As soon as I got home I scampered down to the printer shed to see what my APC and boat looked like…. well it looked like this….
Although the power had returned to the house, the printer does not automatically restart. So I will probably have to wait until tomorrow to show you these.
After taking the photo I restarted the printer and fingers crossed it seems to be on track to complete them.
So if yo remember, last night I showed the Huey after fighting withe supports. Eric very kindly reminded me about tree supports l. I could never find them before. He was correct that I needed to get into the settings to enable them.
So we have tree supports left and standard on the right. We shall see in another eight hours whether things are better.
Coming back from the shed I noticed a bit of colour in the sky…
Well this, whatever it is is back . I am hobbling around the house like an octogenarian with bad feet.
Needless to say this hasn’t exactly made me enamoured to the thought of painting anything. I have sliced the Huey and am printing it on the FDM printer to save pennies. If it is naff then I will do it on the resin one. This is where we are up to so far…
The above is showing a lot of supports, the Huey front end is starting to form.
On thé up side, dinner this evening was followed by cake!
Well if you remember I was commenting on the fact that we had written to a load of companies to ask if they would be willing to support us. Of the nine letters sent, one, with sadness, said they couldn’t help. Which is absolutely fine, I am just pleased they replied.
However, the big news is… I wrote to Games Workshop and lo and behold they replied within the day. To cut a long story short they are sending me a school starter pack.
So a big shout out to them. The caveat is that it is their way to hook kids in. I recognise that and accept it. But at least they are supporting us.
This is going to be a bit of a rambling stream of consciousness kind of a post.
As you know, if you follow my blog, that I paint little toy men and goblins (among others). If you just popped by, then hello and thank you.
So this said hobby of mine can get a little expensive, add in a printer and after the initial outlay then it can become a bit cheaper. Paints, flock glue etc bumps the price a bit too.
I opened my Geek club in school where the kids paint models that I print for them. I support them by using the tools and resin. There are six of them and each one of them wrote to a company to see if they would help us out in any small way they could. Would you like to guess how many bothered to reply?
Zero,
We only chose companies that I have spent hundreds of pounds with. Not one even bothered to reply.
Now, I know that my little school with its little website isn’t going to make any companies their millions, but it is half a dozen 10 year olds who are getting into the hobby . One is moving onto pastures new and bless her on Friday she was making a list of the companies I got my stuff from.
I have written to the company we get our paints from. I did send a bit of a begging letter to see if they could send us some paint so we can get her a good start keeping up her hobby that she loves. My little club has spent nearly £200 getting paints etc. from them. Sadly I am not holding my breath.
Every other YouTube channel I watch has these companies firing out free stuff to people. One guy I watched was up to his third 3D printer.
Now this may seem that it is sour grapes and to some extent it is, not for me, but for a little group if six kids who wrote letters instead of painting miniatures. I did advise them that people might not be able to help, but to not answer in my books is pretty shitty.
Here endeth the rambling B.S. for today
Tonight was about slicing files to print this weekend. I also spent far too long playing on Ark Survival Evolved.
Yesterday the Nam Kickstsrter dropped, so this evening I downloaded all the goodies, had a good look and then printed some. Sadly they aren’t ready yet so I’ll have to show them to you tomorrow
The above are the US special forces.
I didn’t really make myself a lot of time to paint this evening… but I did a little bit:
Now the shaman in the centre has reminded me of someone for absolutely ages… I just couldn’t put my finger on who. This evening the clouds parted and the recollections streamed through…
Yes, I know he looks nothing like the wise old elf from the TV show… but somehow to me he does. If I hadn’t already painted the hood yellow then it would be painted blue.0
Still aching like mad, luckily no washing machines to move today, but the hot water tank overflow kicked in at 22.00 so I have fastened the ball cock up and turned off the boiler. I will get a new ballcock tomorrow.
I did manage to get some paint on some goblins today…
We have a leader, left. Three frogherds and a shaman on the right.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.
Well if you remember I wrote a couple of days ago that I am in constant aches. Removing the old washing machine from the house and putting a new one in certainly didn’t help with this. We checked the weight on the new one… 75kg.
The old one went out the front door (which because I am in a croft house is narrow), the new one wouldn’t come in the same way so we had to take it right the way through the conservatory in one direction and right the way back through the house in another.
I now cannot move and luckily Esther and Sam are doing the horse as I am stuck in the car groaning.
Hopefully it will have eased off by tomorrow.
Bogenwald 