Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Growing old is bad m’kay?

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At the risk of breaking the “no politics” rule, it really does feel like this late-stage capitalism is starting to eat even itself.
AI is preferable over straight searching for stuff – not because it’s “better” but because the need to thrust yet more crap for us to buy in front of as many eyeballs as possible has made Google search not even fit for purpose. So to avoid the need to wade through the mountains of adverts for things that nobody wants, we have to ask AI, which is a load of “content” that nobody ever created.
I’m starting to agree with those who say that humanity peaked at the end of the 90s!

On a brighter note – I painted some Blood Bowl orcs.
I can’t decide whether or not to invest the time in shading and edge highlighting; I really like the effect of an additional shade over the speed paint, and in real life, these models really do look much better for it.

but I do love the immediacy of just spraying a zenithal base coat and whacking on some speed paints

I prefer the look of the additional highlights (top – and, honestly, the photos above don’t do them justice!) but prefer the process of just speed painting (bottom photo) and calling it done. I’m determined to batch paint these as an entire team (so no painting one or two minis to completion and never finishing the team – if I’m painting flesh, I’m doing all the flesh on the entire team. If I’m doing buckles and straps, then I’m doing them for the entire team). So far I’ve done flesh, shirts and straps on all and have started painting the armour silver (silver armour with red speed paint looks awesome for blood bowl armour!) I just can’t decide whether I want to add in the delay of painting the hands and faces of the entire team with the additional shade/highlight (and whether to do this before or after painting all the silver)…