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!
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…
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.
I printed off a wooden house today as well as some barrels.
Not that you can tell the difference between the two walls!
These need a bit of Greenstuff work on the gaps, this was due to the print curling slightly at the ends. It shouldn’t take much effort to sort them out. I am printing off another wooden walled dwelling today. Tomorrow I will print off a wooden roof as well as cut out the door supports and add some doors in.
Didn’t get as much done as I would have liked tonight. I kind of got side tracked into doing nothing much really, but anyway Progress is progress…
I also printed off some carts, one is full of rice bales…
Hopefully tomorrow I will get more done, on the upside the rest of my Samurai order arrived…on the downside the rest of my Samurai order arrived. There are quite a few! Probably 50 Samurai with various weapons, about 30 Ashigaru and a dozen monks, mounted and on foot. Oh and a general and entourage.
Yesterday I did a couple of test prints to see how the scale was looking. The fence was a bit on the large side and the buffalo a bit on the small side…See here .
So today I dropped the fence from 60% to 50%…
This seems to be better. It looks more like a farm fence than a zoo fence. I messed up by adding supports to it, so it took the same amount of time as the bigger one. These two bits took 44 minutes.
The next thing I did was to increase the buffalo from 60% to 70%…
Chasing the cows
The cows look okay too, perhaps a bit on the large side, might try 65% or perhaps I will just leave them as is. They are stage dressing for a war game table so they should be fine.
Actually when I look at the 60% water buffalo on the base with the miniatures then it doesn’t look too bad actually.
Am I taking this size thing too seriously!
So right now I am printing off a farm house with a thatched roof. It is done at the 50% sizing. It might be a bit big for a war game dwelling when one miniature equals a number of real people. We shall see.
The advantage of having the STL’s is that I can faff around with the sizes. I want to make a 15mm Force or two for my Ronin rule sets. If the house is too big for a multi base war game then it should be fine fir a skirmish game.
The building will take four hours for the walls and then another four plus fir the roof.
So tonight I got my STL’s through from 3D Alienworlds . They are really nice files but designed for 28mm. So I decided to drop them down to 60%.
First up we have the bamboo fences.
Now I am not sure whether these are still a bit big. I would really be interested to hear what other people think.
Just for fun I printed up some water buffalo…
Having a rest!
Funnily enough where I think the fence might be too big then I think the buffalo is a bit on the small side.
Tomorrow I will try and get some stuff painted (some more should be here by the end of the week). I will also give the fences a go at 50% . I got the farm and farm houses, wooden and stone fences so will have enough to keep me busy for a while with the printer.
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