First warband looks like I’ll only have 8 models.
L to R: wizard, apprentice, thief, treasure hunter, two archers, 2 infantry persons. 500 gold total. If I make the wizard a summoner or necromancer(which he looks like), then I can paint up some skeletons to start the game with and bring the group up to 10.
Also started throwing some contrast paints and some nighthaunt gloom on the randoms.
The big red guy on larger base will be a major demon to compliment the minor demon.
It's fun seeing your work on some Frostgrave stuff. I was so excited when they gave away the rules that I spent Spring Break feverishly sculpting and crafting a war band, the monsters, and terrain I would need for the single player games. I ran out of time as I kept wanting to make more, and still haven't played. I hope you get to enjoy playing a lot.
Also what's this about 2 garbage bags of projects you're sending to the dump? What kind of projects are you talking about? Are you sure there isn't stuff worth selling in there?
Syro_ wrote: It's fun seeing your work on some Frostgrave stuff. I was so excited when they gave away the rules that I spent Spring Break feverishly sculpting and crafting a war band, the monsters, and terrain I would need for the single player games. I ran out of time as I kept wanting to make more, and still haven't played. I hope you get to enjoy playing a lot.
Also what's this about 2 garbage bags of projects you're sending to the dump? What kind of projects are you talking about? Are you sure there isn't stuff worth selling in there?
Oh it’s all stuff I made a while ago and my skills are better now, so if I need them I can remake them. Mostly CD terrain pieces and supplies I’d never use. Nothing that I could sell or make enough on to justify wasting time. Lots of cardboard that had been damaged from bad storing of it.
I hope to play Frostgrave sometime, but the local game shop didn’t have any players. Oh well it got me painting. 10 models down so far and others are on their way.
Wraith, zombies and ghouls.
Regular and armored skellies.
Was trying to come up with other monster ideas when I had a brainstorm. I could use the heroes from Zombicide Black Plague and characters from Massive Darkness to make my warband. So now I just need to refigure who’s who and make make my band. Possibly the Monty Python Knights led by Tim the Enchanter, and the killer rabbit as a warhound ..
Warband is looking good, Frostgrave sounds interesting. Of the three friends I play with two a more inclined to small skirmish games. May have a look at the rules, guess they aren't free anymore?
youwashock wrote:Nice Wraith! I know zip about Frostgrave, but am in favor of anything that gets the creative juices flowing.
Amen. Plus I needed something so I wouldn’t get worn out of Nurgle things.
Viterbi wrote:Warband is looking good, Frostgrave sounds interesting. Of the three friends I play with two a more inclined to small skirmish games. May have a look at the rules, guess they aren't free anymore?
Trying to find a good place for 3D printer filament. Anyone out there got any experience with it?
I just ordered one 1Kg roll from Walmart.com for $20 delivered. By far the cheapest I could find with delivery. Just going with what my Ender3 will be shipped with. 1.75mm PLA.
Also trying to get DakkaDakka to have a 3D printer forum. If you have a feeling either way I started a thread in the nuts and bolts forum and the Mods are considering it and having a nice conversation.
So early morning again. Lots of hobby cleaning (just making the mess slightly more organized). While doing so I dug through my Zombicide Black Plague and Massive Darkness pledges to create a couple Frostgrave Warbands.
First, the gnome and dwarf alliance.
L to R wizard, apprentice, thug (20), thug (20), Templar (100), infantryman (50), infantryman (50), infantryman (50), warhound (10)
No shooting whatsoever . But a full warband.
Second and absolutely ridiculous warband, also with no shooting In no particular order. The wizard Tim (probably won’t be an enchanter ), 3 Templars (300), 2 knights (200),
——now, the rabbit....will either be a summoned imp, or possibly trim off the two knights to be the apprentice.
——the black knight....could be a summoned construct, which explains why everything can get chopped off.
——the beast....summoned demon.
This would be a truly elite army, but once again, no shooting.
Off to practice painting and making frozen ruin type basing.
Working on ruined bases with snow effect. Not liking the army painter snow.... so glad I wasted time on a spare base with that.
In the mean time I applied astrogranite debris to all the python bases as well as some monster bases. Then washed all those with Drakenhof Nightshade.
I don’t have long beard grey dry paint, so I used wych elf flesh instead on the rock and base for this frost giant that I have repainted for the 3rd time .
I’ve seen some nice snow effect done with PVA, baking soda and white paint. I guess the white paint keeps the baking soda from turning yellow over time. I guess I’ll buy a new box of baking soda for the house when I go to the store next time and appropriate the old box for experiments.
Also watching videos of Rangers of Shadowsdeep. Looks interesting with being able to play solo, but I think I’ll stay with Frostgrave right now because of the terrain possibilities.
One of the great things about FG is that every wargamer can throw together several warbands just using models they have lying around. It's also a good excuse to pull out single models that don't fit with a unit for another game.
Rangers of Shadow Deep uses essentially the same mechanics as Frostgrave, so you can switch back and forth pretty freely. For me, it scratches the D&D itch without needing to get a bunch of gamers in the same place at the same time.
You know what they say, third time's the charm Giant is looking good. I'm actually to lazy for the baking soda snow and use the rather expensive Citadel Snow stuff, but am happy with that.
JoshInJapan wrote:One of the great things about FG is that every wargamer can throw together several warbands just using models they have lying around. It's also a good excuse to pull out single models that don't fit with a unit for another game.
Rangers of Shadow Deep uses essentially the same mechanics as Frostgrave, so you can switch back and forth pretty freely. For me, it scratches the D&D itch without needing to get a bunch of gamers in the same place at the same time.
Yeah, I’m really liking the Rangers of Shadows Deep videos I’m watching. Always thought a deck of cards could be useful in a game and I think he has a great idea using them a solid random generators.
Viterbi wrote:You know what they say, third time's the charm Giant is looking good. I'm actually to lazy for the baking soda snow and use the rather expensive Citadel Snow stuff, but am happy with that.
Yeah, I’ve meant to purchase the GW snow effect, but now all the stores are closed and I don’t like ordering paints through the mail.
Anyway got basing minus the snow done on the completely painted figs, and repainted the black beast of Argh.
Now to finish off the king, bedevere and Chauncey. Also have another giant and werewolf to paint and three ice spiders as well.
Theophony wrote: Trying to find a good place for 3D printer filament. Anyone out there got any experience with it?...
I can't point you in any particular direction, I've not yet had to buy any filament.
Two points I have picked up on with filament though:
When storing your filament, keep it in a dry atmosphere. Some / all(?) filament can absorb moisture from the environment and old/moist stuff doesn't go through printers very well and leads to poor prints. I keep what I have in a sealed box with some dry silica gel. I've not noticed a drop in usability of my filament over the years, but I also haven't tested the alternative...
From what I've heard (although with more evidence) from videos on YT, the quality of your filament is important to the prints.
Good filament can produce adequate quality prints on a cheap-o printer, and excellent prints from a good printer.
Bad filament can lead to bad prints from even the best printer.
What constitutes good or bad filament and if cost can be used as a guide, I don't know.
I was left with the feeling of "you have to try a few and see what works" maybe guided by customer feedback.
Second and absolutely ridiculous warband, also with no shooting In no particular order. The wizard Tim (probably won’t be an enchanter ), 3 Templars (300), 2 knights (200),
——now, the rabbit....will either be a summoned imp, or possibly trim off the two knights to be the apprentice.
——the black knight....could be a summoned construct, which explains why everything can get chopped off.
——the beast....summoned demon.
This would be a truly elite army, but once again, no shooting.
This is so bad- . I have been wanting to make a warband or, maybe kill team or something with the knights of the round table. Such a fantastic idea.
Thanks guys, the Quest for the Holy Grail has brought the gang to Frostgrave. I will have to make some custom tokens for clues and treasures. Possibly a pile of coconuts with a swallow that is collecting them .
Finished off the bedevere, Chauncey and King Arthur figures. Will go back and possibly do the trim work on their tabards when my fine detail skills feel awake.
Also completed the Blood Rage werewolf (really dislike the sculpt, so rounded blah. Also, also painted up some old 3rd edition Warhammer spiders as frostgrave ice spiders.
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Still need to do their eyes.
Rangers of Shadows Deep is really striking a chord with me. I’ve watched 8-9 videos now. Same basic rules since it’s by the same game writer, but it’s all about a ranger and his group of adventurers, so magic is really toned down. It can also be played solo or co-operative, the rulebook is being recollected with a new hardbound rulebook out this year. There’s a much wider list of creatures to fight with it as well, but for now I am full going into frostgrave.
Primed a bunch of old terrain. Three of the old Battlemaster towers, most of the terrain from the first hobbit game and 3rd edition Warhammer 40k, buildings.
So like I said, bunch of terrain primed.
And this Giant was repainted for only the second time.
And the ice spiders got their eyes (stegadon scale green). I didn’t want to do black trim on the bases, but they look better on the spiders than the dark grey, so I’ll probably switch them all back to black.
Had to get away from painting table for a bit. Also iPad is about drained. I thought I plugged it in, but forgot and have been listen/watching more videos while I paint.
Syro_ wrote:That's amazing seeing the Monty Python Holy Grail crew as miniatures
These are from CMoN KS Zombicide Black Plague, but there are others that are metal I believe out there with better sculpts. I a man more than happy with these though.
Llamahead wrote:I played Frostgrave relatively seriously a while back the most recent supplement Perilous Dark introduces solo play rules as well.
That’s great to know. The solo play is what I need more than anything.
Spent some time painting this morning before everyone else gets up. Knocked out seven pieces completely (minus snow effect that I’m waiting to see if my local shop has). Really happy with the results.
Also pretty far along with the six columns and the rest of the sarcophagus diorama from the hobbit, just lots I’d books and papers to detail.
One of the core scenarios requires six columns which you must fight to get treasure. I’m thinking about mounting a magnet at the top of all 6 columns and then putting a piece of metal in some treasure chests to put on top. Also thinking of mounting each one to a individual heavier base to help with stability. I just have to get over the fact that they were Kickstarter exclusives.
I don't know if it's still available, but the publisher Osprey Games was giving away the Frostgrave rules, a three episode free solo campaign book called Dark Alchemy, and a free preview of a few missions from Perilous Dark that Llamahead was talking about. You might want to see if you can find it.
I don't know if it's still available, but the publisher Osprey Games was giving away the Frostgrave rules, a three episode free solo campaign book called Dark Alchemy, and a free preview of a few missions from Perilous Dark that Llamahead was talking about. You might want to see if you can find it.
Yeah, I snagged all those and it has started this slide down a perilous slope. I just really prefer dead tree format over digital. Looking at ordering all the first edition stuff from Frostgrave . The completionist part of me wants all the things (not counting magazine articles), but what’s holding me back is the silly exchange rate. If I ordered in £ it would cost about $130 after exchange rate, but I have to order in real currency so they want to charge me $166. I know it’s stupid to fight over $36, but there’s times when that’s my budget for a couple months of gaming.
The other bothersome thing is shipping. I would order Rangers of Shadow Deep deluxe edition for $43ish dollars, but not with $20+ shipping on a single book . So far no one stateside has the book that I could see. I have an email in to my LGS to check if they can get it, but since we are still closed due to the virus it will be a while till I hear anything.
Don’t get me started on Ghost Archipelago either . Miniaturemarket has one of the books in stock, a couple others are out of stock, but they dropped the main book because it was on backorder for so long. When I called them to check they hadn’t realized they dropped the core book by accident.
Now that I’m being productive with painting/repainting, I need to go back and get a tally going, I feel like a dork for not having kept track.
Thanks Graven. The sculpt has always been great. My color choices previously were not.
Thanks to Syro and Osprey having issues with downloads at the time. I forgot but got reminded I have Dark Alchemy , I just need to print it out.
Also since I’ve been lazy and haven’t been keeping track of my painting I did a quick count and came up with 69 models so far that I’m sure of along with Glottkin. Many have been in the past week or two. I’ll did through my own thread here a bit later to see if there are others that I’ve forgotten, but I’m good with that number as of now. I also have a bunch unfinished (did all the skin on the nurgle guys and have some more terrain base coated), but I should finish a few more here shortly. The race is on.
Edit: just went and ordered all the Frostgrave Books, guess I’m all in now.
Osprey is doing a 30% off print books for the month. Couldn’t pass that up. Ebooks are I think 40%.
7 more pieces done.
That’s 76 plus the Glottkin. Not sure how many he counts as...he’s big.
Edit again: didn’t realize my Khorne guys started off the year, I’ll need to adjust my count up a bit when I go downstairs next.
I much prefer books in print also, Theo. And congratulations on adding all the Frostgrave books. I tried to craft everything I would need to play the Dark Alchemy adventure over spring break, but then was too tired to play the game. I still haven't managed to play yet.
Syro_ wrote: I much prefer books in print also, Theo. And congratulations on adding all the Frostgrave books. I tried to craft everything I would need to play the Dark Alchemy adventure over spring break, but then was too tired to play the game. I still haven't managed to play yet.
That’s but what this big push is for also. Painting up the warband, terrain and beasts so I can play when the book starts get here. First week of my 13 week furlough is done, twelve to go . Hopefully I’ll be back before then, but I’m not planning on it.
We are celebrating mother’s day here in the US on Sunday, today the nursing home for my wife’s grandmother has invited all family to come and do a car parade around the building. Decorate the car with “Happy Mothers Day” or whatever and they will assist all the people to their windows to see the outpouring of love. Might not be as good as a hug or face to face, but we all know it’s to keep them protected. Afterwards we will be driving by our moms house to do much the same.
Got emails last night letting me know my Ender3 should arrive this week. Also have an extra roll of filament coming as well. Hopefully the Frostgrave books won’t be too far behind, but I also ordered the PDFs of the small expansions that didn’t have physical books (sellsword, Perilous dark, Arcane Locations, Hunt for the Golem) so that’s enough Content to keep me busy till the books arrive.
In the mean time I have enough quick projects to drive me batty .
8 hero quest bats, from the same box of critters as the spiders I showed recently.
And more Hobbit and Dungeon Saga Quest for the Dwarf Kings toilet paper.
I’ll also be figuring out another warband using Green Horde and Black Plague miniatures.
13 Khorne guys (counting the juggernaut riders as two models) brings me to 89 for the year. I’ve been more productive than I thought. I plan on crushing 400 by the end of year as this furlough is allowing me lots of paint time.
Theophony wrote: 13 Khorne guys (counting the juggernaut riders as two models) brings me to 89 for the year. I’ve been more productive than I thought. I plan on crushing 400 by the end of year as this furlough is allowing me lots of paint time.
