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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2024 16:07:19 GMT
knightyI had to look that up. What a gorgeous model man! Almost like a Fable/theme party Alton Towers caricature thing going on, it’s quite delightful - nice one! The new Kill Team set has just been announced. I MAY dip just to get my toe into another system with crossover - the terrain looks fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2024 21:50:42 GMT
Ok the new Kill Team box set looks fucking great. I think that’s an insta buy for me. Gorgeous scenery, two cool units, smoke grenades and all sorts. Plus browsing the currently available Kill Teams themselves, it’s just like WANT WANT WANT
Plus, co-op AND solo (!!!) play.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2024 10:50:42 GMT
I’m taking a break for a day or two now on painting and am very aware of my proliferation here lately sorry. Please forgive/allow one big self indulgence though as this is my favourite model and I’ve been working on it for over a fortnight: Plasma:    Gatling love:   Name a more iconic duo:  |
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Post by zagibu on Aug 18, 2024 11:58:57 GMT
They are amazing, and the pictures are superb as well.
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Post by knighty on Aug 18, 2024 12:40:24 GMT
Can’t see photos (might be because I’m in turkey) - what is it? Dreadnought?
I need to get back on the modelling train - haven’t picked up a paintbrush during summer. Soon I’ll be moaning it’s too wet to prime anything.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2024 13:19:27 GMT
They are amazing, and the pictures are superb as well. Cheers! Although I could accept ‘really decent’ more readily than ‘amazing’. It took a toll painting that though, never thought it would end at one point. Photos - it’s a light box from Amazon and it’s less than 15 quid. It has an LED top light built in, but I front light with my two painting lights. One is a magnifying ring and one is like a bar on a big swivel arm. Both on full brightness with about a 6K cool white light. Snap with the iPhone, and then I generally have to pull up the exposure because it’s always significantly darker than the eye sees. That’s all there is to it, the only post processing is the exposure, a bit of cropping and in the picture with the two dreads, I have used an app to rub out the corner of the light box that was showing. If you have LEDs that can be positioned and a half decent camera phone, it’s very, very easy to get this ‘picture off the web store’ effect very cheaply. knighty yes, it’s my Redemptor dreadnought. If you would like to see it, you’ll find it amongst today’s posts on the Ultramarines sub Reddit, I post most of what I put up here over there. I could use the karma TBH, as I told somebody on the Blood Angels sub to ‘get a grip’ yesterday, and it did not go well 😂 |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 21, 2024 12:29:17 GMT
I hadn't heard about this until now. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2024 16:34:56 GMT
He’s just been on the Painting Phase, I’ve listened for about ten minutes and still not heard it but apparently he calls complainers ‘virgins’.
I don’t know where I stand on it from a ‘theft’ perspective but anything that slows the race to the rise of the Men of Iron is probably a good thing.
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Aug 21, 2024 18:19:32 GMT
I think that's the only episode of The Painting Phase I've watched much of, since Peachy left. Zero push back on the guy's self congratulatory, abusive shite. And he really twists in the wind "I'm totally open about having used AI. I didn't tell the organisers though."
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Aug 21, 2024 19:15:11 GMT
Just be like me, embrace a lack of paint altogether.   Updated DG slog army, lots of little details to fix, but it's pretty much there. (might pick up a brush next week. Might.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2024 22:22:44 GMT
I think that's the only episode of The Painting Phase I've watched much of, since Peachy left. Zero push back on the guy's self congratulatory, abusive shite. And he really twists in the wind "I'm totally open about having used AI. I didn't tell the organisers though." I never liked the other presenters. I’m actually surprised the channel is apparently doing as well as it is. I definitely wasn’t really into the personality of the painter. I don’t know if the other bloke was filming at the end of the table either but he was really jarring in looking straight at the camera instead of at the people he seemed to be speaking to. Taking out the debate around AI itself - a bit daft of anybody in The Hobby to apparently (again I got fed up before I got to it, but don’t doubt it happened from all the comments) to use language like ‘virgins’. It’s a hobby you’re at higher risk of getting piss taking than many others anyway, but you aren’t going to pull off a convincing alpha male act in this context anyway so he has made a twat of himself there. On the AI front itself, I think a painting contest probably shouldn’t use printed media. Is AI theft? I’m not decided on that. I keep coming back to stuff in music and especially as a dad blues guy, the entire history of that music is learning the licks of the guy before you, who nicked them from the guy before him. Again, if I was learning to paint a forest or landscape scene I would likely start by imitating others. If it’s that the AI is actually pulling together composites that have actual brush strokes from other people, is that different? Again comparing it to music, there’s a rich history of sampling. I haven’t formulated an opinion yet, and don’t know if my analogies work either, partly because I don’t understand the tech. |
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Post by zagibu on Aug 21, 2024 22:25:40 GMT
Deathguard is cool, you can basically just vomit green and brown over them and it will look great.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 22, 2024 0:00:19 GMT
Things I have found tonight:
● Plasticard was a far better solution to the joins in the armour plates on the Outriders than Green Stuff was.
● That Tamiya Extra-Thin Poly-cement gives me a fucking headache even in a well ventilated room.
● Castellax Bronze doesn't half like to cling to a brush even after multiple rinsings.
● Skavenblight Dinge is a much better edge highlighting colour for black power armour than Dark Reaper grey was.
● A wash of Tyran Blue shade over Altdorf Guard Blue layer is achieving a very nice colour.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Aug 22, 2024 1:47:43 GMT
Deathguard is cool, you can basically just vomit green and brown over them and it will look great. Unfortunately, I'm a masochist, so I'm going 30k style - bone white, green shoulders, and a lot of oils/enamels for the gunk. |
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 23, 2024 15:02:05 GMT
My copy of the Fallout Factions starter set turned up today. Been looking forward to this!
