Dark Realms "City of Corsairs Watch Tower" part III

 

        The shade cloth things were done on the road. Some tape helped keep the lines straight. The steps got weathered, all MIG products.

    This thing is massive. The jetty it sits on has been printing for over a week. The wife has been unloading the bed and starting the next section. She doesn't or can't figure out how to reload filament. So I was pushed back a weekend. She also printed the same one twice. Which is how she ran out of filament.

        Home long enough to catch Navy Vs Temple and reload the filament. It will be done when I get back Wednesday. The building was a roll plus of filament. The jetty is a roll. Not count screw ups 2.5 rolls total. With screw ups 3 rolls.

        Yes the ender is finally not fucking up. The Flashforge needs the pusher cleaned. It is not detecting filament presents.

Fall In 3 days to go

 

        Of course I failed to register myself until 3 days before. I also failed to determine what I was going to play. There I was minding my own business at work, when oh you big dummy. Work was being dummy. I can be dummy. My army lists with no practice ahead.

HMGS Fall In NetEA spin up

 

        Its about that time. The registration will open soon. I asked the kid if she wanted to go? Of course she said yes. What army do you want to play? Ok look at all of them and pick one! The purple one, Eldar. 

        And she want the titans. All titans, all the time. The Fir Iolarion titan list. Its a rough list, 4 activations. One Warlock, One Phantom, two twins. We played a short board, 2 turn game just to see if she liked it. Turn two she was down to two activations. 

        The Titans faced an old Tau list, Stealth Suits, of 13 activations. The Tau took a beating. An activation gone, a unit broken. It didn't matter, even helping her chose targets/threats.

        On to test two. Same format. Something quick that we can stop and make changes to and restart. This run through is with the Alaitoc. She still wants Titans, twins. They were fast enough, hit and run, and poured dice down. Same Tau list. If one of these works out for her, then she can play all the other armies in the case.

        She did much better placing objectives and understanding why.

        This time she pushed the Tau to turn 4. At which point the Tau couldn't keep up. I was helping with target priority and getting her to break units.

        Next is Dave's list. He sent pointers along too. 

That one has no failed the last four tests. Her ass ain't going. She is on lockdown until I see all "B"s.

Books "Maya"

 

        Not my normal area of interest. Almost every shelf in weighted down with Egypt, Republican Rome, French and Indian War, Modern Warfare, and the Colonial/Sudan. Not made what the current interest is I also end up back to my 4 favorites. 

2008

        Last year and this year have been a reread of the Horus Heresy, a deep drive into pirates. I also took dad's AWI and FIW collection. The year before that was mostly Warring Period in Japan. I had a Japanese Engineer supporting my sourcing and translating for me. 

18,700

        The Inca are the only ancient American culture I studied. That was for a 2 and half week trip to Peru way back in 2005. I went to climb and more so for the Inca ruins specifically. It was 5 days of stairs at great than 10,00 feet on the Inca trail to get to Machu Picchu. I trained for 6 months. I carried all my own gear and water/food.

2005

Trail to the temple of the Moon

       Now the kid has a ancient Americas project. She chose the Maya because in 19 we went to Chichen Itza. 

        Her teacher, while the ancient Americas are not her speciality, is....well not her speciality. The teacher knows jack all. The kid knows less than jack all. I know jack. As the project progressed it became apparent the teacher has gross conceptual errors. Which leaves me as the math tutor and now the Maya teacher. No worries I can smoke through books and retain most of what I read.

        My limited library, dad's limited, and my Aunt's were pulled first. Mostly flashy coffee table books and Nat Geo's. They are great at establishing the framework, tricky words, and catchy phases. Both the kid and myself plowed thru them. I started reading them because I didn't think she was reading them. Normally when she reads this sort of thing she asks questions. No questions, her ass ain't reading shit. 

        After that it was AbeBooks. I dump about 40 total. Truly crap copies and library resells.

