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nite_moogle posted:It's really dumb but I'm so excited to see the Manufactorum and Sector Fronteris terrain kits. I don't even want to paint miniatures at this point, I just want to magnetize and paint loads of buildings. Manufactorum kit looks neat for bridging the Sector Administratus and Mechanicus terrain.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Oh. Uh... enjoy your skull. I... may... be able to cut off the shoulder pad. There’s very few contact points between it and the underlying arm; mostly at the edges. I’m not sure I want to try. Past a certain point one has to accept an imperfect result and move on. Stephenls fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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Jan 6, 2019 19:56
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Stephenls posted:I... may... be able to cut off the shoulder pad. There’s very few contact points between it and the underlying arm; mostly at the edges. Honestly I would try. IMO that point is way after priming.
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Jan 6, 2019 20:31
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Honestly I would try. IMO that point is way after priming. I guess I'll give it a shot, then. I may also try to make a better skull helmet; cutting out the current one would be easy enough, and the nice thing about making a replacement helmet is I can learn whether I can pull it off without loving with the existing mini. EDIT: Got it! And I managed to salvage both the bird skull and the purity seal, so I haven't lost any valuable bits, either.  Thank you for the encouragement. Stephenls fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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Jan 6, 2019 20:42
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Death guard are finally primed! And f—k the bloat drone for falling off my water bottle and knocking one of the guns loose. It is completely fixable, but a little disheartening none the less.
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Can I throw 20 pox walkers into 2 rhinos that then stay together or are they just not going in any vehicles?
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Jan 6, 2019 21:34
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Stephenls posted:I guess I'll give it a shot, then. What other helmet would you use?
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Jan 6, 2019 21:40
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Can I throw 20 pox walkers into 2 rhinos that then stay together or are they just not going in any vehicles? You can put a minimum sized unit of 10 into one, but no, you can’t split a unit between two transports. Just blob em up and walk them forward, shambling to victory/death. 
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Jan 6, 2019 21:43
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Can I throw 20 pox walkers into 2 rhinos that then stay together or are they just not going in any vehicles? Putting a pox Walker in a rhino is like putting a roll of bubble wrap in a padded box.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:What other helmet would you use? Gonna see if I can make one using the demo I linked to above. Just need to find a correctly-sized skull; the ones in the Citadel Skulls kit are a bit too small, I think. I need to practice with green stuff anyway, and if I gently caress it up I can just try again. (Anyone know where that chain he gets the skull from is from? Actually, if anybody has that kit, can anyone say whether those skulls are bigger than the ones from the Citadel Skulls kit or whether they're the same size and I'm just misjudging it?) So here's what he looks like now with a better positioned, actually centered shoulder raven skull and an additional raven skull hanging off his belt next to his book (to cover up a rough spot from where I cut off the leg tube).   
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Jan 6, 2019 21:49
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Honestly I like the Reiver helmet.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Honestly I like the Reiver helmet. It works! Recessed into the back of the huge Aggressor gorget, it looks pretty good! But I'd prefer the gaping, empty-eyed sockets of a proper skull to the sculpted lenses on display here. Chaplains ought to look spooky. EDIT: Also I'm considering adding some molecular bonding studs to one of the greaves now, I guess, now that I can do that. Probably need smaller ones than the 0.050s I used on the Hellblasters. Stephenls fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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Jan 6, 2019 22:14
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Stephenls posted:Gonna see if I can make one using the demo I linked to above. Just need to find a correctly-sized skull; the ones in the Citadel Skulls kit are a bit too small, I think. I need to practice with green stuff anyway, and if I gently caress it up I can just try again. (Anyone know where that chain he gets the skull from is from? Actually, if anybody has that kit, can anyone say whether those skulls are bigger than the ones from the Citadel Skulls kit or whether they're the same size and I'm just misjudging it?) I think those shoulderpads are sitting a little low? The one on the gun arm specifically, it looks like it's floating off the underlying shoulder joint.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I think those shoulderpads are sitting a little low? The one on the gun arm specifically, it looks like it's floating off the underlying shoulder joint. I played around a lot with shoulder pad placement and that was the best I could do without taking a knife and file to something somewhere. I've decided I kinda like the loose appearance.
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Stephenls posted:I played around a lot with shoulder pad placement and that was the best I could do without taking a knife and file to something somewhere. I've decided I kinda like the loose appearance. You could add green stuff to raise them.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:You could add green stuff to raise them. I think I'm good. I think I don't want to cut off the shoulders again. But I appreciate the feedback.
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Jan 6, 2019 23:18
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Stephenls posted:I think I'm good. I think I don't want to cut off the shoulders again. But I appreciate the feedback. You do you. It looks great.
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Jan 6, 2019 23:32
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R0ckfish posted:A CSM dude Stick a Rubric marine head on him and maybe put the braziers on the Rubric bird head backpack and he'd make a dope Exalted Sorcerer.
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Jan 6, 2019 23:37
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Im sure it also looks fine on the tabletop. Every off detail is super obvious that close.
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I primed my dudes off the bases but its probably easier to paint them if I set them on the base with some blue tack, right?
