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EdsTeioh posted:Fighting games seem like one of the things that would thrive like hell in an online only environment. Does Tau need a new codex? I just caved and bought a bunch at my son's request (SUUUUUUUUREEEE) but they seem "DecentNotGreat" Initial thoughts on their effectiveness due to Fly losing the ability to fall back and shoot made the outlook pretty grim, but so far tournament results put them at about a 53% winrate.
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EdsTeioh posted:Fighting games seem like one of the things that would thrive like hell in an online only environment. Does Tau need a new codex? I just caved and bought a bunch at my son's request (SUUUUUUUUREEEE) but they seem "DecentNotGreat" FGs online are just slightly above TTS in terms of "sucking the soul out of something" Also FG netcode is trash so yeah. And also I thought everyone was getting a new codex for 9th
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i really liked playing orks but burned out because the amount of units was overwhelming. whats a good low-unit army for a beginnerish player (not since 2009 so i think 6th?)? i like chaos marines a lot aesthetically. id be okay with normal space marines too
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Custodes for fewer models. Necrons are easy to paint to a battle standard level but a high model count. Marines are also easy to paint to an acceptable level and not very high model count. Can also make very specialist lists like eldar wraith hosts with not very many models. Lots of vanguard lists that can be made for armies with lower model count. Like for sister's , one unit of 5 troops and then 9 Mortifiers and 9 Pentient engines 
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Aug 26, 2020 20:43
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MRLOLAST posted:Custodes for fewer models. Necrons are easy to paint to a battle standard level but a high model count. Marines are also easy to paint to an acceptable level and not very high model count. I watched a great video on speedpainting Marines last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMeYn6Fw_e4 I think the easiest army to paint to battle-ready is Tyranids. Everything's a blob, who cares if you mess up, that's just a random mutation on its gun arm or whatever. I've heard they're not even as horde-heavy in 9th as they used to be. It's still a lot of models, but not as much? I haven't played 9th obviously, I've just heard that the masses of Genestealers and Termagants aren't a thing anymore.
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Aug 26, 2020 20:57
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i'll say, painting nid hordes is so much more satisfying than orks. you have total freedom in the color scheme and unlike the boyz sculpts gaunts/gants/genes have fewer, bolder details. part of the hassle for boyz is the dumb chestplates sort of meshing with the shirts, the dozens of belts and buckles and such--nids don't have any of that. strong rec!
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interesting. i didnt really think too much of tyranids last time i was into this so im looking a bit closer. the whole dynamic with genestealers seems cool. what are custodians i cant find a start collecting set with them is that like a hyperspecific one? sound like janitors or financial advisors IMO my wife was very not into me getting back into this but a kid my son hangs out with has a dad who plays so tough break man death guard looks cool to me
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Aug 26, 2020 21:20
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Yeah, every time you have to introduce another color to the pallette takes time. You have to mix it, wait for it to dry, wash brush ect. A nid army seems like it can be done to an acceptable level with 5 colors and a wash. 2 or 3 colors for the skin, some mouth , eye, theet, claw color. Paint the base and you are ready to go.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:21
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John Romero posted:
Hell yeah dude do it, they look super fun to paint
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Aug 26, 2020 21:21
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Cross-posting my Sevatar and scheme for the Night Lords:HeavingGirth posted:Finished Sevatar and about 5 regular marines. I like the scheme I've come up with because I'm not super talented, but I can make reasonable looking Night Lords.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:35
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John Romero posted:man death guard looks cool to me Death Guard are super satisfying both in hobby modeling and on the tabletop. There’s a ton of neat details that are really distinct and simple to pick up with edge highlighting and other techniques. They are also the best example of shades making things look so good so easily. Here’s a mini I did today while on conference calls:   Took about an hour and a half and used just a handful of colors.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:40
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John Romero posted:what are custodians i cant find a start collecting set with them is that like a hyperspecific one? sound like janitors or financial advisors IMO The Emperor's personal bodyguard.  Low model count, hope you like painting gold.
