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Post by zephro on Apr 8, 2024 18:01:08 GMT
I wonder which Clan Rats they are eventually going to end up bundling into the Old World...
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 9, 2024 1:17:52 GMT
Not much practical stuff to show off yet, just some work in progress industrial bases, plus a Primaris Captain I've blu-tacked together for now to see how well it worked with a scenic base and replacement head from Spellcrow.
I remain unconvinced that a cloak is the best thing to wear while using a Jump-Pack.
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Post by Danno on Apr 9, 2024 7:39:12 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 9, 2024 7:58:16 GMT
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Post by Danno on Apr 13, 2024 21:02:09 GMT
I had a little trip down to the weirdest local model shop last week. Car boot sale/antique shop/Black Books vibes. Models of all types and categories absolutely everywhere, a weird smell, cracked and loose tiled floor, place looked closed and derelict until I entered and the (perfectly lovely) owner turned the lights on.
Got myself a couple of second hand demons and three Horus Heresy paperbacks (Legion, Molech and Betrayer).
Today I accidentally on purpose went to a Warhammer store with my brother (a model railway nut) and my nephew. The staff smelled blood and my nephew now has an intro game played, a fully painted Infernus marine and a serious hankering to collect Tyranids (I've got the old Start Collecting box in storage that we're going to dig out in a couple of weeks).
That shop mentioned above still has a couple of Leviathan sets for £150 each. Sorely tempted now....
I'm still trying to figure out what to build next. I bought a couple of the mini knights, so I might go for a full Chaos Knights army. I love the World Eaters models (maybe not the Eightbound, especially feet), lore and style but the play is perhaps too one dimensional to splash £500+ on and the range is soooooo limited. Same with Thousand sons really.
Have to fill out my Chaos Marines or Tau I think (Space Marines and Necrons, which I also have plenty of, do very little for me)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2024 22:59:01 GMT
If you have the money to spend there are the Kroot sets still in the wild for your T’au. You’d get the spangly special edition codex too.
I’ve pre-ordered the Orks and Custodes codices and got some Outrider bikes today, although it will not be dispatched until later in the month.
A couple of days off finishing my Deathleaper and will have to take a rain check on painting Tyranids, as my highlight colour is now concreted. Replacement will come with the above delivery. Veering between painting my Terminators or tackling a dreadnought in the interim.
Edit - think I’ve misread you - you already have the T’au models, you just need to paint them lol.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 13, 2024 23:04:24 GMT
Danno Need something extra to support your plague marines?
My headcanon for these things is now that they used to be Death Guard assault marines until a teleport accident got them all BrundleFly-ed.
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Post by ForkHandles on Apr 14, 2024 7:58:50 GMT
My loot from Salute!
It was a good show at the ExCeL, handy for me as it's 50 minutes door to door. I restrained myself given my impending house move, but those 3 giants (giantesses?) were only £50 for the set and I've already made a start on one of them as they are going to be a really fun little side project. A few men-at-arms from Black Scorpion for my ongoing 5 Leagues from the Borderlands campaign, some new paints (including the new(ish) Vallejo Xpress contrast/speed paints), some nice Renedra scenery that works in Fantasy all the way up to modern, and some cool scatter from Debris of War - my zombie games were definitely all the poorer for not having Portaloos on the table.
A fun day despite having to leave earlier than I would have liked - I didn't get to try the Mantic Halo game or Warlord's Achtung Panzer which both looked pretty cool.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 14, 2024 8:09:27 GMT
Still reading Horus Heresy: Mechanicum. Taking me longer than usual as I've had work/illness/everything-else competing for my attention.
Enjoyable so far, and I'm glad I read that Kaban Project short story, as they've already made a direct reference to it.
