Hello friends - I have been a bit unmotivated of late - no games for a while and not painting anything much in the way of figures, so I have not had a lot to post about (although I should finish off our trip to the S Island at the beginning of November - maybe I will do that next time)
Anyway, here's is an eclectic mix of bits and pieces.
First up, a couple of weeks ago, I bought two packs of oil barrels (20 per pack) from a small 3d printer in Wellington, I suspected they may not be quite right for 28mm but when he reduced his price to $3 per bag, plus postage, I pressed Buy Now! They duly arrived and are really nice, crisp prints - but there was one problem....
They are a tad too big!! After some email comms, he offered to redo them for me at a reduced scale - 15mm high and 12mm circumference - for $15 including postage, he would send me 60 barrels, some crates and some weird sci-fi type of terrain - I assume they all come together on the same STL file and he had to print them all anyway. The result arrived today - the purple barrel on the right!
I have about thirty of these crates I think
And 2 or 3 each of these odd things - I am sure I will find a use for them!
Today's haul above - and below the "large" barrels - I still reckon I can find a use for them as industrial terrain scatter.
And here are a couple of 3d bridges from Temu - about $10 each thanks to Black Friday sales!
The one above is the same model I already have - I just painted it different shades - grey rather than earthy browns
Side on views of the second, single span bridge
And finally, with the Temu order, I got a couple of fountains for all those town squares everywhere in the last 2-300 years!
The first is a kind of concrete grey
And the other a warmer shade akin to sandstone
Next, we have a picture of my wife (who had her 61st birthday yesterday 8 Dec) aged about 24 when we first met in the UK in 1988
Why you ask - well I have used her as a basis for a few AI images - and you need to know what she looks(ed) like to judge the AI results!
The German one is the greatest likeness, for sure! (I did try to get it to put her face in a Bund Deutscher Madel poster - but it apologised and said it wasn't allowed to do that!)
Here are a few more "live action" images I created
Soviet sniper
Fighting Girlfriend in a T34 turret
A Night Witch Soviet bomber pilot
Luftwaffe Signals (not sure on the accuracy of the uniform or radio equipment though!)
A WAAF during the Battle of Britain
British Ack Ack Gunner
Russian Gunners (I don't know why the middle one is black and white, I didn't ask it to do that!
A Soviet scout - the last four below I used a different photo when she was aged around 40, I think!
And to finish off, here are a few of the TWENTY FIVE dahlia plants she has bought and planted over the last 6-9 months
The upside is, she has cut flowers for the house on tap so she (or occasionally I) won't have to shell out buying any for a while!
I am sure most realise these ones are actually sweet peas!
Bonus shot of our 14-year-old dog, Sam.
OK that's it - I hope no one thinks it's too weird, me posting a whole series of pictures of my 35+ years ago wife in various WW2 guises - I just thought it was interesting to see how accurately the AI can reproduce an image of a real person.
Here is one final one - I don't think even she would realise this wasn't genuine - although she didn't really smoke very much, it wasn't completely unknown in 1989 or 90!
