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No Painting and a big pile of Poo!

Today was caravan day. My kids decided another evening and night was to be had in the caravan. So we made burgers on the grill and ate them in the caravan followed by a game of Upwords (which I lost). Before it got too dark to see (and too cold) we plugged the caravan into the house and as I was feeding the cable through the window. I had a peep in the drain inspection pipe and saw water… A sure sign that the septic tank had backed up again.

So in trepidation I opened the lid and sure enough…it had. It wasn’t the worst it has ever been, but it was a very, very close second. An hour later we got it cleared. Luckily I have absolutely no sense of smell!

Anyway after getting cleaned up, we went back into the caravan for a game of Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit…and I won 😂.

At 23.00 those that were going into the house did so. Looks like the light nights will be here very soon.

It soon won’t be dark!

Sadly I missed most of the bits calls, but we have an Oyster catcher or two and I think a redshank with a couple of Snipe drumming. Quite a peaceful evening.

Soon we will have 23 hours of daylight and a bit of dusk. It doesn’t get dark at all really.

The down side is we won’t get to see this for a good while…

Not filtered, or fiddled with at all..

The top photo and the one above are taken in exactly the same spot. This was the sky in its green stage… I have it in the red and rainbow stages too. Just can’t find them right now.

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Samurai Done

Okay, not all of them but the red lot are finished apart from the bases…

I also worked on the bowmen too, I reckon that they should be finished tomorrow.

Once these are done I have twenty four miniatures to do for the army. Twelve in black and twelve in green. Hopefully by then my parcel for my mates birthday will have arrived so that I can make a start on them.

As I was looking for a kite today I came across this rather ancient photo. This was my first ever day in re-enactment!

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Torii and a Pond

So today I set the printer running to get some terrain done for my mates birthday. I decided to do him a big pond. Thankfully at about the 2hour mark I checked on the print and the front end was starting to lift. Luckily the blue tape was handy and I had enough to fasten it to too. For some reason the front of the print plate seemed to have dropped a bit. Hence the problems. It still looks okay so once I get it onto something flat then I will fill in the gap. Luckily it is where the stones are at the bottom of this image so it is hard to actually see from the top.

I printed out the accessories too and made a smaller torii gate.

My PLA order arrived today too…

It should keep me busy for a while.

I printed off some fences, another well and a Buddha to build a mini shrine for him. I will also do him a couple of farm houses too.

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Samurai Getting There

Tonight I worked on the Samurai and got a good bit further on.

I suddenly found another base of bow that I had obviously missed. These got started this evening too. I reckon these will be finished tomorrow. I still have another 8 bases with an white undercoat to do but the end of the road is in sight for this army.

My daughter has done another picture today. This time of a wolf peeping from behind a tree. She is really getting into her art.

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Nothing done this Evening

Yep, I achieved nothing, well if you discount buying more toys…whoops. Well another Kickstarter really. It was £14.00 for a print your own board game, which I thought the kids would like.

My other two kick starters have been successfully funded. So in future look out for a pile of hex tiles and a pile of roads.

The roads cost me £9.00 and as they are STL’s then there is no postage… they are rather nice and I came across them purely by chance.

I did want to get the samurai finished today but I really, really couldn’t be arsed to get off my backside. We had dinner really late and by time I got sorted to paint anything it was already 22.00 so I decided as I was knackered that I would just totally fail at being a predator on The PS4. To be fair I did manage to get some of the fear teams down and I survived each game as the Predators. I just couldn’t get all four of them. It was really, really annoying when people rage quit after I downed them… grrrrrr

Tomorrow I am aiming to get into school early to do the paperwork on who has got Covid and who hasn’t. We found out earlier on this week that even though we don’t work on weekends we still have to put onto the spreadsheet that we don’t work on weekends… never mind. Once I am done there I am finishing at 14.00 as that is my supposed time to finish on a Friday. Then I intend to do sod all, apart form a bit of archery if possible and paint some Samurai.

My daughter found my (pretend) medal today from our Boulogne re-enactment event. Sadly the ribbon bought the journey, but the medal polished up nicely.

Here I am at Boulogne, with some of the other chaps…. I am the one on the right. I am not sure if the medal I am wearing is this one or my Polish campaign one???

