Working with one of the schools on Vikings.
Had a great day, but I am knackered now. I had three one hour long groups. They were great kids who knew a fair bit before I got there. It is really funny though, how they confuse the Up Helly Aa guisers with Vikings. I was chastised by one small boy for not wearing a sheepskin and not having any furry boots 😱.
To save time getting there I drove down in my soft kit 😁
Okay not very original when discussing dwarves.
These three are from Ill Gotten Games from the pre Kick starter tester we were given. I intend to have seven for completeness… well okay maybe not seven…
I decided to do the third one at 0.06mm layer the one on the left is at 0.15, the middle one is 0.1. I forgot to record the time but the highest quality was an hour and 40 minutes. The middle was somewhere round the hour.To be honest for the print time difference between the higher quality and the mid quality there isn’t much real difference. I will fiddle around a bit more to see if I can make it better.
I also painted lots of bits and pieces on various figures. I would have photographed them, but it didn’t seem much point.
The rest of my evening was spent trying to find costume parts for my two youngest for bloody World Book Day!
I managed a smidge of painting this evening…
But guess which silly sod forgot to take any photos!
The one I took was of the Heresy miniatures I started for my mate.
I also got a bit of green onto the Starship Troopers proxies yesterday.
Tonight I got the cockpit painted up too…
The bits I printed were a couple of dwarves from Ill Gotten Games. These are pre release ones open to Patreon’s.
These are printed at different speeds and temperatures. The one on the left is, as can be seen, is the faster, lower quality ones.
Finally my Son is quite impressed by the pile of nets…
What you can’t see is the fact that the bit you can see is about 5 metres tall and twice that long.
I actually designed and printed something useful at the request of my wife and daughter.
My youngest daughter has her own hens but as the eggs are smaller than the standard size then they fall through the egg rack hence the request…
To be honest not the world’s most complicated design, but I am still quite pleased with it.
It actually fits too…
You can see from the picture above our normal method of keeping them in…
Lots of painting but sadly not the elves….
First up some 15mm German armour, they still need another coat or two, perhaps sand straight over black wasn’t the best idea. I ran the airbrush to get these sorted. Still not sure whether to add camouflage or not.
Then some of the 28mm 3D Printed miniatures
We were all out in the shed and the elves were still in the kitchen and that is my excuse. Just look at the age of the GW paints I am using. The white stuff in the bottle is Matt medium and water.
My mate has asked me to paint up some sci fi miniatures (on the painting tile) for when we start our new top secret game.
They were sitting there, staring at me and making me feel guilty so I painted some more cloaks…
nearly lost the will to live but pushed through the barriers of whatever was stopping me getting on with them.
The printer has returned to the shed as the temperature has warmed up enough, it’s funny not hearing it working away. Before it moved out there I printed a couple more bits and bobs.
These are upscaled from 18mm ones. I was after some more proxy bits for Starship Troopers. The big one is a proxy for an M-4A1 Grizzly Exo suit and the smaller one is CHAS (Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System)… these appear in the Roughneck series and not in the films. The CHAS needs to be a bit bigger, but will do as a starter. Both of these were from Ill Gotten Games.
Well the title should really say ‘Forgotten Fauna Friday’
First up…Some Iron Age pigs and Mouflon sheep
Next…Some highland cattle and a gaggle of Geese.
All of the above are from https://warbases.co.uk
One day I may even finish them!
The other thing (amongst many others) was the reason the blog is so named…
An honorary mention should also go to the 10mm elves…
these were more ignored than forgotten.
Funniest night I have had running an RPG tonight.
The party of four having braved the Midgewater marshes, managed to successfully locate the lost barrow. After that it all went rapidly down hill. ”Twas a simple task!” Climb down a rope have a mooch about, see what all the fuss is about. Climb back out….Problems…. in the ‘One Ring’ RPG an eye of Sauron on the D12 is a bad omen. Firstly it gives one zero points for that dice and secondly it increases the knowledge of the whereabouts of the party to Sauron who will direct his power to thwart them. This can be a warband of orcs or the ‘world’ turns against them. Think Cahadras in the Lord of the Rings. The Threshold in the area they were in was eighteen…They started the session with six. Less than an hour later they were up to fourteen.
The big problem was, firstly they had to climb down a rope into the barrow. The graceful elf of Mirkwood went first. She threw her four dice (3D6 and her D12) she needed a mere 12 due to her athleticism… the eye of Sauron and a grand total of four points. Down she fell… winding herself in the process. the hobbit Hoban rushed to her aid, got another eye and fell in too… luckily he landed on something soft … the elf. The ranger managed to get in without any problems at all.
Hoban then fell through a weakened floor to a flooded lower level, nearly drowned but was fortunate enough to be rescued by the party and also managed to accidentally grab some treasure on the way out.
If you thought getting in was bad, getting out was worse. Never have I seen so many failed roles, every failure involved an eye.
A cursed rope was blamed…it was a nice normal rope to begin with but it must have somehow become tainted as they couldn’t get out of the barrow. After eventually escaping they met some baddies, beat them, rescued a major NPC and threw a lot more eyes…. the weather turned against them and the normal rule of needing was overruled meaning an 18 was required. So wet, bleeding and footsore they struggled back to Bree.
All in all a hoot of a night.
I actually managed to paint things this evening…
I got half the cloaks done on the elves as well as pouches and their base colours on the faces.
I then managed to get some paint on the mausoleum… still a bit to go on it but definitely getting there.
The mech also got some work done on it, he wanted it grey with a blue canopy… the red missiles come next.
And finally… not painted, but a bit smaller than before.
I reckon he still looks quite impressive even at 75% size.
He here is feeling like he is part of a hive…
I reckon a dozen or so more will be in order for our up and coming RPG. I just have to find some hopper bugs and a Tanker……
I decided to eventually get some paint onto the mausoleum and the Mech.
My son wanted his mech to be grey so who am I to argue. From what I remember he wants the cockpit glass to be blue and the rockets red.
My intention for the mausoleum is to give it a black wash once this grey is dry and then get it dry brushed up to a lighter grey. I keep thinking some kind of metallic colour for the doors but I haven’t quite decided that far ahead.
I really do like it and reckon it will come up a treat once it is finished.
I managed sod all else tonight apart from reducing the bug down to 75% size to see how it looks. It is merrily printing away as I type this. I was going to watch one of the films tonight to get a scale of the things but I couldn’t be arsed to do that.
And it looks this big….
Stick it on it’s very long legs and I think it will look fine… I will print the arms and legs tomorrow and see what I think.
Bogenwald 