Reply To: Hobby weekender 09/02/2019 – Right Place, Right Year…

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Ok, technology demons seem to have been banished back to from whence they came – or at least they are done with their infernal capering for now…

@dawfydd sounds like a plan re sub-assemblies. Also makes the job easier to tackle I guess as you can just focus on one component at a time. Good call re the fur brown basecoat – seems to show the top colours nicely. heh, it makes me smile that all of these current GW paint ranges are named after now obsolete Old World Empire provinces and cities 🙂 Nice progress. And yes the metal shift paints seem to be a pest to photograph. From the one practice I have had adding a wash over the top steps down the degree of shifting to the second colour but doesn’t block completely. I was using GSW colour shift paints so your mileage may vary… and yeah, I’m with @sundancer , the weapon on the base like that does look like an awesome sci-fi interstellar comms array 🙂 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for posts and progress.

@sundancer had forgotten about ewok artillery. And the gliders… suddenly this is starting to sound like a faction that is actually really fun 🙂 Specialists look great! Nice job getting them all turned out so quickly! Oooh! is it a dolls house? A rats maze for stormtrooper training? It’s not a tie-rack, is it? 😉 60 chocolate coated coffee beans for posts, progress and scratchbuilding.

@horati0nosebl0wer that video was worth watching just for the poor commentator trying to explain what she was seeing from the (clearly) vague press brief she had been handed. Good to know that 40k is a ‘fantasy sci-fi 3d video game’, clears a lot of things up for me 😉 Ah Sith Lord Jar-Jar… The more time that passes the more I find myself buying the plausibility of that theory 🙂 yeah, I think the emu’s keep breaking our internet – They just can’t let go of a grudge 😉 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for detailed posts.

@rayzryr Heh, had forgotten Officeworks. And any of the $2 shops or places like Daiso. or craft stores like Spotlight… Very nice progress on the Marine squad. Oh no, sorry you lost your post. we had blackouts and internet dropouts yesterday, probably due to the wind and dust storms. Combined with the OTT site maintenance I gave up trying to log on and just painted for a bit (flesh tone basecoat done on 100 Empire minis…). 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for detailed posts and progress.

@woldenspoons as I understand from last week’s Weekender, it needs to be vampire vs werewolf vs predator to really sell 🙂 Seriously though I need to get caught up on the Underworld series. Only watched the first 2 – 1 was great and 2 was enjoyable so maybe I need to set a day aside and binge-watch them all. When the GF is not about (vampires aren’t her cup of tea…) Yeah, I’m holding out hope for a mercs/bounty hunter faction for Legion – That would be cool. 30 chocolate coated coffee beans for posts.

@mage unproductive is OK, we won’t tell 😉 Halfling Bards and Tiedling some sort of caster I can’t quite make out… cool nonetheless. I just wish the scaling on the humans was slightly larger, would love to work some of those in as characters in GW armies. Still, they are the right scale for historicals so that can still work 🙂 Nice progress on the dwarves. Immediately recognisable as their cinematic counterparts 🙂 Ugh, ugly rostering – The back and forth between day and graveyards is always a rough gig. re AoS, a lot of the current range are still older WHFB sculpts so I don’t know that they are too far removed. Am really liking some of the newer designs. The Ironjaws look way more brutal than the old Black orcs, the new goblin and Troll sculpts are great and I love the Overlords/steampunk sky dwarves. The sea elves was a great idea but I’m not totally sold on the execution uet, just personal preference. Making Slayers their own faction was, I thought, quire inspired. And the Slaneeesh harp player from the new Wrath and rapture box set is a beautiful piece and perfectly in keeping with the horrific themes of the army. So yeah, there’s a fair bit there that I like. Having said that however, at the moment I’m picking up bulk 2nd hand Ebay forces and restoring them for the same price as a 10 man box set new, and probably having a lot more fun painting as I’m not stressing about the paintjob too much.  usual tropes about GW pricing aside, I do sort of think that they have positioned themselves above my ‘comfort level’ in painting due to the quality of their new sculpts. I don’t know that I would feel happy just painting the new stuff to tabletop as it wouldn’t be doing it justice, and to paint stuff as well as it deserved woud mean never getting a fieldable force. Not sure if that makes sense?.. 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for posts and hobby progress.