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Artum posted:It was just a primaris librarian, jump librarians would of course be much better for it since then you could advance much further. Galaxy brain is bike librarian for the movement, guaranteed advance, and better shooting and toughness
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Corrode posted:Galaxy brain is bike librarian for the movement, guaranteed advance, and better shooting and toughness Where's the fun in that, null zone is per model not per unit and jump librarians can get to the back of a unit.
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Artum posted:It was just a primaris librarian, jump librarians would of course be much better for it since then you could advance much further. Is it common to use a chaplain in Deathwatch? One with a jump pack would probably be pretty spicy, backing up some Inceptors or Vanguard Vets.
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As far as marine lenses, the easiest way I’ve found is with a mithril silver basecoat (or any shiny metal) and then those gemstone technical paints like spirit stone red applied over the lens. A thin coat of tamiya clear colors would work too.
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Badablack posted:As far as marine lenses, the easiest way I’ve found is with a mithril silver basecoat (or any shiny metal) and then those gemstone technical paints like spirit stone red applied over the lens. A thin coat of tamiya clear colors would work too. This man knows what's up!
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Yeah, that works. I tend to base coat silver, put a dot of white in, and glaze it with inks which is a pretty similar effect.
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Technowolf posted:Okay, hamgoons, I have a bit of a problem. I have some of those same 2-green-rod Not!warrior Immortals. I'd throw some your way if you want to swap some mans--I have a truly silly stock of Space Egypt Terminators.
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chutche2 posted:Yeah, that works. I tend to base coat silver, put a dot of white in, and glaze it with inks which is a pretty similar effect. I wish I had heard of that before I did my current round of marines, that sounds fantastic.
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These lens posts are seriously making me consider going back through all of my Imperial Street Saints and repainting their lenses from Sotek Green to the gemstone green. Goddamnit.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I wish I had heard of that before I did my current round of marines, that sounds fantastic. Depending on how thin the ink is it takes a good bit to get it the color you want, sometimes I just base coat in a color, put the dot in and ink over it if I'm feeling lazy. Doesn't look as good but it works. The gemstone paints does pretty much the same thing but does it better from what I've seen online, I just use inks because I already have all these P3 inks laying around that I like. P3 inks are fantastic for glazing. chutche2 fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 16:33
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Yellow Ad Mech, purple Ad Mech, or yellow and purple Ad Mech?
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Lungboy posted:Yellow Ad Mech, purple Ad Mech, or yellow and purple Ad Mech? Yellow.
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chutche2 posted:Depending on how thin the ink is it takes a good bit to get it the color you want, sometimes I just base coat in a color, put the dot in and ink over it if I'm feeling lazy. Doesn't look as good but it works. I have a lot of experience with inks on my current build. I haven't used P3 but I absolutely love using inks and washes in general. Long term once my Primaris in a good place I might reward myself with a speed painted Necron army; nothing but metals, drybrushing, and inks.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I have a lot of experience with inks on my current build. I haven't used P3 but I absolutely love using inks and washes in general. Long term once my Primaris in a good place I might reward myself with a speed painted Necron army; nothing but metals, drybrushing, and inks. That sounds like it'd be really great.
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Lungboy posted:Yellow Ad Mech, purple Ad Mech, or yellow and purple Ad Mech? the Orleanis III Technomartyrs
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Boom. Nice. What was your recipe for Plasma?
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Well gently caress. I have come to the realization that the basing I have been doing for my Death Guard and Nurgle Demons, while nice, just isnt fitting the theme or color palate. I'm going for a kind of Silent Hillesque feel to them since they fit that aesthetic, but since I was trying to base all my armies the same I put them on a cracked desert base. Gonna go more abandoned streets now. Thankfully, thanks to my slow painting as of late this only affects a few figures. Does anyone have any tips for removing painted minis from a base? Yes, I used plastic glue to mount them like an idiot. jadebullet fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 17, 2018 |
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jadebullet posted:Well gently caress. I have come to the realization that the basing I have been doing for my Death Guard and Nurgle Demons, while nice, just isnt fitting the theme or color palate. Thankfully, thanks to my slow painting as of late this only affects a few figures. Get an xacto #2 or #5 handle and some #18 chisel blades. And maybe chainmail gloves if you're a klutz.
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Ayn Marx posted:Nice. What was your recipe for Plasma? Gonna guess its the same as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSVZiYLuPY
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chutche2 posted:That sounds like it'd be really great. One of the things I really suffer from is being fairly dead-set on a particular method once I begin it. That's why I take so long with these models. Unfortunately my Orks suffer from the exact same problem. I'm incredibly proud of how they turned out but they take a prohibitively long amount of time to make. So for the next army I hope to specifically use nothing but techniques that I know will balance speed and quality. To avoid burnout what I might do is alternate between projects, so maybe do 5 Orks and then a Necromunda squad, or experiment with some Necrons and then assemble my "Squigs and Spawns" idea for a Blood Bowl team. Take advantage of the sheer variety of things that I have on my plate and start filling up my display cabinet.
