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Old Stuff Refound

So whilst mooching in the loft I came across an old cardboard box and these fine chaps were in it.

These were the reason why I got into Warhammer all those years ago. I just loved the aesthetics of these. I built up a large force and played various campaigns using them. I had the spear armed ones above as well as the same number of mounted archers. Two units of 10 bow apiece and the same with the the spears, a unit of waywatchers and wardancers plus eagles, warhawk riders a couple of mages. I then had a freeman and some dryads to finish off the force.

I then got Lizardmen and Brettonians mainly the boxed game and built up from there. I still have a pile of knights and squires unpainted, but the rest are long gone. The woodelves are still my favourite army and I have kept them for old times sake GW then go and muck everything up and elves don’t exist anymore etc… not that I am bitter and twisted about it.

As you can see from the above, I never did get them finished. One day I might relieve my younger days and get them done.

I managed to get another couple of cavalry printed and started on the officer.

The two riders is something I have never seen before, I do feel sorry for the horse!

Knackered this evening so got nothing done, especially when I was eating dinner at 20.45. I didn’t get in until about 20.30. Hopefully I will manage something tomorrow.

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Slicing, Printing and Swearing

Tonight I got the last five cavalry sliced and onto he memory card to get printed, unfortunately the printer decided it was having other thoughts and then though getting stuck in the resin was a good idea. Luckily I managed to get the print head up and then cleaned off,of course then it decided to work perfectly.

So at the minute I am busy printing off two of the remaining five French cavalry. These two came off earlier this evening…

I also added some of my stuff onto the build plate too, I went for Glorfindel mounted on a horse. The horse is with one and he is with the other set. Hopefully I will get them done soon.

I will have to get myself sorted over the Christmas break and start doing things in an organised manner. Either paint or get rid of the printed stuff already done before I start printing more. I had to stop myself going for another Kickstarter as in reality I don’t need age of sail ships!

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Bits and Pieces

Tonight I managed to get some more paint on the 15mm Japanese civilians…

I printed off the rest of the dismounted troops and am in the process of doing the other two mounted. As I think I said last night, I reduced the cure time by a second to 8 seconds a layer and then changed the layer height to 0.04mm. This saved a huge amount of time print wise.

You can see the difference in my calculations above. Cav 1and 2 took six hours 53 minutes but last cav took four hours 49 minutes. A couple of hours quicker. Makes a big difference in the long run.

So here are the ten dismounted Troopers…

By this time tomorrow I should have half of the mounted troops printed. Once they are all done then I can go for some more of my stuff.

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Back Gone… and some Printing

Bugger it, my back has gone. Therefore I am unable to get anything painted tonight. I have however managed to get some more of the French cavalry sliced. I suddenly remembered that the slicing software can cut the files. This has been A whole lot easier to work with. Things would have been easier if I had used a mouse as I can zoom in with it.

So today I printed off a couple more mounted dragoons. These came out okay. I do need to replace (or strain) the ISO to avoid any weird bits floating around in it as the wash cycle is taking place.

I had a play around with the miniature builder for the Printing Goes Ever On Patreon.

So there are lots of options to choose from, this is a screen grab…

And this is my version of a cavalryman (elf)…

Guess who forgot to turn the model, before taking the screen shot!

Hopefully tomorrow I will carry on with the painting. Tonight I have six infantrymen on the build plate.

It was my eldest 15th Birthday today. They are now called Sam, but were originally Beth. They came out as non binary in May, which is why sometimes I say my daughter, sometimes my son and sometimes my eldest. Poor soul has sciatica, which is crap at there age. They are also in the middle of tests at both school and the doctors. Yesterday was birthday takeaway. A very nice Chinese meal. We finished it off at lunch time today.

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A Bit of Printing

Now that the old Zero is warmed up again then I have been busy printing these French cavalry for my mate. So far I have 4 dismounted and one mounted done. Problem is it is taking forever to split them up accurately and then a good old while printing them out.

The flag holder took over 7 hours to do as he was so tall. I could have put a second mini on there and in reality I meant to print the other single as a test and as I wasn’t wearing my glasses I couldn’t see the small writing on the screen…

So here we have the dismounted troops…

And the mounted dragon…Avec un drapeau.

The barrel of the rifle had a bit of bad luck when I removed the supports, but otherwise it has come out ok, and the size isn’t massive like I thought it was going to be.

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Printing and Painting

Yep, I actually got around to painting things this evening. I also managed to coax the resin printer into life to try some dismounted WW2 dragoons.

I sliced a pair and a couple of singles as well as the four dismounted types… you can see the times below. These are with 9 seconds per layer. First lot should be out around about midnight tonight.

As the title suggests, I even painted something today, not a huge amount, but any progress, however small, is still progress !

First off I got some more paint onto the traveller and the cat and then splashed some paint onto the Neolithic hunters…

Hopefully I will carry on again tomorrow and get some more done.

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One Day!

Some day I may actually pick up a model or a brush, but it was not this day. We had a hiccup in our planning where my good lady was on a video call until gone 8, so I went and got my eldest from Drama. So we didn’t eat until gone 7.30 (chips) and then homework and revision and then Pass the Pigs….

Worst run of luck in my entire life in this game…

Yes, I achieved a grand total of Zero points, much to the hilarity of the rest of them! Stupid Game, I never liked it!

It was a nice sunrise this morning though….

Not a bad view from the work car park!
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Further Fun with STL’s

So tonight was spent trying to find the charger for the laptop. It was eventually located in the shed, and no one knew how it managed to get there.

I then had a fight with 3D Builder to split the miniatures up. After a bit of a battle I began to win!

They are so tightly packed together it is difficult getting the slice in the correct place.

i did however manage to get them sorted

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STL’s…. Arrrrggghhh

Tonight I fought the laptop to a standstill. It was being what is technically called an absolute ‘b*stard’! It kept on crashing the software then it wouldn’t find the external hard drive where all of the STL’s are stored. Eventually after much swearing and threatening the use of a hammer then I got it working.

I found that the STL’s were as a block so don’t fit on the plate. This means an annoying amount of work sorting them out into individual miniatures. To be honest they do look huge, so maybe they have got bigger somehow. I will have to measure them to see. I reckon I will get two or three to the plate. Luckily my mate doesn’t want them tomorrow!

After taking this photo the bloody thing then decided to run out of battery. I will fight with it again tomorrow.

I do have this lot to print for myself…

The savage nomads are evidently cannibals as can be seen by their meat store. There are some really nice bits and bobs amongst them. The elves are modular.