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More Painting

Well this evening I actually managed to paint some things. First off the cart is just about finished…

In the background you can see the camp followers as well as the gear in the cart. I will have to get them all painted soon.

I also managed to get the Samurai teppo just about finished too…

I also got the 20 hour printout the bed too, I am in the process of a 22 hour ruin now… they go on top of this one…

It would have e been further on to be honest, but I had to move a socket in my wife’s office as she had asked if I old build in a sofa using a large cushion thatshehD been given. The socket needed dropping 20 cm but, in turni g off the power I buggered up the next print. Talking of wierd prints.. I was printing a purple of big monster bears to go with this lot…

It didn’t print properly and I thought it was due to running g iutkf resin, but nope, the weapons printed fully and they were above the head…totally weird.

And finally I got a good bargain at the charity shop today…

Not bad for £3.50.

Tomorrow I am heading into school to clear one of the upstairs store rooms as I am converting it into an office for council staff to use.

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Paymaster and his Cart

Today I was a bit busy and got various things sliced and printed and undercoated. I even managed to paint things too…

So here is the paymasters and his gaudy wagon. I have baggage to go inside of it as well as the all important money chest. I converted the driver to be a bit more 16th century. He will hopefully get sorted tomorrow.

I also got some dogs and more Samurai started, as well as some Flintloque minis worked on too.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get the cart and horses finished, not to mention the other things in the photo.

In totally different news, I took the caravan for test run today and it worked well. We are trying to book somewhere next weekend.

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3D Printed Stuff

I got another ruin printed today.this onetook just over 5 hours to complete. I also printed off the multi barrelled organ gun…

As you can see there is also a pikeman sneaking into the picture. I now have a full unit of twelve, with for some reason, an extra half dozen heads… teach me to try and add up when I am tired. I also did a driver for the wagon with a pile of camp followers too. They are still in the print head now. I will show them off tomorrow.

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Samurai Cavalry Done

Well I think that they are done, or at least as done as I am going to do them,with the exception of the spear points.

The Irregular ones in the background are still to finish off. I still have a whole more Baccus infantry to get started, but the army is definitely on the way to completion.

I managed to get the caravan moving again today, new springs, plenty of WD40 and a neighbour with pair of pliers and voila the brakes now work. They will need a new cable but at least I can now tow it to someone if I cannot manage it myself.

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More Birthday Goodies

Today the postie brought more goodies. My two rule sets arrived. Furiosa has got me thinking about the Italian wars in 6mm, I will have to have a proper read to see what I think.

My new tablet arrived, it is nice not going from 100% to zero in five minutes.

I also got a pile of bases and some free giant slugs…

I based up the last of the Renaissance chappies as well as getting the wagon based. I did the Frost Pikemen at 75% size (I think) …I wrote down 75% but to be honest I am not sure. The whatever size is a bit on the smaller side, but not annoyingly so.

I also managed to get a couple more ruins done today (and last night)… the bigger one took just over 15 hours to do.

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More Birthday Goodies

Today the postie brought more goodies. My two rule sets arrived. Furiosa has got me thinking about the Italian wars in 6mm, I will have to have a proper read to see what I think.

My new tablet arrived, it is nice not going from 100% to zero in five minutes.

I also got a pile of bases and some free giant slugs…

I based up the last of the Renaissance chappies as well as getting the wagon based. I did the Frost Pikemen at 75% size (I think) …I wrote down 75% but to be honest I am not sure. The whatever size is a bit on the smaller side, but not annoyingly so.

I also managed to get a couple more ruins done today (and last night)… the bigger one took just over 15 hours to do.

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Birthday Treats, Printers and Painting

Well I have had a jolly old birthday. Got lots of brilliant presents from the kids. I also got some great maps for RPG’s from my mate. My main present is still in the post. As the old iPad has eventually given up the ghost then I decided to go for a new Android tablet as they are a whole lot cheaper.

Pressies from the kids

I had a lazy old day, eventually got the springs off the brake shoes too. I did manage to take time to flock the duellists bases…

And get another building printed…

The one on the right is from last night.

