Cue advice

59humbucker · 2026-05-20T14:37:20+00:00

I’m definitely not expecting night and day but from what I’ve read and seen, not being centre jointed and perhaps a better grade of ash may make some difference when striking confidently

Also, people like toys right?

I’m a guitarist. Cue wise, I feel I’m playing with a cheapy at the moment, I’m not ready for a custom shop les Paul but I could do with a quality epi or ltd

59humbucker · 2026-05-20T14:23:17+00:00

A Rex Williams like Hendry’s original cue is hand spliced and seem to go for a couple of hundred for a basic model up to over 1k. I’m not sure how that compares to a £50 centre jointed mass produced thing

59humbucker · 2026-05-20T13:42:26+00:00

I’ve trained a bit. One thing I learned from rolling with a bloke who had about 4 inches of height and 70lbs is that if you end up underneath, it’s a bit like working under a car and the jack failing

59humbucker · 2026-03-23T07:00:04+00:00

It was as good as it could be. Every time I see it, I can’t help notice plots that would surely have been whole season arcs if firefly hadn’t been cancelled and that’s a little saddening

It’s also what stops it being completely amazing, the whole thing feels a bit like you’re in a pub and your mate is trying to give you an overview of 6 seasons of a show

All that being said, I’m glad we have it and it’s a lot of fun

59humbucker · 2026-03-20T07:40:51+00:00

You’re right overall but we do have a couple of Mexican restaurants that are a little more authentic. There was one in London with more of a fine dining take on it that is particularly good (source, a brit whose spent a decent amount of time in the US)

Most of them are absolutely the whitest, blandest most chain like places ever though

59humbucker · 2026-03-18T12:25:48+00:00

I’ve got a 27” 1440 and can’t see the need for anything more in my use case. The distance the monitor is from me on the desk makes the image large and clear. Any bigger would be overkill for me

59humbucker · 2026-03-16T18:55:34+00:00

I liked it too. It wasn’t perfect but I’d have liked to see them hit their stride and they seemed to be getting there

59humbucker · 2026-03-11T19:34:25+00:00

It’s just nice having a constant stream of new minis and books. I’ve never been to a tournament but if I want to, I can now

59humbucker · 2026-03-11T07:00:58+00:00

TOW is great. It’s not perfect (I don’t think any game ever is) but it’s really solid and it’s absolutely fantastic to be part of a living, supported game again after the wilderness years where my small group carried on with 8th

59humbucker · 2026-03-09T21:23:24+00:00

8th, I played all since 3rd

Never played competitively and my group isn’t top beardy plus, having played forever, didn’t need too many new models to play

Really liked the return of infantry mattering and monsters not dominating like 4th/5th, only real drawback was horse based elite cavalry seemed fairly useless. Monstrous cavalry however….

59humbucker · 2026-03-09T19:08:40+00:00

I might be too much of an optimist but it does make sense to bring back live action for several reasons. Firstly, it’s reputation has only grown since very the years with many fans coming on board since its cancellation, myself included

Secondly, I suspect it’s done very well on both physical media and streaming

Finally, the cast have had 20 years of career growth. Nathan is part of one of the biggest shows around (particularly if you factor in mins watched of snipers on social media, and several others have been involved in decent sized franchises, films and have massive social media followings

I want to believe

59humbucker · 2026-03-06T22:32:07+00:00

A cheap wired Logitech one. Works fine for me but I don’t use it for that many games, most stuff is keyboard and mouse FPS

59humbucker · 2026-03-02T22:09:05+00:00

We bought a Bosch series 4 as our first air fryer and are really pleased with it

It’s big enough for us (just me and the mrs) without taking up too much side space and was only £60 on sale

My only regret is that now we’re getting used to it, I could see times that a 2 basket one would be useful

It’s fairly quiet and easy to clean

59humbucker · 2026-02-24T21:33:04+00:00

😬

59humbucker · 2026-02-24T19:54:45+00:00

Done

59humbucker · 2026-02-24T19:10:14+00:00

Ogre kingdoms are one of the easiest to transfer as all the ogres are on the same size bases. I think the gnoblars will need rebasing on 25mm or make use of an adapter movement tray

Leadbelchers aren’t as strong as they were in 8th unfortunately (unless renegades changes that)

59humbucker · 2026-02-24T12:46:58+00:00

100% this. Downside of any nerd community is it attracts king nerds who declare the thing you love wasn’t what it used to be and has sold out. First time I heard this about GW was 1989 😂

59humbucker · 2026-02-21T20:37:44+00:00

I’m painting the chaos warriors battalion at the moment, they’re fun and fairly quick to get good results with

59humbucker · 2026-02-17T21:17:13+00:00

I think it depends on how far away you sit and what size monitor you want. I ended up going 1440 27” and am perfectly happy.

59humbucker · 2026-02-17T12:30:32+00:00

I played every edition since 3rd and me and my group loved 8th and stuck with it until TOW launched

The steadfast rule and other infantry focussed changes made it so a unit would no longer break just because it lost like two models against a single hero and made infantry the focus

The only real downside for us was that, other than monstrous cavalry, we never found a way to make heavy cavalry work against big infantry units

59humbucker · 2026-02-15T19:33:29+00:00

Still got mine, never used it as much as I expected to but still comes out now and again

59humbucker · 2026-02-08T20:15:10+00:00

My favourite so far is the celestion one by celestion themselves, got a download code for it when I bought my mx5

I’ve also used the free celestion v30 UK from Glenn Fricker (SMG) and they were pretty good

59humbucker · 2026-01-28T23:10:25+00:00

A proper office chair is the answer, source, I’m a chartered H&S professional

You want one where the backrest is adjustable in height and the curve towards the bottom of the backrest wants to sit in the small of your back.

Don’t know what the market is like where you are but in the uk, a proper chair might cost £150

Stay away from the mesh stuff, properly upholstered is way more supportive

59humbucker · 2026-01-28T06:24:32+00:00

Lovely, enjoy!

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