Another month, a bit of this and that.

 Hello again,

I think it's time to keep you up to date with what I have and haven't been doing.

Most of what I've been doing has been in the first week of this month, as I had a week off from work:

First of all, I finished printing the Reaver Titan. Now all that's left to do before it's ready for paint is sanding, lots of sanding....

I had been having increasing issues with excessive stringing in my printer. So I bit the bullet and bought a full metal hot end. This seems to have done the trick and since then stringing has been reduced to an absolute, whispy minimum. Sadly it didn't arrive until after the Reaver was fully printed... So there is still a fair bit of cleanup to do, beside just smoothing out print lines.

I also spent an afternoon enjoying the pitter patter of rain on canvas, in the first week of the month.

I now have a clearer idea of what I need to adres in my hammock setup for poor weather (aka regular Dutch weather this time of year). 

Another batch of mead got bottled as well.

The leftmost is the leftovers of the two batches of Viking Blod. Then there is the two bottles of Viking Blod that had extra hop and hibiscus added during fermentation.  Mid is a pair of bottles of Linden mead and finally the last batch of Viking Blod, that didn't have extra hop and hibiscus added beyond the initial tea. This time around I made a less strong tea, to see how that turned out, but next time I'll be going back to the stronger brew.

And with that the week off was done.

And things went wrong... I had intended to keep working on the Titan in the evenings, but a particularly nasty stomach bug struck and lasts till today.  I was suddenly VERY constrained in the amount of energy I had available and how long I could work on projects in one sitting. 

So over the past two weeks I achieved virtually nothing.

I assembled a cheeky little squig, and managed to add the last touches to an Ironhead character for the IKRPG, that had languished at 90% completed for the past year:

And yesterday, the cars for my Cyberpunk skirmish project arrived:

3 Taxis and six little microcars. These will be added to the regular cars I intend to print in the near(-ish) future.

And that's it for now. Further hobbying has to be mostly suspended until the doc can get my innards to behave again... :(

See you next time!