I got the wights off the resin printer this evening after 15 hours 49 minutes. This was a bloody age, so this evening I checked the software and for some reason I had set the layers as 0.01mm at 8 seconds a layer… what a pillock!
To be honest you cannot really see what they are…
They are lovely miniatures and will be a lot more visible when I get them sprayed tomorrow. These are pre supported and they just come right off.
The miniatures had four minutes cleaning in the ISO and then had a good old blast with the UV light.
Tomorrow I am going to print the bases for the dogs etc as well as print a hobbit with his giant pumpkin.
I did another couple of river tiles on the FDM this evening.
Tonight I got the flock on but my quick drying basing Glue wasn’t so the tufts will have to wait until tomorrow…
This is a nice colourful army. I now just have to find someone to fight it, an order to Irregular might be in order with some Burmese making an entrance. Not for a while though as I still have a fair old bit to paint.
I was on a bit of a roll tonight and found some of my 28mm in the box so got some duds painted on the duds… I wonder where the word duds meaning clothes comes from.
These miniatures aren’t brilliant in terms of the printing, but because I am a stingy bugger then they will get used come what may 😂.
So from left to right we have a villager with a sack, a sailor, a lamplighter, a rat catcher and a lady with a barrel. I will carry on with them tomorrow.
Tonight I got everything stuck down and the bases painted brown, they are beginning to look like an army now, which is always a useful thing under the circumstances 😉.
As you can see from the photos I made myself a general and a sub general come hero base too. Not sure why, but it felt right 😂.
So tomorrow I am going to try and finish these off with the flock and bushes. I will then try and finish off some of the 6mm terrain and may even make a start on one of the castles. My two printed castles have made it to their respective new owners, so I am really pleased with that.
I have got these individual 6mm samurai to paint up and I really cannot be bothered, not sure why, probably because I know that I cannot paint them all the same colour, it’s about time I stopped being lazy and just got on with it. I
may actually have to sort out something so that I can see them a bit better, I reckon my eyesight is getting worse. Luckily my Poundland reading glasses have worked so far. I have a couple of the visor ones but in all honesty I found the reading glasses easier to work with. Part of me thinks one of those magnifiers with LED’s might be the way forward, either that or a lighter visor.
Hopefully you will see the finished army tomorrow.
The advantage of working from home meant that I could press print more than once on the Ender 3.
Spot where the lake is going to go!
I am going to print a fair few more of these as well as some roads. Still not sure what I am going to do with them😉. Doing small runs is a good way to get things going in the right direction. My first ones were one of each tile so I got some that I probably won’t use. Choosing specific tiles makes it easier to get a map that I want.
I also set about printing some resin miniatures, you will have to wait until tomorrow to see them as the print time was 14 plus hours, so they are going to finish sometime around 02.30.
I am printing the Hunter, his two dogs and the town guard…
Once these have finished I have got a couple of wights to print.
Today was Lucy’s twelfth birthday (in quarantine) so she got to choose the film… luckily her test results came through about an hour ago and she is negative, much to my son’s disgust as he wanted another day off school.
On the up side I can now return to work, this is going to be a very, very long winter. In my school in the last fortnight there have been four staff test and one pupil test, with another sibling test being taken too.
Anyway back to the Khmer…
This evening I decided to crack on and to try and get as much done on these as possible, so I did. Whilst Tonight’s film of Frozen was playing away I managed to nearly get them finished.
Hopefully I will get all the little bits I evidently missed off finished tomorrow and then get them based.
The one thing I noticed is that the infantry have blended into the bases now and the elephants and cavalry have jumped out a bit more. Weird optical illusion taking place there.
Today has been one of those days, kids in school were great, it was the world around me that was being a pain. As you know I had a COVID test on Saturday that came back Negative yesterday morning.
Unfortunately my daughter needed a test today because she got a bad cough (Probably from me) and as she has had a test I am now on lockdown for 72 hours or until her test comes back Negative.
