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.

Well for now I have finished printing bases. Annoyingly the coating on the build plate has a couple of tiny holes in it.

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.

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

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.

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.

Both new printers decided to be absolute swines and gave me spaghetti on one and a Picasso on the other!

I reckon I know what happened on the filament machine. When I sliced it a really weird triangle appeared on the image. I just thought it was a glitch… it coincided with thr layer shift seen in the window. The rest, I believe was some oik forgot to support the windows and doors! As for the resin one, I absolutely haven’t got  a clue. Two of the eight printed fine. The other six were at the level above to the arms being a bit flat. So I re levelled the bed and retried. Same two printed fine, the others were better, but in no ways useable.  I am printing something different just in case.

I may wipe the memory sticks and reformat in case that is having an issue.

Ignore the first paragraph to avoid my new medical woes 😁

Yes I am still limping along, literally limping as it feels like someone has installed a hot plate into each shoe and turned up the heat. Anyway enough of my whining. The one thing that really does help is actually gaming on the console, it takes my mind of things, sadly Painting doesn’t have the same effect, if it did I wouldn’t have anything kept to paint.

I did however print some new miniatures that I am a bit excited about…

The dude on the mount is one of the Erroish tribe. I have also printed off a few more foot miniatures as well as a giant beetle that they use as their transport. Well technically I have two as the first one lost a front leg in a printer issue. I am going to do a bit of Greenstuff repairs and see if I cannot do some form of new leg.

I do love the aesthetics of the Erroish. Desert nomads. These are by Print Minis  their My Mini Factory page can be found Here.

I also spent some time printing off some props for someone’s CosPlay… guess the film!

It’s Geek Club tomorrow so hopefully I will get something painted in that.

So this came in the post yesterday.

I love Bill Making stuff on YouTube. This is his game that is a collaboration with Apocrypha Now. I doubt I will actually build any of the bots within. I just felt it was a good way to support both channels.