Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Take the G off it?

Or just go whole hog and call him Roboute 😉

I didn’t know your lot were crows.

My first 4 minis in order of attempts.

Safe to say I'm hooked. It's extremely mindful, I completely zone out, nothing but me and a leathery Ork gusset.

Not sure I have the patience for playing the actual game as my short term memory is questionable, but I'll be painting these for the foreseeable.

Will finish the rest of the boyz as I saved the coolest ones for last then the Meganobz. After that I need a blood bowl team and something bigger...

I actually prefer the old new model. The new new model is cool, but it's too Chaos Space Mariney in shape. The old new one looks more clunky, which is better fitting for ork tech.

Travelling Man have just sent me a Royal Mail tracking link! Fingers crossed for a quick delivery!

It’s our local DPD depot I worry about. Very recently had a bit of drama with a very expensive guitar. Turned up in the end but they clearly had staffing problems and used a contractor in the end.

Tomorrow afternoon here looks like OK priming weather save for a few wind gusts. If it could arrive before 12 and I could hammer building the scenery that’d be great.

Same! Albeit the tracking link doesn't work -_-

Still, hopefully here tmrw, which would be a nice weekend activity.

nexus6

I despise building. I’m probably really underestimating it but my hope is that there will be fewer, larger pieces to deal with.

In terms of cleaning them up, my approach is cursory. I’d rather spend the time painting than obsess over tiny imperfections, get totally fed up and then have stuff sat unpainted. In fact every time I post models either here or on Reddit I’m always half expecting THOSE critic comments about mold lines etc, but people have been kind so far.

I’m hoping I can at least finish the scenery and my Ork team by the end of the month and I do have a week off which will help. It’s some kind of personality failing or possibly some undiagnosed neurodivergence I dunno, but I just *couldn’t* play a game with unpainted models (on my side at least). And I do hope to actually play this game, unlike 40K. For one thing, it’s got to be quicker and easier to magnetise and carry than a full 2K army.

The other thing is, it’s always been collecting and painting the toys that drew me in rather than the game. It’s just Pokémon at this point. And it’s financially crippling me 🤣

The new stuff looks almost identical to the terrain I’ve still got from the original Kill Team box. Could probably make an entire city out of both of them.

It’s inspiring to see Magicpanda start painting as I’ve wanted to for a few years now.
My issue is that I don’t know if I have room for it. I have a home office but the desk is “occupied” with the PC, tv and equipment. I could move the kb&m and mouse mat to free up some desk space, and it is a large desk….

Where do you guys build and paint, do you have dedicated or shared spaces?

Kitchen table, where we don’t eat, we work (both WFH). If disciplined, I can keep to the size of my A3 cutting mat plus a water cup and pallette - I’m not often disciplined though and I do piss off other half with it when I spread over the table! Most lighting solutions now are USB powered and clip/vise to the table edge.

Unless you’re a pro competition or commission painter you can get away with squeezing it in. It does get messy.

Get nail polish acrylic racks for storing paint in. That can be brought in and out of a cupboard and plonked on the table. You don’t even want to know what my painting area looks like now given all this hypocrite advice though.

I’d add a little to the above - if you are spray priming don’t limit yourself to black or white. Look at the primary colour of your units - yes you will still want to put a coat over it in many cases but if you are doing Blood Angels for instance your red armour will take a lot less time and paint if you spray red to begin with.

My Tyranids are primed with wraithbone and my Ultras with Macragge Blue for instance.

Panda, when your Masters brush soap runs out, have a go with Jentastic’s Drunken Brush Goop. I use it quite wet and think it edges the Master’s.

Have a look at different painting styles too. It’s easy to think you have to limit yourself to the ‘classic’ million stage base paint/shade/8 layers of highlights thing but then you have people like Warhipster on YouTube doing amazing work with contrast paints.

Awwww shit. Sucks man.
My Royal Mail now says they received the parcel 45 minutes before it was dispatched!