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SRM posted:GW doing weekly releases isn't really a big change for them. They're just releasing what they'd normally release monthly, but spread out a bit more. Ah, I get you, yeah. I kind of like it, to be honest, I just feel like GW's spiraling the drain and they just won't go in. Part of me wants to see them escape this spiral while another part's just this primal nagging for something to happen either way. Cataphract posted:I played a game of Warhammer Diskwars with a friend today and we mused on the fact that Fanatasy Flight do so much more with the GW properties than GW do. I love Only War and I've always been a big fan of Blood Bowl. FFG is pretty ace.
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Oh, I see, you're one of those radical feminists.   Arg  NO.  OFFICIAL GW MODEL.  I was commissioned to paint this model TWICE, (the owner had a ton of amazing old back stock in the store, got a Rogue Trader era Dire Avenger Exarch, among my favorites) one player was horrified about the boobs so I made sure to emphasize them as much as I could. On the other I painted all that area black to make it less embarrassing.This has promise except for the stupid loving swooping neckline on her ... paper thin tank top.   This guy photo manipulated how it can be painted over instead of, uh, painting it though. Easy to do! GIS for "female commissar" Cooked Auto posted:
I agree, the tight cleavage top is bad, too. However, you do have the skill to greenstuff over it, just smooth a dab over the naval/belly button, paint that area clothing color. It would be difficult to tell on the tabletop. Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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And I really don't trust my skills in greenstuffing to make it look good. Shame really because it does look like a fitting one even without any visible weapons.
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PierreTheMime posted:Finished up a minimum unit of Nurglings so I can field a fully painted CSM/CD army in a game tonight: Gorgeous! Are you in the process of painting a full daemon army? If so, looking forward to seeing more!
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Babe Magnet posted:Ah, I get you, yeah. I kind of like it, to be honest, I just feel like GW's spiraling the drain and they just won't go in. Part of me wants to see them escape this spiral while another part's just this primal nagging for something to happen either way. Have you seen their share prices? If that's circling the drain I want to know what doing well is. They're poo poo. They do a lot of poo poo things. But right now from a pure economic perspective, it's working. I do think the company is changing, just VERY SLOWLY. They're offering sales now, preview boxes, etc. Kit quality is loving insanely good. What they need to do is engage more with the community, fix broken rules and realise that they aren't just a model company with a game tacked on. Also my god it's annoying in a GW to have this exchange : Employee : 'cool you seem to have made awesome light up smoke effects! And you have an awesomely painted army!' Me: thanks man I appreciate it. Doing alright so far, got a few objectives and- Employee : 'what's this? *points at Mantic thunderfire, painted with a GW tech marine accompanying it* Me: 'oh it's a mantic model - easier to transport and a bit cheaper' Employee : 'next time, fully GW or not at all buddy. Can't be allowed to use that. ' I mean look man, I know I'm a customer and it's your store, but surely you should be aiming to draw people in? A fully painted army on the table being actively played with by a customer is the best drat advertising there is. Just because I didn't want to use the atrocious metal loving thunderfire doesn't mean I shouldn't be allowed to play. Rant over.
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Germ posted:Gorgeous! Are you in the process of painting a full daemon army? If so, looking forward to seeing more! Thanks man.  I've been working on Daemons off and on for a while. I actually have way more than I probably should for it only being a side-side-side army.I really should finish up some of the other models I've got sitting around. At the moment I have the following: Daemon Prince of Nurgle (winged) (painted) Daemon Prince of Nurgle (unpainted) Daemon Prince (half-painted) Kairos Fateweaver (unpainted/unassembled) Herald of Nurgle on Palaquin (painted) Herald of Tzeentch (painted) 10x Plaguebearers (painted) 40x Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (10 painted/30 painted horribly by someone else) 3x Nurgling Swarms (painted) 6x Flamers of Tzeentch 5x Seekers of Slaanesh (painted) 3x Plague Drones of Nurgle (1 painted--in progress) 10x Fleshhounds of Khorne (counts-as WoC Chaos Warhounds, 4 painted--in progress) 6x Screamers (painted) Skull Cannon of Khorne (painted) Portalglyph (painted)       At some point I'l probably break down and get the starter box to really round off my Troops and bulk my Seeker unit. Ugh, so much left to do.
