The printer wasn’t on at all today…Shock Horror! These were printed last night.

Four heroes and a couple of villains. These were printed using the stock profile on the printer.

The printer has been busy today (again).

On the left a pile of 18mm dwarves with their mechanical rock chucker. In the middle is an ale wife fountain…this will need either ‘water’ gushing out or I could make it into an older non functioning one. To the right is a punctured barrel with its liquid pouring out and pooling around the base.

I am also printing of what I thought were 18mm fantasy miniatures, they are evidently 28mm at least. I wondered why they were going to take so long to print.

All of the above came from Thingiverse

So I thought I had better credit the makers…

The barrel and alewife comes from Curufin

The little dudes are by Dutchmogul they are part of a game called ‘pocket tactics’ 4th edition. The download also came with hex tiles. The first ones were printed front and back flat on the bed. These needed glueing together. I then tried a one stood up and they printed fine without support. The elves however are going to need support built in as their swords and bows stick out too far.

The miniatures being printed now also are by Dutchmogul. They are from a game called ‘The Curse of Moht’ it is modular quest game. This again comes with hex tiles as well as tokens and counters. As with the above game the download has rules and cards… everything you need to play the game apart from the dice.

Whoops I seem to be hooked by this 3D printing malarkey….

I printed the Tiger 1 over night but the rest was today….

A sock ruler for my good Lady, A Hufflepuff crest for my eldest, a pile of markers for our One Ring RPG… I have left it printing 2 panzer 38t and a couple of MKIII.

I suppose the novelty will wear off soon.

The nice thing is all of the above STL files cost nothing. So quite a bargain.

The one thing I will do this week is credit the designers for everything, something I have meant to do but have forgotten so far. 😬

The white bit on the barrel of the Tiger is a mix of superglue and bicarbonate, sets like rock… some knacker tried knocking the barrel off. Tomorrow I may attempt to finish the Graveyard Scatter.

Well tonight I downloaded the following…

Anyone got any ideas as to what it is???

This image was taken at the 2 hour 15 minutes stage… still about an hour to go. Probably not helped that I am evidently running at 90% speed (upped the speed to 100% now).This is printing at 0.15mm per layer with the infill set at 15%. The print speed is a bit slower being 40mm/S instead of the 60 I am used to.

I am paranoid that one or the other of them are going to fall over 😱 if this works I am going to try and print the Mausoleum overnight, that is if I can work out why the nozzle keeps getting covered in gunk.

Well as it was bloody freezing again tonight I thought I would bring the printer into the house as it was getting lonely out there. Furthermore my good lady and daughter had gone out for the evening 😉

I levelled the bed again and bloody hell it worked, maybe it was happy to see me!

I ran a few things through it. The downside was I couldn’t tell what gcode was what so it was pot luck with the coffins. The first one was only the coffin lid, I managed to print a coffin second time around.

After that I thought sod it and printed a giant spider.

The base is 63.5mm across so quite a big chappy. This is printed using the stock printer profile. Fat Dragon supply both a miniature and a terrain profile, but I am having some trouble with the slicer so I couldn’t use the better one. The other thing is the legs are out by about a millimetre. This is probably caused by a ‘z’ belt slackness. I will put a photo onto the Fat Dragon forum and see what they think.

After the spider I tried to print what I thought was another coffin….

This is roughly 25mm to a side.

I will have a bash at printing the mausoleum tomorrow night…. wish me luck!