As mentioned in the verbose intro post I intend for this blog to be a build log (b-log... apt) so i can track my project progress.
Now that the Imperial Fleet is complete I decided to start building the Chaos Fleet. This gives me a second force to practice with/understand enemy tactics etc.
The models are some relatively new ones from thingiverse from two different modellers; Mkhand_Industries and Dockmaster
While the exact Fleet composition at this stage is an unknown it will hopefully have about 2000pts of options, as i'll be looking to play 1000-1500pt games... at least for starters.
To my untrained eye a lot of the Chaos ships seem to be based off the same chassis and swapped out weapons bays.
It's perhaps hard to see from the pics but the prints (especially round the weapons bays) are coming about a bit breakable/fragile. I may end up printing extra turrets etc to help fill the model out.
Each of the larger cruisers took about 2hr:10min to print (single model files including weapons, perhaps not ideal). i found that about half way through (twice) that the printer was failing to feed filament. Might have been something to do with being a super-hot day, new/heavy plastic spool, old crappy printer... anyway i was able to save the second job by getting the filament feeding again (printer doesn't have a 'pause' feature which would be super handy).
anyway, main point here is knowing your printer's capabilities and getting workable results within those parameters.
So that's the start of a project, and probably the first in about a half dozen steps before finished product.
[Update 2018-01-10]
Hmmm, my printer is being problematic, to the point where production could be suspended indefinitely. Have 5 cruisers and 1 raider, so not really ideal timing.
[Update 2018-01-24]
Printer is dead, so project suspended indefinitely.
Until next time...
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