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.

Back Out on the Road part III

 

        Last time for a while up in the Hilton. I got  enough points now to cover the summer trip out west. I am switching next week to the Holiday Inn. Its a 2k or 10k promotion. You stay 4 get 10, stay 2 get 2k. SO shit you know I took the 4 nighter for 10. Plus I will be adding in 3k every night. Thats like 54k every other week. I see some days on the beach. Well at the pool bar.

        This week I got Tortuga house 6 with me.

        Some more Black Scorpion pirates

        I was thinking why is this dude hands so poorly done. Then I put my glasses on. The bitch is wearing gloves.

        Then I got these lights. Work bought them. And with my dam glasses I can see

2022 Yearly Goals and Plans 3rd Quarter Update

         The year's goals have been mostly ignored. I bought collections and armies. I developed dick all for players. I have TO and GM no games. I did not buy terrain but I did print a shit load. 

        The traveling all week every week has put a stop to gaming. That in effect stopped player development. Other than teaching the kid to play Warmaster and Epic. She played at AdeptiCon and HistoriCon. So in reality thats a win. 

        I have been buying and selling collections. It is more to the plus side of the stuff I got. I did sell off half the Geo-Hex. cdjsafn

Year's Goals

Paint, Sell, and stop buying collections or armies.

        **** No buying terrain. 
        **** No buy armies or collections.
        **** Sell off the dust collecting items

        **** Develop new players

        **** TO and GM games at Cons 

Year's Plans

        This year's plans have been going as I planned. This is also the first time that has happened. What I wanted to do or said I would do, got done.

        Blood and Plunder is full steam ahead. I have been plowing thru minis. I think there is over 80 done now. Easily enough for a 200 point a side game. I did buy a collection, and boats, and more minis. and more minis.

        I did not run a single game. I did finish the Cavalry. Mostly. At HistoriCon I got a butt ton of minis for nothing. They only need some love and rebasing. That lot made this happen. I have Dismounted and some CSA Cav left. That will be a next year thing.

        None of the Bare Metal got even touched. The collection I purchased is completely done now. I purchased a painted army also. Maybe next year. Or maybe I find someone to paint everything!

Nothing is going to happen this year. I am crazy over pirates. Anno Domini is filtering in. If I was to guess, I would progress from these two into M&T again before the others.

Blood and Plunder terrain Port Crane

        I printed the Crane out on the FlashForge long ago. I finished the base, but never liked it enough to complete the actual crane part. Not the model, my paint job was BS. I went back over it this weekend. The crane part was completed, including the ropes. The base part was repainted with the air brush.
 

Mountain

2022

Bought = 368 + a collection + 3 Armies

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

Painted = 707

28mm = 81

20mm = 45

15mm = 342

10mm = 0

Epic = 0

Terrain bought = 82
Terrain painted = 238

Printed Terrain = 2

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 14
Read = 6

Anno Domini 1666 "Francisco"

Francisco de Moctezuma 

         Born in the year 1645. Her real name is Francisca. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Montezuma II, the ninth and last emperor of the Aztecs. Her grandfather, Pedro Tesifón Moctezuma de la Cueva, was Montezuma II's grandson, and a Knight of Santiago. He was granted the count (conde) title by king Phillip IV in 1627. Francisca's penchant for combat caused her to assume a man's disguise. She was the fifer in Gran Tercio Viejo de Nápoles, where she fell in love with El Capitan. The rest of the band is aware of her true identity, and is very careful to keep it a secret.

        Her combination of two skills: Stealth and Sneaking makes her especially adept at approaching her target unobstructed. Inconspicuous let her move without being attacked.Poisoned darts from their blowgun can heavily wound or even kill even the strongest enemy.

         Here she is. I just went with a darker skin color. She should be lighter for Aztec and living in Spain. The choice for green feathers was random. Aztecs and Mayan loved green feathers!

                                                      

Mountain

2022

Bought = 368 + a collection + 3 Armies

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

Painted = 706

28mm = 81

20mm = 45

15mm = 342

10mm = 0

Epic = 0

Terrain bought = 82
Terrain painted = 238

Printed Terrain = 1

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 14
Read = 6

Dark Realms Tortuga house 3 part III

 

        The first building is printed. It took 3 days to print each floor. About two weeks total including reprints. The 2nd building was done in about a week. The Flashforge was printing the same smaller things at the same time. Too many times I had to reprint as the Ender needed a beatin!

Lessons Learned;

            If you can running two printers at once, can save days. By breaking the various stls out, with smaller parts being done on the Flashforge, print time in days is cut down. More time can be saved by slicing all the parts/jobs at once. Make sure your printer is sorted before starting. Let the Flashforge reprint what fits and has been screwed up by the Ender. I must use a lighter primer color and paint as mush as I can with the airbrush.

        

            I have the kid trained to pop parts off, re-initialize, and start a job. This will get more printed while I am traveling.

        The roof was dry brush with a terra-cotta. 

        I primed the whole thing brick red. That was a mistake. Stone is a much better choice. My rooms are brick red. I am not going to paint the interior walls. Screw that. 

        After the Brick red primer. I went with a light grey. It didn't look right. I went back over that with the sickly yellow. The primer on the exposed bricks was left as is. Only washed with MIG Africia Korps wash.

        Before I got the Ender's shit together. I let the Ender print the roof. The back half, in the picture above, was printed by the Ender. The front reprinted by the Flashforge. These print problems can be seen between the floor and were the arch meet the 2nd floor.

        The doors and shutters have pre positioned holes to hinge them. A paper clip is to be used. I couldn't make clips work. I drove 1.2mm diameter nails down to hinge the door and shutters.

        A 20mm and 25mm base fits just fine within the structure. The building is scaled at 32mm. Minis with a 3mm thick base can fit thru the doors. The railings also come up to just past the waist of a mini on a 3mm thick base.

Mountain

2022

Bought = 368 + a collection + 3 Armies

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

Painted = 705

28mm = 80

20mm = 45

15mm = 342

10mm = 0

Epic = 0

Terrain bought = 82
Terrain painted = 238

Printed Terrain = 1

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 14
Read = 6