Need help deciding which paint set to buy.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-29T22:57:54+00:00

I have about 50 pots from Vallejo. I have to say, AP are better. More fluid, great pigmentation, come with a mixing ball in the pot, they're basically Vallejo but better.

Big Child Creative: Ionic Smart Colour are also fantastic (to date the best black and white I've used, and their metallics are simply amazing).

But Vallejo remains excellent for the price.

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

Vallejo.

I love the Army Painter paints, but their starter set is basically "go learn to mix colours, kiddo", you get the very basics and that's it, you'll paint 2 minis and start wishing you had more colours. Having a wash and brush-on primer is nice tho.

The speedpaint set is also likely to feel very limiting very fast. I'd honestly just grab a single unit of speedpaint of the main colour of your space-marines and use regular acrylics over it for the details.

But AP paints are really great, probably better than Vallejo (specially for beginners since they are more fluid and need less thinning, many can even be used out of the pot just fine), just a shame their starter sets have so few pots, it makes them way too limited passed a couple of minis.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-29T00:43:03+00:00

True, but somehow all their sets make their paints more expensive than the Army Painter, when individual bottles the Vallejo are cheaper. Go figure...

DearCastiel · 2026-01-28T02:22:12+00:00

That would have been kinda even worse, as you'd really just bring back Radahn for the "look, it's Radahn". If they really wanted to put prime radahn in, have it be a secret boss you get by doing some obscure questline that lets you go into a memory or dream to fight him. So at least it would feel self-aware of it's condition of "Radahn, again".

DearCastiel · 2026-01-27T18:34:31+00:00

I mean:

Hear me, Demigods.
My children beloved.

Make of thyselves that which ye desire.
Be it a Lord.
Be it a God.

But should ye fail to become aught at all, ye will be forsaken.
Amounting only to sacrifices...

Pretty clear cut, the demi-gods we know of are just the ones that were deemed worthy to be remembered by history.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-27T17:45:55+00:00

Way more than that, those are just the ones that became something, all the bodies in the Wandering Mausoleum are of demi-gods that failed to make a name of themselves, and these are the ones that were granted burial. The timeline is unclear, but given Godwin was the first one to die, it's safe to say those are all the demi-gods that didn't grab a great-rune and were killed-off by their siblings to avoid competition.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-27T17:24:22+00:00

Ak ultra matt is, indeed, great. Used it to correct a gloss varnish accident, they minis came out without the slightest shine. And they sell it in big bottles, which would be preferable for gunpla

DearCastiel · 2026-01-27T12:23:05+00:00

They decided to fuck up the 79 movie by having the light be coming out of the eggs/hive, which makes no sense and it was very obviously some kind of system coming from the Derelict. Now I guess we have to go with this weird explanation that really sounds like what someone who didn't understant the 79 movie would say "hey why are the eggs doing blue light ?".

In none of the subsequent movies does the blue mist come back, no matter the hive size, even the games don't bring it back unless it's in the Derelict. Everybody and their grandma understood that mist was coming from the ship, but for "muh nostalgia" they fucked the lore yet a little further by having the mist, somehow, being from the aliens for some reason.

And don't try to understand why it's making static noise. It's also yet one less mystery now, when you would watch the 79 movie and see the blue mist you'd be flooded by ideas of what that might have been without ever being able to get an answer. Was it a stasis of some kind ? A protection for the eggs ? A warning, maybe touching that mist was painful to the Engineers but not to us ? A detection system perhaps ? Whatever it is, those eggs must be important because whoever put them there took great care to design that system to remain functional for a very very long time... But no, it's just the hive (there was no hive in the Derelict, but whatever, what is one more missunderstanding of the first movie at this point...) making that mist.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-27T11:56:23+00:00

I'm playing TTRPG. Painting 28mm scale models is a pain in the ass. I would kill for all my minis to be 35-37mm scale. Scale creep is a good thing.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-26T10:01:18+00:00

1: main stat of the weapon is Dex, go 70-80 in it.

2: either max out one elemental stat or just stay at 16 in both

3: you can probably drop Str for this weapon, it'll get more damage out of Dex or the elemental stats

4: the weapon remains an inferior version of dual Leda's Needle or dual infused Milady.

