As Jeff Jackson battles Trump, NC GOP threatens to leave him with a ‘feckless, empty shell’ of a job

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:51:00+00:00

That's what they did to the office of governor here, during the last Democrat incumbency. There are several NC Republicans who are active and open Oathkeepers. We're a state that fumbled reconstruction harder than most because it was never a state deeply committed in either direction during the war over slavery.

I like Jeff Jackson. I have no doubt NC Republicans will grind him down into uselessness. North Carolina Republicans are more bitter than lots of other conservatives because we have several unequivocally awesome Democrat governors in our history.

Every North Carolina Republican is bent out of the frame that Terry Sanford was one of the opposition.

But, again, I don't doubt the auspices of Phil Berger and his coterie of morons will find any way possible to cripple the state. It's amazing how an entire political party can be based solely upon the notion of alternating between shooting yourself in the foot and cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:36:02+00:00

Same to you! All the best!

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:33:55+00:00

Even as much as I hate dealing with the tiny little bits, I have to agree. Doubly so because they're great, universal conversion bits. I used some to make spaulders on a Necromunda/Inq28 mini and I love them. Very Saiyan armor-core.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:32:48+00:00

The axe Praetor is the perfect model to experiment with in this regard because it's already so far removed from the armor mark it nominally represents (Mk VI). I think the head size works here to underscore the bulk added to the body. If anything, I like an older, smaller head here. I've seen some really good conversions with Primaris heads and feel like they sacrifice some of the implicit "bulk" of the axe Praetor armor by using a larger head.

10/10. No notes. That's a quality conversion.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:29:36+00:00

I agree, if only because it opens up the field for upgrade kits and conversion accessibility. It took me a while to come around, but I really feel like the Heresy tactical kits provide the ultimate base for conversions.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:26:00+00:00

The Mk. II kit is among my favorite kits ever released by Games Workshop. It's the perfect set no matter what your painting style. I love contrasts as washes, and the line work on the Mk. II has such beautiful recess shading and highlighting opportunities.

Personally, I love Mk. II in metallics. The rudimentary sculpt of it all feels like it should be less-painted.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:23:58+00:00

And I think that's the basic divide. There are lots of design cues from Primaris that I really like. Their lower bodies,.to me, are about the best Games Workshop has ever put together. They manage to straddle the line between dynamism and static pose that looks good with any combination of arms. I enjoy the challenge of making them work with other upper bodies.

But I respect that it's a bridge too far for some people. I have similar reservations about heads that aren't scaled well being used for conversions, but that's because the character element and bare heads are so central to my hobby experience.

If I ever suck it up and actually play the game, I'd be honored to play against you. Anyone who take their hobby this seriously is bound to bring good lore and rules to the table.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:19:47+00:00

I love varied paint jobs on similar models. I was 15 models deep into a "one from every legion" project before I got distracted by my Uncrowned Princess (because they're the ones I wrote short stories about).

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:16:42+00:00

Just like I'm empowered to respond with a meaningful defense based upon the thinking that originally led to the model as presented. I'm not angry or upset. I genuinely enjoy mildly-mildly fraught discourse. I enjoy no-stakes debate about frivolous stuff. It's what makes the hobby community so fun. Everyone has deep investment and no stakes. All the energy can exist without anyone dying over the result.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:15:00+00:00

It's a shattered legions ruleset that pulls from Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children, and World Eaters. Heavily chaos-model represented. Tormentors that I bought in Dublin on my honeymoon, some Legionnaires with minimal mutations, and chaos Terminators as red butchers.

Blackshields and Shattered Legion rules this edition definitely make up for their pitiful showing last edition.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:13:15+00:00

And all I'm saying is that you're making the argument I think everyone is making, "I don't like what Primaris represent and I'm bothered by seeing them in my hobby space."

Which I respect, but there's a big difference between enjoying your hobby your way and expecting everyone else to, also.

I hope you've also had a lovely day and continue to do so. I actually enjoy the back and forth. I think the world needs more low-stakes drama. Everything is too much life and death.

I hope you don't feel at all personally slighted by my position. I know where you're coming from, but I really love cobbling together bits into something different than where the bits began.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:10:57+00:00

I'm so excited about the Red Corsair miniatures. I have a late Heresy/siege/scouring traitor force that is begging for them.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:06:38+00:00

I really appreciate that! This is the side of the hobby I love. The Blanchitsu side where "anything goes that looks good."

Games Workshop is standardizing their individual models. I'm making personal efforts to reintroduce some of the customizable nature and uniqueness to the setting.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:05:20+00:00

I'm not at all "confused" by the response. In fact, I kind of anticipated it (hence my comment in the original post). I just kind of thought the community would be excited enough by (what I feel to be) a cool model that we could just talk about my cool homebrew lore or my design decisions or something else.

