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I don't play the tabletop and I don't want to derail the thread. But, I'm playing Mechanicus, it's pretty interesting...

It's the most bizzare hybrid of a game. It's like someone took Darkest Dungeon, Xcom, and Oregon Trail and put it into a blender...

I love the music, not sure how I feel about the voice chatter....

Anyone have any tips?
 
Who needs promethium when you have the sweet power of 9V batteries:

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Tism the Return said:
After finishing the white on the storm shields I give up on painting anything white altogether. Fuck white.
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Bone too. JFC, painting bone is a huge pain in the ass. It's to the point I almost want an airbrush just so I can see if that works better than trying to brush the shit on.
 
Imperial Citizen said:
Doesn't make sense for the veterans to get an extra wound and the other marines don't. Termies get an extra wound because of the armor, same with primaris and their gravis armor, which would make the base wound of a space marine now 2. The difference between primaris and firstborn now becomes technology and an additional attack, which gives the marines more variety.
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I think it's the same logic behind characters having more wounds. A First Born Captain isn't 5 times tougher than a regular marinelet, those extra wounds represent their experience.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
Bone too. JFC, painting bone is a huge pain in the ass. It's to the point I almost want an airbrush just so I can see if that works better than trying to brush the shit on.
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What's your bone painting style? I use GW paints, zandri dust, seraphim sepia and then drybrush with screaming skull and it comes out looking like somewhat clean bone.
 
Imperial Citizen said:
What's your bone painting style? I use GW paints, zandri dust, seraphim sepia and then drybrush with screaming skull and it comes out looking like somewhat clean bone.
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My current attempt?

I'm batch doing some shoulderpads, and as such, I've got them all on toothpicks doing them separately from the main part of the models. Using some Badger Stynylrez white primer (brush on) instead of my usual black, then a thin Zandri Dust layer, then a thin Ushabti Bone layer.

Next time I sit down and paint I'm gonna give another thin layer of Ushabti Bone as I can still see the brush marks / swirl marks of the white primer / grey plastic, then once I'm happy with that I'm going to recess shade with Seraphim Sepia. I'm not sure about Screaming Skull, I might touch on the curve of the pauldrons with it. I definitely don't agree with GW's "recess highlight" variant of it, but then again I hate tron line edge highlights in general and prefer more subtle highlights and shades:

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I think my problem is I might just be thinning the damned paints too much, but I really don't want to lose any detail either. Might take some sprue (been saving sprue to make some liquid sprue out of) and testing thickness of paint over the stamped in numbers and the like, see if I can afford a little less water in my mix.

Edit: My latest annoyance is when handling my models when putting them together I seem to be rubbing the damned paint right off the edges, which is just... joyful. had to redo the edges of my Tac Squad Seargent a few times, and just noticed his Mk5 Pauldron's rivets need touching up. Not sure even a matt varnish would prevent that.
 
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agility_ said:
I don't play spess muhreens but here's my list of chapters whom I believe are 10x more interesting than the fucking smurfs, Drab Angels or Hufflepuff

Raptors (reasonable camo marines)
Black Dragons (baraka arms)
Steel Confessors (admech tailored marines)
Legion of the Damned (too op, ghost rider)
Carcharodons (terror tactics shark marines)
Mortifactors (cannibalistic death maniacs)
Iron Snakes (alpha legion successor)
Celestial Lions (noble-bright pimp gold marines)
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Celestial who? I only see target confirmations down the scope of an exitus.
 
b0o0pinsn0o0tz said:
What shade of white were you using? I've noticed a milky/creamy shade ends up looking the nicest.
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I tried celestra and then ulthuan grey like our lord and savior Duncan suggested, it turned out nicely on the banners I've tried but not as white as I wanted them if that makes any sense.

On the storm shields I went for corax white, didn't really work on its own.
 
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Edit: My latest annoyance is when handling my models when putting them together I seem to be rubbing the damned paint right off the edges, which is just... joyful. had to redo the edges of my Tac Squad Seargent a few times, and just noticed his Mk5 Pauldron's rivets need touching up. Not sure even a matt varnish would prevent that.
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It's the oil from your hands rubbing off the paint. I've tried to leave the areas that I know that I am going to touch unpainted, usually something that I can paint when the model is glued together.
 
So the prices for the new starter sets are out. $50 for Recruit, $99 for Elite, and $165! for command. In my opinion, more value at low end, mid tier is kind of a push and a huge step down from Dark Imperium. WTF with that Command edition though. I know there's terrain, but it still seems silly. Indomitus was the replacement for Dark Imperium, but it now out of print. Guess they were done with people splitting boxes to make 40k affordable.

To be fair the Elites still a good deal if your Necron, or White Scars/Dark Angels. If you got a Cron player to split the box, is probably only a few bucks more than the outriders alone for a Captain and 5 Assault Intercessors.
 
Polyboros2 said:
So the prices for the new starter sets are out. $50 for Recruit, $99 for Elite, and $165! for command. In my opinion, more value at low end, mid tier is kind of a push and a huge step down from Dark Imperium. WTF with that Command edition though. I know there's terrain, but it still seems silly. Indomitus was the replacement for Dark Imperium, but it now out of print. Guess they were done with people splitting boxes to make 40k affordable.

To be fair the Elites still a good deal if your Necron, or White Scars/Dark Angels. If you got a Cron player to split the box, is probably only a few bucks more than the outriders alone for a Captain and 5 Assault Intercessors.
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Elite and Command are the same models, right? Just some terrain?

You don't even get a real rulebook in any of them, just Recruit/Elite/Command versions of the rulebook?


Edit: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/08/13/new-boxes-new-rules-new-codexes/

Yup. All marines are now 2W. (Except scouts.)

This includes Chaos. And all point costs are going up accordingly (~20%).
 
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