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Not Quite a Sea of Green

This is more of a puddle to be honest…

I really started far too late to get much more than this lot done.

You know, I have absolutely no idea how many points this lot would actually amount to in terms of the GW rules… come to think of it… I don’t know how many points for One Page Rules either. Whatever… don’t actually care :).

Will they win any prizes… nope, but I want these painted and out of the way. I watched something on YouTube the other day and the presenter said something along the lines of ‘they are finished for now… there is nothing stopping you coming back at a later date and doing more on them.’

I am starting to get a big backlog. But as my youngest is interested in 40k then I thought I had better change direction for a while.

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The Green, Green Nids of Home

Yes I eventually remembered to do some painting this evening.

I got some paint on my ancient Genestealers. These were from a boxed game with Space Marine Scouts. The tiles were hexagonal and were a kind of Jungle trail… totally forgotten what it is called!

I went for the Dipping Inks as they are in 60ml bottles so enough to do a whole army.

They are beginning to grow on me.  I still need to get the claws whitened again to make the papyrus to show up better.

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All White on the Night

No it hasn’t snowed, wind chill was bloody cold though. I spent some of today working out how to print some terrain on the FDM printer as well as printing more resin bits. I (with the help of the family) even managed to move the rockery back a bit… okay I managed about 45 minutes and they carried on being busy after I needed a lie down.

After that excitement I booked my ferry south, with my youngest being into 40k in a big way he fancies another try at the Claymore show.

I even managed to dry brush this lot white…

I am going to be honest, I cannot work out how this is meant to be quicker than a blast with a white undercoat and let the speed paints do the rest. Tomorrow we get colour… woohoo!

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Bringing out the Not so Big Big Guns

Well because I am a total sucker and project creep is evidently a thing I decided to set about doing a cult army to go alongside the Tyranids

I decides on a little mobile firepower

This is him next to the Big fella

He is missing his port weapon and exhausts. Not because they failed, because twit boy here forgot the exhaust and then printed the rockets to go on the starboard side too.

The Tyranids are all undercoated black and I have the necessary paints and brushes for the dry brush phase. If I am being honest, I am not looking forward to this.

I am going to go for a bright green body and a bone coloured carapace…well that’s this evenings thought… yesterday was bone and grey… who knows what tomorrow will bring

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So it Begins

Am I Mad or what!

I now have this lot to paint. As my bases didn’t have holes in them then I cut off the pegs to nearly all of them apart from four where I felt the contact on only one spot was pushing my luck. I therefore added some Greenstuff and once dry I will add the miniatures peg and all.

These are going to be slap chopped. I have undercoated them black. I have to go into work tomorrow to rescue my grey and white paint… actually just had a thought… I have some tester pots of grey in the shed….might not have to do a 40 mile round trip now.

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Second Base

Well second day of printing bases. So far I have:

36 x 25mm

10 x 32mm

10 x 50mm

5 x 40mm

1 x 90 mm

1 x 120 by something mm

Printing more 50mm right now… after I started it going I realised I wanted more 40mm.

Oh yeah, forgot the two ovals for the beetles.

To be honest I  think I am getting a bit carried away lol.

These are so satisfying, Print flat take between 45 minutes and just over an hour. No supports, no faff and, touch wood, no hassle.

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It’s All About the Base…

…as the song goes. Here it is all about the bases.

25mm, 32mm, 50mm and a test oval for the beetles.

I am printing all sorts of bases for the Nid Army and for my Son’s stuff too.

Not bad an hor and twelve minutes for eighteen 25mm bases – there would have been thirty six of them, but some pillock forgot to hit go on the printer!

I also undercoated the beetle etc that I showed yesterday.

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Somewhere to Live

So I am now level 80 on Fallout 76 and in between levels i have been printing bits and pieces… this song from the game is quite appropriate to some of my bits….

Just a tumbledown shack and it’s built way back
About twenty-five feet from the railroad track
Lingers on my mind most all the time
Keeps calling me back to my little old shack.

I have had these STL’s since I got my FDM printer. This was the set that turned to spaghetti when i built the house pre printing

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I eventually got around to printing the individual walls. The 150mm length kept failing no matter what I did. The holes at each end are designed to fit some filament to help pin it together.

I did try to build a Greenstuff leg for the second beetle… I have decided to just print one. After 45 minutes of swearing I gave up.

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Slow Progress on the Beetle

Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.

The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.

Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…

Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!