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Is it still not worth taking a Draigo themed GK army? I mean psyker/acolyte henchmen could help a lot for the psychic phase if it was built out in that way, although it does lose the hero hammer style. This is what I ended up at coming in at just shy of 2k points. code:
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Post 9-11 User posted:I agree, the tight cleavage top is bad, too. However, you do have the skill to greenstuff over it, just smooth a dab over the naval/belly button, paint that area clothing color. It would be difficult to tell on the tabletop. Yeah the Power Girl boob window I'm not a fan of either for that part. And that idea sounds pretty good even if I'd almost go crazy and try to make flak armour and gently caress everything up. But yeah, the majority of the female commissar models are just cringeworthy. The art of the only female Commissar in one of the OW books is almost as bad with the noticeable cleavage. That GIS search did lead me to these though http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/swm1001-captain-kara-black http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/swm2003-female-conscript-terrorist http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/samaritan-female-trooper http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/swm1003-akosha-nama http://www.adepticon.org/?page_id=492 And then I found the Adepticon 2006 limited edition figure and just went "gently caress" because it's pretty drat good as a Commander. I also discovered a set of really classy female Catachan troopers of Brother Vinny the other day. http://www.brother-vinni.com/rus/shop.htm#!/~/product/category=9008390&id=35126782 Really really classy, but that's almost to be expected of that site.
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You may want to consider breaking those Paladins into smaller units. Considering Troops supercede all other scoring units a couple of "Solodins" used to drop onto objectives Turn 2+ would be helpful. Maybe 4/4/1/1 so you can still have a decent number within the Land Raiders and have a couple to tactical scoring capability.
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PierreTheMime posted:Thanks man. Great looking models.
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Cooked Auto posted:Yeah the Power Girl boob window I'm not a fan of either for that part. And that idea sounds pretty good even if I'd almost go crazy and try to make flak armour and gently caress everything up. In my opinion the Sedition Wars minis will look very out of place, the are notably smaller and more spindly than most minis and especially GWs heroic-scale stuff. Sorry.
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Cooked Auto posted:But yeah, the majority of the female commissar models are just cringeworthy. The art of the only female Commissar in one of the OW books is almost as bad with the noticeable cleavage. Oh yeah, Kara Black is a terrific model! Boldly posed, no cheesecake, just a badass female commander. That model is from Mantic Games, would be very easy to swap her Warpath gun for a 40k weapon and call it good.
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Indolent Bastard posted:In my opinion the Sedition Wars minis will look very out of place, the are notably smaller and more spindly than most minis and especially GWs heroic-scale stuff. Sorry. Isn't that more a problem because of GWs messed up scaling than anything else as most other Heroic 28mm stuff will look kinda out of place amongst GW models. Even if I can understand your opinion. Post 9-11 User posted:Oh yeah, Kara Black is a terrific model! Boldly posed, no cheesecake, just a badass female commander. That model is from Mantic Games, would be very easy to swap her Warpath gun for a 40k weapon and call it good. Yeah aside from the not yet released Warmachine figure it really seems to my best choice as of right now unless Victoria Lamb suddenly releases female officer sculpts or something. I might just buy it anyway and see what I can do with it and then see how easy a weapon swap really is with what I've got
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I'm pretty sure Victoria Lamb at least has some female heads. At this scale the bodily differences between a man or woman in flak armor is negligible. Brother Vinni's you say?  God dammit, nice to know he's still a magnificently talented person ... who spends his time on fetish models. Definitely go with the Mantic model instead, or the really cool resin one I posted that can have the swoopneck stupidity painted over.
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Lord Twisted posted:
Then stare at them.
