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Village with added Colour

Eventually I managed to make a start on painting the buildings.

Base layer going on

Still a long way to go on these but it is good to actually get a layer of paint on these.

I do like these files and as such I would recommend this company to anyone. Printing them at half size has caused me a few problems but nothing too bad.

I spent an age swearing at 3D builder this morning as it wasn’t playing.. it was putting the various bits all over the place. Eventually it dawned on me that I could reset them all to 0.0 instead of 4532 x 5432 or whatever ridiculous place it was.

I eventually got the corner pieces put together. For some reason it didn’t increase the height of the base and is still sitting at 1.5mm. This causes a headache getting it off the base plate. So to try and help I put down some blue painters tape. Tomorrow I will get it back up on 3D builder and increase the height again. You can see the damaged base on the right hand corner below.

These are the wooden fences, I can’t wait to try the stone ones. Now I am going to have to do some research and see if these fences should all have a tiled roof.

I have got eight (I think) straights and only two corners. Tomorrow I give the gate a go. The plan is to have the large farmhouse in a compound with the well and then the smaller buildings in a small hamlet or two. Luckily I found my EPVC to base them on. It is 5mm thick so very rigid. I have some 3mm too which I will have to give a go too.

Sadly I got a new game for the Console… loving it! Predator Hunting Grounds is awesome. It’s a fire team of four versus a single predator and lots of AI guerrillas too. The fire team has various missions in the 15 minutes the game lasts then the have to get to the chopper for extraction. The predator’s job is to make sure they don’t escape. It is great fun…

The down side is that everyone wants to play a predator! This means it takes ages to get onto the game… on the upside I can keep adding bits to my blog 😉 30 seconds to go….I am off to hunt some mercs!….and emmmmmmm. I evidently ran into Dutch as I didn’t make it 😂

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Wooden Fences

So after the failure to print them flat I spent a bit of time in 3D builder putting the bits together and then sliced it. To be fair I couldn’t get the filament to come back out so I pretty much dismantled the Bowden tube to allow me to get it out. I noticed that it pulled a bit of black out with it, so I gave it a bit of a poke. Have a look at the second photo below and see if you can guess which one was printed first (bear in mind 2kg of the peach filament have been through the printer since I used black.

Fail… (well apart from the roof)

So with a bit of trepidation I hit print and left things for an hour and 20 minutes and came back in to find…an amazing print.

I am really pleased with these. I relied on the Ender to be able to bridge gaps and it managed it flawlessly. Tomorrow I am going to do the corner sections and the gate. I really do love this range from 3DALIENWORLDS. I can’t wait to see what some if their up and coming ones are. They have quite a bit in the pipeline.

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Village with added Doors

I remembered to add the doors to the farm houses before I started painting.

The great thing about these doors is that they slide. Obviously for mine I am glueing them as they are going to be for terrain and the roofs will be glued down. If and when I do the skirmish terrain I will have the buildings with their interiors available.

I managed to get the remains of the filament used and then started on another part roll.

Not enough for anything else…

I printed the wooden wall at 50%. The printer coped, however the pieces were too thin to get off the bed in one piece… much swearing occurred! So tonight I am going to see about using 3D builder to faff about with the STL’s and see if I can build it first in there and then print it built.

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Piles of Sashimono

Well as promised, I eventually got some sashimono sliced into groups of ten.

Ignore the bed, it needs a clean!

I wanted to use up the remains of the spool of …. I got pretty close. These took 22 minutes per ten and didn’t really use much filament. I did four lots, so forty in total. Not really sure how many I actually need. I will count up tomorrow and see. I reckon I will get another ten out of the remains.

So this is what forty very small sashimono look like…

As can be seen there are a fair few wispy bits attached. I will get these off before attaching them to the miniatures.

The other thing I sliced was a test wooden wall. Each section is made up of seven pieces. So there was no way I was going to get it out of the remains of the filament. Once I have used up what’s left I will move onto the walls.

