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!

Catching up

With the social distancing in effect, I've done some more hobbying that usual in the past weeks...

The start of the medieval farmstead that I built ages ago has finally had it's date with the airbrush and paintbrush, just basing/flocking remains to be done:

I've also been assembling a core force of  Space Wolves, which required some greenstuffing:

In the meanwhile, in the background I was printing stuff. Unfortunately I suffered a major clog in the print head.This forced me to fully disassemble and clean the hot end, as well as replace the bowden tubing... After several days (over several weeks) of tweaking, I have it running reliably again.

But the major endeavour of this month has been two buildings for my Cyberpunk terrain project. They still have some small touches to do (matt varnish, windows and the till on the store interior still needs to be painted), but for the moment, they're finished enough. Both have accessible interiors and locations where signage can be magnetically attached.

The front door is reversible, with a regular door and a quarantine door. :)

 The 3-story building is 3D printed, with some scratch-built additions, the shop is from large scale train terrain. Graffiti and tags are decals (home printed), posters and signs are printed paper, while the magnetized signage is all 3d-printed.

As I was airbrushing a lot anyway, I decided to paint up this little thing as well:

I've also started up a new set of meads. The theme for this batch is "pear". 

Centre is a pear melomel, made by adding chopped pears to the mead recipe, the rightmost is a pear-cyser, made by substituting the water in the mead recipe with pear juice. The leftmost is just whatever pear juice, pear bits and honey I had left over from the other two batches. ;)
(They're in buckets because I tend to have a fairly energetic fermentation the first few days, and I like to contain the spillage.)

See you next time!

Hello again, remember me?

Well, time to (try and) breathe some life back into this blog...
I've been doing some hobby stuff the past few weeks, but due to a concussion, wasn't able to sit at a PC long enough to post about it. I'm feeling better now, which makes it time to catch up a bit.
As this is going to be a longer, picture-filled post, you can see it all after the break.