Theophony,
400 is a really impressive goal. Good luck as that will really decrease the pile of the unpainted.
Full day yesterday of visiting moms everywhere. No painting accomplished then.
This morning I knocked out 8 terrain/objective tokens. Totals up to 97,
I printed out the PDFs from Frostgrave, so I’ll dig through some models to find suitable replacements. Also rug out a bigger terrain piece from the Confrontation starter box from long ago, I’ll make it into a piece for Frostgrave.
Edit:not counting the rebasing of the bear as a model.
And set all these guys from the green horde Kickstarter and the terrain piece are getting primed
Automatically Appended Next Post: Finished up 4 Plague burst zombies from Zombicide Green Horde. I think they fit in with the Blightkings pretty well.
101. Lots of work on terrain and a figure for Frostgrave which I should finish tomorrow, his base is really all I have left to complete.
Nice progress, excited to see all the stuff for Frostgrave. And curse you for showing your Monty Python troop and saying that there are other minis of them out there. Found them immediately and gonna stop myself from buying them immediately, but they are on my wishlist.
And your plans (and probably all the Nurgle minis you paint) have really infected me with the Frostgrave bug. Found out, that the current rules are still free with code from the Osprey website so I downloaded and started reading them this weekend and now am trying to convince my friends that we need a third fantasy skirmish game in our lives
@V, I’m glad the code still worked , it looks like a fun little game. I hope we all get to go out and play it soon enough.
@G, my wife would argue the handyman part
Finished up Demogorgon for Frostgrave. Think he fits the description of the Alchemical Monstrosity for the dark alchemy adventure.
It is described as a large eyeless beast with tentacles. Check, check and check.
Also just whipped up these two. Actually did major retouches to the iron golem and new energy effects. The not iron man had gotten primed yesterday and the two together will be medium and large constructs for game purposes.
Let me know what you all think about the energy effects. I like em, but any tips to make them better is always appreciated.
Slinky wrote: I like the energy - Effective and not over-the-top
Thanks Slinky, I was hoping it wasn’t too much.
I finished the bases on the two constructs (had to wait for the basing to dry before drybrushing the snow effect), and found another model that fits in size between the two of these, so iron man will become the small construct instead. It has been brush primed and I started drying right now.
I did however finish off a door. Just don’t open the door. Nothing good comes from opening doors .
Hated to do it, but placed a mail order for some paints . I’d like to support the LGS, but they sold off all their paints to Miniaturemarket (who is also local), and they will restock once St. Louis opens back up. I cannot wait for that as I am churning through stuff right and left.
105 down, I really need to build a couple warbands and force my kids to play during my home stay.
Well Aku-Chan, I get to be a machine when I don’t get to go out .
Well finished the medium construct.
I don’t like him nearly as much because he is just covered with detail for details sake. The fact that all three have clubs just makes it all better though for them fitting together.
Finished off 8 bats as far as I can for a bit as I’m saving the basing materials to do real monsters and characters. Hopefully my resupply will arrive from Miniaturemarket later this week.
Created another warband, no picture yet, but the wizard I saw the Kickstarter miniature of Freddie Mercury. not sure who the apprentice is, some woman from a film, I’ll look it up. They are supported by a man at arms, 2 thugs, a thief, 2 archers a crossbowman and a warhound. I like the models I chose for them, picture coming later, but painting has already started.
Syro_ wrote:Wow, yeah. Your demigorgon miniature is perfect for the alchemical beast.
Thanks, yeah, as I read the description of the beast it just seemed right to me.
Dr H wrote:Good work on the many and varied.
I could probably work it out by spending half an hour reading through here, but where does this bear come from?
It's spot-on for a project
Thanks Dr. H, the bear is from the WizKids Deep cuts range. Link to Miniaturemarkets listinghttps://www.miniaturemarket.com/wzk73551.html they also have a polar bear in the same line, just walking on all four legs.
https://www.miniaturemarket.com/wzk73727.html I really like that line from them. In fact I’ve got a few mixed in with this next picture of dollar store animals.
In the middle is an ox and over stage right is a pack mule. Think the sheep, pig and goat fit size wise, I can use the calf as a large cow and the pony as a large horse. The dog can probably still fit as a warhound of exceptional size. Plus it’s lassie, so it can bark and tell me there’s are demons coming from the well .
Bats that are basically done, just need basing completed and figure out how I’m painting the pole they are all flying over .
My order of paints is shipping today from two miles down the road. It might be here saturday . Of course as I’m painting yesterday and almost out of one of the paints I ordered I start looking through my collection and find another pot that’s never been opened . Yep, not being organized means I ordered another pot of something I’ll be set on for a while. That’ll teach me. It won’t but it should as I could have bought another color that I’m low on.
Lastly starting the new warband. Terrible picture I know, I need to clear my workspace again. This getting things done I should making a mess .
L to R. Frank Mercury (Wizard extraordinaire), back up singer/apprentice to be named later, warhound(zombie wolf), archeress in wolf clothing, another archer.
Back row L to R. Thief, thugly 1, Thugly 2 (not nearly as good as he’s had one hand chopped off after getting caught, replaced with a flail) man at arms, and crossbowman
Undecided so far on which wizard school to use, but I have time to decide later.
Thanks, just wish I had a mage model that would fit JohnCafferty. Then the war Band could be the Beaver Town Queens
Thugly 1&2 done except bases. Also the dog.
3D printer still hasn’t left California . The longer it takes the more models get done, so I guess it’s okay .
Dang, Theo,you are a modelling monster! The man-at-arms is nice-- I particularly like how the different shades of brown provide enough contrast to prevent the model from seeming drab.
Thanks everyone. With all the “free” time I’ve had lately productivity should be up. Just hadn’t expected this much.
Wasn’t feeling like painting this morning, kind of inspired by YouTube video last night made by Wyloch. Having seen some bits while cleaning up I decided to make some things.
His video showed a quick way of making potion bottles from two differed sized beads. As you can see in the background I made a few for my Alchemist workshop.
Also emptied a few of the gel nail bead bottles I got off eBay years ago. The beads make decent rivets, and will likely be used as alchemical ingredients in another small project soon, but the glass jars will make great ingredient containers.
Meanwhile the wooden spools fit perfectly inside the plastic washers I saved off of a Foosball table we junked at the church because it got broken. Together with the wooden sticks and some wood glue they made a perfect template for some tables. I might have made a few too many as my hand is now eaten up by the craft knife. The washers were removed afterwards so I can use them for other things.
Bad Ash for scale size, he was just randomly pulled out of the primed Zombicide figs next to me as a reference. He is now back in his box until the magic words are spoken again.
I had a couple extra spools out and a few 25mm bases laying about, so I whipped up a couple scrying pools/bird baths. They just need to be filled with some PVA glue.
Bead bottle close up.
Got 10 or twelve for about $2 if I remember correctly, I think I have a second package somewhere.
Bead potion bottle close up.
Made roughly 30 I think. I’ll experiment with putting some contrast paints directly on the clear part to see if that will make them look full of liquid or not.
My wife has tons of things to do today for school, so I am trying to stay out of the way and quiet. Probably a morning of watching more videos for inspiration.
Thanks for stopping by and looking. I have a few more ideas from the one video to try out, but they are low priority as I already own some furniture in plastic which would fit the bill.
Thanks guys, I’m glad I can start pulling some of these random things together as a useful part of a game. Almost makes it feel like I didn’t waste my money all these years .
Didn’t finish a lot yesterday. Some of the potion bottles didn’t stick together, then some my big gorilla hands clumsily put paint pots on and broke . But the one test I did to see if contrast over a clear bead would look good came out decent...I think.
Next I’ll have to try and just paint it where the glass is only half full....or half empty I guess it depends on how you look at it.
I finished up 6 25mm bases which I’ll test the Valhallan Blizzard technical paint on today when it arrives. I’ll probably put some potion bottles and treasure chests on them as well and just make them random objective markers. Which makes me wonder if I should paint their base trims gold to help make them visible on the playing fields
The rest of yesterday was broken up with short painting times between keeping my kids focused on schoolwork (laughable at best) and keeping them quiet while momma was on video conference calls with school district people and parents talking about what summer school will be like. She is the elementary school summer principal this year. Normally she teaches high school and has been high school summer principal for six or seven years, but since she is certified K-12, she wanted to try to stretch a little.
The little time I got was taken up by two trolls from Blood Rage. Again repaints, this guy is almost done, just need to highlight the golds and the stone hammer head. Man that’s a big nose .
This guy I’m not sure about. Trying for the purple tinge to the skin, but I think I’ll just call him Gilbert the grape troll.
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We’ll see where the painting and modeling whims take me later.
Edit: so not much done, finished the one troll, and played with some mosaic stones and a piece of square doweling. I used the mosaics long ago to make a fountain. Not sure if I like the scale to it or not, but would make a decently convincing support pillar in a room.
Paint order and extra roll of PLA filament showed up just now, printer coming tomorrow. Cleared a bunch of stuff out of my basement to make space for setting it up.
Larcenous Red Robbing Hood joins the warband. Thief of little skill and littler luck, it was join the warband headed to Feldstat or go to jail. If it wasn’t such a long trip back he would change his mind.
Plus two objectives done. Another is drying.
115 total.
Is this where I say: "Go in peace my brother." As we will not see you for weeks as you play with your new toy?
CB
Nope. It took about two hours to put it together thanks to a very unhelpful video online where the expert doesn’t go through the steps per instructions , and no close ups and no details of how he got to certain steps. But I finally just took parts and put them where they look like they go. It’s running the demo print of a cartoon dog now. Takes about 5 or so hours. So I’ll have time between prints.
In other words, your not that lucky
inmygravenimage wrote:Awesomeness. One of my mates has been collating free STL s, I'll see if I can get the link.
I’ve been looking at a bunch and saved the stl files to a usb card since it said it had a usb Drive.....it has a usb-micro SD card drive, so I have to switch the ones I like over to a micro sd card after changing them from stl files to code in a slicer. Been playing with that earlier this week.
So test print is at 12% right now after 56minutes. It’s fun to watch it in action. Going to convert some files now to print tonight, even if I end this print early to do it.
Glad I bought a full roll 2.2lbs/1Kg of PLA as the kit came with a tiny length that they didn’t even bother to put on a spool.
Well, can’t say I’m having fun with the printer. The first print had an issue at the start, I’ve leveled the bed again and this newer print is looking good so far. I don’t have a computer per se, I have a chrome book, which makes slicing the STL codes into printable Gcodes more difficult, but not impossible.
In the mean time, I finished another member of my warband. One of the two archers.
Also finished another treasure token. Decided not to do the base rims in gold.
117YTD.
3.5 hours, first wargaming print is done, pretty decent quality, I’ll be able to prime and paint it no problem. Might be hard to tell what it is, but it’s a brick pillar for a fence that’s been knocked over (bad Ash is in a mood). Rough size is 4” x 1”
I have since taken a toothbrush to it to clear off the whispy strands. Closer detail, center of the photo is five layers of bricks still mortared together.
Hard to see details since the spool of PLA filament I got was silver.
Well, I started a print last night before I went to bed figuring it was a 7-8 hour print. When I checked it four hours later (sleeping problems are back), this is what I found.
Not sure if it was a clog or what, anyway I restarted it and went to work at church. 1:1 scale painting, just got home and it’s 4.5 hours in and just over 50% done. At least it hasn’t messed up yet.
Should look like these basement/cellar stairs.
http://3dmag.org/en/market/item/4040/ Just looked neat and a “point of interest” worth. Besides I have tons of castle doors from Mantic Dungeon Saga to mess about with.
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That looks very snazzy. I keep meaning to get oddments of the mantic scenery, the Orrery is particularly good and you can't get one at 28mm otherwise really.
Handy little cellar door. Interested to see what else you produce once you've settled into the printing.
Well as they say “ I have a cunning plan”. Mainly it’s to build stuff for the Frostgrave table, but usable just about anywhere. The knocked down pillar was part of a set of graveyard fencing which could be used in a scenario for frostgrave around a mausoleum, or during regular table setup. So I’m about to start another print now for it.
Still refining the machine, and definitely releveling the bed after each print. This print is mostly fine. Lost part of one of the gate rods, easily fixed with some plasticard tubing.
Zombicide KS exclusive fig for scale, couldn’t find bad Ash, he must be off being not groovy.
Its also missing one of the connecting parts(downward arch of the top of the gate where it would attach to the hinge), so I’ll probably mount the side to the right with the pillar behind it and put the misshapen gate on the ground like it rusted or was broken off.
Little cleanup, but should look great.
Next piece is a four inch ish length of fence with a pillar at the end of it. We’ll see in the morning how it turned out.
It looks bad I agree. I’m going to try and adjust the PLA heat level down. I think it might be running just a little hot and that could be the cause of the whisps. Just at 98% when I snapped this picture, finished as I was typing. Five hours on the nose.
As I need more than one section of this fence I think I’ll do the temperature adjustment and reprint this now.
Well, a few flawed starts and now I’m trying other things. Meanwhile, I took the back of my hobby knife to the prints that were done and the flash came off with little trouble.
Boxing thugly is one of my favorite, although this guy may have just taken his place.
The crossbowman only known as Trigger joined the warband at the same time as Larcenous Red Robbing Hood. Though they say they don’t know each other the rest of the band has noticed that they both are wearing the grey cloaks of a religious order which was brutally wiped out a few years back. They also have been seen exchanging glances and nods and each seams to be watching the others back more than the rest of the warbands. What is to be made of this is uncertain, but neither one of them is known to be very forthcoming about where they are from or why they chose to adventure to Feldstat.
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Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet. I played around with settings on the Ender 3 and messed something up. Ruined a few prints, walked away, ruined more. All seams to be going better now though as the current print is now sticking to the print bed unlike the last dozen or so, and the detail is so much cleaner. Sometimes you just need to break a few things to learn how to fix them I guess.
Your Frostgrave stuff is multiplying at an alarming rate. Have you managed to play yet?
Also, you're a very brave man for getting into 3D printing. Given how much unassembled and unpainted stuff I already have, I'd be afraid to add so much more. Also, I'm pretty sure my wife would kick me out of the house.
JoshInJapan wrote: Your Frostgrave stuff is multiplying at an alarming rate. Have you managed to play yet?
Also, you're a very brave man for getting into 3D printing. Given how much unassembled and unpainted stuff I already have, I'd be afraid to add so much more. Also, I'm pretty sure my wife would kick me out of the house.