Our officer George in the foreground is a descendent of the commanding general of the Polish Lancers.

Just sussed it, it is the Polish one… Two of us are wearing it and we both went to Poland… what a sad little life I lead 😂😂😂😂😂

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Printing Pond life

Today I sliced all of the bits to go into the pond. I printed the pond at 100% but all of the flora and fauna at 50%. It made some really small things!

I was surprised at how well the fish and turtles etc came out. To be honest the Lilly pads struggled a bit at 50%

I shoved some of them into the smaller pond too…

I am really chuffed at how well they look. I have actually bought some resin so that I can add ‘water’ to these. It is so long since I have done anything like this it will be interesting to give it a go. I am also going to add some to the paddies and if there is anything left then I can make some canal pieces up too.

I had a print failure today. I started printing some building pieces for my mates birthday and for some reason I had a failed print. One of the end pieces came partially adrift and was threatening spaghetti monster everywhere. Now in hindsight,as it had been just under 2 hours, I could have actually kept it going instead of cancelling the print. The piece hadn’t fully come adrift. I could have done a rescue ‘hold it in place’ rescue so that the rest could have printed…. ah well hindsight is a great thing.

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Samurai Foot…Further Work

Tonight I got chatting to a colleague on Teams and didn’t get much time to paint anything really. But I did manage something…

These are over half way there now I would say. Really just the weapons and sashimono and tidying up to do… oh yeah and paint the mon on them too. The command are going to have different colours on their armour as befits their station. This will be added with a white undercoat and various other colours put over the top.

Hopefully I will get this few finished ASAP.

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Samurai Foot…Making a Start

Tonight I listened to Alien Earth War stories and painted some Samurai… not exactly the best connection, but it was on Youtube and popped up as I finished watching something else.

I also managed to get some more paint onto the Samurai Infantry.

I also managed to knock off a sashimono… I swore lots. I might just get a little blob of Greenstuff to hold it in place. In hindsight I should have done that for all of them. The ones armed with the hand weapons are going to be red (as you can probably tell from the photo). The bow and command stands are in whatever colour I fancied slapping on them.

After this lot I have 24 left to go and then the army is finished. Yeah okay I have another shit load of the Battle Valour ones to paint and then the Sengoku Monster Hunter ones to paint for my mate, but I am in fact getting there.

To be honest, I didn’t thing I would get anything done for today. I got up and promptly fell back down. I initially thought that I had stood up too quickly. So I stood up slowly and fell back down a second time. After three or four more attempts my brain decided that my body wasn’t having any of it and I was forced to lie back down again. I eventually managed to get it of bed at about 11.30… with a humorous interlude of trying to get into a pair of trousers. Standing on one leg trying to dress is really tricky when you are feeling dizzy.

Luckily it wore off by mid afternoon. And although feeling a bit drained I managed to stay upright for the rest of the day.

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Printing a Pond

I decided to do a full sized pond today, but to make it a bit different I took the Teahouse rocks and blended them into the pond in 3D builder.

The 50% one took about an hour and ten minutes. This one took five and three quarters. I did have a bit of printer problems to begin with. First off nothing was printing so I changed the spring on the extruder (well not exactly) I removed my two screws and added the proper bit in. I also re levelled the plate as the front right corner was pretty much out and nothing was printing there at all. So eventually when everything was tip top. I started again and voila, it came out properly.

Where I added the rocks is pretty obvious when I compare the two. I fully intended to stretch one of the axis too, but forgot.

Tomorrow I will print off some reeds and water lilies and possibly a fish or two, but there will definitely be a turtle in there too. These will be done at 50% again so that I don’t have a man sized koi swimming around in the pond.

Today was spent reading stories or rather a story lots of times for a video for the bairns in my nursery. I had an able assistant…

Louis kept messing up and I had to redo it so many times. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.

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Ashigaru Finished

Whilst watching Asterix and the Temple of the Gods I managed to get these finished as well as made a start on one of the command bases.

I could have got more done on the command, but I decided to redo some of the colours on the clothing. Everything being the same colour niggled me. So I changed about 50% of the clothes to a brown or a different colour green.

I shall carry on with the rest of the force tomorrow.