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Nice Battlemechs Theophony.

I parted with all my metal ones years ago when I was short on funds between jobs.

Cheers,

CB

Nice job on all those big robots and fingers crossed that life gets a bit less stressful soon and your printer gets back to normal running!

Busy weekend with family .

Anyway, got the part for the printer in and it caused a runaway heating issue . Lots of smoke, no fire that I know of. Part got refunded and new heating element delivered today. Going to get that installed here now. Also picked up the rule book for Oathmark fantasy battles. So I’ve got some reading to do.

Family time is always good.

I know you've gotten a lot of good stuff out of it, but from here it seems like the 3-D printer must be quite the source of frustration, what with all the little things that can go wrong.

Have you had any time to work on the giant minotaur-golem thing?

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Family time is always good.

I know you've gotten a lot of good stuff out of it, but from here it seems like the 3-D printer must be quite the source of frustration, what with all the little things that can go wrong.

Have you had any time to work on the giant minotaur-golem thing?

No, between work (1.5hours of travel time added each day), school for the kids hitting the semester and needing to focus them, church starting to do actual renovations from the fire damage and the foot acting up I haven’t made time for much more than painting a couple battletech models in the last month.

The Minotaur is awaiting new hands and axes, which needed the printer working again. The printer has been great, the few problems I’ve had have each been relatively easy to overcome, just the resources haven’t been there to figure them out as fast as other things. It I should still the best investment I’ve made hobby wise that I can think of. When I had it running smooth it was cranking out terrain like nobodies business. This latest issue was more of me just being too hurt to take the trek downstairs and other priorities in the way. The part I ordered said it was for the Ender 3, but the connection wasn’t just right, so I ordered the Creality Ender 3 version which may have been $1 more, but it came with extra nozzles and silicone covers, so really was the better option. The first test print I started since the repairs today should be finishing shortly.


Mechs to date, still the two Daishi and the stormcrow (I think that’s what it was called) to paint, but they have been base coated.

I really love the Mechs. One of my favorite robot aesthetics. Probably the one game I really wish I played and had a collection of. But I just don't know where to start anymore.

Robots are looking good, the grey and red work very well together. Good luck with the new printer.

Fingers crossed that the new parts fix the printer and let you get back to churning out giant hands!

THE NEW PART is working out great. This months Patreons from Titan forge will probably be my last, I haven’t been excited by their offerings lately, but this months is barbarians (Viking looking style) will work for my Ragnarok game. The two models I like out of the set the most, which my printer can handle are the Troll Mother and the Ice giant.

Troll momma.

Pardon the troll boob. Warlord samurai for scale. Yes, the troll momma I saw breast feeding Usagi’s drunk night love child .

Well can't unsee that

Nice to know that the printer is working again and an... interesting model you chose for the first print after the repairs

well, it’s one of those models you just won’t find on many store shelves .

I’ve been printing the Ice giant from the same set since getting the printer running. His left arm and huge hammer shaft just started printing now. They will be ready when I get home tonight. The hammer head is another 4 hours and I redid the orientation of the cloak which brought the print time down from 15 hours to just 8, it might have a few more connection spures, but I can live with that. Anyway, he’s a big fellow.

8” from tip to base baby . The head (of the hammer sickos) might even make him grow bigger.

He did have an issue when I was undoing the supports and he lost his middle finger . I just imagine that at some point he grabbed and was about to eat some poor villager when they stabbed in between the finger joints to try and break his grip. He also lost a bit of his loin cloth, but nothing that would cause any embarrassment.

I love the fact he has a pot bellied pig tied to his waist .

That's a heck of a figure. All set for gargants the n?!

Wow... he's huge!

I just like all the cool touches on him like the snapped boat prow as a shoulder pad and the door as a crotch guard....you know so no low blows . Never mind all the little people running around underneath your pants with swords.

reminds me of one of my old buddies jokes.

"How many canaries can you fit under a Scotsmans Kilt?"

