So I started collecting everything together to see how much there is for my mates birthday.
There is still the pond to add into this lot and a small Buddha shrine too. This one will be the small square one with the Buddha on it and steps leading to the statue .
It should keep me going for a while. I am not going to get anything painted tonight as I am too knackered.
So instead here is another random re-enactment photo…
Today has been spent printing more bits and bobs for my mates birthday on Friday. The miniatures haven’t arrived yet so I will need to get these sorted ASAP.
This will be his small farm. I still have the shrine base to do, but as I am nearly out of filament on this roll then I will need to put a new one on first to print it out.
Hopefully tomorrow I will get the gaps filled on these and get them sprayed on Thursday. I thought I would point out that the gaps are there as I seem to have a bit of a warped bed. Sometimes they appear when I print in different places. It could simply be that the bed has become a little thinner in those places leading to the wonk.
I spent today cracking on with my mates birthday present. Apart from the Buddha they are all from 3DALIENWORLDS.
I still have a raised area to do for the Buddha and some more roofs for the farm houses. I will do some rice paddies and some more fences to make fields. I will do some more rice stores too. One for him and some more for me.
3DAlienworlds have just posted a list of upcoming files for the Samurai. Very excited! I must be, Facebook informed me that I was a top fan 🤣.
The one thing I am going to do is to print a couple more Nobori banners for my shrine. I was reading somewhere that they were sometimes used to name patrons of the shrine. So a couple would look quite good just before the bridge.
Last check of the printer methinks and then bed. Catch you all tomorrow.
Today I sliced all of the bits to go into the pond. I printed the pond at 100% but all of the flora and fauna at 50%. It made some really small things!
I was surprised at how well the fish and turtles etc came out. To be honest the Lilly pads struggled a bit at 50%
I shoved some of them into the smaller pond too…
I am really chuffed at how well they look. I have actually bought some resin so that I can add ‘water’ to these. It is so long since I have done anything like this it will be interesting to give it a go. I am also going to add some to the paddies and if there is anything left then I can make some canal pieces up too.
I had a print failure today. I started printing some building pieces for my mates birthday and for some reason I had a failed print. One of the end pieces came partially adrift and was threatening spaghetti monster everywhere. Now in hindsight,as it had been just under 2 hours, I could have actually kept it going instead of cancelling the print. The piece hadn’t fully come adrift. I could have done a rescue ‘hold it in place’ rescue so that the rest could have printed…. ah well hindsight is a great thing.
I decided to do a full sized pond today, but to make it a bit different I took the Teahouse rocks and blended them into the pond in 3D builder.
The 50% one took about an hour and ten minutes. This one took five and three quarters. I did have a bit of printer problems to begin with. First off nothing was printing so I changed the spring on the extruder (well not exactly) I removed my two screws and added the proper bit in. I also re levelled the plate as the front right corner was pretty much out and nothing was printing there at all. So eventually when everything was tip top. I started again and voila, it came out properly.
Where I added the rocks is pretty obvious when I compare the two. I fully intended to stretch one of the axis too, but forgot.
Tomorrow I will print off some reeds and water lilies and possibly a fish or two, but there will definitely be a turtle in there too. These will be done at 50% again so that I don’t have a man sized koi swimming around in the pond.
Today was spent reading stories or rather a story lots of times for a video for the bairns in my nursery. I had an able assistant…
Louis kept messing up and I had to redo it so many times. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.
Tonight I finished the last piece of the shrine and decided to glue it all together.
So this is where I got to. Gaps to fill etc, but it is all glued together now. The base bits are all glued together the things on it are just in position.
The next thing to do is to decide whether or not to put a wall around it or put it into some kind of natural terrain. He idea is that the far bit will always be separated to allow for more flexibility. I tried the teahouse on it and it like kind of funky on there.
I do really like this set. It has combined well with the other ones to make something different.
