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A Bit of a Printer Issue

So yesterday I said that I had ordered new printers. This is one of the reasons why.

I printed twelve pumpkins for my mate…

Now the more mathematically aware of you may reason that either I am really crap at counting or that there may have been some issues with the print.

In fact I printed them twice, I actually turned the Vat around to see if it was the FEP. Funnily enough I got the same number second time around.

Both times I lost five of them. I used heavy supports and printed at an angle, but still had failures.

I also had some weird extrusions too…

So as these are the same two in the foreground it may be that particular model. I have two of the larger ones and the one not shown is fine.

If you look at the mounted one below, they have a failed sword, I have had to print numerous heads and shields for the knights too.

I will have a proper check of the machine to see what may be the cause. But I am getting about 25% of the build plate that fails about 75% of the time.

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Spending Money

Well Black Friday arrived arrived and I decided to upgrade/replace/ double up both printers.

Because I am a bit of a stingy chap I went for the Mars3 pro and basically the Ender3 v3.

I decided to go for something I know and also because I wasn’t going mental with high spec gear the price was really good.

The Mars has a bigger build plate, and a 4K monochrome light/screen. This will give me better resolution, but to be honest the bigger screen is more the selling point. The Ender 3 upgrade has a self levelling bed as well as a pile more improvements then mine and the 3pro.

Both of mine are being a smidge temperamental. The resin keeps giving me partial failures and the filament one needs an overhaul as it keeps doing weird things.

Am I going to go mental printing tons of stuff… nope… the print ban is still holding. I did some stuff for my mate, but that’s it since I printed the cannon for Grimdark future…

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Another Knight Finished

This evening I got this pair finished.

Bill the pony made an appearance to balance the scene up a bit. I am toying with the idea to add water slide transfers to the knight as well as the shields on the various foot soldiers.

I made a start on another pair of mounted knights as well as more foot.

The school has built a little diorama for a local festival of trees. Here is a work in progress…

I will get photos of the finished diorama tomorrow… well it better be finished tomorrow as I need to get it to the organisers tomorrow afternoon.

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Painting Knights

This evening I got some paint slapped onto the Highland Miniatures Knights.

The colours for the livery are in a different style to the previous iterations.

I really had to force myself to get this small amount done. I am still not 100% so anything I manage is better than nothing.

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NEXT!

I really didn’t fancy painting the Sisters this evening.

The Steroids seem to be becoming less effective which is an absolute Bugger. I have already had to go back up a microgramme and it is looking like I will need to go back up again.

So instead of painting I built a few more Gallians, which will be undercoated and painted tomorrow.

The metal ones are for my mate. This pair arrived with the ones I painted yesterday. these are from Westwind miniatures.

I will of course be back with the ‘one coat’ paints tomorrow. 🙂

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Another Set Finished

Huzzah, I got the last of the printed goblins finished.

Not sure what I am going to paint next. I do have the Sisters as well as a few more knights that are printed. The sisters are undercoated so it may be better to do them.

I still need to decide what to do with the Tyranids.

Let’s be honest… I have so much crap to paint I could still be painting daily until Christmas and still have some for the New Year.

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Goblins, Hallowe’en and Riding Witches

A bit of a mixture of topics. I decided I had better add some painting back in in case you all thought it had become a medical blog.

So yes I got the goblins and paints out and made some progress, not as much as I would have liked, but progress is still progress…

It is mainly just the metalwork to do and the back of the shields. I would have got further but my daughter was off getting sweeties from random strangers for Hallowe’en, so dad’s taxi was requested to bring them home.

So finally, a FB friend shared this. Now I am not 100% sure, but I believe a comma would help make the sentence mean what she meant.

Now I suppose if I need to or have to then okay, but I believe she meant let’s ride, witches. Punctuation is important… if you remove the capital letter then the following sentence has a totally different meaning…

‘I am going to help my Uncle Jack off his horse!’

Tomorrow back to the goblins… I hope

Oh yeah, evidently I have shrunk. I was measured yesterday and have lost about an inch and a half in height!

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A Smidge on the Goblins

This evening I was a bit pooped and really couldn’t be bothered to paint anything.

I did force myself to do a bit so spent a little time painting the tunics on the rank and file.

To speed things up I painted them all a grey colour. Basically they are all in un-dyed cloth.

Hopefully I will crack on tomorrow and get a fair bit done.

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Goblin Pole Arms

This evening I managed to get some work done on the goblins.

I shall carry on with these tomorrow. There is still a lot to do… especially on the ones in the background. The one with the log for the helmet is a total repaint. The middle one and him are pretty much finished now.