Alkmaar, Nederland. November 2021. Things started to look up.
After the troubles I had with printing last month, I was somewhat apprehensive about printing this month. Since I'd had success printing busts before, I decided to kick the month off with a new bust. I also like collecting them. This was a freebie of a Werewolf from White Wolf Tavern. It turned out to be a little on the small side, so I scaled it up to 175% and did my own supports on it. So that it wasn't all alone on the build plate, I added the Amlund Maegon figure from RN Estudio's Against the Shadows range. This was also scaled up to 175% and had my own supports added.
On the Werewolf bust, I snapped one of its fangs off removing it from the supports. I had to use some Green Stuff to try and make a new one.
The Amlund figure had visible banding on his coat and pancaking on the staff and feet. Worse still, there was a large separation line on his back. Once more the Green Stuff had to come out.
The Werewolf bust. Unfortunately, I'd primed it for painting before I took a photo.
Missing the end of his staff and visible banding on cloak and garment.
I'd backed a Kickstarter project for some ancient Egyptian gods from Mojibake and the figures became available. So, 2 weeks later, I decided to print Ra. I also received from Mojibake a curious figure, Kittywise. This is a feline version of the clown Pennywise from the horror story IT. All were pre-supported, but with Chitubox files. I went with them and trusted to luck, and their professionalism. Everything came out perfectly.
Ra, the Egyptian sun god.
The feline clown, Kittywise. Should be fun to paint.
The following day I printed the nameplate for the stand to Ra's bust and two stands. One for Ra and one for Anubis, who I intended to print also. Both of the stands printed fine. However, the nameplate for Ra fell of the build plate. In fact, there was no sign of the supports even. I cleaned the vat and set off the print for the Anubis bust along with the nameplate. Once again, the bust printed fine, but the nameplate was nowhere to be found. I did manage to get the nameplates printed the next time after adding some supports of my own.
The stands for the busts along with the nameplates that were printed later.
Anubis, the Egyptian god of the underworld, or something.
Along with the nameplates from Mojibake, I next printed some scenic bases from Asgard Rising. All printed without issue.
A village base, woodland base and a ship base.
Flushed with success, I ran another print the same day. This time I wanted to retry the Ballista from Clay Cyanide along with a couple of Dynasty Spearmen and 3 Dynasty Archers. One of the archers ended up with part of his arm missing and a very thin bow. The rest printed just fine. My experience so far with Clay Cyanide figures is that their supports need to be added to, especially at the setting and conditions I'm printing in.
A good ballista, 2 good spearmen and 2 good archers. The archer with the gimpy arm and thin bow is on the right in the rear.
The following day, I tried another bust from Mojibake, along with the base and nameplate. This was a free Dragon bust. Once again, everything printed beautifully. What was I worrying about?
The beautiful Chinese Dragon bust from Mojibake.
In November I had 7 printing sessions over 5 days. I attempted to print 27 items and was successful with 23 of them. The longest print was the Dragon bust at 6 hours and 13 minutes and the total printing time was 32 hours and 25 minutes. Not the most and not the least amount of time printing. It is however the least amount of items that I have printed. Maybe that is to do with the fact that there were several large busts in the month.
Werewolf bust - White Wolf Tavern
Dynasty Spearmen - Clay Cyanide
Dynasty Archers - Clay Cyanide
Dynasty Ballista - Clay Cyanide