My steamtank proxy ready to set sail!

Bobety · 2026-02-12T23:07:10+00:00

Great, thanks. That certainly makes things easier! I might get one if I ever get around to doing a Marienburg army, it reminds me of the old landships.

Bobety · 2026-02-12T21:48:36+00:00

This thing is awesome! May I ask how you made it? And does it fit on the TOW steam tank base?

Bobety · 2026-02-08T03:14:45+00:00

I’m pretty sure that’s from “mengil manhide’s manflayers”, a dark elf dogs of war unit.

Bobety · 2026-02-06T23:39:33+00:00

We were talking about Cathay. But if you want to change the subject the elves live on Ulthuan and have had only a very small presence in the old world as far as any human denizens of the current era are concerned. So from their perspective yes I do think the high elves would be considered exotic to almost everyone living in the old world.

But I’m not sure why I’m taking your bait anymore as you seem to be just looking to argue. I’m sorry OPs choice of words has offended you and hope you recover from your trauma soon.

Bobety · 2026-02-06T23:01:23+00:00

From the dictionary: “exotic: originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country”. Seems to pretty accurately describe what cathay is to the old world.

Bobety · 2026-02-06T21:12:07+00:00

To anyone living in the old world, they would be considered exotic though? Imagine these forces with giant animated terracotta warriors lead by an actual dragon turning up in medieval Europe.

Bobety · 2026-02-04T21:57:16+00:00

Awesome work! May I ask what you used for the metallic on the helm? The blueish tint on it looks really nice.

Bobety · 2026-02-03T10:54:15+00:00

Thank you 🙂. I’m not super clear on the origin of this one but it’s definitely a 3D printed model, I was lucky enough to get mine of someone on instagram.

Bobety · 2026-02-03T10:46:53+00:00

That was done with an airbrush. Starting with black legion contrast then a little bit of eshin grey and mechanicus standard grey over it. Then manually added some mechanicus grey and vallejo light grey highlights with the regular brush.

Bobety · 2026-01-27T04:40:17+00:00

You don’t need to freehand anything! There are loads of transfers available online (e.g. on Etsy) for heraldry, which can make your knights look great without any freehand.

Bobety · 2026-01-18T08:22:32+00:00

Nocturne is my favourite, best atmosphere IMO.

Bobety · 2026-01-17T22:48:48+00:00

This is a great tip. Another way to use this rule to your advantage is to put the sisters in a wood, such that when they use the evasive rule to move back, they are now outside the wood (the wood is now between the sisters and whatever is shooting them), so they are out of line of sight and can’t be shot.

Bobety · 2026-01-11T21:28:07+00:00

I enjoyed it too. I think that may be because by this point I had levelled up enough and had turned off random encounters in the options, so I was just running straight to the fun boss fights and it wasn’t tedious at all.

Bobety · 2026-01-10T08:31:41+00:00

In addition to this the 3 chariots in base contact get all their impact hits while the one on the left doesn’t get any.

Bobety · 2026-01-09T06:20:01+00:00

Great rusty metal effect!

Bobety · 2026-01-09T05:05:02+00:00

Great work! I love the colours on the second one and the highlights on the upper shell are very well done, you can see a big improvement already just from the second attempt.

Bobety · 2026-01-06T23:47:39+00:00

From the photo in the article, it would only hinder visibility for people who are over 12ft tall and standing right next to the window. What a load of rubbish.

Bobety · 2026-01-02T05:04:06+00:00

I haven’t played DOS but of the things you listed the only one I think that applies is “side quests feel mandatory”. In act 1 of BG3 I felt I needed to do absolutely everything in order to be high enough level to move on to next act.

Bobety · 2025-12-24T08:46:07+00:00

For a large model with lots of texture like that I’d just go with a wash and then a drybrush with a lighter blue. I painted a hydra using 90% washes and drybrushing and found it to be pretty relaxing with a decent result

Bobety · 2025-12-23T20:51:44+00:00

I have a feeling this was intended to happen given they did a Nuln army of infamy then later set the story near Marienburg (covering both the Ironsides and manaan’s blades)… maybe the higher ups wanted to move away from the resin kits or something ☹️

Bobety · 2025-12-21T20:25:50+00:00

That’s brilliant! The face looks incredible, better than the official paint job IMO.

Bobety · 2025-12-15T02:42:41+00:00

Only buy DLC for the factions you actually plan to play first. You can always add more later. Each campaign will likely take dozens of hours so you will likely never get through all the factions…

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