I printed off the last components from the game tonight…

My four dread folk were printed over last night.

Unfortunately they were stuck down really well into the base plate, so much so that I pulled one’s legs off! Luckily he superglued back together quite easily, but I did strengthen the legs with superglue and bicarbonate.

Can you see which one?

I also got the last of the tokens finished. The boon tokens were easy enough to print and took 35 minutes a set (I needed 4 sets).

The final things I printed tonight were the cultist bodies and then the the separate arms.

The arms worked well too and as they can be put in various positions I kind of got four different looking figures…

Tomorrow I will get everything out and make sure I have missed nothing out.

Although these came free from Thingiverse from Dutchmogul and credit must be given to him. He from a company called Ill gotten games (http://www.illgottengames.net/whoweare). I will certainly be looking at some of their civilian miniatures.

http://www.illgottengames.net/products/?category=Townsfolke

These again are good value working out about a quid a miniature STL file.

So Sunday in the kitchen has taken place with the background chuntering of the Printer.

I got the first 14 tokens printed this afternoon. These took 2hours 48 minutes to complete.

These came out fine apart from the front four. These for some reason warped.

You can see the shadow caused by the warping on the photo above. I am not sure why they warped as the only one that isn’t a repeat is number 5. Therefore it is either an issue with bed adhesion (as in it’s not clean enough) or perhaps some issue with the way they were sliced.

I noticed as the first few levels went down that a few of them looked a bit weird – one edge was really thin and the other a bit thicker. I can’t actually remember how many of these weird ones there were, but I would like to have a guess at 4!

The next two sets of tokens were the square ones, these funnily enough came out totally flat. I did give the build plate a blast with isopropyl alcohol to clean it off just in case. These took 1 hour 51 minutes. The build plate wasn’t even cool before I set it off with the circular possession counters. These took a mere hour to complete.

Next on the SD card was actually a miniature. Now I played with the slicer profile a smidge. I moved the wall number from 2 to 3. This does seem to have smoothed things out a bit…

There is a definite difference between the new (Manflayer) on the left and the rogue on the right. There were other differences in the miniature profile from Fat Dragon, but I can’t remember what they were. The model above is pretty similar to the view in the slicing software. I don’t think the amount of detail will improve a huge amount. This is in no way a criticism as I might be proved wrong. The Manflayer took just under an hour and a half to complete.

I am now in the process (or the printer is) in doing a set of 10 event counters.

I will probably show these tomorrow. Once they are done I will get a group of four dread folk printed.

I will then be left with 4 cultists with separate arms, 1 night fiend and 20 boon counters then all of the components will be complete. I intend to get everything painted too.

All 14 tiles are now printed

The last ones done were the village last night and the fields today.

I don’t think I showed the keep and hill yesterday either. Now these weren’t quick prints. The keep and hill took 5 hours 30 minutes, the village tiles took slightly less at 5 hours 24 minutes and the four field tiles took 5 hours 48minutes. As for the cost for all 14 tiles. I weighed them to get the total weight. All 14 came in a 180 grams. Giving a total cost of £3.24. Now there has been 20+ hours worth of printing time. But still just over 3 quid isn’t too bad a price to pay. The other thing that dawned on me when I released the villages from the bed was that they would make ideal town (or villages) for 6 or 10mm wargames. I will see how they look when they are painted up.

So here are all 14 tiles together…

One thing I have noticed is that they don’t all fit together seamlessly. It could be slight imperfection on the edges or my z axis might be slightly out… but in reality it is out by a mm at most so not worth worrying about.

Part of me wants more rivers and roads or at least a curved tile…that way I can make more interesting maps 😉.

Tomorrow I will make a start on the tokens and the rest of the miniatures. If I do the miniatures I will try better settings on the slicer and see how it goes.

The printer was busy last night and this evening.

I printed the river and ruins tile last night and then the two forest tiles that just finished their 5 hour print. I have just set the hill and keep going now. They will hopefully be finished by tomorrow.

Once these are done I have four field tiles and a couple of village tiles and then that is them all done.

Again these were found on Thingiverse from Dutchmogul as part of the Curse of Mohr game.

For some reason, I decided to print an 18mm Viking ‘house’

To be honest it turned out a lot bigger than I expected. It will be okay for skirmish gaming, with individually based miniatures, but it is far too big for units of 18mm miniatures. Even then the doorway is huge behind the 18mm elf. I might reprint it at 50% size and see how it looks then. As it stands this took over 8 hours to complete.

The printer is standing cold and idle tonight. There is nothing on my micro SD cards that I want to print off and I can’t be bothered to download some things I do want and the slice them ready for printing. I will see about getting something sorted tomorrow.

As a total aside, I printed this for my wife the other day…

It is a copy of a 10th century Viking brooch found in Denmark.