This morning as I was bringing the shopping in I slipped on the mud and sat down abruptly. As I was laden down with bags I couldn’t break my fall so bits of me have spent today reminding me that they existed.
Anyway enough of my whining. As I was on light duties I managed to make something else in Blender.
These nearly drove me demented. One is single sided and the other is double. At the minute I am trying to work out how to add a raised image… it is not going well!
If you hear a fell voice on the wind it is only me throwing a tantrum… again!
So two of my kids are throwing up here, more looked like they were going to at work and here is me stuck in the middle. I do feel a bit on the rough side though.
So I took it easy tonight and messed around making rollers. I also started sorting out some map tiles for our next ‘One Ring’ game…
Well if you remember, yesterday I printed out a roller or four. Today I downloaded another four. As I was doing so I noticed the guy had a YouTube channel so I went for a mooch. This channel had a link to a tutorial and down the rabbit hole I went.
My first attempt was a bit FUBAR as I only had a couple of textures in Blender. This set me off drawing my own … which in time turned into this…
I still haven’t tried it out yet. I had problems getting the inside smooth, so went into 3D Builder and inserted a cylinder then deleted it leaving the void a lot smoother.
A Lot of faff. But I am dead chuffed that I actually produced something that I took from an idea to something I can use.
I have a crazy paving version one in the works too. I am going to restart it as I got into a bit of a problematic loop.
Okay not too late, but I decided I wanted to do some painting before bed.
I went a bit mad with the blood effects earlier this evening. I had also redid the rust on the armour as I hadn’t stirred the dirty down rust effect. So although I shook it like mad for ages, the important bits were stuck to the bottom.
I added some flesh wash to the ghouls as they looked a bit naff.
I will hopefully carry on with these tomorrow on my day off.
I eventually got the third roller printed. This evening I did a test to try them out.
I got a 40×40 base for each roller and then mixed up some Greenstuff and smeared it on.
Two look spot on, the third and last one printed didn’t work as well. There is a bit of a texture but nothing to shout about. The Greenstuff stuck to the roller too. This was probably due to the texture being less pronounced.
I haven’t given up on it, I may need to leave the Greenstuff a bit longer. Either that or make the layer a bit thicker. If it doesn’t work it cost pennies to print out.
Well tonight I decided to print the remaining roller… can anyone spot the error.
Knackers here forgot to write down what he had printed so guessed what was left and guessed wrong. I only hope I pressed the right one this time… I will find out in three hours, or rather tomorrow.
I also printed off some more bits and pieces for the Geek club…
I am going to do one of the rabbits for my Mandarin teacher at school… well it is the year of the rabbit.
For all you Antipodeans, next month is Koala month!
I also spent a good while finding my futuristic forces from various locations. I am going to have a go at Grimdark Future at the club on Thursday so I am sorting out Army lists.
Yes I managed to sneak up on the charity shop (thrift store) without it noticing and managed to find super things within! My theory is that if I decide to go in specially then there is nothing I want. If I go on the spur of the moment then I get stuff.
First up…
I was going to print off some ‘Word’ calendars for the One Ring and found these… how cool!
I was going to purchase some pots to put the flock in and found a whole pile at 50p each. I got thirteen for £5 so even cheaper as I took the whole lot. The ones I was looking at were £4 for two!
Here are some of them filled…
Luckily the labels came off the plastic bags
I also printed a pile more goblins as well as a textured roller.
The above roller is for cobblestones it says but they look a bit big. I would say they are more flagstones. I will try it on something tomorrow. I actually downloaded three in early December and totally forgot about them until today. Useful things to use up the end of a toll of filament.
I actually painted some stuff too…
I tried some of my rust paint on the armoured miniatures. Not sure why but it didn’t work, or at least not yet, so there may have to be a repaint.
Tonight I worked on the five zombies. Now to be honest for speed I went for the ‘standard’ green zombie look. I actually wish I had gone more for the multi hued versions I did for my undead army as seen below…
This lot were obviously all buried at the same time and resurrected likewise…
I was hoping to get them finished, but they still need a bit of work. Joe is coming for another One Ring game tomorrow night so it might be Monday before I get them done.
While I remember the Big Fire Festival is Tuesday this week and it will be live streamed. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it before.
Bogenwald 