Crumb Snatchers, and no good time wasting peoples

        It has been almost a month seen I have been in my hobby room. It is a bitch when work comes calling after such a long time of doing zero. And to make things worse, I actual had to do stuff. I don't know what they are thinking.
        During the time away, any and everything semi-closely related to anything I do was tossed and stacked in the room. There is shit piled ass deep to a tall Indian.
       All this makes it difficult to get back at it. Not that I don't want to. More so where to start and develop plus gain the momentum on projects.


        Day 1; I created piles of like stuff. Then collect all the bullshit, shit not related to me or painting, and general trash. All of which got thrown out. Finally I replaced the screen on the printer. Then the crumb snatcher attacked.




       Day 2; I need room to work. Half completed projects every where. Some projects got completed. The other staged for day three. In an attempt at a clean and focused start. The Crumb snatchers strike again! Its mom's birthday and I am tasked with get all the shit for her 70th. SOB!

I need more or wider river sections.

Another tile for the desert board.

       Day 3; The tomatoes have gone full speed. I did 6 jars of sauce Sunday. 4 more on day 3. Oh and mom needs the house clean cause my brother is coming with his 5 kids. Why the fuck doesn't he clean that motherfucker.
       Day 4; My brother shows up. Mom's washing machine breaks. The part, bearings, have to be ordered and are more than a new one. The brother/kid shit show continues for the next 3 days. Bro leaves at 6am. Guess who's candy ass gets to clean again?

       Day 8; The tomatoes are back. And I sent like 3 kilos home with my brother.

       Day 9; My kid is off to camp. I will get shit done. I am free for the week. My side job of fucking math and reading teacher is on hold. No she ain't, CCP Virus. SOB! The Crumb Snatchers revolt. We are off to the beach for 5 days.
       Day 13; The Tomatoes are back. 9 jars! I am out of canning jars after this. Yeah, Lowes has jars at 80% off. Tonight is mom and dad's 49th anniversary.
       Day 14; We, the head Crumb Snatcher, is having a house party. All hands on deck for cleaning duties.
       Day 15; Crumb Snatchers have Crumb Snatcher shit to do. Finally I am free. I fixed the Japanese terrain tiles where the water effects climbed up the static grass. 4mm grass was use over the brown patches.

          3 of the square tiles were done as flat grasslands or for wooded areas. But because I am extra dummy, I did two upside down. The tiles will not fit together if they don't face up on the same side.

 The current Japanese tile situation. More will come two or three at a time. I have 7 more rice paddies from TimeCast and all the Japans houses and temples kicking around. Plus a castle somewhere.

Warmaster Weekend "Japanese terrain"

        Not much has been occurring on the 10mm Samurai front. There are millions of dudes and shelves full of terrain. Very little motivation. I painted a few samurai's armor last week. Now I need my work space back. Some indirect motivation. All the rice paddy terrain was in some state of half ass effort. 

         I put the grass down in 3 layers. 2mm spring as a base. 2mm spring again for some height. Very few patches of 4mm late summer. Once the grass was down and set I poured the water.

        You have to do grass before water. If you do grass after water, grass will be in your water. I guess you could tape over the water. I don't. As I am afraid the tape will jack up my water.

         The problem is the water climbs up the grass. I did a shit job keeping the grass away from the water's edge. I have multiple spots where the water effects climbed into the grass.

      Looks terrible. Now I have to tape once the water fully cures and go back with the grass.

        Looks like a shit stain.

         All the MDF tiles Sarissa. The grass is scenic express specials. The water is woodland scenics that has been tinted with ink.

3D Printing "Replaced my Photon LCD"

       My screen or LCD died back on 7/13. I was still within the 3 month warranty. AnyCubic sent a free replacement. It is still not here yet. I had also ordered a back up from eBay. That one arrived. The eBay replacement is the one I will test with increased air flow.

         This is the old LCD. I would get this bullshit intermittently. One dude said reseat the connection. It work for a while. Then same story. I truly think it is heat related. Either the connect at the LCD or the part of the ribbon cable exposed to the LEDs is cause thermal expansion.

        Here you can see how weak the connection is between the LCD and the ribbon cable

This is my LCD before I replaced it.

Replacement of the LCD

         I removed the bottom cover and left side. The ribbon cable is unplugged.

                   The ribbon cable is plugged into the back side the circuit board on the left side. From there the ribbon cable bends and crawls up the side of the heat sink for the LEDs. Which it passes 

thru an opening between the LED mount and the Al plate.

This fan blows out.

         The LCD is held in with double back tape. It is really stuck down. I broke the old LCD getting it unstuck. (Sadly no testing to be done.) Once out come the fun part of scraping the old double back off.

