|
Fit them all onto old GorkaMorka bases
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 01:51
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 21:04 |
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:drat lol I guess my Avatar is no longer valid for games lol. It absolutely could, just pop that little dude on a big old base and make a whole diorama out of it. Put a bunch of dead teeny tiny marines or whichever other enemy you desire. Efb Eej posted:Just fill his base with tiny Epic marines shooting at him so it's actually a scaled down diorama
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 03:12
|
|
|
I have at least two Eldar dreadnoughts that are on the 50mm square bases they originally came with. I haven't tried to use them in ages though.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 03:21
|
|
|
I have some 50mm bases as it turns out, but there is no way this Vostroyan heavy bolter team is fitting on it. It sounds like my original base is still correct for GW events, but would be bigger than 50mm, so not tournament legal?
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 03:31
|
|
|
Mazed posted:I got this guy who looks like he'd be great as a fancier leader for the Havoc squad in Combat Patrol, but the weird oblong base doesn't work with the restrictions on that mode of play. At the same time, if he's lacking the oblong base, does this render him "illegal" to be played as a Warpsmith proper in other modes? Just put him on his oblong base, it doesn't do any harm in combat patrol Virtual Russian posted:I have some 50mm bases as it turns out, but there is no way this Vostroyan heavy bolter team is fitting on it. It sounds like my original base is still correct for GW events, but would be bigger than 50mm, so not tournament legal? You can get bases for 25-50¢ USD per on Aliexpress or ask anyone with a 3D printer to make you some, if you care about tournaments. If anyone complains about the base on heavy weapon squads in a friendly, call them a nerd until they stop doing that. Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Oct 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 05:07
|
|
|
The Avatar diorama sounds like a great idea! Do you guys know where i can get some cheap disposable space marine epic scale stuff? Or maybe an epic sized chaos demon?
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 08:47
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:The Avatar diorama sounds like a great idea! Do you guys know where i can get some cheap disposable space marine epic scale stuff? Or maybe an epic sized chaos demon? Legions Imperialis is just around the corner, so epic-scale marines are coming.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 09:08
|
|
|
Although those are slightly bigger than classic epic minis, so you might want to look into prints if you want the correct-ish scale. Not to mention getting them in poses of firing upwards at the Avatar.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 11:04
|
|
|
To be fair base sizes can come in clutch in a lot of games if they are the wrong size, and you should try to make sure your models are on the right size base even for casual games. That being said, generally I don't have a lot of symptoms thy for people who don't update base sizes as you can literally buy 3D printed base extenders online for basically nothing and glue them onto your model bases and it's done. Obviously you can extend the base features (e.g. Grass or rubble or whatever) but it actually looks fine with a black ring around the base too. The exception to this is that they made the bases for the guard HWT smaller, which is loving dumb as there's no easy fix for that. I have like 15 HWT bases and to rebase them I'd need to use a scalpel to detach them all and then cram them onto a significantly smaller base. So I do have a lot of sympathy for when base sizes get smaller. Larger though is an easy fix and I'd encourage people to use base extenders. All that being said a soointed out Guard are still on 25mm bases.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 12:03
|
|
|
When really concerned about whether or not something like base size will be allowed in a tournament, always remember:
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 12:11
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:When really concerned about whether or not something like base size will be allowed in a tournament, always remember: Will love this forever! I guess that edition didn't have alternating unit placement
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 12:24
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:The Avatar diorama sounds like a great idea! Do you guys know where i can get some cheap disposable space marine epic scale stuff? Or maybe an epic sized chaos demon? Shipping might be painful to the ME, and they aren't super cheap themselves, but Vanguard Miniatures makes some incredible looking Epic proxies. Unlike the old GW epic stuff they come with tons of poses, and tons of characters. I think about half my epic collection epic came from Vanguard. https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/product-category/defeat-in-detail-6mm/novan-commonwealth/novan-elites-troops/
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 12:39
|
|
|
Mr Owl posted:Will love this forever! The white scars army put their entire force in reserve so the smiling guy just had a bunch of kroot infiltrate there in responsep
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 12:59
|
|
|
So I got a email about pre-ordering made to order figures but the link goes nowhere and there's nothing on their website for it. That's not me missing something right, that's a GW gently caress up, yeah?
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 16:51
|
|
|
The email most likely got sent out early, I just checked the US Webstore and it's still on the Warhammer day pre-orders. So a bit of a gently caress up yeah.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 16:55
|
|
|
They sent out that email when UK pre-orders went up at 10am BST, but USA & Canada can't order until 10am PST.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 17:13
|
|
|
Does anyone have a contemptor and a helbrute they can take a picture of side by side? I hate the helbrute model and would rather run a spiky contemptor but I want to make sure they're of similar size/same base size
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 17:34
|
|
|
Both are on 60mm bases, and that's something that's usually listed on their store page. Don't forget they've also started doing size comparison images, mostly for newer releases sadly but I think some older ones have gotten ones as well. Although not the Helbrute in this case. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 17:36
|
|
|
Cooked Auto posted:Both are on 60mm bases, and that's something that's usually listed on their store page. I've not got a contemptor to compare with, but I have a dark vengeance hellbrute and it's about 80mm to the top of the powerfist it's waving around.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:01
|
|
|
Woooowww check it out you guys I found the warhammer army I painted 20 years ago!! Any comments and critiques for the child version of me? lol Also I took some fun comparison pics of my old and new marines!           
