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So, you're building a little samurai enclave there?

Gotta echo JoshInJapan, fitting paintjob on the farmer and it is a great sculpt, nearly human proportions

Totally not Bushido, but I was in a racing mood I guess when I woke up. So about to make a flying charger . While looking at random Thingiverse items I found jet tire replacements for hotwheels tires. The jet engines are printing now .


Going more than 88mph

Edit:

Pegasus takes flight.

Edit2:

Jet engines on the top of the car as it already had cool enginey stuff on the trunk. The print actually stopped with a few layers left to go (I’m having an issue with the memory card right now, reformatting to fix that), but no real damage.
The Torii and three zones of control are for Bushido. The three were different sizes to start with, one was an 60mm, 100mm and a 125mm all that got printed at 100mm for use on the board.

Stopped by Miniaturemarket, almost bought indomitus , actually almost bought two . Slapped myself silly then saw a Dark Eldar army box ($170 with 40% off) and almost bought that . Saw lots of nice things to buy, ended up just buying a sad lonely box of Frostgrave Cultists . So no worries I’m home to another flawed print, but it was a tiny one and will prime some other stuff later to possibly paint this week.

Well, you're a better man than I, I went onto amazon to get some new brushes and saw both display Wonder Woman and Kite Man on offer Love the Pegasus, perfect for Martian Racing

Mars is a Lie .

Besides I usually like keeping my feet on the ground. So I made tracks for the next vehicle. Probably not the van though.

Nice work on the "resist large mini buy" save. Flying car is a bit of brilliance. Tracks look cool, and I wouldn't be upset if you decided to build a vank.

 youwashock wrote:
Nice work on the "resist large mini buy" save. Flying car is a bit of brilliance. Tracks look cool, and I wouldn't be upset if you decided to build a vank.

A Vank might come at some point in the future, but I saw another car that was crying to be a bad . So I give you HotRodimus.

The front grill I just thought about printing a Roman style face on to really drive the name home.

Front ground clearance is fine, the back side is like a GW tank design . Or he just likes to drop it low .

Also yesterday a four part kit made Shifty The Skull. A gear phase tracker. It hasn’t the 6 gear phases and you move the shifter to keep track of the phase of the turn for the whole table.

I’m having issues with the machine stopping mid print again and not registering it. The half print I got was beautiful, I just can’t recover it. I was meant to be a gift this morning, guess it’ll wait as that person didn’t know they were getting it and it’s not a birthday or anything.

As for the congrats on not buying an army .

I placed another order with GCTstudios.com (Bushido). It’s all preorder stuff so won’t ship until the 4th of September, but it’s all the new Minimoto clan people (doubles what they had) and the new Wolf clan starter and special character who is basically the characters from the Lone Wolf and Cub comics, books, movies and plays. Also a monk who is not Raiden because she is a chick and a face like Bruce Jenner .

That's a nice conversion, wouldn't want to go up against that Hot Rod

I'm always impressed by the quantity of your output, while making no sacrifice to the quality.

The gear phase tracker is nice. I recently found an old console panel from a motor boat that I'm planning to mod into a gear phase counter for my table. But, it's a project that is on the back burner. Actually, more like on a really far away back-burner in a distant house on someone else's property.

Viterbi wrote:That's a nice conversion, wouldn't want to go up against that Hot Rod

And He's not even armed yet . Thanks

DJJazzyJeff wrote:I'm always impressed by the quantity of your output, while making no sacrifice to the quality.

The gear phase tracker is nice. I recently found an old console panel from a motor boat that I'm planning to mod into a gear phase counter for my table. But, it's a project that is on the back burner. Actually, more like on a really far away back-burner in a distant house on someone else's property.

That sounds like a great idea. I had seen an actual gear shifter at the local car parts place about a year ago, but it was out of the price range at the time. This will definitely work though.

What won't work is my printer and blue painters tape. I need to order a new build plate as the current one tore from all the abuse I put them through. I'm not sure about switching to glass, may have to give it some thought. My wife and I went out to hang with some friends so I started to print a D6 turn counter die for gasslands. Most looks okay, but the painters tape came loose and the top layer is all up. there's some lines at the half way point where it all shifted as well, so a 6 hour print wasted. I also have to look at my Cura settings because even though I know I put the infill down as lines it did cubic infill. extra time and material used.

So this mornings production was poor overall, but I did get the two part base and mounting gimble done for my Pegasus.

. The side to side motion is very limited, but forward and back is great.

Just started a print for a dual counter for both Hazard and Gear. I think it was about a 3 hour print. Hopefully all goes well with it. I also have a 30+ hout terrain print I want to consider once I get the bed all fixed. Off to amazon.

Nice use of parts for the flying car and tracked hotrod.

