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Spilled Spaghett said:
I'd also recommend a pack of sanding sticks, sometimes called sanding twigs. They're thin so you can get them into tiny crevices and flexible to work around bends.
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Cool, thanks for the recommendation. Looked them up and looks like a great tool, had some issues with gluing certain parts together because I couldn't remove some of the mold lines.
 
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Well, might as well toss in the guys Im working on.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I still think chess is OK BTW. I think it was designed back when battles were rigidly organized, and fought on flat open fields. And before gunpowder really changed battles.
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It takes the greatest chess minds decades of study, practice, and playing to understand what most people do in a few games. Chess is a shit game for autistic retards.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Slow day, still not done with priming. Body parts still need another round, and then I still have to do weapons and the bases. I can see why every video on the topic of painting 40K miniatures is recommending a rattle can. But I am enjoying doing it with a brush, so not an issue for now. Will need one of those hobby knives, removing those mold lines with that tool from GW is a pain and doesn't really work half the time.
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Priming - with can is simple but stressful. To be clear, once youre done building the model, you prime it, wait a bit then paint on top. The way you wrote your post, it wasnt clear to me you understood it or did the wrong order. You can (and should) airbrush primer and base coats, but thats further down the track.

Hobby knife - cheap amazon purchase to clear those little nubs. For the mold lines, flip the knife over and use the blunt side, save a little money.

Sanding - sanding sticks are good. I use a sanding sponge or cloth to clean up my shit work because nooks and crannies. 3000 grit because I'm just smoothing it out. 2000 is probably fine.

On the mold line thing. Ive been debating getting a knife for it and it seems Revell makes a highly recommended tool for it, but its almost $40 Aud so...fuck that I'll use the back of my scapel.
 
Bonesjones said:
It takes the greatest chess minds decades of study, practice, and playing to understand what most people do in a few games.
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Anyone having problems finding things they misplaced or solving "Where's Waldo" puzzles can suck at chess for the same reason, but can get good once and if they overcome it.
 
Anyone gonna get the MTO dyke statue?

Cheaper than I expected, I think I’m gonna make something horrible out of it for my daemon world terrain.
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I’ve been reading the “Deadworld” comics from 2000 AD and I’ve been inspired, immensely by the art. So the Arbites I did cave and buy can be integrated into my overall force.
 
I got shit to show off.

Finally got some blood paint, so all the Warbosses and their Nobz are proppa bloody
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Also wanted to try out Tau but I'm not a COMMIE FAGGOT
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Don't mean to derail the miniature posting but does anyone have a recommendation for a good 40k book to start with? I'm guessing other than the heresy series or the fall of cadia there isn't too much to worry about chronology(?) so any that you particularly enjoyed I would love to know.
 
Paul-Denton said:
Don't mean to derail the miniature posting but does anyone have a recommendation for a good 40k book to start with? I'm guessing other than the heresy series or the fall of cadia there isn't too much to worry about chronology(?) so any that you particularly enjoyed I would love to know.
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The Eisenhorn series is a good place to start, and then you can follow that with Ravenor and Bequin if you're so inclined. The Ultramarines, Grey Knights, and Salamanders series are also pretty decent. Ciaphas Cain is a more lighthearted take on the grimdark. The Heresy does average out to be good overall, but it's 64 books plus dozens of short stories and novellas and some of them are a real slog to get through.

Other books worth considering: The Infinite and the Divine, the Carcharodons series, the War for Armageddon omnibus, the Death Korps of Krieg books, and the Iron Warriors series.
 
Paul-Denton said:
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My goodness that's insane do most people read these digitally or am I looking in the wrong place
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I'm an audiobook guy. Audible gives me a credit every month with my sub and I keep the book I buy. The subscription is often half the cost of an individual book. That's where I get my books. Remember that the Eisenhorn series is over 20 years old. It's been out of print for a while. I think your best bet for most Warhammer books are going to be digital. Blacklibrary.com is GW's official site for all their books but it also appears that everything is exclusively available in e-reader or audiobook. For Eisenhorn you could also try searching for the Omnibus which I believe contains the whole trilogy.
 
Paul-Denton said:
Don't mean to derail the miniature posting but does anyone have a recommendation for a good 40k book to start with? I'm guessing other than the heresy series or the fall of cadia there isn't too much to worry about chronology(?) so any that you particularly enjoyed I would love to know.
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The Word Bearers trilogy is a good intro to Chaos Space marines, not as deep as Night Lords but more fun I’d say. It also got reprinted recently.

Lords of Silence for the best Death Guard novel of all time.

Soul Drinkers for some renegade space marine fun, a perspective rarely shown outside Carcharodons.

