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A white man aspiring to have the precision and patience of an old Asian lady is like building the Tower of Babel at the behest of god
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If that tank on the left is an example of the last bits of paint that won't come off, and you haven't just tried sanding it off yet with some 400 grit sanding sticks just to make sure the surface is smooth, it'll be fine.
Not necessarily. In this case it's more like using script liner brushes that aren't any more expensive than any other brush. Just need to go to a real art supply store.
paints, brushes, techniques, mediums, materials, all this crap that gets sold to us for painting 40k stuff has been used for other things long before that as mini painting is basically the bottom tier of craft projects all things considered. If you look outside of things labeled as being for the miniature painting hobby you can see where tools and techniques came from before 40 people on youtube made videos about it, or even find things you can use without it ever being sold as such. Probably the weirdest and most obvious example of this, is the scale model hobby and the mini painting community being incredibly slow about adapting techniques from that for painting plastic tanks that are basically the same size even.
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The Space Marine 2 December community update was posted earlier today. Of note is that some of the new marines that were datamined a month or so ago have been officially shown off, along with some of their voicelines being posted on their Discord (yuck) server. Now you can be a genuine Blood Angel instead of an Ultrasmurf painted in Bangel colours if you cough up the money, and no, they're not included in the season pass :^)
They can't just be black. No, they have to look like a caricature from a 19th century anthropology textbook.
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The nigger space wolf is just fucking hilarious. They can't help themselves. But hey, at least you can use the voices even while wearing a helmet(which defeats the entire purpose of making heads, especially since they don't emote and you can only appreciate them in photo mode which is exclusive to solo play). The fact its not included in the season pass is just a fuck you because they need to make the money back they wasted on this. Also how funny is it they have no issue race swapping the tac and Bladeguard(Asian and black) for their new heads, but they couldn't do it for the Wolf.
I lol'd at their cope about modular customization too. They admitted they should have set their system up for that from the start, and the fact they didn't confirms to me they never intended to have any customization at all. You were gonna get the base game sets, maybe champion skins, and that was gonna be it. The fact that for them to simply mirror left/right assests so they can be used on both sides would cost as much time and effort as creating a brand new asset from scratch, and potentially cause just as many issues, is genuinely retarded. Actual incompetence and a fundamental misunderstanding of one of the main draws of the IP and one of the main things that keeps people playing. But hey they gave a winky emoji about how it's not possible in *this* game though, so just wait another 6 years.
Siege is getting an update, whatever. More ways to earn accolades and more heroics, whatever again. Most of the heroics are fucking Death Guard relics from before the Heresy which is dumb to me and their gimmicks are kinda ass anyway.
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This got me. Yes they absolutely can, we know GW does not prevent old marks from being used. This is a lie.
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Kitbashing/proxy question(s)
EC get sorcerers. They look gay. How does a shardspeaker (from AoS) go as a proxy do you reckon?
What kits out there are good for bits? Ive got a maulerfiend and heldrake crying out for some Slaanesh goodness. The EC kits have a lot of bits but them working is a different issue...and dont even ask about freehand, i dont have it.
Only idea i have so far is attach chains (where do people even get them from?) or 3d print a ball gag for the forgefiend head and slap that on the maulerfiend.
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Metallic paint, how good is it actually for marines? I have my dark purple paint in mind but vallejo premium metallic purple and their new tmm range (purple, obv) have got me distracted. Is the metallic effect really worth it?
EC get sorcerers. They look gay. How does a shardspeaker (from AoS) go as a proxy do you reckon?
What kits out there are good for bits? Ive got a maulerfiend and heldrake crying out for some Slaanesh goodness. The EC kits have a lot of bits but them working is a different issue...and dont even ask about freehand, i dont have it.
Only idea i have so far is attach chains (where do people even get them from?) or 3d print a ball gag for the forgefiend head and slap that on the maulerfiend.
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Metallic paint, how good is it actually for marines? I have my dark purple paint in mind but vallejo premium metallic purple and their new tmm range (purple, obv) have got me distracted. Is the metallic effect really worth it?
