Well we got the diorama finished and I got it delivered after school today. Here it is in all its glory.
The only bits of it I actually did on it were minor. Firstly I covered the whole base in watered down PVA after the kids left and second was using the rattle cans to spray things black and to seal the flock onto the trees.
That’s a bit of an oxymoron, but this evening I decided to put together this small corner ruin from Dark Ops. I have had this for an absolute age… so long in fact that they have stopped doing this range. So long in fact my Google-Fu failed to find anything about it. I wanted to see how to build it as it came with no instructions.
I worked it out eventually. I spent more time actually adding an upper floor to the smaller bit, or rather adding extensions to it. I also made a simple pillar with an upper floor.
I will try and get it painted before the game on Thursday.
Whilst sorting out in the shed I found a couple of computer games info/rules that I used to play a lot…
From what I remember the 101st one was a nightmare to win. Of the two Hidden and Dangerous was my favourite. I played it loads. From what I remember it also had a second one that I also had.
Sadly the days of books in games has gone.
Or in this case a bridge to nowhere.
I am still in my making 2mm terrain… I have been carrying on fiddling with 3D builder and as you can see I got the bridge built. This is made up of modules. It allows me the option to build a bridge of any length, either in the software and printed or print the parts and glue them together.
Now you may have noticed something on the bridge… I decided having a go at an ox cart. This time I built the living parts too rather than pinching someone else’s and converting them.
They are a bit on the small side to see properly but I am really pleased with them.
Or possibly rem parvam Romani…well these are what various translation apps told me…
So these really small Romans have built some really small buildings to go with their siege engines… first up a small border fort…
This was a failed print so it is embedded into the modelling compound. I had basically Cocked up the supports and orientation of the print. You can see the error on the right hand towers… the crenellations are missing.
Today I worked on the interior buildings.
I went for a commandants house and Principia (HQ) granaries, the hospital and barracks with the Centurion’s house on the end.
I also went for the tented version of the legionary tents and the HQ too.
Because I am a twit, I forgot to add a base to the tents 🙂
Some of these would work for villas too.
One of the larger buildings has got a bit of a gap on a corner. I don’t know whether it is a delamination or a gap in the original file. By gap I mean less than half a millimetre.
So my mate took his birthday present home with him in the car so I reckon we can class it as a mobile Shrine.
So instead of a pristine shrine, I wanted to go for one that is more run down, hence the faded colours on the building. I also got to work with my home made tufts…
All in all I am quite pleased with how this came out. Next stage trying to repeat it in a scale suitable for 6mm, as well as 15mm too. One day I may even do it in 28mm!
It was my mates birthday a couple of weeks ago and as I am seeing him tomorrow I thought I had better getbmy finger out and make him something,
I made him a small Japanese shrine for his 15mm Sengoku Monster Hunter games.
Basically he can put in either the ancient tree trunk or the building. I will add some tufts etc tomorrow.
These pieces come from the newish shrine set.
This morning as I was bringing the shopping in I slipped on the mud and sat down abruptly. As I was laden down with bags I couldn’t break my fall so bits of me have spent today reminding me that they existed.
Anyway enough of my whining. As I was on light duties I managed to make something else in Blender.
These nearly drove me demented. One is single sided and the other is double. At the minute I am trying to work out how to add a raised image… it is not going well!
If you hear a fell voice on the wind it is only me throwing a tantrum… again!
And it works!
So on the left is the crazy paving effect and on the right paving slabs.
What is more weird is that I drew both of them in Paint and somehow in the magic of blender it has taken it to something 3D.
I will be honest they aren’t the most polished 3D printed thing ever… but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t super happy about them actually working.
Okay so I haven’t actually done any painting, but I have got the mausoleum finished…
I had a bit of an exciting lunchtime as I tried to set my school on fire when the toaster failed to pop up… at least I know the smoke alarms work! Full evacuation occurred, plus I didn’t get any lunch as it was carbonised!
Today has been all about printing. I found these walls for free. They are pretty awesome. They join via the pin-and-hole method. They can go straight, 45 degrees, and a right angle.
The above is made from two short walls and two wall ends. The wall ends are in the foreground. A short wall is about 70mm or just under 3 inches.
Here is the Thingiverse link… correct on 20/11/22: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3660058
Now instead of shoving as much onto the build plate as possible, I am instead going for smaller numbers, a major reason is that the filament is running short, but also because I got two walls in just over two hours.
I also printed a dozen ghouls and a dozen dwarves Huscarls.
