Whilst watching Asterix and the Temple of the Gods I managed to get these finished as well as made a start on one of the command bases.
I could have got more done on the command, but I decided to redo some of the colours on the clothing. Everything being the same colour niggled me. So I changed about 50% of the clothes to a brown or a different colour green.
I shall carry on with the rest of the force tomorrow.
I managed to get a bit more done on these tonight. they still have weapons and hands done but they are getting there.
Because I am lazy, all of the clothing is the same colour, but there are two distinct units of three bases each here. Can you spot them? Hopefully I will get them finished tomorrow.
Whilst mooching about in the shed I came across these chaps…
I had totally forgotten that they existed, I got them on the pre order. They came with metal hero miniatures too…
I got these to play Dragon Rampant and never got around to sorting them out! Question is now what do I do with them???
No printing for me today, but my daughter wants a mask making. Eleven and a half hours in it fell over! Luckily it only had a short time to go so the bit that fell over should be fixable. This thing is in four bits. It is a wolf mask that will be covered in fake fur. Not sure why she wants it, but I am being a nice dad.
So the Ashigaru are getting there slowly. Not much don’t tonight really, but I managed to get the skin done as well as starting on the armour. I am putting lots of different coloured armour on these as they can then be added to any force as well as being a bit more historically accurate .. yeah right because the samurai are in three blocks of three ready for their group armour colour!
I will hopefully crack on with these tomorrow.
On the weather front…It is snowing! Flipping freezing out there. To be fair it is only very light, almost the snow equivalent of mist. Still flipping freezing though!
Tonight I finished the last piece of the shrine and decided to glue it all together.
So this is where I got to. Gaps to fill etc, but it is all glued together now. The base bits are all glued together the things on it are just in position.
The next thing to do is to decide whether or not to put a wall around it or put it into some kind of natural terrain. He idea is that the far bit will always be separated to allow for more flexibility. I tried the teahouse on it and it like kind of funky on there.
I do really like this set. It has combined well with the other ones to make something different.
The other thing I did was to print some nobori for the army. I went for a plain pair, a Mori clan pair with a triple mon and a Hokosawa clan pair with a single mon.
They are probably a bit on the large side for the 15mm. The stand certainly makes them look huge. They don’t look too bad next to a figure without the stand.
I never did get anything painted tonight. The glueing of the shrine took longer than I expected.
I hopefully will get onto the Ashigaru tomorrow.
Tonight I pushed on and got these finished apart from the mounted archer who needs his hair painting. With these I decided that their robes were going to be different colours as opposed to just orange as they would look a bit samey.
I still have the Ashigaru to paint followed by the samurai but I do feel like I have made some more progress on these.
I will start on the Ashigaru tomorrow. Hopefully some progress will be made quickly on these.
I managed to get all the bits printed today…. well that isn’t exactly true… I finished printing all of the bits today. Each bit takes a good old while. The centre bit, for example, takes 2 hours 48 minutes to do, the corner is speedy in comparison at only 38 minutes. I have become a bit anal in recording everything, but it is really handy to know how long a particular print will take…
I just hope I don’t lose this book…
As can be seen I write all the times down, it makes life easier knowing that I can go and do the horse and get back before a print finishes. Anyway enough of this jibber jabber… here is where I have got to with the shrine so far.
I am in two minds whether to put the building on the raised section or leave it off. A second thought I had was to build a separate raised section connected by a bridge. This other section would have the Buddha on it.
I will glue this lot together tomorrow sometime ready for undercoating.
I decided that I would purchase some more bits and pieces from 3DALIENWORLDS. So I am now the proud owner of some bridges, some ponds and the large banners that came out today. I have kickstarted a couple of STL makers, one is making some Mighty Empire style tiles and another is making some interesting roadways. Luckily I have managed to sell my Lizardmen to pay for my new addiction!
I was hoping to get these finished tonight, but unfortunately one of the horses decided to walk through the electric fence so we had to go and get him then work out where the little bugger got through (we still haven’t) but in doing so my wife touched the fence and said it didn’t shock her. So we rested with the tester and it was working.
My children then decided they would test it themselves (even though we recommended that this was not a good idea). Eventually one did so and got zapped, much hilarity occurred, the second followed, more laughing and then my middle one, against all advice sat on the floor and touched it. Needless to say she won’t do that again. (Luckily no children were harmed in this evening of hysterical laughter).
It did mean we didn’t get in to watch the movie until 21.30.
Still a lot of white on these but I am getting there. To be fair the cowls are going to be white.. so less work than it looks 😉.
Still have the rest of the army to paint too, this is the tip of the iceberg.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.
Today I got the other Samurai sprayed today and let them dry outside.
For some reason the white undercoat is not covering the PLA on the sashimono. The grey covered well, but this is covering the miniatures well enough but not the plastic. Now with this set I only shook the can for a little while and took it out of the shed, so it might explain things if I hadn’t sprayed a couple of them yesterday. With those ones the can was warmed and shaken for ages and it still didn’t cover well. I gave those two a second coat today and it definitely helped.
With the lot above I think I will just paint them white with a brush, it will save my last can of white spray.
I also managed to get some painting done whilst chatting on Discord this evening. I decided to start with the monks and peasants, I would have got a bit further but my paints are spread between two boxes and I was having to paint in the kitchen with a box file on my knees.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.
I printed a few more bits today and put bits together to test them out to see what I think about how it looks.
This is half the depth I want it, so the Buddha is a bit close to the front at the moment. The more astute of you will recall me talking about adding a tiled roof to this Torri gate…. errr I forgot and superglued it in place before I remembered!
The outer area will have a low hedge using clump foliage and where the Buddha is now will have the prayer wall. The whole thing will hopefully be surrounded by a stone wall with a gate.
I am hoping that it will fit in a box file as that is my storage option of choice as they stack easily. If not I will have to improvise. I did just have a bit of a daft thought. If I have the wall on one base and this on another then I will be able to Mitch and match what is within. Something I will have to think about or more likely- totally forget.
Yesterday I kept pressing print after shrinking the files down by 50%.
I printed another Torii gate. This one will have a tiled roof.
I also found a statue of the Buddha On Thingiverse to go in the shrine. I would like to point out I have no idea as to the accuracy of this. To be honest, it’s for a game and as such it will do for the time being.
The other thing I worked on was the start of the raised section. The biggest problem I am going to have is that as it stands right now it is too thin. I want the stairs to be in the middle so I will either have to print out two more straight sections, which might actually make it too wide. Or I will have to take a straight section and cut it in half in 3D builder. Another option is to forget about the building on it and leave it as is. Put the Torri gate at the base of the steps. I will keep you up to speed as to what I decided. The extra teahouse building won’t be wasted as I can give it to my mate as part of the terrain for his birthday present.
The hollow square will be used to raise the centre section a little bit. As can be seen at present, the centre tile sits at the same height as the surrounding layer. Because I am a pillock I grabbed all of the files that said centre and printed them. I forgot to read the instructions.. therefore I don’t actually know what it is for or where it goes!
I just added it and it looks fine slightly raised. This print takes a long time for what it is, this is due in part to all of the bumps on the top bit. Part of me is considering using 3D builder to just do a flat square with the same dimensions as the textured one.
On the upside 3DALIENWORLDS Have designed some Nobori flags which is something I was going to produce. That saves me a job 😁.
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