Worked Out a Process!

My plan of ploughing into my Space Wolves has worked quite well although I would have liked to have got further than I did.  I believe that I’ve finally managed to work out a simple, effective and straight forward way of painting up a Space Wolf to a decent gaming standard.  It does have more steps in than I’d like, but the actual result is enough to satisfy me.  This is for the main armour colour rather than any other bits!  (other bits will follow as time goes on).

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Sculpting and 3d printing

Over the past couple of years, the subject of 3d printing has cropped up more and more often, with a mixture of opinions and attitudes.  3d printing is quite literally what it says on the tin, using a 3d image created using CAD or 3d sculpting software a printer “prints” layers of plastic or resin and basically builds up an object layer by layer.  3d printers have been around for quite a while now and their usage has grown beyond the rapid development of components.  The International Space Station actually has a 3d printer on board and is connected to a computer that contains 3d objects of every component within the station, which means if something breaks or becomes faulty the residents can actually print out a new component and perform the fix without having to have a warehouse of spares or request it from Earth.

3d printers do however, suffer from one major flaw.  Because the printer breaks the object down into layers, printed curved shapes  end up having a stepped effect (think the pyramids).  The depth of the step is down to how thin the printer can print a layers.  Originally 3d printers would whack down a fairly thick layer (1/4 of a millimetre or similar) and the result would be quite rough.  Thankfully this has become better over time, but there is always going to be an issue with layers as that’s inherently how 3d printers actually work.  Clearly the 3d printer on the International Space Station is going to have super fine layers, likely at the cost of some million pounds.

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Why does real life take up so much time?

I cannot believe that it’s the middle of June and until a couple of days ago the only painting I had done was painting the kitchen!  That said, the transfers on my Death Guard got done a few months ago and have turned out really nice, it’s worth taking the time to cut as much of the clear film out and use MicroSol and MicroSet when you apply them.  The past few days have seen me finish off the last highlighting on the metallics and paint the bases up – pictures to follow soon.

A couple of months ago I purchases an iPad, my profession as a web developer has meant that I really need to learn to get to grips with tablets as yet another viewing platform.  Unfortunately one side effect has been much wasted time with games, however on a positive note, posting photos to this blog is a lot easier as there are apps that make it really easy to do this.

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