[several revision later as projects progress]
I went from a small smattering of jobs to several projects on the go at the same time.
A bit of BSF painting...
Finished painting eldar shadowsomething. Nothing spectacular but happy enough with the result. looks better in real life.
Have started on the next character piece; pious flamethrower. Black base coat done and working on the basic blocking colours.
[later] Finished painting pious flamethrower.
Have placed navigator mcbig-hat on the paint table.
Printing 'a' - real stuff...
I recently printed some 'real life' prints for a buddy of mine. Tool shop stuff for routers and air extractors and what not.
Anyway, knowing that the print quality was absolute rubbish i pulled the printer apart a bit (not too much) but enough to find that the y-axis was missing a screw and the other screw that was there was held in by friction... not a nut.
Tightened things back up and glued bits in to make doubly sure.
Printed off the tool shop pieces which were rather large, and it all went scarily problem-free. About an 8hr print for the larger piece.
Printing 'b' BFG Transports...
Following that, printing off some transport ships for BFG. These are only really used for 'scenario' games - i.e. you protect a convoy as it travels edge to edge across the board etc... these make up the convoy needing protection.... halp may, halp may.
[later] transport ships all printed, glued and awaiting inspiration. 7 sets of 2 ships.
Still on gothic...
[later later] I went to wire-cut the imperial navy foam tray and no joy. Given it's plugged into a wall socket it's not the battery. The wire just isn't heating up - the 'hot-stick' however, is.
Can pull the component apart i guess [yawn]. I'm also contemplating looking for a larger wall-wart and upping the power.
[after that]
it appears that the pin-socket connection in the detachable plug-in bit aren't connecting well.
found the power box for (probably) my old printer. 19v 6amp. Safe to say that when the ends were placed across the wire the was a glow like a small wirey sun for a second then it evaporated.
back to the drawing board.
Printing 'c' Epic Emperor Titan...
I also decided it would be an idea to try printing an emperor titan - because... i can.
Been contemplating it for a while and decided to pull the trigger.
At the moment i have files for a 'warmonger' titan, which is a variation of an emperor but with different armaments, more a ranged platform with a more versatile armament selection.
Probably could mock up some 'spires' and do a 'true' emperor. [later: didn't happen, probably won't]
There was a recommendation or suggestion on thingiverse that this type of configuration worked fine. we'll see.
Compared to MY marines/guards my other titans are actually a decent scale, so perhaps the Emperor will work as well. It's meant to be big... just not sure if it will be too big for my table terrain.
[later later] This thing is frickin colossal. i'm not saying it's not to (tru)scale but it's big. Like when you see the 28mm knights they're pretty big right, but next to an Epic building they're crazy big.
Just found and interesting picture and even the original model was pretty big. dunno.
A side-by-side with the warlord, warhound and a knight demonstrated that the scale is actually sane.
I guess the main issue i have with the scale is that it's going to be towering over EVERY bit of terrain on the board (and most boards i've played on).
That said (there's always a that said!!) the buildings i have created are meant to be 'small', kind of little outpost structures rather than gargantuan hab-blocks or hive cities.
So, here we see all the raw printed bits in situ. Warhound for comparison... sit... good boy.
Have started the clean up, which will be a slow process (not like there's a rush or, in fact, that i will ever use it). Lightly sanding, filling with epoxy and plaster-filler. Generally trying to get it presentable, and hopefully without too much striation.
Bit difficult to tell how much of that will be required with stark white plastic and black paints. However, black is good for checking how the plaster filler is going.
Each of the 8 'missiles' uses the top of a deathstrike missile glued onto a gattling barrel. hopefully will look ok. Less of a ICBM, and more of a pointy stick-grenade on steroids.
Also, as per the warhound scale pic the original hydra cannons (AA ones on the top turrets) were way too large. Found the hydra (vehicle) ones on thingiverse and rescaled to 112.5%. Better aesthetics i think.
Printing 'd' BSF cover...
Printed out a bunch of the BFS 'cover' barriers/barricades.
These are just simple/thin wall shapes. I always forget to apply cover rules when i play. I'm sure a physical wall would help remind me.
Should have enough to cover any scenario/combat map in the deck. I put all the tiles down with as many cover bits as possible upward and made sure they were all accounted for. should be enough. Will probably finish these with a blue/black gloss finish at some stage.
[later 20190318: in situ, not painted yet. soon.]
Printing 'e' Epic building enhancements...
Decided that my epic buildings needed buttresses.
The plan was always to make simple building then go back and embellish them later.
Have printed off some bearable ones for the 'Ecclesiasty' buildings, aka churches.
Will attempt to also add some aquillas and bits and bobs while i'm at it.
Have added some plaster filler to neaten a few things up since they're getting reworked.
These ones (pictured) have got some texture paint on them so must have gone just base colour on these one.
Will need a little bit of re-basing as well.]
Don't think i'll have enough plastic for buttresses for all the 'apartment' type buildings (the plainer, more boring ones). Am using the last of the plastic making as many as i can - not worried if some are and some aren't enhanced.
New Printing Issues
Anyway so the printer is behaving itself. or at least it kinda is. for some reason it has taken to 'pausing' mid-print (one thing after another, no). you can resume the print and it carries on where it left off (though i had to do this twice for one job - emperor leg components).
One can correctly assume that i find this annoying.
Not sure if it's gcode file or hardware related. don't really care either.
Annoying because you have to be around to ensure the job continues, which i kind of do in case it slips off the base, but yeah, just another niggle.
Printed out the emperor torso took quite some time. there were 2 stops which really pissed me off.
First one at 0.3mm so barely started. The second one after 'printing all night' at about 60%. So after removing a blob of melt it finished without another stoppage.
Unreliable. perhaps the fact that i've only ever run small jobs has hidden this issue and it was always problem. dunno.
Printing Sayonara ?
Basically... i'm just looking to finish off the roll of plastic. it's gone pretty nasty and with the hot days/roll tension it's consistently snapping during the 'non-print-hours', so i have to reset/re-feed it every session.
Anyway after this roll is done i think my print career will be taking an indefinite hiatus.
Until next time...
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