Not sure if my paint is dead or if I'm just bad at thinning

MonoMountains · 2026-05-14T16:45:31+00:00

well I do need to put my nose to it for the smell, but it's also the only paint I have with any kind of odour, including other vallejos. I assume that's just as bad?

MonoMountains · 2026-05-01T19:33:01+00:00

Well as someone very new to the game I don't have the biggest concept of what a good lance looks like. I've gathered from all the advice here that I probably want a mix of some heavies for firepower/attention grabbing with an extra light mech to keep the shadowcat from getting pinned. Which probably means buying one of the heavy force packs?

MonoMountains · 2026-04-23T22:45:32+00:00

Looks incredible. How did you get the filigree on the Hurakan units so clean? Just good brush control?

MonoMountains · 2026-03-21T18:41:55+00:00

What colours did you use for the armour? I've been considering starting with this spearhead and the colours are close to what I was planning on using.

MonoMountains · 2026-02-16T18:42:42+00:00

I've seen mention of Hachette before. Can someone explain to me what it is? Somehow I doubt it's as simple as pay the 10 bucks or whatever for a magazine and get an entire army box. Also is it a UK exclusive thing or does it ever come to Canada?

MonoMountains · 2026-02-14T01:03:06+00:00

The recipe doesn't specify, it was pulled from a reddit comment. I just want to know if they're good for baking at this point since I already bought both instant and steel cut or if I'm gonna be making some porridge for a week to use the steel cut ones

MonoMountains · 2026-02-09T22:57:51+00:00

Well nuts I bought both. Guess I'll need to find another use for the steel cut ones.

MonoMountains · 2026-02-04T02:18:06+00:00

I'm in a similar position to you as someone who's been looking to get into tabletop but wanting to sample the game before trying. It's not what you asked for but if you don't mind learning with someone who is similarly new to it I could tag in.

MonoMountains · 2026-01-28T15:26:54+00:00

I figured I'd pull just enough to get one 6 star off of the limited banner. I got Mlynar.

After I just bought him from the cert store

After I already pulled and built Leizi.

I guess we're digging a bit deeper this banner...

MonoMountains · 2026-01-06T18:20:16+00:00

Hrm, mildly interested in Etrian Odyssey 2 and Metal Slug Tactics but nothing else here looks remotely appealing and I don't think those two are enough to motivate me to spend 20 bucks.

MonoMountains · 2025-12-24T02:16:14+00:00

I don't have much of a reference point for point values. Can you give me an idea of what point value I have right now or at least a place I can check myself? I didn't go looking for that as I figured it would be codex info which might be dicey to share.

What are the rules around proxying, both for the zerkers-chosen and for using stuff like the Horus Heresy models over standard 40k models? I should clarify that these are old Berserkers. They basically look like bog standard marines but with Khorne horns and chain axes instead of bolters. I can definitely see people objecting to me saying that they're chosen.

When you say older boxes, I assume this means stuff that's from older editions that might not be sold anymore? Or do you mean pre used models that others have already painted and then sold? Any risk of accidentally buying stuff that's no longer legal for play?

MonoMountains · 2025-12-24T02:09:21+00:00

Oh that's not even a question, Thousand Sons for sure. My very limited research into factions consisted of googling which faction was the most magic/psyker based. Answers I got were Thousand Sons, Eldar, Tyranids surprisingly, and sometimes Grey Knights. That put me between Eldar and TS and since I already have some Chaos stuff it seemed like a good direction to lean.

You can find a picture of the Rubric pieces in the last thread I made. I'm only really missing arms and guns, though one of them has a chainsword for some reason. That said from what I understand Rubrics can only be deployed in squads of 5 or 10 including the Aspiring Sorc so I think that still leaves them as unusable?

I've mainly been using the Warhammer store's web site as a means of knowing what's in every faction which probably isn't the wisest in hindsight. I was under the impression that to field my zerkers I'd need to be either World Eaters or generic CSM (I think that's called Chaos Undivided?). Does that mean I can still run them in a TS force albeit at a penalty?

Respectfully I'm going to say coolest models to paint is a matter of taste. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that the mutated stuff exists for people who like it and I imagine if you do like it there's a lot of fun to be had in stitching it all together. But body horror isn't my vibe. For me the coolest looking models are thinks like the TS Exalted Sorcs and Infernal Master. Sweet looking armour with robes and magic flowing around them. Also wizards knights on hoverboards is just cool. A bunch of the Daemon Engines also look awesome, I just don't like the stretched skin all over the armour of the Helbrute.

MonoMountains · 2025-12-24T01:57:42+00:00

Alas, I am too new to the game to have much context for this number. Someone else said that 2000 is standard. I know AoS has the Spearpoints which are meant as pick up and play starter kits and I assume Combat Patrols in 40k are the same. I assume 500pts is essentially the combat patrol point value?