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John Romero posted:what are custodians i cant find a start collecting set with them is that like a hyperspecific one? sound like janitors or financial advisors IMO I'll pretend to blame autocorrect. The army is really called Adeptus Custodes. But yes if you like Death Guard, go with DG because Chaos is always cooler  Come to the smelly dark side, brother. They can also be run fairly elite if you go vehicle heavy, or 3-wound Blightlords and 2-wound Plague Marines sound like it's going to be pretty loving sweet in 9th.e; PierreTheMime posted:Here’s a mini I did today while on conference calls: That guy is sweet and I wish I was still working remotely  I could get so much painting done drat
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Aug 26, 2020 21:59
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*luckily there are canonical non golden Custodes colour schemes Each basic unit is basically as strong as a Space Marine character which leads to very strong, very few individual models which means every decision you make counts because you're hauling around hundreds of points per unit so a wrong decision is amplified greatly compared to moving a blob of horde infantry in a bad direction.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:18
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Spanish Manlove posted:FGs online are just slightly above TTS in terms of "sucking the soul out of something" Ah, gotcha. I'm terrible at all fighting games outside of Time Killers.
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Anyone have a source on a thunderhammer .stl that includes a hand? Popgoesthemonkey only works with shapeways and their quality isn't super great.
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Cessna posted:The Emperor's personal bodyguard. More hobby-related, but a quick, easy, and imo better way to paint gold than regular gold paint is to paint silver as a basecoat and use a contrast over it. Snakebite Leather and Iyanden Yellow both make great, very different golds. Snakebite leather in particular looks very realistic imo.
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Alokgen posted:Anyone have a source on a thunderhammer .stl that includes a hand? Popgoesthemonkey only works with shapeways and their quality isn't super great. Have you ordered from them in the past? Is it bad? I've got a bunch of White Scars poo poo in my cart there but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
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EdsTeioh posted:Have you ordered from them in the past? Is it bad? I've got a bunch of White Scars poo poo in my cart there but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I've ordered Shoulder pads and heads in the past that were "fine", but it all comes down to which material the individual shop allows. There's a pretty big difference between whatever their "smooth" and "extra smooth" is. I have access to a resin printer, so those would be the cheapest, quickest, best quality for me, but shapeways is definitely serviceable.
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Verisimilidude posted:More hobby-related, but a quick, easy, and imo better way to paint gold than regular gold paint is to paint silver as a basecoat and use a contrast over it. Snakebite Leather and Iyanden Yellow both make great, very different golds. Snakebite leather in particular looks very realistic imo. I haven't tried either of them, but I've used goregruntha fur to make a kind of bronze/dark gold. I did it over balthazar gold on my disc that ahriman is on. I'm sure it would be brighter over a silver metallic, the fur acted more as a shade, but still metallic This model uses a lot of contrast over metallic. The top of the disc, the robes, and gloves are all various contrasts over Army Painter plate mail. 
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Werix posted:I haven't tried either of them, but I've used goregruntha fur to make a kind of bronze/dark gold. I did it over balthazar gold on my disc that ahriman is on. I'm sure it would be brighter over a silver metallic, the fur acted more as a shade, but still metallic dang that looks good. Exactly what I plan to do for my Thousand Sons with the contrast over Army Painter plate mail. I've seen pictures of yellow contrast over silver or Citadel Leadbelcher and it looks great. I happen to think Citadel's metallic base paints are pretty good (aside from the rare random big chunk) but I've never used Scale 75's.
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Werix posted:I haven't tried either of them, but I've used goregruntha fur to make a kind of bronze/dark gold. I did it over balthazar gold on my disc that ahriman is on. I'm sure it would be brighter over a silver metallic, the fur acted more as a shade, but still metallic How did you do your warp flame? Looks awesome, I’m about to do an Ahriman
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LifeLynx posted:dang that looks good. Exactly what I plan to do for my Thousand Sons with the contrast over Army Painter plate mail. Yeah, most of the army I did just Kantor blue. The lower robe is levadon blue over plate mail with plate mail highlights on like the folds. Mae posted:How did you do your warp flame? Looks awesome, I’m about to do an Ahriman Spray paint krylon gray primer (if that matters) then a couple layers of sybarite green as the base, and then hit the edges/raised areas with Moot green. That's it.
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This week I've been painting some totally loyalist Scions And their perfectly holy tank  And their palette opposite  
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I just tried to mix glitter my basing material to make like a alien sparkly mineral rich earth to a nice effect. Now I am curious what would happen if I mixed it with paint and painted the armor of my sisters 😂. Maybe if I do Celestine in the future I will try it .
