Here
are some of the things that has materialized the latest week or so.
The
Stone
Footbridge is a Printable Scenery
piece, and if you buy the set (NZ$ 5.95) you get two variants, this and one
made for sunken riverbeds. This is 100% scale and is rather big, but I intend
to print a couple more but smaller. I printed this with .2 mm layer height and on the nearly horizontal areas there is a noticeable layering. The
next one I’ll print at .1 instead, to get a better result. A nice and very
useful piece.
The
greveyard pieces are also Printable Scenery
and their Winterdale
Cemetery set. That’s a rather excellent set with more than 20 printable
pieces for your cemetery, see pic below, for NZ$ 9.95. It's also part of the Fantasy Ruins Bundle.
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| © Printable Scenery and used with permission |
The
cart comes from Fat Dragon Games and is
a freebie from their newsletter, which is well worth the free subscription.
The
box is from Hayland Terrain and
their Gold
Mine Expansion, which is a useful set of shacks, boxes and tunnel entrances
for £5. More on the shacks here.
Finally, the outhouse is another Printable
Scenery piece, this time from The
Miners Shack set, at NZ$ 9.95, which includes a large shack useable in a Wild
West setting and also this smaller outhouse.
One day perhaps when finances allow I may buy one. until then you're continuing to provide some quality eye candy.
ReplyDeleteYou'll get one, sooner or later. They are very fun, you know :-)
DeleteLooks great, lovely fountain!
ReplyDeleteThe fountain turned out really well.
DeleteHi Joakim - you are turning out some interesting stuff here. I recently bought some WW1 planes from Shapeways and the finish is really quite rough, people talk about doing 3 to 6 layers of dilute PVA and water to smooth them out. Just wondered what your thoughts were, the things I can see here would have a rough texture anyway, stone, wood etc have you done much that should be smooth and was it smooth?
ReplyDeleteI'm still experimenting a lot, and I'm slowly getting the hang of it. So far I have mostly done rough surfaces - wood, stone - and that works rather well, depending on layer height. The fountain turned out really well and I used 0,1 mm layering on that. There is a noticeable layering if you really look closely, but on usual arm-lenght away it is not noticeable.
DeleteHaven't used any smoothening.
Flat surfaces are more difficult, and there are ways to work around it a bit, but I haven't really done so much of thay yet.
I'm printing a bigger wooden house now, and so far it looks really good. Will come up on the blog soon.
I'm surprised at the crappy stuff you got from shapeways. I thought they did better than that.
I bought 2 of 3 different planes, the simplest one the Fokker E111 is the worst finish, I've sanded some of the flat areas to try and start off with the smoothest finish before I try and fill it with the PVA mix, but there are quite noticeable steps, the other 2 planes are much more complex prints and have a much better finish. It maybe that I have a couple of prints that should be rejected.
DeleteI'll try and remember to take some before and after pictures and maybe post them on my blog and then ask for your opinion, but that will be a few weeks away I think.
Anyway as I said before I think you are getting some good results here, only problem is the more you print the more you have to paint;)
"only problem is the more you print the more you have to paint"... yes, that is very true. The printer prints faster than I paint, and I want to paint figures, too.
DeleteIt was no problem when I made dungeon walls and floors, those were easy and fast to paint, but I have a Wild West bank finished now, took me three days to print, and no way I have that painted in just three (ordinary) days.
Wow 3 days to print. I don't think I've got my head around this concept yet. :)
Deletewell, three parts and each took between 10 and 15 hours.
DeleteYes these types of pieces really add too the game experience....Love it.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly do!
DeleteBlimey Joakim it's good to see you're still alive and kicking, even if not blogging. Hope everything is well with you and you're still getting some gaming in after the recent pestilence.
ReplyDeleteWe're good here, Mrs V and I spent 3 months in Spain and France this year, Brexit means we couldn't stay longer :(.
Not much wargaming with figures but I'm flying WWl planes once a month in an online campaign running on the Wings of Glory forum. 2nd Lt John Vagabond got shot down over no mans land last night but hid in a shell hole and made it through the lines and back to his squadron with a bit of lucky dice rolling.
Anyway, take care.
Cheers
Hi there, John! Good to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteWe're all fine on this front. I had a modelling slump a couple of months, but have re-occupied the painting table now and is chugging out a lot of painted 3D-printed stuff. I did print a lot earlier and just squirrelled it away, unpainted. Now I'm re-exploring that stuff and it is a bit of an off-season x-mas.
We're starting to game at the club, a bit. Mostly Zombicide at the moment, but I hope to start a Frostgrave campaign again, and maybe Stargrave. Gaming-wise it's getting better and will hopefully be at least a weekly thing from September.
Have a great time!
Cheers