Shock, horror, I actually managed to get this off the build plate without anything snapping or me stabbing myself with a metal scraper 😉
Unfortunately I can’t remember how long it took to print, somewhere around 2 hours thirty or thereabouts.
I was thinking about playing with the scale and printing some bigger and smaller versions, then breaking them up a bit.
So I decided to print a few different bits and bobs tonight… I decided on a bit of Sci-Fi theme…
A couple of barricades and a big alien plant. The barricades took about an hour each and the plant just under two hours. There is another Alien plant on the build plate just now, this is a different one to the one above and has about another 45 minutes to go. I have some other barricades and a couple of vehicles downloaded. They just need slicing. The issue I am having is that the PLA is running down and as it gets towards the end of the spool then it kinks up as it is tighter.
Looking at the other plant, I haven’t got a clue how I am going to get it off the print bed 😱😱😱
The other thing I printed tonight was the night fiend as the one last night had a bit of bad luck.
Viewing discretion is advised as he doesn’t look a pretty sight!
I am not sure what happened to knock him off his base… it might simply be that he hadn’t stuck properly to it. Either that or the nozzle did something weird and smacked into the wings. Either way I printed another one.
Here he is with his full wing capability.
I decided to support I’ll gotten games through Patreon as it only seemed fair that I have got another two of their games ready to print… not to mention 101 other things they have designed.
Well tonight I shoved a base coat of grey onto all the miniatures I had in the kitchen with me and I must say I am really pleased with the results (the miniatures that is and not my ability to slap grey paint onto plastic models).
It really has shown how good they look. The black shiny plastic didn’t make it easy to see the details. I would argue that from this picture you can’t really tell that I printed them at home. If you look closely you can see extrusion issues
This can probably be sorted, it might be over or under extrusion. The extruder might need calibrating or alternatively I could have filed it off! At this distance the printer lines are a lot more visible but as it cost nowt apart from about 7 pence worth of PLA and time on the printer. In fact all of the figures above cost just over 75 pence worth of PLA. I have worked it out thus…. 1 kilogram of PLA cost me £18.00 . Therefore 1 gram costs 0.018p…. I think my maths is sound there… multiply that by the 42 grams for the weight of all of the figures… giving a total of… 0.756 or in other words just over 75p
Somebody please correct me if my maths is wrong! 😱
The printer is merrily printing of a night fiend… something I had forgotten to print for the game. As an experiment I am printing him extra fine.
Tomorrow I am going to have a bash at some Necromunda esque barricades and Alien plants. My first roll of PLA is running down so I don’t want to print anything large until the new roll goes on. As it stands I haven’t really sussed out how far ‘not much’ will go 🤔
I printed off the last components from the game tonight…
My four dread folk were printed over last night.
Unfortunately they were stuck down really well into the base plate, so much so that I pulled one’s legs off! Luckily he superglued back together quite easily, but I did strengthen the legs with superglue and bicarbonate.
Can you see which one?
I also got the last of the tokens finished. The boon tokens were easy enough to print and took 35 minutes a set (I needed 4 sets).
The final things I printed tonight were the cultist bodies and then the the separate arms.
The arms worked well too and as they can be put in various positions I kind of got four different looking figures…
Tomorrow I will get everything out and make sure I have missed nothing out.
Although these came free from Thingiverse from Dutchmogul and credit must be given to him. He from a company called Ill gotten games (http://www.illgottengames.net/whoweare). I will certainly be looking at some of their civilian miniatures.
http://www.illgottengames.net/products/?category=Townsfolke
These again are good value working out about a quid a miniature STL file.
So Sunday in the kitchen has taken place with the background chuntering of the Printer.
I got the first 14 tokens printed this afternoon. These took 2hours 48 minutes to complete.
These came out fine apart from the front four. These for some reason warped.
You can see the shadow caused by the warping on the photo above. I am not sure why they warped as the only one that isn’t a repeat is number 5. Therefore it is either an issue with bed adhesion (as in it’s not clean enough) or perhaps some issue with the way they were sliced.
I noticed as the first few levels went down that a few of them looked a bit weird – one edge was really thin and the other a bit thicker. I can’t actually remember how many of these weird ones there were, but I would like to have a guess at 4!
The next two sets of tokens were the square ones, these funnily enough came out totally flat. I did give the build plate a blast with isopropyl alcohol to clean it off just in case. These took 1 hour 51 minutes. The build plate wasn’t even cool before I set it off with the circular possession counters. These took a mere hour to complete.
