Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Do you need to take a commanding officer to take a command squad?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

And WTF is with the Crusader entry? I guess they all have storm shields for free? 15 points seems pretty good.

Phyresis posted:

which genius picked this design ffs

Hihohe posted:

Maybe someday our aspect warrior models will be new

goose willis posted:

The Deleter posted:

nice

Zark the Damned posted:

That's a real monkey's paw wish. The original Aspects were the best minis in the Eldar range (alongside Warlocks) and got replaced with buck toothed striking bunnies and skull head reapers.


Never forget!

OMG sriracha pudding! posted:

I get being down on the current Dark Reaper sculpts, but the old metals were [the bad kind of] goofy trash. The best Eldar models are obv the Phoenix Lords.


Look at these idiots:


Also, the scorpions got replaced again. They look fine now.



How many different Aspect sculpts have there been? Were the striking scorpions the only ones to receive two 'modern' versions?

Phyresis posted:

Warp Spiders teleported here from 1993

goose willis posted:

Luckily you can buy it by itself

Just don't go exploring that site too much because it can get pretty cringey

Phyresis posted:

lmao this one's on that very page



lewd eastern european third party minis are hilarious

e: i happen to like the way the lovely old Warp Spiders look

OptimusWang posted:

Baby’s first army questions:

If I’m running a successor chapter, can I pull in characters from the main chapter and use them? If it helps, I’m specifically talking about a raven guard successor and wanting to add Kayvan Shrike.

Similar to the first question, can I use the dark fury assault squad? I don’t know poo poo about them other than they look cool.

Lastly, how effective is Saint Celestine paired with space marines? I was thinking about picking her up anyway just to paint, but if she’s useful that’s a big plus.

Thanks!

OptimusWang posted:

Baby’s first army questions:

If I’m running a successor chapter, can I pull in characters from the main chapter and use them? If it helps, I’m specifically talking about a raven guard successor and wanting to add Kayvan Shrike.

Similar to the first question, can I use the dark fury assault squad? I don’t know poo poo about them other than they look cool.

Lastly, how effective is Saint Celestine paired with space marines? I was thinking about picking her up anyway just to paint, but if she’s useful that’s a big plus.

Thanks!

OptimusWang posted:

Baby’s first army questions:

If I’m running a successor chapter, can I pull in characters from the main chapter and use them? If it helps, I’m specifically talking about a raven guard successor and wanting to add Kayvan Shrike.

Similar to the first question, can I use the dark fury assault squad? I don’t know poo poo about them other than they look cool.

Lastly, how effective is Saint Celestine paired with space marines? I was thinking about picking her up anyway just to paint, but if she’s useful that’s a big plus.

Thanks!

Stephenls posted:

So the base isn't done as such; I still need to paint the rim black to sharpen it up, probably add another layer of snow flock to eliminate the salt-and-pepper effect I'm getting where there's just a few spots where no snow flock adhered and it looks like black dots, and the marine is still only stuck on there with his sole pins -- after I glue him down I'll need to add a bit more flock around his feet so he looks like he's standing in snow instead of on it. Also, in the category of things too late to fix on this base but that I could do for later ones, the colors aren't great because I tried to paint a woodland base and then stuck snow on it, instead of painting the base so it would look good with snow on it -- I ought to have used colder, darker colors to make the contrast between the snow and the bits of ground you can see around the snow pop more. And finally those grass tufts don't look great; I could use something like Woodland Scenics underbrush or bush flocking for a more voluminous surface that snow will actually rest on top of, like snow rests on real bushes.

The problem is I hate the overall effect and nothing I wrote in the above paragraph will fix the major problem, which is that I'm going for smooth snow like a blanket over the landscape, not... whatever the hell lumpy white gravel pit effect I've achieved here.

I could use baking soda on white glue, but research into that indicates it'll yellow and eventually liquify and run off the base in three to eight years, ruining the mini. I could use baking soda on superglue, but soda bicarbonate and cyanoacrilate chemically react, causing the glue to accelerate its drying and causing the soda to crystalize more permanently but clump up, ruining the smooth blanket effect. I could use talcum powder, but that's a lung hazard and also the only stuff they sell around here is scented like baby powder. I could use the paste Vince Venturello advocates in this video, but it's difficult to create a smooth blanket effect when spreading a thick paste around with a paintbrush and I sort of hate the globby clumpy snow effect he achieves there. Finally, I could just do a textured base and then carefully paint a smooth layer of snow on it using various blends of blue and white paint, but... yeesh, that feels like a lot of work.

Anybody have any other suggestions on better snow bases?

Stephenls posted:

Cross-posted from the painting thread, since that seems to be allowed here:

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

That black armour is loving gorgeous, holy poo poo

Stephenls posted:

Alternately-alternately:

"He's not Kayvan Shrike, he's... uh... Layvan Thryke, chapter master of my successor chapter. He just uses the rules for Kayvak Shrike, the same way my successor chapter uses the rules for the Raven Guard."