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I like the way they’re writing Fulgrim now and the audiobooks have ditched the twink voice. Between Eidolon’s novel and Perfect Son. He’s kinda like Pacino in Devil’s Advocate, jumping between hammy, genuinely funny, convincing and intimidating in the same monologues.
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They even do the goat-leg trick the film does where he has legs sometimes but they move weird and you can still hear the slithering. He’s really insidious in how delusional and happy he is in his current state, unlike Angron, Magnus or Mortarion, he’s very much enjoying being pure evil and he’s claiming to be the “Rightful Emperor” now, which is fantastic, he wants to be Roboute so bad.
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Mr Clark said:
Does Dorn come back a calmer more stoic man and go IF (fortify the Imperium) or go all in on his rage and go BT (cause more trouble than he's worth)?

Honestly, both are great options and I hope hes available for both armies. Dorn and unique IF units only thing holding me back from painting yellow.
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Given the Lion’s treatment and Templars being more popular than the Fists, I’d say it would make a good contrast to have Dorn return as the wrathful knight in black.

Ideally (meaning it will never happen) he’d have two build options for which army you want him in, the Praetorian and the Crusader.

Though this book really hammers home that whatever he is now, Sigismund was more like dad than he ever knew. Fulgrim as Dorn’s new rival is also pretty fucking good.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
Perhaps I'm being a bit alarmist here, but...
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Yes you absolutely are. No one stores their rattle cans like they're bombs ready to go off. The only danger is exposing them to direct flames which could ignite the propellent. I'd say the giant slab of flammable wood blocking your escape is a bigger hazard than the spray cans hanging off it.
 
Defensive Ella Purnell said:
Quixk PSA for anybody interested in getting some of the Dark Coil stories in paperback. I just preordered The Dark Coil: Damnation for about 25AUSD on Amazon. It's a 650 page anthology of Peter Fehervari bangers releasing on the 25th.
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I just wanted to thank you for posting this. I ordered the book and am 3/4's of the way through Fire Caste and it's the best 40k book I've ever read and might be one of my favorite books just in general. I still have to read the rest of the omnibus, but I get the feeling the Peter Fehervari might be too good of an author for Black Library. I went an found some interviews with him and he had some fucking crazy ideas for stories he tried to get BL to let him do.

Like his first short story "Nightfall" was supposed to be told completely from the perspective of a child during a raid by the Night Lords, with the child having no idea what Space Marines even were. BL rejected that story for being too weird and he had to beg to be able to rewrite it to be more "40k" and his rewrite was published.

One of his idea's for his first book (that wound up being Fire Caste instead) was a black comedy. A group of Imperial film makers mid production on a propaganda film for the Imperial Guard use a rouge trader to get access to a captured ork. They attempt to re-program the ork to be in the movie and gory hilarity ensues. It was shot down by BL for, again, being too weird.

For those of you wondering Fire Caste is an Imperial Guard book that features the Arkan Confederates going to a fucked up jungle world. The Tau are in it but not the main focus, like the title implies. It was originally supposed to be called "Thunderground", based on a philosophical belief that the Arkan's have that is mentioned a few times in the book. BL made him change the name cause they thought it would sell better.

One thing I just noticed looking at the omnibus is that they misspelled the author's name on the back cover blurb. Instead of "Peter Fehervari" it reads "Peter Feheravi".

Thank you for reading my blog,
 
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Taki Supremacy said:
One thing I just noticed looking at the omnibus is that they misspelled the author's name on the back cover blurb. Instead of "Peter Fehervari" it reads "Peter Feheravi".
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Yeah it's interesting what happens when you get actual talented writers to write for Black Live able rather than hacks like Mike Brooks and Gabe Thorpe
I feel like Peter Favarrie could also write a pretty decent guard novel that isn't Cosmic horror.


Justin D Hills Cadio series is actually pretty decent The only thing I'll say about the last hill is he really needs to explain where the 110 gets certain things.
He did shamelessly whip off the Battle of Rorke's Drift

i keep saying it but I can't recommend the infinite and the divine probably one of the funniest and most engaging 40K novels it strikes a perfect tone of serious and slapstick comedy.



The war that roses is passable I mean it's not like a great novel it's just a collection of sisters of battle short stories but it's not terrible.


Titanicus is pretty good but you have to get through all the slightly boring points to just watch titans beat the crap out of each other could he use more titan speeding the crap out of each other.
The novel set in the Sabat world crusade that I knew it in by Dan Abnet or actually better volpony Glory the ones that follow Milo.
 
p1138 said:
Yes you're being an alarmist. I've never seen a store keep spraypaint, including hardware stores, in fireproof cabinets. Theft proof cabinets yes. Nevermind how much other flammable product at a store is not kept in flameproof containers even when stored in bulk.
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That's very odd to me, because here in Bongland they do, under COSHH safety regulations.

