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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Reading Harrowmaster and the utter lack of patience the other Alpha Legion warbands have for the guys who call themselves "Alpharius" is killing me. That scene is so good. You have guys who range from "hates chaos as much as the Imperium" to "half-possessed demon worshipper" at a big meeting of Alpha Legion head honchos, and they all kinda hate and distrust each other, and then some jackass introduces himself as "Alpharius" and everybody else groans and rolls their eyes in unison.
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I'm in the middle of that book and it's getting funny how often Alpha Legion guys have been described as "big for a space marine." "Morv was big even for an Astartes" "Va'kai was unusually tall, even for an Alpha Legionnaire" "[Alboc] was a massive Space Marine, half a head taller than any of his remaining brethren" etc. Reminds me of the 3rd book in the Nightlords trilogy and how Talos was telling someone to stop whining every 10-15 pages.
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Oct 17, 2023 21:17
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It's because they're wearing lifts what did you think I was going to say they're all Alpharius, grow up
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Oct 17, 2023 21:35
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I'm caught up on Dawn of Fire, and the Raptors haven't been featured at all. From my memory, chapters that have been featured/mentioned are: - Ultramarines - Space Wolves - Black Templars - Imperial Fists - Storm Reapers - Marines Malevolent - Void Sabres - Raven Guard For Imperial Guard: - Catachans - Mordians - Savlar Chem Dogs - Plus a few tied to whatever planet they're on like the Veluan Hoplites and the Pyroxian armored company
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Oct 17, 2023 21:53
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Stephenls posted:The Raven Guard got decals on the Leviathan sheet, while the Salamanders didn't. Salamanders get decals on the new sheet along with Raptors. I do think GW could do a better job supporting chapters outside the first founding as good as the heresy decal sheets are. I think for launch boxes it makes sense for GW to hit the core chapters that will eventually get their own decal sheets in specialist units but for the individual boxes its a good opportunity to drop those for less popular chapters. I'm going to probably do a Raptor as a side project just because I have some decals for them now. It would be really great if they got a little wilder with decals! Throw in some Emperor's Spears or Minotaurs. Even doing some successors on sheets for Blood Angels/Dark Angels. Toss some Wolfspear symbols on the Space Wolves sheet.
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Oct 17, 2023 23:15
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And put EC decals back in the CSM kits why are they even gone
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Oct 17, 2023 23:37
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Nancy posted:I'm in the middle of that book and it's getting funny how often Alpha Legion guys have been described as "big for a space marine." To be fair, night lords are the whiniest chapter, but also ADB finds a phrasing he likes and then runs that poo poo into the loving ground. look for things being “not funny” or “the wrong side of hilarious” or similar.
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Paragon8 posted:It would be really great if they got a little wilder with decals! Throw in some Emperor's Spears or Minotaurs. Even doing some successors on sheets for Blood Angels/Dark Angels. Toss some Wolfspear symbols on the Space Wolves sheet. They did one set of Wolfspear transfers in a White Dwarf issue a while back, so they even have them already designed.
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Muir posted:They did one set of Wolfspear transfers in a White Dwarf issue a while back, so they even have them already designed. Yeah! I have a sheet because I love decal options. They did a decal sheet for Emperor's Spears for the limited edition book, so they have those file somewhere too.
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Oct 18, 2023 00:04
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People should just say they want a Print on Demand decal service. 
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Oct 18, 2023 00:12
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So I went to the Tampa US Open last Saturday and had a great time. I didn't participate in the tournaments as I could only be there on Saturday, but my brother and I did open gaming and did a painting class. Gaming hall was big and they had plenty of extra tables set up for kill team open play (all octarius terrain). They had a big Dropsite Massacre diorama which was super cool, along with a life size Terminator statue (named Arnold). Painting class was for Non Metallic Metal and lasted two hours. Instructor had a few Golden Demon wins to his name and was a great presenter. My NMM Storm cast eternal turned out like crap, but it was fun and you got to keep all the paints, the Storm cast, plus three brushes. They also had a store setup in the main hall and was awesome getting to physically look through all the forgeworld sets, and seeing Reaver titans and Ordinatus engines on the shelf was wild. I picked up the notebook-size 10th edition rulebook and, against all odds and any thought of possibility, a new, metal Iron Warrior Warsmith. They also had all kinds of rare old out of print stuff on the shelf in metal and fine cast, which was cool. A few Joytoy sets, MacFarlane figures, and various pins, books, and dice were also available. My only complaint was a lack of single-day events or even some kind of casual/narrative Kill Team game, otherwise it was a great time!
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Oct 18, 2023 00:19
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Nazzadan posted:And put EC decals back in the CSM kits why are they even gone Cause it's the most telegraphed introduction of a new army ever
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Oct 18, 2023 00:50
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/combat-arena-lair-of-the-beast-games-workshop/1143059914 Combat Arena: Lair of the Beast is back in stock if any of y'all were looking for all the Blackstone Fortress hero models and the Ambull for $35
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Oct 18, 2023 02:30
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Lumbermouth posted:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/combat-arena-lair-of-the-beast-games-workshop/1143059914 ...god, this is an expensive month for me.