I'll admit I grimaced when it started focusing on Knights and Titans, as the taste of Siege Of Terra: Mortis hasn't been completely cleansed from the palate yet.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2024 8:16:08 GMT
Still reading Horus Heresy: Mechanicum. Taking me longer than usual as I've had work/illness/everything-else competing for my attention. Enjoyable so far, and I'm glad I read that Kaban Project short story, as they've already made a direct reference to it. I'll admit I grimaced when it started focusing on Knights and Titans, as the taste of Siege Of Terra: Mortis hasn't been completely cleansed from the palate yet. I’ve just (re) started this one too. |
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Post by nexus6 on Apr 14, 2024 8:30:47 GMT
I enjoyed Mechanicum. It was nice to hear about something different for a while and human characters always interesting in this setting
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2024 14:00:32 GMT
Twitchy anus time as I wait to see if the glue holds. WIP Deathleaper  |
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Post by nexus6 on Apr 14, 2024 20:25:19 GMT
Great painting, as expected by now, but why have you glued your anus?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2024 20:34:36 GMT
Lol.
I painted the base separately, just as I did with the Norn, but this model is a LOT more precarious in how it contacts and attaches to the base. There’s basically a tiny nubbin on the upper hoof and a smaller one still on the bottom hoof. So small that there’s basically no tactile feedback whatsoever for positioning it correctly - so I’ve basically just thrown glue at it. I was convinced it would come crashing off and ruin it. And when I started painting the upper talon/pincer things half an hour later, it started wobbling. It’s on the shelf now overnight.
By far the hardest model to build I’ve ever tried, and painting it hasn’t been a walk in the park either. It’s got all the detail of the Norn Emissary whilst being about 20 per cent the size. Until today I was convinced it was going to turn out crap tbh. It’s looking alright now I think. Lots of trial and error on some of it and lots of mixing colours and fixes and emergency drybrushing and stuff.
Edit - and thanks, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2024 17:35:13 GMT
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Post by LegendaryApe on Apr 15, 2024 20:26:52 GMT
Came here to post this. I really like it, it's a lot more visually interesting than I usually found ye olde Stormcast. Though the Bastian Carthalos model remains on my 'me wantee' list |
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Post by zephro on Apr 15, 2024 20:47:10 GMT
I can't really tell the difference ¬_¬
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Post by LegendaryApe on Apr 15, 2024 21:33:49 GMT
I think it's the increased accessorising.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2024 21:35:28 GMT
I can't really tell the difference ¬_¬ They are all more upright and less squat as a result. Most of the older models had either a wide stance or a ‘cocked leg’. Presumably it’s a result of better molding technology or something? You can see it most with the new Liberators (which I don’t really care for). They are moving on this different proportion thing just like they did with Primaris marines. My only issue is that the Stormcast from a few years back were all better models than some of the old first born stuff so I don’t think the subjective improvements were necessarily worth the cull. Time will tell. I can’t afford to start collecting another game this year anyway so if I jump back to AoS it’ll either be mid edition or at the next one. |
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Apr 16, 2024 5:05:03 GMT
"You know all those (6 years) old models we just put into legends? Well you can replace them with these new ones."
Meanwhile a bunch of active models are still finecast.
First world problems.
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Post by ForkHandles on Apr 16, 2024 6:15:53 GMT
An action shot from my game last night - 5 Leagues from the Borderlands, the intrepid Sir Baxter Twill and his party take on a troll.
And my almost finished giant (all my basing stuff is now somewhere under a pile of other stuff in the attic, so no basing for the foreseeable future unfortunately).
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Post by zephro on Apr 16, 2024 9:17:43 GMT
Yeah I think GW have made a hole for themselves by insisting every model they make has it's own rules, those rules are published at the same time and everything has to fit that model.
They seem unable to just go yeah every double handed weapon guy in this army are the same unit. Or every big war walker. Or every recon unit. Regardless of which model variant you use from over the years.
Imperialis has the opposite problem. We all know they're fucking adding land speeders and land raiders. But no they're in wave 2 and the book for them comes out then. Which is then not in print. Instead of just releasing the full list of all the units we know exist. Before the models.