I am having to get used to slowwww print times… I went back in to check after leaving it for an hour and fifteen minutes (after the usual making sure the base layer was down)… it had got to here…

Luckily it is going over night! This new one is a two level one, hence the two separate bits.

I am also using up the resin in the vat by printing a wagon with a pair of horses. This was to take about three hours, if I can be bothered I will go and check on it in a tick.

Tomorrow I will do some more ruined buildings. They won’t be done in a hurry that’s for sure. The FDM is slow but it is a whole lot cheaper than doing things on the resin printer (if they would fit that it). I might actually do some for my 6mm Armies.

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Duellists, Crossbows and a Cavalry Command

Today I actually managed to get the duellists just about finished. Still a bit of tidying up to do and bases to cover, but on the whole I am happy with them. Are the uniforms accurate to Flintloque cannon… nope not at all, well apart from the boots that is!…

I cracked on with the Cavalry command and the mounted crossbows…

Interestingly enough (and I just found this out) by the time of the Italian (Renaissance ) Wars the mounted crossbows would supposedly shoot from the saddle. Now this is something that is intriguing and I will have to look into it a bit more as it causes a lot of questions, first being how the heck do you recock the thing when you have shot your bolt? Secondly how do you stop the bolt just dropping off?

I think that is it for the miniature printing for a good old while… I pretty much have two Armies now or an army and an allied contingent. Upon saying this I want to just check on the Dwarves as they could do with a unit of light or medium infantry, plus there is the matter of the light cavalry and a giant.

it is handy having a South facing conservatory with a wide widow sill…

So instead of printing more miniatures then I decided to go for some terrain on the old filament printer. It had sat for a good while and the filament had snapped at the extruder. Luckily I managed to slot a new roll in.I took some of Iain Lovecraft’s ruins and shrank them down to 70% and set the printer away. I relevelled it a couple of times and still came back to this…

This is about the size of a cherry tomato. I was a bit miffed as it was an hour and a half into it when I went back. I set it away again, but sat with it whilst it printed the first couple of layers, this meant I could alter on the fly. It still tried stripping away at one end, so I am afraid I got the superglue out and stuck it down. Not clever I know but it was what was handy. After about 2 hours it was still delaminating so I shoved bluetack up against both sides of the bit that was threatening to cause the whole thing to come away. Hopefully it will be okay by time I go back tomorrow morning. The one thing I am not used to now is ten hour prints for a short run.

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Heavy Cavalry and Command

Today I sliced five heavy cavalry to go as a command unit with the mounted general. There are five individual miniatures in the set , so with a unit of six there is always going to be one duplicate. Somehow in printing four of the five to go with the commander then I have managed to somehow choose the same miniature every time. I am hoping that the one printing now will be different.

Here are the unit of six heavy cavalry, a pay master and his dogs…

I also managed to get some work done on the duellists, more colour and less white now…

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Cavalry, Hounds and some Religious Zealots

The first of my heavy cavalry came off the plate today, four are finished and two are still printing. I am doing six of these heavy cavalry…

Now with these I went for the smaller of the banners, part of me now wished that I had gone for the bigger one. In the second and third set I have printed a ‘warhound’ these came from Iain Lovecraft’s Frost civilians and are actually the rat catcher’s dog. As they had a spiked collar I thought the looked cool. I kept them at full size instead of dropping them to 75% like the rest. I reckoned they would make a passable mastiff/Great Dane type of hound.

I also got the hands glued onto the Flagellants… one is missing a left hand.. sadly I think it fell off the supports and was lost in the shed…

The top three on the right are the ‘command’ set… now these will make nice cultists as well as religious nutters. I also managed to get a photo of the Zweihanders…

And finally… I actually managed to get some paint onto the duellists…

I am pleased with how they have started, but less pleased with wood Elf. This is going to need another undercoat as the Gesso has left it shiny and the paint won’t adhere to it properly. My guess is that I really didn’t shake it enough to get the paint and medium mixed together. I did thin it down a bit with medium, but by all accounts that is what I am meant to do. Probably find I purchased the shiny version!