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Scale modeling shops have chains in plenty of different sizes, craft stores like Michaels will also have some that people use for making jewelry/trinkets/etc. but maybe not as small as you want and would have some weirder jewelry type links, but that might not be entirely terrible if you're doing slaanesh stuff?
For actual colored metallic paint(so not just IW), plenty of people use it for Alpha Legion, and I've seen people do it for Thousand Sons in red and blue, and EC in their 30k purple. Personally I'm not a fan of most metallic colors like the newer Vallejo stuff but if you don't paint everything just the solid color(so a secondary color that isn't metallic to go along side the purple) it could probably look alright. Here's an example of someone's metallic purple EC with enough other colors breaking it up so it actually looks decent
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So I noticed that while the general descriptions of the Eldar in codices dropped lines about them being all pale to match the novels adding dark-skinned ones, the Drukhari codex doesn't do it, with the most recent codex still saying they are universally pale.
I guess even people who only want to be represented don't want to be represented by the evilest faction? Granted, for some reason, a lot of women want to be represented by genocidal, brainwashed child soldiers.
I guess even people who only want to be represented don't want to be represented by the evilest faction? Granted, for some reason, a lot of women want to be represented by genocidal, brainwashed child soldiers.
If you're talking about space marines or custodes... no not really.
Trans "women" aren't women, thus them being represented by female anything is a joke. A lot of women that actually play 40k, tend to play tyranids, orks,, chaos daemons... so all of the monsters and "ugly-cute" shit. Next... probably necrons, eldar, drukhari, harlequins, admech, GSC, votann. After that tau, guard, space marines, CSM, knights, custodes, sisters of battle. It's not that none of them play factions from that last group, it's just a hell of a lot less likely because even within the factions that have women(guard, knights, sisters) they don't seem as interested in them.
I've never heard an actual woman who plays 40k say "if only female space marines existed I'd play space marines". The people actually demanding female space marines? redditors, secondaries, and tourists none of which should account for anything.
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Mr Clark
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Will check out some craft stores to see what they might have. Craft stores near me are usually pretty ass tho.
I kinda want to bathe them in the purple, but the 40k models have so much trim and finer detail, it probably would break it up enough. The debate between the two vallejo purples and pro acryl royal purple will continue. They are beautiful models tho
Craft stores are normally pretty ass for a lot of things, but this will be in with all of the beads, cheap resin crap, kits for charm bracelets, usually next to all of the overpriced colored clay garbage to go with it(since you can also make trinkets and junk out of that stuff to turn into necklaces and things), and so on.
Otherwise, shop online at a scale modeling retail site, or find out if you've got a scale hobby shop(tanks, cars, trains, shit like that. different genre of autist) in the area(also a good source for cheap basing materials, terrain, etc.).
A hobby lobby/hobbytown usa or equivalent might be a good option to check as well if you've got one nearby, but I wouldn't know where to even start looking in those stores. Ammo by mig definitely sells some as they cater to scale modeling in addition to tabletop mini painting. AK probably makes some as well but they tend not to have as much scale diorama stuff as Ammo.
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Fun fact: the black space wolf is the only one who fires the boltgun sideways.
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I was going to say it’s mostly gooners wanting to insert their fetish into the setting. It’s been like this for years on older forums where they love their mommy dommy shit.
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You can also check the hardware sections in places like the dollar store, you just need something appropriately sized.
Its always funny because their muscle bound dommy mommy is always some 5'2 100lb fitness influencer who lifts less than the morbidly obese basement dweller.
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I used this chick as the base of my Sorcerer(ess) just slap her on a 40mm, add some bits and she works. It’s a cheap model, under Cities of Sigmar called “Sorceress” and it fits.
Also lore-wise EC had little to no psykers.
“We are exalted, not corrupted.”
“We have no true psykers lord.”
So I thought of Lord of Excess and them using human witches to compensate.
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They exist for Gunpla. Problem is, when looking at them, the guy with me immediately scoffed, claiming you can get the same information for free online. I've seen gunpla people call them "mooks". They also tend to have a magazine like format. A4 soft covers.
