Sort of!
This miniature dropped yesterday, I think, and I just had to print it… so much for painting what I have first!
This is if in it’s raw form. I was a bit pooped today and never got around to building it.
What Agricultural song could thus be about… you will find out tomorrow.
This is more of a puddle to be honest…
I really started far too late to get much more than this lot done.
You know, I have absolutely no idea how many points this lot would actually amount to in terms of the GW rules… come to think of it… I don’t know how many points for One Page Rules either. Whatever… don’t actually care :).
Will they win any prizes… nope, but I want these painted and out of the way. I watched something on YouTube the other day and the presenter said something along the lines of ‘they are finished for now… there is nothing stopping you coming back at a later date and doing more on them.’
I am starting to get a big backlog. But as my youngest is interested in 40k then I thought I had better change direction for a while.
Yes I eventually remembered to do some painting this evening.
I got some paint on my ancient Genestealers. These were from a boxed game with Space Marine Scouts. The tiles were hexagonal and were a kind of Jungle trail… totally forgotten what it is called!
I went for the Dipping Inks as they are in 60ml bottles so enough to do a whole army.
They are beginning to grow on me. I still need to get the claws whitened again to make the papyrus to show up better.
No it hasn’t snowed, wind chill was bloody cold though. I spent some of today working out how to print some terrain on the FDM printer as well as printing more resin bits. I (with the help of the family) even managed to move the rockery back a bit… okay I managed about 45 minutes and they carried on being busy after I needed a lie down.
After that excitement I booked my ferry south, with my youngest being into 40k in a big way he fancies another try at the Claymore show.
I even managed to dry brush this lot white…
I am going to be honest, I cannot work out how this is meant to be quicker than a blast with a white undercoat and let the speed paints do the rest. Tomorrow we get colour… woohoo!
So I had a go at reducing the big clanky bloke to fit in with 20 mm miniatures. So a drop of about 65% this is one of the beauties of 3D printing. My only concern with this is that it might have a void inside that has liquid resin in. Tomorrow I investigate. This was my proof of concept. The original had a number of drain holes, the scale reduction means they are now too small to be useful. The scale reduction might mean any void is now miniscule and the resin cured through the walls. To be honest it’s an easy fix. I electronically cut it in half to see what is inside and fill it or add my own larger drain holes.
I got the lighter walker finished too… not sure if I want the lid to be openable or not. It looks cool like this but then I have to paint the pilot.
Talking of painting… I also managed to dry brush this lot this evening…
I already hate them lol! Tomorrow I do a next layer of white. As these are going to be green I went for a green on the first dry brush.
Well because I am a total sucker and project creep is evidently a thing I decided to set about doing a cult army to go alongside the Tyranids
I decides on a little mobile firepower
He is missing his port weapon and exhausts. Not because they failed, because twit boy here forgot the exhaust and then printed the rockets to go on the starboard side too.
The Tyranids are all undercoated black and I have the necessary paints and brushes for the dry brush phase. If I am being honest, I am not looking forward to this.
I am going to go for a bright green body and a bone coloured carapace…well that’s this evenings thought… yesterday was bone and grey… who knows what tomorrow will bring
Am I Mad or what!
I now have this lot to paint. As my bases didn’t have holes in them then I cut off the pegs to nearly all of them apart from four where I felt the contact on only one spot was pushing my luck. I therefore added some Greenstuff and once dry I will add the miniatures peg and all.
These are going to be slap chopped. I have undercoated them black. I have to go into work tomorrow to rescue my grey and white paint… actually just had a thought… I have some tester pots of grey in the shed….might not have to do a 40 mile round trip now.
Well, I have a printer and the file was half price…
Problem is… I am going to be facing this across the table… must be mad!
I have started printing stuff for my son. I have sort of persuaded him to let me print him some stuff and he can buy stuff too. He likes the Necrons and Space Marines so the poster boys are getting printed…
There is a scout on the left and a flamer on the right. The flamer Dude is missing his backpack thingy and I also shoved scout Paldrons on him too ( I will probably regret this).T
He more dynamic pose on the right makes him look a bit shorter… he isn’t really.
Oh yeah, these are two of the bases I printed :).
Well for now I have finished printing bases. Annoyingly the coating on the build plate has a couple of tiny holes in it.
Bogenwald 