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I'm assembling the models from the starter today. I haven't worked with plastics before, do these need to be washed prior to priming?
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I'm new to 40k. One thing I don't get about the points vs per argument: why do people start from the axiom that point values are correct? Has there ever been a minutures game where the point values aren't just pulled out of some guys rear end? Why not just try both and see how the games are, then make a decision based on that? It's completely possible that point values are off and that power is a more accurate representation of in game effectiveness. Even if power is less accurate overall, it's still possible it could be a better system, even for competitive play. It may enable a metagame with a larger pool of models that are competive, more competive factions, or better match play as a result of less games being predecided due to more models having more options to counter extreme niche builds.
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Jun 21, 2017 22:30
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First poxwalker done. Think I'll do the same scheme for the rest. Feels good to be painting again, been a while.  
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Jul 2, 2017 05:23
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JackMack posted:I love it. I like the necrotic look of his abdomen, and the buboes. If you had told me you were going to stripe the the tentacles I woul d not have thought it would look as good as it does! The use of orange in both his trousers and his burst pustules is the only thing I might reconsider It was supposed to be blood in the burst pustules. Yeah that part didnt really come out to well, not sure what else to try with the burst pustules, any ideas?
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Jul 2, 2017 06:59
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Master Twig posted:Well, with the new point values, I have constructed the list I will bring to a 2000 point tournament on Saturday. Those are some nice nids.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:11
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I tried using simple green to strip some awful fuzzy primer and even after 48 hours it was 100% uneffective.
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Jul 2, 2017 22:03
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SteelMentor posted:I just want to say that if you play Death Guard, and if you play Typhus/Necrosius Poxwalker spam you're a bad person and deserve nothing but scorn. What? Why? They're not even a real faction yet. They have almost zero real options. Don't understand where this would come from.
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Aug 4, 2017 03:42
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Finished the DI Poxwalkers. I am a slow painter and this took me forever. I am never painting a squad of 40 again. Hail Nurgle!    
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Sep 10, 2017 21:48
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What do you hams think the best weapon option will be on fetid bloat drones?
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Sep 12, 2017 02:37
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Any guide out there on how to magnetize mortarion's wings? I'm not magnet guru, but I don't see an easy way with how the join section is setup.
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Sep 16, 2017 05:29
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Geoff Zahn posted:How the gently caress did I not notice this lil motherfucker until now Fun Fact: Little guy is actually the plague champion and comes with a death guard marine as an accessory for his base.
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Sep 17, 2017 08:07
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JoshTheStampede posted:It is most definitely not a game you can play half-heartedly, I find. It's maybe my favorite game, but it requires a lot more mental energy. I can't just beer and pretzels it when I am drunk or want to relax like I can with 40k. Agree completely. It is not a "chill out" game. I love Infinity, but if I am tired its the last thing I want to play. moths posted:I'd be a lot more excited about Infinity if my figures would stay glued together. Some of the Infinity sculpts are absolutely torture to assemble. Particularly some of the drones and female minis with arms the size of a toothpick sticking out horizontally, with a join the size of a needle head.
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Sep 23, 2017 07:28
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chutche2 posted:My friend just fought mortarion for the first time, he shot him with a shadowsword for 27 damage. That's one of the most Feelsbadman things I've read today
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Sep 25, 2017 21:42
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Always Black. Never compromise. Suffer not the heretic to live.
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Sep 28, 2017 21:19
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I use magnetic transport option and love it, but loving mortarion with his wings is too tall for the one I use. Been trying to figure out a way to get the wings magnetized, but its a nightmare because of how abnormal the joint GW designed for it. After a lot of trial and error, I think I got something that might work, waiting on the magnets I glued inside the body to dry before I test it, but hoping this works.
