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Printer back to Printing…

I hope!

So last night after having another failure I decided that enough was enough and that i Would relevel the bed. Good job I checked as although the front bolt was well and truly solid, thse side one was decidedly loose.

So I took out the resin, did a tank clean, which I had never done before and relevelled the plate. I gave some 40mm Gladiators another go. Yesterday I got two bodies and nothing else, today I got everything.

I am doing a reprint of the pair I printed the other day.

Today’s print on the left, yesterday’s on the right

Hopefully I will get everything printed on that one too. Everything seems to have printed properly.

Today i did battle with the rotten floorboards in the lounge… i won, but it was a close run thing… This is the joys of a 200 year old house that has no foundations and everything sits directly on the ground (the floor is about 6 inches above the soil). After feeling quite proud of myself, I found some more that need replacing… i must admit i did say the off naughty word, especially as I had just nailed the replacements down. if i had noticed earlier my life would have been easier as i could have used the spaces i had made to eaily remove the extra bits…

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Zombie Family

While the kids at Geek club were painting some awesome gladiators I decided to have a go at some zombies.

Will they win any prizes…. Nahhh. Did I do all three in forty minutes…Yeahh.

I shall actually paint the child’s T-shirt a different colour as it is hard enough keeping a white one clean on an alive kid, never mind an undead brain chomping one.

I do actually like simplified models… I am really not keen on models with tons of fiddly bits… I would much prefer to paint a mono-pose ork from the nineties than a modern GW one. Obviously this is personal preference and ‘Each to their Own’ as they say.

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Knights and a Gladiator

Tonight I managed to slap some paint on some miniatures. I was hoping to have a couple of gladiators to paint, sadly an arm and head failed to print… which was a bit of a pain.

I managed to do a bit on a pair of the knights and some associated foot soldiers.

I also got the one gladiator almost finished…

He won’t win any prizes but I wanted to give one a go. Again he is about 40mm to eye level.

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Panem et Circenses

Tonight I printed off four gladiators for the kids in the Geek Club.

Now okay I am a bit of a Gladiator Geek and these representations are a bit odd. These were prebuilt by Wargames Atlantic. There is a bit of a swapsy going on here. As an example the Hoplimachus is using a scutum instead of a parmularii and he seems to have lost his helmet. But before I write a whole essay and bore the pants off everyone, I had better get back on topic. So as I mentioned in an earlier post, these miniatures are round about the same size as Perry miniatures. My Geek club is used to painting things that are a bit bigger. So I did an arbitrary 140% increase… these are now 40mm miniatures! Whoops.

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Gladiatorial Combat

Or one poor Principal taking on his Geek Club

Last Friday in Geek club I took in my gladiator game and the three kids that were there loved it. Sadly I went down in a flurry of blows, but I must have done something right as the crowd let me live… close call there methinks.

This week I am printing Gladiators for them.

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Cute Bugs

Well this evening my good lady eventually left me alone and I managed to get these finished…

The necklace one has its string on, sadly I cannot find the earring bits!

I managed to get some Japanese civilians done to go alongside the Ikko Ikki and Onna Bushi.

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Printing not Painting

This evening I was knackered… the poly myalgia does make me tired at times. So rather than lots of swearing as I was trying to paint anything. Instead I went for an easy win and stuck miniatures to bases.

My chap to be is in the front with the boat on the helmet. It originally had a sword in it… but I removed it. Sadly I removed the tail too. I managed to use an old Mordheim archer arm to repair the damaged print (second from left).

I will get these sprayed tomorrow and hopefully get on with the painting.