Yesterday I had a bash at printing some 6mm , they were okay, but needed a bit of work on them. This evening I did that work. I basically took them apart electronically and inserted a cuboid inside so that.. a) they weren’t hollow and b) the doors had something to rest against.
This actually took a lot longer than I expected but I got there in the end.
I decided to print half a dozen or so (I forgot to count). These are going to take 8 hours to do. You can really tell the difference between the the hollow ones and the solid ones. Hollow were 1.29 for two and these aren’t much more…
Okay not the most exciting photo, but it does nicely show the 10% infil…😂
Eventually, after a lot of procrastinating, I managed to build my rural houses in 3D builder and shrink them down to an appropriate size for 6mm.
They were super tricky to build on the computer, but I managed. A huge well done to 3DAlienWorlds as the files were so good that it allowed me to do it. I did have to set about the fences with a mini blow torch to get rid of a lot of the stringing, but Success!
Ready for an undercoat.
These were printed at 0.2 layer height so basically draft quality, I am doing another pair right now, but being me I forgot to change the layer height.
Now the extremely weird thing is that I added doors and window shutters… as you can see, they disappeared! The only thing I can think of is that I forgot to merge them into the walls, therefore when I moved the buildings about the build plate the doors remained off the plate. This would explain why they were showing the size as being 4500%. Somewhere there is a door lurking 😂.
I haven’t managed painting tonight as I spent ages faffing on with building the houses electronically. I reckoned that trying to stick all the bits together with superglue at this size was just asking for trouble.
My plan is to do a few more of these as well as some with wooden roofs. I will also try the rice store and the well.
I really am having to fight the urge to purchase the castle walls, towers and gate house from 3DAlienWorlds. They are pretty awesome and would be used for skirmish gaming in 15mm. I know I am going to get them, but as I have spent a fair bit on toys recently, then I had better be a good boy and hold off for a while.
As we finished the adventure in the One Ring yesterday, we are going to do some Starship Troopers next. I think I will be building some bugs pretty soon. On Saturday we are going to be making characters and then onto playing next week.
Tonight we were gaming and the heroes somehow managed to defeat their nemesis near Bree. They did so well that Elrond sent them a gift of a pearl belt each, sent them a belt but didn’t invite them to Rivendell, that comes in a bit 😂.
I managed to blag some renders for the Patreon. I thought I would let you see some of the miniatures for next month…
There is also a render of a dwarf, but I forgot to copy it across.
My printed castle will soon be heading off to a new owner as I drew a name out of the plant pot holder tonight (I couldn’t find a hat 😂).
Finally this is what colour the Spectres are. Taken this morning in clouds of midges…
Bloody Hell, two days in a row that I have managed to get something painted. To be honest I am very excited by this Patreon. https://www.theprintinggoeseveron.com/
They are doing civilians next and to be honest ‘Wow’ the renders are awesome 😍. I have asked for some pics so that you can have a look.
Anyway I went for a bit more work on the spectres…
As well as a bit more work on the big fella…
Hopefully I will get this lot finished tomorrow and the new stuff printed sometime soon.
I didn’t get much done this evening as we had our meal late and then it was time to let the ferrets out for a play. One even fell asleep on our daughter’s head…
Much fun was had by all, after this I got my paints out ready to go when my daughter said she still had some homework to do. How much? Said I. Evidently all of it wasn’t the response I wanted to hear. So we worked through her forty questions (I was being a little unfair.. she had already done 10). We got them all finished, so I could make a start on painting something.
I went for the two spectres and the Jotun Hunter.
Still a fair bit to do, but any progress is definitely progress. Hopefully I will get some more done on them tomorrow.
The conservatory is almost wind and watertight now. Hopefully I can get it finished pretty quickly. It has been pissing it down so that should let me see if there are any leaks. The rain was heavy here, but not as heavy as Lerwick…
Tonight I decided to take it easy as, I felt a bit dizzy earlier on. I am fine now, but it was just a weird migraine that I get from time to time.
I had a bash at some more drawing, nit brilliant, but I did enjoy it.
We also welcomed some new members to the family…
Luna and Tonks are a pair of nine week old ferrets that arrived this afternoon.
