Or in other words, after years of waiting, my Mars 2 Pro resin 3D printer is up, running, and printing stuff. This is slightly wild; I have never before experienced the mind-bending glee of taking a file, fiddling about a bit in Chitubox, sticking the USB stick into the printer, pressing "print" and a while later having... miniatures? Absurd. I will have to be disciplined (she says, with 65 Battletech 1:285 scale Clan Elementals currently printing) otherwise I can see myself becoming entirely overrun with things to paint, and I have something of a backlog already.
Speaking of things to paint, I can tick something else off the Pile of Opportunity - spurred on by my game yesterday against N, I painted my Casket of Souls to completion and named the Tomb Priest using it: Ankhefendjaf, or He Who Lives For Djaf. Djaf is the Nehekharan god of death and war, so it amuses me that Ankhefendjaf's name is what it is.
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| Experimenting with backdrops in my lightbox. Black seems to work better than white, I think. From this angle you can see the eerie glow from Ankhefendjaf's eyes and mouth |
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| Can you spot the spider on the steps of the Casket? |
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| I'm not totally satisfied with the way the leg wraps look in this image, so I might go back in and tidy them up. Or maybe not - it's a very minor thing, and this isn't really a display piece |
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| The deep black of the casket itself is a mix of blacks, purples, and blues - the top is much more marbled, while the sides are wet blended for a strange, unearthly feel |
Now all I have left for my Tomb Kings at the moment is the consort of Hapshetsida, on his bone dragon. I do need a massive base for that, and slightly better weather so I can prime them both, but I'm looking forwards to sorting him and the dragon out. Probably in the New Year.
Anyway, back to the Blessed Machine:
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| Trench Crusade miniatures from the Kickstarter. I backed for a warband, and chose the Iron Sultanate, because I loved the design of the Jabirean Alchemist. This was my first foray into using Chitubox and I think I may have done something wrong - there is an odd misprint on the Captain's strange harpy-bird, who is missing the top half of her head. Oops! |
The problem is - having started printing things, I'm not sure I will know when to stop printing things!
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Today: 5
This Week: 6
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