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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.

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I Hate Mathematics…

Well okay, maybe not hate it, but spent most of this evening helping my daughter study for a test tomorrow. Not only maths, but Biology and Chemistry too….

Therefore I was not really in the mood to do anything else this evening.

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STL’s and Stuff

I have been a busy bee today and this evening. We have rearranged the kitchen, removing the counter I added in and replacing it with a table. The counter will be recycled and will end up in the conservatory.

This evening I was downloading STL’s for a mate who wants me to print some WW2 French cavalry for him. I tried to sort out some of the things I have too, not to mention trying to contact both Kickstarter and Patreon owners to work out how the heck to get my files.

I had a jolly good play on War Thunder too. Tested out my Christmas presents to make sure they are compatible with the PS4 and they are. So they are going away until Santa arrives.

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A Smidge of Painting

Tonight I decided to get some more paint on the traveller from ‘the Printing Goes Ever On’ Patreon…

Now, having a look at him he seems to be going shiny like the rhino and wolves on the diorama. The difference between these and other ones is that these were undercoated with a brush then dry brushed white. Part of me is wondering if it is having an effect on the Contrast Paint. Either that or the Contrast is going a bit weird. Maybe it just needs a bloody good shake, more than I shake it normally I mean.

Not a huge amount achieved because I spent ages looking for his bag. In the end I took everything out of the box one by one and then returned them in the same manner, I then spent ten minutes hunting around on the floor, still nothing. Then at the point of believing that I had totally imagined Printing the thing, I turned around and there it was on the above tile on the windowsill. My daughter had moved it in case it got lost!

Tomorrow I am going to be moving the FDM printer in with the resin printer as it is warmer in the bottom shed.

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Diorama, Paints and Superglue

I decided to get the diorama finished tonight. I went for some blood in the end, I think it looks okay. Not much, but a bit of red to give a bit more to the story.

I also got some paint put onto some more of the 3D printed stuff. I needed the superglue to repair a few miniatures too.

We had a bit of excitement in school today as a pod of Orca came into the bay. We went for a look, but by time we got out they were motoring away…

You can just about see them in the photo…

We took the kids for a walk down to the pier, it was a nice morning for it…

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Having an Easy Evening

Tonight we didn’t eat until gone 20.00 so by time I had a bath etc I mooched around looking at various miniatures that I have.

So I have a long list of unfinished projects, first off I must get This diorama actually finished and then get on with the various 6mm armies that I have, thence onto the 15mm stuff, then printed LOTR stuff, all in all I am going to be a busy bee over the next few months.