Treasure Island House

        Some more 3D terrain for Anno Domini 1666. It is a 2D game, but the demo I got was 3D. 3D is much cooler.  

        The Flashforge burns out everything and anything that will fit its print bed. It is faster, has no issues, and quality is better than the Ender3. With the smaller jobs, I can use the rolls of filament that are under a 100g. The Flashforge also will restart if it runs out. The Ender3 never gets it right.

        This is the second printing. I dropped the first. It broken into too many pieces. The supports on the Ender3 suck. The Flashforge's are so much easier if there are any.

        The Ender3 clogged again. This was its longest run without a clog ever. I am pretty quick at the unclog and change now. Sadly it was a 3rd into a print.

        I have started printing the other Treasure Island building, the warehouse. The first floor when great. The 2nd floor has failed 3 times. Two time it stopped laying filament like it was clogged. The third time was awesome.

            It has never gotten past this point. I will have to re-slice it to see WTF is happening? Others print fine.

3D Print Service

        It is hard to find minis for the Golden Age. B&P and Black Scorpion only make so many. Old man and 1666 can be drafted from. There is one or two packs with North Star and Foundry. Perrys have 5-6. I don't want 50 dudes in 6 poses. I used a print service. The prints were cheaper than buying the stls. I should have bought the stls!

        Last year I used a print service to burn off some minis. The dude never knew there was a scale or didn't understand what 28mm was. I got minis ranging from 37 to 63mm. After too many emails, he finally agreed to reprint them. It took him 4 months to do it. They arrived last week. 

        They are great quality. Very sharp prints. A bunch of Arabic/Indian Ocean theater pirates, a few Caribbean pirates, and natives. I will use them in the 1695 event, 1666, and B&P of course.

        Why bother checking at this point? I knew he would screw up again. So much so, I didn't want to open the box. And I could tell he didn't rescale two right away. I am not dealing with that dude ever again. The two jacked in scale can go into the box of mini for the kid to paint.

        I used a Black Scorpion mini to check size. Their minis are dead on for 28mm, no 32mm shady business. This guy was also standing straight up. The rest were dead nuts on. Kind of makes me think he never reprinted the two jacked ones. Just sent them back to me.

Mountain

2023

Bought = 18, 1 collection 

Sold = 35, 71 Detachments

Painted = 246

28mm = 33

20mm = 90

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 86

Terrain bought = 51

Terrain painted = 15

Printed Terrain = 4

Printed = 30

Games

Games played = 11

Games hosted = 5

Books

Bought = 1

Read = 3

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies

Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game

Painted = 763

Etsy circus

 

        There are a ton of excellent one off minis all over Etsy. 6-8 bucks a mini with shipping. Not GW prices but not cheap. And you know they are printed for about 30 cents. The problem is the print farmers. They don't understand scale. They have no quality control in scale. 

        Examples being mini can be listed at 28mm and will come 25 to 32mm. Those at 32 will come up to 48 or 54mm. When questioned and reprints requested they push back stating the listing. Yeah its says 32 and the mini came at 44 or 37 or 50.  

        Then how a mini's scale is determined is unknown. Minis are measured from foot to eye. 80% of them measure from foot to the top of the head. 19% include the printed/attached base in the measurement. 1% actually know what they are doing. 

        Even if you tell them wargaming 28mm scale. They will be 25-32mm. They cannot get it right.

                I think all of this could be solved by the designers of these stls. If they could keep it together enough to scale everything the same, the farmers life would be easy. An example here is the Warmaster minis out there. They are all scaled properly. And then there are those printing Epic. That will come from 6 to 12mm with no reason.

        Now getting them reprinted it another battle. The farmers have to be backed into a corner to reprint the shit they fucked up. It take formal complaints to the host to get any traction.

        You can get very interesting minis to break up the limited number produced in the available lines. You need to understand it will be a FUBARed circus. You may never get what you wanted in the end.

        In the end. Life will be easier if you buy or trade for the stls and print the minis yourself!

Etsy wtf

 

            I am not home long enough to run the resin printer. I can't find the stls. Or they are not for sale. Etsy right? Easy and the minis are not much more than metals. 

        I want 28s. They do 28s. Except they don't.

        These mofos are like 44m. Not 32 or 28. 

                "I print at 38mm, which is the size labyrinth miniatures are designed."

        No, not ever close. 44 is 6 greater than 38, 15 almost 16% tooooooo big. and not 28 or 32 like your page says. 

               "I'm sorry that they're not what you expected, but I feel it would be unfair to reprint an entire order for free given this is the default size of the figs and that's right on the front page."

        Reprinted at half price. Because they are almost half the size?

