actually some way to get that speckled look gingham has from a middle distance?