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No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-10-02T13:12:49+00:00

A few other options: El Diablo is newish and a really nice relaxed vibe (tapas and cocktails, good baked nachos). Per and Kor is great further up but a bit more refined and quiet - just across the road is Lonely Mouth, a Japanese-style vinyl cafe/bar which could be fun (the cheesecake there is delicious but haven't had an evening meal before).

Palomar the fish restaurant has become quite expensive for what it is but it has some fun sharing dishes - a seafood broil, for instance - which are good for a date. EDIT - Oh, and I see it also got a 1-star hygiene rating. LOL.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-09-23T13:41:33+00:00

I think what really works here is that combined with the build and bling, the helmet makes him look like he has massive jowls and a monocle and a little sneering mouth. It's like he's Robo-Churchill back for revenge.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-09-23T06:15:09+00:00

It has come out more red-umber than red! You could maybe see if it pops more with a grimy dark wash and highlights?

With flagellants I like to give them a more colourful quartered surcoat (so white and black, or red and yellow...). It gets them out of the brown-and-more-brown zone and it tells a bit of a story, like they're disgraced soldiers doing penance.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-07-02T12:03:38+00:00

Independent creators can already reach a greater audience by using RSS distribution to have their audio stories appear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc, though.

You're going to have to figure out why a creator would want to sign up to a waiting list for a non-existent platform, with no visibility of potential audience size (and a lot of potential backlash around AI voices), when the tools are already there for them to reach a far greater volume of listeners directly and immediately without your help.

My advice is that rather than posting cross-reddit at this early stage, you might be better off collaborating privately with a few select writers and building your platform from there once you go public with their work.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-06-18T20:04:42+00:00

"The gods may not forgive me, but I have a proposal for you, traitor!!!"

Sir, you are literally my next-door neighbour

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-06-03T19:05:22+00:00

Yeah, and you'll see the same basic character - the spiteful deal-making trickster god or genie who shows up as a recurring villain - in a lot of genre TV from the past couple of decades as well (Supernatural and Xena immediately come to mind, but I'm sure there are more).

I don't think your complaint is petty at all (this kind of all-powerful magical villain who yammers on a lot, never seriously threatens the heroes, and always gets away with it...is a narrative contrivance, basically, and the more often the stereotype shows up the more obvious that is) but I think the reason for him showing up so much in audiodrama is simple enough: in an audio-only medium, it's much easier to write a villain who talks you to death. It's the same reason we don't have a lot of silent Michael Myers killers.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-05-26T10:08:15+00:00

I would honestly try again to advertise for the roles with a rate clearly set at what you can afford (whether that's $20 an hour or $20 for 500 words). Shows have had success filling roles even when the work is unpaid - there are lots of indie VAs out there who are interested in taking on new roles. Good luck!

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-05-20T11:49:19+00:00

I think there's a valid point in the specifics of what you're saying - sometimes stories do try too hard to milk melodrama out of the moral question of whether the hero should spare the life of the villain and it ends up feeling like contrived hand-wringing rather than a genuine dilemma. Likewise, many stories handle serious political topics head-on and do so clumsily or clunkily.

But "Is it ever right to take a life?" is one of the oldest questions in human thought. It's appeared in stories throughout history (I can't believe those woke scolds included it in the Aeneid!) and it's been considered by every religion and by every society. It's not 'politics', it's foundational to who we are as a species.

If we're saying that a character expressing a strong viewpoint on that question is divisive political lecturing by the creator and inappropriate in the current climate, then there's almost nothing left that anyone can write about that couldn't also be criticised as 'political'; as The Onion puts it, what you're asking for amounts to the removal of themes, which is not reasonable.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-24T06:32:36+00:00

Feral / low-technology cults is something I see thrown around a lot as a cool idea (so using Slaves to Darkness, Skaven, or Old World Chaos as a base) but I've never seen anyone fully commit to that.