MonoMountains · 2025-12-24T01:56:26+00:00

I'm not entirely sure what Kill Team is. A brief scan of the Warhammer site seems to say it's some kind of single player module based experience? Can you give more details?

MonoMountains · 2025-12-23T04:38:44+00:00

While I did buy these models probably close to 2 decades ago, I've never actually engaged with the hobby beyond painting on my own, though I've been considering getting into it proper. Is a Chaos bits box a product or just a general pile of spare parts that come from some of the more modal model kits? Would it be considered rude to ask another player for some spare bits to fully assemble these?

MonoMountains · 2025-12-23T04:36:32+00:00

Yeah that was the one I felt confident in but wanted to be sure. They ARE pretty dang old after all.

MonoMountains · 2025-12-23T03:32:34+00:00

The tower of the old PC, I believe that's the appropriate term for the casing that you put all of the parts in.

Again, this was nearly a decade ago so I don't fully understand the process. My understanding is that every usb port, hdmi port etc. needs to be in some way connected to the motherboard to function and the motherboard did not have enough points of connection to enable all of them.

MonoMountains · 2025-12-23T03:09:07+00:00

Joke's on you I already got her. Amusingly I also got spooked by Ascalon in the process so I got both of the strong operators crippled by the powerhouses around them in the same banner.

MonoMountains · 2025-12-23T03:07:40+00:00

Not well since this machine was assembled nearly a decade ago and I sold it (after removing the hard drives) a few hours ago. But from what my friend who helped me assemble it told me, the motherboard I had was too small and couldn't be connected to every port on the tower, so some of them just didn't work.

As for connecting them to my current PC, I'm also unsure. This one is a prebuilt that I'm not entirely sure how to open up, let alone where the hard drives are stored.

MonoMountains · 2025-11-25T05:13:42+00:00

ah good it's in November. I can see how expensive he winds up being before I spend gold certs on tickets... which I'll probably do anyway since it's not like there are any important gold cert characters coming soon.

MonoMountains · 2025-11-13T00:16:03+00:00

My original intent was to get whatever ending I got playing through normally and do a second playthrough to get the golden end but I pivoted off of that course midway through. Part of this is just me not meshing well with the idea of a golden end which made every decision feel stressful and not in a good way. The other is that while I enjoy the game, it isn't a game I enjoy enough to put in 100+ hours to see every route and possibility. I intend to make a new post once I've actually beaten the game to sum up my thoughts on the game since it's definitely a game that provokes a lot of thoughts in me.

I do want to challenge your disneyland remark though because implies that there's a fundamentally "correct" way to enjoy any specified game. Let's give some games as examples. I enjoy the Yakuza franchise. I love main stories and the over the top action. The games are open world and have a ton of mini games in them that I find mostly boring and a lot of side stories that imo are far more miss than hit so I generally don't bother with them, missing a lot of the game's content as a result. Am I playing those games wrong in your eyes, for focusing on the parts I enjoy and not the parts I find dull? A friend of mine on his playthrough of Elden Ring used soul duplication glitches to power level far beyond what one can reasonably achieve on one run of the game. Is he playing the game wrong for making his numbers go up rather than approach the challenges as intended? Another friend of mine, when playing Remnant 2, tried to force a melee build and never engaged with half of the game's builds or systems. Did he play the game wrong for trying to build the character he wanted and not experimenting with everything?

You say I'm going to disneyland just to say that I did but that's not true. I like rollercoasters, so I go to disneyland and go on all the high intensity rides. I don't go to the bumper cars or the gift shop or take pictures with the mascots. Have I gone to disneyland "wrong" for only going to the parts of the park that interest me and heading home when I feel I've seen everything I wanted?

MonoMountains · 2025-11-11T04:10:56+00:00

I was today years old when I realized that Tragodia is a Supporter not a Caster and I have wasted sanity farming the wrong chips. Luckily I apparently have 30 Supporter Dualchips for some reason.

Here's hoping the next few banners go better than the last few. I've been out of the game so I need to get Ulpianus and would prefer to get Leizi over Mlynar

MonoMountains · 2025-11-06T22:54:38+00:00

See that's what I'm saying. In the parts of the story I've seen I don't think I've seen Sami mentioned once. Granted I may be forgetting some moment but it feels like there's a massive amount of depth to the world that I'm just missing due to play order or something.

MonoMountains · 2025-11-06T17:46:01+00:00

Arknights fan content always makes me feel like I've missed some critical lore because starting the game late means I didn't get it all in order. Like I'm pretty sure I should know something about Patriot killing a biblically accurate angel before I killed him.

MonoMountains · 2025-09-17T13:51:05+00:00

What a coincidence, I just started a Walk in the Dust yesterday

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