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Lots of Mess

If you remember, last night I said I was concerned that the Resin Huey had a void that could contain liquid resin. Today I drilled out the exhaust to find out. It did!

I stood it on its end to drain it out and made a rookie mistake. I forgot to drill an air hole to allow the liquid to escape easier. It oozed instead of ran and as such, I forgot about it and it has messed up the print. It really didn’t help that I forgot about it and it cured.

I have all the bits now apart from the main rotor. That will have to be done on the FDM.

I will have to sand the lump of cured resin off too.

Today has been a crap day health wise. Felt dizzy and in pain all day. Luckily I have a phone appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning.

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A New Hog

Today everything hurt again so sadly no painting this evening. I did manage to slice some stuff to print. I decided to try the Huey on the resin printer… it fit, just! Sadly because I am a pillock I forgot to go to heavy supports so after my 3 hours of printing I had a Huey that was about 3mm high.

I redid it and hollowed it out too. It seems to have worked ok. The back end seems heavy so I am going to drill out the engine exhaust so I can do a drain hole. And to also allow my tiny UV light in there. We really don’t want it cracking open as the resin tries to escape.

I also did the crew and weapons for the PBR…

The guy in the Huey doorway is from the boat, but he works in there too.

We have had a blackbird singing outside of our house for the last few weeks… here he is…

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Saved!

Huzzah, the printer started again in the right spot and we now have things!

I think the Cura supports are a bit crude and didn’t need to be everywhere that they went, but hey I have some things to add to my pile of shame.

The only casualty of these is a bit of a bent 50 cal on the M113 and the flag on the PBR snapped off. The boat still needs things like its radar and rear M60 etc printing. I will probably do these on the resin printer along with the crew.

To be honest of the two the boat is my favourite, the M113 also comes with different weapon options including the 3 inch mortar carrier, this uses a different body for obvious reasons.

Until tomorrow and remember I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!

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Guess Who had a Power Cut!

As soon as I got home I scampered down to the printer shed to see what my APC and boat looked like…. well it looked like this….

Although the power had returned to the house, the printer does not automatically restart. So I will probably have to wait until tomorrow to show you these.

After taking the photo I restarted the printer and fingers crossed it seems to be on track to complete them.

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Huey Take 2

So I went for the tree supports and I have good news and bad news

So the good news… removal on the whole was easy peasy.

The rotor is still on the supports.

As you can see from the above photo the support on the floor will need a bit of work with a blade. So positives aside, this thing is going to take a long time with sandpaper to get ready for paint…

The above is what the bottom looks like. No doubt I could orientate the model to lessen this effect, but the worry is that it would be more noticeable in the easy to see areas.

I going to be honest I am printing on an old machine (an original ender3) the only upgrade was a metal extruder. I think I got this Christmas 2017 so it has done a fair bit of work. Further to this I generally still print on draft quality. Speeds up the process. I could go to town and print on super fine quality. Fat dragon games has some really good settings but it would take at least twice as long to print. One day I may give it a go.

I think I will start the M113 this evening. Because I am a twit, and there was space on the build plate then I am doing a PBR minus the crew and rear weapons.

Huey, Kilgore and now a PBR… definitely a smell of ‘Apocalypse Now’ going down.

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Huey Printing…Take Two

So if yo remember, last night I showed the Huey after fighting withe supports. Eric very kindly reminded me about tree supports l. I could never find them before. He was correct that I needed to get into the settings to enable them.

So we have tree supports left and standard on the right. We shall see in another eight hours whether things are better.

Coming back from the shed I noticed a bit of colour in the sky…

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Huey… Good for a Crash

So I got the Huey of the printer and my heart sank… the supports weighed more than the model, never a good sign.

The rotor is meant to be fastened to the drive rod thingy. It snapped off removing the supports. I wish I had made the closed door variant. This was the internal support.

Note the damage to the body. I put it in hot water like I would with the resin… bad idea.

The internal supports filled the whole cabin… bloody nightmare. It took 20 minutes to remove the internal supports.

So I think I need to redo this again and check the supports. Sadly Cura doesn’t show them. I may even hollow it out and do it on the resin one.

Door gunner in situ.

So as you can see he is a bit on the big side or the Huey is a bit on the small side.

I will have a play and see what I can come up with.

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Oww, Argghh and Ouch

Well this, whatever it is is back . I am hobbling around the house like an octogenarian with bad feet.

Needless to say this hasn’t exactly made me enamoured to the thought of painting anything. I have sliced the Huey and am printing it on the FDM printer to save pennies. If it is naff then I will do it on the resin one. This is where we are up to so far…

Nearly 8 hours in

The above is showing a lot of supports, the Huey front end is starting to form.

On thé up side, dinner this evening was followed by cake!

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Tear Down the Dotted Line

Last night Carnage took place in Shetland. We got our first game of ‘Death Roads: All Stars)

Tom’s yellow car flipping out in flames as I cruise to Victory

The game uses cards to allow actions as well as having driver actions. Each time you get to do two. Eg you can change gear and lanes or something like change lanes and shoot. Each of these uses up handling anywhere from one to four points (well in my cards).

When everyone reaches zero on their handling then the round is over. You can drop below zero, then bad things happen. Skids, veering, fire or being stunned all can happen at once. Just before I exploded in a fireball I had two stun, two fire and a skid to deal with.

It was a fun game… but on the way back Joe and I were discussing it. We both had a feeling we were doing something wrong. We are going to have another game tonight to try and iron out the wrinkles