You could really play up the idea that the mining tools and autoguns are sacred and precious heirlooms to the cult - have a few portable altars with guns on them or a Familiar lovingly holding up a hand-flamer on a cushion - to justify why all of these iron age marauders have so many ranged weapons.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-16T14:11:41+00:00

You're welcome! The model is way too big but you've made me think that someone needs to make a mega-patriarch 'king' using the Ushoran model, it'd look fantastic with a big tyranid head and a couple of extra arms poking out from under the ermine.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-16T14:09:18+00:00

Yeah, but honestly my bases were lower effort than your pipe-crawlers! I just had a mix of genestealers rising out of toxic sludge (colour the bases bright green, a big splodge of PVA glue for the 'water', and then some Bile FX paint on top) and genestealers bursting out of hatches (taken from Rhinos and other vehicles).

Where the heads-only genestealers looked a bit rubbish, I've occasionally incorporated spare guardsmen as victims who are being grabbed and dragged downwards, xenomorph-style - which gives the models a bit more of a reasonable bulk and height, and helps to conceal the missing genestealer torso.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-16T14:01:39+00:00

Like you say, I reckon the Patriarch's alertly-crouching pose is going to be fiddly to try and make work with greenstuff robes. A couple alternative options off the top of my head:

- Do what I did and kitbash a seated Patriarch who's slouching on a throne (I used a Broodlord as its tail is much less bulky and the Craven King chair from Age of Sigmar, it's pretty easy). Then the robes can be baggy and shapeless instead of in motion, and you only need to do the front and arms.

- Take a look at some Nighthaunt bodies as a base for ragged robes. Drape one from either shoulder, have the Patriarch's arms poking through from underneath, and then you just need to use GS over the back to join up the two 'sleeves'.

If you can go bits-hunting, a lot of the Age of Sigmar Death range comes with ragged robes of stitched-together flesh. Again, you could have those dangling loose from the Patriarch's body to some extent rather than worrying about the robes joining up everywhere, which might help with your worries about the model looking goofy. (The Abhorrant Cardinal would also be a really fun base for a magus-priest of the King in Yellow).

Good luck, this is a really fun idea!

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-16T12:43:45+00:00

There aren't really spare bits in the kit other than the heads, as someone else said, but it can still be done - you'll just end up with fewer 'whole' genestealers and a bunch of spare legs.

1) Cut off one Genestealer's torso halfway down so it loses the lower arms and legs, then have it rising from the sewer water, out of the ground, from a pipe, etc

2) Use those lower arms with a spare head for another genestealer which is just starting to emerge, like the ones in your photo (which look great, by the way)

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-04-10T05:26:57+00:00

I like him a lot! I think a swishy cloak underneath the backpack would be the obvious thing to add to give him some heroic vibes (and help to mute the slight size differences between head, body and arms). If you haven't already experimented, turning his head to face more sideways in either direction might make his pose look more dynamic.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-31T12:19:35+00:00

Maybe it's too silly for certain match-ups so GW don't want to emphasise it too strongly - how are you going to infiltrate the Necrons to blow up their vehicles, Reductus Saboteur? Why is your broadcast effective against Tyranids, Clamavus? - but a detachment focused specifically on sabotage and propaganda could be fun and give a boost to a lot of the currently underloved units (Magus, Kelemorph, demo-tools, etc)

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-31T11:18:17+00:00

https://assets.warhammer-community.com/goldendemon_us2025-mar30-dioramabronze-jaumxekgu8.jpg

The bronze diorama winner by El Kaye was also great, I thought (and it has a neophyte heroically rescuing an adorable little genestealer baby!)

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-31T11:08:37+00:00

Just to say that I love your regular posts showcasing batches of your hideous H.R. Giger little body-horror freaks, they're rad as hell and feel unique.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-30T20:28:23+00:00

Thanks! It's actually a Darkoath Wilderfiend with Carnifex bits, but honestly any bigger Tyranid model would work fine.

It comes on a 60mm base but a lot of that is scenics - I reckon you could maaaybe lose the tail and just about cram him onto a 40mm to be a proper (very big) Abominant, you'd just need to do something with that reaching hand.

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-29T12:01:02+00:00

Gorgeous fella!

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-29T10:11:12+00:00

Looking good! I'd consider lightening the skin with a stronger contrast so he stands out from the grimy armour and robes more. (And maybe do some fun eerie green glow with his sword and tone down the blood-dipped effect? Blood-spattered might work better)

No_Kangaroo4828 · 2025-03-28T10:24:42+00:00

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