In the midst of all of this my son’s School phoned my wife to say that he had gone into quarantine there. As I am the only teacher in my school and couldn’t leave and my wife was having to wait in to get my daughter tested then we had what was best described as an impasse. Luckily the test arrived, to allow my wife to pretty much break the law to go and get my son. As I am not in tomorrow then we needed to find a relief teacher, oh what fun we had there, as there aren’t any!
This sums things up perfectly…
Anyway onto the Khmer, I got a smidge more done tonight… mainly hair and more work on the elephants…
Now the one thing I am looking at now is the cavalry, on the Irregular page they used the same colours as mine…AKA I copied them. The more I look at them the more I think that I need to re undercoat the horses heads as I have seen absolutely no evidence of caparisoned horses. A job for tomorrow then. I am printing more hexes this evening. One wood hex and a couple of river hexes. I bumped the infil to 15% as the original 5% was okay for the flat tiles but anything else needed more. At least tomorrow I will be around to keep pressing print all day … ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ as they say.
This evening I couldn’t get access to the table to do any painting as my offspring were sorting out some things that they have sold. So I used time to get some hexes sliced in Cura. I have broken them down in to one and two tiles at a time. This is two fold, it gives me more chance to get things done in an evening 3 hours instead of 8 and also if the printer plays silly buggers then I haven’t lost as much filament.
I have gone for roads and hills, with rivers and woods. The woods are in singles and the others are in pairs.
The darker coloured ones are the ones from last night. 8 hours 48 minutes and voila, six useable tiles. They are the plains tiles.
Right now I am printing a wooded hex.
I Have added these boats for Eloth as he was asking for a better view of them. Grey is resin and yellow is filament.
Full size and 50%
The above resin ones were my first ever and it was in these I learned the need to properly clean the resin from the prints. To be honest though the filament although slower and less detailed is a whole lot cheaper.
I really do fancy increasing the size to 1:300 so that I can stick some 6mm Greeks on them. 😂 I need help I really, really do.
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…
Not a bad view really.
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.
I managed to squeeze in a bit of painting this evening and got a teeny bit more done on the Khmer. Not a huge lot, but progress is indeed progress.
The parasol is attached to an howdah. I used a micro drill to get a hole in it then cut off the pin to the right height. Typically I put it on the wrong ‘purple’ elephant! The hero and standard are in the foreground. One will go with the general and the other with a second elephant to act as a sub general, well that is the plan. As it isn’t exactly the world’s largest army then this may change. What may happen is the rider and standard will go onto their own base to act as the hero, that in the long run might be a better idea.
On a different note, the printer still seems to be going okay on the hex tiles, I will soon be able to get some farms printed, these were part of my Gold level tier in the Kickstarter.
And finally, and on another different note, my belated birthday pressie arrived from my mate.
My Precious!
I reckon this is the final book in the collection as sadly they aren’t making any more! I have pretty much all of them in either print or electronically (the majority are print versions).
I was hoping that we would have had some other areas to explore… eg Moria, but sadly not. I was just having a quick look there and someone seems to have picked up the line. 2nd edition was going to cover the Lord of the Rings and Moria so there is hope yet.
If you heard a fell voice on the wind it was probably me explaining (very loudly, with added expletives) why I sometimes hate 3D Printing, I was swearing whilst trying to remove filament from both fans and from the heat block too.
Luckily I checked at the two hour mark rather than the six hour mark.
So if you remember, last night I said I was going for a raft to help secure the print, well one of the armour plates failed and in doing so caused an awful lot of spaghetti. This in turn either went upwards and melted on the heat block or went out and up/down to get itself twisted into both of the fans.
This what what I came in to see…
Please note this is not my printer bed…
You can really tell which one failed…
Spot the culprit!
To be honest, I am not going to waste any more time or filament on this*. This was really just so that I could wear it at a Games day while hosting a game, if I were to be truthful I was already getting a little uncomfortable about potential cultural appropriation. I have set the printer away on some more plains from the Hexon Hills Kickstarter and they are three hours in and absolutely fine.
*wasting time and filament may be reinstated when I get bored, interested or forget what an absolute b*stard this was to print 😉.
Bogenwald 