I have started printing stuff for my son. I have sort of persuaded him to let me print him some stuff and he can buy stuff too. He likes the Necrons and Space Marines so the poster boys are getting printed…
There is a scout on the left and a flamer on the right. The flamer Dude is missing his backpack thingy and I also shoved scout Paldrons on him too ( I will probably regret this).T
He more dynamic pose on the right makes him look a bit shorter… he isn’t really.
…as the song goes. Here it is all about the bases.
25mm, 32mm, 50mm and a test oval for the beetles.
I am printing all sorts of bases for the Nid Army and for my Son’s stuff too.
Not bad an hor and twelve minutes for eighteen 25mm bases – there would have been thirty six of them, but some pillock forgot to hit go on the printer!
I also undercoated the beetle etc that I showed yesterday.
I did some cyber snipping and reduced the original beetle down to a leg which I duly printed, along with some bomb rats… exactly as it sounds. Another nomad and a pack saddle too. A bodge job with super glue and Greenstuff and voilà a six legged beetle.
Here is the nomad and the bomb rats… oooh good name for a rock band there!
Not sure what I am going to do with the bomb rats, but I mean bomb rats… I just had to!
I also managed some painting…my son and I sat at the kitchen table and we both painted stuff.
The dwarf is from One Page Rules. The rest are Print Minis
A female space dwarf and another of the nomadic Erroish. She ended up yellow. In Fallout 76 you get to build yellow mining armour as one of the side missions… very original aren’t I. I cannot remember what colour the faction were going to be, but it certainly wasn’t yellow!
To be honest the Print Minis stuff has really kick started me painting again. Not sure why but the Spyre Hunters and the Erroish have got me going again.
So I am now level 80 on Fallout 76 and in between levels i have been printing bits and pieces… this song from the game is quite appropriate to some of my bits….
Just a tumbledown shack and it’s built way back About twenty-five feet from the railroad track Lingers on my mind most all the time Keeps calling me back to my little old shack.
I have had these STL’s since I got my FDM printer. This was the set that turned to spaghetti when i built the house pre printing
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I eventually got around to printing the individual walls. The 150mm length kept failing no matter what I did. The holes at each end are designed to fit some filament to help pin it together.
I did try to build a Greenstuff leg for the second beetle… I have decided to just print one. After 45 minutes of swearing I gave up.
Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.
The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.
Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…
Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!
This evening I worked on the saddle for the pack beetle.
The decorations still need doing as well as a lot more goods. There is definitely a lot less white visible. Still a long way to go but I am getting there. I was thinking of going down a muted route for the saddle, but then I thought about camel saddles, so colourful it became.
The biggest issue I have is that the beetle has almost become invisible. Okay it wasn’t the best set up for the photo, but I am thinking of doing a gloss varnish on the living thing.
Hopefully I will get it finished soon…. Still got to come up with a base for it.
