Well, I finished my first three dwarves and took them outside for a photo shoot…
I then decided to print a couple more to see if I could make them look a bit different.
I think I achieved my goal of changing their look. The beard and fur was made from Greenstuff the plastic bits and bobs are from the original Mordheim plastic sprue.
I added a bit to the back too…
Well I got a bit more paint on the printed dwarves and they are beginning to get there.
I am quite pleased with them so far. Once they are shaded and highlighted a bit more then I think They will look spiffy 😉
I will try and get them finished tomorrow.
I have now found my theme tune (after a crap week at work… well actually make that a fair few months)… please do not listen if you are easily offended. It is very rude!
I managed a smidge more painting tonight.
I really think I have too much on the go at once…
I spent 5 minutes looking for the Superglue in the middle of the photo!
I would have got further but we had a bit of Dad/daughter quality time shouting at each other when we kept dying in the Lord of the Rings … War in the North 😱
Okay not very original when discussing dwarves.
These three are from Ill Gotten Games from the pre Kick starter tester we were given. I intend to have seven for completeness… well okay maybe not seven…
I decided to do the third one at 0.06mm layer the one on the left is at 0.15, the middle one is 0.1. I forgot to record the time but the highest quality was an hour and 40 minutes. The middle was somewhere round the hour.To be honest for the print time difference between the higher quality and the mid quality there isn’t much real difference. I will fiddle around a bit more to see if I can make it better.
I also painted lots of bits and pieces on various figures. I would have photographed them, but it didn’t seem much point.
The rest of my evening was spent trying to find costume parts for my two youngest for bloody World Book Day!
I managed a smidge of painting this evening…
But guess which silly sod forgot to take any photos!
The one I took was of the Heresy miniatures I started for my mate.
I also got a bit of green onto the Starship Troopers proxies yesterday.
Tonight I got the cockpit painted up too…
The bits I printed were a couple of dwarves from Ill Gotten Games. These are pre release ones open to Patreon’s.
These are printed at different speeds and temperatures. The one on the left is, as can be seen, is the faster, lower quality ones.
Finally my Son is quite impressed by the pile of nets…
What you can’t see is the fact that the bit you can see is about 5 metres tall and twice that long.
Lots of painting but sadly not the elves….
First up some 15mm German armour, they still need another coat or two, perhaps sand straight over black wasn’t the best idea. I ran the airbrush to get these sorted. Still not sure whether to add camouflage or not.
Then some of the 28mm 3D Printed miniatures
We were all out in the shed and the elves were still in the kitchen and that is my excuse. Just look at the age of the GW paints I am using. The white stuff in the bottle is Matt medium and water.
My mate has asked me to paint up some sci fi miniatures (on the painting tile) for when we start our new top secret game.
I actually managed to paint things this evening…
I got half the cloaks done on the elves as well as pouches and their base colours on the faces.
I then managed to get some paint on the mausoleum… still a bit to go on it but definitely getting there.
The mech also got some work done on it, he wanted it grey with a blue canopy… the red missiles come next.
And finally… not painted, but a bit smaller than before.
I reckon he still looks quite impressive even at 75% size.
He here is feeling like he is part of a hive…
I reckon a dozen or so more will be in order for our up and coming RPG. I just have to find some hopper bugs and a Tanker……
I decided to eventually get some paint onto the mausoleum and the Mech.
My son wanted his mech to be grey so who am I to argue. From what I remember he wants the cockpit glass to be blue and the rockets red.
My intention for the mausoleum is to give it a black wash once this grey is dry and then get it dry brushed up to a lighter grey. I keep thinking some kind of metallic colour for the doors but I haven’t quite decided that far ahead.
I really do like it and reckon it will come up a treat once it is finished.
I managed sod all else tonight apart from reducing the bug down to 75% size to see how it looks. It is merrily printing away as I type this. I was going to watch one of the films tonight to get a scale of the things but I couldn’t be arsed to do that.
And it looks this big….
Stick it on it’s very long legs and I think it will look fine… I will print the arms and legs tomorrow and see what I think.
I threw open my painting box and cracked on with my printed miniatures.
Still a bit to do on some of them but the front two are almost finished. The very pale yellow is going to be a darker yellow. I just wanted to make sure that it would cover ok. I also have a mage in a rather nice purple robe as well as a couple of thieves ready to go. When these ones are done I will get on with the rest of the miniatures for the game.
Sadly as I was working on these my Elves got ignored for another night.
I still can’t get my head around the fact that these all started off as a long string of plastic… a bit of computer magic and voila… miniatures.
I am going to give an arachnid from Starship Troopers a go sometime soon, but for today the printer has stood silent… an unusual thing.
I decided to start getting some paint onto my miniatures that I have printed.
These are all from Ill Gotten Games. Still a very, very long way to go. I probably would have got further, but I also painted 54 pairs of 10mm elven boots too.
I forgot to show the casualty figures…
These need a bit of work on the top layers. I will have a play around with the slicer settings and see what I can do. The STL files looked fine so it is the slicer that needs the change.
The final bit for this evening are the painted counters…
My initial idea was to paint the numbers a different colour. But as they are very clear anyway I might just save myself a job.
Bogenwald 