Car flat or car up? Pro's and Con's

 Tried another all night print to see what would work better, upright or flat. 9-ish hour print for 6 Polski Fiats of various types by Bergman

As they came off of the printbed, 1 destroyed, the rest came off easy enough.

"You were only supposed to get the supports off"

Good enough for use I say

Flat printing does give you these stepped roofs and hood, but a bit of filler and a bit of paint...

When printing upright it gives great detail...

...but like Taco Bell*, it complely destroys your ass!

The destroyed ones can be salvaged by making a garage with no lift off roof and just glueing them partially inside. No one will ever be the wiser.

*heresay. I've never been to, nor shall I visit one. 

Now to test out a very blocky 28mm vehicle for another 9 hour print.

Swapped the 04 Injector for a 0.2 injector....thing and did some tests.

 Switched the nozzle and made a few test prints.

 

15mm STZ-5 family

The tarp is the only weak point but easily fixed

Testing 8mm 30K Rhino's

 

Joining the Cult. I mean Club.

 Well, I've had one on my list for years. But I either did not think the technology was good enough (filament) or not safe enough for me and the kids (resin).

Well, with the purchase of a Bambu A1 that has changed. The current Sale took care of me dropping dough. 

 Having watched a few (well, a lot) youtube video's on installing, and upgrading it while it was en route from Germany. Delivery was quick, it sat on the dock for a few days till it started the route to my place. Same can't be said for the accessory pack, that is still driving around Germany, somewhere (over the rainbow....), enjoying the ride I guess? At Modhails and Ozymandas referral I picked up 4 rolls of basic Geetech PLA from their preferred store. As they said, 1 roll to completely fuck up, 1 to get to grips with the machine, and 2 to start printing. That was ordered on the weekend and arrived before the printer.

 While it was enroute I got some extra Pax parts from Ikea, getting my start up cost just shy of 600 euros for the printer, extra and spare parts, filament, pretty lights and cabinet parts.  

It arrived last friday, and after what was indeed a quick build, I did my first print...

....and it completely fucked up. That was fun. And I learned pre sliced models.....just don't. 
After that it really was a breeze, honest. Now it is just trying out what works, what doesn't, how the slicer works, watching more Youtube.

Currently running it with the original 0.4 nozzle, at 0.1 layer height, irioning on and supports. Focussing purely on 15mm and 28mm scenery and scatter atm, but I have a 0.2 nozzle on the way.....running around somewhere in Germany....over the hills. 

Ain't it cute. 

Cleanup and glueing parts together.

Test scatter for Stalker.

Adding supports.

Testing settings, with and without ironing on.

Trying tiny stuff. Not great up close, good enough for gaming use. Curious to see how the 0.2 nozzle will handle this. 

 Now trying to figure out how to clean them up even better without hurting myself in the progress :)

And with the doors closed it is pretty quiet too! 

1929 Ford AA truck at the local car dealer

 Local cardealer (whose main business is Classic cars) has a nice one this week. 1929 Ford AA truck. Nice scheme to copy for a Pulp one in the future. 

Review of H00130 WW2 Normandy Large Tin Shed by Micro Arts Studio

 Purchased with my own money, no freebies here, in a sale at 40% off for 13,19 euros (original price in this particular shop was 21,99 euros)

 

 Nicely packed in shrink, you get 3 sheets of pre printed HDF, with a cover on the front with codes and a photo, and on the back an instruction sheet. Very retail friendly packaging.  

The sheets are labelled as 1/3, 2/3 and 3/4 respectively so you really can't mix them up. I got a bit confused though as the instructions tell you to remove the protective paper covering them. As I could see none I pulled a bit on the edge of the the sheets but that purely removed everything. After watching a few other reviews these showed a white semi transparant paper, so I guess they stopped doing that and I ignored it. Removing the parts from the sheets was easy as with most MDF/HDF items and with a quick sand it was ready to dryfit.

 As everything is printed on one side you put the pieces back to back and glue them into place, easy enough and it gives you the look of a fully finished build in record time.

 

Unfinished Stalker on a GW 25mm base posing for dimensional reference.

Seeing it again now it feels like glued the side door in upside down, but I'm used to seeing those open towards the closest , so meh, no harm. 

Lift off roof when possible is always appreciated!

The door can open thx to the tabs provided, but the fit is a bit loose so they can easily fall off when picked up. Remember that and just store them inside when you are not using the building. 

So far so good, nice little building ey.

Now...

 Something nicely hidden in every promo picture of this item is that the back of the doors has no detail. If you see how it is made it makes perfect sense tbh..... but it feels, how do you say, a bit untruthful. (Edit: after going over pictures of other items they make you can see it, so who knows)

For gaming use, it is no big deal. Visually, no real problem either, though to me, I'm already looking for solutions. 

Fit was great, 0 issues what so ever.

The left overs: 

I did not build the small storage so that is still in the sheet. It apparently comes with a extra set of doors, so you can change it up a bit. Only one set of hinges though, so choose wisely.   Well, that or make your own. The rest can be used for some scratchbuilding of barricades I think. 

 All in all, a great kit, a nice table filler for a wargame or RPG alike. I'll pick up some more from the current sale, the Normandy houses will come in handy for Silver Bajonet or some monster game. 

New old crates, painted

 Painted up and finished varnishing the crates I picked up at Figz 2 weeks ago.

 

 

Simple, basic and most generic paintjob so it works for everything 28mm scaled (Stargrave model for reference)

They are Fischer Price GeoTrax crates from their toy train range, no longer in production. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them at swapmeets and Goodwills in the near future. 

 

Won't be painting anything for a while, got diagnosed with Bursistis in my left elbow and it hurts like a Son-of-a-<bleep>. My issues Bingo card is filling up quick. 

Bacon Buddies

 Pig pen for Nam and AK-47 (though pork in a Islamic country.....yeah, let's ignore that bit)

15mm pigs from Peter Pig, scrap MDF base, some matches, ribbed card and plastic H0 Faller fencing, cut down a bit to fit in better with 15mm. My first time trying out wet mud and earth paste from AK that I picked up for The Last War. Works like a treat I say. Not much else to say, need to make a few more village items, but maybe better to focus on a few figgies now.