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RA-5C Vigilante said:
I have to let this off my chest: I fucking hate the Saturnite Terminators. Their armor looks completely retarded, I legitimately thought they were a parody of GW and their super pauldron fetish. Horus Heresy has had some silly looking models, but I groan any time these Turtle Club members show up.
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The Saturnite terminators really make me appreciate the updated Indomitus terminators; they have basically the same appearance as the older models (barring a few minor alterations) and you can still swap out torso fronts/leg fronts to customize them. It's honestly a miracle that GW didn't completely fuck them up; gives me hope that the inevitable MK 7 tactical squad refresh won't be complete shit.
HTTP Error 404 said:
I mentioned Tamiya Panel Liner recently, and the internet provides. He suggests using lighter fluid to clean up excess.
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Lighter fluid? Just use odorless white spirits!
I have Tamiya panel liner but I rarely use it; I prefer oil washes.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:

I mentioned Tamiya Panel Liner recently, and the internet provides. He suggests using lighter fluid to clean up excess.

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I did like using that for panel lining Gunpla. But the lines there, for the most parts, are very pronounced. Deeper and straight. And if you take it more seriously, you usually scrape the panel liners deeper and gloss varnish to get the fluid perfecly flowing through them.

I haven't tried it for minis yet, am still a beginner and mostly use the basecoat-wash-highlight method.

Don't know how well it would work there, but for Space Marines, it can imagine it does. Depending on the style/shading you want to go for.
 
So a lot of the youtube painters use oil paint for it, and ... meh. I've never liked the oil wash paintjobs. (Of course, I'm also a weirdo who HATES edge highlighting cause it looks like Tron lines.)


I guess the exact term is "Pin washing"? Here's Stahly / Tale of Painters covering it, including explicitly using Tamiya Panel Liner

 
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So a lot of the youtube painters use oil paint for it, and ... meh. I've never liked the oil wash paintjobs. (Of course, I'm also a weirdo who HATES edge highlighting cause it looks like Tron lines.)
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Nah you're not a weirdo.

Oil washing leaves things a bit of a mess unless you go afterward and clean it up, which just means more work. Unless it's something that's supposed to be dirty then it's fine. And the edge highlighting... same. Rather I hate the way GW and some people do it on every damned edge inside and out of every shape on a mini. And especially on the darker paint jobs it absolutely does look like Tron lines. Doing a sporadic edge highlight on occasion can make some shapes pop without looking ridiculous if you want it to look like an edge is catching light but definitely not a solid line of it and definitely not in the inside edge of something like a space marine pauldron.
 
Not sure what the policy is on copyright material but I'll keep sharing until they arcoflagellate me.
Just finished the first book of Ian Watson's inquisition trilogy, holy fucking SOVL.

My one complaint is how fast it moves. In like 100 pages they foil a planet wide GSC rebellion, go to the Eye of Terror (to the first planet they find and with no intel), question one single Slaaneshite before leaving, and infiltrate the Imperial Palace for a private timestopped audience with The Emperor.
 

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p1138 said:
how it gets imbalanced
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The Adeptus Mechanicus crusade rules are absolutely terrible, just like everything else in that codex. Sure, balance should have less weight in a casual narrative, but having to win two games, roll a 5-6 both times on a die, for the grand reward of a random mediocre gun is just really painful.
 
spagandhi said:
The Adeptus Mechanicus crusade rules are absolutely terrible, just like everything else in that codex. Sure, balance should have less weight in a casual narrative, but having to win two games, roll a 5-6 both times on a die, for the grand reward of a random mediocre gun is just really painful.
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That's why you also play it alongside one of the campaigns like nachmund, armageddon, etc. or at least transplant the mechanics from those into something else. Also looking through the admech crusade rules, they've got more than just win 2 games get a gun. They've got requisitions, battle traits, and relics just like every other faction. The archeotech bit is in addition to that.
 
