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Ted_Breakfast said:
Ugh, my Daemonettes look like shit, I can't find a color scheme that I like. I could try the standard purple, but that's what I used for my GSC.
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I had a similar problem with my Blue Horrors. In the end I undercoated them white and painted them with two layers of glaze paint which turned out pretty good. Might work for Daemonette skin.
 
Autisimodo said:
I had a similar problem with my Blue Horrors. In the end I undercoated them white and painted them with two layers of glaze paint which turned out pretty good. Might work for Daemonette skin.
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Interesting, I plan on buying Tzeentch daemons eventually. People tend to either love or hate Horrors; I'm in the former camp.
 
how well is the game working on the tabletop sim?
 
Didn't GW crack down on Tabletop Simulator 40k a while ago? It's one of the pinned topics on their steam forums that they'll take down any and all GW stuff they find on the Workshop. Sucks.

EDIT: The 40k community on TTS is still extant. You just need access to their discord (the link is out there on the subreddit) and to download a 14 gigabyte file full of the stuff you need to play with.
 
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So i was pottering about /tg an the community page and found out about these guys.
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these seem to have a real... boring look bout them, no doubt their bits will be good for kitbashing but compared to their cousinly predecessor.
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feels like something is missing, also that helmet.
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can my guys gnasher roll like motherfuckers now?
 
Imperialist #348 said:
So i was pottering about /tg an the community page and found out about these guys.
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these seem to have a real... boring look bout them, no doubt their bits will be good for kitbashing but compared to their cousinly predecessor.
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feels like something is missing, also that helmet.
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can my guys gnasher roll like motherfuckers now?
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Yeah, they just don't look as menacing as the Arbites. They look more like paintball enthusiasts than fascistic space cops who will gladly shotgun a pregnant teenaged mother for stealing scraps from a garbage can.
 
Ted_Breakfast said:
Yeah, they just don't look as menacing as the Arbites. They look more like paintball enthusiasts than fascistic space cops who will gladly shotgun a pregnant teenaged mother for stealing scraps from a garbage can.
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40k is slowly becoming something it isnt, whether by the art or models, AOS was like this when it first came out and people were thinking 'is this Warhammer or a warcraft expansion?'.

alot of threads iv seen on this matter point between GW aiming for bigger markets or BLs all over the place quality of books.
 
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Imperialist #348 said:
40k is slowly becoming something it isnt, whether by the art or models, AOS was like this when it first came out and people were thinking 'is this Warhammer or a warcraft expansion?'.

alot of threads iv seen on this matter point between GW aiming for bigger markets or BLs all over the place quality of books.
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Wut? You pinged me in the wrong thread
 
Imperialist #348 said:
40k is slowly becoming something it isnt, whether by the art or models, AOS was like this when it first came out and people were thinking 'is this Warhammer or a warcraft expansion?'.

alot of threads iv seen on this matter point between GW aiming for bigger markets or BLs all over the place quality of books.
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Its probably GW aiming for a bigger market. Most likely kids, going by the Warhammer kids books, partnering with the UK Scouts, simplifying the paint range (contrast paints) and censoring Slaanesh in AOS, it kind of points in that direction.
 
Autisimodo said:
Its probably GW aiming for a bigger market. Most likely kids, going by the Warhammer kids books, partnering with the UK Scouts, simplifying the paint range (contrast paints) and censoring Slaanesh in AOS, it kind of points in that direction.
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i cant wrap my head around why companies try this shit over and over with it procuring little difference in results,
surely they have looked at other companies who have gone down the same thought process and seen the end result?
 
Imperialist #348 said:
i cant wrap my head around why companies try this shit over and over with it procuring little difference in results,
surely they have looked at other companies who have gone down the same thought process and seen the end result?
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ofcause they dont realise that. for some stupid reason, almost all large companies still think that focus groups and test audiences work despite pretty much always being wrong in any sort of niece genre
 
Autisimodo said:
Its probably GW aiming for a bigger market. Most likely kids, going by the Warhammer kids books, partnering with the UK Scouts, simplifying the paint range (contrast paints) and censoring Slaanesh in AOS, it kind of points in that direction.
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A year or two ago, I might have agreed with that completely, and while I do think they're definitely trying to broaden their appeal with those awful children's books, they are also releasing a horror line. And Slaanesh is the latest god to get a dedicated army book in AoS. They're not really cleaning him up too much, I mean:

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That puckered snout looks like something out of Naked Lunch.
 
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Those enforcers look too clean and generic sci-fi-ish. Their helmet look like Primaris Intercessors do. And that takes us to what I think the main aesthetic problem with stuff like the Primaris line is.

Primaris aren't baroque; they aren't gritty. They're clean and shiny. Their vehicles aren't tanks that might as well be taken from the World Wars, they're futuristic anti-grav vehicles. While they share colors and some aspects (pauldrons and tubing) with their non-Primaris brethren, they lack the soul.
 
Tranhuviya said:
Those enforcers look too clean and generic sci-fi-ish. Their helmet look like Primaris Intercessors do. And that takes us to what I think the main aesthetic problem with stuff like the Primaris line is.

Primaris aren't baroque; they aren't gritty. They're clean and shiny. Their vehicles aren't tanks that might as well be taken from the World Wars, they're futuristic anti-grav vehicles. While they share colors and some aspects (pauldrons and tubing) with their non-Primaris brethren, they lack the soul.
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'Cries in soul'
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'Cries in fantasy soul'

i will give it to em that the more recent art is slowly getting better but hot damn if this art didnt make me do double take.
 
Despite being a Nurgle fanboy, I'm not a fan of the bright green look of modern Death guard. Mine are dark green/bone white, almost a Dark Angels combo, with copious amounts of dingy metal. Add in the clean Ultramarine blue, and it does indeed look too vibrant.
 
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