Russian Command

 

Finally finished painting something.  These are 3d printed 54mm Russian Command figures to complete some units.

Pleased with how well they have come out as slightly rough (I've improved my printer settings for the second lot of figures I printed).

The Sound of the Guns (printing)...

 

Working on Artillery at the moment.

Having 3d printed some Russian Guns for the new 54mm Russians I have moved on to:

1) Rebasing all my existing British artillery onto smaller bases
2) Rebasing the French Guard Artillery
3) Printing guns for French Line artillery and starting to paint some crew
4) Printing guns and crew for French Horse Artillery
5) Just bought and download some Prussian Foot artillery and crew and the first file for those is currently printing...

That should cover just about all the artillery until I start on the Austrians.

Forming a Square

 

After a couple of weeks of doing quite a lot of printing, I managed to assemble the basic table top rail today.

This is the basic version that surrounds two of the collapsible table and is just under 4' square inside.  It needs an insert on each side of 96mm to expand the area to contain a 4' board, the grey below of the black attachment covers is 9mm and where the boards will fit.

It needs the top MDF rail spraying black and then glossing and attaching and a load more black attachment covers printing.  I also want to design a few odd side covers that will either be glued in place or slip on to cover the odd size areas.

After that I might put a matching MDF strip around the bottom of the outside below the covers to hide the joins between the 3d printed parts.

After expanding to 4' square, I'll print two 2' long pieces which just need 8 pieces printing each and then that will expand it to 6'x 4' and it will be done.

I also need to print some token trays, dice trays, drinks holders, card holders and possibly a dice tower that attaches over the corner...

But I really need to return to painting some figures and printing and basing up gabions for Dendermonde!

A Bridge of sorts...

 I have been away for a week at a Christian Festival my wife usually attends - I went this year with the caravan to socialise (as I know a lot of people in her church) and get some writing done.

We had fun but came back last Tuesday and on Wednesday both came down with Covid - like a flashback to 2020! I have been pretty ill all week and still have no energy and feel run down.

What I have been able to do is send some files through the 3d Printer.

Four days of running the 3d Printer on and off and I have a Star Trek style bridge...  It is 390mm x 390mm square

This consists of 9 "tiles" which each took between 1h30 and 3h30 to print, plus the middle command section (1h30) and the rails, 10 chairs and the door...

Now I need to work out how to paint it (possibly with an airbrush? or may speed paints ) and I need to produce drop in pictures for the view screen and the 16 other screens...  I'll probably get the ww2 stuff done before I start on painting a test corridor piece.

The design is by lv427-designs who produce a whole range of SF corridors and rooms.