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Ayn Marx posted:Nice. What was your recipe for Plasma? I just posted everything over in Reddit so I'll c/p that post here: quote:I wanted to mix things up so I took the Dark Imperium Inceptors and bought a set of plasma exterminators off of eBay to go with them. That should let me add another set of Inceptors using the regular boxed set and have unique poses for all six models. The guy in the center is the sergeant. Using white, a blue wash, a recess application of dark blue ink, and then white in the corners turned out to be an exceptionally quick method. Adding a gloss coat does wonders as well.
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Booley posted:Get an xacto #2 or #5 handle and some #18 chisel blades. And maybe chainmail gloves if you're a klutz. And if this doesn't work, trim the bases off with a set of clippers, then grind off what's left with a dremel tool. It's drastic, but it works. It may leave scars (but, hey, Death Guard) on the bottoms of their feet, but hopefully this can be concealed with new basing.  
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Cessna posted:And if this doesn't work, trim the bases off with a set of clippers, then grind off what's left with a dremel tool. You don't even need to grind. Clippers will be perfect for getting in between the line of the base and the model's foot, and a simple scraping job will suffice to remove any residue.
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Looks like GW just posted something about their Grand Tournament. If you want to participate all the heats are in the UK.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Looks like GW just posted something about their Grand Tournament. If you want to participate all the heats are in the UK. I saw this earlier and was briefly very excited until I remembered that warhammer world rules would be in effect, so i’d have to run my army as actual Biel Tan. Almost wondering at this point if i need to buy a pot of sotek green and go through my army redoing all the flat green as turquoise so i can be a generic craftworld, but that would feel really crappy having spent so much time getting it to its current state. Make me +1 for “formally tying rules to paint scheme is dumb”. Might book one of the later ones and plan to play necrons. Inteesting that they’ve gone for 1750 points, presumably a reaction to all the slow play grumbling. A bit of a dick move from them to clash with Battlefield Birmingham in September, but i expect both events will manage to fill.
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My big wish is for GW to host official tournaments here in the U.S. But I guess that will require them to move away from their bowling lane store models and invest in bigger spaces, which won't happen.
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Zuul the Cat posted:My big wish is for GW to host official tournaments here in the U.S. they could just rent spaces for hosting events like they did in the past
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One_Wing posted:I saw this earlier and was briefly very excited until I remembered that warhammer world rules would be in effect, so i’d have to run my army as actual Biel Tan. Almost wondering at this point if i need to buy a pot of sotek green and go through my army redoing all the flat green as turquoise so i can be a generic craftworld, but that would feel really crappy having spent so much time getting it to its current state. Make me +1 for “formally tying rules to paint scheme is dumb”. Might book one of the later ones and plan to play necrons. Yeah, I can kind of understand the idea behind detachments with different rules having visibly different stuff going on, but forcing someone to run an army in accordance with the paint job they happened to like is pretty stupid.
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TheChirurgeon posted:they could just rent spaces for hosting events like they did in the past Yeah, MTG runs multi-thousand person tournaments, they just aren't held in gaming stores.
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chutche2 posted:I'd love to see a GT using the 4x4 tables most US stores have This would be cool. I'd love a 4x4, non-2000 point tournament.
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TheChirurgeon posted:they could just rent spaces for hosting events like they did in the past Baltimore GT was in the convention center.
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What's the difference between an official Games Workshop GT and one of the several big tournaments that get run in the US?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Baltimore GT was in the convention center. so was Games Day, back in the good ole days long-rear end nips Diane posted:What's the difference between an official Games Workshop GT and one of the several big tournaments that get run in the US? The company organizing it. LVO and NoVA get GW support but aren't run by GW
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So I'm inexorably sliding down the slippery slope that is wargaming, and I'm considering giving 40k a try. I've heard the new edition simplifies things in a good way and makes it more approachable, but I haven't actually reviewed the rules yet. Anyway, is there anywhere I can go to get a general sense of how each army plays? It's kind of a big investment to get started on 40k (compounded by the fact that neither of the armies in the starter box really appeal to me aesthetically) and GW has pretty much nothing aside from fluff on their site. Side question: I really like the look and lore of the Thousand Sons, but it sucks that they don't have a Start Collecting box. I also have no idea if psyker ability is actually any good in the game. Are they a viable army, and if so what would be a good list to build a new army? Is this stuff I could find cheap on eBay? Also, could I combine Thousand Sons units with the vanilla Chaos Space Marines start collecting box to save some $$, and still have something that plays well? Mikey Purp fucked around with this message at 19:07 on May 17, 2018 |
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Mikey Purp posted:So I'm inexorably sliding down the slippery slope that is wargaming Mikey Purp posted:I realized it's gotten out of control. I realize I'm out of control.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I just posted everything over in Reddit so I'll c/p that post here: What material are those rocks you added to the bases?
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Booyah- posted:What material are those rocks you added to the bases? Oyster shells.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Oyster shells. brilliant
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Tried out my Necron scheme on a Warrior today. Here he is next to his Immortal buddy: I know the green plastic rods are kinda dumb but I like them as a retro thing from when Necrons were released when I was a kid. I didn't glue it, so if I decide they suck I can always pop it out again. Really looking forward to getting my backlog cleared out so I can crack into my Necrons properly.
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