I'm sure the nearby Mek Bois and Lootas will squee at the idea of having one of these badboys.
They only make sense when I imagine them painted as Angry Marines. Headswaps mandatory, of course.
What even is the point of the primaris, other than "a slightly-different space marine that can beat up your space marine (also, cough up $50 for a new codex)"?
10 millennia long plot by the alpha legion to make the adeptus ministorum all commit mass suicide.
this is some ork level kind of ingenuity going on hurr
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No Games Workshop store that wants to stay in business is going to ban you from using models that they no longer sell. They want you using GW models because that’s what they sell. They would rather have you play with an entire army of 1st edition space marines than a 3d printed or recasted army because you would be playing with a GW product. If Gabriel Seth or Pedro Kantor don’t have rules next edition, homebrew it.
Not only am I not allowed to participate in local tournaments, but the local shop has stopped renting tables to my group of friends because we all use 3d printed models to some degree. I can't blame them either, because I'd be more than happy to sell one of their customers a printed model at a significant discount to what the store would charge.
"Warhammer is for everyone!"
That is some weird shit, the game store I played and took part in local tournaments doesn't mind 3D printed models, long as it fits the scale of the model it's supposed to be for
You should look into a wash. I use Agrax Earthshade, but there's a lot of options out there. It seeps into cracks and adds a lot of shadow and depth to models while making the high points look dirty and "lived in." I like to paint my models the lazy way because I don't want to own 4 different versions of every available color, but I still get results that I'm really happy with. Army Painter literally sells buckets of the stuff so you can dip your models and leave them to dry.
I make washes by watering down just a tiny dot of acrylic, usually black. I didn't really do them on the most recent layers; sometimes I don't get the mixture right, and it ends up just making everything darker.
I used to do that when I painted aircraft models but I find the premade stuff just easier and more cost effective. One bottle goes a lot longer than a similar sized bottle of paint. I can apply it straight from the container without watering it down so there's not as much waste.
I get my paints at Michael's, because I generally refuse to pay Citadel prices.
Interesting. I noticed that "bony" parts like the orks' spines look flat and chalky when I paint them.