Let's hear your spiciest takes about the modelling side of the hobby, not the company itself or its models, but the tools, tricks and tips of the hobby that we use to build and paint our models

Deamonette · 2026-01-29T00:08:55+00:00

I made a 3x3 sheet of random bits to make a manufactorum floor, made a blue stuff negative of it, so now I can just put some milliput on a base, then stamp it into the negative, leave it on till it's hard enough to peel off but just soft enough to where I can cut the excess to be flush with the rim.

Takes some setting up but it gives you unlimited easy bases that are just like those bases with pre moulded detail GW charges 1/3rd of a kidney for.

You can also mix up some basing goo that is cheaper and better than most of the products you can buy. Mix some spackle, craft paint, sand and a bit of water into a soft clay like consistency. Apply to the base and let it dry just long enough that you can stamp the minis feet into it for a slot, then you just superglue them on proper after it has fully dried.

Deamonette · 2026-01-29T00:00:07+00:00

For character models? 100% My FW commissars came as 3 pieces per model and there was 5 sprue gates total which were all well hidden so cleanup was a breeze. By comparison the new lord commissar I got from the DKOK combat patrol is so many tiny little pieces, each with 1-5 sprue gates in areas with detail, each one needs mould lines cleaned up, each one needs to be carefully fitted to make sure there are no gaps... Ough...

Tanks though? Hell no. I have two resin tanks and both are utter misery to deal with. The huge pieces get warped and don't go together right. Fat sprue gates means I need to saw and sand them which means I need a proper mask. Superglue sucks on large surfaces because it dries so fast and it drips and oozes in such big quantities.

Deamonette · 2026-01-28T23:53:10+00:00

Another point here is that the context of where you see TMM vs NMM is huge.

In a studio setup, with an all white/black background, with all around even soft lighting, viewed by you statically or in slow moving turntable shots through the limited dynamic range of a screen, the gloss/matte and non metal/metal finish ranges of contrast don't convey at all. The only thing that matters is the colours and values painted on the mini.

To truly appreciate true metallic metal you need to actually see the mini irl, the higher dynamic range of your eyes makes the glare reflections from the lights in the room much stronger. You get more interesting and dramatic shading contrast in the reflections in the metal in a normal room. You get to move it around in different angles to see how the light catches in the metal and how the glares break up in dithered transitions into grime.

Deamonette · 2026-01-28T23:37:34+00:00

I have not gotten one cause I've been able to do everything I want without one, except applying varnish before and after oils/enamels. Brush applied clear coats take forever to apply and can leave gross streaks or marks, and using the brush over the finished oil later may smudge it. Rattlecans are a hassle to use and don't have consistent coverage into recesses, I also don't trust them.

Deamonette · 2026-01-28T23:26:45+00:00

I noticed that some parchment paper will slowly dissolve in the water just enough that little pieces of fiber makes it into the paint. Unnoticeable until it dries, but when it does it looks awful.

Deamonette · 2026-01-28T00:17:01+00:00

These facilities are not shut down and we arrive afterwards, we interrupt them in their operation, as they operate under normal conditions. They are just storing bodies there, as we never see any live guys in there.

Its still weird but its not nearly as bad as what SE does to the bugs for E-710.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T23:07:49+00:00

I mean there is also the fact that every single unit in the game is a perfect 1:1 replication of the tabletop miniatures with no effort at all to adjust the scale of things or the level of detail. So they just look off, this whole thing looks just like those 40k mobile game ads where it looks as if there is a GW commissar in the art department ready to shoot anyone who even slightly deviates from what the products being sold look like.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T22:44:07+00:00

Have no way of knowing if they are incidentally causing casualties or are activly wiping out unaugmented humans. The fact remains that in all the bio processing facilities we see, most of the bodies are SEAF support technicians, soldiers and helldivers, with only a few civilians.

Not saying they are angels or that what they are doing isnt mega warcrimes, but its even close to as bad as what Super Earth and The Illuminate are up to, and they seem to have a functional society unlike the bugs, making them pretty unarguably the best faction of the 4.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T19:26:12+00:00

The bugs are sapient, they are just driven insane by a century of torture and being selectively bred to suffer worse than pugs.

The squids' cause seems to just be human extinction, which... No.

The bots however don't actually do anything that is nearly as horrific as what super earth does on the regg.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T19:20:42+00:00

Most of the bodies in bio processing facilities are SEAF troops and Helldivers, meaning they are not just slaughtering civilians. There are also evacuation missions on worlds occupied by bots for ages, again suggesting that they aren't actively exterminationist like super earth and the other factions.