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Sep 29, 2017 06:47
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Just wanted to show this off. I finally finished cutting into Mortarion so that I could get his wings be fully magnetized. I've magnetized stuff before, but this is the first time I've had to completely remove the existing joint and then create my own that would allow it to take a magnet. I was really worried I'd end up ruining the wings/body or both. I chipped the paint on my WIP in a couple places, but the magnet solution is working drat well. Now I can go back to painting him. Biggest issue I had was gluing the magnet into the hole I created for the wing magnet to attach to. Had to guess how deep to go because otherwise id end up getting glue ont he wing magnet and both got stuck. This happened on the first attempt and was a nightmare to correct. The body magnets are slightly not deep enough, but the joint is still pretty good. Ideally would need to file down the depth on the wing magnet, but I tried using some metal files on it and got nowhere.      
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Sep 30, 2017 05:43
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Galaspar posted:A question for anyone working on a Mortarion - build him first, or paint in sub-assemblies? Seems like a lot of the armour will be tough to get to with the cloak in place, but on the other hand the cloak apparently ought to go on very early in the process, so there'd be a nightmarish number of bits to paint separately. If I had to do it over, I'd separate it as follows: Assemble the legs, cock robe, and chest together into 1 sub-assembly Arm + pistol Arm without scythe Scythe Head+hood Wings rear end robe + flying nurgling on chain separate nurgling on chain that connects to the main robe Base I fully assembled him, minus the scythe, rear end robe, and wings. It was a mistake. It is really hard to paint the armor + cock robe and the inside of the cloak after assembly. Its not impossible, but its just worse than doing it before hand. While there are a lot of steps in his build, he is super easy to put together and everything fits together drat near perfectly so there is not much to worry about doing it in sub-assemblies.
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Oct 2, 2017 00:20
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I am a little sad that 40k is being infected more strongly with the taint of Warmachine and Malifaux. Seeing the same named characters in every list to me speaks of a failure of balance, while also eroding any immersion people have with the setting. The fact that the King of Space is constantly getting involved in these tiny conflicts is madness. There is nothing wrong with named characters. It's wrong when they are so undercosted that they are auto includes. Just as bad when they are auto includes because there are no viable alternatives. I want to play Mortarion, I don't give a poo poo what people's opinions are on named characters, but it is legitimately BS if all named charters include unwarranted cost reduction. Seems obvious to me that the further they get away from generic MEQ the harder it is to create rules and costs that are appropriate. A lot of the point numbers seem like they are generated using random.org because they don't know any better.
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Oct 2, 2017 22:07
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I want to make some Nurgle daemon princes with wings. Any suggestions where I could get some quality wings without having to steal them from another model?
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Oct 2, 2017 23:25
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Zark the Damned posted:Another thing I noticed, I don't remember seeing it here. The 'generic' DG character kits are named, e.g. Scribbus Wretch instead of just a Tallyman. It's for trademark, any other reason is secondary.
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Oct 2, 2017 23:44
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Can I use non gw conversion bits in gw models in getting stores / events?
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Oct 3, 2017 23:36
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BULBASAUR posted:Cum to 30k slack, friend Without going into nitty gritty specifics, compared to GW prices, how much are people paying percentage wise for recasts that are decent?
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Oct 4, 2017 05:05
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Those are cool and good
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Oct 7, 2017 07:38
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Artum posted:Really cant wait for emperors children to get their update to put this most of this stuff to bed. It would just kick it into overdrive. Game and culture would be better off entirely if Slaanesh was squatted. Yeah, we'd lose some cool things, but it would be a worthy sacrifice.
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Oct 8, 2017 22:51
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Female Primaris marines wouldn't be too hard to fit story wise, and wouldn't invalidate much of anything that happened before.
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Oct 9, 2017 08:06
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Corrode posted:Oh gently caress another one I looked at his page, what a shame. He is actually pretty drat good painter. I liked a lot of his other stuff.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:48
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ijyt posted:You can't have a fictional setting worth a drat if you don't have established rules. Imagine if LotR retconned itself every volume.  
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Oct 9, 2017 23:10
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Zuul the Cat posted:Did a little more work on my first knight this evening. Really happy with how it's turning out, but clearly it would be much better with an airbrush. That knight is looking good !
