The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Two more models for Super Fantasy Brawl painted this week.  I didn’t think I was going to get the second done as I’ve fallen back in to Diablo 3.  I watch Critial Role while painting and I’ve hit the point where they’ve started using the music from Diablo 2 and it crept in to my brain.

I bought SFB because I thought I’d enjoy painting the models.  I didn’t really expect to play the game.  I am not enjoying the painting at all.  There’s been no consideration given to access for painting and limbs and bases etc keep making them unnecessarily hard to paint.  It’s bad design and its inconsiderate and it’s ruining it for me.  Prebuilds suggest these are aimed at people who don’t hobby yet, or at least people who want to play without having to hobbby first.  That makes them gateway pieces as non hobby people decide to try hobby with them.  These minis would give such a bad first experience because of the access issues.

Still, once the last 3 models are done, I’ll have finished SFB and only have home printed models left to paint in the house, still ignoring the Box of Undesireables.

I’ve finished my printing now.  I used up the last of the resin and am currently venting the house and curing all my waste out in this lovely sun, ready for disposal.  Here’s what I’ve printed in the last month or so:

Ritual Casting Engineered Curves
RC Augmented Beauty
Twin Goddess Knox the Goblin Alchemist
Raging heroes Slick Spy the Goblin Pusher
Raging heroes Yanz pratrix, Cleric
Raging heroes Maniac Khorred
Raging heroes Frenzy Khorred
Artisan Guild Xantaras The Eye Tyrant
Artisan Guild Hive Colossus
Artisan Guild Slathos the Soul Stealer
3dartdigital Amberal Thundercloud
3dartdigital Jacques Satyr
3dartdigital Al Aksar lich
Titan Forge Lord of Decay / great unclean one
TF Gorr the Barbarian
TF Bartender
TF Lords Female Bodyguard
TF Ninja 2
TF Yuko
TF ToA 1 Elf Mage
TF ToA 1 Human Paladin Female
TF ToA 1 Tiefling Warlock
TF ToA 1 Dwarf Priest
TF ToA 2 Gnome Male Mage
TF ToA 2 Human Female Rogue
TF ToA 3 Halfling Rogue
TF ToA 3 Elf Bard
TF ToA 3 Human Warrior
TF ToA 4 Elf Monk
TF ToA 4 Human Warlock
TF ToA 4 Tiefling Sorceror
TF ToA 5 Dwarf Barbarian Female
TF Stranger
Bite the Bullet Irya, Female Barbarian
PrintYourMonsters Skeleton T-Rex and rider
Ghamak Lord of Fantasy / Keeper of Secrets
Artisan Guild Ornithaax the Majestic Black Deagon
Razduun, Undead Lord Bust MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Druid Bust MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Ophilia MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Norse High School MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Voodoo Bree MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Korra Bust MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Night Elf Bust MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Lich MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
Ghamak Female Monk
Ghamak Wood Elf Pinup 1
Ghamak Chaos Sorceror
Ghamak Barbarian
Artisan Guild Amazon
KDM Face x1 MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
KDM Column x4 MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse
KDM Ore x2 MyMiniFactory/Thingiverse

Last year I also printed off Ritual Casting’s Mortaya, weilding two lightsabers.  She sits in a box on a shelf, intimidating me.  Thats everything left on my list of To Paint’s that’s currently in the house.  KD:M 1.6 has been delayed until October, Aeon Tresspass: Oddysey has been put off until 2022, and I’ve a 6 man Guild Ball team at a friends house I can’t currently get to.

Quick analysis on the last bottle of resin.  It was 1 Litre of Anycubic Soy resin and it was a few months out of date.  It was supposed to be violet.  The liquid came out pink.  The first prints were pink.  Middle prints were violet and late prints were pastel blue.  I thought I’d shaken it properly, but perhaps not?  Perhaps this is a consequence of the stuff being out of date and being exposed to air?  Perhaps this is just what happens as we reuse whats left in the vat for future prints?

Chitubox tells us how much resin our prints will take up and how much that’s worth, based on paremeters we give it.  I had resin density set to 1.1 (Not sure thats right?) and apparently I printed 632ml worth of models with maybe 10ml left in the vat (A partial print came out before it ran dry).  This begs the question, was Chitubox that far off, or did I really lose that much to residue, drips, and to the air?  Just how much goes airborne?  Next time I get a bottle (No time soon) I’ll have to watch this closer to see what I get out.  Non-soy resin feels like it went further, but perhaps thats just because I was printing smaller stuff?  A full bed of 32mm minis takes about 25ml of resin, but one bust uses 2-4 times that much.