Tonight I had a whole load of marking, so didn’t really get as much done as I would have wanted. On the up side my daughter helped out so that speeded things up greatly. Last night I set the printer away to do three miniatures. Gandalf, Frodo and Good ol’ Sam… they have come out rather nicely.

Please ignore the suspicious white powder (my cocaine as the kids are now calling it) it is however baking soda, as I couldn’t be bothered to wait for the superglue to set. I also printed the little cat on the centre base. The other miniatures are the ones I printed a few weeks ago and printed the bases yesterday.

I did start painting my Daimyo and retinue, but forgot to photograph it. And finally I gave an old miniature a right good clean and got the majority of the paint off it. He is one of the GW vampire knights from about 20 years ago. I thought it was time to give home a new paint job, I have considered redoing my Mordheim gangs. I have the rules and a large number of miniatures so was thinking it might actually be fun.

And finally, why is it when you go to bed early then things like this appear!

You will be pleased to hear that there have been no injuries, wounds or anything like that today.

I did a bit of slicing for the resin printer so that took up some time, especially when I messed up the thing and forgot to save it!

Anyway so I got s bit of green on the houses and stuck some tufts on a couple of the thatched roofs…

I also got a bit more done on the stone walled buildings…

These aren’t as nice as the 3DAlien world ones and will probably be replaced when they bring out some town buildings. I still need to get more shading done on the roofs. I did some but to be honest you cannot really see where I put it. The one thing that is missing is the gates for the stone walls. The only thing I can think of is that I popped them in with some buildings when the castle went off to its new owner… my thought process was that I could probably redo them on the printer… evidently I forgot!

I got a bit of bits put on this lot and started on replacing the reins on the horse…

And finally for this evening, Tom’s River Lady and a Hobbit Costermonger…

These have literally just come out of the curing station…. I am trying the wight prince overnight so we will see how it gets on. Should be ready when I awake in the morning 😉.

This evening I pretty much jumped around a fair bit from 6mm to 28 to tiles. But I got some decisions made and actually made progress.

First up, while hunting for some MDF bases I ate across a nice square base in hardboard that I had cut for a large Arabic tent for my 10mm Arabs, but it has now changed continents from Africa to Asia and will the base for my Samurai General.

As you can see, everything is merely blue tacked down to try it out. There are still four samurai guards to add to this. This will be for the main Daimyo. In game terms I will do up a standard size base to denote the same character in the fight.

The next thing I did was to get some spray paint onto the Hexon tiles….

There are still a whole load more in the box under the back lot. I will get these sprayed over the weekend. There are probably ninety all told, with more on the way.

Finally on the painting front…

Just the bases to do on these and then that is another half dozen finished.

I spent a good proportion of this evening looking for my 6mm cardboard ships as I wondered how big a 3D printed one was going to have to be, Lo and Behold I couldn’t find the bloody things anywhere! I got a pile printed onto card, but only ever made a couple of triremes (I think). they are from the Roman Seas range from Hotz Stuff.. I got mine from RPG now… https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20290/Roman-Seas-The-Carthaginian-Navy-Set?manufacturers_id=506

Hello and apologies in advance for the ringing of the damn bell, but unclean, unclean certainly springs to mind. Whatever I have got, has pretty much knocked me flat for another day. Spent a couple of hours this morning sorting out other people’s cock ups at work, not my team in school, elsewhere and it knocked me for six. I went to bed at 13.30 for a lie down and woke up at 18.45.

Anyway after oven roast sausages and mash I felt well enough to throw some paint on these fine fellows…

Still a fair bit to go but definitely over the hump now.

I also managed to get a bit of paint on these…

Hopefully I will feel a bit better tomorrow, I won’t be at work which is a right pain, but nobody wants me sneezing and snotting over them.

Just a quick post at lunchtime to say that my test came back Negative. Which got me thinking. Negative is seen as bad, but in this case it is good that I have a negative result. If I had had a positive result then it would be bad….

So here is a photo out of my work window…

I am a bit miffed that they were super speedy with the results as it meant that I had to go into work rather than lounging about for the day.

