Warhammer (with the models and everything)

I got the context, and watched the Trovarion video too. I just think it *does* come across as sour grapes the way the contestant himself has made a video about it. Seems unsportsmanlike - and let’s face it GD has become about painting athletics now.

Spray

Thanks! Yep you are right, being too close tracks perfectly, had them all on a long wooden stick facing right and I remember spraying in the mouth at an awkward angle.

Squigyboy is coming along nicely. Building up slowly and trying to get a bit closer to that nice Squig orange/red

I think this explains something from pages and pages ago.

Just bought the new Blood Angels combat patrol. Might have to start painting some space marines at some point. Think I must have around 3-400 primaris still on sprue. The dream is a full chapter at some point….

My wife bought me one of those T shirts for my birthday. It's ace.

Wow, Element is magic! Really confusing, but magic!

It’s basically the first floor of a small old mill on an industrial/business park. Being in Stockport, don’t go if you have any phobia of giant horribly laid out roundabouts and the like.

Freezing in there, but just shelf after shelf of semi organised stuff, but unlike GW, there’s just loads of stock. They had some of last year’s Xmas battle forces in. And the paint and hobby section was extensive.

I don’t know if there was a tournament on or if it’s normal but the very large gaming section was absolutely heaving and sounded like your average airport lounge or Wetherspoons. I was too shy to go in, as I’ve still never played a real game of anything and I think they’d be able to smell that on me.

I had a tenner of birthday cash left and got some brush soap which was £8.95. It’s a sad indictment of current inflation that when I asked if there was anything fun I could get for a pound five, dice were the only suggestion, and they were £1.79.

The Blood Angels codex is very nice, with some classic old artwork in there including one I recognised and presume to be Lemartes. It smells great too.

I *should* finish painting my first three Vespids tomorrow (!). Just guns and bases to sort. Will post a pic and you can shoot it to shit.

That looks great! Love the oxblood colour.

It’s really good work. I think I kinda know what you are getting at with your self criticism but it’s only visible by zooming in on it and one of the lessons of painting is that photos don’t look like IRL. At viewing distance this is a really good model and an army at this standard? Forget about it! It’ll look mint. Epic even, forgive the pun.

Glazing is the thing you want to learn if you want those sort of volumetric highlights with less paint on the model. Suggested viewing - most Tabletop Ready videos.

Excellent work, keep the green tide coming.

Nowt wrong with those! Wing gradient is legit!

Great going.

If the Orks / Ratlings one follows the same format as the last KT version, it should be around 70ish quid or so. Isn’t it the two teams and then a bit of terrain to add to the Volkus set, rather than a full box?

Those Vespid look ace, Tomo.

Definitely not every month - you’re seeing a flurry of activity due to a new edition of the core game/rules.

It is I think the third best selling system so it’s reasonably well supported but 40K is where the constant stream of releases tends to be.

Stuff may go out of print or may be repackaged as 40K boxes, it’s hard to predict this stuff. I think most of the boxed teams will at least get a new lease of life because of these repackaging efforts. But GW make more hype and demand than they can supply, so you’ll find sometimes that supplies of stuff run low if there is a big release.

For example, the most recent 40K boxed edition launch saw a lot of there production turned to churning out those boxes. I started my Tyranids collection with it but it did become more difficult to find certain stuff. Seem to remember Exocrines became semi scarce.

I’d recommend checking out the ‘classified teams’ list. This shows what teams will be supported in tournament rules and for how long - and we really don’t know what will happen to them after that. Of course that doesn’t stop you painting them, and it doesn’t stop you still playing with the rules that already exist.

That came with two relatively large container / tank things, plus the teams, data cards and a campaign book.

The one before with the Night Lords and the Goth Eldar came with the same but with a big bunker sort of thing as terrain.

I can’t remember what terrain came in the Strikng Scorpions set.

I’m probably wrong and prices will no doubt have gone up anyway, but the Ork / Ratlings one feels quite similar.