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Cavalry Finished

Tonight I cracked on and got theses finished. Most of the time was spent painting the mon on the sashimono.

I am not sure if I like the one on the black. It is growing on me, but I may change it yet.

The whole force looks like this so far…

I am rather pleased with them. I still have the rest to paint, but this lot have sat there a good while. These will fit very nicely into Ann’s paint the shit you already own challenge. I got these when I was doing the Aztecs so at least six months ago.

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Cavalry… Almost Finished

Yep, I just about got them finished tonight. Still some bits and pieces like metallics and hair etc. But the miniatures are almost done. Still a pile of mon to paint on the Sashimono but nearly, nearly done.

Tomorrow I should hopefully have them finished. Then onto the next lot. I never did get my sashimono printed as my good lady was preparing an education pack to do with Shetland boats. Sadly she was using the laptop with both Cura and the files on it. Tomorrow I should manage to get them sliced and give them a go in a block of ten I was thinking.

My son is getting very excited as I pre ordered Predator Hunting Grounds. He has been counting down the days. It’s a pity it is all online play and no single player campaign. It is a four on one game. Four humans against the Predator. Quite looking forward to it to be honest.

I printed off some boxes yesterday as well as more water buffalo and barrels today. Once I get hold of the laptop I will slice some of the wooden fencing and give that a test print.

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More Samurai Cavalry

Well okay, it is technically the same Samurai Cavalry with more done to them.

Less and less white showing now. Still a fair old way to go, but broken the back of them now.

Tomorrow I will try and get them finished…I probably would have got more done this evening but my hair was really beginning to bug me as it was at the argggggh too long stage…. and as I couldn’t get to the barbers I took matters into my own hands….

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Printed Sashimono

I didn’t bother ordering the sashimono when I got the new Samurai. I was going to use pins and either paper or Greenstuff for the banner part. I was not looking forward to it to be honest.

I then did a quick search on Thingiverse and found one and only one. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3763481

I decided to give it a go. I reduced the size to 30% and did a test print.

Smart new back banners!

Okay the pole part is a bit thick but I am really pleased with them.

These two took 7 minutes to print. So tomorrow I am going to batch print in multiples of ten until I have enough for all of the new ones.

Successful print… back to printing more boxes and barrels for the village.

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Samurai Cavalry…Again

Another little bit of work on these. Had a bit of an eventful day… more on that later…

All the skin tones are done (the white ones are face masks with moustaches)now as well as most of the boots and gloves (I say most as I am bound to have forgotten some). onto the trappings tomorrow. These will need to be painted white first then some bright colours added.

The eventful day was caused by the ball cock in the header tank of the hot water boiler snapping.. snapping is too strong a word, it fell off when I went to adjust it. Thankfully the overflow managed to cope and one of the local shops was open on a Sunday and thankfully had plumbing supplies… amazingly replacing it went pretty much without a hitch… apart from dropping my phone down behind a double wall. Thankfully it had the torch on so I could work out where it was and miraculously I could actually reach it without dismantling the kitchen.

Being stood on a ladder did not help the sprained ankle which is still bloody hurting a week later. 😢

We have been out in the sunshine With the bows the last few days and have broken this side of the target box…

I have to go into work to tomorrow to let in one of my staff to get a school iPad to allow her to work from home. I will get some more work ready to send home for the kids.

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Samurai Cavalry Update….

This evening my eldest daughter didn’t fancy another night in the caravan so being the doting father that I am I returned the massive distance of 15m back into the house.

On the upside it means I got to paint things..

Still a long way to go on these but they are getting there. I think they are looking rather colourful even with all the unpainted bits.

The village buildings are sprayed…

Guess which numpty forgot to texture the Greenstuff!

Today I gave the old longbow and airing… the blue one on the ground has a 24lb draw on it… the long bow is nearly double the draw weight at 47lb. I nearly ruptured myself drawing the bloody thing.

We caught the arrow just about to leave the bow!

Tomorrow I hope to get some work done on the cavalry and maybe the buildings too.