Perhaps you live in a more culturally enriched area, where thievery and solvent abuse is more of an immediate concern than fire.

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Yes you absolutely are. No one stores their rattle cans like they're bombs ready to go off. The only danger is exposing them to direct flames which could ignite the propellent. I'd say the giant slab of flammable wood blocking your escape is a bigger hazard than the spray cans hanging off it.
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I don't know, man, call me a Nervous Nelly or whatever, but I'm still not sure that having 48 of the fuckers in close proximity, blocking what would presumably be the room's only escape route, would be a great idea in the event of a fire.
 
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Miriam Margoyles said:
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I don't know, man, call me a Nervous Nelly or whatever, but I'm still not sure that having 48 of the fuckers in close proximity, blocking what would presumably be the room's only escape route, would be a great idea in the event of a fire.
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Don't have an open fire or smoke cigarettes in the vicinity of them then? Yes housefires can spread quickly, but there's a reason people aren't dying due to spray paint or other aerosol cans with flammable liquids constantly exploding, they simply don't. The can was tossed into an already raging fire, and still took time to pop. By the time there's that much fire going on, that shoe hanger would have already melted with the cans on the floor now becoming a trip hazard, with the door itself already being a raging inferno.

The guy is weird for hoarding spraypaint like he's some fucking outdoor mural artist when he isn't. But it wouldn't be any different if he had a half dozen cans sitting on a shelf next to the door either in the event the place he was in became an inferno.
 
@Taki Supremacy

Glad you're enjoying Fire Caste, it's also probably my all time faves too. I had no idea about BL shooting down some of his ideas, that's fucked because he's one of the only decent writers they have. It's criminal how they're not appreciating him.


I found a good reading of Nightbleed recently, the girl doing it has a good voice for just how fucking out there this story is. It's an excellent story.

Link if anyone fancies a listen
 
Miriam Margoyles said:
Perhaps I'm being a bit alarmist here, but...

Household Fire Safety with Midwit Minis.mp4

Is this not an horrendous fucking fire hazard? The propellents in spray paints are highly inflammable, Guy, you fucking mongoloid. You can even see the fire hazard symbol on some of the cans in the video! Stores that sell stuff like that store them in special flame proof cabinets. You, on the other hand, have just strapped 48 of them, right next to eachother, over a door which is presumably your only exit to the room you're in. That's going to go up like a fucking rocket in the event of a fire and trap you inside.

I can't believe he so blithely and thoughtlessly recommends this 'cool, space-saving hobby hack' to his hundreds of thousands of subscribers, seemingly with no thought whatsoever as to what a terrible, potentially really fucking dangerous idea this is.
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If you are in a house fire, keep your fucking door closed and exit out a window. Rattle cans won't kill you before a raging inferno will suck the oxygen from your lungs and melt you from the inside out.

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With the fire bit out of the way, just talking about Midwit Minis in general, it's good to see his channel on what appears to be a decline. The last time he had a video break 200k views was 9 months ago, and a lot of his recent stuff hasn't even broken 100k.

His recent videos? Doing battle damage on a space marine and adding extra purity seals. Then it's "must have tools". Before that it's some cheap plastic kit with a base way too small that looks like a dragon/Alien(as in the franchise) knock off because Archon Studios sent a bunch of crap to youtubers a month and a half ago or so(a bunch seem to have received some boat model, he got this thing, Squidmar apparently works with them already to produce minis so they just made a new one).

Then his next 200k view video is from over a year ago, the first video about making their "titan sized GUO" which they dragged their ass for a year about finishing. A speedpainting slapchop video about tyranids from almost 2 years ago(because of the leviathan launch box) hit 300k. He's been chasing some spark or whatever that his channel never really had.

Now this shit, this is funny
I've never seen another 40k youtube channel so damned desperate that they promote a fucking cameo page. At least he's not too full of himself and only charges $15 a video to sing Happy Birthday or a Christmas song. That's a new level of pathetic for content creators trying to rely on the hobby for income. The craziest part is, for some fucking reason he's got 65 reviews praising this nonsense. Maybe it's just some weirdly parasocial fans that have latched onto him? I don't know.
 
Penne Dreadful said:
Presenting Brother Jom of the Kiwis Obscurum.
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Born on the Agri-World Faceta Bos Villam IV, the Chapter's recruiting world, he passed the recruitment trials, culminating in voxbooking an Agent of the Inquisition and was so permitted to join, after which he slowly worked his way up through the ranks through cunning and indomitable stubbornness.

A fairly quick and dirty job for now, on the first Marine I've ever painted. I stayed fairly close to your Impcat mockup, just to try out the scheme; I think it worked out decently enough that it might be worth expanding to the rest of a Kill Team at some point.
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I'm currently listening to the Ciaphas Cain audiobooks. Is is just me, or are the threats to the Imperium being a bit understated so that Ciaphas doesn't get his ass handed to him? I sort of assumed that Orks were more threatening one on one than the novels seem to imply and it feels like the Tyranids aren't nearly threatening enough.