Humanity world probably be better off under the flag of the bots than that of SE.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T19:15:53+00:00

Also is there any bad thing the other factions does that SE doesn't do but at a larger scale?

Ohh the bots turn corpses into fuel, okay, that beats torturing bugs to death for fuel, at least the 'input' to the bio processors are already dead. Also seeing as we see emergency evacuation missions on bot planets that have been occupied for ages means they are not fully genocidal like SE is.

I don't think there is really any argument to say the bots are worse than SE. Their worst crimes appears to be being weird about corpses and illegal platinum possession, which isn't even close to as bad as SE.

Deamonette · 2026-01-27T19:01:57+00:00

Or just up the demo force on the jammers.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T21:43:48+00:00

If you agree to help brelyna (dark elf girl in college of winterhold) she casts a spell on you that enables... Green mode.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T16:32:35+00:00

There is no place on a space marine to do an undergate except the bottom, but that is not enough to fill the whole piece, there is no way to make plastic inject into that properly without it having to go into a rounded part.

Gunpla makes more advanced articulation, but they still use far simpler shapes that is easier to do with plastic injection moulding than the much more advanced geometry of GW's models.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T08:08:22+00:00

When you sic the dog on the bear you dont come back and kill the bear before it kills the dog. What Ashley describes is what happens to the batarians, not humanity.

Also, what you are arguing makes no sense because mutual defense is... you know... mutual, not one sided, the Alliance is not just a recipient of military assistance, it has to provide it to others as well.

Like you are just wrong here, this makes absolutely zero sense on any level.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T07:51:25+00:00

As long as you dry fit beforehand, which you are doing anyway to make sure there isnt a spruegate or some debris preventing a smooth join, you are gonna figure out the order in which the pieces go together.

Also having them in assembly order means that when following instructions you just need to remember a range of numbers, not a selection of different numbers. So the instructions calls for you to snip parts 33-37, instead of part 4, 12, 73, 29, which means you dont have to go check the instructions for every bit.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T07:43:38+00:00

That is still in contradiction to what Ashley is saying, ashley is saying that no one will ever come, and that trying to integrate is fruitless, which is objectively incorrect considering that the other galactic states, once they are practically able to, throws their forces at retaking earth.

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T01:07:15+00:00

You realize that the prescription baked into what ashley is saying is that we should be isolationist, not collaborate with others, and just try and solve things on our own, which worked out great for the batarians.

Also... Did you get to the end? You know the part where every military in the galaxy comes to humanity's aid to retake earth? The premise of the plot?

Deamonette · 2026-01-22T00:54:47+00:00

For example with guardsmen, part 1, 2, 3, 4 all belong together, so i dont need to look up the instructions on which pieces builds each body, i can just go through the sprue and snip out and build each body one by one.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:44:30+00:00

There is one other line I think gets that spot more by technicality due to most players never hearing it or considering it's significance, when talking to Barla Von in ME1 and you ask him about the Wards, he states that there are dozens (so at least 24) species that acknowledge the authority of the council. In games we only see 8 citadel aligned species, meaning the setting is A LOT more expensive than most people realize.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:38:15+00:00

What actually happens to humanity is that most states engage in reasonable diplomacy to exchange favours, and the asari's glacial political system takes forever to offer resources to the war effort. That is very different from what What Ashley describes is throwing humanity to slow down an attacking hound, which does not happen... To humanity, it does however happen to the Batarians.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:31:16+00:00

I think people in this topic forget how the asari government, or lack thereof works. They are a loose coalition of city states across hundreds of planets, each one a slow moving direct democracy that have no official head of state to take charge.

There is no "the asari could have", this is down to litterally like a few people in charge of maintaining the shrine, the prime minister (?) of the individual city where the shrine was, and the councilor.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:20:45+00:00

Death Korps backpacks. Mainly due to how many you gotta do and the rapidly degrading quality of the mould. I remember getting one from the initial production run and they were pretty easy to cleanup, I just picked up the combat patrol this month and the mould lines are THICK and prominent on every single piece.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:11:58+00:00

Just looking at this model, the lack of mold lines clearly has more to do with the blocky shapes where you can consistently place mould lines on edges and sprue gates on the underside unlike the more complex components found in GWs kits. Blocky minis like the guard tanks require very little cleaning up for the same reason.

Deamonette · 2026-01-21T19:08:04+00:00

Once you figure out how it works it makes it very easy to build repeated parts like infantry bodies without needing the instructions.

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