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Printers and Self Inflicted Wounds.

Today I set up the filament printer to print my son something for part of his Christmas present.

Self levelling bed and faster print speeds was a very nice bonus. Okay I printed at 0.2mm but instead of one bit and an IOU I got the whole thing done… even with a power outage and the aforementioned wound!

So I decided to use tree supports on my first attempt… one of them got knocked off somehow. So I stopped the print and foolishly decided to use a blade instead of a scraper to remove the supports that did adhere really well. Somehow my blade hand actually came back towards me, maybe a ricochet off a support, not actually sure… long story short…

What you can’t see in the photo is the fact it is straight across to the other side of my thumb too… I tried slicing that bit off!

So guess who felt like a right pillock!

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A Bit More Done

This evening I managed to get some work done on the Flintloque miniatures. Basically from left to right is unfinished towards a more finished state.

Spot the odd one out!

As tomorrow is Christmas Eve it is unlikely that I will get any more done, but I may get lucky.

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Dog Update – Sad News

Please be advised this hasn’t got a happy ending!

You have been warned.

A bit of a hard one to write. Sadly we had to let Bella go today. She bled 5 times since yesterday evening. The vet went to do the op on the teeth and sadly her blood tests showed that she was failing fast. She basically was losing platelets so her blood wouldn’t be able to clot.

They therefore couldn’t do the operation as she was also so anemic that caused a problem, dehydration was setting in, so they put her on a drip which thinned the platelets more. They had a blood transfusion set for tomorrow but they couldn’t be sure that it wasn’t delaying the inevitable. They also couldn’t be sure that if she started bleeding then she wouldn’t stop.

They think that she may have had some form of tumour causing the bleeding.

We therefore had to make the extremely hard decision… I am a firm believer of it’s better to be a day too soon than a day too late.

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Dog Update

First off, thank you to everyone who passed on positive waves and good vibes and also for asking after her health. Well the good news is she is still with us. The bad news is she still hasn’t had her op. This is primarily because of the weather. The boats have been somewhat erratic of late.

They wanted her on drugs prior to the op to basically thicken the blood. Unfortunately they didnt have any left…They were really good and sent Esther to the pharmacy (the human one) with a prescription for Tranexmatic Acid. From my understanding this is what you give haemophiliacs. So although she is still bleeding at times is it a bit of a dribble, rather than the sudden gush like normal.

If you want a graphic idea of what I mean, get some nice runny red paint and fill about half a cup of it then drop it from about a foot and a half. Oh yeah,… for the full effect get someone to chase you through the house while doing this to simulate trying to get hold of the dog while she is getting upset. Repeat once or twice a day.

Needless to say stress levels were a bit high during these episodes.

Honestly though she is a lot brighter than before the medication. We reckon blood loss would have made her very lethargic and feeling like crap.

Esther is phoning the vet tomorrow to see if they have any ideas on a timescale as the tablet’s run out in three days.

So here is the old lady in her usual pose…

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Undercoat Done

Well today I did a bit too much and ended up buggered. I managed to get the 15mm and 28mm miniatures sprayed white. I just forgot to take any photos.

Hopefully I will make a start on something tomorrow.

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A Close Call

I did a little job today in that I replaced the rope around the fire door and glass. The glass is held in by 4 bolts and a piece of metal that sits up against the glass. Top two took a bit of coaxing but with the help of the impact driver they loosened. Bottom two we’re an absolute sod. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain below my right eye.

Turns out this tiny bit of metal had sheared off and took off like a bullet…

Can you guess who wasn’t wearing eye protection. To be honest I generally don’t when I am screwing or unscrewing something. Maybe I should start.

Sadly no painting tonight as everything was aching.

Hopefully I will get on with it tomorrow!

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Still Alive and Sort of Painting

Well after a bit of a hiatus I managed to get my finger out and throw some paint on the 15mm miniatures.

The thirty of them are pretty much at this stage.

I am in a bit of flux at the minute. As some of you know I am the head teacher (principal) of a small school. Evidently it is going to be too small so they are likely going to shut us. Needless to say I am not really in the best of moods to paint right about now. I am only adding this to the blog as it is pretty much common knowledge up here and into Aberdeenshire and beyond.

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Making the Rust Work

This evening I decided to give the Dirty Down Rust another try. This time I stirred it first with a skewer. This took a good while… the photo was taken part way through the stirring process…

Once I had stirred it for a good while I inverted the bottle and saw light through the base so I reckoned it was time for a good old shake… turns out it had an agitator ball in! It definitely didn’t make that noise the other day!

So this is what it looked like after round two!

Much better in my mind!

The other thing I did was to glue thirty woodland Indians to pennies and undercoat them ready for a bit of a painting session sometime soon.