This evening I set about filling the gaps in the Sumo Ring.
While doing so I realised it was much bigger than the small ruined house I made. With the help of the miniatures I realised that although a bit bigger it wasn’t super massive. I did it with a 60% reduction. Problem is o cannot remember by what amount reduced the house by. I really, really should write this stuff down, or at least put it in the same place!
So I decided to print a couple of the motorbikes from Pront Minis. These once again are going to be abandoned…
Under the wheels are some Nissan huts and gun emplacements for Jon’s game. At the top is a power maul from some ‘sort of’ Arbite’s.
This evening I fought with the PC to download some more miniatures for the Geek Club. I eventually got some stuff sliced and printed, but too late to take them in tomorrow.
I couldn’t find any of my Vallejo Air that had WW2 German armour colours among the ranks so I did the next best thing… Contrast fir the tracks, Xpress colour for the German and Speedpaint for the British.
Not perfect, but they will do …apologies to any purists out there.
So tomorrow I find out where is available for me to move onto… for those that have been following for a while, they decided to go with HQ and my little school is to shut and my most amazing team are being redeployed, as am I for that matter. None of us want to go, but have no choice. As an officer of the council I have to be careful what I say, but it is an absolute crying shame (feel free to add in any expletives you see fit).
This evening I sorted out the Sumo ring and associated ponds. Sadly with the ponds I had some issues around bulging and warping. I could reprint them, but to be honest I will sort out any issues with Greenstuff.
I evidently printed the roof pair with the orientation wrong. I also forgot to hollow them. I have a bulging the part facing each other. I have sanded them and used a file to reduce it a bit, but still have a bit of a gap. Once again I will use Greenstuff to fill the gap.
I also printed a trio of tanks for a colleague who is making a rather fabulous 3D map to play an invasion of Shetland game with his secondary pupils. These are to show the kids what they looked like.
Well this evening I went a bit wild and undercoated whatever I could find black. This was mainly terrain.
I also did more printing, this time it is a Sumo ring in 15mm for my mates birthday next week. I already printed and cured the street fish ponds. An image can be found Here
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.
One of the kids at the Geek Club really likes wolves so I have printed her three new ones at 150%.
On Friday in Geek Club we made the start on a cave for them.
I spent more time on the foam than finishing my lizardman. We still have to get some foil work on the rock and base area. It is still a bit boxy, but will sort that next week.
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 I got nothing physical done this evening, but I did slice a pile of chemical works terrain pieces.
I didn’t get in until 20.30 as I had to pick my wife up from the airport.
Hopefully things will be done tomorrow evening.
The giant chemical drum will be finished on about an hour or two.
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