Drowning a bunch of Necrons in prometheum and then blowing up the base was fucking great though.

p1138 said:
edit: and just to prove my point, here's how propane tanks are normally stored at a convience store, hardware store, gas station, etc.
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I know this might be hard to take for most people, but propane tanks don't randomly explode when shot or thrown. Or explode at all really. Unless the gas has saturated an exposed space and is exposed to a flame in which case you'll get a fireball, not an explosion per se.
 
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p1138 said:
Yes you're being an alarmist. I've never seen a store keep spraypaint, including hardware stores, in fireproof cabinets. Theft proof cabinets yes. Nevermind how much other flammable product at a store is not kept in flameproof containers even when stored in bulk.
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I worked in a tech heavy section of hospitality and we had to keep anything aerosol in a fire safe. But it wasn't (just) paint, it was also lubricants, etching fluid for circuitboards, et cetera.

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This exact one, in fact. Very solid steel box, basically. I imagine if it caught fire it'd still go up, but it would give us enough time to die of smoke inhalation before the explosion.
 
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I worked in a tech heavy section of hospitality and we had to keep anything aerosol in a fire safe. But it wasn't (just) paint, it was also lubricants, etching fluid for circuitboards, et cetera.

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This exact one, in fact. Very solid steel box, basically. I imagine if it caught fire it'd still go up, but it would give us enough time to die of smoke inhalation before the explosion.
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I'm aware they exist, most auto mechanics should probably also have one(brake cleaner, starter fluid, all sorts of fun flammable stuff at a repair shop) but the parts store isn't going to do that and it isn't an issue. And people certainly aren't going to have one at home.
Catgirl Tyranid said:
I know this might be hard to take for most people, but propane tanks don't randomly explode when shot or thrown. Or explode at all really. Unless the gas has saturated an exposed space and is exposed to a flame in which case you'll get a fireball, not an explosion per se.
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Indeed, that's why larger bottles like that are usually kept outdoors. The small ones for camping stoves and lanterns? Indoors, on a normal shelf.
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
I'm currently listening to the Ciaphas Cain audiobooks. Is is just me, or are the threats to the Imperium being a bit understated so that Ciaphas doesn't get his ass handed to him? I sort of assumed that Orks were more threatening one on one than the novels seem to imply and it feels like the Tyranids aren't nearly threatening enough.

Drowning a bunch of Necrons in prometheum and then blowing up the base was fucking great though.
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I think maybe Orks get underplayed a bit, but generally I believe the idea is to show that Cain is just that tough and good at what he does (and possibly blessed by the Emperor), even though he'd rather be in a nice office somewhere. If I recall correctly, all the Tyranid attacks he ever dealt with were from small splinter fleets, rather than a full tendril or main fleet body like the Blood Angels fought at the Devastation of Baal. I do like that he doesn't kill any of the Chaos Space Marines he fights by himself and that he refuses to tangle with Necrons unless he has absolutely no other choice.
 
Second Missing Primarch said:
I think maybe Orks get underplayed a bit, but generally I believe the idea is to show that Cain is just that tough and good at what he does (and possibly blessed by the Emperor), even though he'd rather be in a nice office somewhere. If I recall correctly, all the Tyranid attacks he ever dealt with were from small splinter fleets, rather than a full tendril or main fleet body like the Blood Angels fought at the Devastation of Baal. I do like that he doesn't kill any of the Chaos Space Marines he fights by himself and that he refuses to tangle with Necrons unless he has absolutely no other choice.
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Well, with the Orks, like even in their own novels they kinda underplayed sometimes, even when they're like kicking ass by sheer dumb luck.
 
Small (perhaps final?) update on the enamel situation.

I did a respray, and a few guard had what appeared to be a bubbly, cracking texture. I was told this was a reaction between the two paints. It only effected 3 guard, but they were 2 elites and an officer. The elites are so minor I think it won't be noticeable once painted, but the officer had it fairly bad on flat areas like his hat. I gave him a scrape and the paint came off super easy once the surface was broken. Now he's been primed again, and while I worry about the loss of detail, it looks fine. All the important stuff is visible. And since these are third party they'll be a little over £1 each to replace if I go down that road.
 
p1138 said:
The small ones for camping stoves and lanterns? Indoors, on a normal shelf.
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That doesn't even include the punishment these cans take before it even reaches a store shelf. I don't know about other stores, but at least one I worked in they threw everything into a box like it was a free for all. No warnings or anything on the carton it was a regular cardboard box that was palletized with everything else and hauled in a regular trailer. Those boxes were probably tossed around and dropped a few times before it ever reached a shelf, let alone your home.
 
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