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Lumbermouth posted:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/combat-arena-lair-of-the-beast-games-workshop/1143059914 Hey, I just played this tonight. It's...okay.
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Oct 18, 2023 04:25
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The Horus Heresy decal sheets are pretty pricey. One sheet for $35? My mistake for picking White Scars I guess.
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Oct 18, 2023 04:35
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Eej posted:Cause it's the most telegraphed introduction of a new army ever The current sheet that comes in all their kits is from 2018 and has TS on it but no EC, so if the reason is telegraphing a new army I think they pulled the trigger a little early.
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Nazzadan posted:The current sheet that comes in all their kits is from 2018 and has TS on it but no EC, so if the reason is telegraphing a new army I think they pulled the trigger a little early. Future-proofing. They're planning on using that chaos transfer sheet for at least a decade.
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Oct 18, 2023 05:55
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I’m a coward and won’t attempt using decals but I also like the pauldrons with chapter insignia on them better and you can buy dozens of them on eBay so
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It took some practice but I now feel like a pro at using decals on shoulder pads. Only took about 1500 points to get good at it and then another 2000 to get really good at it
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I took my first crack at decals on my combat patrol, with microsol. Came out great except I placed them a little low on the shoulder pads, so now I know how to do it right on my 2,000ish points of Fists.
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Speaking of decals I bought a used vindicator that has some imperial fist decals. How easy are they to remove? Would it be easier just to paint or apply my own decals over it?
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:Speaking of decals I bought a used vindicator that has some imperial fist decals. How easy are they to remove? Would it be easier just to paint or apply my own decals over it? depends on if its been sealed or not with varnish most decal softeners also function as a decal remover but painting over should be fine
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:Speaking of decals I bought a used vindicator that has some imperial fist decals. How easy are they to remove? Would it be easier just to paint or apply my own decals over it? any solvent that will strip the underlying paint/varnish will remove them too
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S.J. posted:I love every bit of this. Do you plan on using them for Obliterators or something else? I made my own ruleset for 40k, so they'll be getting their own custom statline. But for a normal game they could def be Obliterators. They could also probably be a stand in for a character like Abaddon, a Helbrute, or whatever else is on a 60mm base I still haven't figured out how to really ascribe my own point costs to my system yet. Hopefully I can figure it out to make army building easier.
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Finished my Tyranid Screamer killer! would love comments and critique!      
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That's great. Initially I disliked how the mouth is all plasma, I felt it made the jaw hard to read, but maybe look up how people make dripping blood effects, and do that but with your plasma colour, like it's drooling plasma from just shooting?
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Oops, all plasma.
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 Not bad for a little over a day on and off, including magnetizing my first wargear option. Just needs crackle paint on the base, maybe something on the shin-scroll, and a chapter badge once I get some transfers made. Edit: this isn't the painting thread, sorry. Er, talking of plasma, I figure after Deathwing and Ravenwing detachments for Dark Angels maybe there could be a plasma-heavy one? Something for the "greenwing"? I guess some modification or protection from hazardous checks? BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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I got some feedback, the big thing people are telling me that the mouth feels unfinished, I think I'll take another pass at it and incorprate the purple onto the jaw, the 'drip' effect might not be working but the mouth glow might do just fine.
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Al-Saqr posted:I got some feedback, the big thing people are telling me that the mouth feels unfinished, I think I'll take another pass at it and incorprate the purple onto the jaw, the 'drip' effect might not be working but the mouth glow might do just fine. I've found quite often that really small details can make something "look off" without being able to immediately identify it. It can be really small stuff, like at one point the line you painted was a bit too thick. It kind of niggles at people because their eyes see it but they can't process why it's wrong. I know for sure I've had times frustrated because something doesn't look right and it took me ages to figure out why.
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Al-Saqr posted:Finished my Tyranid Screamer killer! would love comments and critique! I love how the mouth plasma looks like a photographic negative, tied to the vanes lighting up like a Godzilla's. If anything, maybe increase the contrast by darkening the area around the mouth and making the inside of the throat more white?
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moths posted:I love how the mouth plasma looks like a photographic negative, tied to the vanes lighting up like a Godzilla's. yeah this is what I'll go with, I'm gonna make the jaw purple and make the area immediately of the mouth the one that's glowing, this way there's more contrast. this way it will help with breaking up the blue a little
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I'm 100% stealing the photographic negative thing when I paint mine, btw.
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moths posted:I'm 100% stealing the photographic negative thing when I paint mine, btw. lol go ahead I cant wait to see how you do it.
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adjusted screamer killer face, is this a little better?  
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I love it.
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I'd say that's a lot better. It breaks up the visually indistinct mass of plasma color, making it look more intentional and conveying that there's a mouth there doing something with the plasma. Combined with the back vents and it now being the face frills that are doing the plasma instead of the entire lower half of the skull it looks much more like a Godzilla-esque traveling wave of glowy plasma than a toddler that got their birthday party cake.
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I was bored so I made up another array.
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Stephenls posted:I was bored so I made up another array. I suspect the Dark Angels refresh will include Primaris Ravenwing. Maybe a new Talonmaster so at least bike captain can get a "sort of". Is Phobos apothecary "sort of" because you can get that upgrade on infiltrators? Because if so a terminator version exists in Deathwing. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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