Designed by James Hewitt and is basically Necromunda-lite but Fallout. Looks cool.
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Post by ForkHandles on Aug 23, 2024 17:42:01 GMT
My copy of the Fallout Factions starter set turned up today. Been looking forward to this! Designed by James Hewitt and is basically Necromunda-lite but Fallout. Looks cool. Ooh! Very tempted by this, Ash on GMG has been doing a campaign and it looks a lot of fun. The multipart kits look great too, might just have to invest in a few months once I'm settled into my new place (and I've painted a few thousand more Romans and Carthaginians). |
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Post by zephro on Aug 24, 2024 15:23:55 GMT
The Alpha Legion are fucking dumb.
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Post by Danno on Aug 24, 2024 18:50:17 GMT
What you fucking say
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Post by zephro on Aug 25, 2024 13:11:06 GMT
I'm just resentful of the Legion Imperialism books. They do the fluff like military history, then you get 2 new rules and 4 new unit sheets. But the military history way makes no fucking sense. In general. Then the Alpha Legion are egregious. They deploy 1000 tanks but somehow nobody sees them. 1000 bright blue fucking tanks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2024 20:14:14 GMT
Speaking of game books, are the HH all this nice?! I seriously think I’ll get on and order this, looks glorious (no intention of playing)
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Aug 25, 2024 21:37:15 GMT
I'm just resentful of the Legion Imperialism books. They do the fluff like military history, then you get 2 new rules and 4 new unit sheets. But the military history way makes no fucking sense. In general. Then the Alpha Legion are egregious. They deploy 1000 tanks but somehow nobody sees them. 1000 bright blue fucking tanks. It's a futuristic setting where only one major force uses drones routinely, and multiple other forces field elite troops with primarily melee weapons. With 40k it's not so much "Suspension of disbelief."; as "Execute disbelief by hanging." |
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Post by zephro on Aug 26, 2024 10:59:35 GMT
I'm just resentful of the Legion Imperialism books. They do the fluff like military history, then you get 2 new rules and 4 new unit sheets. But the military history way makes no fucking sense. In general. Then the Alpha Legion are egregious. They deploy 1000 tanks but somehow nobody sees them. 1000 bright blue fucking tanks. It's a futuristic setting where only one major force uses drones routinely, and multiple other forces field elite troops with primarily melee weapons. With 40k it's not so much "Suspension of disbelief."; as "Execute disbelief by hanging." Yeah but there's always that one thing where your ability do so just goes "fuck off". and for me it's the Alpha Legion. Though the Imperialis books also seem convinced that Marines form up in line of battle... Rather than the more typical WW2 kind of squad tactics you'd expect. |
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Post by zagibu on Aug 26, 2024 13:53:20 GMT
Though the Imperialis books also seem convinced that Marines form up in line of battle It's probably not the best standard formation, but in some situations it might make sense. Against massed enemies with weak weapons, for example.
What bothers me more is that the lore suggests Space Marines to be some god-like superwarriors, and then in the game they get taken out by a simple guardsman with a lasgun.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 26, 2024 13:57:29 GMT
I'm assuming this is the (latest) reason why Gabriel Seth fans are unhappy:
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Aug 26, 2024 15:41:48 GMT
Though the Imperialis books also seem convinced that Marines form up in line of battle It's probably not the best standard formation, but in some situations it might make sense. Against massed enemies with weak weapons, for example.
What bothers me more is that the lore suggests Space Marines to be some god-like superwarriors, and then in the game they get taken out by a simple guardsman with a lasgun.
It's the Geedubs triumvirate of Game, Lore and Marketing. None can ever 100% be on the same page. If the game were true to the lore, Guard, Orks, or Nids would be insanely expensive (even more expensive than now) to collect a useable force. Lore is about Narrative, which ultimately comes down to the actions of individual characters, but the game isn't an RPG. |
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Post by ForkHandles on Aug 27, 2024 16:38:23 GMT
So, last update before everything gets packed up for the house move:
That's about 800 of the buggers done, only another 2200 to go! I'll swap over to Romans before too long so there's someone for this lot to fight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2024 18:05:18 GMT
Gotta respect somebody that ACTUALLY plays and finds time and motivation to paint everything to a great standard. Bravo.
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Post by zephro on Aug 27, 2024 18:26:35 GMT
So, last update before everything gets packed up for the house move:
That's about 800 of the buggers done, only another 2200 to go! I'll swap over to Romans before too long so there's someone for this lot to fight.
That is the sexy. I love some well done historicals. |
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Post by zephro on Aug 27, 2024 18:33:02 GMT
Though the Imperialis books also seem convinced that Marines form up in line of battle It's probably not the best standard formation, but in some situations it might make sense. Against massed enemies with weak weapons, for example.
What bothers me more is that the lore suggests Space Marines to be some god-like superwarriors, and then in the game they get taken out by a simple guardsman with a lasgun.
Is it though? Is someone with an automatic weapon outputting more or less death if they stand behind a low wall and duck when they reload? If the fluff was that Guilliman formed up in close order and marched at people like the Romans. But anytime he went up against other marines they fucked him up because that's a dingous move then sure. But no they all do it. Because the Forge world writers think the 300 is cool. I guess I'm just old enough that fantasy was linear tactics from history but plus a fireball spell, and 40k was a roughly WW2 infantry tactics game, but with power armour or chain swords added. The new style of it being about applying synergistic bonuses is all a bit too Magic the Gathering for me. |
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Post by zagibu on Aug 27, 2024 19:44:32 GMT
If an autopistol has a good chance of taking down a genetically engineered supersoldier in power armor, then why even invest these resources. Just invest in more autopistols.
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