Warhammer (with the models and everything)

If it’s the Vallejo filler that comes in a bottle the same shape as their paint, I used to think it was guff as well.

The trick is to use a wet paint brush to smooth it out over the area to be filled - ie cocktail stick and agitate it in to the gap, let it sit a bit to grab on and then BOOM whack it with a wet flat brush. It should clear most of the excess away.

Is sprue goo an option? How big are the gaps?

Oh Drake beat me to it

Reddit seems to suggest this is a massively common problem with these models - did it have pegs inside? Apparently they will fit well if h to use are clipped. I’ve just seen a couple of pictures and it isn’t pretty - seems to hit the sergeant model most.

On the 40K sub there is a post tonight about White Dwarf 502 being a bit poor. Apparently it’s shrunk by about 20 pagess and the pages are also smaller. Several opinions I agree with in the discussion:

Too many pages of very specific rules and rules scenarios (possibly some in here that actually game a lot may vociferously disagree there).

Tale of 4 Warlords and worse still…the Bunker… takes up about half of the magazine and struggles to keep my interest.

Less photos than there used to be by a large margin.

Lots of low quality text stories padding it out. From memory there are two great ones in the recent codexes (codices?) - one from the Tyranids and the Blood Games* one in the Custodes were great - there is nothing approaching this quality in White Dwarf.

One person pointed out the paper quality which I always have thought - it’s naff, thin, and doesn’t do the photos justice at all. I remember the pages being bright and thick with vivid colours. Photos of models now genuinely look better on my phone in most cases.

I actually thought 500 was quite good, but barely read 501 and if this is worse I may skip it or jump off the train.

It was a magical thing when I was a kid, I’d love to get hold of one to see if it’s just nostalgia. But I really have memories of launches of Guard and Eldar stuff that was just jaw dropping to look at. I swear the battle reports were better shot, written and easier to follow too. People bang on that it used to be too much a catalogue but I loved that! Anachronism to do that now I know.

I think it’s not just them - more than one printed publication I’ll still get on occasion is similar (Guitarist magazine, Mojo, all sorts of stuff that betrays my age). It’ll be an economy thing with the paper costs and keeping the magazine at a given price point.

If it had more to look at I’d happily pay a bit more as it’s only once a month. 500 was awesome as it had a couple of interesting features - I’d like to see more of that though to justify the price.

Played a game of Spearhead last night with a half assed collection of primed models from Skaventide. It was great fun!

The objective / battle tactics system makes things pleasingly mobile and tactical, even on the small-ish board. Plenty to think about and the twist system gives the opportunity to keep things tight right to then end.

It’s feels like a larger scale Warcry, but with a bit more meat around the pre-game picks you need to make and the individual unit abilities.

My heroic rats lost by one measly point, but I think it was a well timed tactical retreat by the stormcast that swung it, which was quite cool.

Took about 2hrs first time out, but that will definitely reduce. Looking forward to a rematch and then trying out some of these other teams.

Wow the new Coteaz model actually sucks.



Also why's he got hair?

Sorry I quite like it.

Have they revealed by mistake as I keep getting a redirect error on WH Community.

Hmmm.

Quite a mishmash of stuff there and a lot of it are things I’m not particularly familiar with.

Giving me a bit of a ‘Cities of Sigmar’ feel almost, and some of the stuff like Voidsmen reminds me a lot of the old army units in the heresy books.

I’d almost be interested in the Malleus one but I highly suspect those Grey Knights won’t stay the course as models. Don’t get me wrong I think they are great but they haven’t aged well against the Primaris scale creep.

I’ll get the book like the others and see what’s what. It could give me some extra options to make a cheaper army by rolling some Sisters stuff in with it I already own.

Half those models seem to be from the Inquisition kill team and Black Fortress, so that saves me the bother.

Those packs look good to me. I only like painting, so a box full of different model types is very appealing

Or just different to mine! ^_^

I'm just very much of the opinion that Imperium Minis should be more John Blanche weird Imperial Agents stuff from the 2nd Edition rulebooks, all that weird gothic art that drew me in in the first place. They should be less Space Marines; specifically where there's a bunch of overlap, like multiple main battle tanks etc.

So all the Blackstone Fortress / Kill Team oddness they've done has been really up my street.

I'm about to get some Paragon Warsuits for my Sisters, but I dislike their existence. They're sort of filling a Terminator niche. I prefer the armies to be a bit asymmetric and not all get one of each thing.