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http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/deadzone/leaders/product/rebs-commander-1-figure.html There's always this one. No cheesecake, and easy enough to convert the gun to whatever you want. Plus, badass coat is ALWAYS a plus.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Then stare at them. Genius. I'll do that next time. Just say it's a conversion. Wish I'd thought of that. Just find it staggering that they're perfectly willing to stop me playing over a lovely loving thunderfire. Back in MY DAY you weren't allowed to play without three colours and basing! Sorted the men from the boys! :old:
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PierreTheMime posted:You may want to consider breaking those Paladins into smaller units. Considering Troops supercede all other scoring units a couple of "Solodins" used to drop onto objectives Turn 2+ would be helpful. Maybe 4/4/1/1 so you can still have a decent number within the Land Raiders and have a couple to tactical scoring capability. What's generally the best loadout for solodins? My hammer guy always seems to be the squad MVP, but solo he'd be a much bigger target for shooting and easy to assault with his low initiative. Keep them cheap with storm bolter & sword?
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Lord Twisted posted:Employee : 'next time, fully GW or not at all buddy. Can't be allowed to use that. ' Stab him to death and send his fingernails to Games Workshop. Commit murder.  This model isn't canon because I can't see her breasts, this offends my ideology. 
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Lord Twisted posted:Just find it staggering that they're perfectly willing to stop me playing over a lovely loving thunderfire. If it's a non-GW store then your ire is reasonable, but if it was at a GW then I can't see why you'd be surprised at them not wanting/allowing you to use competitors products in their store.
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Post 9-11 User posted:Stab him to death and send his fingernails to Games Workshop. Commit murder. The OW books have been great with depicting female troopers, especially one of the later supplements. Slimnoid posted:http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/deadzone/leaders/product/rebs-commander-1-figure.html Oooh. Didn't know of that one actually. And even the default gun isn't so bad for that part. Even if I don't think Commanders have those in general but screw that.
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Greyish Orange posted:Is it still not worth taking a Draigo themed GK army? Paladin armies are tricky because you're always gonna have a really low model count. For that reason, you really need to squeeze points elsewhere to try and make sure you can get maximum mileage out of things. I think you have some good concepts here, but there's a couple missteps, the main one being your Land Raiders. Paladins pay a lot for being tough, and cramming them inside a metal box largely wastes that- it might mean you get to combat a little sooner, but it limits the number of guys you can have as well. With that in mind, I would try something like this: Draigo Coteaz 5 Purifiers (2 Psycannons) in Rhino 5 Purifiers (2 Psycannons) in Rhino 10 Paladins (4 Psycannons, Banner, Apothecary; 2-4 Hammers, 1-3 Swords, the rest Halberds) 1 Paladin (Hammer or Halberd) 1 Psyker + 2 Acolytes in Razorback w/Psybolt 1 Psyker + 2 Acolytes in Razorback w/Psybolt 1 Psyker + 2 Acolytes in Razorback w/Psybolt 1 Psyker + 2 Acolytes 1 Dreadnought (2 TL Autocannon, Psybolt) 1 Dreadnought (2 TL Autocannon, Psybolt) That gives you a good amount of fire support at S6/7/8, some anti-horde tricks with Cleansing Flame, and a nasty disembark with your Psykers by dumping Psychic Shriek on someone. Draigo wants to be rolling on Divination in hopes of getting Precognition, because rerolling a 3++ or 2++ save is badass. Coteaz can go Divination or Sanctic, depending on your mood. Psykers almost certainly want to roll Telepathy every time- Shriek is amazing and if you get super-lucky you could have Invisibility to put on your guys. A Dreadknight wouldn't be out of place in the army, either, although I felt that the fire support was more important at this stage. (I'm not a fan of the teleporting Knight.) Interceptors could also potentially make the list to support your aggressive strategy. If you wanted to be super-lulzy, you could sneak in a Skyshield to put your vehicles on top of- that's an easy 3++ for your tanks right there.
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So... Guess witch number is bigger: $10,000 or MSRP value of the GW stuff I bought today  Need a hint? Expect a SA Mart thread by Monday.Two Feet From Bread fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Two Feet From Bread posted:So... Guess witch number is bigger: Why? Just why?