No games played , even with three trapped kids and a wife home with me 24/7 till the corona crisis is over, I can’t get anyone to play my games. My pile of shame is huge as well, but my wife said when this started I was going to need something to keep me mentally occupied, and a $200 investment (covered by my new job before I was furloughed) seamed like a good one. Well, even with a roll of filament which I’ve barely touched it’s still only $220 shipped. All the files I’ve printed are free downloads, the slicer program I’m using (astroprint.com using cura 3.6) is free as well.
The prints are taking a lot longer than I thought. There’s a few options to improve speed I haven’t tried yet, but getting buried is not really something to worry about at this time. The amount of space and money saved by me not buying supplies to scratchbuild my own stuff will easily pay for itself in a few months.
If I hadn’t bought this I was looking at buying a Proxxon foam cutting machine, and a bunch of jigs like the ones used on the Black Magic Craft YouTube page.
3a.m. Is a stupid time. My clock is all off because of being home all the time. I guess I’ll go check the printer, should be at about 10 hours right no work on this print. Results soon...ish.
Front of this design, one of the free Ulvheim ruins, right off the print bed 9hours 32 minutes.
And back side
Still lots of strings. More YouTube researchto be doneguess. Well, off to fix the flash on here and start a new print.
Okay so quick learning lesson. After I had started this print (the guy had designed about 10 in this series) I saw he wrote that he prints these with NO SUPPORTS and at a 5% infill. Supports are like the gates on resin models where there’s a peg to allow the resin to get to all the places and infill is actually the internal structure of the model itself, so all the space in between the exterior walls. At 5% there is a bunch of air inside the model. I did put on supports (extra material) and used 20% infill(standard on the cura settings). I think these are what might be causing some of the issues.
The supports have caused objects to appear and block the actual print. Some of these broke off with a quick toothbrush scrub. The supports have also filled all the mortar lines between the stones as they were helping to support the overhangs. These can be taking care of by Plat adhesion instead. So next time I will try and do a similar print without supports.
So in this picture you can see on the left of the screen where I have removed the supports from between the bricks and under the window casing. On the right side the tower under the window isn’t all support structure for the window ledge and the oozing mortar is all supports for the brick overhangs.
Basically I gave myself more work to do that I didn’t need to do . Keep learning.
Back to infill and supports. This next piece is printing with supports, as seen on the left, which will support a large overhanging structure. The right side which looks like a Belgian waffle is the ice bridge’s infill. I think I have it set at 15%, can’t remember right now. So it will be mainly hollow.
The supports will be snapped off and maybe be used for debris, I’ll have to see if I can use it for something.
6 hours and change later, the ice bridge is done.
Took less than five minutes to remove the supports, and probably half of that was me staring at the details on the print. Basically I just grabbed, squeezed and pulled and they snapped off with ease. A quick drag of a spatula (or mold line remover underneath to get the last bits and this is what we have.
Thanks guys, I’m pretty happy with the results I’m seeing on these so far.
@CB, you have to do something while the printer isn’t running. Might as well paint, though I’ve also been playing Sid Meier’s: Alpha Centauri on the old desktop. 20 year old video game is still pretty fun and kills hours.
Frosty Delivery today while the guy was here measuring the house for carpet.
All the Frostgrave stuff, minus magazine articles. Lots of reading to do now , I hope I like the game .
I have a building printing right now. 6”x 4” with minimal infill and no supports. It’s at 3 hours now and only to 5%..... painting will happen today at some time.
Looks like you’re having fun learning the new printer and software. All of these people getting printers is making me jealous. Thankfully I recognise I have nowhere near enough time to get it right. Instead I’ll have to enjoy watching your terrain develop. Good work keeping the painting going, I was half expecting you to grow your pile. Furlough seems to be allowing it to shrink even with a new toy!
Started printing terrain. Also printed some more.
Mostly intact pillar and broken fence line. Also the building part finished with the ruined part on top.
monkeytroll wrote:Well you're certainly increasing your terrain pile rapidly.
Are you running it pretty much 24/7?
Pretty much , except when I get frustrated by a print not sticking to the bed and walk away for an hour or two.
inmygravenimage wrote:That's mighty impressive. How much does it run at cost wise?
The printer was $199 shipped. Roll of PLA was $20. So far I’ve used about 1/2-1/3 of the Roll.
The two building parts sell on Etsy for $20 together(well two similar prints from the same file), the file is free to download and so it’s just costing me PLA and electricity at this point. I’m sure I’ll remake my $200 investment pretty quick by the savings of not buying items. Though I may be painting more stuff which will drive up the cost of paints .
Car battery died while at orthodontist with my son, waiting for a jumpstart. When I get home hopefully the newest print will be almost done and I have a few including an actual model I printed last night ready to post.
I use Ultimaker Cura as a slicer. It has an option where you can tell it what kind/how much/cost for the filament used, and it will give you a cost per print based off how much you use.
Thanks Nevelon, I’ll look to see if I can use that on my chromebook, there’s a few shortcomings to the slicer I’m using, but it’s free and simple.
Thanks CB, made it most of the way through Thaw of the Lich Lord while my son was at the orthodontist this morning.
Well, car battery is all sorted out. Home, had lunch, and 7 hours into a print.
Here’s what yesterday yielded, even with a couple hours of down time because of frustrations and sleep.
The first true figure I’ve printed is a Barrel Golem. He is just over two inches tall not counting the base in there. I saw the design and had been looking for some constructs for Frostgrave and he just fit the bill. He will fit the large Construct profile nicely and I’m thinking of calling him King Kegerator. I’ll probably scratch build a small Construct, or at least kit Bash one, I just need to find the right parts .
Other bits are a Dark Cauldron, which someone made specifically for one of the scenarios in Thaw of the Lich Lord . And some sewer tokens, too scifi for Frostgave, but decent none the less. Also a D20 dice holder for wound tracking.
Off to find some files to fill other gaming needs.
Thanks guys, one of the things that has bothered me from the beginning with the Ender was one of the four corners of the print bed would not tighten up enough so it was lower than the other three corners and that’s the side where the prints would slip and break free. So I did some tweaks to the machine and adjusted some set screws and now things are looking up. Starting to get better at leveling the plate, which gives smoother all around finished to the projects in general.
So after the last post I let the machine sleep overnight and take a break. Then I’ve put it through the ringer today.
So a stairway for these buildings to enter some of the upper floors. A ruined lower level of a building, hard to see, but one of the corners is really wedged up. I might have the heat too high and when the print is cooling and since it’s a large print I think the PLA filament is pulling. More tinkering to do with it. There’s also a pedestal, looks dwarvish, six sewer markers, two crates floating in water on round tokens and not pictured are four wagon wheels. So the buildings will be general scatter while the others like the sewer tokens, floating crates and pillars all are objects for scenarios in Thaw of the Lich Lord. I took the time my son was at the Ortho yesterday to read the scenarios and note what sort of tokens and terrain I need for each of the ten scenarios. I’ll go and do this for all the books so that I can have everything ready to go for games.
No painting today, too much other things happening.
Early morning painting.
5 pieces down
Another building almost done on the printer. 12 hours 20 minutes and the unruined version of the first floor is printed.
I have seen a comment about using a fan to cool the printed filament quicker, but I can't remember why this improved the prints or solved whoever's problem (or what problem they may have had).
May help with your string issue?
Something to look into.
Dr H wrote: Interesting to watch your adventures in printing.
I have seen a comment about using a fan to cool the printed filament quicker, but I can't remember why this improved the prints or solved whoever's problem (or what problem they may have had).
May help with your string issue?
Something to look into.
Thanks Dr. H, cooling is more of the problem than a need for more cooling. The bed hasn’t been perfectly level and I’m getting better at it for the most part. The side that wasn’t sticking is a fraction of a mm too low to where the extruder is, so the PLA is cooling before it hits the bed which keeps it warm long enough to stick to the bed. Since it cools there’s extra drag from the print bed and head moving, which pulls the part loose and causes the next layer to get messed up as well.
Where the fine tuning comes into play is that you have a bed that is moving forwards and backwards (x- axis I believe) with four corners in adjustable heights. Then the extruder is moving on a y- axis as the bed moves and then the whole print head moves up on a z-axis after each layer is completed. Just so many moving parts, and if you adjust one the. There’s fine tuning of all the other parts.
The Ender 3 (basic one not the Ender 3 Pro) is great for the money. I’ve still got 1/4 of a spool left I believe so all my prints have come from $15 worth of material. The building I have going down now looks like the best so far. Very smooth initial layers with only one minor blemish I saw compared to the others that had 3-4 not even counting the pulled up corner. The higher series of Enders have self leveling beds. Sounds great, but price wise for my initial foray this is definitely the way to go.
Just a thought, not sure if you can do it with how you are sliceing.
Can you set your slicer to plot the print off to the side? If you are having trouble getting your SE corner level, just cram the print as far to the NW as you can go?
Nevelon wrote: Just a thought, not sure if you can do it with how you are sliceing.
Can you set your slicer to plot the print off to the side? If you are having trouble getting your SE corner level, just cram the print as far to the NW as you can go?
That’s a great idea . Though the print I was having trouble with I’ve decided not to do and go a different route, but if I run into it again I’ll change that.
So I pissed myself off good this morning. Went to check on the print I started yesterday afternoon. 12 hours in and only half done . I sliced it at a better quality finish (it’s terrain so basic should do fine, and has so far), also forgot to drop the infil down to 5% from 20%, so wasting PLA and it’s going to take over 24 hours to finish .
Also when checking when my next spool of filament is due I noticed I accidentally ordered the 3mm thickness instead of 1.75mm, so it won’t work on my device stupid work Theo. I had put in 1.75mm diameter, but when I started to scroll for price and color I guess I went into the larger sizes without looking . All the usual places I checked were out of stock, but I managed to find 3 individual 1Kg spools as a bulk purchase for $50 total with shipping included, so I hopped on that. It’s the right size as well, double and triple checked. Unfortunately it might not show up for 3 weeks. I’ll be empty well before then , guess I’ll be painting again soon.
Oh and in other news, nothing donethe last couple days. Getting roof estimates, floor estimates and mother in law fell breaking three ribs and partially puncturing a lung . Due to the pandemic, we can’t even go see her in the hospital. I’ve been enlisted into going to install shower grab bars at her house this week, so we will see what productivity looks like.
inmygravenimage wrote: Yikes, scary times for the older generation to get hurt. All thoughts with you and yours squire.
Yes it is, great grandma can’t leave the nursing home. This grandma is one of those that even though she was a nurse and knows this is no joke, she still goes out more than she should.
Oh well. Early morning was at least productive. Painted the pastors office at church, came home and getting some projects printed. I think the remainder of my spool will be going towards these.
No it’s not a Necromunda missile silo, they are parts to an Army Painter storage rack. I’ll need 5-6 I think to store all my army painter/Vallejo/ other dropper bottles.
Each rack will hold 30 dropper bottles. Each rack needs 2 sides (the two parts on stage right) and 5 each of the other two parts (shelves back and shelf front left and right in the picture). Shelf back number 4 just finished as I’m typing and starting the fifth back immediately. My fiddling with settings and whatnot has been helpful and I’m getting pretty nice prints and not having to do to many adjustments between prints.
These might take up a bit of time as each back piece takes around 40 minutes. Each front piece about 25minutes and each leg about 100 minutes. So 8.75 hours per shelf without set up time, adjustments and taking them off the print bed.
Edit: first shelf section done. Printing the next leg now. The sections link together so the next 30 paints only need one leg and five each of the two cross beams. So that will shave off nearly two hours for the next whole section. Though I have a few other prints to try out before going further. Also I might change the infill to 20%, I think I had it at 10, and there’s just a little too much give on the shelves which made it a to glue together. But it’s standing and I need to clean my painting station. The rack I made out of PVC for all the army painter paints was too bulky and didn’t look as good as I would liked it to have been.
Also I think since I’ll be getting rolls of black PLA in next I might keep this one section silver for the inks/washes/metallics and do the rest in black which will match my desk trim.
Mine is staying indoors as she has a permanent lung issue.
CB
Well I wish we could keep my mother-in-law inside, but she is very strong headed about being able to still get out and about. Plus she was taking care of her former mother-in-law all the time and driving her about before the pandemic, so she feels like it's her job and she won't be lazy and stay indoors .
Well, I'm just about out of filament , the first reorder i placed i didn't notice was the wrong diameter and won't work. The follow up order i placed wont show up for almost three weeks , seems everyone is at home printing non-stop. Then i rechecked Amazon, even with prime I'll be paying $29 for a 1 Kg roll (which is plenty...sort of), and a roll of black will be here Friday .
Until then I've been still using every last inch of spool I have left. I completed enough for a full second paint rack (in parts on the side) and my fat hands bumbled and dropped the first one fully loaded off my workspace. It only broke at the glue joint, so it's getting reglued (big bottle of craft paint holding the part in place). I might have enough filament left to finish the front of a third section of paint rack, which i guess will be the plan. I can print the backs in black and no one will be the wiser.
That will give me just enough space , 90 spots) for my 80+ bottles of Army Painter/Vallejo/Reaper MSP.
Hobby cleanup will be the name of the game in the short turn. That and helping my son with his final project for his engineering class.
I had suggested a 3D printer forum in the nuts & bolts sub-forum and it was suggested that i start a P&M thread to see if there's enough want/need. I don't like running multiple threads of my own, but it might clear up this thread of all my printer ramblings.
Any thoughts from you all?
Also posting from my chromebook lately. No autocorrect here. mixed blessing as autocorrect has done me some serious injustices in the past, but sometimes cleans up the fat finger situation more.
Terrible picture I know, but just wanted to give an overall shot of what $20 worth of filament did....besides all the scrap I threw away. Still a tiny bit left on the spool.
Table is 34” x 34” with the buildings being 4.5” x 6” or so in size.
The pieces on the table in front of the paint rack will make two more sections so will hold 90 Vallejo dropper bottles.
Today, playing around with the system I finally figured out the build plate option which will allow me to set up multiple items to all print at once. Really could have used that while printing out the paint rack parts .
Viterbi wrote:Nice value what you can get out of one spool. Paint rack is neat.
Ive admired the MDF ones I've seen, and these are just the PLA versions of those. It's the start of redoing my desk.
Slinky wrote:You are weakening my resolve not to get one
Thankfully I don't really have anywhere to put it at the moment anyway, but when my new man-cave-shed is built, I may run out of excuses
It only takes up a footprint of 2' deep, 20" wide and less than 30" tall with a 1Kg spool on top of it. Not trying to push anyone......it's just the sweetest of the plastic crack .
