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Working on the Dohyo

This evening I was on puppy duty, This is basically following each other around waiting for one or the other to need the toilet. Quite a bit of it was Maggie was asleep on me so I couldn’t move.

I therefore didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but managed more than I expected…

Still a bit to go but definitely getting there.

Now doing a bit of research into what the thing was called I found out some new boring facts.

Firstly they are sacred spaces and offerings are buried in the centre. I knew they had a link to shinto but not that much. Secondly, I  never knew women were forbidden… now I know why there are no female Sumo wrestlers 🤼‍♂️. Thirdly, knew they threw something white around before the bout, evidently it is salt.

There you go, boring facts that may help you win a pub quiz or trivial pursuit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MDF Terrain

As I mentioned the other day, I purchased some MDF stuff to make some sort of on table terrain.

Well I started building it, following the instructions downloaded from their website. Two problems I hit were the instructions as well as user error reading said instructions. First off I downloaded the wrong set, luckily the first bit was identical to mine. Secondly I stuck some bits on the bottom upside down. Then I ran into problems with the main bit of the fuel tank. In the instructions it clearly states to glue the bottoms in first which I did. I then had to fasten 12 pieces into the top, three of which had 3 tabs to fit into 3 holes.

I then had this problem…

Okay in the grand scheme of things it is not a huge problem, but it is like this on a lot of the pieces.

I really felt like the cylindrical thing wasn’t really so I started making changes using cereal card.

These are meant to have a ladder of sorts up three of the sides, but they just looked too out of scale. This also is covered up by the cardboard.

I think I have been spoiled in the past by some of the MDF terrain I have had. These are actually okay kits for the money. These were the cheapest I could find below ÂŁ30. For some of the other ones, for something similar it was double or more than double hhe price.

Has it put me off, not really. It’s a relatively new material to me so there are bound to be teething troubles. In fact the second tower took a quarter of the time to build than the first.

I never did get the scouts painted, I did do some more pallets of sacks as well as some liquid bowser and covered bags to act as scatter.

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Pumpkins and Leaves

Temperature has plummeted and the snow and wind have arrived with a vengeance. It is supposed to drop to -10°C overnight so we are in the will there, won’t there be school in the morning. Problem is three of us live on one side of the hills and the school is on the other. This causes problems with trying to second guess the weather over there.

Anyway I decided to do something that could be finished with my portable light if needs be.

I still need to work on it, I did shove some of the leaves down. I still need to get some tufts down and repaint the edge.

This is how the leaves came out…

I am quite pleased with how these came out.

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Start of the Pumpkin Patch

Or two in this case!

Yes I know Halloween was a good while ago, but I needed a nice simple project this evening!

In hindsight I wish I had done the pumpkins over three bases instead of two… but I didn’t! Once the basing gunk dries then I will see how effectively it has stuck to the base and stuck the pumpkins into it. Again I probably should have glued these to the base and then gunked around them.

Ahhh well, time will tell!

I will be adding patches of grass in places with some tufts and some maple leaves… sadly I don’t have any pumpkin leaves 🙂

Hopefully I will carry on tomorrow and let you know how I get on.

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School Diorama

Well we got the diorama finished and I got it delivered after school today. Here it is in all its glory.

The only bits of it I actually did on it were minor. Firstly I covered the whole base in watered down PVA after the kids left and second was using the rattle cans to spray things black and to seal the flock onto the trees.

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Building Some Ruins

That’s a bit of an oxymoron, but this evening I decided to put together this small corner ruin from Dark Ops. I have had this for an absolute age… so long in fact that they have stopped doing this range. So long in fact my Google-Fu failed to find anything about it. I wanted to see how to build it as it came with no instructions.

I worked it out eventually. I spent more time actually adding an upper floor to the smaller bit, or rather adding extensions to it. I also made a simple pillar with an upper floor.

I will try and get it painted before the game on Thursday.

Whilst sorting out in the shed I found a couple of computer games info/rules that I used to play a lot…

From what I remember the 101st one was a nightmare to win. Of the two Hidden and Dangerous was my favourite. I played it loads. From what I remember it also had a second one that I also had.

Sadly the days of books in games has gone.