         After you get the old off, new goes down. I used flooring tape. Now comes the tricky part. 3 thing must happen or your screwed. Once the LCD sticks good luck not breaking it.

          1.) Take canned air and blow out any dirt on or in the LED hole.
          2.) Feed the ribbon cable all the way into the slot on the left.
          3.) Pull the protective backing off the screen.

        Plug the LCD in. I had to remove the two screws that hold the board in place. My fingers are too fat to get in there and seat the cable.

        How ever you can pull the other side of the double back sticky tape off without removing it. Now put the LCD in. Do not touch the back. And get it in right the first time. I got the cable through. Then put the LCD in cable side, left side first.

         Once it is in, remove the protective plastic. I use this yellow electronic tape to seal around the edges. No one wants resin getting in-between the LED and LCD.

Don't be me. Check to ensure your LCD works before taping everything in!

        I had ordered these pre cut jobs and never put them in. This time I try them out.

 Screen test.

        Because I think it is heat related. I reversed the fan. It is now blowing in, not out. When it blew out it was sucking air in through the print chamber and through a vent in the rear of the casing. This air flow across the LCD heat sink seemed wrong. The fan now blows air from outside directly onto the heat sink. This pressurizes the casing and exhaust will now exit out the rear.
        No idea if it is better. Hopefully I will get greater than 2 months or 1000 hrs out of each LCD.

         To increase the air flow around the bottom or intake of the casing I bought a laptop cooler. It puts out about 25 CFM. This laptop cooler is blowing into the intake of the casing.

        The cooler was leveled.

         The printer leveled to the cooler.

       The print station was cleaned and re-organized for the addition of the cooler.

Warmaster Weekend PA Warmaster Barbecue 29 August

Warmaster Barbecue August 29th 

I will be hosting an all day out door event. An informal Warmaster Revolution gaming day. Lots of dice, smoked pig, and ball busting. We will be playing Warmaster Revolution rules with everything but skirmishers. It is an informal event. Players can do want they want. I will have 4 scenarios for them if needed. 

The tables will be set up outside. Three on the back deck under the gazebo and a 3rd under a party tent. If more people can show, more tables can be added. I have space for up to 10 players. Currently 6 are coming.

         If another hurricane comes, I have indoor space. Cooking the pig out side would suck!

The Road Show part II

        Well this turned into a shit show. I have the dog and kid with me. We are all staying in the company apartment. They came along to give mom a break. And normally I don't do shit here other than paint. Why not hang out with them?
        The dog is confused, doesn't understand what is happening or why we are here. He does not eat his food or people food. He wants to go. This place sucks, says dog. He does not sleep at at. All night long he breaks my balls. Then sleeps like a drunk during the day.
         The kid is ok. She does her stuff. I thought or planned to have more time with her. I wanted to teach geometry this week. None of that happen.

        The hurricane came through the customer site. No damage. No flooding. Just two power spikes through the plant. Every tool set but one crashed. One still running windows XP, said nope, no more I am dead. Of course they cried giant crocodile tears. This piss ant storm dicked my whole week up. No painting.

        Even if I was going to paint 2 of the 3 over head lights went out where I paint.  On 12 foot ceilings. Straight up the ass. I did get the armor on 14 samurai painted.

Warmaster Weekend "The tool"

       On YouTube is a dude, (OnTheLam Games),  making Warmaster Videos. On the Lam is the youtube name. There are currently two down with plans for more. The video are top notch!
        In these videos he uses a warmaster ruler/gauge/tool thingy. Y'all know I want one. A whole bunch of dudes were asking for them on the Warmaster Group.

Crystal Fortress

        I went straight to the source, Crystal Fortress, in Cali. Scott asked where I saw it and got me a production slot. They are not cheap. 22 a piece. I ordered ten. 2 for me, 2 for other dudes, and 2 more gone to the Epic Times group. Only 4 left up for grabs.

The Road Show "When work returns"

        It has been a while since I have had to actual work. As a traveling dude, you miss the road. That is until it gets in the way of painting minis. My usual babysitting customers has changed into hands on attention. They have all been left alone for too long. Just like children being left alone, they start to break stuff. This is my excuse!

        I have done nothing hobby wise for weeks. I packed up my kit to paint. Never ever once took it out over the last two weeks. Finally I got to a customer where I can paint. I got a spot cleared, opened the kit, and the customers were calling all night. I never had a chance to even go through my new goodie box.

        This morning I am waiting on parts. Finally I get to see what was ordered 3+ months ago. That is all I will get to do today. Next week I am here also. Hopefully next week I can get some painting done.

        ork village buildings

        I didn't have a complete set. These will be masters.

 Scout Speeders

 Scouts, 2 MK III marines

 dead/wounded marines

different style termies. 

????Not too sure I like them????