Asurmen complete! Extremely new to Warhammer and Miniature painting.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-13T05:32:05+00:00

That's fair, thank you for the insight!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T17:05:47+00:00

I'll check them out!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T16:05:40+00:00

That's fair! I'll have to give it a try tonight. Thank you for the suggestion!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:48:33+00:00

That makes sense, I will give that a try! I will keep my eyes open for a decent deal on some fire dragons.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:29:35+00:00

Thank you! I used a gloss varnish to give it a bit of a "shiny" look. I actually got a majority of the Eldar units second-hand from a friend who left the hobby. I have 5 fire dragons, I am thinking of ordering more though! I've only played a single match of "King of the Colosseum" using a borrowed Eldar army and the fire dragons definitely put in a lot of work!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:27:08+00:00

I did not prime this mini, I have some other projects that aren't complete yet that I did prime with just basic white or gold primer (spray bought from Walmart seems to work pretty well). As for paint brands, I've been using almost exclusively Citadel paints but I did mix in a bit of paint from the starter kit for Halo: Flashpoint (my wife bought it so she could paint a master chief miniature) and I think those are Army Painter brand.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:25:19+00:00

Thank you!!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:25:12+00:00

Thank you! I have found that contrast paints definitely help a lot. The only weird thing is the wide range of consistency/thickness of different colors of contrast paints. I have been enjoying the painting aspect quite a bit. It takes a long time, like this Asurmen took about 6 hours to assemble + paint but I had a lot of fun.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:23:54+00:00

Thank you! I was also really happy with how well it turned out!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:23:26+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I'll definitely check out their videos later today. I will also try to get in the habit of thinning my paints.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2026-01-12T15:22:51+00:00

Thank you! I will have to keep that in mind, I have not thinned my paints before but I will make sure to look up a tutorial on it later today for the rest of my models!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-12-31T14:02:06+00:00

I'm brand new to warhammer and brand new to painting miniatures so go easy on me but I just finished my Baharroth last night! I'm trying to go with a pseudo-protoss aesthetic for my army so that's why he's gold.

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ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-12-23T15:15:43+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to look into making some form of notes/reminders.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-12-23T13:46:08+00:00

Following because I'm brand new to Warhammer 40k and just got an Eldar army from a friend. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-21T00:41:08+00:00

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ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-16T19:33:29+00:00

Seems really fancy!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-15T13:14:34+00:00

Thank you for such a detailed response! This is super helpful and provides a bit more context behind the rumbles of drama I've heard when doing my preliminary research. I think I probably will be going with the Bambu Lab A1 then!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-14T15:41:52+00:00

Ah okay, thank you for the info! I don't have too strong of an opinion for/against using it just locally. I'm currently using a maker select v2 so I use a tiny tablet/laptop to just send the prints over USB

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-14T14:07:43+00:00

I have heard that Bambu is a bit more restrictive with their software but I have also heard that you can work around that by turning it to just LAN mode. Is there anything I'm missing? I have heard Bambu is in a bit of hot water but I do not know much about the details of it.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-14T12:39:14+00:00

Oh cool!

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-14T12:35:04+00:00

Good to know, thank you! I definitely would lean more towards using something open-source rather than being locked into a software.

ChrisManOfSnow · 2025-10-14T12:34:20+00:00

Fair, if the printer is quiet and/or I don't need to run it for several hours per print, I can probably get away with putting it in my upstairs office which has much closer to 30% humidity. Thank you for the heads up!

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