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Ropes4u posted:I primed my dudes off the bases but its probably easier to paint them if I set them on the base with some blue tack, right? Yep. I’m lazy and just do a tiny dab of glue and then snap them back off the base when painted to base them.
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Ropes4u posted:I primed my dudes off the bases but its probably easier to paint them if I set them on the base with some blue tack, right? I glue them to bits of sprue. Works great.
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I like the Raven skull on the chaplain but you would have to call him Cuthbert.
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Ropes4u posted:I primed my dudes off the bases but its probably easier to paint them if I set them on the base with some blue tack, right? Definitely, also one thing about painting in sub assembly I didn't think about before starting is masking any points that will be glued in future with a little bit of tack so you don't need to file away paint when it comes time to assemble. Speaking of, my first ever sub assembled And airbrushed model is almost done, a Sergeant from Conquest issue 1 for a Fists kill team. Just his eye lenses and a few odd details to go. I'm thinking blue for the lenses - strangely there is a lack of tutorials for blue lenses, lots for red/green, but I'm just gonna go with the standard 'basecolor, dark line, light line, white dot' approach. [img] https://i.imgur.com/DRYCWw4.jpg[/img] Pretty happy how he turned out and looking forward to making up at least a kill team worth of these guys, it's such a nice change after painting a gazillion grey and red 'nids!
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IPA Regulations posted:Definitely, also one thing about painting in sub assembly I didn't think about before starting is masking any points that will be glued in future with a little bit of tack so you don't need to file away paint when it comes time to assemble. I don't even bother doing that. Scraping away doesn't take much time. Usually I just glue the model to the sprue at the glue point.
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I've got an opportunity to buy some secondhand Nids and I just want to check - are the Carnifex Scything Talons the same size as, or at least roughly comparable in size with, the ones from the Hive Tyrant kit?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I don't even bother doing that. Scraping away doesn't take much time. Usually I just glue the model to the sprue at the glue point. I've found that almost every time I haven't bothered to do masking, later on I've wished I did. Blue-tac-ing the contact points beforehand is just easier than scraping paint off afterwards, even though it feels like an extra step.
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Hey space bug fans, I've got a new box of Termagants here but there's only 3 of the Devourer/Spinefist sprues. Is that correct or am I missing a sprue?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I glue them to bits of sprue. Works great. Same, or I drill a 1mm hole into their foot or such and stick that onto a straightened paperclip. Or drill wherever the hole is going to be concealed.
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DiHK posted:Hey space bug fans, I've got a new box of Termagants here but there's only 3 of the Devourer/Spinefist sprues. Is that correct or am I missing a sprue? There should be enough to arm all of the gants completely with any of the options, so you might be missing some.
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Yeah i only have enough for 9
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I don't even bother doing that. Scraping away doesn't take much time. Usually I just glue the model to the sprue at the glue point. It depends i guess, in the case of the Primaris marines head the contact point for the neck is recessed down into the collar (gorget I think is the proper term?) of his armour, so it's awkward to scrape and I sliced a bit of paint off the gorget rim unintentionally while trying cos I'm a clumsy tool. Would have been handy not to have needed to scrape in that case. The backpack on the other hand was easier.
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Not the best photo/lighting (but I've posted most of them individually before) but tonight I finally finished the additional 10 Warriors and 10 Immortals to fill out my 2k (2045) of Nihilakh Necrons. Got the FW model to tackle next.
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PantsOptional posted:I've got an opportunity to buy some secondhand Nids and I just want to check - are the Carnifex Scything Talons the same size as, or at least roughly comparable in size with, the ones from the Hive Tyrant kit? Back in the day of 4th Edition they pulled from the same Monstrous Weapons sprue; while the Hive Tyrant's talons are now mixed in with the rest of the model on the sprue, I can't imagine that the scale would have changed too much since the Carnifex/Monstrous Weapons sprues were some of the first to be designed with CAD. Probably just dragged the drat things onto the new plastic Tyrant sprue and called it a day.
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BirdieBedtime posted:Back in the day of 4th Edition they pulled from the same Monstrous Weapons sprue; while the Hive Tyrant's talons are now mixed in with the rest of the model on the sprue, I can't imagine that the scale would have changed too much since the Carnifex/Monstrous Weapons sprues were some of the first to be designed with CAD. Probably just dragged the drat things onto the new plastic Tyrant sprue and called it a day. I think they are identical as you say.
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richyp posted:At least Orks got 4 models. Orktober supremacy. You are referring to Orkvember sufficiency?
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I've recently acquired some of the newer Swooping Hawk models and I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with reinforcing the figures? I'm thinking of just drilling a 1/16" hole in the foot and then running a piece of steel wire through the base. I could maybe disguise the wire with some grass tufts or something similar.
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Thank you everyone I will try a little of everything until I find something I like.
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This may be a long shot, but has anyone used the Pop Goes the Monkey Deathwatch shoulder pads? Curious to see how they compare to the official GW ones and I'm gonna need a boatload of them if I'm going to be converting Primaris stuff over.
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Just a heads up for folks here - Worldsmith Industries are closing down and having a stock clearance with some big savings available - https://worldsmithindustries.com/ From experience it's good stuff (I backed the KS and won a bunch of the ruins through the Oath thread a few years back) and you'd be supporting fellow goon Germ, so go check it out!
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