We went car hunting today as both of the cheap stand ins are buggered beyond financial repair. Things would have been so much easier if we didn’t need to pull a caravan 😂
Evidently Japanese Castles are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come at once!
I ordered these way, way back. One was out of stock so it was sent almost a month later and voila both arrive within two or three days of each other.
I don’t think that I will be short of a castle or two should I need one…
The midges are out in force this evening (again)… this is what I scraped off the light bulb. The other photo shows my shirt with the corpses of the fallen multitude…most of them fell off when I picked it up for the photo…
I decided to give my printed castle away, as I really, really don’t need three. I added it to the Feudal Japanese Miniature Wargaming and said…
Free giveaway (sort of… there is no catch) So as some of you know I just got a nice castle in the post, I also just printed a castle on the old Ender3. I don’t need two so I think the printed one is going to go the journey. It’s about 1/300 scale, so useful for smaller scale stuff. Here is the deal, if anyone wants it please let me know. I don’t mind paying postage in the uk as it won’t be that much (I hope). But if you want it from elsewhere It would be good if you can pay the postage. My other request is that you bung a bit of cash into a charity box of your choice. Rather than first come first served, I will hang on a couple of days and then pick the name out of the hat (that is if anyone wants it)… I think this would be the fairest way to do it. This was my longest print ever… 27 hours plus.
So same goes for here… if you want it give me a shout and I will add your name to the list.
Tonight my son decreed that he was going to start painting again, to which I said not a problem…I hadn’t realised he meant right then. So I had a mad mooch for something that was undercoated and he chose the court wizard. My middle one decided on one of the milk maids and I cracked on with the ones I started ages ago.
You could really tell that I hadn’t used the Contrast paints for a good while as the tops had well and truly got sealed shut. Nevertheless we cracked on.
Being the cunning devil that he is, he informed me that he liked developing a back story for his models and his wizard had been dabbling in the dark arts and had developed a blackened face because of this. Nothing at all to do with painting flesh on when the black hadn’t dried.
I managed to get some more finished and got the lady painted too…
Sod all detail on them, but they will do. I will try and get some more sprayed tomorrow and then get them painted. I actually enjoyed doing these, i think it was a sense of accomplishment, I have dotted around so much of late that nothing has got finished, I also rather like the bright colours on the posh ones.
I had a major panic at work today. I actually thought I had lost my new child. Thirty seconds of searching and then I asked her sister if she had gone home early. Yes, she replied, because it’s Thursday (one of her finish early days). I had got it into my head that it was Wednesday… this didn’t wear off as I was gaming on Thursday… I bet you can see where this is going! At least I got some figures done instead 😂
On my way to work this morning I stopped off to snap the reflections across the head of the voe…
Days like these are rare (thankfully) so it keeps the midges at bay. Last night was a bloody nightmare. They were everywhere and unfortunately one of the kids left the door to the porch open. The ceiling was black, the white walls were black. I gave them a spray with window cleaner (that’s all I had that was handy) and the floor became black. It doesn’t help that I am allergic to the nasty little sods. In all honesty it is one of the reasons that we chose Shetland over the highlands.
I got home to a nice parcel all the way from Japan…
I ordered these (note singular object in the photo…the other is on its way) back in the dark ages before total lockdown. It is a really nice looking model. The second one is 1:700 scale.
To be honest I didn’t actually realise how big it was going to be.
I am probably out gaming tomorrow if my mate is up to it. If not I am really going to try and get some things painted. I have the wooden fences to paint as well as, finishing the houses and stone walls … not to mention the printed castle. Regarding that, I am seriously considering giving it away. As I now have a similar sized one.
Tonight there was no drawing, printing or painting. So I really need to get back into things…
Tonight I was mooching about looking for an RPG and came across some of my old sketches. As my middle child is well into her art then she wanted to look at them, to cut a long story short… we did some drawing this evening instead of me painting… so my sketches from 30 odd years ago…
And my art from this evening…
I decided to ease myself back in gently. She was wanting to draw all sorts of complicated things. To be honest I quite enjoyed it, so didn’t miss painting the castle at all. No doubt she will want to do some more tomorrow… you have been warned 😂.
My youngest drew a wolf the other week to join in With the art at the time…I don’t know why but this makes me smile every time I look at it…
A new character in Peppa Pig perhaps?Wolf from his sister…
