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A bit of Painting

Tonight I made a start on the Witch Hunters. I decided I wanted to finish the flagellants and apart from the base I managed it.

I also had a play around with Campaign Cartographer and managed to make a simple map… there is plenty wrong with it, the text being far to small for the towns to name one.

There is still a fair bit to do on this one, so I will keep you posted.

Thanks for the guesses what this is….

The circle of dots in the middle of each circle is the light from the microscope. I will let you know what it is tomorrow.

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Not a Bad Price

Well as you know I found my copy of Campaign Cartographer 3 last night so I dropped an email last night to Pro Fantasy Software to see if they could help. Ralf emailed me today and by time I got home he had found my old email address that I had registered it with.

So the million dollar question is how much did it cost to upgrade to allow me to use it on my new machine. Just under £13.00. I couldn’t have bought a CD drive for that.

So a big thank you to Ralf over at Pro Fantasy software for his speedy sleuthing. Look out for random maps in the future.

Because I haven’t got a suitable picture you can all play guess what the bloody hell this is…. taken with a microscope…

Personally I think it is rather interesting!

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Look What I Found

I had a mooch on the ProFantasy page to see how much it would cost to replace my version of the Software as it went years ago… evidently it hadn’t.

My one is on CD, the new one would be a download. I think it will be £20 to upgrade. Either that or I spend £20 getting a disk drive just to run this, if it will!

I was at my daughters parents evening earlier and didn’t get in until 21.00. They are still sorting out the power lines so the power was off from 10.00 to 19.00 today so sadly no painting.

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Jeeez – That was Close

Yesterday I was doing a bit of printing and had some failed prints, I emptied the vat as there were some bits adhering to the FEP. It looked a bit worse for wear. But after a clean and a leak test I did a reprint. For whatever reason the FEP failed on print two. Luckily for me the leak cured and blocked the hole so I had some cured resin on the screen luckily only about the size of a penny… phew!

Tonight was FEP replacement time…

I did two of the three vats. Tomorrow I will re level the print bed and have another go at the prints.

I also decided to try a map this evening… so a bit of mindfulness colouring later I had this…

So just as I was adding the colour to the bottom of the map it hit me… I did a map online and copied it… why didn’t I just print out the online one?

An example of the software
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Possessed Finished

Almost…

Well I cracked on this evening and got the possessed pretty much done.

I could do with adding a bit of shading onto the weapons. All in all I am quite pleased with these. I 3D printed a horde of skulls which I will add to the bases. I now have the ability to make my own tufts so I will see what coloured grass I have.

I also started printing some walls with railings…

I am rather pleased with these. Each section takes 1 hrs 22 minutes to print. I am thinking of going for a 3 x3 section which I will turn into a graveyard… the gateway below is from this set and to be honest looks too big, but I will see what they look like with it.

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Painting and a Map

Today I sat and sat and probably sat some more looking at a blank piece of paper covered in hexes. I had a mind block that wouldn’t let me put pencil to paper.

I went online to look for inspiration and came across a web based hex map maker and the clouds of doubt parted and within minutes I had something I was happy with.

Ignore the dots, they aren’t part of it.

The above allowed me to get some ideas down. After I did this I made another one with farmsteads, a village and a ruined building in the wilds.

I also got some more painting done…

Still a long way to go but the white is beginning to disappear.

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An Early Night

I thought i would get a bit painted this evening,but it wasn’t to be. I went to bed early and watched the new Pinnochio. It was a cracking film that I thoroughly enjoyed. I never read the book so don’t know how true to the original it is.

I do like a bit of stop, motion animation and this was excellent.

Not a bad evening
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A Bit of Slicing and the Odd Map.

Nope no painting this evening as I needed to get some things sliced ASAP. I also got the remaining Reiklanders sliced too. Prepare for some gratuitous photos this weekend.

After various chores I decided to have another look through my Christmas present from Joe. Now One hex in The One ring is 20 miles. So it got me thinking of making some more detailed maps for areas of interest. Hence the hex paper.

I also started looking at the 1888 Ordinance Survey maps of the place where I came from in Northumberland/County Durham.

Now I am going to be honest here. My One Ring World has never been canon to Tolkien as I firmly believe that people didn’t just desert places permanently. So mine will have farmsteads, townships and the like… hence the OS maps.

Each of my maps will be 20×40 miles…so a fair old bit of space to fill on each one.

This may be the start of something new or fall by the wayside, but if truth be told I did like making maps in many of my earlier games.

It Wasn’t a bad morning on the way to work today…

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Whoops Went Down a Rabbit Hole!

Well I was going to get things painted this evening then I started looking for some old family photographs… didn’t find those, but found some other bits and pieces… why – well I joined a Facebook group about the village where I used to live… my grandparents and father lived there until the 60’s and we moved back there in the 80’s. Now we live far, far away… but I was hunting out photos from the 30’s and 40’s.

I ended up finding my Grandfather in the 1921 census and then going down that Rabbit hole.

Hopefully tomorrow I will proceed down the painting route…

I saw this and it did make me laugh!

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Down by the Gatehouse

I eventually got the gatehouse finished. Probably close to sixty hours in total print time but I am very pleased with it.

I was going to do the portcullis, but decided against it as it would be a bit of a faff to lift it up and down. If it was down it would block movement and if it was up then it would stop miniatures getting in the building.

I am going to check the files to see if there any walls to go with it.