Good work.

"Mounting gimble" is a real word? Looks great and now you just need more flying cars like Coulson's oldtimer, some Blade Runner police cars and so forth

And the Thunder Hawk from MASK!

Love the hot rod tank.

MASK . Not that I forgot about that, just hadnt thought about printing any of that. I’ll have to look tonight if there are .stl files. I have some of the toys still. Grasshopper and the tow truck.

“The primary gamble is acting up again.” See if anyone gets that reference .


The Gaslands wasteland continues to grow.


The bus has curling issues on the corners, but that can be fixed with some “dirt”.

Cura downloaded version 4.7.0 and wiped out my settings. Just spent an hour reloading them. Some new updates, so we will see how the new print turns out when I get home tonight. Taking another set of the jersey plastic orange barricades off the printerin a minute.

The Gaslands stuff is looking great. I've not come across muck MASK stuff in my searches, just a couple of helmets that are designed to go on 28mm figures

I made the mistake of rewatching some of the cartoons recently... don't go back, it's bad :/

 endtransmission wrote:
The Gaslands stuff is looking great. I've not come across muck MASK stuff in my searches, just a couple of helmets that are designed to go on 28mm figures

I made the mistake of rewatching some of the cartoons recently... don't go back, it's bad :/

They all are. I think that was the point. The bigger plot holes allowed kids to be creative and write themselves in per se. the concepts were good guy vs bad guy which is easier to handle. No moral ambiguity. There weren’t people who were trying to do a bad thing for a good reason. Today we like complexity of character, but it really makes for grey areas, which was too much for our tiny brains. Plus every show had a kid sidekick and some sort of comic relief (the son and his scooter in mask) which even though they got in trouble, they always helped in the end.

I think it was more the 5 minute "who am I going to pick for the team this episode" segment that just reused the same animations over and over because in the early stages they only had about 3 toys to sell for the good guys

GI Joe on the other hand actually has some pretty good plots (with the odd exception) with reasonable characterisation going on in there somewhere. What's with the weird voices on the villains though?!

 endtransmission wrote:
the 5 minute "who am I going to pick for the team this episode" segment

I've got a heist-loving buddy who keeps wanting me to rewatch MASK precisely because of the Getting The Team Together segments. I've so far passed, given how naff 80s cartoons are since I've taken my nostalgia goggles off (they never fit great anyway )

Very inspiring Gaslands stuff! I 100% should be using my printer for that too But have been suffering through a lot of failed prints thanks to presupports failing on heavy bits, like the mech chassis that fell off its supports and adhered to the plastic lining. First time for me, but was happily pretty easy to pop off.

I'm going to have to rewatch the series now . I almost forgot about those scenes. It also reminds me of a TV show (live action parent stuff) from that time. I think it was masquerade. Anyway the government was using civillians to do the spy work because the spies had all been outed.

Hopefully my next Risen Sun order ships Friday. That's the release date anyway. Though Gaslands has really been a good break for me with getting hobby love back.

Make sure you get Silverhawks and Bionic Six in there, too.

Tried rewatching MASK some time ago on Prime and I fear they didn't leave those plot holes, because they thought kids were creative, but they wouldn't notice. I found it quite amazing that pre-school shows like Paw Patrol feel smarter than the stuff we watched as kids But despite that I'm still sad that I don't have my old MASK toys anymore

Nice work Theo, Little Yoda looks great!

Well, my memory cards both glitched, so had to reformat them. No big loss especially with the cura 4.7.0 downloaded on the desktop. The new program and the more powerful desktop slices files really quickly so deleting 30 files is more hassle than problem.

Also printed another Gaslands terrain piece and saved 6 hours by dropping resolution and removing the raft, I didn’t notice any quality difference, so I just dropped resolution again and starting a 15 hour print (42at highest resolution with a raft). I’ll see in the morning how it looks, if resolution is too bad I’ll stop it and start over.

On the Bushido front, Endtransmission decided to spend my money for me and pointed out another Asian themed Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iain-lovecraft/asian-adventures/description
There’s some nice terrain in there for October .

The Minimoto stuff looks good, Theo! I'm waiting on my Open Rebellion box currently...pretty excited to dip my toes into Bushido.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Minimoto stuff looks good, Theo! I'm waiting on my Open Rebellion box currently...pretty excited to dip my toes into Bushido.

Yeah, I have the open rebellion box and all the new Minimoto items coming as well. Hopefully they have shipped with release date of 9/4/20 and not waiting till friday to release them. Shipping really has not been too long from them with my previous orders as they use airmail. I just have to pick it up before the wife sees it as it has the price clearly labeled on the outside of the package .

