Well today I started off by printing the village water source…
Here it is next to the peasants… next up the fences…
I did some test prints of the rice for the paddy fields. I am not sure whether I will carry on with them as they are a bit on the small side. What I might do is blend them into the actual paddy field in 3D builder.
I printed the horse at 70%… way to big… really nice but looks like a Clydesdale compared to the rest!
So the rice store is finished. It printed overnight, taking over six hours to do. It was one of the few models that needs support.
My plan with the buildings is to do a small settlement with three houses and the rice store. There will also be a couple of single buildings as well as the paddy fields dotted about… (Not to mention herds of water buffalo) 😂.
I just had to replace the print surface after a hole appeared…
This is what happens if you leave the hole…
In case anyone was wondering, the houses come in bits…
The buildings I have made so far are made up of three room sections, two end walls and four roof sections. These houses can go from two room sections up. The walls are either mud or wood (they are farm houses after all). Roofs are either thatch or wood. The thatch comes in two styles as seen below.
I am having some problems with the corners lifting on these ones. I think it is because the temperature has dropped again. It may be that the bed has warped or something similar. But my money is on a draft as that is one of the things that causes such problems.
I have still got a lot of bits to print out including wood and stone walls, not to mention fields. The rice store is printing right now. Tomorrow I will see what I will print next… since I started printing the big Beasty I have used over a full roll of filament.
Tonight I just did three minis from start to finish. I have decided that these would be some ronin. Not sure why, probably because they aren’t wearing helmets.
I painted each in different coloured armour, but made the clothing shades of grey to sort of down play the colours a bit. As for armour, one is in black, another in green and the one with the funky hairstyle is in red.
As can be seen I also finished the hero, apart from his second Sashimono which needs another coat of purple and then some form of mon on it.
All in all I am quite pleased with how these turned out. Tomorrow I will hopefully get some more done. Still undecided on all one colour or multi coloured armour like those above. The quickest will be all in one, but it may not be that historically accurate. Decisions, decisions… not sure which way to go.
I have the cavalry to paint now and as such there are pretty much half with bows and half with yari. I could do them as two different clans either as the same colour or just through their Sashimono…arrgggh I hate making decisions!
Last night I printed the wooden walls for the next building. Today I printed the wooden roof for it.
I spent a bit of time this morning slicing bits and bobs. I went for another couple of thatch roof ends, a pile of doors and the rice store.
I will probably do a couple of rice paddies too.
I printed off a wooden house today as well as some barrels.
These need a bit of Greenstuff work on the gaps, this was due to the print curling slightly at the ends. It shouldn’t take much effort to sort them out. I am printing off another wooden walled dwelling today. Tomorrow I will print off a wooden roof as well as cut out the door supports and add some doors in.
So tonight I managed to get the archers finished. My original plan was to have them all different colours but in the end the bows, quiver and swords were all the same. Each has a red scabbard and blue quiver. I worked on the principle that the local lord would supply the weapons.
So I now have the horde of peasants and the archers finished.
I have nine monks on foot and three on horseback and another eighteen Ashigaru with yari. Add in a few bases of Samurai as Ronin and then I have a nice rebellious force.
The other thing I managed to do tonight was to get the hero nearly done…
Speaking of archers…
Another exciting bit of news… I passed 4000 visitors today. So thank you to everyone who has visited. Totally blown away by that.
I managed to get some paint onto the peasant archers. Okay they are Ashigaru, but they look a bit more rag tag than ‘uniformed’ warriors as seen in the films…
These still need the swords, quivers, hair and sashes done. But they should be done by tomorrow night.
The next problem I have is to decide on how am I going to paint the Samurai. Do I go for the random bright colours or do I go for the film version and have various groups in the same coloured armour. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
So after forgetting to print a bit, not to mention printing the wrong bits too, I managed to get the house finished. I have two thatched roof options…
This one isn’t a bad size…for the skirmish type games the roof comes off so that miniatures can be placed inside…
Tomorrow I will print of a different house and make a little farmstead.
Didn’t get as much done as I would have liked tonight. I kind of got side tracked into doing nothing much really, but anyway Progress is progress…
I also printed off some carts, one is full of rice bales…
Hopefully tomorrow I will get more done, on the upside the rest of my Samurai order arrived…on the downside the rest of my Samurai order arrived. There are quite a few! Probably 50 Samurai with various weapons, about 30 Ashigaru and a dozen monks, mounted and on foot. Oh and a general and entourage.
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