Today I sliced five heavy cavalry to go as a command unit with the mounted general. There are five individual miniatures in the set , so with a unit of six there is always going to be one duplicate. Somehow in printing four of the five to go with the commander then I have managed to somehow choose the same miniature every time. I am hoping that the one printing now will be different.
Here are the unit of six heavy cavalry, a pay master and his dogs…
I also managed to get some work done on the duellists, more colour and less white now…
Yes to Post man (or Lady in this case) brought lots of goodies today.
I thought I needed some form of simple reference material and in fact I found out a load of stuff I hadn’t known before… I read it over breakfast 😂. I also got some new toys…
As I had bought Duel a good while ago I thought I might as well get some duellists too. As I was getting bases from Alternative Armies then I thought I might as well… I also got a pack of freebies… armed brains… yes you did in fact read that right… a pack of floating plains with lasers and stuff coming out of them… very weird.
Now I also got a bit of painting done…
I was mainly painting the undercoat for all of the decoration on the command horses. I also threw some paint on the reins too – I am not sure why as if someone is on a horse and they appear the size of a 6mm miniature then I won’t be able to see the reins, let alone tell what colour they are. The other thing was to get another layer of Gesso on the elf and horse. I was inspired to give one a go as the mounted archers haven’t been finished since I got them. I will see how I get in compared to the originals.
Huzzah, tonight I actually managed to paint some more of the samurai…shock, horror!
I also printed four more Ogres (to make it even more a fantasy army 🥴)…
Now unfortunately one of the pole arms didn’t print, not sure why, it just didn’t. Luckily GW oversized weapons worked just fine size wise. One now has a war hammer. Two also have some very snazzy feathers too. I need one more to make a unit of six. Evidently there are some different heads that can be switched out in Mesh mixer. So I will do one of them tomorrow.
I printed the last two Reiters today too…
I now have a unit of six of these.for these two I used light supports and it certainly made my job a heck of a lot easier. Hopefully my new bases will arrive soon as I am getting a bit of a backlog of miniatures needing bases.
On a totally different note… Ages ago I ordered so new foam to make some more armour for my daughter and after some shenanigans I contacted them to say it hadn’t arrived, so they sent some more (well I think they did). Turns out the Courier wouldn’t deliver to Shetland.. AKA cannot be arsed to find out what to do… as in deliver to Aberdeen ferry terminal and one of the Shetland couriers sends it on. It is bloody annoying, sometimes I wonder why people just don’t post things. I will happily pay the cost of the post office delivery, it is often cheaper than a courier anyway. We deliver anywhere in the Uk… except if we have to cross any water… are they bloody Vampires or what! Rant over 🥵
Okay maybe a bit melodramatic (or a lot), but this evening I have printed a dozen crossbowmen in two lots of six and three pole arms that wouldn’t print at all….
I deliberately spaced things out in case the extra suction in the FEP was causing problems. I have attempted the pole arms three times before this and they failed each time. This time I just put them on their own on the build plate and voila they came out fine. I have changed nothing else. All settings are the same. Right now I am trying a dwarf mounted on a ram… not like in the hobbit thankfully, but a fully armoured one. We shall see how it copes. Hopefully everything is spaced out enough for a successful print.
I got nothing painted as I have spent all evening looking for some missing 6mm Samurai cavalry. When I checked the Baccus shop it stated the army I bought should have had two units of 15 strips. I can only find one. On the up side I did find the Daimyo base with all of the necessary figures still blue tacked on.
Silly season is upon us once again… 23.56 and I can still see up the valley…this was the view at 23.30…
The iPad camera was struggling a bit
It is now going to get a bit darker every evening 🥴
I achieved a mage too! I have also printed out half of a rear rank of pike, along with some artillery crew. These will be available to view tomorrow. The second half are in the process right now. Over four and a half hours to print, for no other reason that the pike was vertical.