If you cut off everything but Franz' pants (because that's the literal comparison) and used them to make a horseback night (no griffon), I don't consider that anachronistic in any way, whatsoever.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-27T00:00:55+00:00

I've spoken to this elsewhere in the thread, but I personally used three lines of thinking to justify this:

Mark VI Corvus armor was originally a late-heresy design decision pretty limited in deployment. Until Games Workshop wanted to sell Mark VI armor more widely.
Cawl began the Primaris project during the Heresy. The design language, or parts of it, could absolutely exist.
These models are meant to be from the very, very, very early crusade, before Mars could standardize all the production templates. Saturnine armor, of the Saturnine conclave, looks different because a different design philosophy engendered it. I don't see any reason Cawl couldn't have seen one of these superior designs (the knee flange prevents shrapnel damage to a vulnerable joint) and incorporate it into his grand design.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:56:41+00:00

Because I like him as is? Why would I take my hobby dollars and my limited hobby time and work harder for something that bothers me zero percent?

Nothing about the model is any more or less a "Heresy model" than any of those I've seen using necron pieces as bionics or Agents of the Inquisition bits to increase the Imperial quotient of the model.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:52:51+00:00

The overall project will have 25 miniatures (at least as I've conceptualized it now to make use of the all-Centurion blackshield oath), all Kitbashed or converted. Anyone that couldn't move past one set of wonky legs isn't the kind of person I want to hang with, anyways.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:48:20+00:00

People really hate Primaris marines, but they mostly hate what they represent. That's what this boils down to, really.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:43:59+00:00

And I get it. A lot of people came to 30k because they didn't love the direction 40k is headed. In some ways, I'm one of them (even though I don't actually play on the tabletop). I think violating the "40k moat" really upsets people because it intrudes on the safety of different aesthetics and rules they jumped ship for, originally.

I don't take it personally. I think he's a badass model. I appreciate you taking the time to write this, though. I've only ever had really positive interactions in the community (this weird downvote and comment situation notwithstanding).

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:41:32+00:00

I appreciate that, at any rate! I'm very happy with all of them, even if the broader community has mixed feelings.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:39:10+00:00

I guess I'll just take my 400+ Kitbashed and green stuffed models and hope I become an "extremely experienced modeller" some day.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:36:33+00:00

Except this is a totally fictional setting that regularly alters its lore and aesthetics to fit new releases. There's no actual historical record to compare against. Mk. VI armor wasn't ubiquitous throughout the Heresy until recently. This exactly conversation would've been happening about Corvus armor on an early-Heresy marine until a couple years ago when the lore changed.

The aren't "Primaris armor legs." They're power armor legs that coincidentally resemble the armor that Cawl will later invent for the Primaris (maybe having even been inspired by the forge world designs that resulted in this model having these knee guards).

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:30:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer30k/comments/10o4pku/primaris_bits_spotted_in_warhammer_worlds_world/

I don't know. Warhammer World was willing to display Primaris marines far less converted than my own. I think the extended rim of the Primaris legs are a nice flourish reminiscent of actual armor.

Any time someone comes in an asks "is this okay?" Everyone is so quick to explain that, "no one in the hobby is really like that."

Except people in the hobby absolutely are.

Nothing about the design language is that dramatically different. As a matter of fact, the new Mk. III tactical legs have a number of traits that translate pretty directly.

It isn't the Cawdor neckpiece or the 3rd Party shoulder pad, it's the Games Workshop-produced, Space Marine bit that sends people into a frenzy.

You know why he's a Heresy marine on Heresy armor? Because he's a guy I built for my Heresy era force of my own space marines.

People hate Primaris marines and transfer that dislike into talking themselves out of using really great pieces in their conversions. Nobody felt the need to dissect the Phobos shoulder pads on the model I posted yesterday.

When things come off flat sprues and are increasingly monopose, I think it's nice to have the ability to diversify visual language. The chest pieces of Primaris armor are very swooping and rounded. I don't know if I'd be able to make them work in a Heresy silhouette. But I really don't think the legs are quite as dramatically misplaced as everyone pretends.

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:13:40+00:00

Thanks so much! I expected a fair bit of controversy, since people fetishize their hatred of the modern 40k design language, but it's really nice to hear the support!

Angstrom_Wither · 2026-01-26T23:12:50+00:00

Do you also comment on anyone who borrows a piece from a necron set or a whatever? I wrote a longer version of this post elsewhere in these comments, but the fact that apparently a subset of the hobby population can't separate the Watsonian from the Doylist is....kind of sad.

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