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Two Feet From Bread posted:So... Guess witch number is bigger: You need to post a pic. Also I say the $10k. That would just be a horrendous amount of miniatures.
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Two Feet From Bread posted:So... Guess witch number is bigger: I thought Ghost Hand was Carl. You can't also be Carl.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Why? Just why? I would imagine he scored a great used deal of some ham that offed himself and totaled up the actual retail value. That's what got me back into this mess after so many years. A great deal on Craigslist. $100 for some $2k worth of models. Wonder what that list would have looked like with today's prices.
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Hollismason posted:You need to post a pic. Also I say the $10k. That would just be a horrendous amount of miniatures. 100 Knights! Speaking of FF board games, I have chaos in the old world, but I'd love to get one of the 40k ones. I've heard Relic is okay, and HH is great, but its only 2 player, and doesn't work as a team game, but isn't there another 40k board game from FF? Not Disk Wars. Agaonized for a bit, but stuck a heavy flamer on my 5 new Sternguard. I drop them in a drop pod that gets them nice and close, so a HF is perfect for that. 10 man sternguard bitches! Besides an armored company for guard, the other unbound I think I'll end up using is a 1st Ultramarines company. At least its an excuse to get a second Vanguard box.
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10,000 Black Reach Boyz!
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Fix posted:I would imagine he scored a great used deal of some ham that offed himself and totaled up the actual retail value. That's what got me back into this mess after so many years. A great deal on Craigslist. $100 for some $2k worth of models. Wonder what that list would have looked like with today's prices. Same same. Last summer I got a few hundred dollars worth of stuff for free from Craigslist. It was magical.
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Where are you guys at that people are selling 40k models. I occassionally check Craigslist here in Chicago and never really see that much.
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Squifferific posted:I thought Ghost Hand was Carl. You can't also be Carl. haha In all honesty - I have probably less than $10k worth of 40k stuff. (Though paying to have my wifes eldar painted definitely increased the amount I have spent...) I have, over the last 8 years or so SPENT more than $10k on this game when you count travel, etc, etc... but my amount of spending is greatly exaggerated by those around me.
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Hollismason posted:Where are you guys at that people are selling 40k models. I occassionally check Craigslist here in Chicago and never really see that much. I'm in Vancouver, Canada. There are generally a few 40k related posts per week, but mostly it's people asking near retail or above retail for lovely paint jobs. I just got super lucky that one time. Ghost Hand posted:haha I live vicariously through your (exaggerated) purchasing decisions. Great podcast, by the way. Everyone should go check it out. http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/ Squifferific fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Yea if anyone ever sees a good deal for Chaos Demons or something Chaosy, I will totally send you money.
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I had to do an inventory of my stuff for the house insurance since they would never believe how much I had if it burned down. The value of the display cabinet was terrifying, never mind the cases full of stuff I have.
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serious gaylord posted:I had to do an inventory of my stuff for the house insurance since they would never believe how much I had if it burned down. The value of the display cabinet was terrifying, never mind the cases full of stuff I have. gently caress, this reminds me that my giant plastic tub full of miniature sprues is the only thing I haven't taken pictures of for insurance.
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That insurance in case of fire reminds me that my friend has a "gaming room" that was basically one of those portable sheds and it caught on fire and it got hot enough to melt his metal miniatures. I figure it would have been safe since they were metal but this was old school stuff that i guess had a lower melting temperature.
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serious gaylord posted:I had to do an inventory of my stuff for the house insurance since they would never believe how much I had if it burned down. The value of the display cabinet was terrifying, never mind the cases full of stuff I have. I took video of my gaming room and the stuff in it for this purpose. That video is stored off site.
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Ghost Hand posted:I took video of my gaming room and the stuff in it for this purpose. That video is stored off site. The poor missus had to explain to the sales man that I have a problem.
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Ghost Hand posted:I took video of my gaming room and the stuff in it for this purpose. That video is stored off site. Did you flip through the sprues stored in old Land Raider boxes like a deck of cards?
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