I printed another couple of road sections. Two slight curves, I can also do 90 degree curves too. At the minute I am printing off the start sections that move it from the tabletop to the road height. You can also see the rice paddies in all their glory.
Tonight I actually got on and painted the rocks on the pond, by paint please read, dry brushed. They do look a lot better now. Ready for the resin soon.
The Greenstuff finger was caused by smoothing the stuff across some rough prints.
It would have been easier if I hadn’t messed up some of the prints and didn’t have gaps everywhere. All I can say is that I am glad that I don’t have fingerprint log in on my index finger on my right hand.
I also did my multiple rice paddies…
I have done the two and four version. Unfortunately I forgot to merge the various bits in 3D builder, meaning that the rice is just sitting on the top. It is easy enough to glue down but the idea was to have it just print it and go.
Finally, the roads at 50% are a nice size for the 15mm minis.
Yep I think with this being my 301st post in a row that I am flagging. More likely the stress of the job teaching from home, but anyway some progress was made on the buildings…
I also did a test print of the roads I kickstarted…
I am really pleased with them, apart from my printer played silly buggers and decided to lift at one end on each of them. I had a check and the right hand side springs had released so it had nothing to hold the build plate up. Hence the lack of adhesion on that side. The rice paddy I did last night did the same and I honestly thought it was due to a draft causing one end to lift… nope just a badly maintained piece of equipment. The double rice paddy being printed now is fine. Something I must keep an eye on.
The one thing I am going to have to learn how to do is to increase the top layers to stop the obvious ridge lines caused by the printer. They aren’t really obvious until you undercoat the bits with a spray can 😉.
Tonight I did a lot more slicing as well as redoing bits and bobs for the Japanese themed villages. I have put four paddy fields together and filled them with rice in 3D builder.
The other thing I did tonight was to get the rocks repainted. Thankfully they look more like a base rock colour now rather than RAF blue.
I also replaced the fluid in the sonic cleaner… before and after photos follow…
The other news on the printing front is that the roads STL’s have been downloaded. I will do some test prints tomorrow.
I managed Further work on the village tonight whilst watching Conan on Netflix. The biggest problem I had was the grey. I mixed it and it ended up blue… being the silly bugger that I am, I forgot I had paining in the shed that was mixed to the required shades of grey. Oh well repaint tomorrow is in order.
I undercoated a whole lot more today too…
And finally for today my new rules arrived and amazingly I actually found some 6mm Samurai. I was looking for black acrylic paint and I came across these. They must be twenty years old at least!
I really, really couldn’t be bothered tonight, but I forced myself to do a little bit on the village. My Get up and go evidently got up and went. But never mind progress is progress.
My horse went out into his summer grazing today so we can have a lie in in the morning. I really, really need one. I found out a really interesting thing today. If you don’t eat that much then scoff loads of walnuts then your world drops out your bottom. It was a definite case of Imodium or a cork. Luckily we had some of the former in the house.
So I got everything that needed it washed in a sepia wash I made myself. It really has sat too long so I need to redo it. This was my first attempt using washing up liquid which foams if you shake it vigorously. I also undercoated all of the flora and fauna in the pond white. This is to allow the colours to show up better when they get done. Finally I got some red on things that needed to be red.
Hopefully I will feel more like painting tomorrow.
My new toy came today. It is a sonic cleaner. I have a bucketload of painted miniatures that need stripping. I got a cheap one to see how it does. So far nothing seems to have budged, but to be honest I don’t actually know how long it will take. If anyone knows then I am all ears.
Today’s random re-enactment photo is this one…
Tonight I decided to get some paint onto the farm buildings, not to mention anything else I could think of that needed doing.
Everything is a bit wet still in this photo but at least I got some paint onto things… I still need to blend the deeper part of the pond on the right hand one. Hopefully I will crack on with these. There is no way that I am going to get it done by the end of the weekend. But that was a self imposed deadline so there is no one to worry about apart from me.
Very, very little done today as I didn’t finish doing my videos for the kids until 21.00. So whilst the rest of the family watched the rest of Back to the Future 2 I got a bit done.
Here we have three Kappa, a red kneed spider and Emm a bull headed spider.
In case you don’t know a kappa is an evil creature that likes nothing better than drowning innocent victims. They have turtle shells on their backs as befits a creature at home in water. As for the bull headed spider, I have absolutely no idea at all. I will have to look it up.
Some more work done on the beasties tonight…
So we have three tengu crow warriors, two centipede demons, two snake demons, an umbrella ghost, and a paper lantern ghost… not to forget a giant spider and a flat snake.
I will carry on with these tomorrow then get on with the goblins and some of the other miniatures. I doubt I will get everything finished by the weekend, but if I get time on Saturday and Sunday during the day as well as t(e evening then I should manage.
Today is my 295th post in a row. Not bad going really and for that I shall choose another random Re-enactment photo…
Tonight I did a bit more on the ones I started yesterday. The ONI in some pictures I have seen have quite fancy trousers so I went for it and tried to add some patterned material.
The rest of the ones I started yesterday are just about done apart from the blades weapons. The armoured samurai is going to have different coloured armour. The two orange things to the right are centipede demons…
I also got some Greenstuff onto the houses. This means I can get them sprayed tomorrow…
Today’s random re-enactment photo is this one…
Training with practice swords, what you can’t see is the other person trying to cut me off on the left.
Bogenwald 