The spool keeps going. Seriously, I thought i was at the end a couple days ago. Trying to get a few last items out while i can.
On the good side, the three roll bundle deal I ordered that wasn't due till mid month will be here tuesday . It's grey instead of the silver i have been using, and my other roll should be here friday and that one is black. It all turns whatever color I paint it later anyway.
I like the Warband. Those posts were a while ago, but I'm just getting caught up. Larcenous Red Robbing Hood is my favorite. I also love the fluff between him and Trigger.
The potion bottles turned out nicely as well.
I've been debating whether to get a 3d printer, and which one. The Ender 3 is one at the top of the list, especially for the possible terrain output.
The Eleggo Mars is the other I've been considering, due to its smoothness with miniatures and bits. Since looking through your production, though, I think the ender has taken the lead. I have to finish cleaning out the garage before I can propose it to the wife, though. It's been more or less full of boxes and piles since we moved in and it's becoming a greater and greater source of tension.
But, it's also where I'm carving out hobby space, so cleaning it up is a win-win.
Great stuff in this blog. And what a stack of Frostgrave books! You'd better play a game to see if you even like it.
@DJ, I still don’t have it fully dialed in to do figures. I’ll try and take a pic of the one I tried to take the supports off of yesterday and he snapped. I guess figures I’ll need to do more fill in, especially ones with thin parts.
Trigs went on vacation from Frostgrave.
Larcenous Red is keeping his social distance since Trigs went somewhere tropical and was sipping on Corona in the shade of a palm tree.
I can see the actual spool core now. It’s going to be a hard time waiting for the new roll. Even if only 24 hours . I am contemplating what to do with the spool. Would make a great landing pad for 40K. 7.5” diameter and 2” tall. I think it should be something Frostgrave-y though.
From what I've seen online, the detail of all the fiddly-bits on a miniature are crisper and cleaner on the Mars. There is less separation and wobbling with the print. But, it can't handle the size of some of your terrain pieces. I think the Ender is probably good enough for some stuff, with a little bit of puddy, gs, and/or paint, you'll likely notice little difference.
Some close-ups would be useful. Might help push the final decision.
DJJazzyJeff wrote: From what I've seen online, the detail of all the fiddly-bits on a miniature are crisper and cleaner on the Mars. There is less separation and wobbling with the print. But, it can't handle the size of some of your terrain pieces. I think the Ender is probably good enough for some stuff, with a little bit of puddy, gs, and/or paint, you'll likely notice little difference.
Some close-ups would be useful. Might help push the final decision.
I’ll get you some close ups today. Have a lot of errands this morning to take care of. Also a pic of the last bits I printed before I ran out of the silver filament.
Edit: real quick pics. Sorry, the silver filament is hard to photograph. Also lots of hairiness that popped up in this print. It was the first time I’ve done a detailed print instead of just a draft or regular setting. I was also experimenting with different temperatures at the time of this print and used zigzag supports, which caused a few sprue tears when I separated him from the supports.
Since I printed him with only a 5% infill, which I will not do on figures anymore but will continue to do on large terrain, when I tried to break the supports off it snapped off both feet, his right hand a,d then another section of thigh is just barely held on. The supports for the staff were so rough I will most likely just cut it completely off and add a new staff in its place. I think the rest is salvageable. This was a free print download from a current KS. He isn’t listed as a 35mm model I believe.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/787810.page#10790439 8 days left in that Kickstarter.
Another figure, a large Barrel Golem, was also during experiments.
Pretty sure he was printed in Darft (low) quality. He also had both legs break off when I undid the supports. Heavy handed Theo . The layering I believe was because I had also played around with readjusting the deck height on the Ender and didn’t have it adjusted correctly. I’m not getting results like that anymore.
Using the small sample of white it came with I got one print for my son done. Really not even enough shipped with the Ender 3 to do a decent print.
So the sample white they sent was enough to make this one wall mount controller holder for his X-box and started a second one, but really not enough to start practicing with the system.
Edit: MINIATUREMARKET local retail shop is open . Yes, I went there. Really, I went there early because the mother in law had to get things from her house and I drove. It’s on the way back....really I don’t NEED a reason to stop and look about.
While there I picked up the New release Rangers of Shadow Deep Deluxe Edition.similar to Frostgrave, just band I saw lead by a ranger and not a wizard. Anyway I was going to order it from the UK, but shipping was almost $30. I spent less on the book retail than shipping it .
Also grabbed the cover damaged copy of Warcry for $16. I already had the cards for Nurgle, so it was a must.
I will be starting another thread devoted to 3D printing shortly. Everyone is invited to come check it out once I create it. It will be more of an open door thread for people to post about their experiences or questions regarding 3D printing. The MODS are debating starting a sub forum for the like and asked me to try a thread in P&M. I initially said no, but after kicking the thoughts around for a week I’m just going to do it. I’ll post here with a link when it’s up.
Syro_ wrote:It's fun seeing that big pile of Frostgrave books. Enjoy the reading, as as you said, I hope you enjoy the game too.
I have enjoyed the reading so far. It has a very nostalgic (in a good way) old D&D adventure feel to me.
Llamahead wrote:Do you know the one problem with the Frostgrave books? The urge to create every model in the Bestiary.....
Very much so, that’s why I’m digging into my Zombicide stuff, plenty of bits to choose from there, also glad the LGS is open so I can look through bones equivalents.
Well the 3D thread is started. Not much content yet. Wrote it up before dinner last night and have a lot to do toit today/ tomorrow.
So are you getting an Ender 3? Or another variety of printer? Either way it’s great fun...until you run out of filament like me .
Anyway, with no filament crack to sustain me I decided to assemble the rest of the paint rack I got printed out. This thing is a bugger to assemble as the parts keep going whichever way they want. I noticed the designer created an adjustment which makes them sag less. So I may wind up reprinting them later. Especially since it’s almost full as is. I took all my GW paints off the table and have been looking for a better storage rack for them as the five bamboo spice racks I had were overflowing and unorganized.
That’s an 11”x17” paper box lid they are all in and half of it is double stacked. I may have too many paints . This is just the newer lid types too. I have boxes which have the older style flip lids also. While I dislike dropper bottles, I paint straight from the pot, if you don’t like it then come paint my models for me. I am definitely seeing the advantage of the dropper bottle rack design and space savings. I might just have to switch over all these bottles . That’s a lot of work to be done.
I did find one style of GW paint rack design to try and print, but I still don’t think it will save enough space overall.
So Ive been away for a bit. Working too much etc. but I finally got caight up on your blog this evening. The 3d printing stuff is great and is tempting me to jump in as Ive been considering for awhile.
We play A LOT of frostgrave. We have even run 3.5 DnD adventures that take place in Felstadt. Its our go to game when we arent into other games if that makes sense. Rangers of Shadow Deep is pretty much a Co-Op version or solo of Frostgrave. I do not say the following lightly. Out of the probably 100 or so different miniature game Ive played over the past 2 decades, Rangers of Shadow Deep is my favorite. Ive simply never had more fun playing a game. I play with another guy who loves FG and RoSD as much as me, so never done it solo, but when he and I play its always something we talk about for days afterwards. So even if no one will play Frostgrave with you, you can still have a lot of fun wih Rangers.
Frostgrave looks amazing to play. Kind of like old Necromunda/Mordheim/D&D all mashed up. When I was at Miniature the other day the cashier runs Frostgrave at the store and we chatted for a bit. Definitely will be keeping my eye out for when gaming opens up again.
The paints got out of control, and I never have the right ones . When I sorted through I had triples, quadruples and even 5-6 of two colors. I definitely got scared when they changed the range again so I bought MY colors (averland sunset and chaos black) for painting Scythes of the Emperor. So about 30 of those were duplicates. Still too many. In fact I’m still trying to find a paint rack print that I like for GW that won’t take days to print to hold them all.
I know Graven, I don’t want to have another thread either, but the MODs are discussing a sub forum and having that thread will hopefully show enough demand for a 3D sub forum.
Anyway, just got my spool of filament that was due Friday . Amazon lost it for three days. Loaded it and have my first print running now. Black filament, hopefully will photograph better. The first print I am doing is a test of using the design plate feature on Astroprint.com. I found objective tokens for Rangers of Shadows Deep to use for the cocoon markers. There’s five different 30mm markers that normally I’d print separately at 30 minutes a pop, plus set up and pull times. With the build plate I merged the five into one print file so all 5 are going right now and it says only 1 hour and 32 minutes total, so it’s saving me almost an hour doing it this way.
The black PLA filament I got is from SunLu Filament. Looks good, more expensive ($27.99 delivered with Amazon Prime) for 1Kg. 1Kg is the spool size I used last time which got me all the buildings, paint racks, objectives and such. Overall still a great value, even though the three spools I got coming tomorrow wind up being about $16.50 each with shipping. This black with the wall thickness that was set on the print is semi translucent, which would be awesome to print this in white to be the spiders cocoons .
I have a GW paint rack to try and print afterwards. It’s two ends of the same print and you connect them with dowels.not as nice looking as I’d like, but printer filament and time friendlier than all the other options I saw.
I’ve been rearranging the painting area in the basement of doom.
Hopefully the racks I’m replacing will help. Narrower, but taller and more book and model friendly.
I'm so jealous. I was a whisper away from getting a printer for my birthday, but decided that under present circumstances a decent projector and screen were a better investment
inmygravenimage wrote: I'm so jealous. I was a whisper away from getting a printer for my birthday, but decided that under present circumstances a decent projector and screen were a better investment
Oh I totally understand . If my kids were as young as yours I might sure that’s the route I’d take too.
Print finished. Not as translucent when the tops were done, but that means that if I hollow out the bottom and fit a light it might still have an internal glow to them .
Larcenous Red Robbing Hood had problems as a child with setting things ablaze. Tables, chairs, village idiots, none of them were safe. Luckily it’s these early learned skill sets that have made him a valuable asset to the Frostgrave warband.
In a couple missions in the RoSD rulebook the crew will run across objects of interest (cocooned bundles) and need to investigate. Sometimes there’s magical items or clues inside. Other times lots of baby spiders or bodies of unfortunate victims. Red would normally nuke them from orbit, but as he is limited to a torch and a hatchet for good reasons , he’ll have to do it the hard way.
Printed the GW rack, still not sure. I need to get right size dowel rods which will be 12” wide and should hold 9 across. These are a smaller diameter so it doesn’t stay upright.
Playing spades with the family now.
Have a good night.
Done with cards. My son has no idea how to bid in spades. He either busts or takes four bags each time. I know it’s a learned skill, but we’ve been playing as a family for a long time.
Did some thinking of the rack above. I would need 6 linear feet with that style rack to hold all my GW paints . That is my whole desk width, and it might actually be enough to hold them all, definitely not enough space if I buy any new colors.
Started a print, will take about 12 hours. It’s a freebie necron tomb pillar, designed by DakkaDakka’s Protokraken and part of his Kickstarter which is delivering now. Link to late pledge/news and Rumors thread https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/785065.page#10705046
Slinky wrote: Oooh, that looks awesome, look forward to seeing the print!
Well wait no longer. Actual print only took 10 hours and 40 minutes. The print times are a mystery to me as the program is set with my Ender 3 as the printer and the times usually run pretty close. Although when I’m really checking Times it’s on smaller parts so a 40 minute variance on a 11 hour piece might be the same as a 5 minute on an hour. I’m not doing the math, Massive headache right now.
The tomb pillar is great. Awesome design. No problems with the design at all. The smaller side towers are roughly 3” tall and 2” in diameter at the base of those four towers. The overall width is just under 5 1/2” by 5 1/2” with the center tower being roughly 7 1/4” tall. I had a small lift on one corner at the base of the print. It was completely my fault, my print bed wasn’t level so that is no fault of the design. Being still new at printing I’m learning the ropes and making a larger print requires slightly more attention to detail than doing smaller ones. All the symbols came out great in the design. I printed this with no supports and with a 10% infill at draft quality. Not sure if the striations will show after priming, I’ll see later today. Painted Zombicide model for scale reference.
Next steps with this print. Well I don’t play Necrons, but this would be a great piece for them. I do however have a large Ghar force for Beyond the Gates of Antares, and it could be an style they could incorporate . Also I don’t have any battery operated tea light candles, but I think they could be fit inside each of the four smaller towers at their bases and drill down the center holes on each pillar to have light flashes come up out of them. Might also light up the center pillar as well. I’ll have to think about that project later as I don’t have the lights.
To me this is a great piece and the Late backer pledge being open is a tremendous deal if your a Necron (Or Ghar) player.
Also in the picture are a print of the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon character Dungeon Master . I may have found a new apprentice or wizard for my Frostgrave gang.
And behind Red is a D&D Drech, no idea what it is, but saw the design and figured it could be a beast of some sort. Unfortunately I did it as a draft print with no supports, so his poor fingers/claws didn’t make it .
Well, the Ender 3 is doing just fine on small models. I’ll try and get a better quality picture. I’m reorganizing my hobby space and these latest Picts are with terrible lighting.
Master of Dungeons, but only on Saturday mornings many years ago.
23mm from toes to crown of his bald head.
Also I primed the necron Pillar.
You can see the Master of Dungeons there with the cocoon markers and the Dretch too. Print came out phenomenal. Very happy with it.
Captain Brown wrote: Well your skills with the printer are getting better and better.
But I do notice a lack of painting.
Cheers,
CB
Yes, between messing about with the printer, having fun with a 20 year old video game (Alpha Centauri), the kids finishing their school year and starting summer school this Monday, a live in mother in law, getting roofing/siding/gutters/windows/carpet and vinyl floor quotes, and rearranging the entirety of my basement to redo my hobby space and build my sons weight room I have been lazy .
But with that spur of get to work my morning did produce these bits.
An archer for my Frostgrave Warband, always criticized for wearing inappropriate foot ware while stalking her prey she swears by the combat heels of her boots and how they allow her to traipse quietly through the woods. Trigs doesn’t care, he likes what they do for her butt .
5 cocoon markers for Rangers of Shadow Deep. Printed in lowest resolution on the printer with little (5%) infill, the striations help when you get really close and make them look even more spider webby. The striations on the base floor painted a light brown really look like wood flooring too .
