So tonight I worked on the Green samurai and got them finished. I also cracked on and got up to the armour stage on the Black samurai. All things being equal I reckon that I should get the whole lot finished by tomorrow night.
So this is what we look like now…
Today was caravan day. My kids decided another evening and night was to be had in the caravan. So we made burgers on the grill and ate them in the caravan followed by a game of Upwords (which I lost). Before it got too dark to see (and too cold) we plugged the caravan into the house and as I was feeding the cable through the window. I had a peep in the drain inspection pipe and saw water… A sure sign that the septic tank had backed up again.
So in trepidation I opened the lid and sure enough…it had. It wasn’t the worst it has ever been, but it was a very, very close second. An hour later we got it cleared. Luckily I have absolutely no sense of smell!
Anyway after getting cleaned up, we went back into the caravan for a game of Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit…and I won 😂.
At 23.00 those that were going into the house did so. Looks like the light nights will be here very soon.
Sadly I missed most of the bits calls, but we have an Oyster catcher or two and I think a redshank with a couple of Snipe drumming. Quite a peaceful evening.
Soon we will have 23 hours of daylight and a bit of dusk. It doesn’t get dark at all really.
The down side is we won’t get to see this for a good while…
The top photo and the one above are taken in exactly the same spot. This was the sky in its green stage… I have it in the red and rainbow stages too. Just can’t find them right now.
So today I set the printer running to get some terrain done for my mates birthday. I decided to do him a big pond. Thankfully at about the 2hour mark I checked on the print and the front end was starting to lift. Luckily the blue tape was handy and I had enough to fasten it to too. For some reason the front of the print plate seemed to have dropped a bit. Hence the problems. It still looks okay so once I get it onto something flat then I will fill in the gap. Luckily it is where the stones are at the bottom of this image so it is hard to actually see from the top.
I printed out the accessories too and made a smaller torii gate.
My PLA order arrived today too…
It should keep me busy for a while.
I printed off some fences, another well and a Buddha to build a mini shrine for him. I will also do him a couple of farm houses too.
Yep, I achieved nothing, well if you discount buying more toys…whoops. Well another Kickstarter really. It was £14.00 for a print your own board game, which I thought the kids would like.
My other two kick starters have been successfully funded. So in future look out for a pile of hex tiles and a pile of roads.
The roads cost me £9.00 and as they are STL’s then there is no postage… they are rather nice and I came across them purely by chance.
I did want to get the samurai finished today but I really, really couldn’t be arsed to get off my backside. We had dinner really late and by time I got sorted to paint anything it was already 22.00 so I decided as I was knackered that I would just totally fail at being a predator on The PS4. To be fair I did manage to get some of the fear teams down and I survived each game as the Predators. I just couldn’t get all four of them. It was really, really annoying when people rage quit after I downed them… grrrrrr
Tomorrow I am aiming to get into school early to do the paperwork on who has got Covid and who hasn’t. We found out earlier on this week that even though we don’t work on weekends we still have to put onto the spreadsheet that we don’t work on weekends… never mind. Once I am done there I am finishing at 14.00 as that is my supposed time to finish on a Friday. Then I intend to do sod all, apart form a bit of archery if possible and paint some Samurai.
My daughter found my (pretend) medal today from our Boulogne re-enactment event. Sadly the ribbon bought the journey, but the medal polished up nicely.
Here I am at Boulogne, with some of the other chaps…. I am the one on the right. I am not sure if the medal I am wearing is this one or my Polish campaign one???
Just sussed it, it is the Polish one… Two of us are wearing it and we both went to Poland… what a sad little life I lead 😂😂😂😂😂
Yesterday I kept pressing print after shrinking the files down by 50%.
I printed another Torii gate. This one will have a tiled roof.
I also found a statue of the Buddha On Thingiverse to go in the shrine. I would like to point out I have no idea as to the accuracy of this. To be honest, it’s for a game and as such it will do for the time being.
The other thing I worked on was the start of the raised section. The biggest problem I am going to have is that as it stands right now it is too thin. I want the stairs to be in the middle so I will either have to print out two more straight sections, which might actually make it too wide. Or I will have to take a straight section and cut it in half in 3D builder. Another option is to forget about the building on it and leave it as is. Put the Torri gate at the base of the steps. I will keep you up to speed as to what I decided. The extra teahouse building won’t be wasted as I can give it to my mate as part of the terrain for his birthday present.
The hollow square will be used to raise the centre section a little bit. As can be seen at present, the centre tile sits at the same height as the surrounding layer. Because I am a pillock I grabbed all of the files that said centre and printed them. I forgot to read the instructions.. therefore I don’t actually know what it is for or where it goes!
