Posted on by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

A Busy Boy

Well after a totally Shite day work wise I came home and decided to be productive.

This lot are now finished, apart from some form of symbol on the two banners and shield  (oh and the green one needs a shield).

I know green is a bit of a rare colour in these kinds of fantasy miniatures  but this isn’t Brettonia so the green rule doesn’t apply. Interestingly enough after the 13th century green was actively avoided into the 15th century. It came back in the 16th, long after people had the need for it on a shield.

So I had a mooch about and got out the medievals I could find…

I might actually have more somewhere.

I now need a lot more commoners!

Actually to be honest, I really need to ask myself… do I really?

My original plan was that each knight had ten to twelve foot. So I would need about another fifty or so to paint! Obviously if I have some unpainted ones lying around then I will get them done.

I also painted some 6mm ork chariots and did a bit more on the bust. I tidied up the painting  cupboard and made another covered (Duck tape) cat food box to store some extra Speedpaints in.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

Woohoo Painting Achieved

This evening I christened the painting table and managed to throw some paint on some of the (started) knight miniatures.

I have actually repainted a few bits as well as adding some fresh colours.

Now I have started having a smidge of an interest in painting a bust or two. Because I am a pillock I will give the one coat paints a go. The beauty of the printer is that if the result is naff then I can print another if I don’t just respray it.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Ready for Undercoating

So this evening I felt inspired enough to hunt our some bases and get nine of the eleven stuck onto them.

The spare two were front left. As I have a bit of a Tyranid force then I thought it only fitting that they have some helpers. These are the Code Splicer cult. They remind of something else with a similar name 🤔.

Behind them is the pair of ‘slave ogres’. Front right are a pair of skull server things. One with a gun and one with a medical saw and syringe.

Behind them are a trio of police officers with a spare head of an Erroish warrior as a proxy. Some twit dropped the original somewhere and it cannot be found. I felt the gas mask worked with the other pair.

And finally at the back we have a cyborg bounty hunter which frankly looked so cool that I had to print it.

Somewhere I have this lot that I want to paint and can I find them?

We are taking my school on a mini residential tomorrow so I might have random bollards to write tomorrow evening. Part of me fancies taking something to paint tomorrow evening, but I doubt I would get the chance.

Posted on by maenoferren22

Back with the FDM

Well I picked up some filament in a charity shop really cheaply, I wish I had got the other three rolls, but didn’t. By time I got back they had gone.

Sadly they weren’t in grey, I hot the most staid of them with green.

Here is my first print with it

It’s just shy of 7 inches tall and printed  in four or five bits. I cannot actually remember.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 7 Comments

Printer Overdrive

Well I have gone a bit bonkers printing things. I am certainly running through my resin backlog.

I eventually managed to print the large chemical mixer thing…

I also did the walkways and a leaky drain.

The  drum above is the second attempt… the following shows us boys and girls why we need to ensure that we fasten the build plate properly!

The following are a couple of pipes. They were part of four things on the plate. The chemical barrel pallets both failed, which led to a lot of swearing. The vat was full so it took a few shenanigans to get the cured lumps of the FEP.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 5 Comments

Chemical Plant II

This evening I sorted out the new chemical tank. This one is a little more complex than the other one. It has screens and buttons etc, but it is still going to work well.

I have sprayed it black ready for the white dry brush tomorrow.

I am printing a second one right now. My plan is to have at lest two joined by a walkway. Three would be better but I am not sure if I can be bothered to paint three.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 10 Comments

Rust Bucket

Well this evening I added the rust to the industrial terrain piece.

I really tried to get the rust where it would get rusty.

The sign is one of the ones I printed last week.

Hopefully I will actually achieve more tomorrow.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 5 Comments

A More Productive Evening

This evening I didn’t turn on the console and decided to be a bit more productive. First off I tried colouring the rust on the vehicle…bad idea. I therefore redid it with the rust effect.

It looks better now than it did so I am either going to leave it as as, or get some chalk pastels and add them to it… what do you reckon?

I also built another container… on this one I have a door that can be open or closed.

I think I will go for one more after the one that is in the post printing process.

Print Minis has a pile of containers that have either shops or habitation inserts. I reckon some of those will be next.

Posted on by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

A Busy Evening (sort of)

This evening we had a power cut for a good old while so it tool me a while to get motivated.

First off I started building some shipping containers. I would have had two completed. Sadly the power failure caused the second one to be unfinished. I am having to reprint the bits again.

I also had a faff about with some netting to add some camouflage to the scout sniper.

This is just wrapped around the miniature to see what I think which is why bits of the net are sitting at 90 degrees to the weapon.

I also got some rust on the vehicle… not that you can see it.

Now I am not sure if it is because the base colour is red, or if the rust effect stuff has gone a bit odd. I will try another layer tomorrow.