Today I set the Ender away and printed myself half a dozen new houses to go in the town.
I must remember to add the roof to the gates!
The buildings are from Twylite games and the walls are from my favourite maker of Japanese things 3DAlienWorlds. I dropped the size to about 18% or so and I don’t think they look too bad.
I would have undercoated them but it has been up to 40mph winds today so no spraying for me. Weather is better tomorrow so hopefully they will get done soon.
We will see how the resin and filament compare when they are painted. The resin weighs at least twice the weight of the filament.
These are pretty much finished now apart from the fact that I forgot to paint the back banner!
I also had a play about with some of them on a 30×40 base and a 20×40 base. I still can’t decide which to go for. There are twenty in total so I could get 5 bases With 4 to a base and 6 full bases with 3 To a base.
Pretty much everything I have done is on the 20×40 bases so I don’t know whether adding something bigger into the mix will look a bit weird or not.
These next miniatures are not lizards and definitely not 6mm.
I decided to get some paint on these. These were the underexposed lot so the features are pretty much non existent, but as I am a stingy sod I am painting them anyway. Hopefully I will get them finished sooner rather than later. I have been a really good boy and my resin printer is having a rest while I think about what I am actually going to do on it.
So the walls finished overnight only one failure and to be honest I don’t actually know what it is 😂. I had to do some speedy repairs to save the bottom left gate. Luckily two layers of the blue tape pretty much matched the base that had pinged.
The other problem I had was stringing. Before I went to bed I bumped the temperature up about 10 degrees. I think it was too much. I used to do this over the colder months, so just automatically did it last night.
When I did the test print I had no stringing, so I reckon the change in temperature was the problem. Easy enough solved with a lighter…
I have been busy constructing the sitootery again today. It was meant to be heavy rain, but thankfully we had a couple of twenty minute drizzling and that was it. Strong winds are forecast tomorrow so I might not get any more done.
I have recently backed a few Kickstarters, not that it is any surprise, but they have all been for 3D Printing. The latest, and one that I am rather excited about is this one…
I really love the Palaeolithic period for gaming and this really does hit the spot. I actually have a role play game set way back then. I am very excited by the updates, mammoth and woolly rhino have just been sculpted and they look Awesome!
Now the title says Kickstarter v Patreon. As you can imagine I am in a fair few Facebook 3D Printing groups and quite often someone will post their latest Patreon set of sculpts be they terrain of miniatures and there is some absolutely amazing things out there, but they are wanting a monthly subscription of somewhere between $5 -$10 which in the grand scheme of things isn’t that much over the course of the year, but the one thing that I have found is that although I love some of the stuff shown, some of it I have no interest in it whatsoever. Therefore I am passing them by.
Now I do have one Patreon which is I’ll Gotten Games. This was a way of saying thank you for all of the free stuff that I downloaded of Thingiverse.
I am now at the stage where I am regularly looking at the Kickstarter app and choosing what I want. As an example, the rampart stuff above came in at $20 for all of the files (and stretch goals) even if I just printed all of the animals it would be worth it. This has 6 days to go, so if you have a printer, they are well worth looking out.
These are shots of one of the mammoth and the woolly rhino (both of which I am extremely excited about… maybe too much so!)
The other thing I like about the STL Kickstarter is that I don’t have to worry about postage costs.
Over the next few days I may share some of the other ones that I am backing, and a couple that I am really considering!
I took my print off today and have enough bits to make my small town. I will need to print some more houses as six do not a town make!
I bumped the gate up to about 200% and left the walls at 140 and they seem much better (I had originally shrunk them down to 15% in 3D builder but they looked too small so I increased the small size by the above amounts).I can make the compound for the temple separate from the town as I have extra walls knocking about.
I also shrunk the wooden fences down to fit the 6mm scale too these were a bit trickier to print, luckily I did a test run of all the different bits, before the mammoth 13 hour print (3D printing certainly isn’t a fast affair).