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Aug 27, 2020 20:29
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You should look into the vast world of nail polish
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Ghazk posted:You should look into the vast world of nail polish Interesting, my wife does her nails every month in different colors but I never thought of using it for miniatures. I guess you means for a sparkly shine because I want to have that alien planet feel and for Celestine I would go for ..shiny sparkly angel descending from the sky.
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It's a few lines out of the book, but in a recent release a chaos apothecary was asked to create a counter to the sudden influx of Primaris Marines so this means GW is contractually obligated to release Chaos Primaris.
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It's been a recurring background plot element for a while now, even ol Fabulous Bill is starting to pick apart them, and the Custodes, to see what makes them tick. I wouldn't exactly see it reaching any conclusion anytime soon.
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MRLOLAST posted:Interesting, my wife does her nails every month in different colors but I never thought of using it for miniatures. I guess you means for a sparkly shine because I want to have that alien planet feel and for Celestine I would go for ..shiny sparkly angel descending from the sky. most nail colors are acrylic, but they usually cost way more than a pot of paint
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MRLOLAST posted:I just tried to mix glitter my basing material to make like a alien sparkly mineral rich earth to a nice effect. Try the new Turbo Dork color shift paints! I think they would work great for what you're describing.
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MRLOLAST posted:Interesting, my wife does her nails every month in different colors but I never thought of using it for miniatures. I guess you means for a sparkly shine because I want to have that alien planet feel and for Celestine I would go for ..shiny sparkly angel descending from the sky. If you mix glitter into your paint it will make her look very, very weird and 'off-scale'. Terrain makers use glitter to simulate piles of gold and gems. Metallic paint is basically heavily ground down mica flakes which function in a similar way (but with a smaller particle size. Someone posted a marine that their daughter had painted with glitter paint and it was a very... interesting look. I would definitely test it on something disposable first before you try it on a horribly overpriced character model. Edit - For actual useful suggestions - try either candy coating (clear paint/ink over a very shiny metallic undercoat) or colourshift paints if you want something really sparkly. Snail Information posted:most nail colors are acrylic, but they usually cost way more than a pot of paint Also don't use nail varnish as it's meant to go on thick and smooth. Some may be acrylic but I'm pretty sure it will clog all your details because it's designed to hide whatever gross nail it's being applied to. Unfortunately the lovingly sculpted details on hams share many characteristics with a gribbly fungal toenail.
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Somberbrero posted:Try the new Turbo Dork color shift paints! I think they would work great for what you're describing. They've got some sweet stuff. I picked up "The Floor Is Lava", "Bullion", and "Emerald Nightmare" and have been painting some reaper bones mini with it. TFIL is beautiful, Bullion coats extremely well for a gold, and Emerald Nightmare is basically "black unless in absolute perfectly pure light"
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Sab669 posted:They've got some sweet stuff. I picked up "The Floor Is Lava", "Bullion", and "Emerald Nightmare" and have been painting some reaper bones mini with it. TFIL is beautiful, Bullion coats extremely well for a gold, and Emerald Nightmare is basically "black unless in absolute perfectly pure light" Not a 'hams because I haven't taken good pictures of my colorshift Necrons, but here's a quick Minotaur I whipped up to test out some new colors:    I hit the cloth parts with a quick shade to level out all the sparkly, but otherwise this was mostly just base coats.
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richyp posted:This week I've been painting some totally loyalist Scions That icon bearer is super cool, nice simple idea and well executed
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That Dark Net cape looks sweet. Also not hams, sorry thread, but here's the one I've been working on;  I had to go over the wings with Createx Auto Air Pearl Green because as I said the Emerald Nightmare color is pretty disappointing in anything less than direct, white LED light but I love how they look now I need to figure out how I want to paint the base and wrap this project up though, I've been using it as a little palette cleanser from practicing my Death Guard scheme
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Sab669 posted:That Dark Net cape looks sweet. Also not hams, sorry thread, but here's the one I've been working on; The wings are obviously gorgeous but I'm also impressed with how even the transition is on the scales. Very smooth.
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Airbrush is cheating I just sprayed the whole underbody with Ground Is Lava, then sprayed top-down with Bullion
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Skorpekh Lord done! This fellow was a lot of fun, really makes me eager for more necrons.
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