As soon as I got home I scampered down to the printer shed to see what my APC and boat looked like…. well it looked like this….
Although the power had returned to the house, the printer does not automatically restart. So I will probably have to wait until tomorrow to show you these.
After taking the photo I restarted the printer and fingers crossed it seems to be on track to complete them.
So I went for the tree supports and I have good news and bad news
So the good news… removal on the whole was easy peasy.
As you can see from the above photo the support on the floor will need a bit of work with a blade. So positives aside, this thing is going to take a long time with sandpaper to get ready for paint…
The above is what the bottom looks like. No doubt I could orientate the model to lessen this effect, but the worry is that it would be more noticeable in the easy to see areas.
I going to be honest I am printing on an old machine (an original ender3) the only upgrade was a metal extruder. I think I got this Christmas 2017 so it has done a fair bit of work. Further to this I generally still print on draft quality. Speeds up the process. I could go to town and print on super fine quality. Fat dragon games has some really good settings but it would take at least twice as long to print. One day I may give it a go.
I think I will start the M113 this evening. Because I am a twit, and there was space on the build plate then I am doing a PBR minus the crew and rear weapons.
Huey, Kilgore and now a PBR… definitely a smell of ‘Apocalypse Now’ going down.
So I got the Huey of the printer and my heart sank… the supports weighed more than the model, never a good sign.
The rotor is meant to be fastened to the drive rod thingy. It snapped off removing the supports. I wish I had made the closed door variant. This was the internal support.
The internal supports filled the whole cabin… bloody nightmare. It took 20 minutes to remove the internal supports.
So I think I need to redo this again and check the supports. Sadly Cura doesn’t show them. I may even hollow it out and do it on the resin one.
So as you can see he is a bit on the big side or the Huey is a bit on the small side.
I will have a play and see what I can come up with.
So this evening I got my finger out and started painting. I pushed on with the Recon dude and female civilian…
Now I really needed to add in the light squiggles but I don’t think my eyes or brush control are up to it. Now one day, I may push on and give it a go but not today. You can see what it looks like below.
Yes I managed to get some painting done this evening. I slapped paint on this lot.
I bet you can’t guess what paint colour spurted out of the bottle.
I will hopefully get some more done tomorrow.
Please note the ‘was’ there. Everything is either aching or hurting so painting was cancelled. I was looking forward to having a go at painting tiger striped uniforms. Last time I tried that was in the late 90’s.
The civilian and VC were there as a ‘now you have finished the hard bit’ interlude.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
Today I printed off a few more miniatures from the Nam range. US Forces on the left VC troops on the right.
I decided to see what they would look like and will get them sprayed tomorrow ready for some painting.
The dude sitting at the back is a door gunner for one of the Huey’s. I am going to do the main vehicles on the FDM machine with the fiddly bits done on the resin machine.
I will let you know how I get on.
All together now….https://youtu.be/mQitsOAvEus
This evening I got the Nam test miniatures off the printer…
They have come out fine. Now one of the civilians has no feet. I am going to check to see if they have feet on the image… it might be that they are meant to be in paddy fields so feet are not necessary… not sure. I am sure I could pinch feet off other civilians to befeet her if needed.
We have two special forces, two civilians, two regular army and an Air Cav officer who likes surfing. The guy having a lie down is a VC casualty.
I have a couple of niggles with these, first being the supports are pretty chunky and didn’t come of as easily as I would have expected (compared to some of my other manufacturers). Second is, although I kind of like the chunky aesthetic, the running dude on the right is not much taller than the kneeling dude on the left.
I will have a play around with sizes tomorrow and see what I think. I am looking forward to painting tiger stripes on the special forces.
I didn’t really make myself a lot of time to paint this evening… but I did a little bit:
Now the shaman in the centre has reminded me of someone for absolutely ages… I just couldn’t put my finger on who. This evening the clouds parted and the recollections streamed through…
Yes, I know he looks nothing like the wise old elf from the TV show… but somehow to me he does. If I hadn’t already painted the hood yellow then it would be painted blue.0
Still aching like mad, luckily no washing machines to move today, but the hot water tank overflow kicked in at 22.00 so I have fastened the ball cock up and turned off the boiler. I will get a new ballcock tomorrow.
I did manage to get some paint on some goblins today…
We have a leader, left. Three frogherds and a shaman on the right.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.