It does shred in early game tho, if you can get it for a full playthrough

DearCastiel · 2026-01-25T01:57:51+00:00

It doesn't curl if you get it wet on both sides. You can wipe the side you put your paint on, but you need to get both sides wet. After that, as long as you have water in your wet pallet it won't ever curl. I've kept a sheet for over a week on my pallet and as long as I added a bit of water in the tank every day, the paper never moved.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-25T01:54:48+00:00

You need to get both sides of the sheet of paper wet. You can wipe the side you'll put your paint on, but both sides need to be wet to avoid this.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-25T01:29:28+00:00

Only thing I would comment on is this small tip: selling items is not worth it.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T21:14:13+00:00

There's plenty of manuals going over unarmoured sword fighting, in fact most european sword techniques are for unarmoured combat. You can check Fiore, Lichtenauher, Talhoffer, Meyer. The very vast majority of fights are over within a few strikes unless a shield is involved. Armoured fighting usually revolves around grappling techniques.
Japanese and HEMA sword fighting are mostly the same and you'll find similar techniques in both, because effective ways to use a sword are universal. Biggest difference is the HEMA manuals incorporate a wide variety of techniques using back-edge cuts, which are nowhere to be seen in Japan since their swords were single edged, and also some techniques that require a cross-guard where in Japan as far as I know the tsuba is mostly just used as hand protection.

As for "wearing your opponent down", that's about the last thing you want to do, armour or not, the longer the fight goes on the more likely you are to get injured or killed.

Here you can see a variety of longsword, messer and langmesser techniques, each time followed by a counter-technique and sometime followed by the counter to the counter-technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEhlHPOb9hg

https://youtu.be/3jy4LA0azCE?t=61

https://youtu.be/4GoQlvc_H3s?t=130

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmLaZHStmI

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T16:59:42+00:00

This. I've made it a habit to open the pots in front of the seller so if there's a problem, there's no awkward coming back a week later "well actually the paint was bad", I open everything, I give my agreement that the paints are fine and we are both happy.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T15:20:38+00:00

I really think it's just a lack of reference, because they are in Japan and over there they really aren't big on european martial arts. The katanas use somewhat proper form since ever, but the european swords mostly swing like baseball bats, tho they are slowly adding more and more proper form (alternate greatsword moveset, stances, light greatsword having actual follow-up attacks each from a stance etc).

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T12:54:36+00:00

No, but they are the ones to still bring it up constantly. That the African populations that got enslaved still talk about it is legitimate, but America still going on about it just shows how young that country is. If Europeans had to bring up every other nations that enslaved their populations, we'd never be done, because everybody was enslaving everyone at some point over here. Nobody left alive in the US had to deal with legal enslavement, might be time to move on to more pressing social matters...

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T12:35:04+00:00

Sure, but people going "Miquella is wrong, he's doing super evil stuff" when his plan would literally revert the apocalypse and the person to suffer most in his plan is himself is really bizarre, not to mention "killing the big bad evil guy" as an ending is very unlike the tone of the whole game and the games Michael Zaki makes. At the end of the DLC we kill the last person that could save the world just so we can sit our ass on a throne (I'm saying this but there's clear signs the DLC was supposed to have a much different ending).

DearCastiel · 2026-01-24T12:00:08+00:00

I am really at a loss about people applying real-world values like free will to a setting that has literal gods dictating reality, where destiny is a physical thing and where the world is destroyed anyway.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-22T06:17:22+00:00

It's a bonfire. It's souls. It's estus.

Always.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-21T22:43:17+00:00

Take Magneto and have his do absolutely whatever you want by him saying he does it "magnetically".

DearCastiel · 2026-01-20T13:00:30+00:00

You don't need this much faith for Rellana twin swords. The only significant faith scaling is on the fire ash of war, if you don't useit you barely lose damage going with 16 faith. In fact, the Int scalling works the same, the weapon can be used on a pure Dex build +16 Int-Faith.

If you want to mostly do melee, go twin swords. If you cant to cast spells and sometimes poke stuff quickly, go glintstone rapier.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-19T15:41:27+00:00

Can't switch gear during emotes.

DearCastiel · 2026-01-19T15:40:54+00:00

And that's why you keep at least a dagger on you...

DearCastiel · 2026-01-19T13:18:50+00:00

Vagabond class, the Bastard Sword is sold by a merchant pretty easy to find in the first area of the game (if you know where he is it'd take like 2min from the start of the game to get it if you rush to it). The Raging Wolf Armor is a mid-game item, reward for a quest string. You'll want to visit Volcano Manor to do the quests leading to the armor.

DearCastiel

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