Bogenwald

Posted on July 7, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 16 Comments

Treat Day Wraiths

Yes it is officially tye end of my 56th journey around the sun today. Time certainly has flown. I had a great day and got some awesome presents too…

The kids know I like lego, not shown are the sweeties.

I had a pretty relaxing day but to be honest the best present was that BoJo has resigned… here endeth the political segment of the post…

I did manage to get a dozen wraiths painted today

As you can see they are in two distinct styles… this gives me a but of flexibility, two units of six or one of twelve… so that is 50 miniatures up to this stage so far this week.

Tomorrow I hope to get the Boyar started, I doubt they will get finished as there are some complex armour and cloth mixtures to sort out.

Posted on July 6, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 8 Comments

Challenge Day

To be honest, I never managed twelve hours, I got about six hours off and on as my back started to give up the ghost. So how far did I get….

So I finished off the dozen in the middle and the mage and got the next twenty four finished, apart from the white bit on the right hand banner.

I am going to carry on with the painting tomorrow and see how I get on. I got the zombies onto their bases as well as giving mr half head a new set of hair…

Still a whole load to do… a dozen wraiths, half a dozen cavalry plus a mounted Liche, the zombies and the dozen Boyar infantry too.

I then have the big Beasty to do. I got my air brush out for this one as I really didn’t fancy doing something this big with a 00 brush 😉.

I think that is everything that I have for the undead army.

Posted on July 5, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 9 Comments

Wonky Horses and some Skeletons

Today I decided to sort out the problem of the undead mounts. Now if you remember with thec16th century stuff ihzd problems with the pikes snapping so to solve the problem I either mixed ordinary and flexible resin or as of late I bough in some stuff that had the flex built in…. move forward a couple of months and I purchase some undead mounts that are in awesome poses, with, in some cases only one foot on the floor as you can imagine semi flexible resin would not work so well with gravity…. so after a bit of a head scratch I came up with this plan…

Each mount is supported by a gravestone or something similar. This should hopefully help with the problem of gravity induced bending!

Joe and I had a good session paintingnthis evening and I managed to get a fair old way on with the skeleton unit…

Still a fair old bit of work to go but there is definitely less white showing now.

Tomorrow I have decided to do a twelve hour challenge. 10.00 – 22.00. I am going to see how many miniatures I can paint in that time… hopefully quite a few… well what else are holidays for but to do something foolish.

Posted on July 4, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

Zombies

Now what undead army wouldn’t emmmm be errrr seen dead without Zombies. So here are some

villagers and warriors below.

There were eight villagers and only five warriors which is a little disappointing. I double up two by flipppng one over, top right and left for the villagers. Now these are really unique poses so really only those would work.

Now something weird happened to the warrior in the middle, well apart from being run through by a spear and coming back to life. There is a better view below…

As you can see the top of his head didn’t print absolutely no clue why, perhaps a glitch in the software. Now I did forget to drew the build plate down but as you can see the crossbow man came out fine!

I think I have now got a full army for Dragon Rampant. So after I have printed some 15mm Ronin then the printer is going to have a rest for a while whilst I paint them all up.

I even got my airbrush out to give the big beastie the once over. Haven’t used it for about four years so wish me luck.

Posted on July 3, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 4 Comments

Printer Shenanigans

Today I went out into the shed to find two of the three things on the plate had failed. So after cleaning the Vat and re levelling the build plate I put a new vat in and reprinted the files and voila it worked fine. I was a bit miffed as one of them was totally over supported.

I also sliced some undead Boyar infantry and some Zombies too. With my patreon account I get 50% off so these were additional purchases. I was really good and didn’t go wild… I really could have done.

With two of us painting on Tuesday I wanted a paint pot holder. As I was in the shed I came across some empty resin bottles. The lids were a perfect size. So I cleaned them in ISO and also nuked them in the curing station. Cut some EPVC and voila two paint pot holders…

I sanded both bits to roughen up the surfaces and then used the hot glue gun to fasten them together.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

Sticky Skeletons

I spent a good portion of this morning putting together the GW skeleton bowmen.. two things stuck me whilst doing this…

The first being: I absolutely bloody hate putting plastic models together, they were a sod and as I was using poly cement took an age to fully stick.

The second being: why are GW skeleton archers all left handed, whilst the sword and spearman are all right handed…

Anyway I made a unit of twelve archers and got them undercoated…here they are before getting sprayed:

I also got all six wraith cavalry printed too…

I am printing a mounted Liche from Ian Lovecraft on one of the mounts above… not sure if it will work, but with greenstuff I should be able to fill any gaps. I still have more to print, but I have made a start on painting the skeletons. Joe and I are going to have a painting day on Tuesday afternoon. Hopefully I will get loads done then.

Posted on July 1, 2022July 2, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

Skeletons with Big Heads

Today was the last day of term so we had a little soirée at a colleagues house. I spent the evening slicing skeleton cavalry for printing. I also decided to try out one of the GW skeletons…

They are a bit smaller than the 3D printed ones. For some reason their heads seem huge. Now I am not sure if these will work with the other ones. I will do another couple, get them sprayed and do a test paint.

Posted on June 30, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 9 Comments

Big Beasty and the Wraiths

Tonight I got the Fell beast done. There were some gaps on the wings and tail but I hauled out the Greenstuff and filled the last gaps this evening.

Now to be honest, I printed this at 90% size. You cannot really tell until you add the rider. He is now a bit on the small side but I reckoned built in evil and malice need not be in a giant.

I also got these six wraiths stuck onto bases. I really should have done some painting but I am knackered.

And finally, this was a little worrying when I saw it in the shed this evening…

Now to be up front these cans are pretty ancient, but I have never seen seepage like this before. It Han bubbled out all around the bottom join.

Posted on June 29, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 12 Comments

Big Beasty

Well my 8 hour print was successful and so was the following 6 hour one. I have a print going just now and will then need to print the rider but I am really pleased with this so far…

The 32mm skeleton will give a sense of scale. I have added green stuff to the tail and wing joint and will do the same with the right wing.

Once this is done I will slice up some cavalry for a bit of oomph and then see what I think. Bows are going to be my box of 16 GW skeletons. it would be good if I could find another six to bulk them out to two units of twelve. I could of course print some command figures to do the job for me.

Posted on June 28, 2022 by maenoferren22 · 12 Comments