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I Have a Door!

Or should I say…another door.

I am starting to make little steps into doing simple things. Each time I cock things up I learn something new…normally what not to do, but it is all a learning process.

So far I have made the two textured rollers, some signs and a simple door.

Sad but true, I am enjoying doing these. Not sure where I will go next, but if anyone has any ideas then please give me a shout.

I did consider a big double door. Something that will allow me to get the hang of the mirror modifier. There is so much to learn!

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A bit of Painting

Tonight my good lady was on a conference call so I couldn’t get onto Blender to make hinges for my rounded door.

My problem with Blender is that I cannot seem to build things and save them separately and use the bits to build other things. Now to be fair I could use other things like Meshmixer and 3D paint so maybe I should stop moaning!

With my hiatus I did get on and do some painting. The red panda you have seen before. I have worked on the dregs and rabbit this evening.

The dregs are nearly done, so this leaves the vampire in his two forms and the Necromancer. I have painted the armour on the vampires, e

I am now off to make my hinges… wish me luck!

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Having a Fiddle in Blender

Well as you know, or don’t, I have been having a play around with Blender. First the texture rollers, then the signs… now we have doors…

The scale is out somewhat, but I reckon you can see what it is meant to be. After a good old while of head scratching and swearing I have eventually worked out how to add a curve to the top of a door should I need one.

After typing the above I have added a hoop handle like the above and will need to add some hinges next.

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I Made Something New

After a lot of swearing yesterday I pulled the signs off the printer and I am super pleased with the results. The one on the meft shows the back of the single sided one. The hidden side looks like the right hand one.

I am now going for a single sided door… and the swearing is back…

I pulled these off the printer too…

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Something New

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!

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I Made Something…

And it works!

So on the left is the crazy paving effect and on the right paving slabs.

What is more weird is that I drew both of them in Paint and somehow in the magic of blender it has taken it to something 3D.

I will be honest they aren’t the most polished 3D printed thing ever… but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t super happy about them actually working.

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Feeling a bit Bleurgh

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…

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I Made a Roller

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.

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Late Night Painting

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.

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Two out of Three Ain’t Bad!

Hurrah, third time is a charm as they say…

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.