Kewl stuff Theo, that giant does have a lot of great bitz built into it. How is the resin to paint, does it hold primer well?

Thanks guys, he is turning out nicely.

Not building a AOS Behemat army.

@Yorkright, this is all FDM, Filament not resin. I prime most of it, but the ones I do not prime take paints just like other manufacturers plastics.

I repositioned the cloak and reslicing it. It’s down to an 8 hour print and has just started. It was at 15 hours before in the orientation that was set up by the designers, so we will see Howe the different set up comes out.

In the mean time....HAMMER TIME.

The left arm finished while I was at work yesterday and the separate head printed while I slept.

I’m tossed up about my next project. There’s a Viking style longboat 24hour print, a Viking styled hut which if I remember (old age) is a 30hour print. I have to redo the Axes for the Minotaur, and I have downloaded some battletech map terrain tiles.

I also need to get back to painting Bushido stuff .

That's a pretty snazzy looking giant.

Thanks Aku-Chan, I really like his looks too.

What would a Viking be without a boat?

22hour print. Lots of supports to clean off.


Good size though.

Viking house being printed now.

Oooooh that's pretty! I wish I could print larger things like that

I'm really looking forward to seeing more scenery elements. Gives me a hankering for Saga again.

Wellthe Norse house (small) finished last night and I started the new Cloak for the giant which should be done by the time I get home. There are some more stone markers, barrels, chests to do as well as all the Mast sections.

Plenty of terrain coming for Norse style table.

Local LGS had a BattleTech demo on Saturday, so I went up and got a 1mech learner game in. I was doing great till I took two direct PPC shots to the head . Amazing dice rolls just can't be beat. I had fun and they will be doing tournaments and campaigns every Saturday, so I might have a gaming outlet finally. Also another guy was trying to get Frostgrave going at the same time. I had to pick which game I was doing and I had brought my Mechs. He normally runs the game at Miniaturemarkets retail store, but they have the gaming space closed until at least new years. I'll try and stop by for the next demo of that.

The ice giant is amazing!

House and some scatter.

The 15 hour cloak came out perfect.

Next giant printing now.

Love that long house. Damnit, now I want to go back to Iceland!

Just buy a printer and make Iceland in your living room.

Speaking of Iceland and things of Ice, I found this other Ice Giant Print. He is beefier than his brother.


Obviously I didn’t get him completely cleaned before stacking his two parts, still lots to clean up on him but no time yet tonight.

Next to each other they remind me of Thor and Loki with the big horns . I have a pet for them printing now.

Wow, those Giants are some very chunky boys. It is amazing how quickly you have not only gotten into the printing but are very good at it. The mind boggles at what the pet may be!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Wow, those Giants are some very chunky boys. It is amazing how quickly you have not only gotten into the printing but are very good at it. The mind boggles at what the pet may be!

Well let your mind boggle no longer. Unless it starts to boggle over how my mind thinks of these things . I present pet number 1.

Tentatively named Bishop, after my favorite Wal(Rus)ter Bishop from Fringe

He is soon to be accompanied by another favorite Wal(Rus)ter White from Breaking Bad and their Handler Koenig of Star Trek OS fame.


These three came from TitanForge monthly subscription a few months ago. I might wind up doing the Giant Crab riding Ogre to join this crew, but not yet sold on it.


Obviously they do the hunting while the brothers do the pillaging.

Ooh! Amazons! Amaz-ing! those are STLs I could get my teeth into! Alos, Thor and Loki look great.

Koenig was the victim of the local power company coming and temporarily shutting of the juice today with less than an hour to print. They had maintenance to do on some part of the line near our house . Unfortunately I just turned on the family room TV and kept hearing something. Turned out it was an outlet frying the power strip to the TV . No TV tonight . Guess who just got a nasty phone call. Hopefully no Adeptus Arbites are on their way to my house. Things may have gotten a bit heated.