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 😉.
No painting tonight, but some more printing done. Because I am a plonker, I built too many buildings and not enough wooden roofs… the answer make a smaller house and a bigger house with a thatched roof. Ok. I do need to print a couple of thatch ends, but I had the main centre but done anyway…
The larger house is below…
I reckon I will stop printing houses soon. I will try another veranda and shed though before I finish. Next up will be a few more paddy fields and a wooden fence or six. I am quite excited by this new project, but then again I get excited by all of my projects!
So tonight I started on the cavalry. Gave one a start as a test to the single armour colour for a base and I think it looks ok. Still a fair bit to paint, but it is a start.
I decided on different colours on the clothes, scabbards and horses as it gave them a bit of a different appearance. The Sashimono, once painted, will have the same pattern for each sub unit. Red would seem a suitable colour at this point 😂.
Next conundrum is whether I split them into two or three smaller clans.
I really can’t decide to be honest so any help greatly appreciated.
Tomorrow I am back to work after the Easter break. I am going in to sort out packs to send home to the kids. Most of my teaching will be done from home.
Well today I started off by printing the village water source…
Here it is next to the peasants… next up the fences…
I did some test prints of the rice for the paddy fields. I am not sure whether I will carry on with them as they are a bit on the small side. What I might do is blend them into the actual paddy field in 3D builder.
I printed the horse at 70%… way to big… really nice but looks like a Clydesdale compared to the rest!
So the rice store is finished. It printed overnight, taking over six hours to do. It was one of the few models that needs support.
My plan with the buildings is to do a small settlement with three houses and the rice store. There will also be a couple of single buildings as well as the paddy fields dotted about… (Not to mention herds of water buffalo) 😂.
I just had to replace the print surface after a hole appeared…
This is what happens if you leave the hole…
In case anyone was wondering, the houses come in bits…
The buildings I have made so far are made up of three room sections, two end walls and four roof sections. These houses can go from two room sections up. The walls are either mud or wood (they are farm houses after all). Roofs are either thatch or wood. The thatch comes in two styles as seen below.
I am having some problems with the corners lifting on these ones. I think it is because the temperature has dropped again. It may be that the bed has warped or something similar. But my money is on a draft as that is one of the things that causes such problems.
I have still got a lot of bits to print out including wood and stone walls, not to mention fields. The rice store is printing right now. Tomorrow I will see what I will print next… since I started printing the big Beasty I have used over a full roll of filament.
Tonight I just did three minis from start to finish. I have decided that these would be some ronin. Not sure why, probably because they aren’t wearing helmets.
I painted each in different coloured armour, but made the clothing shades of grey to sort of down play the colours a bit. As for armour, one is in black, another in green and the one with the funky hairstyle is in red.
As can be seen I also finished the hero, apart from his second Sashimono which needs another coat of purple and then some form of mon on it.
All in all I am quite pleased with how these turned out. Tomorrow I will hopefully get some more done. Still undecided on all one colour or multi coloured armour like those above. The quickest will be all in one, but it may not be that historically accurate. Decisions, decisions… not sure which way to go.
I have the cavalry to paint now and as such there are pretty much half with bows and half with yari. I could do them as two different clans either as the same colour or just through their Sashimono…arrgggh I hate making decisions!
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