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Decapitated Nigger Baby said:
Brothers, I know it's been said many times and we already have a thread about it but may I shill to the Rogue Trader? I'll drop an honest review point by point:
  • Very grimdark writing, it's the early 2010s warhammer, no pozzed shit generally.
  • Nice combat system but takes some learning and getting used to, makes for some satisfying moments.
  • Character development is cracked out, honestly just watch some guides on youtube. They throw around game mechanic terms without explaining them and expect you to know all the synergies. Save yourselves the headache and watch a tutorial or get a ready-made build.
  • It's an Owlcat game so like Pathfinder it starts out all bombastic like but over time story quality slowly deteriorates, you're kept on rails for the most part fallout 4 style.
  • Heretical devotion campaign is a joke. Lore is bastardized beyond recognition and the whole thing feels like it was sewn into the main game after it was already finished. Like you can travel the galaxy for several chapters with an inquisitor and a sister of battle and commit heretical attocities with them going like "oh no mister lord captain how can you do this" but do nothing about it. Overall it's a halfbaked addition. Also the game lacks heretical companions. Also you'll fight all the chaos and heresy just like you would with a dogmatic character because they didn't have a budget to make an alternate story.
  • Endings are wild. You can try to do everything right for the entire game and then read the most terrifying heartbreaking end story piece about your favorite companion. All because you didn't chose one dialogue option in some chapter in a conversation lasting for 20 minutes. But writing in this game in some places absolutely slaps.
  • Music is a fucking BANGER. Mechanicus tier in some places.
  • Owlcat is making a fucking sequel already
Play it. You may like it.
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I saw the trailer for it and it looks really interesting. I tried getting into the Total War WH40K game and was overwhelmed a few years back (I've been more of a Paradoxslop RTS player). Should I still get it even if I don't know anything about Warhammer?
 
Was there lore wise something this edition worse than the Terminus Decree reveal (besides fem custodes?). Literally writing of "in case of fire break glass" revealing behind it a note with "don't start fires".
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Was there lore wise something this edition worse than the Terminus Decree reveal (besides fem custodes?). Literally writing of "in case of fire break glass" revealing behind it a note with "don't start fires".
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Worse? No. But still dumb?

Yarrick ending up with an off screen death. It's not that killing him is a problem, it's that it happened purely as a fucking newspaper obituary.

The stupid adventure to Cadia with Ursarkar Creed being able to predict the future in absolute contrived nonsensical detail like that particular chunk surviving with atmosphere, the defenders surviving by themselves with no imperial support, that his daughter would show up after being promoted through the ranks and then being sent on an expedition by Guilliman, etc.
 
What is going on with Scale75's paints, specifically their metal alchemy line? Rarely find any of them online and if I do its literally $70 a bottle and ships from Britain.
 
Total Norman Death said:
What is going on with Scale75's paints, specifically their metal alchemy line? Rarely find any of them online and if I do its literally $70 a bottle and ships from Britain.
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They're a weird company that keeps relying on kickstarter after kickstarter, a lot of which are niche products, while never doing very well regarding actual retail distribution and sales

They still haven't shipped all of their rewards from their drop paint XL(just larger bottles of their "airbrush" paint) due to missing mixing balls(as if they couldn't find some fucking stainless steel BBs from somewhere else?). They're now starting another heavy body acrylic paint range

So that's probably why their metallics are out of stock in addition to their already "not run so well" business. All while most every other major mini paint company(AP, Vallejo, Ammo, AK) has revamped their product line at some point in the past 5 years or other new brands have hit the market or made a comeback(TTC, p3, monument, GSW) and usually have better availability, and then the niche products selling artist acrylics or nostalgia bait paint ranges, all while actually having decent availability.
 
p1138 said:
They're a weird company that keeps relying on kickstarter after kickstarter, a lot of which are niche products, while never doing very well regarding actual retail distribution and sales

They still haven't shipped all of their rewards from their drop paint XL(just larger bottles of their "airbrush" paint) due to missing mixing balls(as if they couldn't find some fucking stainless steel BBs from somewhere else?). They're now starting another heavy body acrylic paint range

So that's probably why their metallics are out of stock in addition to their already "not run so well" business. All while most every other major mini paint company(AP, Vallejo, Ammo, AK) has revamped their product line at some point in the past 5 years or other new brands have hit the market or made a comeback(TTC, p3, monument, GSW) and usually have better availability, and then the niche products selling artist acrylics or nostalgia bait paint ranges, all while actually having decent availability.
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What a bummer, thanks for the insight tho. Their Black Metal is incredible and I am fiending for the elven gold.
 
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