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Printer Overdrive

Well I have gone a bit bonkers printing things. I am certainly running through my resin backlog.

I eventually managed to print the large chemical mixer thing…

I also did the walkways and a leaky drain.

The  drum above is the second attempt… the following shows us boys and girls why we need to ensure that we fasten the build plate properly!

The following are a couple of pipes. They were part of four things on the plate. The chemical barrel pallets both failed, which led to a lot of swearing. The vat was full so it took a few shenanigans to get the cured lumps of the FEP.

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Wolf Den

One of the kids at the Geek Club really likes wolves so I have printed her three new ones at 150%.

On Friday in Geek Club we made the start on a cave for them.

I spent more time on the foam than  finishing my lizardman. We still have to get some foil work on the rock and base area. It is still a bit boxy, but will sort that next week.

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Chemical Plant II

This evening I sorted out the new chemical tank. This one is a little more complex than the other one. It has screens and buttons etc, but it is still going to work well.

I have sprayed it black ready for the white dry brush tomorrow.

I am printing a second one right now. My plan is to have at lest two joined by a walkway. Three would be better but I am not sure if I can be bothered to paint three.

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A Night Off

Well I got nothing physical done this evening, but I did slice a pile of chemical works terrain pieces.

I didn’t get in until 20.30 as I had to pick my wife up from the airport.

Hopefully things will be done tomorrow evening.

The giant chemical drum will be finished on about an hour or two.

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Rust Bucket

Well this evening I added the rust to the industrial terrain piece.

I really tried to get the rust where it would get rusty.

The sign is one of the ones I printed last week.

Hopefully I will actually achieve more tomorrow.

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A More Productive Evening

This evening I didn’t turn on the console and decided to be a bit more productive. First off I tried colouring the rust on the vehicle…bad idea. I therefore redid it with the rust effect.

It looks better now than it did so I am either going to leave it as as, or get some chalk pastels and add them to it… what do you reckon?

I also built another container… on this one I have a door that can be open or closed.

I think I will go for one more after the one that is in the post printing process.

Print Minis has a pile of containers that have either shops or habitation inserts. I reckon some of those will be next.

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Whoops

Well I downloaded Alien Isolation… bad for two reasons… one I need to change my underwear and two I got sod all done this evening.

For anyone who hasn’t got a clue what I am talking about… the game is set after Alien. Ripley’s daughter is trying to find some information about her mother’s disappearance.

Off they pop to Sevastapol Station (a giant space station) where it is believed that the voice recorder from the Nostromo has been deposited. Weyland Yutani has bought the station off Seegson… basically two mega corporations… with good old Weyland  winning the total spithead of the year award.

Sadly the voice recorder is not the only thing to have arrived on the space station. I am now hiding in a locker in game until my heart rate slows down a bit. Sadly the beating AI is very good and it will start checking them.

Oh yeah a xenomorh is only one of my problems!

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A Busy Evening (sort of)

This evening we had a power cut for a good old while so it tool me a while to get motivated.

First off I started building some shipping containers. I would have had two completed. Sadly the power failure caused the second one to be unfinished. I am having to reprint the bits again.

I also had a faff about with some netting to add some camouflage to the scout sniper.

This is just wrapped around the miniature to see what I think which is why bits of the net are sitting at 90 degrees to the weapon.

I also got some rust on the vehicle… not that you can see it.

Now I am not sure if it is because the base colour is red, or if the rust effect stuff has gone a bit odd. I will try another layer tomorrow.

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Starting on the Wheels

This evening I got the red onto the Chonko. Well I also got blue and black on it too.

Tomorrow I will start adding the metalwork and chipped metal (and worn metal too… eg the steps and walkways).

In my mind I have used the wrong  black for the tyres. The one here is Black Legion from Contrast… obviously had a brain fart as this is new tyre black as opposed to the grey black of the combined harvester.