I just added it and it looks fine slightly raised. This print takes a long time for what it is, this is due in part to all of the bumps on the top bit. Part of me is considering using 3D builder to just do a flat square with the same dimensions as the textured one.
On the upside 3DALIENWORLDS Have designed some Nobori flags which is something I was going to produce. That saves me a job 😁.
Today I decided to get the sashimonos stuck onto the samurai. I was originally going to put them the ashigaru too, but decided against it as it will allow them to be a part of a rebel force as well as allied to a Daimyo (not to mention the fact that I hate adding them).
This meant that I only needed to add them to 38 miniatures (luckily they didn’t fit on the samurai archers😉.
I managed to get 24 of them stuck on without many shenanigans. And then the next four took as long as the previous twenty four. Needless to say this made me somehow miffed!
I also managed to get the other half sprayed white.
Hopefully I will get the samurai sprayed white tomorrow and then make a start on painting the ones that I managed to get undercoated today.
I have decided to get rid of the Seraphon as to be honest I have fallen out of love with them. I have never played a game of Age if Sigmar so I. would need to buy and learn a new set of rules etc. There aren’t that many people who play it in the club too. Luckily one of the lads at the club said he was interested in buying them.
I did enjoy painting the ones I did, not to mention messing on with the printer to do those bits too. I was going to photograph everything for him tonight but unfortunately there has been a power cut.
According to WordPress today was my 271st day of posting in a row.
It has now become easier to post than to not post. Before June I was pretty much posting every day, but last June I became deputy head of one of the secondary schools and in the whole of June I think I managed six posts. Things picked up slightly in July and really kicked off at the start of August.
One of my biggest worries when I started was that I wouldn’t keep things up. I have tried blogs for years and never got beyond the first week at best.
To be honest, I think if I hadn’t have met some awesome people on here I probably would have maybe made it to the back end of 2017 and then packed it in.
So a big thank you to everyone for coming to visit to see what I am up to. I really do enjoy chatting with everyone on here. This was my very first image on my blog. https://bogenwaldblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/vampire-or-chasseur/
So it has been a bit of a long eclectic journey, three years this August. As my blog is filling up I think I will have to move on from the free one and start paying for it. So much for only lasting a week!
Oh woe is me. I am being dragged to the caravan for the weekend. My son has decreed we are staying in fir two days…which personally I think is a tad unfair as I have my blog posts to do. I was going to take some miniatures and a bit of paint with me but he is having none of it…
He has filled it full of games, we have everything from One Night a Werewolf to unlock the room Games.
The bedding has been deposited in it and breakfast things too. He is nothing if not thorough.
The view to the front isn’t too bad….
The more astute of you will recognise the view…
At least we don’t have to fight our way through the traffic to get there. Might even manage to get WiFi from the house out there. On the upside the power cable reaches too, so we have lights and power too.
Well I used the last of my white spray paint to get these undercoated…
The coloured ones are my test pieces that came with my Aztecs ages ago. I did however manage some painting this evening. I decided to start on the easy ones and went for the peasants.
Still a fair old way to go, but at least I managed to make a start.
I also found someone who does STL’s for Japanese terrain, so I spent a bit of cash and got a few sets.. mainly rural farm stuff. Hopefully I can get some of it test printed tomorrow .
So I am sat here drinking tea and eating cheese and crackers (we have run out of shop bought bread – time to make our own) and I just glanced out the window. It is a pretty good view, well it would be if some pillock hadn’t have parked his car just outside the gate…
It’s a pretty nice place to live. Social distancing isn’t a problem here, we basically live in the middle of a field. It is great as the kids can get out and run about to their hearts content. Once my bow comes (hopefully tomorrow) then I will pick up theirs and we can go out and practice – well that is if the snow doesn’t come!
So as we have people from all over the world I wondered what the view out of your window was.
Here is the view without the car in the picture…
We live in the bottom of a valley, you can just see one of the roads going up the hill on the extreme left of the picture. This route is a bit of a nightmare in the snow and ice, the other way has a 90 degree junction followed by a short, but very steep rise, meaning it can be tricky too.
Stream meanders past the house and can just be seen beyond the thick fence post towards the left of the picture. All of the migratory birds are back. The field is usually full of curlew, Oyster Catchers and Lapwing. I haven’t heard any snipe yet, but they will return no doubt.
The stream is full of life too. Some big eels in there as well as various fish, supposedly rainbow trout (my mate is a fisherman) but I have never seen any… we do get these chappies too…
Based on last year’s photos we have at least two possibly three different otters. Once the chance of flooding has gone then we will get both cameras out again. You can see one of them in the shot above. This year I am going to put one of them on the other side of the stream.
So, just for fun, show me your view out of a window.
Bogenwald 