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In preparation for the second wave of my True-Tiles printing, I have been batch printing a lot of bases, while I wait for the little round magnets to arrive today. I believe I will need more square bases to fully re-finish the prior tiles, but I will be doing those once I have fully tested this current set. These prints do take a little bit less time, but the big savings is in filament, with the large central section cut out. There is still some waste, for each of the open-lock slots, but compared to the first set it is…
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I continue to produce the True-Tiles terrain, and although I have changed directions on the base pieces, the top pieces are just fine. However, after my first batch, I realized that using Army Painter paints for the painting of this amount was not very cost effective – I nearly emptied my Dark Wash bottle, and most of my Oak Brown, and made a big dent in the other colors. At $6-8 per bottle, that isn’t workable. Taking a cue from Wyloch’s videos, I have instead opted for the cheap craft route, and picked up several bottles of paint from the…
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I doubt I had anyone actually bother to watch my 3d printer in action, and if you had, then you likely found that the performance was certainly lacking. As an alternative, I have now instead configured it to run through my YouTube Live channel, with a streaming option instead. This provides far better quality, which is good, and a means of auto-cataloging the videos. That being said, there is little benefit to a many-hour video, unless it is live, so once the print is complete, I will be publishing instead the timelapse version of the footage generated by the OctoPi…
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With the acquisition of the 3d Printer, my son’s big ask was for a prop for use during our gaming sessions. Since he is currently playing a Necromancer in our Pathfinder campaign, he of course wanted a skull to show off. And since I am always up for a challenge, we opted for not just a small skull, but the largest one that this printer can handle. For extra challenge, we opted to print it in temperature-sensitive PLA, so that it would change color with body heat. We could not find a good combo (he wanted white to red –…
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Finished up a second batch of tiles on the printer while I was out of town this week, then upgraded the little Raspberry Pi computer that manages the printer itself. Now I should have sufficient space to at least do a timelapse of future prints, and potentially even stream live to YouTube. Still a bit of experimentation. In the meantime, I have finished off the first 1 kg spool of filament, just in time to start the big project for the son using special color-sensitive filament. Fingers crossed that all my experience pays off, and the large print job (estimated…
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Managed to take time to paint up the first set of True-Tiles, consisting of 10 doors, 4 flat tiles, 5 single wall tiles and 5 corner tiles. Total time, about 4 hours.
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Are you mesmerized by an active 3D printer like I am? Can you stare for hours watching the robotic arm move back and forth as it slowly builds a model millimeter by millimeter? If so, then I have a fun little new option with my printer – a live feed that runs pretty much all the time, and can let just about anyone watch the excitement *. This should work with any browser, though I can’t vouch for the overall performance (the system is running on old equipment that I cobbled together for this experiment – a Raspberry Pi 2…
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Finished printing a first batch of True-Tiles from the demo set, and my project this week is to paint and drybrush them this week, so they are ready for our next Pathfinder game. Set includes 5 corners, 5 single-wall sections, 4 field tiles, and 10 doors, which gives a decent start. From here, I need to expand with more single-wall sections and field tiles, plus likely add at least one of the full sets, so I have curves, stairs, and other basic decorations. Since I printed everything using a basic stone grey filament, painting should just be a matter of…
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