Well today I started off by printing the village water source…
Here it is next to the peasants… next up the fences…
I did some test prints of the rice for the paddy fields. I am not sure whether I will carry on with them as they are a bit on the small side. What I might do is blend them into the actual paddy field in 3D builder.
I printed the horse at 70%… way to big… really nice but looks like a Clydesdale compared to the rest!
So the rice store is finished. It printed overnight, taking over six hours to do. It was one of the few models that needs support.
My plan with the buildings is to do a small settlement with three houses and the rice store. There will also be a couple of single buildings as well as the paddy fields dotted about… (Not to mention herds of water buffalo) 😂.
I just had to replace the print surface after a hole appeared…
This is what happens if you leave the hole…
In case anyone was wondering, the houses come in bits…
The buildings I have made so far are made up of three room sections, two end walls and four roof sections. These houses can go from two room sections up. The walls are either mud or wood (they are farm houses after all). Roofs are either thatch or wood. The thatch comes in two styles as seen below.
I am having some problems with the corners lifting on these ones. I think it is because the temperature has dropped again. It may be that the bed has warped or something similar. But my money is on a draft as that is one of the things that causes such problems.
I have still got a lot of bits to print out including wood and stone walls, not to mention fields. The rice store is printing right now. Tomorrow I will see what I will print next… since I started printing the big Beasty I have used over a full roll of filament.
Last night I printed the wooden walls for the next building. Today I printed the wooden roof for it.
I spent a bit of time this morning slicing bits and bobs. I went for another couple of thatch roof ends, a pile of doors and the rice store.
I will probably do a couple of rice paddies too.
I printed off a wooden house today as well as some barrels.
These need a bit of Greenstuff work on the gaps, this was due to the print curling slightly at the ends. It shouldn’t take much effort to sort them out. I am printing off another wooden walled dwelling today. Tomorrow I will print off a wooden roof as well as cut out the door supports and add some doors in.
So after forgetting to print a bit, not to mention printing the wrong bits too, I managed to get the house finished. I have two thatched roof options…
This one isn’t a bad size…for the skirmish type games the roof comes off so that miniatures can be placed inside…
Tomorrow I will print of a different house and make a little farmstead.
Yesterday I did a couple of test prints to see how the scale was looking. The fence was a bit on the large side and the buffalo a bit on the small side…See here .
So today I dropped the fence from 60% to 50%…
This seems to be better. It looks more like a farm fence than a zoo fence. I messed up by adding supports to it, so it took the same amount of time as the bigger one. These two bits took 44 minutes.
The next thing I did was to increase the buffalo from 60% to 70%…
The cows look okay too, perhaps a bit on the large side, might try 65% or perhaps I will just leave them as is. They are stage dressing for a war game table so they should be fine.
Actually when I look at the 60% water buffalo on the base with the miniatures then it doesn’t look too bad actually.
So right now I am printing off a farm house with a thatched roof. It is done at the 50% sizing. It might be a bit big for a war game dwelling when one miniature equals a number of real people. We shall see.
The advantage of having the STL’s is that I can faff around with the sizes. I want to make a 15mm Force or two for my Ronin rule sets. If the house is too big for a multi base war game then it should be fine fir a skirmish game.
The building will take four hours for the walls and then another four plus fir the roof.
Today’s printing of jungle plants…
This will be the last of the plants I will print for a good while. I will start to go for the Samurai buildings next.
Today I have been printing more plants…
The Glob trees with a Rider of Rohan for scale. This the three of them with the full-size one finished.
More plants… some pillock added supports again to the ones that don’t need supports! I am printing another larger one overnight.
I will eventually stop printing things for the lizards and then start on things for the Samurai 😂
So today I printed my 120 x 90mm base for my allosaurus. I also spent ages finding various jungle/fantasy plants to go with the various bases.
I even designed a big base with multiple plants on it, but as it was going to take 8 hours plus to print then I thought sod it and just sliced various plants instead.
Anyway the base was a success, it is the same size as the GW one… so I will get it onto it tomorrow and then based up.
I then decided to print a tree thing… kept going back and It was taking forever! So after 4 and a half hours I went in and noticed that some of the support had fallen over, so after a bit of swearing I cancelled the print and took it off the plate. It was only then that two things struck me… then first was that it didn’t need supports and that second the actual print was perfect!
I will re slice it tomorrow, without the supports and hopefully get a nice tree out of it.
Didn’t get any painting done today as we played Journeys in Middle Earth. Four of us went on an adventure. I think it was a bit slow paced for my 9 year old but the girls and I enjoyed it.
We ended it, with Legolas and one of the others about to get their backsides kicked very hard by three nasty orkses.
Bogenwald 