Next on the SD card was actually a miniature. Now I played with the slicer profile a smidge. I moved the wall number from 2 to 3. This does seem to have smoothed things out a bit…
There is a definite difference between the new (Manflayer) on the left and the rogue on the right. There were other differences in the miniature profile from Fat Dragon, but I can’t remember what they were. The model above is pretty similar to the view in the slicing software. I don’t think the amount of detail will improve a huge amount. This is in no way a criticism as I might be proved wrong. The Manflayer took just under an hour and a half to complete.
I am now in the process (or the printer is) in doing a set of 10 event counters.
I will probably show these tomorrow. Once they are done I will get a group of four dread folk printed.
I will then be left with 4 cultists with separate arms, 1 night fiend and 20 boon counters then all of the components will be complete. I intend to get everything painted too.
All 14 tiles are now printed
The last ones done were the village last night and the fields today.
I don’t think I showed the keep and hill yesterday either. Now these weren’t quick prints. The keep and hill took 5 hours 30 minutes, the village tiles took slightly less at 5 hours 24 minutes and the four field tiles took 5 hours 48minutes. As for the cost for all 14 tiles. I weighed them to get the total weight. All 14 came in a 180 grams. Giving a total cost of £3.24. Now there has been 20+ hours worth of printing time. But still just over 3 quid isn’t too bad a price to pay. The other thing that dawned on me when I released the villages from the bed was that they would make ideal town (or villages) for 6 or 10mm wargames. I will see how they look when they are painted up.
So here are all 14 tiles together…
One thing I have noticed is that they don’t all fit together seamlessly. It could be slight imperfection on the edges or my z axis might be slightly out… but in reality it is out by a mm at most so not worth worrying about.
Part of me wants more rivers and roads or at least a curved tile…that way I can make more interesting maps 😉.
Tomorrow I will make a start on the tokens and the rest of the miniatures. If I do the miniatures I will try better settings on the slicer and see how it goes.
The printer was busy last night and this evening.
I printed the river and ruins tile last night and then the two forest tiles that just finished their 5 hour print. I have just set the hill and keep going now. They will hopefully be finished by tomorrow.
Once these are done I have four field tiles and a couple of village tiles and then that is them all done.
Again these were found on Thingiverse from Dutchmogul as part of the Curse of Mohr game.
Well tonight I printed up a couple of the game tiles from the curse of Moht game by Dutchmogul.
These even though very flat took 3 hours to print. I think it is probably caused by all of the tufts and individual cobblestones on the road.
I also painted up one of the characters from the game. He is nothing spectacular but does the job. In terms of detail think early Games Workshop plastics…to be fair I printed him with standard settings on the printer. I reckon I could get more detail if I tried.
The other think I printed was a leaking barrel. Not sure what it is leaking but I thought green was rather funky.
As for the game tiles I need 14 in total:
1 keep
1 hill
1 river
1 ruin
4 fields
2 forests (being printed now)
2 roads (printed)
2 villages.
There are the miniatures too.
4 cultists
4 dread fiend monster thingies
1 cleric
1 manflayer (printed… I think)
1 night fiend
1 dusk lord (printed)
There are a whole host of tokens and bits to print as well.
You can read a bit more about it here:
For some reason, I decided to print an 18mm Viking ‘house’
To be honest it turned out a lot bigger than I expected. It will be okay for skirmish gaming, with individually based miniatures, but it is far too big for units of 18mm miniatures. Even then the doorway is huge behind the 18mm elf. I might reprint it at 50% size and see how it looks then. As it stands this took over 8 hours to complete.
The printer is standing cold and idle tonight. There is nothing on my micro SD cards that I want to print off and I can’t be bothered to download some things I do want and the slice them ready for printing. I will see about getting something sorted tomorrow.
As a total aside, I printed this for my wife the other day…
It is a copy of a 10th century Viking brooch found in Denmark.
To the left some 18mm elves to match against my dwarves. The pair of legs was a failed print where the support for the sword dropped off. The two with the swords needed a fair bit of support. The swords are very fragile as is the mage’s staff.
The other thing I printed was some 28mm scatter bits. This was another freebie from Thingiverse. Unfortunately I can’t remember who designed it. I will mention the name tomorrow. The elves were again by Dutchmogul.
Bogenwald 