I can't comment on those models specifically (they look like space marine with stick and arbian bloke with stick).
The frostgrave wizards kits are well liked by converters because they have lots of arms doing spellcasting things. Holding books, waving hands, that kind of thing. It is guys (or gals) in robes though so might not match the power armour look.
As for chains. A common one for scenery chains is to use cheapo kids jewelry. I feel there's another I'm forgetting.
As for general kitbashing purposes, there's a few kits to look in to. Frostgrave cultists (there are 3 sets) Stargrave crew (2 sets) Stargrave scavengers (2 sets) and WGA villagers are praised as bits collections because they're so universal. Look up the sprues before you drop the money. Supposedly there are services that sell individual sprues.
- Scavengers is great so far (only got it recently) as it's got lots of sci-fi ak-like rifles, each unique and cobbled together, the bodies are guys in long coats, and the heads are either humans in beanies, guys with hoods and gasmasks, or aliens. There are even some zombie hands and heads, though not sure the use of those. I've seen people kitbase these to be admech. I gave the guns to some gnolls to have sci-fi furries. The
oversizedheroic scale ammo pouches, backpacks, and general tatt is nice to have as well. - Cultists are guys in rags and robes, with knives, cleavers, and even a chainsaw bit on the upcoming kit. Those are fantasy themed scavengers in a way. Cultist 2 seems to be the way to go for improvised weapon bits.
- Crew I wasn't impressed by, but these are prized for the amount of non-combat arms. But really there's only 3. Arm holding a spanner, arm holding a brief cases, and arm holding a weird sci-fi tool or scanner.
- Villagers. Different company, but is a kit of random medieval people milling about, supposedly has things like guys chatting, holding a fish, or carrying a bag.
I don't know. I painted a test space marine in stormcast colours, and a few minis in silver, and they look good.
I assume you're asking because of those "real metalic" shilling videos that have been all over YouTube model channels recently? I haven't looked into those.
There's a meme that they like tyrannids.
One reason women don't like wargames I've heard thrown around is they're directly adversarial. As in, they don't like games where you shoot guys off the board. In board games, that seems to be the case. They don't war or resource games, but games that are passively competitive (you compete for points, not directly causing someone else to lose things) or even co-operative they like.
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For a sorceror I'd want to proxy a Dark Apostle and maybe adjust its crozius so it looks more like a mic, get a lead singer look going.
You really need to find some better people to be hanging out with. Yeah there's a lot of gunpla modeling info online(that can also apply to 40k) but like 90% of the shit that's actually worthwhile is almost entirely in Korean or Japanese. This channel is one of the few that actually tries reaching a western audience, and the person running the channel is an amazing painter,
But most people don't have the patience to sit there and try reading youtube's captions, and then look around for the products used only to find they aren't available. There's also an absolute fuck ton of books and magazines published in Asia for this stuff but again... it's almost entirely in Korean and Japanese.
Hell, there's a reason the 2024 GBWC over-21 2nd place winner being from Canada was a surprise(and even then still an asian guy).
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Gunpla is for queers. What Im talking about is an actual Book. With a capital B. Essentially a primer to answer the question "how do I start" in as complete an answer as possible with room to grow. Pictures would probably be necessary for such an artistic endeavor though, which has its own challenges.
We aren't talking about straight builds. Failing to understand how the same shit to paint and weather a gunpla diorama or anything else from the scale modeling hobby can apply to something like 40k vehicles is redditor faggot behavior and why it's so damned laughable at times seeing what 40k painters consider "great" without being some golden demon award winning thing. Half the shit in the average LGS for painting and basing minis was adapted from elsewhere, and understanding that is how you can avoid getting fucked from buying shit targeted at idiot 40k players or be able to answer shit like the guy above asking about sources of chains. This is why kitbashing is treated like some lost art if the parts don't have shitty ball joints, and 5 minutes of work with some LEDs can generate "wow" from people walking past, or even goblin hobbies and their overpriced nailpolish treated like it's some innovation. Even Vince Venturella recently posted a heavy body acrylic video because so many people just fail to look at shit that isn't marketed as "muh grimdark" specific bullshit.