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Teeny Tiny Dudes

I have been a bit further down the 2mm Rabbit Hole and present my auxiliary century.

These are to still come off the printer. But they were a bit of a sod to combine them all. There were so many of them it made 3D printer almost grind to a halt.

What I did with these was give them a solid block inside the miniatures you can sort of see it between the centurion and vexilarius. This will hopefully avoid fragility that I found with the other ones.

I have also built a legionary as well as a conicern… I forgot to add him to this block. You cannot see but there is an Optio in the rear rank. I have also done an eagle and a horse… this will become the start of my cavalry force.

I have thoroughly enjoyed doing these. I think I will need to go to a bit more complex software such as Blender. Problem with that is I am really too Lazy to learn it properly. At this scale I really don’t need a lot of texture. So I will have to see how the copy and merge tools work.

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A Great Kickstarter

So as a few more of you have got a 3D printer I thought I would share this Kickstarter with you. I honestly nearly overlooked this one as I thought it would be super expensive…actually, it was only $12.00 all in. There are some super useful terrain pieces in this set (180 pieces in total) and to be honest I think they are selling themselves a bit short.

Some of their earlier work is also excellent and well worth a look 🙂

Where Legends Fight Volume 5, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/where-legends-stand/where-legends-fight-volume-5?ref=android_project_share

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Comparing paints

Last night I grabbed the only miniatures I had handy that were undercoated and were surplus to requirements…

I chose four colours and tried to match them as close as possible across the three ranges

I painted a strip of miniatures in each range. To make my life easier I did it in purchase order. So from left to right we have Contrast, Speedpaints and finally Xpress. These were all done neat. I will do thinned tests at a later date.

The results were quite similar for each range. I honestly thought there would be a huge difference based on the head colours.

I think using 6mm miniatures didn’t help either… time to find something else methinks.

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Painting Heads

Last night I got kicked off the computer so I decided to get the ork heads painted with the Vallejo Xpress paints.

Once again these are very saturated colours. They seemed thinner than the Speedpaint 2.0. But as it was a while ago I need to do a side by side test. I will do a couple of colours from Contrast, Xpress and Speedpaint and paint the same thing with each one.

I also used some of these colours on various miniatures I had knocking about.

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A Bridge Too Far

Or in this case a bridge to nowhere.

I am still in my making 2mm terrain… I have been carrying on fiddling with 3D builder and as you can see I got the bridge built. This is made up of modules. It allows me the option to build a bridge of any length, either in the software and printed or print the parts and glue them together.

Now you may have noticed something on the bridge… I decided having a go at an ox cart. This time I built the living parts too rather than pinching someone else’s and converting them.

They are a bit on the small side to see properly but I am really pleased with them.

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Re Vera Romanorum

Or possibly rem parvam Romani…well these are what various translation apps told me…

So these really small Romans have built some really small buildings to go with their siege engines… first up a small border fort…

This was a failed print so it is embedded into the modelling compound. I had basically Cocked up the supports and orientation of the print. You can see the error on the right hand towers… the crenellations are missing.

Today I worked on the interior buildings.

I went for a commandants house and Principia (HQ) granaries, the hospital and barracks with the Centurion’s house on the end.

Left to right… barracks, Commandants house, Granary, HQ. Bottom left the tents and hospital in the middle

I also went for the tented version of the legionary tents and the HQ too.

Because I am a twit, I forgot to add a base to the tents 🙂

Some of these would work for villas too.

I took a quick shot of some of the buildings inside the fort

One of the larger buildings has got a bit of a gap on a corner. I don’t know whether it is a delamination or a gap in the original file. By gap I mean less than half a millimetre.

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Dinosaur Mug and More Heads

Today we had a family outing to ‘Aa Fired Up’ in Lerwick. This is a decorate your own pots and a plethora of other unbaked ceramics. We all chose a mug and after much humming and hawing I decided on a Dino themed one…. Here it is in all its glory… well raw glaze state.

The dinosaurs are stickers which were removed after taking this photo. I will see if I chose suitable colours in a couple of weeks. Gemma who owns the business is such a lovely person and I am glad her business is still going strong. We actually were her first ever booking for our eldest’s birthday when she first opened.

This evening I stuck heads on Vallejo bottles. These are as bright as the Army Painter Speedpaints. Once the Greenstuff has cured I will do the individual colours like last time.

Once again I reckon these will need the use of medium to thin them down to the Contrast consistency.

Today I started messing around building a fortification in 3D Builder. At the minute these are in separate bits. They are also a whole lot bigger because I forgot to add in my 2mm stunt auxiliary for scale. Poor sod keeps getting giant cubes metaphorically dropped on his head in the software. On the other hand he may be entrapped in a big green cube!

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More Teeny things

So I made some more siege bits and pieces for the 2mm armies. Shown here are a siege tower and a covered ram. I have also made some covered Siege tents for want of a better word. The Romans used them on the siege of Jerusalem. Basically they were like the ram, without the ram bit. It allowed the troops to get close to wall without some oik dropping a boulder on their head. I have made two types. One with just a roof and one with side screens too. These things had two layers of rawhide sandwiching seaweed.

The final image shows some of the barbarian forces that I snipped off the other day.

Next up… I had better build some walls for the equipment to breach 🙂

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Colourful Heads

Sooo I eventually got round to getting my paint toppers painted with the AP Speedpaints. They are definitely a lot different to contrast. They seem a lot thicker and although great colours aren’t really doing the highlight and shade the way Contrast does. This is not a criticism, I just need to work out how they work. I reckon there will be some thinning down with medium in my future….

When she came through my wife asked me why I was painting bottoms… I was looking at the front, she was looking at the back…

I now see what she means…

She thought they were grotesques mooning…

Out of interest the pure white one back left is the bottle of medium.

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Teeny Tiny Things Take 2

Well for some reason my SSD card decided to eat my files I made yesterday…after quite a bit of head scratching, puzzled mumbling and a lot of swearing I started again…

So we have a scorpion with and without crew on their little cart, a ballista, an onager, a four wheeled and two wheeled cart and some pack mules. I also did siege tower, but may have gone a bit over the top as it is taking forever to merge all the pieces together.

I have done test prints of all of the miniatures and they all printed fine. They do seem smaller than the other stuff, but it is probably just an optical illusion.

I also undercoated two Republican Legions, two Gallic forces and a Hoplite army too. Just got to paint the buggers now!

Second from the front on the left are the test prints of the things I made today.