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And now for my first post of the year….

@onlyonepinman nice kit for the airbrush. I’ve looked at the Custom Micron line of Iwatas. If memory serves they were the line that they purchased/licensed from the Japanese manufacturer Olympos (something like that). Really fine detail as far as I can find. Good stuff on the Neo to get a start with. The prices only go up as I found getting in with Badger products (starting with a friend’s 150 that I borrowed and then got a Patriot 105 before snagging a Sotar 20/20). Harder&Steenbeck also do awesome work but the engineering seems daunting for the breakdown to clean the airbrushes. Check out the channels PLASMO and Scale Model Workshop on YouTube for some pointers that you’d probably not get from Next Level Painting. I like the idea of quick work for having a painted army but Kenny Boucher kills me with his over the top persona. The Warhammer “More is More” aattitudein presenting painting grates sometimes and is best countered with Vince Venturella and his laid back attitude the likes of Bob Ross.

@evilstu @rayzryr I think that with the draw down of large army games, as OTT has covered in an XLBS episode, AoS has filled a niche in the fantasy skirmish arena. Tabletop Minions put out a list of things he’d like to see from GW this year and a rehash of Mordheim, or something like it for AoS, as their old “specialist games” are being reborn since the LotR cash cow isn’t as lucrative as it once was. A slowburn campaign fantasy version of KillTeam might be interesting if the factions were interesting from the models.

@mage @dawfydd You two make me feel ashamed I’m not painting right now. I’ll get on it as soon as I can. Real life just has stuff going on.

@woldenspoons @rayzryr How to break Theater of the Mind easily with less combat…. take walking talking murder carpet (aka lupine) and knock them down in pain using silver nitrate dispensed from a cleverly disguised bear mace can. A mage with a bit of cunning can easily kick this up a few notches (using Life/Material in 2nd ed) as it will easily sidestep paradox when it induces asphyxiation/paroxysms/uncontrolled vomiting in the beast like its supposed to. Then again there’s the broken nature of how to deal with Changelings… oh what I can think of given some time.