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The first floor of the watchtower project is printed and temporarily assembled. Everything fits and lines up nicely, and the door swings well. Obviously still needs a coating of paint to bring out the details, but that will wait until the full assembly is done. Biggest issue this had (other than general printer problems) is a bit of warping in the first few tiles. This is causing the base to be a bit unbalanced, but not bad enough that a proper mounting on some chipboard or similar can’t fix it.
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Now that I am home from traveling again, I can give some focus to the printing, and the layer shifting it has been doing. Currently, my working theory is overheating in the y-axis motor – I believe I am just pushing it too hard and/or it is aging. So my current option is to slow down the prints, reducing the travel speeds by 33% from 3000mm/s to 2000mm/s. Of course, this makes the print time go up by a similar amount. Fortunately, the current models are not that long either way, only a couple of hours, so it isn’t that…
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New troubles, or returning troubles, with the 3d printer – my prints have started to shift again. This was a problem a few weeks ago, the prints would seemingly randomly shift in the y-axis, resulting in faulty or unusable prints. After my office remodel, I releveled the printer, and tried some other prints, and the problem was mysteriously gone. In the process, I also had to replace the cooling fan as well, since the fan had died (and it was making the x-axis motor overheat). For whatever reason, the printer was working very well again, and I managed to finish…
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Had a successful kickoff of our second campaign group, with the start of pre-generated characters in The Fall of Plaguestone stand-alone adventure from Paizo. The group is utilizing 7 of the 12 iconic characters, which works well and were well received by all involved. This is really intended as a “learn the system” type adventure – once we wrap it up in a few sessions, then the plan is to roll into another large campaign to run in parallel to the Age of Ashes. Although I did end up recording the audio, it was mainly for my testing and experimentation…
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Here in Ohio, the cold weather has arrived with a vengeance. We have had a few days already where it was cold, but today seems particularly frigid, though most likely its just me not adapting quickly. Nice day to sit inside and watch the world through a window.
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Over the last couple of years, I have slowly collected a number of different 3d printing filaments, primarily in PLA. For the most part, those have been stored in various boxes, but that makes it difficult to remember what I have, and to (more importantly) actually use it. With the recent office remodel, I opted to bring them out of the boxes, and make the spools accessible. A couple of printed brackets later, and a strong wooden dowel, and I have a solid filament rack above the printer. Admittedly it is a bit higher than I would have preferred, but…
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As my next big project, I am working thru a set of 3d printed terrain. The terrain set is produced by Printable Scenery, as is part of their Clorehaven collection. Specifically, I am tackling the Watch Tower to start with, though I intend to craft the majority of the buildings from the set eventually – this one is just more of a reasonable starting point. Shown here is a stock photo, right now all I have is a small collection of black PLA pieces, slowly being assembled. I expect it will take most of a week or more to print…
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With the return of a high-school friend to the area (with his family), we are giving thought to starting up a second Pathfinder 2e campaign. This would end up falling on the alternate Sundays of our already established game, and involve almost all new players. Starting plan is a crash course on Second edition using a short one-off session and pre-generated Iconic characters. This should carry us until at least January, at which point I plan to start up the Extinction Curse campaign as it is released. At that point, everyone can generate the own custom characters, and be familiar…
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