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Oct 10, 2017 07:36
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Tiger Millionaire posted:The 7 man plague marine kit only comes with 4 plagueknives. Dual plagueknives is a basic weapon choice for the entire squad. People complaining about price, monopose, etc...they're all correct, but I can ignore all of it. However, buying any squad of X and them not including all the weapons to kit them out to your liking is just inexcusable to me. Ilor posted:The Repulsor still looks like dogshit. Mortarion is still busy-as-gently caress. The new Typhus is still awful. Agree. Agree, but busy does not = bad. Some models SHOULD be busy, such as nurgle demons, plague marines, and deity like characters of which he is all three. I think Mortarion is awesome. Disagree. I like him a lot. Mugaaz fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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Oct 12, 2017 01:23
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Are they wearing stiletto heels on their right foot?
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Oct 13, 2017 07:06
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Played my first game of 40k today. Was pretty fun. Death guard are cool and good.
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Oct 15, 2017 03:15
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chutche2 posted:They are both of those things. Need any help figuring out what to get? I think I'm good for now. I have the DI starter and traded primaris half for another DG half. I also have Mortarion and Typhus. I've finished painted the 40 poxwalkers, and am almost done with Mortarion. Still have a big a painting backlog before I pick up anything else.
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Oct 15, 2017 04:07
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OptimusWang posted:Trim = get good. Edge highlighting can totally be cheated with colored pencils, though. Is there any example of people doing this in video or guides? I'm really interested.
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Oct 17, 2017 04:12
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Those of you who have got the plastic Mortarion, when you undercoated him what sub-assemblies (if any) did you use? I ask because it looks like there'd be a lot of problems with blocked spray if you fully assembled his torso halves and legs/chest. I didn't do it this way, but if I did it again, I'd do it this way: Legs + cock robe + chest Wings Arm with gun Arm without scythe Scythe rear end skirt with chains Random chains Base The only part that is really a pain in the rear end is painting the inside of the robe after you attach the arms to the body. It is very difficult (almost impossible) to get a brush in there without getting stuff on the armor. Everything else is nitpicky.
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Oct 17, 2017 07:51
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Watched the Warhammer TV video today about how to work with resin used in ForgeWorld kits. Biggest lesson I learned is gently caress resin. I was previously used to working with metal miniatures only (Mk1 Warmachine). When I switched to plastic miniatures in 40k, it was like "holy poo poo, this is so much better in every conceivable way". Can't believe there is something even worse than metal and people pay money for it. Why, just why?
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Oct 31, 2017 02:56
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I second Primaris. Pick up one of the starters imo, they are all good deals.
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Oct 31, 2017 03:27
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JoshTheStampede posted:That is a rule if you play ITC tournaments. Even if its just base rims painted different colors, if you have two different Chapters or whatever they have to be visually distinct. Something I can get behind. I don't care if it's painted or not, but I can't stand when you can't tell stuff apart.
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Nov 1, 2017 20:38
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I'm a new player since 8th edition. Explain to me like the idiot I am, why exactly are there so many bonuses to taking multiple detachments? It makes no sense to me. It is so good already to additional options, then you get to double dip on additional CP, and then triple dip on synergy of combining multiple spells/strategems/effects. I don't have a problem with any of that to be honest. Options are cool and good. I just don't get why aren't there any benefits to a single detachment army, i.e. doubling your starting CP, being allowed to take additional points, guaranteed first turn, basically anything? Why provide additional incentives to the choice that is already best instead of giving them to the choice that needs help?
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Nov 3, 2017 03:17
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I painted a mans. Just got done with Mortarion for my DG army. Been working on him slowly since his release. This is about as good as I can paint.    
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Zuul the Cat posted:Daemons actually surprised me, i figured they'd be later. Huzzah for Blood Angels! I don't even play them, but I love Blood Angels. Demons is surprising to me too. Even as a chaos boy, I think it would be better for more Xenos books first.
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