Well second day of printing bases. So far I have:
36 x 25mm
10 x 32mm
10 x 50mm
5 x 40mm
1 x 90 mm
1 x 120 by something mm
Printing more 50mm right now… after I started it going I realised I wanted more 40mm.
Oh yeah, forgot the two ovals for the beetles.
To be honest I think I am getting a bit carried away lol.
These are so satisfying, Print flat take between 45 minutes and just over an hour. No supports, no faff and, touch wood, no hassle.
…as the song goes. Here it is all about the bases.
I am printing all sorts of bases for the Nid Army and for my Son’s stuff too.
Not bad an hor and twelve minutes for eighteen 25mm bases – there would have been thirty six of them, but some pillock forgot to hit go on the printer!
I also undercoated the beetle etc that I showed yesterday.
For anyone coming to see a Volkswagen… sorry!
I did some cyber snipping and reduced the original beetle down to a leg which I duly printed, along with some bomb rats… exactly as it sounds. Another nomad and a pack saddle too. A bodge job with super glue and Greenstuff and voilà a six legged beetle.
Here is the nomad and the bomb rats… oooh good name for a rock band there!
Not sure what I am going to do with the bomb rats, but I mean bomb rats… I just had to!
I also managed some painting…my son and I sat at the kitchen table and we both painted stuff.
A female space dwarf and another of the nomadic Erroish. She ended up yellow. In Fallout 76 you get to build yellow mining armour as one of the side missions… very original aren’t I. I cannot remember what colour the faction were going to be, but it certainly wasn’t yellow!
To be honest the Print Minis stuff has really kick started me painting again. Not sure why but the Spyre Hunters and the Erroish have got me going again.
Lots of little things:
For some reason I must have thought the beetle platform was about 6 inches square rather than the inch and a half that it probably is!
Still bucket loads to follow on this lot, but it is a start.
So I am now level 80 on Fallout 76 and in between levels i have been printing bits and pieces… this song from the game is quite appropriate to some of my bits….
Just a tumbledown shack and it’s built way back
About twenty-five feet from the railroad track
Lingers on my mind most all the time
Keeps calling me back to my little old shack.
I have had these STL’s since I got my FDM printer. This was the set that turned to spaghetti when i built the house pre printing
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I eventually got around to printing the individual walls. The 150mm length kept failing no matter what I did. The holes at each end are designed to fit some filament to help pin it together.
I did try to build a Greenstuff leg for the second beetle… I have decided to just print one. After 45 minutes of swearing I gave up.
Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.
The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.
Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…
Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!
Last night I got a dry brush of copper over the beetle. This evening I did a bit more work on the saddle and seat for the driver (?) Perhaps mahout?
It is slowly coming together… I might have to sort out that front leg a bit. I can’t remember it looking that shiny though. Could be camera flare?
I had a go at the GW plastic orks at Geek Club (not sure what they are called now.. probably GW-orks!)
I really do not like them. Not sure why, but definitely not for me. I only painted them as I had forgotten to take my stuff in!
This evening I worked on the saddle for the pack beetle.
The decorations still need doing as well as a lot more goods. There is definitely a lot less white visible. Still a long way to go but I am getting there. I was thinking of going down a muted route for the saddle, but then I thought about camel saddles, so colourful it became.
The biggest issue I have is that the beetle has almost become invisible. Okay it wasn’t the best set up for the photo, but I am thinking of doing a gloss varnish on the living thing.
Hopefully I will get it finished soon…. Still got to come up with a base for it.
Both new printers decided to be absolute swines and gave me spaghetti on one and a Picasso on the other!
I reckon I know what happened on the filament machine. When I sliced it a really weird triangle appeared on the image. I just thought it was a glitch… it coincided with thr layer shift seen in the window. The rest, I believe was some oik forgot to support the windows and doors! As for the resin one, I absolutely haven’t got a clue. Two of the eight printed fine. The other six were at the level above to the arms being a bit flat. So I re levelled the bed and retried. Same two printed fine, the others were better, but in no ways useable. I am printing something different just in case.
I may wipe the memory sticks and reformat in case that is having an issue.
You know sometimes you have an idea, execute said idea and kaboom something amazing appears
There are other times when the kaboom is a pile of poop. Can you guess where this us going?
So yesterday I posted shiny beetle…
I decided to paint over the shinyness and went for a nice green… Sat looking at the green, then got out a pretty purple, sat looking at the purple then got out a red… did I choose any of those nice colours? Did I buggery! No, captain brain dead here went for this….
Okay it isn’t a total balls up, but it definitely isn’t what was in my head. It may grow on me, but sadly the nice shiny bits will be covered by the saddle! The one in the background is demonstrating what this one will eventually look like.
Bogenwald 