At this point, I like how this is going. I have 3 monsters painted and 1 hero. The assembly line is started. I find an STL I like. If it needs editing I do so in Blender. Pass it off to the wife. If it didn't come with supports, she adds the supports. Then she sets up the build plate, has her printer do its thing. If the print succeeds she, removes the supports and then gives the mini's a alcohol bath. After they have dried a while I give them a UV bath. We have acquired a UV light box, that I think was originally meant for drying finger nails?. It has a nice 90 second button, each mini goes in twice for 90 seconds. Between December 28- January 13 we had printed 197 miniatures. Some of these will be replaced with better models but this project is just humming along.
The UV Light box we found at Micheals. You can find it here:
As you might have noticed, my wife is doing a lot of the work. I don't know how to do supports even still. I don't know how to load up a build plate or start the printer. I'm sure I could learn, but if she is willing to do this part, that frees me up for finding STLs, using Blender, and painting. Yes, I do appreciate her help with this. Though at some point, I expect she will want my skills with Blender to help with projects she will have.
Time to finish groups of monsters, first up 11 more spiders. These went really fast. Such a simple model with a simple paint scheme. These guys were finished on January 7th.
Next on the menu, 11 more gobo's with bows. These guys were finished on January 11th.
Lastly for this post, 11 more Clanrats. To vary these up I gave quite a few different fur colors, White, grey, black, light brown, dark brown, yellow. These guys were finished on January 13th.
Thats 36 monsters and 1 hero painted.
Thats all for this post, may your lantern always stay lit.
DeMagic Tutor out.
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