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[SiFi]¶
More Vehicles¶

Having catched another flue/virus/whatever which showed itself on Saturday, I am on sick leave this week. Between sleeping all day, I managed to put in some painting time within the few moments I have a clear head in between.

The ConServ vehicles are done, the 3d printed tires glued on. And it took me only since January...

On to the next models :-)

Published 2014-06-10 21:52:00

15mm | 3d Print | Die Cast | OpenSCAD | SiFi

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[SiFi]¶
More Vehicles¶

I painted the bus' windows, tires, lights and antennas.Out of a whim I painted some of the panels on the top as windows to have more light in the interior. After all, this bus only transports workers to the construction site, but is not involved in the construction work itself, therefore the roof does not need to be protected.

I also painted the 3d printed tires, ready for mounting them on the vehicles.

Published 2014-06-01 14:04:00

15mm | 3d Print | Die Cast | OpenSCAD | SiFi

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Space Flush Marines¶

The first fire team is done. On the left shoulder pad the chapter symbl is missing, but this I first need to design and have printed as decals.

I painted a fire team designation on the helm, which is hard to see in the photos, and which also does not look good in real life... I have to come up with something different. In the end I can always paint it on the base, but I would like to have it on the model itself.

The rank designation of the Corporal is, according to the Roge Trader Space Marine painting guide, meant for Sergeants. I will try to give my Sergeants a double chevron - sufficient brush control provided.

Published 2014-06-01 13:55:00

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More Vehicles¶

Thank you Michael :-)

Published 2014-05-28 20:48:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Orks Marauders¶

Only four weeks after I planned to, the Orks were finished today with static grass and a coat of Army Painter Anti Shine Varnish.

The final group shot:

Published 2014-05-18 16:23:00

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[SiFi]¶
More Vehicles¶

This Friday I visited Michael, a friend owning a 3d printer. After all, my vehicles are still without wheels. I brought along the wheels I designed in SketchUp, Michael converted the .stl to the format needed by the printer, and off it went.

The result was this:

Yeah... well - not as it should look like. As it turned out, SketchUp is missing the feature of boolean operations (at least in the free version), which lead to the wheel rim not being recognized correctly and thus not printed.

Michael then introduced me to OpenSCAD which does include boolean operations, and quickly tried to reproduce my design. The result looked much better :-) The small wheel was also reproduced using OpenSCAD, and I went home with two feels to fit to my vehicles.

The big wheel looks good, but was designed with a 24mm diameter while I need only 21mm. So I have to redesign it.

The small wheel fit perfectly as designed.

Yesterday, I spent the day getting used to OpenSCAD, much to the dismay of my wife - you know, one could have done so much relevant stuff... ;-)

Here the results, which are a bit more detailed like what Michael quickly did in 5 minutes, like the rounded interior side of the profile:

Now I need to ask Michael for 8 prints :-)

Published 2014-05-18 16:23:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

I shaded the models. Black for the metal, black/brown for the red areas, SSW yellow snow for the shoulder pads and Woodgrain for the... wait for it... wood.

Published 2014-05-15 22:04:00

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[FullThrust]¶
Space Game Mat¶

Today I fetched my FullThrust game mat done by Hotz Mats from the customs office. It has some slight smell from enamels on it, but this is a good sign to me because it indicates it was freshly made for me :-)

I ordered a double-sided enhanced deep space game mat without any grid markings. One side I ordered as the regular coloured nebula/space dust, the other side as the alternative coloured nebula/space dust.

I am really happy with what I got. The mat was folded in a package, so I will need to iron out the wrinkles which you can still see in the above pictures.

Now I just need to finish all the started miniatures, then handle the GZG space ships...

Published 2014-05-08 21:34:00

FullThrust | Hotz Mats | SiFi | Terrain

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

The first fire team is painted in the basic colours. The ammo pouches were painted leather brown; the tubes, elbow and knee joints etc. were painted black; the eyeslits were painted dark green; the shoulder pads yellow; the weapons in a light wood colour; the metal areas a dark metal.