The title says it all really. Making sure that the ‘raw’ resin is removed from the parts is really important. You can tell from these two galleys…
I bet you cannot tell which one was cleaned the best!
Mikko very kindly gave me some advice and it certainly has made a difference. These things are really small, that is a 6mm miniature in the background. I have now got some new resin so will need to do a test print to begin with as this one is translucent green. I reckon that I need 9 seconds to get the best quality at the present layer height. I intend to try increasing the resolution and see what I can get out of it.
Looks like we got us a convoy… yes some more 6mm loveliness arrived this morning all the way from the USA.
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin’ logs Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs We is headin’ for bear on I-one-oh ‘Bout a mile outta Shaky Town I says, “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck “And I’m about to put the hammer down”
Yes Convoy is one of my favourite films… I have it on DVD and haul it out to watch every so often… One of the best Theme songs ever…
Back in the Day I had a CB and used to belong to the Citizens Band Radio club in the village where I lived.
Although I love the Convoy Theme… this is a close second 😉
So enough of big rigs and CB Gibberish…. the other thing in my parcel was my Lizardmen cavalry…
These are the lizards riding Pachycephhlosaurus which I thought made a nice change from Utahraptors and the like. I did quite fancy some of the other big dinosaurs, but will have to wait a while for them.
This is the link to the website: https://www.microworldgames.com/ the shipping worked out at $12 which to be fair is about as some companies in the UK want to charge me for parcels to Shetland.
Tonight we got back into our RPG campaign suitably distanced. it was good to get playing again. Nobody died, even though they decided to spend 5 days wandering around the barrow downs… we shall continue with it next week.
So after printing nearly 40 miniatures, a pile of 6mm buildings and a small ancient fleet I decided to print some test matrixes to help with the dialling in off the printer…
From left to right, top to bottom, we have 8.5 seconds, 9 seconds, 10 seconds and 14 seconds a layer. The 14 seconds is overexposed I think, but I may be totally wrong with that. From what I understand for circles and pegs you need to have the same amount of holes as pegs, for the bars at the bottom, the bars should technically be able to fit inside the slots below them and the two parts of the thing in the middle should just be touching, problem is they all look the same to me apart from the last one! Well I reckon I have until next Monday to ponder this as that is when the next bottle of resin will arrive.
Pete asked an interesting question about cost of resin over filament. There is definitely a difference. Resin cost me £29.00 for 500ml and filament was £25.00 for a one kilogram roll. Before lockdown the rolls were coming in at £18 a go. So there is definitely a price differential in place. However I have printed shit loads of things. Nearly 40 figures as well as my fleet and buildings so cost per thing is below 50p per item. There is a time differential as well. I can print six figures in the amount of time I could print one on the resin printer. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the Ender. It would take six times as long to print the six miniatures.
I printed these for my eldest, just under 11 hours on the Ender (okay it was high quality)
Height determines the length of time on the Resin Printer.
I will get some of the resin stuff painted ASAP and also shove one onto the Ender and see what the difference is when painted up. A bit of a long journey, but I am enjoying it so far 😉.
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.
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Bogenwald 