Saturday, August 12, 2023

The Road Heavy Rotation part IV

 

        The clowns are off to Japan for training. Except some how that got a week off before going. Lucky me gets to cover the whole time they are gone. In a Marriott Court Yard. It is 2k a night & 100% bonus points.

        In the room at night I am pouring roads. 

        Smooth On 320 is light years ahead of the stuff I used way back in the day. No matter have rough you are mixing or how heavy a pour, No Bubbles! This is the resin I will use. It is the only one I will use.


        I only took one of the 2 FW road mold I have with me. I have never traveled with them before. I didn't want to risk damage or loss to both.
        There is about 10% left in the bottles. The mold I took does not have the cross roads on it. I will need a few cross roads sections. 90% of the bottles got me 12 straight sections, 12 of the square sections and a bunch of partial damaged sections. I will be wicked close to having enough sections to finish the other 3 boards.

        At this site we have an office. I am not here for anything special. This site has onsite support. Just like a firefighter with no fires, I sit and paint in the office. I have been here before when a dude left. In the office my old painting lamp was waiting for me. It sucks, but it is here.





Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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.



Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Epic Traitor guard part VII

 


        I had always wanted to add on units so the army could play both good and bad guys. Dudes are dudes! More armor is the easiest way. 

        I had all these from long long ago. Way back in 2013-15, ChinaForge/Fight Club was available. The guys were ordering almost every month. I was one of them grabbing everything I could.

        I will seal these 6 tonight


        Next weeks on the job painting

Mountain

2023

Bought = 228, 3 collection, 1 army
Sold = 126, 123 Detachments, 1 Army

Painted = 378
28mm = 53
20mm = 94
15mm = 0
10mm = 0
Epic = 180
Terrain bought = 161
Terrain painted = 59

Printed Terrain = 4
Printed = 30

Games
Games played = 19
Games hosted = 8

Books
Bought = 3
Read = 6

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies
Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game
Painted = 763

Monday, August 7, 2023

Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia and Artillery Strikes

 


        Details were released on IG unit size. One dude figured out he could field 3 super heavies and 50 Leman Russ tanks and he still had 400ish points. 

        The minis are larger, 10-12mm. The board is smaller, 4 x 5. Unless the tanks are packed tight, how will they be deployed?

        We saw templets are in the box set. We spread out in NetEA so a BP strike doesn't kill or break an activation. I do not see where someone with 50 Russes is spreading out. That 1st BP attack is going to smoke the detachment!


Sunday, August 6, 2023

Terrain Boards, Cons and the Future part XVIII

 


            I am home this week. A great time to get back at it. I want the board finished by Fall In. If I do not get my ass in gear, it will never happen. I had stalled out on the last tile. That is fixed. My gaming table needed resurfacing. Done My paint room was remodeled. Done. The printer went down. Its back up. No more excuses!

        The first raised tile. The first new tile. The focus point of this one will be the Forge World Church. It will be off center. I wanted it to be dead nuts center, but that would have forced the church to cross two tiles. Its original. I don't want it damaged. I don't want to repaint it. 

        The gap between the Walls and the 3mm plastic card surface was the worst of the fill job. It was very hard to cut the green card to match the walls' edge. the spray foam pulled back some and did not raise as high. That is why the gap exists. I had intended from the start to have flowering trees next to the wall. Very gritty sand was flocked in to fill and level it roughly.


        This is the monument, rich section. High above the dirty peasants. The roads will be straight and there will be more parks and less ruins.

        Originally where the roads touch the side of the board or came close to it, I left them destroyed. Then in round 2, I started connecting them across the boards. I had to pull up most of the roads. As they were not square. Surprise FW products. Then when I made the molds I never squared the roads. The roads here became straight cut and matched up.

        Now its round 3 or 5 depending on how you count. At this stage, I am finishing all of the road right up to the edge.

        Perfect time to use all these bit and chunks I chopped up to get the main road sections down.

        2 great examples of me not finishing to the edges.

        By Fall In the each and every tile will be completed. Roads, Ruins, Buildings, raise sections and walls

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Terrain Boards, Cons and the Future part XVII

 

        I used plastic card and plastic beams for support. 

        Then laid in liquid nails to secure the seem at the bottom. The train gates were packed with tissue paper to prevent the foam from leaking out.

        Next expanding foam is used to fill the void. A flat saw used to cut off the foam form above the hill top plane.

        After I covered it with <1mm plastic card to cover the mess. Once everything was dry, it was not level. I thought about what to do for months. The problem in my head was two fold. I did not want to make the tile heavier nor did I want to make the surface higher. 

        I ended up laying down 3mm plastic card and trim. Some areas had additional scrap plastic card laid under for support.


It was then trimmed out for smooth edges. The train tracks have been added. The cutting of FDM printed stuff is.....a mess. I had these 40K electric fence things in the box of junk. 


            Roads were laid down for the lower section. 

                    Some of the roads have material issues. I made them years ago when this project started. I was not the best resin pour guy, mixing guy. Or the resin was bad. The roads in that color resin are full of bubbles. Which is fine and you would never know. But if you go to cut them, they won't cut straight. They do break up beautifully. 

        The sectors, areas, for buildings are being created. I pulled out some of my FW and creations from the past to fill in. 

        The Forge World Tank Factory doesn't exactly fit the space. It is not square or level. It is FW so no surprise there. It is original. I am not interested in cutting or sanding it. It will remain as one of the only Structures not to fit in it's sector.



Friday, August 4, 2023

And I bought another collection part II

 


        I got a take down, auctions canceled. Yeah maybe I should not have listed as forumware. That is my bad. I regularly search for forumware and see it all the time. Other auctions are up now with forumware. I have actual no shit painted forumware still up.


        6 of the listing taken down are GW's products. 2 knight auction were left up and 2 taken?


        I still unloaded 6 knights and 2 titans in private sales. 3 groups of chaos are gone within the group. I have made my money back on that collection. I won't charge my mates afterwards.

Mountain

2023

Bought = 228, 3 collection, 1 army
Sold = 126, 123 Detachments, 1 Army

Painted = 341
28mm = 53
20mm = 94
15mm = 0
10mm = 0
Epic = 143
Terrain bought = 161
Terrain painted = 59

Printed Terrain = 4
Printed = 30

Games
Games played = 19
Games hosted = 8

Books
Bought = 3
Read = 6

2022

Bought = 1289 + a collection + 3 Armies
Sold = 76, 14 Buildings, 22 detachments + 3 Armies + a game
Painted = 763