Last, shortest, but definitely not least is my apprentice for the Frostgrave warband. Formerly a Saturday morning Master of Dungeons, he is venturing to Feldstad in hopes of finding his way home. Somehow he was cast into this world by unknown means, probably from that amusing ride he took in the park , now he is following these riddles which make no sense sung by the Warband leader Frank Mercury. He rattles off so many stories about these kids he knows that Trigs and Red bought (well procured ) him a goat and strapped a horn to the center of its head. That at least shut him up for a little while. He might make a good wizard one day if he would just stop disappearing in the middle of everything.
That should bring me up to 124 for the year. Some other things have gotten touched by the brush too, just nowhere near close to calling them done.
While Dungeon Master disappears when others are around, the warband leader Frank loves to be seen, going so far as teleporting into the heat of battle.
Front and center stage is where he loves to be, his voice rising to unheard of levels as he belts out the vocals of his kind of Magic. A true champion, his magic a Rhapsody.
Up to 125 now. Dungeon master needs a base though.
Well he looks like he wants to break free. Is his staff some kind of magic? Outfit looks like he's got it from a killer queen. His look definitely says he wants it all...
inmygravenimage wrote: That's a mad and brilliant fig, with a cracking paint job. Nice one.
Well that’s zombicide for you . My eyes are still crossed from trying to paint the red and white diamonds.
Woke up to this on the printer this morning.
Looks like a turd frozen in a blizzard of grey plastic.
In fact it’s three turds...or Dukies....not dookies in plastic. Obviously not the best prints, one sword made it but broke as I dropped him twice on the floor. They will need bases as they are not well balanced.
Still lots of tiny clean up to deal with. All the contact points for the supports leave tiny burrs like sprue gates.
I’m sure I wasted more plastic on the supports than I used to make these three stooges of Venger.
Edit: the next project to start printing has 11 parts. It’s big. Found a large lighthouse which will be a neat centerpiece for a table. Not sure of overall height, but basically 6 stories tall. Ran some numbers and if I print it basically non-stop it will take till Monday . I better order more PLA .
Well the lighthouse is well on its way. Base parts A and C are done, so is the first floor and the two types of lights that can be used in the top, a Brazier or a Magically Lantern. Also my frostgrave Warband is setting up shop in the lighthouse.
Just under 19 hours of printing. Very little down time between prints. Still aiming to get it done by end of Monday. Should definitely be completed by then, just have a few things to do this weekend.
A shopping center behind our house (two houses between us and it) will be having a Black Lives Matter protest in about an hour. My kids and I are going, my wife I should working at the dentist office this morning or would join us. For those who may not know, not sure if this is being seen all over the world like it is here, there has been a lot of protests over the last week in the USA. It all stems from a viral video of a black man being knelt on by a police officer for just under 9 minutes. The video shows him saying he can’t breathe and crying out to his mother. Three other officers stood by and did nothing as the man died. There was some violence at some rallies early on, but most of it has stopped but the movement is growing. I think it’s important for my kids to go and be part of it as this is the world they will be living in.
Also tomorrow is our church reopening, although limited, I have to be there to sanitize between services. It’s been a lot of work getting everything ready and the Pastor has been doing a great job with online services in the mean time. We hope it all goes off without a hitch.
Edit: Also wish Cam a happy Birthday . He’s given us so much joy and entertainment over the years, I think we can muster a few minutes and some good words.
30 hours into this print and still have three stories and a roof left to do.
Next project I should lined up. Found a mill with a water wheel. Between that kit and this one I think I have structures for the two sides of a table for the Thaw of the Lich Lord scenario that takes place on a frozen river. I can have the lighthouse be on one “Shore” and the mill be on the other edge with a frozen stream to supply the wheels movement. The scenario also suggests having boats in the icy river. I’ve seen a couple wooden ships and small boat .stls out there, I might make one of the big boats eventually for the center of the table where the Lich Lords men are retrieving an object of great power from inside the boat and trying to get off the table before the two warbands stop them. Each warband starts on one of the table edges (light house or mill) and the bad guys start in the center and try to make it to one of the neutral edges.
Finding so many great projects to do. I always loved the FW idol of Gork....or was it Mork ? Anyway I found someone’s design for it (or them as they made two different ones) , but when I sliced it up to see how long it would take 36 hours each, at the lowest print setting without all the gibbons that are designed to be attached, and at only a 5% infill . If I ever do those it will probably have to wait till I’m back at work and not waiting for prints to finish.
But Theo, why would you need big Orc items? Well long ago I bought a ton of Mantic Orcs which I tripped over while cleaning my painting area this week, and I want to consider that my project after FrostGrave and Nurgle (which hasn’t gotten any more love lately . Not sure if it would be for Kings of War, Oathmark or for Warlords of Erehwon.
Speaking of fun.
So a long time ago....when Black Plague came out and I got the Zombicide Monty Python Knights, I NEEDED a giant wooden bunny. So I made a sad little one out of wooden sticks. So today I started printing a replacement I found.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t recalibrated the print bed and I think there may be an actual bend to mine because the one corner I should where the print edge lifts keep happening. So when the corner of this really started to come loose I was worried I wasted a lot of time on this print. I was in hour 5.5 of a 6 hour print when I heard pop, and the last remaining piece to be finished(the rabbits head) popped off the print bed prematurely. So the tops of the ears are not there . Otherwise the curled corner could be disguised easily enough. It’ll be a while before I decide to reprint the head as it’s servicable right now. I feel like 4 models could fit inside like the Zombicide cars. If nothing else part of the warband can hide while the police arrest Arthur’s men for killing the documentary guy .
Perhaps I should build a giant wooden badger
Also finished the tower and mill, both of those are shown over in my 3D print thread.
Well, Warduke(s) will get painted soonish, I have plans for them in Frostgrave. Until then, with my printed going full speed on a large print, I painted up two sets of the sundries.
Counting the tiny bags as one piece total, with the barrel Golem there that’s 14 model. Should have me at 139ytd. Got two hours of sleep, woke up at just before midnight couldn’t go back to sleep. Feeling it now though.
Not enjoying the wait on this print. I’m at 17hours and 46 minutes. Though it is the single largest piece I’ve done. All the extras are another file that I need to print. Not sure it would fit a KOW 75mm base . Which reminds me to go look for a print for a suitable base . Zombicide guy for scale.
Over 19 hours to print, 3 hours of taking off the supports (and I just noticed a few more when I primed him, but this is what was under all the plastic support goodness.
Gork or Mork, I’m not sure, but he is big and ready to stomp on hummies. Far too big for even the 75mm square bases of a Titan in KoW, his foot span is close to 120mm. It’s sad, but I may have to rescale him down. There is another alternate version with both arms down in a come at me Bro pose. I might resize it down instead, use him as a giant.
Started painting using a leopard painting technique I’ve seen used by Luke Towan and Luke from APS. it looks funny now, waiting for it to dry before next layers.
Printing a 170x105mm base for it.
Thanks guys. The yellow was way more prominent than I had anticipated. Even an agrax wash didn’t tone it down. I just did a second Gryhonne Sepia wash, he will probably get another agrax wash once this is dried up.
Overall, I’m still excited by this guy.
Thanks guys. I’m liking him more and more. No more paint has been done. Church work, setting up for a new roof on the house, and printed out this roof for a crypt to be used in a scenario for Frostgrave. It’s a 6” x 6” building which will have doors under each of the gable ends on the roof. In the exterior corners will be standing 4 Skeletons of some sort.
I’ll start the building proper later today as this was a 9 hour print and the building is a 12 hour one. The doors (4 at once) is two hours to print.
Now as a public service announcement I’ll just say, Incase anyone was wondering, you don’t need to sit at the printer and watch it print.....but it has consumed a bunch of my time as it’s interesting.
The big guy will probably get printed again at a smaller size to actually get used in a game. He does have stats that could be used as an Idol of Gork/Mork in AOS, but I don’t have an Orruck army. So he and the other version (same size as this one, just doesn’t have his arm in the air) will get shrunk and used for KoW or Oathmark if they get Giants.
So still struggling to find a direction . Looking through the KoW rulebook and image galleries I’m just not sold on any Mantic armies even the Orcs I had. With the Big Rogue Idol want to be being too large as is, I was looking for other earth elementals on thingiverse and kept stumbling over these “Clod” creatures of various types. At first I thought “man these are terrible sculpts” then I realized they are just a cartoonish stylized earth elemental type creature, and that got me thinking. They look too small o be an imposing army, but the printer can scale them up . So I printed the two different Peltasts at 150% size, seen here with a Zombicide guy and a stone elemental wolf.
The arms on both Clods are ball and socket joints and are printed separately, this will allow for variation in models. Also I can print these at different sizes in the same unit , which could make these big guys heroes and then have smaller versions all around them on the Mantic Multibasing concept. That way the army doesn’t look too uniform.
It took about 1.5 hours to print these two with their arms, I have the Regular size versions of them printing now. The great thing I should they have a whole array of models in a similar style, the guy uses them as Dwarves I believe.
I think they strike my insanity chord just right.
If anyone has any other ideas for an over all concept let me know. In the mean time I’ll be slicing the other versions in different sizes as I start to build a force.
Also mausoleum is done. I have a picture over in my other thread for it.
I'm a fan of finding a sculpt / theme you like and going hard on it to make a KOW army. The clods are cute, I can see some grungy druid dude or maybe a kid with crazy earthbending powers making an army of them to cause mayhem.
IF you're looking for other rock elemental sculpts, I've come across some really choice ones in my rambles. Duncan Louca's are probably my favorite, and coincidentally the sculpts are still 3 for £1 (https://www.duncanshadow.com/product-page/earth-elementals). They wouldn't scale as well or have the ball joint posability of the clods here, these are more like great earth elemental sculpts to support a larger army, then base a crazy project around.
Boss Salvage wrote: I'm a fan of finding a sculpt / theme you like and going hard on it to make a KOW army. The clods are cute, I can see some grungy druid dude or maybe a kid with crazy earthbending powers making an army of them to cause mayhem.
IF you're looking for other rock elemental sculpts, I've come across some really choice ones in my rambles. Duncan Louca's are probably my favorite, and coincidentally the sculpts are still 3 for £1 (https://www.duncanshadow.com/product-page/earth-elementals). They wouldn't scale as well or have the ball joint posability of the clods here, these are more like great earth elemental sculpts to support a larger army, then base a crazy project around.
Either way, I'm here for it
Thanks Boss , I’ll check out his offerings.
In the mean time, I printed two sets (4total) of the regular sized peltasts.
I am now printing out a batch of 16 clod soldiers (4 sets of 4 different bodies), I’ll have to slice and craft a weapons bundle to arm them all later. About 3 hours worth of printing going on now.
Those guys are adorable. Awesome plan for the unit. The stone wolf is a very cool looking model, too. Very much looking forward to seeing these painted.
Looks like you’ve been busy with the printing since I last stopped by. The giant idol is really cool, amazing how many supports he had on the printer. No wonder he took 3 hours to clean up! I can totally see how a 3D printer would be mesmerising, I too would end up spending hours looking at the thing!
Those clods are gorgeous, excited to see them with color on And it's nice following your printing progress, because I checked and the Ender 3 is 189€ in Germany, that's a price point where one might think of getting one for terrain, markers and the like. I won't get one this year, but next year I may cave, especially if there's another price drop
Thanks guys . They are so cute and fun, yet that doesn’t cover for their brutality in combat.
The Battlefield Clod Support beast (on a 75mm square base) shows just how unstoppable they are and how vicious they can be. On the ground beneath his feet is one barbarian who got trampled. Over his head and draped across his shoulders and back is the body of a knight with his own axe impaling him into the top of the beast as a trophy. Numerous swords, axes, shields, spears, maces and other battlefield detritus litter his body.
Along side him is a battlefield Clod Lobber. A smaller beast which throws Clods into the ranks of the enemy lines to disrupt their plans.
Also of note on the base of the support beast is a 1/2 sized stone wolf. The creator of the Clods I believe used them as a dwarf army alternative. With me thinking of using them as Kings of War Dwarves I decided to shrink the wolf down to fit on the unit base as a throwing mastif for regular units.
Started printing another support beast. Have to go take down a wall at church, so it should be ready when I get back.
Really enjoying the clod beasties. You've already got a themed encounter band for Frostgrave (speaking of that Freddie ercury's excllent). One mistake you've made though when your talking about KoW, Erewhon & Oathmark is the idea that an army has to be used for only one of them with individual bases an army can be easily used for any of them....
Thanks Llamahead . Yes, I knew the other two had separate basing systems, and most look cross compatible with each other, my worry was one was going to use 20mm bases and the other 25mm with one square and the other round/ oval. Though, with the rate I’m printing these out I don’t really need to worry as I can base some for one game one way and the rest differently for the other games .
Seriously, these print out in horde quantities with no problem, unless I don’t level the bed right .
Saturday Night special on Clods.
32 clod soldiers (8 with spears and shields, the other 24 are multi part guys.
Behind them are two trays, one has 19 pairs of open hands, the other has 19 left arm shields (19, because my bed was just slightly out of level and it ruined one set of arms and a shield .
To the right of the bin is something called a Gahled Dhur (Sp), which I will use as a drill team I think
Two versions of the Clod king, the first held aloft by four Clods (like the old dwarf carried into battle atop his shield) the other lounging in his thrown.
Slightly in front are two copies of the Clod Wizard, though one is like 10mm scale and part of a base, so won’t get used.
Also my current favorite is a sitting Clod holding his head. Looks like he got hurt and had to rest .
I found a bunch more designs and I hadn’t even printed 1/2 the flavors yet . After all, what would Clods ride into battle on? But Dirtles (turtles made of Dirt ). I found someone just as insane as me.
Oh and the number one reason to buy a 3D printer. All these guys used up about $2 worth of filament. That includes the army picture with the two support beasts from yesterday.
These are all different models than in the top picture.
You are making a 3d printer look bloody tempting however technology is allergic to me. Especially at work for some reason the computer which wouldn't type due to bread crumbs was embarassing funny for everybody else though.
I was checking out some other folks' prints and it struck me that some things would be much faster if just made from scratch. Stone/brick buildings for a start.
I was looking at a lighthouse tower printed by someone on a facebook group. It took more than a hundred hours all told just to print and was mostly stone. In my estimation you could make, build the brick section, print off the windows/doors/details, assemble it all, and paint it in half that time. Made me think that when I get the Ender back up, this is the direction I will take with it.
Okay, I haven’t slept the day away . Just haven’t had time to sit and post, but plenty of time to walk by the printer and start stuff.
That would be 40 sets of clod arms with open hands and 40 left handed shields.
Behind it is a Zombicide figure for scale with a samurai themed Ogress next to him carrying a Kanabo.