Unfortunately the gate posts couldn’t take the strain at the top and both came off. I improvised with a bit of plastic rod…
These wooden fences were the ones I built in 3D builder to allow me to print them pre constructed for my 15mm village… I never thought I would be printing them for 6mm too.
So where do I go from here. First up some rice paddies. I am actually just going to print the 4’s that I did for the 15mm village (without the rice) I will give it a go with static crass as the crops and avoid the resin pour stage. I really do need a better system of making the static grass, that does not involve forking out £55 for a WWS one. I will have a play around with my cheap (tea strainer) one and see what I can come up with.
I also intend to see if I can build some of the 3DAlienWorlds farmhouses in 3D Builder and then shrink them down too. The ones I have really only work as town houses and not ones you would find in a rural setting. To be honest I could just buy the ones on 2D6 world’s, they aren’t that expensive but to buy enough for a couple of hampers then I am looking at over £30. Interestingly enough they have just brought out the stone walls in resin. But 3DAlienWorlds ones are spot on for me and I can also print as many as I like for pennies, plus it gives me a bit of a challenge 😂.
Tonight was a bit more productive than yesterday as I actually managed to paint things…
Here they are so far. They still have weapons and shields to do and then sort out any missed bits. These were really nice to paint so thumbs up to the sculptor as they were pretty speedy to do. Yeah I could have spent more time sorting out stripes and things but decided against it. I decided to make a leader by adding a back banner as befits an Aztecesque Beasty. Once the Greenstuff has cured I will cut it down and make it colourful. The leader is the only one that is a different colour. My original idea was to go black, then purple, but instead I went for grey, trying to make an albino type that would mark him out as special. His mount is the only one with s coloured crown too (well yes grey is a colour, but I meant bright colour).
Hopefully I will get these finished tomorrow. I am not sure how many I will add to a base and what size base to do. All of the other cavalry are on 20×40. I can definitely fit them onto one, but part of me things 30×40 as I can then spread them out a bit. I will have a play around tomorrow and see what I come up with…
Achieved sod All tonight, this is not totally accurate. I painted nothing, but I did get the pachy cavalry stuck onto lolly sticks and then got them and some 28mm resin stuff undercoated.
I also got some more walls sliced. My plan is to make a small based town using the printed buildings surrounded by the stone walls. I will have a go at the wooden walls for a village tomorrow.
I was busy today building a sitootery. Basically a conservatory made by myself (its a good Shetland word). Pretty much got most of the frame up today. We made concrete a few days ago which has cured nicely. tomorrow I shall carry on with it. Only one minor injury today, I tried bending my finger 90 degrees in the wrong direction!
Whilst marinading in the bath I was watching one of my all time favourite YouTube channels…
This guy is a legend… he covers all kind of craft and I just find his voice so soothing. Someone said it was a Louisiana accent, but I honestly haven’t got a clue.
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.
Tonight I finished the monks, added some of the tufts I made, rather than add the ones I bought as they are totally different. They are nice and irregular shaped, but wouldn’t match in with the ones before.
Here are the monks amongst the hills
The other thing I did was to work on some of the 3DAlienWorlds walls. Rather than print then build I decided to build in 3D builder and then print them. This was a bit fiddly. Once the tops and bottoms were merged I Shrank them down to about 16% and printed them. This is them in the foreground.
Now I felt that they were a bit small so I bumped them up to 130%… Seen at the back of the photo below.as
As these are a bit tricky to see, I put them side by side.
Personally I prefer the larger one, but wondered what other people thought. The Files are saved so it isn’t a problem to bump them up,. Part of me thinks make them a bit larger again as a man on a horse would never get out of that gate 😂
Tonight I worked on finishing the Monks. I still need to get the bases flocked but otherwise I think they are done. No doubt as soon as I look at the photo I will realise that I missed something!
I also cracked on with the individual samurai. They are going to take a while I would imagine
Pete asked how the road wars miniatures compare to Irregular. Well I don’t have any of the Irregular vehicles but I can compare the miniatures…
Tomorrow I will try and get some more done on the Samurai, before my Baccus ones arrive!
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