Yesterday I was doing a bit of printing and had some failed prints, I emptied the vat as there were some bits adhering to the FEP. It looked a bit worse for wear. But after a clean and a leak test I did a reprint. For whatever reason the FEP failed on print two. Luckily for me the leak cured and blocked the hole so I had some cured resin on the screen luckily only about the size of a penny… phew!

Tonight was FEP replacement time…

I did two of the three vats. Tomorrow I will re level the print bed and have another go at the prints.

I also decided to try a map this evening… so a bit of mindfulness colouring later I had this…

So just as I was adding the colour to the bottom of the map it hit me… I did a map online and copied it… why didn’t I just print out the online one?

I thought i would get a bit painted this evening,but it wasn’t to be. I went to bed early and watched the new Pinnochio. It was a cracking film that I thoroughly enjoyed. I never read the book so don’t know how true to the original it is.

I do like a bit of stop, motion animation and this was excellent.

Nope no painting this evening as I needed to get some things sliced ASAP. I also got the remaining Reiklanders sliced too. Prepare for some gratuitous photos this weekend.

After various chores I decided to have another look through my Christmas present from Joe. Now One hex in The One ring is 20 miles. So it got me thinking of making some more detailed maps for areas of interest. Hence the hex paper.

I also started looking at the 1888 Ordinance Survey maps of the place where I came from in Northumberland/County Durham.

Now I am going to be honest here. My One Ring World has never been canon to Tolkien as I firmly believe that people didn’t just desert places permanently. So mine will have farmsteads, townships and the like… hence the OS maps.

Each of my maps will be 20×40 miles…so a fair old bit of space to fill on each one.

This may be the start of something new or fall by the wayside, but if truth be told I did like making maps in many of my earlier games.

It Wasn’t a bad morning on the way to work today…

Well by now everyone who reads this will have made it into 2023.

I just wanted to wish everyone health, wealth and happiness for 2023.

In February 2022 I decided to call a halt to the daily blog. Well I had got up to 920 days straight.

I was feeling a bit disheartened as I was convinced I had achieved nothing this year hobbywise. I was wrong, over the year I actually achieved quite a bit.

I managed to print and paint an entire undead army that I had totally forgotten about.

I eventually finished off the 6mm Italian Wars stuff I started in 2021. To be fair, the fact I dropped a filament spool into the two Pike blocks I had finished and put a downer on the whole project.

Early in the year I did whole load of 28mm Flintloque miniatures for both my Silver Bayonet games and for my mate.

I also did a whole host of 15mm Sengoku Monster Hunter stuff for my mate as well as made him a host of market stalls for his birthday.

There were loads of other bits and bobs I worked on. The FDM printer made a whole load of terrain and the Resin one worked a lot in printing dwarves for Joe as well as various bits for me and the Geek club.

This is now my 11th day in a row, I doubt I will pass the 920 day record I set myself, but you never know.