Further to the right is a Clod riding a Dirtle (a dirt- turtle ) the top of the dirtle has a 1” diameter flat spot for miniatures to stand on, so a wizard or hero can stand their and I see easy to change out. Also a Mantic Orc for scale.
I’d been hearing a strange noise from the printer. As I started to type this up the filament supply couple came completely apart. I’ve put it back together, no major issue. It just needed to be threaded back in.
The bigger issue I had yesterday was when I was trying to break a model off the build plate, the build plate tore right in the center. It was a small hole, not even a quarter the size of an eraser on a pencil, so I kept printing with no problem except a little longer to take the models off the plate. Luckily I had ordered a new plate a few days earlier just to have a spare so I could clean this one while still printing. It and another item arrived that same morning, so I really wasn’t put out. The other item I received was a MicroSD card extension piece. I think the one really annoying part of the Ender3 is the location of the microSD card reader, it’s right under the bed and so low to the base that anyone with even normal sized fingers will have difficulty getting to it. Since I have two cards and swap them back and forth constantly it’s a hassle. I guess I’m not the only person who has an issue with it as there’s are multiple prints out there to fix the problem with the extension I ordered. I was ordering the extension and ordered the spare build plate to reach free shipping , what providence . So I printed the new card extension holder on the new build plate, which I hadn’t noticed was a magnetic one so no more messing with clips holding the build plate on and getting in the way of bed leveling. It also has an overhang which works as a handle so I’m not grabbing a hot bed. It’s also so much more flexible which makes popping the builds off easier and quicker.
The extension is now out from under the build plate, vertical and angled outwards slightly. So much easier to change out. It’s part of that gray plastic part on the front that says Ender 3 on it. The fan directly above it is another modification I did because that’s the air intake to cool electronics, but it’s directly below the build plate where small pieces of filament tend to drop . Lots of design out there to pimp the Ender 3, I have a few in place.
So cost of the two (card extension and magnetic build plate) came to $21,00 shipped :
Thanks for stopping by. Now go order your own Ender 3 . So worth it.
Theophony wrote: Downloaded, thanks , they join the ranks of “to be printed”. It’s almost as large as my to be assembled, but nowhere near the to be painted .
Yes, I had to buy an external hard drive just to save all of my "to be printed" files - there is just so much great stuff available for free!!
The clod army is really coming along, they seem like the kind of thing that suits en masse printing so well. As for inspiration, how about theming the units around different rock/gem/clay schemes? A terracotta army look for the little guys, Clayface style muddy look for the big support beasts, granite or marble for the more elite units? Might give the force more of a dynamic visual element, and make it easier to tell what's what.
Thanks for stopping by. Now go order your own Ender 3 . So worth it.
"Don't tempt me, Frodo!"
Admittedly, I have neither the space nor the budget for one, but investing in a printer seems ever more worthwhile. I've been buying a bunch of resin printed minis recently, super impressed by how far the tech has come.
I have done my job and corrupted another . Poor Poor lad . It's okay, you don't need money or ever to leave the house once you have a printer to make yourself some friends
Okay, so I have been a bit quiet over the weekend, I may have caused some temporary issues with the Ender. Never fear though, as Amazon to the rescue.
So the clogged nozzles I had caused there to be a gap between the nozzle and the PTFE tube which caused more clogs. After reading the issues online and the fixes I decided to upgrade the Feeder tube to the Capricorn PTFE tube. tighter inside diameter and better hold in the couplers. It was on the list to do, just was going to be a while longer. But $15 later it arrived 30 hours later and has been installed. I tried fixing the old tube, but had to cut it shorter which caused other issues and kept messing up prints.
also found the website ANYCONV.com. It's a free online site that converts basically any file type into other file types. Our Church had a Custom logo designed and patented(or Registered, forget which) and as part of the process they gave us the logo in .PNG files. I was able to use the site to convert that over to a .STL file to slice into a Gcode for printing. I will try it out later tonight (6hour print) as the last print I tried with it failed about 4 hours in because of the above feed line issue.
Trying to print a D&D Halfling monk right now, really testing the new feed line as he is a tiny print. 18mm x 27mm x 18mm figure. I just love the idea of a Halfling breaking some knees using his martial arts skills.
My prints are coming out great.....when i sit next to them the entire print time. But if I get up to go to work, pick up one of my kids or heaven forbid go use the bathroom then when i return the print is up from right after I leave it. Seriously four prints over the last 24 hours that I've started after doing all my troubleshooting and investigating what the problem might be and every time i turn my back I come back even just a few minutes later and it's popped off the build plate. I'd close the door, but their litter pans are down here in the basement and I don't want to clean up the messes I'd find elsewhere.
Group hug social distancing , group photo at 6’ scale distancing .
So the two giants Ive shown previously have now been joined by a chaos giant (still some bits I could print to do on to him, but they are like an 80’s rappers chain and some baskets to put on his waist, so not really important. Also in photo is an Ogress in samurai/bushi/ one style all facing one halfling D&D monk. The thing in front is the twin spiky tail of a Dragon ogre Shaggoth. That’s half the tail length . For size idea the tail is 4” long from the joint on here to the furthest tip. There’s another section of tail before it reaches the body . I don’t think he is compensating like the naked giant .
The tail is showing how much material I’m using right now as I’ve run into an issue with prints not staying on the bed. I’ve started using “Rafts” as supports on everything with an extra 15mm space around the bottom of the supports to get good adhesion, so far I haven’t had any pops. I figure the cost of the filament is so low so using up extra really isn’t like wasting GW paint.
Theophony wrote: So I'm pretty sure one of our 4 cats is an A le.
My prints are coming out great.....when i sit next to them the entire print time. But if I get up to go to work, pick up one of my kids or heaven forbid go use the bathroom then when i return the print is up from right after I leave it. Seriously four prints over the last 24 hours that I've started after doing all my troubleshooting and investigating what the problem might be and every time i turn my back I come back even just a few minutes later and it's popped off the build plate. I'd close the door, but their litter pans are down here in the basement and I don't want to clean up the messes I'd find elsewhere.
Surely there is an Ender3 anti-cat mod that you can get for that? or maybe a Perspex box to put over it when nature calls?
Theophony wrote: So I'm pretty sure one of our 4 cats is an A le.
My prints are coming out great.....when i sit next to them the entire print time. But if I get up to go to work, pick up one of my kids or heaven forbid go use the bathroom then when i return the print is up from right after I leave it. Seriously four prints over the last 24 hours that I've started after doing all my troubleshooting and investigating what the problem might be and every time i turn my back I come back even just a few minutes later and it's popped off the build plate. I'd close the door, but their litter pans are down here in the basement and I don't want to clean up the messes I'd find elsewhere.
Sounds like you might want to look at an enclosure for when you are away. That article is a little silly in places, but just gives you an idea what you can do, depending on how much you really want to spend.
Once I added painter's tape to my magnetic bed piece, I improved my adhesion ten fold. It is a cheap and quick fix while still keeping the mag plate flexibility. Use the 2" wide blue tape and just place the strips across right next to each other with no gaps.
When the bed cools you will see some wrinkles, but when the bed heats up and it expands a bit, it smooths it all out. I just give it a smooth over before printing begins, so i keep the same tape on for numerous prints.
This allowed me to just use skirts - I think I have about 8-10 outlines and that seems to keep it down good and not use a ton of material will still being easy to remove. This is for PLA and PLA+ - this might not work with ABS. I never tried ABS on my Ender, since I think heating up the bed to the temp needed for ABS you will lose the magnetic adhesion and have to use tapes/clips to keep it on the bed.
Keep up the great work - you are getting a suitably gribbly collection of giants going!!
So I tried the painters tape, but it bubbled off before the print even started. Guess I need better painters tape, but it’s the blue sure edge stuff.
Found a few neat sculpts. Had to do this guy right away.
Asian Dragon, wrapped around a crystal/stone outcropping. I changed the size to almost fit on a 50x50 square base.
I also found a couple Torii to print and giant (for 28mm scale) goldfish which I want to try and print and see if I can’t use some samurai cavalry models to ride magic fish .
Viterbi wrote: Hope you are spared more cat-astrophes Prints are all looking good, when there's no interference, you are getting a nice use out of the printer.
Well the only Cat-astrophy I’ve had lately is Thisbe Manticore getting too much of a pedicure when I was cutting the supports off . I shipped two of his feet cleanly off. They have been glued back on now.
I scaled him to fit a 50mm square base for game use, his wings will spread out further than the base, but that’s fine. I think that scaled him to a decent size, Zombicide dude for scale size.
Can’t remember how big they are supposed to be, according to GW models they are bigger than trash trucks. I like the actual lion size with added wings and pointy tail added on.
The Chimera I’m printing though is as big as a small house. Different heads, snake tail and build of an elephant I guess .
Manticore looks great (and I'm glad to know he prints ok, I need to do one for our next DnD game and I think that's the file I have prepped). Scale looks about right to me, GW's take is much bigger, but DnD/Pathfinder et al set them om 50mm nases.
What kind of Chimera are we talking, the DnD style 3 heads at the font, or the hilarious/awesome ancient Greek original with the goat neck just sticking out of the back?
Paradigm wrote: Manticore looks great (and I'm glad to know he prints ok, I need to do one for our next DnD game and I think that's the file I have prepped). Scale looks about right to me, GW's take is much bigger, but DnD/Pathfinder et al set them om 50mm nases.
What kind of Chimera are we talking, the DnD style 3 heads at the font, or the hilarious/awesome ancient Greek original with the goat neck just sticking out of the back?
Started the goldfish, forgot to put supports in on it. Scale looked too small also so I bumped it up to 25mm wide. Might make it harder for a rider to fit, we will see.
That Thingverse chimera is thikk I like the pose and faces of the animals though. It's interesting that it have the lion, dragon, and goat heads like a D&D chimera, but has the snake tail like a mythological chimera.
Sorry to hear about the manticore, I'll glad you have gotten the feet back on already.
Well some people say the Great Wall in China was to keep the Mongol horde at bay. I think it was to keep the Goldfish out . In the Midwest we have a major problem with Asian Carp in the waterways. They are an invasive species brought to the US. They jump out of the water and smack boatists, even killing a few by knocking them out and them falling overboard.
This brave masked man is trying to keep this fish from causing problems in town.
I saw the Titan Forge stuff too late to pledge cheap, didn’t have the printer then either. It’s where I got the idea (well there and Rising Sun, which I didn’t buy) for this goldfish when I saw the .stl.
Speaking of murder goldfish.
Bubbles the Murder Goldfish with hero riding him. I printed a second Goldfish for another personality later.
Need idea help with how to mount this sucker to the base. Only a tiny bit of the tail attaches to the ground. I don’t want to have a water scene , as it is magical and out of the water and flying not flopping around. The white stuff is just poster tack trying to hold it in place while the glue dries.
While I had the WGF samurai stuff out I figure I’d snap a picture of the different dragons and figures for the project.
Brown primed arcane legion dragon, 3D printed dragon, Malifaux shadow emissary, poorly painted arcane legion dragon.
There's a bunch of Dragon Empire stuff on their Patreon for June too (last day today!) and Patreon backers get a large discount in their MyMiniFactory store. I sound like an advert... :/
I'd go for either a flying base, or a strategically placed bush/tree? Alternatively if you can find some frondy fins from something else you may be able to add them on for a bit more support?
endtransmission wrote: There's a bunch of Dragon Empire stuff on their Patreon for June too (last day today!) and Patreon backers get a large discount in their MyMiniFactory store. I sound like an advert... :/
I'd go for either a flying base, or a strategically placed bush/tree? Alternatively if you can find some frondy fins from something else you may be able to add them on for a bit more support?
Okay, so I have never Patreon'd before. I signed up just for the Dragon Empire Stuff (Thanks A Lot). Where do I download the files? I'm on their page, It says I am in at the $10 level and I have access to the models, but after tooling around I still don't see a "Go here!" or click to download and no email saying here's the stuff.
Any help would be great. That Dragon Alone is worth it to me.
Theophony wrote: Need idea help with how to mount this sucker to the base. Only a tiny bit of the tail attaches to the ground. I don’t want to have a water scene , as it is magical and out of the water and flying not flopping around. The white stuff is just poster tack trying to hold it in place while the glue dries.
Theophony,
My suggestion is drilling from the underside of the base at an angle the will go through the tail and into the body. Use a pin-vice for control and then slide in a brass rod with glue and that will keep the resin from snapping from under the weight or being dropped.
Yeah, the dragon is rather nice. I need to start working my way through the patreon backlog and printing/painting some of the stuff I've got :/
If you value your money, don't go exploring Patreon too much as there are loads of really good 3d artists on there creating models. Titan Forge are one of the best ones though, so you're in for a treat
Okay, got most of the files downloaded and then canceled the Patreon for July. Not a huge fan of the Chaos dwarf style and I must remain focused...... ooooo shiny....on whatever project i'm working on .
Then I realized i didn't get their "Welcome Bundle" or the * titan of adventure models from being a Patreon. I've sent them an Email, hopefully I'll get a good response.
Also asked if there was a way to get the other 2 Dragon Empire bundles they had offered. Fingers crossed.
The Hero on Kirin is almost done. I ran out of my other spool and was trying the black again. looks like a lot of stringing happening. Hopefully it turns out alright as this is the spool that I had the major malfunction with early on. If not this spool goes away permanently and I won't buy the brand again. I have 2.5 other spools from 2 other makers available in front of me. hoping it was just my inexperience before.
Laid down a basecoat on the Kirin from Titan Forge 3D print files. Used a filament I’m not happy with which caused a lot of stringing and detail obscuration, I might reprint this later and redo it. Color choice is coming from a google picture of a Kirin where the main body is a cool white, so plenty of highlighting to go yet. Not sure how I will make the mane as bright glowing yellow as the picture, but I might use the fluorescent yellow I have on the rack. No idea how to paint the samurai yet.
Viterbi wrote: Use the power of the brush on this... is that a Unicorn? Dragonhorse? Never mind samurai and weird steeds are always a winning team
The Japanese call them Kirin, based on the Chinese Qilin. Magical celestial horselike creature that shows up before times of great prosperity or in the presence of great individuals.
Fun fact: kirin is also the Japanese word for giraffe.
)s your painting keeping up with your printing? One of the reasons I won't get into 3D printing is the knowledge that my backlog would increase exponentially.
@Josh, No, miniature painting is not happening at all. Being on Furlough you'd think i could knock some stuff out like Graven, but instead I am painting walls, ceilings and the random cat. My wife has found plenty of home renovations for me to do, and work at the church has been hectic as well.
