15mm – Page 11 – Bogenwald

Posted on May 5, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

Further work on the Shrine

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.

Posted on May 5, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Work on the Shrine

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 😁.

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 8 Comments

I Hate Sashimono

Today I decided to get the sashimonos stuck onto the samurai. I was originally going to put them the ashigaru too, but decided against it as it will allow them to be a part of a rebel force as well as allied to a Daimyo (not to mention the fact that I hate adding them).

This meant that I only needed to add them to 38 miniatures (luckily they didn’t fit on the samurai archers😉.

I managed to get 24 of them stuck on without many shenanigans. And then the next four took as long as the previous twenty four. Needless to say this made me somehow miffed!

I also managed to get the other half sprayed white.

Hopefully I will get the samurai sprayed white tomorrow and then make a start on painting the ones that I managed to get undercoated today.

I have decided to get rid of the Seraphon as to be honest I have fallen out of love with them. I have never played a game of Age if Sigmar so I. would need to buy and learn a new set of rules etc. There aren’t that many people who play it in the club too. Luckily one of the lads at the club said he was interested in buying them.

I did enjoy painting the ones I did, not to mention messing on with the printer to do those bits too. I was going to photograph everything for him tonight but unfortunately there has been a power cut.

Posted on May 3, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Teahouse Take 2

Nope, fear not I have done anything wrong with the first one, that is still fit and well. I want to use the building part for my shrine and am printing off a second. The building should be just about finished in 10 minutes…

Today was spent printing the various bits for it, I printed the roof overnight and the building this evening. The only thing I need to print now is the water feature, as I seem to have messed up savings file. The stone bench is called water feature on the memory stick! As it took only 6 minutes to print I am not that bothered. I needed it anyway.

Apart from that I think I have got everything done to get the teahouse build in its entirety.

The other thing I printed last night was a doggy!

Down Boy! Where is Barbara Woodehouse when you need her!

Sadly he is now a three legged doggy as some pillock snapped one off today!

Posted on May 3, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

Samurai Reinforcements

Tonight I didn’t get anything painted, but I managed to get all of the Tin Soldier samurai onto bases.

So from left to right we have:

Mounted monks

Foot monks

Ashigaru

Foot Samurai

Samurai bow

In the front:

General on the bigger base and a subordinate on the smaller base.

As I had already got some miniatures painted. I will be able to make one more base of mounted monks and one of samurai archers.

Once these are all dried I will attempt to glue sashimono to them all. Wish me luck. Once that is done I will get them sprayed and ready to go. I am on a bit of a tight schedule as it is my mates birthday on 22nd May. I bought him some miniatures for Sengoku Monster Hunter from Alternative Armies. I got him the first couple of sets so that there is a bit of alternatives to what is hunted and who is doing the hunted. I said I would paint them up for him too hence the need for speed. I will also do him some terrain to go with them.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 4 Comments

Teahouse Build

Today I spent a long time printing the teahouse. Okay I did little more than press print. The roof took just over 5 hours to do and the building itself just under 4 hours in total the building took most of the day to print.

Once again theses are amazing models with lots of details. The set comes with all the bits you need for the teahouse. I made a start on the fence too. I got as far as the gate and a corner piece.

There are lanterns as well as water features and the interior in the set too.

As can be seen in the background I added gates to the wooden gateway…See below for a closer look.

The other thing I printed was the test Sashimono at 100% this time.

The one on the left has a Tokugawa clan mon on it.

I had a punt at these as they only cost a couple of dollars so it was worth the test. I have enough of the ones from Thingiverse printed then I doubt I will use these ones. Having the mon on them would make my life easier, but it would mean more time on the printer for something I already have a lot of.

Tomorrow I will carry on with the teahouse fences as well as the other bits too. I will also need to start on the canal pieces for the raised area of the shrine. I will then need to find a Buddha or something similar to add.

Posted on May 1, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

Start of the Shrine

I de died not to paint anything tonight, no real reason, I just decided to print some bits and pieces instead. I also had a look at my new toys 😂

So the above is the start of my shrine idea. It will have a raised platform in the centre and the Torii gates will be outside of the main gateways.

I am printing off The tearoom as I type this. The main building should be ready in about 2 hours and I will print the roof off tomorrow. It will become the small building in the corner of the sketch below.

I am so pleased with these STL’s. They really are awesome and well worth the money I paid. I will definitely be on the look out for some more bits from them as they come along.

The other thing I tried was the sashimono. Now I decided to shrink them to 50% as they are for 28mm miniatures. I think I might have shrunk them a bit too much!

Now on the up side, I am really pleased that the printer managed something this small 😁

My new Samurai miniatures came today and I am really chuffed with them. Don’t get me wrong I love my Tin soldier ones. These will be for Skirmish gaming.

My plan is to get the Tin soldier Army finished before moving onto these.

Posted on April 30, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 12 Comments

More Work on the Houses

Tonight I did a pile more work on the houses. Most of it you probably can’t see on the photo, but in all honesty I am really chuffed with these.

A huge thank you to David who suggested a bit of brown wash for the raised area and Woah! How right he was. The raised bits have all but disappeared! If you compare this photo and the following one you will see what I mean.

So today 3DALIENWORLDS brought out the teahouse set, which I purchased along with a few others…

So I went for the:

Teahouse

Canal set

Lanterns

Bridges

Zen Garden

Torii gates

And a sashimono set.

I was going to get something on the printer this evening but ended up spending about two hours trying to help my daughter with her maths home learning.

I have a plan for a small shrine using some of these…

I got the idea from a video on YouTube. Walking in the Nikkō village from the Edo period. It was great for colours etc. The guy filming it walked into a shrine that was up some steps with a small hedge around it. On the right was a small building and on the left some form of fence with ‘offerings’ on it. Not sure what they were, but they had some form of text on it. At the back was a golden statue on a plinth. it will give it a try with my sets I have got as well as the new ones.

Tomorrow I will get some more things sprayed, ready to go for the weekend.

On a totally different note, I thought I would share the picture my daughter drew on the iPad. She did a tribute to the NHS. I am really proud of her because she spent hours doing this…

Posted on April 29, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 15 Comments

Village Houses…Nearly There

Tonight I carried on with pressing print and painting the houses.

It was mainly dry brushing and adding the green but I am definitely getting there with these.

The one thing that niggles me about these is that I cocked up the Greenstuff. My intention was to use a wire brush to add in straw type marks and I forgot and undercoated them before remembering. I did some work with a scalpel that helped but it didn’t completely blend things together.

If I wasn’t as stingy I would redo them as they really are lovely sculpts and it is my error and not that of the designers. The main fault was printing when it was too cold leading to the edges against the build plate curling slightly.

Hopefully I will get these finished tomorrow. Martin said my Samurai went in the post this morning so I should have them by the weekend.

Posted on April 28, 2020 by maenoferren22 · 9 Comments

Further work on the Village

Tonight I did a bit more work on the village…

There isn’t really much obvious difference between this photo and the last one (apart from the white walls), everything was given a wash to bring out the detail a bit. I will drybrush the roofs again to add some highlights.

I got some more walls printed…

Not sure what to do with this yet. Some kind of shrine would seem suitable for the walls. I will have a think. I am printing off another long wall as I type this. I will print a second one and make it two wide at least 😉

Hopefully tomorrow I will get on with the buildings and then onto the samurai.

Quick question time… the cavalry are based as bases of bow and bases of hand weapons. The monks are single pose and the peasants are multi weapon with the odd head swap. So the question is.. do I put different samurai on the bases, eg three different ones or do I put all the katana on one and the naginata on another and the yumi on another or mix them all up?