        Update:  The maker is taking the minis back and shipping me new ones for just the shipping.

Ender 3 Max " upgrade"

 

        It, the filament ate up the gear. One the bottom is the one chewed up. Filament is harder than Brass? Why is it brass? 

        The whole filament pusher thing was replaced for all metal. The tube the Filament runs through was replaced. The nozzle and rubber dude replaced. 

        The whole system leveled and aligned. And now it prints. But I am home so it will shit its self soon.

Ender 3 Max clogged print head again

 

        Get yourself an Ender Bro. All Y'all that recommended the Ender, eat a bag of dicks. This is the most problematic printer out of the 4 that I have owned. The Flashforge is the best. Sadly its print bed is too small.

        3 days in and the print fails. I am not home and I lose a week's worth of printing time. Clogged head. MOFO! If you see this bitch in the street one day, don't say a dam thing.

        Parts are ordered. All metal filament pusher, new tube, nozzles.

Dark Realms Tortuga house 3 part II

        I should state a plan or a goal other than just printing shit out. A ton of random printed stuff is...well another pile of shame.

                Goal; To have a Caribbean island/Arabic 1700 town area in which to game Blood & Plunder and Anno Domini 1666. All structure to pull double duty.

                  Plan; Print out a dock yard and supporting structures. Print out a Corsair proper town. Be done by Fall In 2023.

Maybe tie it all into the original B&P board

        All 3 roof pieces were printed out on the Ender. It fucked up 2 of them. The 3rd is a little dicked up but not enough. The Flashforge stepped in and printed out the porch roof again. It is printing the other half now.

        I said I could live with the Ender porking a side of the 2nd floor. That was until the arches failed to fit. Green stuff for the patch job. I have the air brush soaking or it would be painted.

        Now this is the part I cannot figure out. I test fitted the steps, painted them. After gluing them in place the 2nd floor would not fit. Some how the width of the top of the steps is bigger than the hole they slide through. They broke of course. 

        The insides of all the buildings will get painted on the road.

        The FlashForge burned out the 2nd floor porch supports. No issue of course. The porch's rails will print out tomorrow. Everything will get painted on the road all together.

        I am not printing the steps again. Their point in game play would only be occupying space and indicating where up/down occurrs.

        The holes in the top of the wall are so the doors will move. They are printing now. The hole is paper clip diameter.

Ender Max "it prints"

Tortuga House 3

         How about that? It printed with no issues while I was gone. The girls checked in on it morning and night. Now I need to teach them to start a print.

        And I am home and the raft starts to pull up. WTF? That front left corner is a little jacked up. I won't stop the print. In the days these building were built. The builders were not kept to the highest standards. Good enough was shitting excellence back then! My building will be more accurate being sort of jacked up.

Ender 3 Max First print, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

1st print hour and a half in the nozzle is jammed. Clean that mess out. Restart.

             Its all good until I go to bed. The base comes off the bed. The whole night is a spiders web. Get that mess sorted and restart. The bed is now not level. Fuck Ender! The nozzle is clogged. Replace nozzle and clean out the extruder. WTF? The flashforge never had issues. The Fabotum or whatever never had these issues when it would print.

        And now I am not sticking to the bed. Clean bed, adjust bed temperature, still no go. Reload Cura, check all the settings, re slice and go. At least its laying down the raft without issues. This is as far as I have gotten.

        I had to go back on the road. When the wifi got home she said it was doing good.

Ender 3 Max Zero Quality Control

        I am running out of space. Step one was to clear off enough table space for the beast to occupy.

I got the biggest print bed they make. It is easily 2 times bigger than the Flashforge. I will be able to print all the pirate/28mm house I want now!

        It comes well packed in a giant box. With no filament in the box, it is still heavy. 6 bolts to screw in and it prints. 2 each side for the X vertical rails. 2 to attach the User interface.

        Well well well......Who ever assembles these is an asshole. Not one single bolt or nut was tight. The X and Z was a single assembly. No one ever leveled out the X. The guide the X travels through was assembled wrong and it was not tight with lock washers in random places. 

        The Flashforge printed straight out of the box!

        The guides the X travels on were not tight or aligned. All the wheels had to be reset. I took the X apart and fought it for two days until it was within 1mm left and right. Oh...the vertical rails are not the same length either.

        Creality is a top, better of the line filament printers. Everyone recommended an Ender. The one I got had no quality control. There is no way it was ever tested. Any one who assembled it for test could not have noticed how jacked the X was. I didn't send the bitch back because if I broke it fixing it. I would get a new one anyways. Learning experience! What the shit! 48hrs later it prints.