To add t the lack of progress saturday my mom was taken by ambulance to the hospital. 5 years ago she had an issue which led to the surgical removal of her stomach and 30+ days in surgical intensive care. we returned to the same area, just two doors down from the other room. I say we, but it was my sister and my mom as only one visitor per day for 8 hours is allowed. If that person leaves for any reason then NO one else is allowed in. It's a real test of patience during the corona scare. Yesterday was the 46th anniversary of her crapping me out , so I think she likes the hospital around this time of year. Today is my turn to sit the day with her. We just got moved to a regular room thank God, a new surgery is not yet slatted, but her gallbladder must come out. She is just too week right now from an infection in it to survive the surgery.
Just another day in the life of Theo . People worry about murder hornets, I just laugh and put honey on toast and say come get some.
Thanks everyone for the well wishes. She is having one procedure as I type, my eldest sister is there with her, it’s a minor one that happens about twice a month unfortunately. She was much more nervous about this one as her regular doctor that handles it has moved away and this is a first for this radiologist. She should be going home tomorrow as test results have all been coming back well.
The main area of concern is she I still still refusing surgery in two weeks, which means reoccurring infections and pain will happen until she either relents or her body gets so worn down from antibiotics and steroids that they will have no effect.
Either way all us kids and extended family are backing whatever decision she chooses.
On to better things.
He’s got legs and he knows how to use them.
GW has their guy that runs away from the big monsters, this ashigaru May just wind up being my poster boy .
Well mom was supposed to I come him extradited today, but the procedure caused a snag. Another night at least in as she was having leaks around the surgical site .
But onto other, better, more funner news.
CONQUEST: the Last Arguement of Kings
Spent some of the BDay money on something that caught my eye in the store last week. I’m not a fan of the Spire aesthetics, but the hundred kingdoms I saw doable, but flaming dwarf types really was calling me.
Picked up the main box, a dinged copy (cheaper) of the companion, two units of Dweghom (flamey dwarfs) and a sorcerer along with a dinged copy of Kings of War third edition softcover.
Miniaturemarket had an in store special that if you spent over $150 you got a gift card somewhere between $10-500(random), I spent $200 and got a $20 card, so basically a 10% kickback on this order. I’ll have to wait till they refill conquest again and hope they still have gift cards left .
I need a break from printing. I actually am looking at everything I’ve printed and realize I have a problem....one that I guess only more plastic would handle .
That's a nice haul, Theo I expect it is a different feel looking through sprues and putting the kits together vs printing? So probably isn't weird to buy them when you're getting burnt out by printing.
All the best to you and your family.
Quick display of a Design by Taarnak here on DakkaDakka. Sgt. Slaughter the Catchcan drill instructor that fell back in time.
Standing with some striking scorpion prints that came out well. Except I accidentally must have thrown away one of their chainswords .
Wow, a 3-d printer now. I have been away too long.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother. I cannot even imagine how frightening it must be to be in the hospital right now. Let the antibiotics knock back the infection and she'll do fine in surgery. I know several people who are gall bladder-less. She'll just need to be careful about what she eats. Hopes and prayers to her for a swift and complete recovery.
The Conquest models do look nice, if a little larger than anything else. I got to play a preview game of that with the designers at UK Expo a couple of years back and it was fun.
You know that feeling you get when you do something you’ve never done before.....lots of nerves...then an “I’ve got this” then.......real excitement.
Got the replacement part in. Quickly saw more wires than I hoped to mess with. Started to trace back to where it all connected and took apart way more screws than I thought I’d need to. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Snipped wires, cut cable ties, snaked Wired’s all around. Found that the end connectors were held in by hot glue . Cut through that waiting to hear the circuit board break. But it’s all back together now.
Even started a print.....
Then quickly stopped as I remembered I probably should level the bed as I’ve flipped the machine over three or four different ways.
Leveled and first print is well on the way and looking fabulous.
What amazes me is how inexpensive the printer is, and the results look great - As the technology gets even more refined, we are going to be looking at some seriously awesome models printed in our own homes
That Sgt Slaughter is amazing. Is that from GI Joe fans or Wrestling fans? I love the idea of a whole load of WWF classic superstars to print at home.
Good luck with the Conquest stuff, as you say some of the aesthetics can be a bit odd but there are certainly a lot of serviceable sculpts in the range, and HIPS is always nice.
Finally those claws...woah cannot wait to see the counts as Sreaptek come together. Size wise that thing is a beast.
The big construct is a fun project to fit in here and there, so it will be done eventually. In the mean time I found the .stl for the tomb sentinel (centipede thing). I printed 11 body segments and twelve sets of legs. The head is printing now. It’s base takes 8 hours, so it’s an overnight print.
In a minute of weakness I stopped by Miniaturemarket . Just at opening time is the best to find good priced dinged and dented stuff.
Not sure what I’m going to do with 80 Afghan Warriors . Probably join all the other boxes of stuff in the basement. But I wanted to see them first hand myself to gauge quality.
You're certainly pushing that printer hard with that dragon and big necron things. Prints look pretty good, looking forward to seeing the prints finished and painted up
Maharg wrote: You're certainly pushing that printer hard with that dragon and big necron things. Prints look pretty good, looking forward to seeing the prints finished and painted up
Paint? You mean we are suppossed to paint these things .
Just got an Email this morning from Creality. The Ender 3 is on sale for $179 now . Do I buy another.....The wife would shoot me for all the filament I'd be using . But $20 ish bucks a month really isn't bad.
Printing a whole field of Lettuce right now. Oddly, it could be eddible, I'd have to look into it as the PLA Plus is made out of Corn .....im sure theres other chemicals in there that would make it unsuitable to eat though .
Starting to reprint models with my dialed in settings and throwing paint. Unsure of armor color right now.
Looks so much better than the previous prints. Just takes longer.
Great stuff. Chinese expedition to Afghanistan to protect their Buddhis brethren? I've used these none western historicals for Frostgrave warbands. Add lasguns for Guardsmen. Antares space pirates?
Retyping as DakkaDakka crashed for a minute after I had submitted my last post.
Tried the Contrast Black Templar on the rider. I always had issues painting black and having no depth.
I think it turned out pretty well. I may use a spot green color for the eyes on the Komainu.
Reprint of the Kirin. I think the character riding this one will be a different color than the main army to show off his status. Also, I was going with it being white with a yellow energy mane, but I just painted the lower quality sculpt with Aethermatic blue and I'm liking it so far. I'll wait till tomorrow as thats always a good test for me to see things after they have had a chance to dry completely.
The start of the goldfish. Used contrast Gryph hound orange. The rider will get painted over as I was testing some contrast on it.
Some random terrain elements. The lettuce rows Iactually have three more double rows printed and primed to make a field. The big bush has lots of layer lines, but I still think it's alright for basic terrain. The fallen tree will most likely get based and some moss used to help bulk out the terrain piece. The stump needs some more brown to it.
inmygravenimage wrote:I'm loving the big bright colours. Beautiful stuff. Kirin is going to look cracking.
Thanks mate. Wanted a little more color and the high fantasy setting is just the spot.
Slinky wrote:The newer prints do seem much sharper - What did you change?
The slicer I use (cura 3.6.0) is a very basic one as I only have a chromebook so I cannot download a better program that'll work for me. In this slicer there are 3 preset quality print levels: Draft, Normal, Best. It also allows you to set two custom programs or add small adjustments to the three existing ones (but only on a one time basis before reverting back). So many of the prints I did were done with the Best setting previously. I have since changed and made a Custom setting of my own borrowing greatly from others over in my 3D print blog here and from reading more and more articles online. Also finding a quality filament (Esun PLA+) and finding the sweet spot with it is helping as well.
So things that I changed.
1. Printing everything on a raft. more time consuming, but it means the prints are holding better to the print bed, less wiggle, better overall print.
2. lowered the temperature. I had been printing at 220Celsius nozzle temperature and 60C bed temp. Changed both to 198C and 50C respectively. less oozing and stringing. Plus the prints pop off the bed easier.
3. Bought a magnetic build plate by accident a while ago. It has made taking off prints so simple. small change, but fussing with clips and a scrapper messed up a few prints early on.
4. Print density. Might change this up higher, but most things were getting only a 5% infill, now I'm doing mostly 10% (Larger Terrain is still only 5%) this helps the beefiness of thinner parts.
5. Can't remember exactly what i did with the supports, I think I reduced support thickness a tad which has helped with damage being left from clipping them off.
so lots of tiny changes, and as usual I didn't take notes.
Anyway, new morning, I think I like the Aethermatic blue I painted the lower quality Kirin with. What do you guys think?
Well Aku-Chan, if you liked him before, what do you think now that he has a bit more done to him?
And if you don’t like him then I suggest you 3D print a bridge and get over it like me
Returning to work tomorrow, so naturally printing, slicing and priming prints ahead of time. I bought the other two bundles of the Dragon Empire from Titan Forge, so I have been busy slicing away this morning and prepping longer prints to start when I leave for work so they will be done when I get home.
Up on the menu.
The dragon Cavalry
Terrain pieces including walls
Oni
Off to prime the figures I’ve done yesterday and today so far. Maybe a pic later.
These guys are a lot of fun. Fish rider looks tough in black and red. The blue kirin is very cool. Black armor for the komainu rider seems to be working, too.
Goldfish rider is really just too much fun for me . A silly thing that has turned out better than I had hoped, glad others are enjoying him as well.
Couple more prints painted up. The monk did not turn out as good as other prints sadly.
Still a cool concept and I think at least tabletop playable.
Oni girl is doing well, different designer, so not to same style, but good enough in my book.
Printed today while I was at work. 11 hours for the body, 1.5 hours on the head. Dragon cavalry. There’s riders whho fit on the spines of these guys. I didn’t know that they could be printed without the rider, so the two sculpts could also make war machines or big beasts.
Thanks for stopping by.
I need to pick up some more contrast paints for these prints.
Saw the news and Rumors thread. Still chewing on it. Love the concept, but the practicality of printing an entire game is daunting. I’m already printing all these Dragon Empire figs to have a KoW army and paint.
The style of the Dragonbond stuff is close to what I want, but not right on. Also the figs really lend themselves to a resin printer, so many thin with hole parts. The dragons would easily work, but most are generic fantasy ones and i am more Asian inspired style.
Still might be worth it, I have a little while yet for the early bird if I do it.
Thanks for spending my money
Edit: quick catch up on other things printed in the last couple days. If there ever is a printer revolution I will be sent to jail for not giving mine a break .
Some of the dozens of scenery parts from the Dragon Empire bundle.
They have a locking mechanism to clip them together but allows it to be modular. The one looks upside down as the wood pattern is different, but it’s actually designed that way as each part has a finished back side as well. Pictured here.
Lots more walls Tom print eventually A 4”x4” roof to eventually go on an outside wall.
An outside wall with gate area that an Oni is storming. Warlord games/Wargames Factory masked man defending and a Ronin with Kenabo(though he looks like a half Oni as he has a horn and is very bulky.
Body of a second dragon and the body of a rider also completed.
I have another of the first dragon printing now, should be finished when I get home tonight. I’ll have to print the heads for them and the spear for the rider at some point. I like that the dragons backs are finely detailed and the riders just sit on top. No having to scrape off saddle details or straps.
Slinky wrote: These prints are outstanding, the temptation to follow your lead is very strong
Well the Ender 3 keeps going on sale cheaper , i am seriously contemplating getting a second one . Seriously. There is so much I want to print and get done that I have a backlog of 40+ models(not counting doing multiples of those) for a KoW army. Then there’s terrain. The only thing stopping me is my wife . She would divorce me in a heartbeat if I started to buy more filament. I’m getting one spool a month ($22), she just doesn’t see I haven’t spent anything from our account lately. My Conquest buy was from BDay funds.
I’ve probably only spent less than $400 on the printer (200printer, 60 replacement parts, 140 in filament and files to be generous) . Beats what I would normally spend on models to this point.
Yeah, I blew the left over Bday funds on Bushido the game with their Gencan15 sale which started today. Gits' has done a great job selling the game with his videos and I already had almost all the Ninja Clan, all the already released Minimoto Clan and some models from the Temple of Ro-Kan. With the extra 15% pretty much wiping out the Airmail costs and a little extra I was able to pick up the new Temple starter bundle which had all the models I was wanting in it, the last missing ninja for my collection and the Rulebook, tokens, special play cards(for all three of my factions) and scenario cards. I think I have someone who works at the game store interested in the game and since I'll have three fully playable factions I might be able to generate some interest.
Having four cats and three kids I am too leery to get into the resin printer game right now. My work area is in a full open part of the basement. Once a kid moves out then I can take over their room possibly if my wife doesn't claim it for a home office (which I would be fine with).
I got more printed today, but with returning back to work this week I am beat having been on my butt for three months , I'll do a photo dump later.
It keeps starting up and heating, but after returning to the home spot it won’t start another print. I think I’ve had it running basically nonstop for four days. It might be overheated, so I shut it down to give it a rest while I’m at work today. All the online advice I’ve seen is either it’s overheated or got a corrupted file somehow, my microSD card did glitch on me, but that can also be caused by overheating and static. Reformated it, reloaded and still same issue. Sent creality an email this morning.
Either way I have plenty to keep me busy painting until I figure it out. The worst part is I ordered another spool just in case about ten minutes before it went on strike .
Oh and heads up Lots of sales happening now with GenCon being cancelled. Miniature Market has a $10 off deal too.
Bushido is very tempting. I'm currently sticking together lots of Japanese themed figures from the Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress set and looking for replacements for the human-ish figures as some of them are terrible (better than the cowboys from the original sets though!). I'm also in a samurai mindset from playing Ghost of Tsushima
Must resist buying stuff with the Gencon discount...
It definitely looks like a really great small game. Variety of missions. Lots of different armies each with multiple ways to play them. Great sculpts, and since your in The UK shipping shouldn’t be as bad for you as they airmail it to us (about $25 for shipping less than 10 models, a book and a few decks of cards ) that was about 20% of the bill which is too much in my book. Unfortunately there’s no US distributor that I can find and only a few shops carry it and most is older single model (they just updated all the cards to 3rd edition).
You should buy it with GenCon discount, because you would buy it anyway and might as well save money....or if your like me your going to spend the same amount but will get one or two more items for the same total .
plus just use the Shadows of Brimstone models as civilian models or decoration so your getting multiple uses out of each item.
Printed a bunch of things, all posted over in my printing thread, I’d repost here, but getting ready to leave to work at church this morning. Have a plan to start painting some more models this week/weekend. Actual painting and not just contrast which is still painting, but I need more color than just the few contrasts that I have.