Tonight we went gaming and we got possed! We were playing Journeys in Middle Earth. We had narrowly succeeded last week so we’re quite confident this week (how silly we were). We had three characters o; the go. Bilbo, Aragorn and Bereavour. To begin with we were outnumbered two to one, but Aragorn set about the enemy with some initial successes, but each turn more enemy arrived, until Berevour managed to block the entrance. By the end of it both Bilbo and Aragorn had taken a last stand, both survived, but the big baddy boss legged it into the night. We really needed Gimli in their fight as he is a tank, sadly Bilbo isn’t up to much in a one on one with an ork Marauder!

The new files for my LOTR patreon are ready soon….

Some of them are going to be printed before the others, with the Hunter and dog being first on the list.

My daughter was checking through the money pot and came across this rare item…

I say rare as I cannot even remember the last time I was there, at least 20 years ago, if not more. John will be able to let me know if the place actually still exists. I know the Spanish City at Whitley Bay disappeared a few years ago, so this might have gone the same journey. Random Trivia quiz, The Spanish City appears in which song by Dire Straits? Sting from the band ‘The Police’ used to hang out there too.

In case you are wondering the place itself was a part of a seaside town arcade that was opened in round about 1910, it was the small brother of Blackpool Pleasure beach. It is called the Spanish city as the original concept was actually made of wood and canvas and then painted up to look like a Spanish city as a group of toreadors came to put on a show in round about 1906. They came every year. The actual frontage itself is about 60m long with a depth of about 70m.

This is it in about 1910…

I went exploring today, more of that later, but after I staggered back in full of fresh air and fish and chips, I decided to try making my fences into a T junction and a crossover. So I set about playing in 3D builder and within 5 minutes I had a T (including ages getting the individual files to merge). I then set about using the T and added another arm to make the cross.

I measured the original printed walls and they sat at 13mm at the top of the tallest piece of fence. I therefore shrank these down to 13mm with the dimensions locked to ensure everything reduced by the same percentage amount.

I would say I have successfully matched the two bits into the rest. I am pleased with how they turned out.

I am printing another pair and will see what I can come up with. I intend trying the same with the stone walls. These may prove trickier than the wooden ones as they have tiled roofs.

So it instead of adding too many different things to this Blog, I started another one that is more about Shetland. So here is the link to my visit to a bit more of Shetland’s wartime past…http://outaboutinshetland.home.blog/2020/09/06/soe-shetland-and-the-norwegians/

Let me know what you think. The idea is so that my daughter who wants to start blogging has somewhere that she can use too.

I was knackered this evening and after finding that somehow water had got in between my wooden roof and the plastic liner of the conservatory then, after swearing lots, I couldn’t really be arsed to do anything.

I think it must have got in a good while ago but I hadn’t noticed until this evening, as there is no way that it could have got in there now. There is also a bit of a damp patch where the door needs sealing properly (it just needs the external casing on), there is another bit where a nail went though the liner (I swore then too 🤬). So technically it is wind and watertight. My wife has been using it quite a bit to do her video meetings in, so she likes it, we take the ferrets for their daily run around in there too.

I started mooching around 3D Alien Worlds website to see what Samurai stuff I haven’t actually got 😂 not much to be honest… the castle stuff and the watch tower is pretty much it. I reckon that I am going to get the castle walls, corner tower and gatehouse for my 15mm skirmish Games.

Tonight I managed to get a bit done on the walls and thatch of the village. Adding the brown to the base of the walls really makes the aged wood colour a bit more visible.

As you can see, the thatch was done just before the photo was taken. Still a whole lot of work to do on these, but I am definitely getting there.

I did swear earlier this evening, lots, in fact. I came home to this…

These buildings in the spaghetti are exactly the same as the ones above. There has been a massive layer shift on them as well as some not printing above a certain height. The only thing that I can think of is that one popped off and it caused a domino effect with the rest.

i therefore decided to print them in pairs (only to find part way through the print that I have one solid and one hollow on the plate). This time I have added supports in case it was the lack of support that caused the problem above.

It looks like shuttering around the building 🤣 It really does show how far out the roof sticks out…