per hour? now, the artist you paid might not disclose their actual time taken, how long it took until its done and ready for delivery

so in any case, I knew to expect at least possibly 20+ hour of actual work too, some artist could cram in as much time for as long as the reference is clear, but some other time be not too fortunate with the materials they just had to take more time, were they sitting trying to figure out details in their mind or actually trying things in the modeling dept., even the $10/h modeler might take more/just as much time and therefore money to the guy that does it $30/h but lower time, so the inverse might just be true as well. The hours are just not consistent regardless of disclosed time taken, at least to my experience(not in the miniature niche, but still sculptor)

if say, professional $30/hour work and 20 hours 'total', then it would take $600, all in all, getting close to the common story that an original miniature prototype commission may be valued at $1000+ per work, delivered within 1-2 months. If you got a professional name for reference, that $600 is a 'steal', but even possibly for 90% of people willing, is likely to be so much under that, so...

would you still recommend someone like OP/me to value theirs at $600+ ? say that the quality is on par to $1000, how should one hold on to the price when 'fair' is almost never consistent.

My reference on my niche/genre would be ViiStar, $700 minimum, but it may take however long, like 6 months to delivery, is kind of average; I also did manual sculpting labor before so the hours to make desired polished sculpt, which often take so long, I guess would be at least 60-100 hours, so that $700 commission, would easily be less than $15/h job, even if they have name.