I had a look at the Bushido stuff and the factions/figures I was most interested in are all preorders, so not in the discount. I'll have. Think while I try and get caught up on the huge Brimstone backlog. If you think your postage was excessive, the new brimstone box is $110 with $100 postage... And then import taxes at the UK end :/
endtransmission wrote: I had a look at the Bushido stuff and the factions/figures I was most interested in are all preorders, so not in the discount. I'll have. Think while I try and get caught up on the huge Brimstone backlog. If you think your postage was excessive, the new brimstone box is $110 with $100 postage... And then import taxes at the UK end :/
Luckily no import duties here.....yet.
Yeah I'm wanting to get all the Minimoto stuff, I'm up to date so far, but need to get the rest when it comes out. I also want all the Shiho Clan stuff as well. I will save up for those and maybe get them on the nest sale if they get the discount.
I saw the shadows of Brimstone stuff, the first sets didn't wow me, but the newer ones (oriental themed) I really like. I just don't want to get into another Zombicide sort of situation where I have to catch them all.
Inishing the fourth Oni in a minute. Daughter has a Doctors appointment at noon so I will try and print out the weapon in between now and then for the 5th Oni and start him when we leave. I think they will count as Tree Hearders in Kings of War: Samurai/Elves.
Finished my second week back at work, getting settled in, but still tired from being so lazy over my furlough. Finished a 10hour print of baby Yoda which is on my wife’s desk in her newish home office (my bedroom ) and finished a couple other prints as well.
The two handedless (usually two handed club toting) Oni and his mirror who when I set them up like this I realized I can snip the clubs and add some modeling chains and they can be dragging something like an Oni Chariot . I may have to print more to do this .
Also the armor stand a sword a terrain piece is great.
So hard to get a good picture, but it reminds me of the scene in The Last Samurai film where the armor is displayed in the house of the dead fathers.
Trying to get enough Oni club space printed today. Have a few other plans as well. Overnight will be another Baby Yoda, I’ll try and get a picture of him shortly.
Baby Yoda telling my wife it’s coffee time. I need to print one for the Pator as he is a huge Star Wars Fan and coffee drinker.
Baby Yoda is excellent. I'm loving all the Oni, still looking for a good skinny Oni with spear for Lightning (for Hellboy). I really have a notion to do white scar, or at least successors, with mempos.
He really is, and the newer program is getting much better results with smoother skins all around. I made another for the Pastor overnight.
inmygravenimage wrote:Baby Yoda is excellent. I'm loving all the Oni, still looking for a good skinny Oni with spear for Lightning (for Hellboy). I really have a notion to do white scar, or at least successors, with mempos.
I have a few Skinnier Oni, I'll try and do a picture later, none really look like Hellboy though.
Speaking of lightning, The Church was struck by lightning around 4 am this morning. I showed up just after the assistant pastor called to let me know about the fire and I couldn't even get on the street with all the engines, ambulanes (no one was there, but just routine) and police cars. The steeple is a complete loss, good ridance to it and the stupid pineapple finial they had on top of it . Unfortunately they believed it was out and started to pack everything up when flames came out of the rafters again and they broke out the big hoses. We aren't allowed in until later today if then. The assistant pastor (Over Music and classes) of course ran inside and saved all the instruments except the drum set because it was too big to drag out. He was alsothere before the firefighters arrived and they put a stop to that when they arrived . The Steeple is directly over the sanctuary stage, back office and youth room in the basement, so I have a feeling it's going to be service in the Reception hall again for a while. Insurance is paid up though .
Crikey. Sounds full on! Glad things and folk safe. As for Oni, I didn't clarify: there are a pair of Storm Oni in one of the animated versions, and the extant hellboy Oni is perfect for Thunder (big, tetsubo) but there isn't one for his brother Lightning (slender, spear).
That’s one heck of a drama filled weekend! Thankfully it sounds like no one was hurt. Hopefully the insurance sort it out efficiently and let the church pick a different finial! Perhaps you could 3D print one?
gobert wrote: That’s one heck of a drama filled weekend! Thankfully it sounds like no one was hurt. Hopefully the insurance sort it out efficiently and let the church pick a different finial! Perhaps you could 3D print one?
Well the drama continued at home later that morning. I couldn’t find my phone so I went in and out of the house multiple times checking my car, but somehow between it all my phone had fallen out of my pocket up in our bedroom, found it like two hours later. When I went to go check the church later that afternoon, I walked outside and a huge branch had fallen from the tree over my car. A lower branch caught it and it was dangling no joke less than 4” from the hood of my car . I backed the car up, grabbed the branch and it fell without even pulling. Basically if a ladybug would have landed on it my car would of had a sailing mast . All is good though.
Another major thunderstorm just rolled through in the last couple hours, watching our trees bend in the wind is not as relaxing as they make it sound in Dune .
So the new settings are a mixed bag. I’m getting such great prints, but reworking the wall section that took 12 hours now takes 23hours . I’m trying to think if it’s worth it. The final products definitely look much better. It’s nit like I’m running low on things to paint as I’m lazy .
Blimey, an action packed weekend Theo. The damage to the Church is not ideal (Pineapple finial and all!) but at least nobody was hurt and the insurance should cover it, and good that your car escaped as well.
I am from a place called Coventry in the UK, have a quick Google as to what the Luftwaffe managed to do to our Cathedral one night in November 1940...
ListenToMeWarriors wrote: Blimey, an action packed weekend Theo. The damage to the Church is not ideal (Pineapple finial and all!) but at least nobody was hurt and the insurance should cover it, and good that your car escaped as well.
I am from a place called Coventry in the UK, have a quick Google as to what the Luftwaffe managed to do to our Cathedral one night in November 1940...
I have seen images of Coventry Cathedral before, but it is always good to be reminded of that sort of devastation, lest we forget.
I figured out the part of the program that i've switched over to (Cura 4.6.2) that lets me input the cost of my spool of filament to break down the overall cost of some of my prints. I cannot go back without reslicing the files to get all the prices, but needless to say one meter of my filament comes down to $0.07 for the prints. So now I will e documenting how much each piece costs to produce. I also took one of the 3 baby Yodas i have printed to work today. Pretty sure i sold another Ender 3 with just showing off the one print . ,I want commissions on these .
I'd have to go back and check what I posted here about sunday, but our church was struck by lightning, spoilered is an update.
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Well, So the thought of not much damage done to the church is out the window . Insurance adjuster, structural engineer, 2 abatement companies and I'm sure others showed up yesterday to inspect and get quotes together. The church steeple which got hit by lightning and caused a fire sunday morning is unsafe and will need to come off. THere is a hole in the roof that looks like a cannonball (size of an american football) blew through the roof and there is structural damage to rafters and supports. THe heat, not so much the electricity fried the soundboard a good 60' from the hit and the dimmer packs and stage lighting are non-functional. no Idea on all the instruments. THe water damage is significant and goes all the way down into the youth room in the basement. Before any content damage and without the electronics replacement costs we were over $250,000 in damages and remediation costs. The adjuster even mentioned that this could climb high enough to actual be considered a complete loss . THe building is still sound, but the costs of returning it to new is why he is stating this. Anyway, everyone is safe and we will continue to move forward, just no service this weekend as they are pulling soot and smoke from all areas of the 10,000+ sq. ft. building. We are blessed in the fact that it didn't happen when the building was full of people. That would have been bad.
Today I received a package that I ordered a couple weeks back. Since Gencon turned into Gencan't, GCTstudios did a 15% off Bushido sale, so I took the opportunity to catch back up on the new edition of Bushido: Risen Sun. All the Stuff I have been printing from the Dragon Empire will work nicely for terrain, including the last couple days worth of stuff.
The big base is 100mm, which is a Zone of control size . THe lanters can get based on small bases for some of the missions, everything else will just be small table elements.
So what did Theo Get?
I picked up the TEmple of RO-Kan starter bundle, which included the Main book, Tokens, the 5 model starter box which is 70rice (points) and two additional monks 28rice (points again), and the TEmple of Ro-Kan special card deck. A large game is usually 100rice, so with enhancements and items I can easily hit that. Plus I already had a few monks before and I don't think I have any overlaps.
I also grabbed the last ninja that I was missing and the special play cards for that faction.
Also, also got the Minimoto clan Special play cards as I already have all their currently released items, though in a month or two they will basically be doubling their range of models for the Minimoto clan, but thats for another purchase.
One more thing (Said in Uncle's voice from the Jackie Chan Cartoon ), I grabbed the Year of the Risen Sun Cycle deck, which has special objectives for all the clans.
I have spoken about the game at the local shop and may have someone interested in playing it, and he gets to do some of the ordering for the shop, so hopefully I can get some interest going and maybe even a regular group. It's a terrible time to be back at work . Anyway, part of my plan tonight/tomorrow will be to dig out all my other models and start getting the Cards figured out for the new edition for my existing models. I was able to download the cards for all three factions, but they are sized for full page print, and I want to get them printed at regular card sleeve size.
Anyway, I have a 12 hour print of a Torii gate that will be finishing shortly, so I need to calculate my next steps.
Edit: Torii is completed and supports removed. Also all the models have been assembled. Super clean on all the casts, only the smallest flash on one model and it was easy to remove.
Samurai may be a ninja of a million tricks, but is still no match for all these elemental monks .
Indeed. And some rapscallion Facebook poked me about terrain for Marvel Crisis Protocol , so I might have a side project to handle as well.
So overnight I printed a second 4” zone of control base. It was shrunk down from a 120mm base, so a couple small lanterns on it got even smaller and my big hands broke one while man handling it . Early morning hours have me awake and everyone sleeping still so I printed the last two of the one style lantern to use for one scenario, so the next 4” zone of control is now printing and should be done around bed time. While the two lanterns were printing I pulled my older Bushido figures. Terrible pics as per the course with me, I need to build/buy a light box, I’ve just always pushed it off, but it’s moving up the priority ladder.
Anyhow, here are all the monks and peasants I have for the Temple of Ro-Kan.
I’m really thinking about stripping them all down and starting them all from scratch. I don’t want to do my usual and just paint over the top of them, and I want cohesion between the old and new.
Also, all the Minimoto and Ninja have been located.
Eventually I’ll strip the Minimoto down so I can paint them along with the new ones when they get the next release, but for now they are paintedand ready for action, just need to print out the new cards.
The Ninja behind the Minimoto are all complete, except poor Wamu who is new and basing. I might just try and paint Wamu to blend in with the rest instead of painting them all over again, but time and frustration will decide.
All the new cards have been sleeved and sorted. I just need to pick out appropriate colored dice at this point (First world problems).
Sorry to hear about the church damage, that sounds like a real shame if the building is structurally sound. I hope they manage to sort something out!
I had some questions about the Bushido figures. I know they are multi-part, but how fiddly are they? Tiny metal bits are what drove me away from Infinity. Also, how do they compare, height wise, to the default size of Dragon Empire figures?
endtransmission wrote: Sorry to hear about the church damage, that sounds like a real shame if the building is structurally sound. I hope they manage to sort something out!
I had some questions about the Bushido figures. I know they are multi-part, but how fiddly are they? Tiny metal bits are what drove me away from Infinity. Also, how do they compare, height wise, to the default size of Dragon Empire figures?
Thanks ,
So as far as fiddley bits go , they aren’t as bad as I remember infinity models being. Here are three models that have multiparts(2+parts).
Left to right; Wamu the ninja is one piece for the body with only the sword and hand up to the wrist being a separate peice. The parts are keyed to fit nicely too. The female monk again is one piece body with both arms and the energy sphere being a second part. One shoulder is keyed to help assembly. Lastly the peasant farmer I saw one piece body with two separate arms and a separate back pack for a total of 4 parts. If I remember he comes in a two model kit which allows the arms to be switched between the models to give you a chance to make variations. So while small they aren’t like old Bloodbowl Khemri models where the kneepads are separate .
Size comparison wise it’s important to note that the Titan-Forged models print size is already larger than their order models from us size. To scale them equal they say you must print at 87% scale (80 something, can’t remember just now) to match models you order printed from their shops. I could not find any spare bases this morning to match these, so slight difference there.
Jumping Ninja, Wamu,Not David LoPan,Monk who’s name I haven’t bothered learning yet.
Monk formerly named but forgotten now, Yuko from Dragon Empire, Rice farmer, Dragon Empire Shogun.
Unfortunately I haven’t printed too many human sized Dragon Empire people, or they were in such dynamic poses like jumping Ninja that it really does not help. I think they align we’ll size wise. Even not David LoPan will just be a tall guy with big hat. The female samurai is a little bulkier than the female monk, but I’d chalk that up to armor and boob size variation .
Did one last quick size pic. Minimoto Clan Samurai versus Dragon Empire Shogun standing on same bases(Dragon Empire guy has a tiny bit of poster tack holding him on the base). Basically same size, Dragon Empire guy I saw bulkier, but I see that more as super Ornate armor which the bear clan really does not do.
Cool, thanks for the breakdown; it is very very much appreciated. Those look far less fiddly than some of the infinity models that I remember. I think one figure had about 12 tiny pieces of metal to stick together; some looked like flash!
It looks like Bushido will be a good alternative source of figures. They look great with the Dragon Empire and Titan Forge stuff; I'm just looking to scale them to the Shadows of Brimstone figures, which size nicely to the Titan Forge, if a bit slimmer.
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. I have been wanting to make a warband or, maybe kill team or something with the knights of the round table. Such a fantastic idea.
to get treasure. I’m thinking about mounting a magnet at the top of all 6 columns and then putting a piece of metal in some treasure chests to put on top. Also thinking of mounting each one to a individual heavier base to help with stability. I just have to get over the fact that they were Kickstarter exclusives.
so they want to charge me $166. I know it’s stupid to fight over $36, but there’s times when that’s my budget for a couple months of gaming.
. So far no one stateside has the book that I could see. I have an email in to my 
Don’t get me started on Ghost Archipelago either 
as I am churning through stuff right and left.
continue! Great job buddy, very diligent.
. Due to the pandemic, we can’t even go see her in the hospital. I’ve been enlisted into going to install shower grab bars at her house this week, so we will see what productivity looks like.
, seems everyone is at home printing non-stop. Then i rechecked Amazon, even with prime I'll be paying $29 for a 1 Kg roll (which is plenty...sort of), and a roll of black will be here Friday 
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. Do I buy another.....The wife would shoot me for all the filament I'd be using 
, I'll do a photo dump later.