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:07
|
|
|
I love the blue on your new infernus marines, how did you do that
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:09
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:Any comments and critiques for the child version of me? lol Sure! https://youtu.be/m3p_VuPIS2c?si=uyY4__M27nrmrlBg (that rules, I also have some ancient babby-painted space marines lying in the attic somewhere, from forever ago. Maybe I should find and immortalise them)
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:11
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:Woooowww check it out you guys I found the warhammer army I painted 20 years ago!! This guy is my new favourite space marine
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:12
|
|
|
My first thought when I saw that was that he's definitely a good entry for a "Thin your paints 2" video. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:15
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:Woooowww check it out you guys I found the warhammer army I painted 20 years ago!! Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! When I look back, I can't help but ask: did they just hide inks/washes from us as children? Like my modern minis look way better than my old minis, but AFAIK I mostly just... use washes now?
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:23
|
|
|
OctaMurk posted:I love the blue on your new infernus marines, how did you do that thanks man (1) army painter spray crystal blue primer (2) Vallejo Blue-green and Light-blue-green (3) Vallejo Game Color Magic Blue and Sunrise Blue
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:28
|
|
|
coelomate posted:Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! A large part of it is that there were very few resources for learning good techniques, unless you knew where to look for it or literally bought guides at hobby stores
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:29
|
|
|
Pretty sure they weren't all that great back in the day, stuff like chestnut ink and such did show up in painting steps but then I think they had a far more specific application. The real change happened during the massive paint system overhaul when we got Agrax and so on.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:29
|
|
|
coelomate posted:Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! Idk if they did, but I remember after surviving off allowance paints, my grandma got me the full GW paint set back during I wanna say late 4th/early 5th? for a hanukkah gift and it was a lifechanger. Dumpstering Chestnut Ink over a motherfucker and declaring "yes... I am an artist"
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:31
|
|
|
coelomate posted:Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! 2002 Saudi Arabia was not a great place to find out how to paint minis properly even the internet was useless back then. Once I was back home from the US when I bought 3rd edition and some paints I might as well have been on a different planet lol. I did not know about primer paint so I just went to a hardware store and bought the first black spray I found which is why you're seing such a thick base coat lol
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:33
|
|
|
coelomate posted:Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! Not sure the timeframe, but way back washes were something you pretty much had to make yourself. I remember being taught to make a black wash for chainmail on my dwarves by a older guy (probably 30, but I was 13 or so and everyone over 20 was ancient) at the game shop. It was like he was passing down ancient, secret wisdom. I never even heard of inks until the mid-'00s at the earliest.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:33
|
|
|
The old painting guides were just this With apply basecoats -> eavy metal standard mini
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 18:33
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:Woooowww check it out you guys I found the warhammer army I painted 20 years ago!! The thing that really strikes me is that from a distance, zoomed out, this army looks pretty good (except for the bare bases and the inexplicable orc). I guess that is why even bad painters like myself are able to put together armies that look good on the tabletop. I didn't realise Space Marines had grown that much larger, though. Will they keep growing indefinitely?
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 20:14
|
|
|
Athas posted:The thing that really strikes me is that from a distance, zoomed out, this army looks pretty good (except for the bare bases and the inexplicable orc). The person who introduced me to the very concept of warhammer when i was a baby in 1997 ( by giving me the 1997 buyers catalogue that had that amazing painting of Asmodai on it) gave me his 2nd edition warhammer box that came with the monopose space marines and orcs at around the same time i got 3rd edition in 2002. I have that box and the OG orks and Gretchin in it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 20:20
|
|
|
My very first exposure to 40k was a highschool friend who had the 3rd edition blood angels codex for some reason. Being a fan of RTS games I was immediately enamored with the tiny tanks and dudes with missile launchers. Few years later I got into Dawn of War and the rest was history.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 21:52
|
|
|
Cooked Auto posted:Pretty sure they weren't all that great back in the day, stuff like chestnut ink and such did show up in painting steps but then I think they had a far more specific application. The real change happened during the massive paint system overhaul when we got Agrax and so on. I specifically remember reading painting articles in Dragon Magazine in the late 80's and they said "Apply Chesnut Ink" and I thought "What the hell is an ink?" because nobody locally sold actual citadel paints so I'd never even seen it for sale.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 22:56
|
|
|
coelomate posted:Those look great for painted-as-a-kid minis! Probably the most trouble I've ever been in was when I knocked a whole tub of flesh wash onto my bedroom carpet as an 11 or 12 year old, and I include the time a policeman came to the door to ask if I lived there. There's so many resources now for how to paint, like has been said but it's also super easy to get your hands on decent gear now too if you live in the sticks. Like I knew about drilling and pinning, and actually nice paint brushes that WEREN'T reused from a poundshop paint by numbers set, but locally there was a camera shop that sometimes sold airfix poo poo and that was it for me in the late nineties.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 23:14
|
|
|
We knew what ink and drybrushing was in the early 90s. Most people just sucked at it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 21, 2023 23:26
|
|
|
How many Lictors (of any type) can I take in an army?
|
|
#
?
Oct 22, 2023 06:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 21:04 |
|
|
3 Lictors, 3 Neurolictors, Deathleaper, and if you count Von Ryan's Leapers up to 18 of those (3 units of 6).
|
|
#
?
Oct 22, 2023 06:57
|
|
