Well I picked up some filament in a charity shop really cheaply, I wish I had got the other three rolls, but didn’t. By time I got back they had gone.
Sadly they weren’t in grey, I hot the most staid of them with green.
Here is my first print with it
It’s just shy of 7 inches tall and printed in four or five bits. I cannot actually remember.
Well I have gone a bit bonkers printing things. I am certainly running through my resin backlog.
I eventually managed to print the large chemical mixer thing…
I also did the walkways and a leaky drain.
The drum above is the second attempt… the following shows us boys and girls why we need to ensure that we fasten the build plate properly!
The following are a couple of pipes. They were part of four things on the plate. The chemical barrel pallets both failed, which led to a lot of swearing. The vat was full so it took a few shenanigans to get the cured lumps of the FEP.
This evening I sorted out the new chemical tank. This one is a little more complex than the other one. It has screens and buttons etc, but it is still going to work well.
I have sprayed it black ready for the white dry brush tomorrow.
I am printing a second one right now. My plan is to have at lest two joined by a walkway. Three would be better but I am not sure if I can be bothered to paint three.
Well this evening I added the rust to the industrial terrain piece.
I really tried to get the rust where it would get rusty.
The sign is one of the ones I printed last week.
Hopefully I will actually achieve more tomorrow.
Well this was sitting here ready to be painted… so I did. In the background you will see my last container ( for the time being).
I will go mental with the rust and signage tomorrow.
As I mentioned the other day, I purchased some MDF stuff to make some sort of on table terrain.
Well I started building it, following the instructions downloaded from their website. Two problems I hit were the instructions as well as user error reading said instructions. First off I downloaded the wrong set, luckily the first bit was identical to mine. Secondly I stuck some bits on the bottom upside down. Then I ran into problems with the main bit of the fuel tank. In the instructions it clearly states to glue the bottoms in first which I did. I then had to fasten 12 pieces into the top, three of which had 3 tabs to fit into 3 holes.
I then had this problem…
Okay in the grand scheme of things it is not a huge problem, but it is like this on a lot of the pieces.
I really felt like the cylindrical thing wasn’t really so I started making changes using cereal card.
These are meant to have a ladder of sorts up three of the sides, but they just looked too out of scale. This also is covered up by the cardboard.
I think I have been spoiled in the past by some of the MDF terrain I have had. These are actually okay kits for the money. These were the cheapest I could find below £30. For some of the other ones, for something similar it was double or more than double hhe price.
Has it put me off, not really. It’s a relatively new material to me so there are bound to be teething troubles. In fact the second tower took a quarter of the time to build than the first.
I never did get the scouts painted, I did do some more pallets of sacks as well as some liquid bowser and covered bags to act as scatter.
So this evening I decided to crack on with the walker and got on quite a long way…
Still the metalwork to do followed by the muck and rust.
No while painting these I came across a rather ‘orrible realisation.
Well if you remember ages and ages ago when I first got into Speedpaints there was a problem with reactivation. So when I got Speedpaints 2.0 I gave one of my school leavers my 1.0 with the caveat that they would reactivate. Fast forward ten months and I am painting my miniatures…. remember this painted dude in the foreground?
Well that yellow paldron kept reactivating whenever I put white over it as I decided to go with yellow. I did think it was a bit odd… This evening I may have worked out why!
Note the bottle on the left has that 2.0 visible and the one on the right doesn’t… the blue arrived last week. The red was my upgrade in the past. I am now confused… did I give my upgrades to my leaver or is the 2.0 a new thing on the bottles. I really cannot workbout how i managed it if i did…If anyone knows about the 2.0 please let me know. Since typing this, I did a bit of checking around and it would seem the first run of 2.0 were using original labels, so I did seem to have given away the 1.0. Which then begs the question…why the reactivation?
Well it was moral support day for my daughter. She revised and I painted. I managed to get this terrain piece finished.
I decided to go a bit mental with the rust. Well it has been sitting in the field a good while.
If truth be told I am a bit Happy with this.
I got a parcel today, six new Speedpaints and a carry case to put them in… I also decided to shove the spare bottles that i had lying around in it too. Somehow I found a lot.
I kind of thought it would have my Contrast paints in there as well as my Speedpaint metallics… so much for that plan. To be fair some of these need to be put back into the shed as I haven’t used them un months… probably years since I used the washes.
I also got some terrain bits too…
Yeah I know I could probably find the files to print something similar or indeed actually craft it myself, but this seemed cheap so I went for it instead.
Temperature has plummeted and the snow and wind have arrived with a vengeance. It is supposed to drop to -10°C overnight so we are in the will there, won’t there be school in the morning. Problem is three of us live on one side of the hills and the school is on the other. This causes problems with trying to second guess the weather over there.
Anyway I decided to do something that could be finished with my portable light if needs be.
I still need to work on it, I did shove some of the leaves down. I still need to get some tufts down and repaint the edge.
This is how the leaves came out…
I am quite pleased with how these came out.
Tonight was the first of the fire festivals, so I iwas off gallivanting for a bit. I decided to do something useful when I came back. As I had found my leaf punch yesterday I decided on leaves!
I basically used a brown paper envelope and threw loads of dipping inks on it in random patterns.
The other side has more yellow and orange and less green.
I tried the punch out when the paint dried and if I say so myself they look rather good. Yeah I know I am meant to use real leaves, but it has been raining a lot, it was pitch black and the wind was up.
I will show examples tomorrow.
Bogenwald 