It's a Trap!....Door

When I first got my FDM 3d printer, I was involved in several STL kickstarters to build up my collection...well for the most part its still just stl files.

 BUT.. as I was beginning to learn, I found this wonderful 'free' stl from The Dragon's Rest 

 

 So off I went to print it. Well successful, it didn't quite meet the standard I was expecting & is most likely due to my noobness with such technical things.

However here they are. If you look closely, you can see that my layers never quite completed, but they were still functional.

 

It's quite likely I will be making some more of these for use in various systems such as Frostgrave & Mordheim. 

Couple of 3D models painted

 As the year winds down, I find myself with several figures littering the hobby table. So I took the opportunity today to lessen them with the completion of 2 more of the 3D printed figures I did back in September.

 

The first is a female rogue from one of the Patreon's I follow Welcome Packs, the name of which eludes me atm. I do know it came from a Titans of Adventure series.

A very dynamic pose.

 

Also I painted up the Halfling Rogue from the One Gold Piece  patreon

 

Another great figure, for one of my favorite D&D character race/class. They both just need the matte over spray once winter passes & the temperatures allow.

 

I expect I will continue working through whats strewn about my paint table to try to tidy it up by years end. 

 

More to follow.

Apocalyptic Camping

 A couple years ago I picked up this slightly damaged (hitch broken off, windows misplaced) camper van, from a 'FREE' box during a townwide garage sale. It sat in a box with the rest of my 28mm scaled vehicles awaiting 'The Treatment'

 

So, although not visible without closer inspection, I did take it apart & painted up the inside stuff then glued the windows back in place.

 Then with the addition of some graffiti & weathering, I consider this done.

 

I also finished up the first batch of the Objective Markers from the Walking Dead Miniatures Game. I will have more of these to do down the road, as I bought a couple extra sets of their terrain during on the the Mantic Sales.

 

So not its on to something different, not sure yet which has caught my attention the most, but you will know when I do.

 As always, thanks for visiting.

Wheres the Fire?

So after a busy week of dealing with car issues & getting up the Christmas tree today, I managed to spend some time getting some paint to models. 

 I've finished up the 2nd batch of Fire Hydrants, now giving me 15 of them. This should be enough for my gaming needs.

 

Again, these are 3d printed from one of the earliest STL file kickstarters I backed. After getting the red paint on them, they were weathered.

Also after a couple days of gathering & then resizing images, I've completed a couple more Walking Dead objective markers. 

 

So there are a few more of these objective markers in various stages of completion. It's likely I will focus on getting these all done before moving onto another of my projects. Until next time!

Lest We Forget

 As a Nation & the World, today we pause & reflect on the loss of lives to defend the freedoms we enjoy.

Having myself served, this is the day I also reflect on those with whom I served & that are also no longer with us. I raise my glass on high, whilst tears fall from my eyes.

As I no longer live in Ottawa where the National Ceremony at the War Memorial occurs, I now watch it on TV.

 

  This service is respectfully well attended. 

At the end of the service, those in attendance have taken to placing their poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This is when my emotions get the better of me & the tears flow.

However this year is different due to the pandemic & the service still occured, but as you can see, it was with many less attendees, at the request of both the Government & the Legion. 

I have no doubt that after the official ceremony, many will make their way to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & again pay their respects with the placing of their poppies.

We Shall Remember Them.

Attached are a couple of music videos that I listen too every year at this time, I now share them with you as well.

Pittance of Time - Terry Kelly

Remembrance Day -Bryan Adams

Zomtober Week 5

So with this post, the day after Halloween & the end of October, this is also the end of Zomtober.

 

Now I certainly couldn't go through a month of Zomtober & not have painted a zombie or two. So here are the two, which after I was finished I realized I had used pretty much the same colour schemes on. Funny that.

 

Which of course allows for perhaps this was a couple who were meeting after work (seeing she is wearing a name tag) when it all went sideways.

 I've also finished up a couple of 3d printed ATM machines. Looking at them you can see that one isn't quite up to par with the others, however it's usable.

 

I guess this is another of my learnings. Rather that go all out to print a platform full, its better to print 1 until you get a good print, then go back & duplicate it with the supports to fill your print surface. Having printed 3, I am not sure which of them from the file is the faulty one.

 And one last look at the ATM (figures I grabbed the faulty one for the photo) besides our Zomtober survivor Ned.

So that leads us to what's next? Well I have several boardgame core sets of figures primed...& I've already started on Core Space earlier this year. Perhaps with the new Kickstarter of that on the go, I will continue on them next to complete the initial stuff I got at least!

 As always, thanks for stopping by!