Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Yeah I've got the original war walkers, like 2 of em in old metal. They are buggers for falling over.. I think I got a new War Walker to assemble in one of the big boxes I bought but haven't assembled it.



The original late RT/early 2nd Era line of minis are all classics pretty much. But I like a lot of the really new ones. The 3rd edition aspect warriors were all fucking trash though so I never bought any new ones until they started doing the plastic ones in the last few years.



I've still got a shit load in my Dad's attic from 2nd/3rd ed. But stuff I've got recently is basically 1 each of the cool new minis.




I've got sitting around some new guardians, whatever spare Wraithlord/War Walker came with a start collecting box, then Striking Scorpions, Dark Reapers and Corsairs.

I've got a plastic crack addiction.

drakeypoos I believe in 2nd ed the War Walker did have some sort of conversion field + holo field protecting the pilot.

Also it's gone through a few "revisions" That looks like the 3rd/2nd edition one. They changed the pilot/weapons/body core a few times while keeping all the other metal bits identical. So it was never like a fully new model, they just tweaked it to make it stop falling over so much.

I've not painted anything new in months as I've been painfully addicted to Satisfactory.

The little nebula pattern thing isn't hand painting though, not that I have an air brush. It's some careful dry brushing, then a bit of packing sponge to delicately dab on the stars. My detail work is shit so I tend to make up for it doing some smart arse glazes or dry brushing to get light effects. Glowing eyes look cool and you don't have to fuck around with pupils.

Ditto when I did all that battle damage on the Warlord titan I posted. Drybrushing + sponge. Then just to make the little specks of black look kinda 3d, you put a quick edge highlight around one side of the splodge. Super easy cheat method.

Lighting is easy and cheaper than you might think, and there’s no such thing as cheating, just tools and techniques. At the end of the day, it’s about applying colour and texture to sell the illusion that something is real or at least really cool. Nothing wrong with humility, but your work is great man, I was really jealous of those vehicles in particular, and not just because of a galaxy decoration.

I get you with the inspiration thing. I’m really finding my Scions a chore at the moment, and they should have been finished a long while ago. Subassemblies is something I rarely do, save for a couple of occasions where I’ve painted a head separately or something.

Yeah your conclusion is exactly the key and I sometimes think the, for won’t of a better term, ‘sportification’ of painting whether by actual competitions or by various forms of social media is actually really harmful in terms of stopping folk getting stuff done. It’s just selling a lie that only applies to a tiny percentage of people painting. Nobody spending 100 hours on a single Space Marine has a great looking army on their shelf, or even, god forbid, table, do they, surely?! 😂

This could just as easily gone in the 'You stupid tw*t' thread, but it's painting related so it belongs here with my fellow brush aficionados.

I just received my first ever brush soap, never having bothered with anything but dirty paint water for most brushes, with the occasional use of regular soap when cleaning my big dry brushing brushes. Anyway, I excitedly open the brush soap case and set about using it at the sink on 10 brushes which have been relegated from detail to base coating to dry brushing to varnishing/pva duties over the course of their lives. I wasn't seeing much improvement but I persevered, spending a minute or two on each brush.

'Not getting much in the way of soap suds here, but hey ho, maybe that's what brush soap is like' I thought to myself.

Went back to my desk, put my glasses on and looked at the soap again, and realised it was in a cellophane wrapper.

You stupid tw*t!

Gah. So I've now redone the brushes in all their soapy glory and can see an improvement in most of them, some are too far gone but my detail brush has a nice fine point on it again at least.