The other thing I did was to print some nobori for the army. I went for a plain pair, a Mori clan pair with a triple mon and a Hokosawa clan pair with a single mon.
They are probably a bit on the large side for the 15mm. The stand certainly makes them look huge. They don’t look too bad next to a figure without the stand.
I never did get anything painted tonight. The glueing of the shrine took longer than I expected.
I hopefully will get onto the Ashigaru tomorrow.
I managed to get all the bits printed today…. well that isn’t exactly true… I finished printing all of the bits today. Each bit takes a good old while. The centre bit, for example, takes 2 hours 48 minutes to do, the corner is speedy in comparison at only 38 minutes. I have become a bit anal in recording everything, but it is really handy to know how long a particular print will take…
I just hope I don’t lose this book…
As can be seen I write all the times down, it makes life easier knowing that I can go and do the horse and get back before a print finishes. Anyway enough of this jibber jabber… here is where I have got to with the shrine so far.
I am in two minds whether to put the building on the raised section or leave it off. A second thought I had was to build a separate raised section connected by a bridge. This other section would have the Buddha on it.
I will glue this lot together tomorrow sometime ready for undercoating.
I decided that I would purchase some more bits and pieces from 3DALIENWORLDS. So I am now the proud owner of some bridges, some ponds and the large banners that came out today. I have kickstarted a couple of STL makers, one is making some Mighty Empire style tiles and another is making some interesting roadways. Luckily I have managed to sell my Lizardmen to pay for my new addiction!
Nope, fear not I have done anything wrong with the first one, that is still fit and well. I want to use the building part for my shrine and am printing off a second. The building should be just about finished in 10 minutes…
Today was spent printing the various bits for it, I printed the roof overnight and the building this evening. The only thing I need to print now is the water feature, as I seem to have messed up savings file. The stone bench is called water feature on the memory stick! As it took only 6 minutes to print I am not that bothered. I needed it anyway.
Apart from that I think I have got everything done to get the teahouse build in its entirety.
The other thing I printed last night was a doggy!
Sadly he is now a three legged doggy as some pillock snapped one off today!
Today I spent a long time printing the teahouse. Okay I did little more than press print. The roof took just over 5 hours to do and the building itself just under 4 hours in total the building took most of the day to print.
Once again theses are amazing models with lots of details. The set comes with all the bits you need for the teahouse. I made a start on the fence too. I got as far as the gate and a corner piece.
There are lanterns as well as water features and the interior in the set too.
As can be seen in the background I added gates to the wooden gateway…See below for a closer look.
The other thing I printed was the test Sashimono at 100% this time.
I had a punt at these as they only cost a couple of dollars so it was worth the test. I have enough of the ones from Thingiverse printed then I doubt I will use these ones. Having the mon on them would make my life easier, but it would mean more time on the printer for something I already have a lot of.
Tomorrow I will carry on with the teahouse fences as well as the other bits too. I will also need to start on the canal pieces for the raised area of the shrine. I will then need to find a Buddha or something similar to add.
I de died not to paint anything tonight, no real reason, I just decided to print some bits and pieces instead. I also had a look at my new toys 😂
So the above is the start of my shrine idea. It will have a raised platform in the centre and the Torii gates will be outside of the main gateways.
I am printing off The tearoom as I type this. The main building should be ready in about 2 hours and I will print the roof off tomorrow. It will become the small building in the corner of the sketch below.
I am so pleased with these STL’s. They really are awesome and well worth the money I paid. I will definitely be on the look out for some more bits from them as they come along.
The other thing I tried was the sashimono. Now I decided to shrink them to 50% as they are for 28mm miniatures. I think I might have shrunk them a bit too much!
Now on the up side, I am really pleased that the printer managed something this small 😁
My new Samurai miniatures came today and I am really chuffed with them. Don’t get me wrong I love my Tin soldier ones. These will be for Skirmish gaming.
My plan is to get the Tin soldier Army finished before moving onto these.
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