Lindsay and Megan will take the Mick out of me for this, but I really do think that within the next 10 years, most homes will have an FDM 3D printer.

When I was at school we saw an advert from the early 60s which had a family sitting down to eat breakfast, and the dad tried to have some cereal, but the milk was off, then he tried to have toast but the butter was rotten, and his daughter just says “dad, don’t you think we should get a fridge!”

And that stuck because the fridge is such a ubiquitous thing that everyone owns and I have always wondered what other things might fit the same narrative, and so far computers and mobile phones have fitted that

I think it’s going to need a model similar to the Bambu A1 Mini to hit the £99 mark for it to happen, but I really can see that coming soon.

The A1 Mini currently sells for £149.99 and I have seen it regularly on sale for £129.99, and it’s a really decent little printer that does what you want really well, and can be upgraded with the AMS Lite for 4 different filament colours/materials.

But why do I think they are going to become so common, well it comes down to the fact I think they are just so helpful, especially the FDM stuff.

So yeah with the above Instagram post, Megan wanted a Skadis door for their Kalax unit, but Ikea stopped making that, so I printed off a couple of bits in PETG to allow a normal Skadis board to be hung on the side of it

Or where we replaced pegs on the Socktopus instead of buying a new one

And of course for gaming and modelling, I have my resin printer, which is fantastic at making some amazing models.

That said I highly doubt resin will become more common, given the extra stuff needed for that with its cleaning and post processing.

But yeah, when it comes down to it, it’s not going to take much, but I am convinced they will become an essential device for most households

Stormcast Sorting

I completed one of the aims of this year, and sorted out my Stormcast Eternals army into what can be used in 4th editon and it turned out to be a lot more than I though!

Here is the doc!

What I Am Modelling

I started out with painting a Hellhound, an Artemia Pattern one, of which I still have another to paint

Love this model, so much cooler than the plastic version , but after I built it, I saw how much they sell for online and almost cried!

So much plastic could be bought for that!!!

After that I started work on 20

Lasriflemen for my Solar Auxilia to take away to Warhammer World this weekend

Along with a Command Section

A Lord Marshall

And a Couple of 3D printed Lord Marhslls too

And finally I painted up a couple of Death Korps of Krieg Heavy Support Squads up

So what’s coming up next?

  1. Blood Angels Land Speeders
  2. Heretic Legion Warband
  3. Tech Thralls x 20
  4. Hearthkyn Pioneers x 3
  5. True Soms Havocs x 10
  6. Einhyr Hearthguard x 5
  7. Guardian Defenders x 11
  8. Myrmidon Destructors x 6
  9. Nemesis Dreadknight
  10. Opel Blitz

What I Am Reading

I finished up The Emperors Finest by Sandy Mitchell, which yeah, I know it’s the weakest of the series

I then listened to The Settling by Simon Guerrier, which was pretty good, nice to see something that actually portrays Cromwell as the villain he actually was

Then I listened to The Last Ditch by Sandy Mitchell, which was extremely good.

I am currently listening to Angron: The Red Angel by David Guymer, and so far it’s fairly interesting

What Tabletop Games I Am Playing

It was the February tournament at Gamer-At-Hart and I took along the Astra Militarium with this list, using the Hellhound for the first time!

Bridgehead (1990 Points)

Astra Militarum
Bridgehead Strike
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Commissar (30 Points)
  • 1x Plasma pistol
  • 1x Power weapon

Leman Russ Commander (235 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Lascannon
  • 1x Leman Russ battle cannon

Militarum Tempestus Command Squad (85 Points)
  • 4x Tempestus Scion
     ◦ 4x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 2x Hot-shot lasgun
     ◦ 2x Hot-shot laspistol
     ◦ 1x Master Vox
     ◦ 1x Medi-pack
     ◦ 1x Plasma gun
     ◦ 1x Regimental Standard
  • 1x Tempestor Prime
     • Warlord
     ◦ 1x Command Rod
     ◦ 1x Tempestus dagger

BATTLELINE

Tempestus Scions (140 Points)
  • 1x Tempestor
     ◦ 1x Chainsword
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot laspistol
  • 9x Tempestus Scion
     ◦ 9x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 4x Hot-shot lasgun
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot laspistol
     ◦ 2x Hot-shot volley gun
     ◦ 2x Plasma gun
     ◦ 1x Vox-caster

Tempestus Scions (140 Points)
  • 1x Tempestor
     ◦ 1x Chainsword
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot laspistol
  • 9x Tempestus Scion
     ◦ 9x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 4x Hot-shot lasgun
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot laspistol
     ◦ 2x Meltagun
     ◦ 2x Plasma gun
     ◦ 1x Vox-caster

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Taurox Prime (90 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Storm bolter
  • 1x Taurox battle cannon
  • 1x Twin Taurox hot-shot volley gun

Taurox Prime (90 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Storm bolter
  • 1x Taurox missile launcher
  • 1x Twin autocannon

Taurox Prime (90 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Storm bolter
  • 1x Taurox gatling cannon
  • 1x Twin Taurox hot-shot volley gun

OTHER DATASHEETS

Hellhound (125 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Heavy flamer
  • 1x Inferno cannon

Leman Russ Demolisher (190 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Demolisher battle cannon
  • 1x Lascannon

Leman Russ Vanquisher (145 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Heavy bolter
  • 1x Heavy stubber
  • 1x Vanquisher battle cannon

Leman Russ Vanquisher (145 Points)
  • 1x Armoured tracks
  • 1x Heavy bolter
  • 1x Heavy stubber
  • 1x Vanquisher battle cannon

Tempestus Aquilons (100 Points)
  • 1x Tempestor Aquilon
     ◦ 1x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot lascarbine
     ◦ 1x Sentry flamer
  • 8x Tempestus Aquilon
     ◦ 8x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 6x Hot-shot lascarbine
     ◦ 1x Hot‐shot long‐las
     ◦ 1x Melta carbine
  • 1x Gunfighter
     ◦ 1x Close combat weapon
     ◦ 1x Hot-shot lascarbine

ALLIED UNITS

Knight Crusader (385 Points)
  • 1x Avenger gatling cannon
  • 1x Heavy flamer
  • 1x Meltagun
  • 1x Thermal cannon
  • 1x Titanic feet

Game one and I played Sean and his Dark Angels, a very elite list with Lion, and he tore me a new one

My Scions really do die very easily for how much they cost!

My second game against Ryan’s White Scars, who also absolutely beasted me!

The White Scars are just so fast!

And my final game was against Leon, a good friend and his T’au Empire army, I did much better in this game, but my dice let me down, a lot, but I felt it was more even

The points don’t agree with that, but I felt like I was doing some damage!

What I Am Spending

An unglamourous purchase, but we had to get a new washing machine!

I bought a few games on Steam