Tonight I did a pile more work on the houses. Most of it you probably can’t see on the photo, but in all honesty I am really chuffed with these.

A huge thank you to David who suggested a bit of brown wash for the raised area and Woah! How right he was. The raised bits have all but disappeared! If you compare this photo and the following one you will see what I mean.

So today 3DALIENWORLDS brought out the teahouse set, which I purchased along with a few others…

So I went for the:

Teahouse

Canal set

Lanterns

Bridges

Zen Garden

Torii gates

And a sashimono set.

I was going to get something on the printer this evening but ended up spending about two hours trying to help my daughter with her maths home learning.

I have a plan for a small shrine using some of these…

I got the idea from a video on YouTube. Walking in the Nikkō village from the Edo period. It was great for colours etc. The guy filming it walked into a shrine that was up some steps with a small hedge around it. On the right was a small building and on the left some form of fence with ‘offerings’ on it. Not sure what they were, but they had some form of text on it. At the back was a golden statue on a plinth. it will give it a try with my sets I have got as well as the new ones.

Tomorrow I will get some more things sprayed, ready to go for the weekend.

On a totally different note, I thought I would share the picture my daughter drew on the iPad. She did a tribute to the NHS. I am really proud of her because she spent hours doing this…

Tonight I carried on with pressing print and painting the houses.

It was mainly dry brushing and adding the green but I am definitely getting there with these.

The one thing that niggles me about these is that I cocked up the Greenstuff. My intention was to use a wire brush to add in straw type marks and I forgot and undercoated them before remembering. I did some work with a scalpel that helped but it didn’t completely blend things together.

If I wasn’t as stingy I would redo them as they really are lovely sculpts and it is my error and not that of the designers. The main fault was printing when it was too cold leading to the edges against the build plate curling slightly.

Hopefully I will get these finished tomorrow. Martin said my Samurai went in the post this morning so I should have them by the weekend.

Tonight I did a bit more work on the village…

There isn’t really much obvious difference between this photo and the last one (apart from the white walls), everything was given a wash to bring out the detail a bit. I will drybrush the roofs again to add some highlights.

I got some more walls printed…

Not sure what to do with this yet. Some kind of shrine would seem suitable for the walls. I will have a think. I am printing off another long wall as I type this. I will print a second one and make it two wide at least 😉

Hopefully tomorrow I will get on with the buildings and then onto the samurai.

Quick question time… the cavalry are based as bases of bow and bases of hand weapons. The monks are single pose and the peasants are multi weapon with the odd head swap. So the question is.. do I put different samurai on the bases, eg three different ones or do I put all the katana on one and the naginata on another and the yumi on another or mix them all up?

Eventually I managed to make a start on painting the buildings.

Still a long way to go on these but it is good to actually get a layer of paint on these.

I do like these files and as such I would recommend this company to anyone. Printing them at half size has caused me a few problems but nothing too bad.

I spent an age swearing at 3D builder this morning as it wasn’t playing.. it was putting the various bits all over the place. Eventually it dawned on me that I could reset them all to 0.0 instead of 4532 x 5432 or whatever ridiculous place it was.

I eventually got the corner pieces put together. For some reason it didn’t increase the height of the base and is still sitting at 1.5mm. This causes a headache getting it off the base plate. So to try and help I put down some blue painters tape. Tomorrow I will get it back up on 3D builder and increase the height again. You can see the damaged base on the right hand corner below.

These are the wooden fences, I can’t wait to try the stone ones. Now I am going to have to do some research and see if these fences should all have a tiled roof.

I have got eight (I think) straights and only two corners. Tomorrow I give the gate a go. The plan is to have the large farmhouse in a compound with the well and then the smaller buildings in a small hamlet or two. Luckily I found my EPVC to base them on. It is 5mm thick so very rigid. I have some 3mm too which I will have to give a go too.

Sadly I got a new game for the Console… loving it! Predator Hunting Grounds is awesome. It’s a fire team of four versus a single predator and lots of AI guerrillas too. The fire team has various missions in the 15 minutes the game lasts then the have to get to the chopper for extraction. The predator’s job is to make sure they don’t escape. It is great fun…

The down side is that everyone wants to play a predator! This means it takes ages to get onto the game… on the upside I can keep adding bits to my blog 😉 30 seconds to go….I am off to hunt some mercs!….and emmmmmmm. I evidently ran into Dutch as I didn’t make it 😂