Tonight I decided to print another set of anthropomorphic beasties.
The Hedgehog riding the corgi is from Goonmaster Miniatures and the pair of armoured mice are from Naga Miniatures..,
As of next Tuesday my older half dozen kids in the school are going to paint up a mini each and then make a mini diorama on an old CD. I will run this over a number of weeks as a little Lunchtime club… I must be bonkers!
Last night after posting, I decided to get some paint on the 28mm otter. Now this guy came from Naga Miniatures and is one of many anthropomorphised animals in their collection. I honestly cannot say what he is meant to be representing. It has him down as a paladin. He does have a mix of dress and equipment. He has a macuahuitl and a metal shield as well as landschneckt style pantaloons. I don’t really care as I really like him.
I got him finished this evening… I might go back and do the cordage on his quilted gambeson.
This evening I got my finger out and started on some of the 15mm Samurai forces.
I have made a sort of Bandit force that includes some Ronin and a renegade monk.
The above were all painted with the Dipping Inks. I am really pleased with the majority of them. The only one that is a bit weird is the black shadow dip. I like it, but the guy front right has his kimono painted with it. It is more a grey green. Basically to me, it is a naming thing rather than a useless colour. For full disclosure I had heard this and ordered it anyway as it is a useful colour.
I still have the following dips to try out.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow. I am now off to order the shrine set from 3DAlienworlds.
You can see it here… https://www.3dalienworlds.com/shop-description.php?ID=1516184633
There are loads of cool bits 😉
The last few days have been some of the most frustrating in 3D printing since the infamous Kabuto incident of 2019…I said I would print up a 40k Rhino for him. I suggested Thingiverse as sometimes there is good stuff is on there… sadly not this time. I got there in the end but it is Crap!
Here Mr Otterton inspects it. I had a few issues… first off was what is one supposed to look like. With zero interest in 40 k I wasn’t actually sure l. After checking a few reference pictures it seemed to be fine…ish. Seems to be missing rear exhaust ports and looks really wide.
The model itself was solid… way too much resin so I had to hollow out all the pieces.
It was split into five bits with no keys to make it go back together easily. Not dissing the designer here as I couldn’t have done this, but it really would have helped.
Each set of the two sides took nearly twelve hours to print… two sets of six for each bit.The middle section went weird and the rear doors look like the inside of an old ladies knitting box. This bit was over eight hours because of its size.
But the most annoying bit…
The sides are different sizes. Initially I thought user error, somehow I accidentally increased one of them. I don’t think so as the lights and exhausts seem to be the same size on both sides, same with the indentation. To be fair I could have reprinted one side and matched whichever it fitted… but by this evening I really, really couldn’t be ars*d.
Now there are a few out there that he could purchase, but he will need to check that they look right and also that they are printable.
Tonight I heard one of my new favourite taglines… this was by Chuck Yeager… he had mentioned ‘Sexual Intellectuals’ aka F*cking Know it All’s. I am so going to use it from now on.
I also finished the Sohei this evening…
Tomorrow I will endeavour to get some more painting done. I have a pile of samurai forces already undercoated in 15mm, so they seem a good place to start.
Luckily not me, at least not yet… I am supposed to be writing my Standards and Quality report for work and it hasn’t happened yet!
What was in hot water were the dwarves…
I was quite a long way into resin printing before I found it about how hot water really helps remove the supports. So it is now often a standard practice with my prints.
I have now done another dozen dwarves, veterans this time…
The above are the two handed axeman. The other half dozen are single handed axe dudes.
I painted the bases of the sohei today, but didn’t take any photos. The dipping inks were ideal for this.
Tonight I got the Sohei just about finished. Basically the metallic bits to do.
I will hopefully get their opposition painted soon. You could really tell that I hadn’t painted for a while as a lot of the Contrast paint had settled.
Speaking of paint…
I got my new Dipping inks through… I used a couple on the Sohei.
I also did some painting on rocks with the kids at school. Here is my effort…
The printer is still going non stop, I had a sod of a time printing the trebuchet arm. I may actually redo it.
Today I cracked on and bit the bullet to get the last thirty six undead based (actually there were thirty eight 😉). I had to force myself to get the last dozen done.Tomorrow I am going to go to town with the rust etc…
My youngest and I are now on a count down to our trip south. Thursday will roll up soon enough, but tomorrow my hire digger arrives to get the potholes flattened out. So watch out for digger photos tomorrow.
So this evening I wasn’t in the mood for a massive basing session so I did a set of 24 Zombies.
I think I have double this number to go, then onto the rust, verdigris and moss on the miniatures that need them. Then tufts and a Matt varnish.
This afternoon we went to Reawick beach with the kids and dogs. You can see the post Here.
This morning however the air turned blue above the printer shed. I decided to fire up the filament printer to start doing some buildings for the various scales and as you might have guessed it decided to playbsilly buggers…the blasted thing wouldn’t push the filament through. It isn’t a blockage, it looks like there is an issue with the extruder itself. I have an aluminium top on it, but for some reason the guide wheel is not engaging with the filament meaning that although the grooved bit is doing its job, it isn’t pushing against anything so it is basically just spinning and gouging out the filament.
I spent ages redoing test, after test but it just wouldn’t play at all, so in desperation I have ordered a direct drive extruder along with a bed levelling probe.
So, because I cannot just use an army as it comes in the box, I just had to print myself some extra bits, namely some more shot troops and a couple of minis for the command base.
Unfortunately they are a bit on the big side, but I may just leave them as they are as the majority will be on their own bases.
I am still a bit knackered so didn’t bother trying to paint anything this evening.
Today I was out the house at 07.15 to help at the Kayak symposium…it wasn’t a taxing day, but I ended up coming home at 10.30, then back out again at 15.15 so a fractured day… infid however manage to get all of the undead apart from the big beastie varnished.
I was hoping to get the last miniature finished, but sadly it was not to be… I have got two more days of helping so it may not get finished until next week.
I intend to try the oil wash on the above sooner rather than later…
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