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3D printing and Greenstuff

As suspected the top of the head armour has completely come adrift…

I swore!

So I got the two bits superglued together and then added some Greenstuff to the gaps on both the armour and the throne.

Interestingly, as I guessed the cracks are at exactly the same height…

Can you guess where the fault lines were?

Once this lot has cured, I will get some more added… especially to the bottom… guess which pillock snapped it off when removing the supports!

Whoops!

The body for the mega-Beasty is going to take 22 hours to print. For this reason I want to make sure that the above doesn’t happen mid print. If I get time this week I will relieved the bed and also check the nozzle and filament to make sure there is no problem there. I can also increase the spring tension on the extruder to ensure the cogs are biting into the filament properly as they feed it through the Bowden tube to the nozzle.

If it weren’t for the cracks I am really pleased with the prints

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Off the Printer

So, as I said yesterday, I had been printing something terrain wise for my Seraphon Force. Here it is…

Seven hours forty three minutes to print…

I plonked a couple of Saurus next to it to give you a size of scale.

Not everything is perfect though… it has bloody big gaps in it. Now these can be filled etc, but it does mean that there is a problem with the printer. Probably some sort of under extrusion or for some reason the layers aren’t bonding together properly. The latter might be caused by damp in the filament. The roll has been on there for a good while, and as the heating packed in in the shed it has not been the best conditions.

I also started on the dread Saurian. This is a Seraphon Mega Beasty. Now I don’t have the dosh to buy one, so I thought I would print it.

This thing is …king huge! I actually dropped the size down to 70% as the body wouldn’t fit on the build plate. As you can see, even scaled down it is a bit on the large side…The head alone is bigger than the large scale Saurus hero.

A mere four and a half hours to print this!

Now the problem I have is that I don’t want to try printing the body until the printer problem is sorted.

The Mega-Beasty comes in four parts. Head, torso, tail and finally head decoration. I am printing the latter right now and I think, just by looking at it, that there are going to be problems. It is splitting apart in places, funnily enough at roughly the same height as the throne and head.

As a total aside, I am still having the panic episodes which quite frankly are doing my head in. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow so hopefully he can help out. On the up side of all of this, I am noticing the warning signs a lot more, the panic attacks at present might be due to me fighting back.

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More Greenstuff Shenanigans (sort of)

Okay, so not the greatest amount used. I used a smidge on the Kroxigor weapon haft and a bit more on the top of the saddle.

I have decided to spray them separately as it will allow me to paint both in isolation… meaning I can get to all bits easily. I still have the shield to add to the rider so that I can get into his belly etc.

The rest of my basing supplies came…

This is a nice light colour which will be added onto the Lizardmen bases to add a bit of interest.

I did put an order into Greenstuff world and will add leaves etc onto the bases as well. All in all these bloody lizards have cost me a fortune😂😂😂

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Big Lizard Beasty and the Greenstuff

Today was another home day. I managed most of the day on the sofa today. I did however manage to get the Greenstuff onto the base and into most of the cracks.

When this is dry, I will get it sprayed tomorrow.

I also managed to fire the printer up. I couldn’t be arsed to change cards so I went for something that was on the one in the machine.

This is the large dwarven door. It is the same width as the 3×3 tiles.

Now I am not sure why there is a small crack in the right had base but I will either just shove some superglue in or splat a bit of Greenstuff in there.

In my bed rest time I have been watching ‘The Vietnam War’ on Netflix. I am really enjoying enjoying it. I was well into gaming that period in the 80’s. Read and watched everything I could find at the time and I still found this interesting.

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Meeple Dungeon Mega Print

Yey… I have the dungeon box printed…

This was the longest print I have ever done. 17 hours 45 minutes. But is is a very nice piece. There are a few bits on it that have a bit of weird under extrusion. The nearest gate has a couple of spots just to the left of the gate. They can just be about seen.

My plan is to print two of these as well as one top, which again doubles as a very large room.

