I managed a smidge more painting tonight.
I really think I have too much on the go at once…
I spent 5 minutes looking for the Superglue in the middle of the photo!
I would have got further but we had a bit of Dad/daughter quality time shouting at each other when we kept dying in the Lord of the Rings … War in the North 😱
Okay not very original when discussing dwarves.
These three are from Ill Gotten Games from the pre Kick starter tester we were given. I intend to have seven for completeness… well okay maybe not seven…
I decided to do the third one at 0.06mm layer the one on the left is at 0.15, the middle one is 0.1. I forgot to record the time but the highest quality was an hour and 40 minutes. The middle was somewhere round the hour.To be honest for the print time difference between the higher quality and the mid quality there isn’t much real difference. I will fiddle around a bit more to see if I can make it better.
I also painted lots of bits and pieces on various figures. I would have photographed them, but it didn’t seem much point.
The rest of my evening was spent trying to find costume parts for my two youngest for bloody World Book Day!
I managed a smidge of painting this evening…
But guess which silly sod forgot to take any photos!
The one I took was of the Heresy miniatures I started for my mate.
I also got a bit of green onto the Starship Troopers proxies yesterday.
Tonight I got the cockpit painted up too…
The bits I printed were a couple of dwarves from Ill Gotten Games. These are pre release ones open to Patreon’s.
These are printed at different speeds and temperatures. The one on the left is, as can be seen, is the faster, lower quality ones.
Finally my Son is quite impressed by the pile of nets…
What you can’t see is the fact that the bit you can see is about 5 metres tall and twice that long.
They were sitting there, staring at me and making me feel guilty so I painted some more cloaks…
nearly lost the will to live but pushed through the barriers of whatever was stopping me getting on with them.
The printer has returned to the shed as the temperature has warmed up enough, it’s funny not hearing it working away. Before it moved out there I printed a couple more bits and bobs.
These are upscaled from 18mm ones. I was after some more proxy bits for Starship Troopers. The big one is a proxy for an M-4A1 Grizzly Exo suit and the smaller one is CHAS (Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System)… these appear in the Roughneck series and not in the films. The CHAS needs to be a bit bigger, but will do as a starter. Both of these were from Ill Gotten Games.
Well the title should really say ‘Forgotten Fauna Friday’
First up…Some Iron Age pigs and Mouflon sheep
Next…Some highland cattle and a gaggle of Geese.
All of the above are from https://warbases.co.uk
One day I may even finish them!
The other thing (amongst many others) was the reason the blog is so named…
An honorary mention should also go to the 10mm elves…
these were more ignored than forgotten.
I actually managed to paint things this evening…
I got half the cloaks done on the elves as well as pouches and their base colours on the faces.
I then managed to get some paint on the mausoleum… still a bit to go on it but definitely getting there.
The mech also got some work done on it, he wanted it grey with a blue canopy… the red missiles come next.
And finally… not painted, but a bit smaller than before.
I reckon he still looks quite impressive even at 75% size.
He here is feeling like he is part of a hive…
I reckon a dozen or so more will be in order for our up and coming RPG. I just have to find some hopper bugs and a Tanker……
I decided to eventually get some paint onto the mausoleum and the Mech.
My son wanted his mech to be grey so who am I to argue. From what I remember he wants the cockpit glass to be blue and the rockets red.
My intention for the mausoleum is to give it a black wash once this grey is dry and then get it dry brushed up to a lighter grey. I keep thinking some kind of metallic colour for the doors but I haven’t quite decided that far ahead.
I really do like it and reckon it will come up a treat once it is finished.
I managed sod all else tonight apart from reducing the bug down to 75% size to see how it looks. It is merrily printing away as I type this. I was going to watch one of the films tonight to get a scale of the things but I couldn’t be arsed to do that.
And it looks this big….
Stick it on it’s very long legs and I think it will look fine… I will print the arms and legs tomorrow and see what I think.
Technically it should be BUUUGGGS…
but I only made one!
This thing is bloody massive. I reckon I need to drop it down to about 25% smaller at least and see how it looks. If you were wondering…the white stuff is baking powder. It causes a reaction with the superglue and sets instantly.
I had some de-lamination problems with the legs especially at the ball joints. Therefore I quasi posed it and then glued everything rigid. I printed the arms on a raft and had no problems with them so that might be the way forward if I do decide to do another one.
The one thing I forgot to mention and that is that this is a poseable bug (well it would be f I hadn’t superglued everything in place). It was designed by JOOXOE31 and again downloaded from Thingiverse.
I didn’t get any painting done this evening because of building this beastie, and various family related shenanigans… (including a stint of Ghost recon with my son. Who hasn’t quite grasped the tactical disadvantage of standing on a roof in full view of his father armed with a sniper rifle.) I also had a go at my hunting game and met the worlds first bullet proof Elk! Tracked him for 4 kilometres before I managed to bag him in the end.
Off playing Vikings in a school tomorrow so not too stressful a day 😁.
I threw open my painting box and cracked on with my printed miniatures.
Still a bit to do on some of them but the front two are almost finished. The very pale yellow is going to be a darker yellow. I just wanted to make sure that it would cover ok. I also have a mage in a rather nice purple robe as well as a couple of thieves ready to go. When these ones are done I will get on with the rest of the miniatures for the game.
Sadly as I was working on these my Elves got ignored for another night.
I still can’t get my head around the fact that these all started off as a long string of plastic… a bit of computer magic and voila… miniatures.
I am going to give an arachnid from Starship Troopers a go sometime soon, but for today the printer has stood silent… an unusual thing.
My youngest wanted something printing and this is what he chose…
The printer decided not to bed some things down properly hence the gaps and Greenstuff. It is still a very nice mech. Each part is printed in two halves and then stuck together. This is a ‘House Vermeni Highborn Command Pod’ that came off Thingiverse.
Weirdly enough this was designed by Dutchmogul in 2013. My son picked this one out of all of the options available on Thingiverse. We intend to paint it tomorrow.
In total it took about eight and a half hours to print (including the 70mm base).
I was just looking at it again and it might make a nice proxy of M4A1 Grizzly (heavy suits for the mobile infantry in Starship troopers)…
I really must watch the series and CGI films again. Not to mention actually play my game I bought as well as the RPG!
Today has been a serious lack of motivation day modelling wise. By time I played with the kids, read them story fed the cat (yes evidently I am the only one that can possibly feed him) and the mooched about a bit building the mech it was 10pm and I really couldn’t be bothered to start on any form of painting.
I might try something tomorrow 🤞