        This is the only one I dumped any money on. Landa's Maya glyphs to Spanish characters and why he left modern letters out. (Landa was the cock eater, inquisitor that burned the Maya books. An inquisition that landed his sweet ass in jail. His notes and books no longer exist. This is all from someone's half ass coping effort) The round table records from Tikal is a solid modern source for glyph translation, but I don't plan on learning the language. 

Mountain

2022

Bought = 378 + 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 = 5

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 18
Read = 9

Dark Realms "City of Corsairs Watch Tower" part II

 

        It had looked like everything was golden after the power outage. Then as the print progressed. There was a shift in the x. The print was off center 3mm to the left. Y axis was fine. It was bad enough, I restarted the print 20 hrs in.

        Finally round two finished. With all the misprints, this beast took over a spool of filament. I still have to print the base. I am guessing that the base will be a roll of filament and 4 print jobs of 3 days.

        I will be taking the final part with me to paint.

Dark Realms "City of Corsairs Watch Tower"

        All 3 parts were printed on the Flashforge. The rest have a huge foot print. The Ender clogged half way through the one it was printing last week. It is almost done with 2 of 3 parts now. Then it is the 4 huge Wharf pieces. Those I am guessing will be a months worth of printing.

        Stone Lowes flat primer with Badger Tomb Guard blue and Blood red. There was over spray witht he airbrush that needed touching up. 

        The other parts are printing away. The ender restarted itself after a power loss. I almost shit myself. Never would have expected that!
 

        While all this was going on. I repainted the Treasure Island ruined Light house. The top 3rd was glued to the 2nd part. It look a little more colonial island-ish.

        Two more from BS. The orange is for Cuse with their best season since 89.

Mountain

2022

Bought = 378 + a collection + 3 Armies

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

Painted = 709

28mm = 83

20mm = 45

15mm = 342

10mm = 0

Epic = 0

Terrain bought = 82
Terrain painted = 238

Printed Terrain = 5

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 18
Read = 9

Dark Realms Tortuga house 6

        With the 2nd floor printed while I was gone. The ground floor is printing now. Each take about 2.5 days to print.
         I fixed the 1st layer sticking with glue stick technique.

        The Flashforge is a beast. It has been printing all the other stuff for house 6. Without out it, I would be a month printing on the Ender 3 for a single building.

        I am back to priming with a flat stone Lowes special.

        Cause I am a dummy. I have both printers busy and no roof. Next up on the Ender will be the roof. I can't print it on the Flashforge because its too big. I can print it as one part on the Ender.

I am not painting the inside walls. They are what they are. Doing the insides reminds me of building a doll house the week before Xmas. I wanted to kill the girlfriend that enlisted my sorry ass for that. Wall paper, lights....soooo much PTSD from that bullshit. I bought my daughter Lego houses.

Mountain

2022

Bought = 378 + 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 = 5

Games

Games played = 25

Games hosted = 9

2021

Bought = 366 + an army

Sold = 0

Painted = 841

Books

Bought = 14
Read = 6

Blood and Plunder "Buying stuff again"

        Man sitting at work waiting for shit to happen is killing me. There I was minding my own business. Ahhhh minis. Female pirates, dancing girls, Pikies, slaves. There I go buying more minis.

        I got so many pirates now. I am running out of foam to store them in. Never once did it occur to me? "What exactly will you do with all these painted minis?" We were playing. New units were thrown into the games. 

        Fall In is coming up. The pirates start to go away. There is nothing to store them in. And again there I was minding my own business. Hmmmm foam.

New case

        Alright its cheap. It vacuums up minis. It fits within the linear file cabinets. I am getting more. 3 will fit across. 3 is 324 minis, I am going with 3 for now. There is only one deeper drawer. I wonder if they would fit standing. That would be 8 or 9, a 1000 minis, 5 years worth of painting 28mms.

Mountain

2022

Bought = 378 + 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