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.
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.
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….
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Tomorrow I hope to get some work done on the cavalry and maybe the buildings too.
Spent a while tonight spraying the village with undercoat and then when Monster University was on I got to work on some more of the cavalry.
I think all of the horses are painted now and most of the clothing too. Sadly I can’t remember what Green I used so the Sashimono on the green troops is a different shade!
I do think these are going to look colourful when they are done.
Tonight we ended up watching Monsters Inc as a family so no painting. But I did manage to get the Greenstuff out and attack the gaps in the houses.
It’s only when you see it like this that you realise how many actual gaps there were. I have probably wrecked the end of my finger doing this as I found it more effective than the silicone shapers. Problem with using a finger is that everything is rough on these!
The printer wasn’t turned on at all today… a very unusual occurrence. The filament is running down and I want to do some more animals with the remains before adding a whole new roll on.
When the Greenstuff is dry tomorrow I will get the buildings undercoated and start painting them up. over the next few days.
Today I printed some more rice paddies as opposed to some Irish poet. They are pretty basic to be honest due to their size but they do the job. I also printed lots of rice to go in them still another pile to do! Can you tell I am trying to use up the remains of the roll of filament?
I also printed the end for the big house. So that is the village complete. Well apart from all of the other things I am going to print such as more rice stores and cattle etc.
Well I decided to go for the 3,2,2 formation on the cavalry and went red, green and black.
Still a bit to do on them but I am pleased with the colours chosen. I might repaint the trapping on the nearest rear horse. I went for purple and it didn’t show up. The other two are done in orange. We had a club discord tonight so spent a good while chatting with other geeks about random gaming crap.
Once these are finished then I have four more bases of cavalry to finish… and then onto the additional ones.. but my original DBA army will be done 😉.
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