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Teeny Tiny Monks

Tonight I Set about getting some paint onto the 6mm monks.

What with the resin printing and not baring able to be bothered then these got put onto the back burner a bit. There is still a long way to go with them, but at least I have made a start. The majority are in saffron robes, but I have thrown some grey and red in there too to add a bit of variety. I also added some Caucasian paint to the bearers at the back as they have now become my peasant bearers for my samurai army. I will probably cut off the armed man at the front and replace them with a samurai or Ashigaru miniature instead.

My Baccus order should be getting cast this week sometime. I am 20 orders beyond the last update so unless there are some massive orders in then I should be getting it next week.

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Further work on the Resin

Ok, first off I think I need to pull back a bit on the resin as tonight I realised that I have pretty much run out, my last print, drained the vat dry, which was not clever. I forgot to check before going out so now I have a pile of house roofs and only one house to put it on. I have, however,got a cunning plan. I will use the broken roof and semi printed buildings to make a burning village… well I think that is what I am up to with it.

The burning buildings will go with these ones…

Resin versus Filament. At this stage I really cannot tell the difference. The one weird thing on the resin is that one of the houses is actually slightly Smaller than the other ones. Another weird thing is that the roofs just about fit. This will be easily sorted as I can print the roof at 51% and the house at 50%. I did manage to print a couple of Tori gates this evening, but sadly the bridge failed, for some reason one end detached from the build plate. In the background you can see the fawn I printed for my daughter as she wants to add it to a diorama.

I put all of the villagers together today… errr there are rather a lot!

No wonder I ran out of resin!

I have ordered a couple more bottles of resin, so nail it comes I am going to be pretty much painting things 😂

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Wearable Dioramas

Today I put my resin fish to good use and made some jewellery.

I had a lot of fish (and a turtle) hence the number of pendants and soon to be pendants..

These were nice and relaxing to do.

Basically a layer of cured resin and then some basing sand, more resin then the fish or whatever with the foliage., more resin then some of the leaves I made ages ago and then topped off with more resin.

My favourite one.

Me doing this caused pretty much the rest of the family to want to do something too. So my youngest is going to do a pond inside a box. My wife and eldest are doing something in a couple of clean jars. So all in all my messing around ended up being a six hour crafting session.

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Something Fishy

Today I painted up some koi, I am going to make something with them tomorrow.

I also found some photos… Pete painted up some Dutch lancers For his Waterloo diorama and Today I found a picture of the Polish Lancers … this was after we adopted one as he was on his own…

I even dressed up as a Cowboy once for a charity event.. took my horse too!
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Tufty Club

Sadly not the cute squirrel that helped people People my age cross the road safely when we were in infant school, I never did get to ride in the pedal car (not that I am bitter and Twisted about it… ok…I am).

Yesterday I said I tried some home made tufts and I didn’t like them as I thought they were crap. Luckily I didn’t bin them as I intended to. I put them into the shed and threw them onto the table next to some bases. So today I was fiddling with them and put them on one of the bases and they actually didn’t look too bad.

Okay they are a bit on the large side, but thankfully not too tall as to look weird.

This is them sitting on their sheet of greaseproof paper…

I will put some new batteries in my applicator and make some smaller dots and see what I can come up with.

Sadly no painting tonight as I, for some reason, am knackered. I did get my next lot of minis sprayed white so should be off again tomorrow. Yeah I could have painted the 15mm stuff that is half finished but I really couldn’t be bothered to.

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6mm Forces… Further Finds

A famous saying goes along the lines of why buy one when you can have two at twice the price (or something like that). Anyway this evening I got no painting done at all as I was out in the bottom shed making it Printer friendly and I came across a whole pile more 6mm miniatures… this time mainly individual figures, including a pack of samurai heroes… looks like I will have a lot of them now!

Hopefully I will be able to be the new printer set up tomorrow. I am a little bit nervous of getting it going as tend to get a bit like this with anything new (and expensive). It took me two weeks to set up the Ender 3 in case it didn’t work… if I get the resin one set up tomorrow then I am definitely getting better as it has only sat in its box for a week!

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Seaside Shenanigans, Dive Bombing and Halflings

As you might have guessed there is never really a dull moment in my household. Today we met up with my sister and family and went rock pooling and plodging in the sea…sadly no orca in sight, which probably pleased the three seals that came to say hello.

As you can imagine, with such a nice day the beach was heaving…

You can just about see my sis in the distance!

We kept getting dive bombed by a pair of arctic tern. Luckily they didn’t draw blood but it made life interesting for a while… we suddenly found the reason why!

Spot the chick!

My niece was actually stood with one foot either side of it… needles to say we took a quick photo and moved away.

We tried a bit of rock pooling, as I said. I was extremely successful…

I also managed To catch some young Pollack (I think). So we returned home and whilst we watched Fantastic Beasts I managed to get my halflings finished and onto their bases.

Tomorrow I will get them flocked up and ready to join the rest.

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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat!

As I said in yesterday’s post, we have been visited by large pods of orca. This is someone my wife knows who had a close encounter…

Photo by Karen Hall

The boat is in the foreground of the picture.

So far this year we have had dolphins – pod of about 40 of them. Orca, humpback, Minke and also a Sperm whale.

We set the camera trap up near the stream and got some great rare birds. We caught a male teal as well as some grey wagtails. Not to forget the regular snipe, oyster catchers and mallards, including a pile of ducklings. We haven’t managed to catch the otter, but one of the Oyster catchers spend ages preening itself in front of the camera so we got loads of footage of him having a right good clean.

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Basing, nearly done

Tonight I based up the samurai.

Still the tufts to add, but definitely getting there.

I did have a bit of an accidental purchase of another army this evening. I was on Irregular’s website and was after some bits and bobs and somehow managed to hit purchase on a Khmer army.

The other news is that the printer has arrived. I am leaving it in it’s box until a) my Birthday on Tuesday and b) I actually have somewhere to put it where the fumes aren’t going to kill me!

The other thing that came today are bucket loads more resin stuff for the kids and I to mess with. This time UV resin and well as a light and colourants and hundreds of moulds.

Oh and one last thing… we have had special visitors around Shetland over the last couple of weeks…

Not my Photo, but Richard Ashbee’s

Facebook has a Shetland Orca sighting if anyone is interested 😉

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Sengoku Jidai .. Almost There

Tonight whilst watching Frozen II I managed to get these based up.

I was dead chuffed that they were finished… it was as I had glued the last one down that I realised that I had forgotten the Sashimono… I swore…lots. Tomorrow I hope to get the bases flocked and also the sashimono finished.

I might order some monks for Irregular, they are 5 to a strip so are on a smaller frontage but I don’t think it would matter that much. I also might order one of the banner troops from the Sons of Set. This would make a good background filler for the seated Daimyo. The big Nobori banners they are holding would work well I would imagine.