The guys at
the gaming club are wanting to roll out some Judge Dredd next month, a game we haven’t played
in very long time.(9 years or so I think) So I went and found some Fatties to 3D Print for it and hopefully
should get them completed in time.
3D files from PAPSIKELS MINIATURES - THE METAHUMANS JUNE 2021
Work in progress...
Got my next woodcut print all prepped for carving last night and ready to start. Thought I’d go for a bit of a cubist style image for a T-Shirt. Going to change it up a bit as I decided I didnt like the skateboard as much as i did on screen. I'll let the wood decide how it will end up.
I finally got around to getting a new web camera for my 3D printer setup that works with the Reality Sonic Pad. I discovered the Nebula Camera by Creality which was pretty much plug and play with the sonic pad. What I didn’t realized when I purchased it is that it had night vision which is actually really really good. A bit more expensive than my other web cams, but easy of use and timelapse are really nice so definitely thumbs up from me. Only thing they could do better is give some optional mounting brackets, so you could mount it to a wall instead of just tripod mount. But really I’ve got a 3D printer, so pretty sure I can manage to make my own wall mount bracket.
 |
| Nebula Camera - with LED's lights on |
 |
| Nebula Camera - LED lighs off |
Yep, almost broke my finger the other day, thankfully the fan
gave way and broke first. I was adjusting the position of my resin printer in the
cabinet after doing a bit of cleaning and managed to accidentally put my finger
to close to the fan, which clipped my index fingernail. After a lot of cursing
and swearing I checked the fan, it had broken off a few blades along with a
good chunk of my finger nail. To my surprise no blood, just a nice black and
blue finger tip a day later.
New fan ordered and installed… with a guard this time. …my
wife calls it experiential learning
I just call it was it is …. “ F@#$%ing idot”
With the addition of AK paints to my collection I
found that storage has become an issue, since my existing storage rack didn’t
fit them, thanks to the large cap on the AK bottles. After a bit of searching
around online there wasn’t a lot of options, so I started designing my own to
take all three brand that I use, Army Painter, Vallejo and AK paints. After
printing off a few squares with different diameters I figured out the best diameter
for the front and back support. Did a couple of test prints of a holder for one
bottle then used the scale to a whole row of 10. Still needs a little adjustment as I keep
forgetting about the PLA expansion and end up sanding parts back a bit to make
them fit. Overall, I’m happy with the diameters and the slight drop from front
to back to help keep the paints in the rack for when you bump the desk etc.
Last thing I need is paints falling onto freshly painted resin miniatures. So
one more test print before I expand out to printing a rack of for 50 paints.
 |
| Front View |
 |
| Back View |
 |
| Clos up of Front and back |
Learning to embrace the new technology, I’ve been playing around with AI generation for a few different things both for work and personal. I managed to get it to create some nice images, haven’t quite got the hang of getting it to converting them into usable images to create some lino-cut prints from. Here’s a few that came out rather nice. Pretty crazy what it can generate.
Work in progress on my current model from Ronin Arts Workshop - Goth Girl Itza. Had a real issue getting the arm join right. The resin I'm using has a bit of expansion and the parts didn’t fit well, needed a bit of sanding and putty. This photo of the base colours really shows it up. Think I’ll need to put on some tattoo designs to help hide it.
I finally got around to making a proper switch box for my painting desk light that I made. I designed the cady for the power converter and switch in tinkercad ... easy to use online app. After the first design and print was a bit to small and some tweaks it came out nice and works well. Still need to tidy up the LED mounting and cable, but eh light is so much brighter and even that have two lamps.
After some hit and missing printing onto the t-shirts I did some more research and ended up getting myself some Essdee fabric inks along w...
