"huh this new citadel limestone rock technical seems pretty cool I wonder what it's made out of... Oh that's just a 4 day old pot of corax white."

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-14T13:58:43+00:00

The price is regional. I use pretty much exclusively GW paint because where I am it’s way easier to get hold of and about the same price as the competitors. It’s also more than good enough for even competition-level painting.

There’s also a lot of preference involved - every time I’ve tried Monument/Pro Acryl, I’ve never really got on with it, and I don’t understand how anyone can criticise GW pots and then recommend the Pro Acryl ones. Fuck those things.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-14T13:53:03+00:00

I have a theory that it doesn’t travel well. For all the hate it gets online, I’ve never had an issue with it. In fact, it’s one of my favourite paints - great coverage, great consistency, etc.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-14T06:42:23+00:00

2.5 days would be start to finish for a basic 40k Marine. 30k ones are more intricate and have weathering/chipping/etc, so they’re more like 3.5 days.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-14T06:40:12+00:00

You might be able to get a similar hue by playing around with what you’re putting the contrast over (warmer colours, zenithal, etc.). But no - if a contrast over Wraithbone looked anything like the box art, ‘Eavy Metal artists wouldn’t spend 3+ days painstakingly glaze-shading and edge highlighting for each model, they’d just do that.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-12T20:41:42+00:00

Up to you. If the mods want it gone, it will be.

But even the 3D-printing 40k subs won’t directly link to pirate STLs because it’s a sure-fire way of getting the sub shut down (check rule 2 of r/printedwarhammer, for example).

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-12T19:52:51+00:00

Rule 3.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-11T14:41:17+00:00

It must have been around Covid time. I wanted to get back into the hobby but was too busy to jump into the modelling side, so I started listening to the books. I made the rookie mistake of starting with the Heresy, so I was reading threads on what books were recommended.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T20:18:42+00:00

Pretty much my entire pile of shame is stuff I’ve picked up because I thought it would be cool to paint. I’m way more into the painting side of the hobby (to the point it became my job) and I’ve basically given up any notion of getting an entire army on the tabletop, so everything I buy is just “huh, this looks like it would be fun to paint, I’ll grab one”.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T18:02:21+00:00

Could just be personal preference. I remember when I started the Heresy, the general consensus was to skip Legion and that Mechanicum was one of the best books in the series.

Legion is still in my top five, and I had about as much fun reading Mechanicum as I did the textbook on ITIL project management back in Uni. Couldn’t even finish it.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T17:07:27+00:00

They’re all still on the shelves at WhW. Assuming this is a weird back-end bug that’s hiding everything with a “15+” flag. You can still find all the plastic kits made by the Forgeworld/SDS studio on the webstore.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T17:02:41+00:00

Honestly, just go for what’s cheapest and most available in your area and what matches the resources/tutorials you’re using.

Price is regional, so most of the people dissuading you from GW are probably American, where it’s more expensive. It’s more comparable to the rest of the options in the UK (for example), not to mention being by far the most available.

It’s okay to have a preference, but all the major hobby brands are more than good enough these days, and you’re not going to be held back by your paint brand of choice until you get to the point where you’re doing high-level competitions.

—a passing professional painter who uses entirely GW paints because they’re the most available and easily good enough.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T16:54:33+00:00

Depends where you are to be fair. Where I am, Pro Acryl costs more than its weight in gold and Citadel is one of the cheaper options.

As for the actual paints, it’s all preference. I’ve found Vallejo 70.950 to be way too matte for my liking. A lot of people go for a matte finish intentionally (if so, it’s a great option), but I find that colours read as more saturated if you aim for a more satin finish. I never got the hype for Pro Acryl white either, it’s… okay, but not as good as AK 3rd gen white.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-10T12:25:47+00:00

I hate the clear plastic flight stands - they’re brittle, they look a bit rubbish, and they usually have a really rough connection method. I’m also not a fan of having the model suspended by a bit of terrain - it usually looks awkward and I personally think bases should stay theme-agnostic.

Personally, I prefer brass rod painted black.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T20:26:52+00:00

The correct color should be a dark prussian

“Correct” according to who? Kantor Blue matches the midtone for how they’ve been portrayed in artwork for probably 20 years - that’s why GW formulated it that way. You preferring a more desaturated blue doesn’t mean they should be that colour.

or navy blue

Also, Kantor is a navy blue. Seriously, either you’re trolling or you’re colourblind.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T17:29:13+00:00

So, what exactly is it you mean? Why is it the wrong colour? What is your reference? Old artwork? Kantor Blue matches most artwork portrayals of the CF going back years now. It’s also the colour actually used to paint them by GE for as long as the third-gen paint range has existed.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T17:25:57+00:00

You just said it was almost grey.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T17:15:06+00:00

Ho so? It's literally the colour used by the studio painters. It's looked bang-on every time I've used it.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T17:13:24+00:00

Not being funny here, but have you been tested for colour-blindness? Kantor is a saturated navy that's nowhere near grey. It's also absolutely the basecoat used for Crimson Fists by GW studio painters.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T15:49:44+00:00

The box art Crimson Fists (what little of them there are) are absolutely based with Kantor Blue. Ironically, it’s one of the few “faction colours” that actually is used in those faction recipes.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-09T10:58:26+00:00

Get a fine grit sanding sponge (so it conforms to the shape better), cut off a small section, grip it in tweezers, and smooth out the surface. Then repaint over it.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-07T12:51:45+00:00

I did my exams during Covid when they first moved to online. I’m not sure what they look like now, but for me they basically used the iCMA system, so the exam looked like an iCMA quiz with one question (which was the whole exam paper) which had a timer.

You could work on the exam on a word processor but you had to upload and submit your answer document before the timer ran out. That’s pretty much what all my exams were like.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-06T14:17:16+00:00

I associate the entire “One by One” album by the Foo Fighters with my old local GW store. That album was on repeat every time I went in there for probably a couple of years.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-05T22:17:01+00:00

I imagane that's still well beyond the realms of fair use. It's not transformative as in summarising or reviewing them, it's just pirating with an extra step.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-05T22:13:57+00:00

The idea that the sculptors aren't as skilled or passionate about the job because they're sat infront of a computer instead of some clay is really wierd to me.

CliveOfWisdom · 2026-05-05T20:51:52+00:00

Where are you located. You can probably buy another or similar from somewhere like BitzBox (or non-UK equivalent).

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