I also managed to get some more done on the Samurai archers….
That is them nearly done…I am not sure what colour to do the fletching on the arrows, if I do them white it will look like I have missed a bit so I might have to just water down some Contrast to make it off white.
Tomorrow I will get them finished I hope, then onto some cavalry before swinging back round to more infantry. I am sure that I have some Teppo too.
Today was rather tiring. A day’s training via video conferencing… child protection training is never fun, but as a child protection trainer then it is always weird that I have to be trained in it. Yesterday I managed 9800 steps… today 4000 most of that after I got home. I managed to get some stuff done after the parent council meeting.
First off I scampered to see how the mounted Maximilian had got on… he hadn’t. The magician, the sword arm and Max himself were missing. Once again it is a bit of a mystery as to why they failed, when everything else has been working fine. As they were the first of their type printed It might have been an issue with the supports, but normally things are tested solidly before going out, so it could well be that either it was too cold and the light weight supports failed, or it could be that the build plate has gone off level again.
The only thing to print were the new officer and the lady magician (I am actually struggling with words tonight and cannot think what either are). Here they are with the flag and drummer…
They fit in nicely size wise with the others. I am busy printing a few of the Dwarves that came as part of the kickstarter. We shall see if they print okay.
I also managed to do a bit more work on the samurai…
So the amount of white on these has reduced a bit, this time each colour got a specific helmet colour, I really couldn’t be bothered messing around with half a dozen shades.
I am what is best known as knackered. The last time I felt this tired was when my eldest was born and they didn’t sleep for 12 weeks as they had reflux… a week and a half to go until the holidays, in that time I have to interview people, have two days of training, short list with a colleague, sort out for the end of the year and generally stop the oldest kids going off the rails before leaving for secondary school, sort out end of year assessments and record keeping etc…wish me luck!
Anyway tonight I seriously could not be bothered to do much, I sliced a pile more miniatures and rescued the remaining five halberds off the printer…
So I now have a unit of twelve with attached flag waver and drummer.
I am printing off a mounted general and entourage. I shrunk my Lovecraftian zweihander down to the same size as these ones to add in as a fancy officer type. I think he will fit right in (78%) seems the right size this time.
The original test prints from last month.
So that is three full units of twelve done, a half size pike unit and some officer types… in terms of Lion Rampant, when the pike are done then I will have 20 points of a 24 point retinue.
I really doubt I will get anything done tomorrow night as I have a parent council meeting until 21.00. Luckily I will be able to do it from home as we are online. I just have to write the head teacher’s report before 19.00 tomorrow… it is always a sod trying to remember everything that I need to add.
Tonight I had more success on the printer front. The next lot worked fine apart from a couple of niggles… First is the sword on the flag waver hasn’t printed again, second is that some of the pike and halberd shafts are wonky in places, but I am getting there…
I am printing another set of halberdiers and flag/drummer combo that will give me a unit of twelve halberdiers with flag and musician as well as a musician and flag for the pikes. I will need to print a few with vertical pikes to go as the rear rank.
I also managed to get some paint onto the samurai archers…
So it was a bit of a productive evening, not the greatest, but at least something was achieved.
Today has definitely been a day for the Queen, I spent most of this evening extremely annoyed. Partly at myself, but also at other people…or one person in particular who for whatever reason is not a team player. Anyway enough of my whining, I went the shed to see how yesterday’s print went and flipping heck another print completed. I set it away again and after a few minutes of grumping (still) I realised that the build plate was still hanging up. So after a bit more muttering, I cleaned the vat and set it away with three more bills. This time with them at attention to go for a second row. Tomorrow I have to decide whether to have the second pike rank at attention or similar to the bills …in mid poke.
Anyway I managed to crack on with the samurai and got them nearly there…
I am going to base them on 20×40 with eight to a base (I think). I still have to decide on a mon for the sashimono. To be honest it will probably be a simple dot or two.
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