3D colour printed figures and cat hoovering!

Its been a busy day here at WMD HQ as I complete the pre Christmas Mrs. Woody chore list with some cleaning and hoovering including some cats. On to that in a minute but first lets take a look at some 3D printed figures. I have some that need painting but these two from Accurascale are designed as the crew for their Class 37. 

The difference between these and the 3D printed figures that I already have is that these are actually printed in colour! Now that is another leap forward for 3D printing. These figures are small in 4mm scale and they don't have legs as they are designed to be sat in the seats in the model loco which doesn't have room for their legs - Ouch! You can se the small size as they are posed next to a 1 pence coin which I had to remuage about for as the WMD coin pot is somewhat empty after buying Mrs. Woody's Christmas presents - hope she reads that!

Whilst the colours are sort of fragmented with white it is still impressive that they can be printed in colour. 

This figure even has his beard!

I think I will let the technology come on a bit so that the colours are a bit more solid in nature before I buy any more of these but it is never the less impressive to see where 3D printing has got to already. Who knows where it will be this time next year?

One thing I am fairly certain of this time next year is that I will still be getting on with Mrs. Woody's chore list! However today I did score a bonus point by hoovering the cats! Now I should say at this point the cats in question are not the real ones that form the WMD cat fleet, but are Mrs. Woody's collection of cloth cats as well as a couple of mice! They sit on the floor near the log burner so do get rather dusty from that as well as from the attention they get from the real cat fleet but today saw them hoovered and dust free! 

Here they are, out of their dusty area with hoover nozzle attachment providing a gentle dusting.

Back in place, dust free much like the rest of the lounge once I finished! That should earn me a good set of Christmas presents!