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Due to finnising a somewhat longterm conversion of LGB rollingstock into my growing Heeresfeldbahn rake and making a small army for a 'casual wargame in the garden', some other modelling-projects fell behind. One of those projects were the apes I briefly presented in my January Workbench update.
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They were made up and sliced together by elements from a 'kit file' found on Thingiverse. When put together in desired positions, I found out that they were not so easy to 3D-print, and needed some tweaking and adjustments to suit my needs.
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The bases I'm basing them on did I also find for free on
Thingiverse. They were originally made as 'Bolt Action' bases, but I just resized them to fit the Apes.
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After basing them, they were ready for some priming. I just used inexpensive mat black from a rattle can from the car shop.
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Just primed they looked almost ready for the gaming table already as they don't require an elaborate paint job.
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Not a very complicated 'scheme' on these miniatures; How they look after they got a basic coat of paint:
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Washing them with a brownish wash, drybrushing them and texturing the bases really brings out their details.
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My intention was to 3D-print some spears for them from a 28mm 'weapon-pack' on Thingiverse, but I suppose primates like these would only have very simple spears just made of wood. In the grocery store I found such spears made of the real thing and just about the right scale. Since you just can't buy a few 'coctail sticks' I've got enough to arm a battalion. The spears was given a coat of 'brown wash'.
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Bringing it all toghether. I don't think these look too bad considered they are 3D-printed on a FDM printer on not a 'resin printer'.
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Another unfinished project from the '
January workbench' is the 'piece of crumbled paper'. Now I finally got around to paint it, so now it's somewhat more obvious what it is and what it's hiding:
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Apes have turned out very nicely.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Thank you! Next I'm going to use them for some gaming.
DeleteRoger
At first i thought the apes on the 'sprue' were an strange ape sculpture! The apes turned out very well.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm quite happy with the results regarding that this is a fillament printer, and alk claims that you need resin printers to make miniatures. The 'sprues' are 'supports' which are neccessary to print parts which are 'in the air' or else unsupported.
ReplyDeleteRoger