Keeping up is hard to do.

Now I know I have been quiet for a while. I got busy finishing stuff for CanCon and just life in general that I didn't get around to posting. I didn't paint much early in the year and I am only now getting back into it. I was always thinking that I would do another post soon. Yeah, real soon. Then I looked back and realised that I hadn't posted anything since August. Since AUGUST! Opps.

So this is an attempt to get back on track.

Seven Years War.

Austrian Chevuax Legers. Figures by Eureka Miniatures.

 Austrian Dragoons. Figures by Old Glory.

Austrian Curassiers. Figures by Old Glory.

Austrian Horse Grenadiers. Figures by old Glory. Coat and belt colours vary as these units were made up of the combined Horse Grenadier companies of 3-4 regiments.

Napoleonic.

Austrian Dragoons. Figures unknown.

 

I have had these guys so long I have forgotten who made them. Also I had the riders but no mounts. So I printed the horses on my FDM printer but as the model I used had no harness on the horse I had to model that afterward. And I had to modify the model to make the riders fit. A lot of work.

 

Warhammer 40K.

All of these figures are at least 25 years old, some are more than 30. Many are the old plastic "beakies" from the original box set. Some are the first release metals.

First Tactical Squad.

Second Tactical Squad.

Scout Squad. A mix of the first Scout blister pack metals and Veteran blister pack metals.

Librarian. Original metal figure.

Captain. From the first "Space Marine Leaders" blister pack in metal. Rather boring compared to the sargent in the first squad from the same pack.

Role Playing.

Cleric of Cayden Calien for Pathfinder. Figure from Reaper Bones.

Android Operative for Starfinder. Figure by Dark Sword.

I think that gets me up to date. Lots of stuff not quite finished sitting on my painting desk. Here's hoping that I can keep up ... this time.

Of Printing and Painting.

So having got a 3D printer for birthday/Christmas/Father's day present I have been testing it out. One of the first things I printed was a figure from Heroforge to see if it was possible to 3D print character figures for games, mostly RPG's (and no I don't mean anti tank grenades). The results were dissappointing.

However after much reading and watching (Youtube has a small amount of instructional gold on it) I have mucked about with the settings a bit and the results are below. Both are from Artisan Guild who as far as I know only do .stl files. Anyway, here they are...

Alvar on Thunderbeak.

Alvar is from Artisan Guild's Dwarf set from a couple of months ago. I got these through their Pateron group.  Each month they have a survey on what sort of figures people want the following month and in each there is a hero figure. Also each month there is a prize for painting the hero figure up. Needless to say I am yet to win.

Overall I am happy with Alvar but the printing of his mount got a little rough on the right side of the head for some reason. Oh, I am printing on a Flashforge Adventurer 3 FDM printer. The model is a single piece.

Vesdra on Gorefang.

This time they modeled mount and rider separately, which makes painting soo much easier. They also did a free-standing version of Vesdra (which I still need to finish) so I had the idea of being able dismount Gorefang. To that end both models have small (3mm) rare earth magnets in them which holds Vesdra fairly well to Gorefang's back.

And for a complete change of pace...

The German 17cm Kanone 18. Model by Tigerace1945 (I think) found on Thingiverse. Printed at 20mm scale. I should now do a 21cm Morser 18 to go with it and complete the heavy artillery batallion.

Reaching for the Stars.

Ok so I haven't actually done all of this this month. This has been a long time printing and then painting with only the current form done.

So I am an RPG group that plays Starfinder, and sometimes we need a spaceship. The Starship III came along at just the right time and so viola, here is our spaceship.

If we upgrade the ship I might print out new bits that can be added or swapped in, hence the comment about its current form. I might also go back and touch up a few details.

Anyway, enjoy.

The Bridge.

Pilot and Navigator stations.

Roof of the Bridge.

Living quarters ...

... with full amenities.

Engineering and the Main Hold.

One of the engines.