Lucius: The Faultless Blade, its the biggest douche in the setting, living his best life while dealing with constant headaches (bro same) and being the biggest burden to everyone around him, while still being likeable and honestly, the token “sane” one, just like he was in the HH, he’s still fucked in the head, but he’s the only one to stop and go, “This is fucking ridiculous.”
 
Paul-Denton said:
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My goodness that's insane do most people read these digitally or am I looking in the wrong place
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GW does an initial print run of books, sometimes a hardback version, and on occasion a limited edition with a fancy cover, and then as Spilled Spaghett mentioned may not re-print popular books that are in demand for years/decades at a time. Another notorious one is the infantryman's uplifting primer that's had multiple editions and sells out in an hour every time and can't be found under $100 when he should be a $30 book. Also makes doing something like trying to collect the entire horus heresy series next to impossible without spending far more than the books are actually "worth".
 
Spilled Spaghett said:
I'm an audiobook guy. Audible gives me a credit every month with my sub and I keep the book I buy. The subscription is often half the cost of an individual book. That's where I get my books. Remember that the Eisenhorn series is over 20 years old. It's been out of print for a while. I think your best bet for most Warhammer books are going to be digital. Blacklibrary.com is GW's official site for all their books but it also appears that everything is exclusively available in e-reader or audiobook. For Eisenhorn you could also try searching for the Omnibus which I believe contains the whole trilogy.
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Does this crazy **** believe who posts sold the turrets on audiobook bay? That's where I get them. People give GW money. I don't.
 
p1138 said:
GW does an initial print run of books, sometimes a hardback version, and on occasion a limited edition with a fancy cover, and then as Spilled Spaghett mentioned may not re-print popular books that are in demand for years/decades at a time. Another notorious one is the infantryman's uplifting primer that's had multiple editions and sells out in an hour every time and can't be found under $100 when he should be a $30 book. Also makes doing something like trying to collect the entire horus heresy series next to impossible without spending far more than the books are actually "worth".
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Who's worse GW or Hasbro for cucking their IP's accessibility
 
Paul-Denton said:
Who's worse GW or Hasbro for cucking their IP's accessibility
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Hasbro, easily. They've been bitching about D&D being under-monetized for years while not producing product or of all fucking things letting other companies use the license to produce toys as if Hasbro can't figure that out on their own. Let IDW have their GI Joe and Transformers comic book licenses till they eventually made tranny transformers and fat lesbian GI Joe characters and then yanked the licenses from IDW. Sells garbage "collectibles" that are just way overpriced action figures still made for little kids, mostly of shit no one wants. Letting freight containers worth of trash products languish on the shelves for years at discount stores like Ollie's. Not bothering to market shit like the D&D movie and then wondering why no one went to see it. Repeatedly pissing off their customer base regarding the OGL and D&D. Mostly only publishing a select few practically ancient D&D novels at this point, so now not even drizz't clones are a thing because the playerbase doesn't know who the hell he is.

At least GW makes their books available as e-books and audiobooks.
 
Mr Clark said:
Priming - with can is simple but stressful. To be clear, once youre done building the model, you prime it, wait a bit then paint on top. The way you wrote your post, it wasnt clear to me you understood it or did the wrong order. You can (and should) airbrush primer and base coats, but thats further down the track.

Hobby knife - cheap amazon purchase to clear those little nubs. For the mold lines, flip the knife over and use the blunt side, save a little money.

Sanding - sanding sticks are good. I use a sanding sponge or cloth to clean up my shit work because nooks and crannies. 3000 grit because I'm just smoothing it out. 2000 is probably fine.

On the mold line thing. Ive been debating getting a knife for it and it seems Revell makes a highly recommended tool for it, but its almost $40 Aud so...fuck that I'll use the back of my scapel.
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Don't worry, I understand, and I am doing it in the right order. But I am doing it with a brush and the standard white Citadel paint and not a rattle can. My comment was about that, since my approach is a lot of work. Which I don't necessarily mind at this point.
 
Paul-Denton said:
does anyone have a recommendation for a good 40k book to start with?
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Gaunt’s Ghost trilogy. First book is great. Second meh but insightful for some of the Tanith, third book is gold. It’s not as lore intensive so you’re not left wondering what things are in universe but comfortable enough a read for anyone to get into absent of the setting and lore.

Snekposter said:
To sum up The Infinite and the Divine: Its a lovely combination of "Fuck you and I'll see you next century!" and "IT WAS JUST A PRANK, BRO!" showing off both Orikan and Trollzyn at their finest.
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Absolute fun book. I think I read it in an entire afternoon because I couldnt be pulled away. The opera scene is top tier in how everything came together.
 
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