 Theophony wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Minimoto stuff looks good, Theo! I'm waiting on my Open Rebellion box currently...pretty excited to dip my toes into Bushido.

Yeah, I have the open rebellion box and all the new Minimoto items coming as well. Hopefully they have shipped with release date of 9/4/20 and not waiting till friday to release them. Shipping really has not been too long from them with my previous orders as they use airmail. I just have to pick it up before the wife sees it as it has the price clearly labeled on the outside of the package .

I found a place stateside(Game Kastle) that discounts stuff during preorders and stocks Bushido, but then is MSRP after that. Just have to wait patiently for it now...

Apparently The Warstore and eFigures going away left a big problem for stuff like this. I'm totally not counting the days for my Open Rebellion set. Also totally haven't planned a small diorama or something. Noooope.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Minimoto stuff looks good, Theo! I'm waiting on my Open Rebellion box currently...pretty excited to dip my toes into Bushido.

Yeah, I have the open rebellion box and all the new Minimoto items coming as well. Hopefully they have shipped with release date of 9/4/20 and not waiting till friday to release them. Shipping really has not been too long from them with my previous orders as they use airmail. I just have to pick it up before the wife sees it as it has the price clearly labeled on the outside of the package .

I found a place stateside(Game Kastle) that discounts stuff during preorders and stocks Bushido, but then is MSRP after that. Just have to wait patiently for it now...

Apparently The Warstore and eFigures going away left a big problem for stuff like this. I'm totally not counting the days for my Open Rebellion set. Also totally haven't planned a small diorama or something. Noooope.

Do you have a 3D printer? Because I'm considering buying the $20 .STL file of Lone Wolf and Cub to have as a display piece.
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-lone-wolf-and-cub-107984
Also the Kickstarter files from
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iain-lovecraft/asian-adventures/description
might just be getting a workout on top of the ones from Titan Forge that I already have.

I don't have a 3D printer, just popsicle sticks, balsa wood, free time and a folder full of reference material!

Not sure where/how everything's going to shape up, but I'm thinking something small in a winter-y scene.

Iain Lovecraft is running a new kickstarter that includes all the first release .stl files and as many more for everything from a simple bridge through village houses and two story buildings to a 'Musashi' style castle. Even though already backed the first campaign, I'm backing this one because of all the new material.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iain-lovecraft/asian-adventures

I've got a couple pics of things I've printed on my thread and should have some painting to show off shortly.

 Meer_Cat wrote:
Iain Lovecraft is running a new kickstarter that includes all the first release .stl files and as many more for everything from a simple bridge through village houses and two story buildings to a 'Musashi' style castle. Even though already backed the first campaign, I'm backing this one because of all the new material.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iain-lovecraft/asian-adventures

I've got a couple pics of things I've printed on my thread and should have some painting to show off shortly.

I linked that a few posts above, but it needs more visibility, I just don't want to start a News and Rumors thread. I have too much going on. It
s doing really well too, over 60K when I looked last. Lots of stretch goals done. I thought about getting the level where I could sell prints, but I won't even have enough time to print my own stuff .

My Bushido Order shows it shipped yesterday . Wolves, Bears and Ninjas oh my.

Hope everyone (or at least those who had the long weekend) enjoyed themselves

I didn’t get to get nearly as much accomplished as I had hoped this week. My 64mb microSD keeps getting corrupted and loosing prints part way through the process. I think I had 4 big fails for a 15-20hour print loss this week because of it. I think I’ll just save a few prints onto that drive, mainly small ones that I can do while I’m near the printer to catch any failures early.

I did play around with some settings, but have reverted back to my core settings as the adjusted ones each had their own issues. Some take aways from doing some adjustments. Really tiny prints don’t need rafts, but doing multiple tiny prints all at once you need rafts as the one print will cool while your on another print and will come loose from the bed.

Gaslands is staying the focus right now for printing. Definitely lots of cool prints to be done out there, Some I’ll have to get better with the computer to accomplish.

I need to go shopping for some more cars. Need a third low cost car for my Highway patrol.

Found prints for the police lightbars , and also for their ram bars.

I’m thinking of going low firepower with them, handguns only, though the blue car will have some sort of dropper weapon as I glued a set of dune bar headlights to the back and they look good enough for smoke/oil/glue droppers. I might try and print a motorcycle guy tonight to have three in the 50 can range and then I can tool up the others more with skills.

While at Miniaturemarket this weekend I found out that the second Edition of Frostgrave has been delayed . They didn’t say why or how long, but eluded to Osprey having pushed back a few titles like Frostgrave, Oathmark and a couple others. I’m sure the Pandemic has a lot to do with it, but I hope it gets sorted soon. I have my copy on preorder from them and I am looking forward to seeing this next installment.