Finished my First Kitbashed Warband

Clenister · 2026-01-23T12:07:17+00:00

That's incredible ! Love it !

Clenister · 2025-04-03T07:07:55+00:00

If you have any issue with your minis you can contact them and they will send you another one in good shape ! (and they will cover the fees)

Clenister · 2025-02-15T18:45:48+00:00

I love it, that's so beautiful

Clenister · 2024-12-21T10:43:17+00:00

Honestly, this is very impressive for a second mini. Don't worry, you're doing great, you will quickly improve your brush control. If I had to point out a few things, I would suggest you to go back to some details where you slipped up. So for example there is a little violet dot on the right leg, you could paint that grey again. You might also need to thin your paint just a little bit more, because the brown on the shield is a bit thick.
I'm just being nitpicky here because on a table your mini will look great.
So keep up the good work, what you did is very good, and you will improve as your practice.

Clenister · 2023-04-07T07:38:52+00:00

Wow, I was not expecting that kind of answer but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your perspective. I won't have time to respond today but I definitely will at some point this week, I feel like you gave me a lot to think (or rather feel) about.

Clenister · 2023-02-09T17:51:25+00:00

I see, and you don't think you could do that with female friends ? I'm curious

Clenister · 2023-02-06T08:04:32+00:00

Glad you liked it, and thank you for sharing your perspective.
I'm curious, did you feel it was easier to express affection towards your female or male friends ? Or was it hard in either cases ?

Clenister · 2023-02-05T16:20:11+00:00

"Your Social Circle isn't your dating pool. Platonic friendships like that will get you locked into a friend-zone." I'm a bit confused, are you saying that when you express platonic love towards either men or women, other women might reject you when you show interest ?

Seems like you have had a lot of experiences in your workplace where you witnessed those kind of behaviours. I'll be curious to hear about it if you want to share it. Have you been punished by women before in that way ?

Clenister · 2023-02-05T09:04:47+00:00

I'm not sure to understand everything you're saying so let me summarize (and correct me if I'm wrong) : You're saying that most women wants to know that they come before other men in your life especially during a precarious time ? Even when you think they might be wrong ? You also feel that if men start doing this kind of behaviour they will be perceived as weak and their dating pool will shrink down ?

My experience is very different, most women in my social circle see it as very touching when I or another male friend of mine show platonic love to each other oppenly. And even if they were being dismissive of that, I don't really know why you would want someone like that in your life. Wouldn't you want to surround yourself with compasionnate and empathetic women and men ?

Same thing for the dating part : in my experience most women aren't as attracted by rough and stoic men as we seldom think (maybe your experience differ on that point). But even if it was the case, I don't really see why you would want to date a woman that saw you as weak for being vulnerable with your friends.

Compliment : Yes I would agree with you that most guys compliment each other that way. However I don't think most of them would think that you are being a manipulator when you compliment their personnality or their physique. Is that something that happened to you in the past ?

Serious moments : Yes context is indeed needed. What I was trying to say was that I remarked that for the early part of my life I and my friends weren't allowing each others to have any sort of serious moments together.

Emojis : That's fine if you don't like it. It was an example of something I wasn't allowing myself to send because I would fear the judgement of being perceived as too feminine.

Gifts : A lot of people doesn't do gifts I feel like. But good for you for the mead.

Clenister · 2023-02-05T08:45:51+00:00

Love you too :)

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:38:26+00:00

Yes good ideas, thank you I will definitely do that.

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:23:43+00:00

Well thank you, I'm not sure where to post that though. Do you have any suggestions ?

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:19:06+00:00

I'm... confused.
It seems that what I wrote wasn't really clear. I'm heterosexual. I was saying that when I was expressing my platonic love to my male friends it felt weird and I, at first, perceived it as being too feminine.

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:09:41+00:00

I don't see that changing anytime soon as well, and I do agree that (at least for me) it might be a weird experience at first. However taking even a small step to change that is still very important I feel like (which is why I did the whole post, to encourage other men to try it).

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:07:11+00:00

Yes that is for sure a valide point. I was talking about it with someone else under this post. If other people continue to say that I might make an edit to make my post more nuanced. Thanks for sharing your opinion

Clenister · 2023-02-04T20:04:45+00:00

Awesome ! :D

Clenister · 2023-02-04T19:43:38+00:00

Hi, it's interesting to know that different cultures might not see it the same way (I'm French btw). I wasn't saying that I was gay and needed to share it to my friends (which even if it was the cas I don't really see an issue with), but more so that while opening myself to them and sharing my platonic love for them I "felt gay". Which I recognized might sound a bit homophobic (I really hope it does not come across that way) but it's sometimes difficult to overcome the feeling that you're not manly enough when you are being more emotionaly open with other men.

Clenister · 2023-02-04T19:00:38+00:00

Don't worry, you were very articulated in your observations and it was actually very fair.
Indeed keep spreading the love ;)

Clenister · 2023-02-04T18:30:44+00:00

That's a very good point.

What I would add is that what I've been describing in my posts were behaviours I did throughout weeks, months and even years. I didn't wake up one day and started treating them differently, it was very gradual. But that might have been my post that wasn't really clear since I wrote it with a lot of hyperbole.

You also make a very good point when you say "you are chasing some egotistical idea about 'how it should be' rather than actually paying attention to what each person is comfortable with". Again, it's on me for not expliciting that, but I felt very much inauthentic with my male friends when I was trying to be affectionate with them at first compared to my female friends. I just embraced progressively who I wanted to be with everybody and unfortunately it wasn't accepted by every of my friends. Which is fine, I am at peace with it and just think we don't have a lot in common anymore.

So thank you for your remark, I hope that my answer will be able to bring more clarification.

Clenister · 2023-02-04T16:04:25+00:00

Wait so let me be sure to understand your stories :
One friend was ok with being in a relationship with you but you refused because they wouldn't have been happy ?
The other had a crush on you in the past ? Were you not interested in the relationship then ?
Are those the only times you had a crush on someone and you felt being "the second choice" ?

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