My 2nd edition eldar codex had Exodite rules and was therefore the best.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 16, 2024 13:08:05 GMT
Yeah I think GW have made a hole for themselves by insisting every model they make has it's own rules, those rules are published at the same time and everything has to fit that model. They seem unable to just go yeah every double handed weapon guy in this army are the same unit. Or every big war walker. Or every recon unit. Regardless of which model variant you use from over the years. Doesn't that slow the game down a whole lot, if every model is different then every unit has its own rules, or at the very least has different weapons.
It used to be that the models only roughly approximated the units. You'd have a squad of marines that all looked a bit different, but were effectively all the same. Bar one or two special weapons units.
I guess if you're only playing with mates then it probably doesn't matter anyway.
No knowledge of Age of Sigmar, but if I owned a bunch of Stormcast models and they retired them to replace them with slightly different Stormcast dudes, I'd just be all 'Ok, these guys all count as the new units now'
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2024 15:16:12 GMT
Fork, that giant is f*cking magnificent. You’ve got a really defined style going on in your painting that is quite recognisable here.
I’ll bow out of the Stormcast discussions I think. Not really getting some of the perspectives here but we don’t seem to align, and I don’t like negative feels from hobby discussions. I’m just glad I dropped collecting that game and faction before it happened.
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Post by ForkHandles on Apr 16, 2024 17:01:53 GMT
Fork, that giant is f*cking magnificent. You’ve got a really defined style going on in your painting that is quite recognisable here. Thanks! Quick and dirty with enhanced blur-o-vision photography is what I'm going with! |
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Post by zephro on Apr 16, 2024 17:49:53 GMT
Yeah I think GW have made a hole for themselves by insisting every model they make has it's own rules, those rules are published at the same time and everything has to fit that model. They seem unable to just go yeah every double handed weapon guy in this army are the same unit. Or every big war walker. Or every recon unit. Regardless of which model variant you use from over the years. Doesn't that slow the game down a whole lot, if every model is different then every unit has its own rules, or at the very least has different weapons.
It used to be that the models only roughly approximated the units. You'd have a squad of marines that all looked a bit different, but were effectively all the same. Bar one or two special weapons units.
I guess if you're only playing with mates then it probably doesn't matter anyway.
No knowledge of Age of Sigmar, but if I owned a bunch of Stormcast models and they retired them to replace them with slightly different Stormcast dudes, I'd just be all 'Ok, these guys all count as the new units now'
I don't really do AoS, but the last thing is specifically what they've not done as big Gee Dubs are incredibly insistent on every thing being specific. They're retiring stuff without going "Yeah just use the rules for the basically the same unit over here". So they did the dumb version. Even the new Imperialis rules are based on Space Marine 2nd edition, so every fucking vehicle load out option is specific. Epic 3rd/4th you could fit an army list on a couple of A5 pages as everything was just this is a normal infantry stand, it has firepower 4. Next item. But yeah a list of this is your: heavy infantry, core infantry, light infantry, main battle tank, etc. would at least cut down on all the guff. Or it's 2nd edition and you just need a lot less minis. Anyway this is basically what all other minis games do. As yknow they're more worried about bloated stock as they don't have the resources. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 17, 2024 9:35:22 GMT
I kinda want to buy a Noise Marine just so I can see how mad I can make it. |
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Post by Danno on Apr 17, 2024 9:50:10 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 17, 2024 10:07:47 GMT
I miss the ones from 2nd Edition.
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Post by Danno on Apr 17, 2024 10:19:34 GMT
I miss the ones from 2nd Edition.
They're dropping Slaanesh marines from the upcoming CSM codex along with a veiled confirmation of a full Emperor's Children codex - same thing happened with World Eaters - so new noisys and Fulgrim (hope they don't just use the resin HH model). Those 2nd ed marines were rad as hell! |
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