The box is ideal for storing the pieces in, in fact it was designed that way.

I randomly shoved some tiles and minis in the spaces to take the photograph.

I decided to print off some of the Meeple trees too. I will print off the bases tomorrow.

Sadly I didn’t get anything painted as it was my ‘ex’ staff night out and my daughter had a shindig too. I just got in and took the photos. I want a cup of tea and then off to bed I go.

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Wargs Ready to Go

Yep the Wargs etc have spent the last 24 hours curing and I managed to do sod all…

Well that isn’t exactly true. I boxed up everything that I had painted before as well as sorting out my Meeples into a bigger box as I have rather a lot!

This isn’t all of it! I have printed off another couple of 3×3 rooms and will look at doing up some t junctions and l junctions as well as more water etc.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get something painted.

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More Miniatures… Meeple Style

I was out playing some more Journeys in Middle Earth. Once again we won the mission through the skin of our teeth. It would have helped win sooner if we had noticed that we had missed a major objective. So we failed to catch the spy. My card draws were useless at times. At least twice I managed to get no successes at all even though I drew four cards. It would have helped if I had some bonus tokens, but sadly not!

I have sprayed the Wargs and about 4 riders of Rohan this evening. They are curing until to tomorrow evening.

Printer wise…

Some more heroes and villains.

Some are obvious others less so….second row, second in an elf fighter, extreme right is an undead liche.

First on the third row, a sea captain, or someone doing ‘greased Lightning’ dance moves. The last one on that row is a thief, but would also work as an assassin.

I printed off another floor tile and once again I managed to snap it at the first set of tiles…

The crack is inline with stairs and the tomb. Hopefully it will add a bit of strength.

I have a pile of plasticard and I think to avoid this happening again I will glue these onto the plasticard. It will stop them being double sided, but it will also stop them cracking during use.

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Bookcases, Barrels and Water

Today there wasn’t too much printing…

So here we have the bookcases, barrels and bit of water. I haven’t cleaned anything up yet. I printed 4 bookcases, the four barrels and a 3 x 1 stream. The book cases took just over two hours to print, the barrels were 35 minutes with the water just under 50 minutes. There are a few more bits and pieces like the barrels etc that I want to print off, but mostly now it will be rooms and corridors. I have considered making some corridor junctions to speed laying things out. Once I am absolutely confident that the printer is running properly then I will sort out the box, which doubles as part of the dungeon.

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Dwarves, Ghosts and a set of Ladders

I set the printer going again this evening as soon as I got in (not that it is unusual at the minute).

So tonight I went for a lot of miniatures.

They are mainly dwarves of some sort. They are split (in the sets) as long beards and short beards. I cannot remember what a couple of them are – top left is a blank as are the bottom left. I think the second one is a mage. Second row, on the right is a dwarves assassin.

The other things are from the Kingdom of Hell set and are the ‘tormented’. I am going to use them as some form of undead.

The ladders are 25mm long…

The long beards took 1.51 to print, the short beards 41 minutes, the tormented another 41 minutes and the ladders 38 minutes.

I did another couple of things just before…

These took about 40 minutes and 55 minutes to do.

Tomorrow I am going to get some water and ground tiles done.

These are a couple of cages and then a quartet of crates.

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3D Printing, more dungeon bits

I am printing every evening and I think it is because I am so pleased to get my printer back up and running.

Last night this came off the bed…

I have a spider somewhere to print off too.

Tonight it was test printing bits and bobs…

Still a whole host of things that I have ready to print.

This weekend I am going to get some more floor tiles done, as well as some more miniatures. I might even get something painted!

So we have some more rickety platforms, two skull pillars, two dwarves pillars an oven, a coffin and an open skeleton casket.

The pillars could be printed in more than a pair, but I worked on the principle that if something went wrong on the printer then I would lose two rather than half a dozen. Plus it means I only have to wait about 50 minutes before I can go and get them.