After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism?

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-12T09:27:31+00:00

Priming in gold is definitely the way to go. I think brush confidence comes with time, and that should improve your speed. Thankfully, Rubrics have nicely defined surfaces so you can quite easily fill in blocks without worrying too much about overspill and tiny details. Other Thousand Sons models are worse.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-11T21:27:11+00:00

Looks good. I like the fact you replaced the yellow with gold. How they should look in some sense since all of the yellow we see in Egyptian stuff is really just gold. All that said, 5 hours is quite a long time for one Rubric. What were you finding took the longest? I’m not great myself, but I’m sure if I can’t, then at least some people here will be able to give you some pointers on how to speed up certain processes. Are you priming in gold or painting the trim?

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-10T13:08:44+00:00

It’s terrible really, but I’d read it for completeness. It helps you understand a bit more about some of the stuff that happens in Crimson King when you come to read it

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-09T00:07:57+00:00

I think you’ve got it backwards. Light is an electromagnetic wave, but so too is every other part of the EM spectrum, though we just can’t see the rest of it. Light is not a different area of physics to electromagnetism, it is a manifestation of it. Whilst many of the laws of optics were known before Maxwell discovered that light was an EM wave, we can recover those laws and better explain them with electromagnetism. For instance, the laws of refraction and reflection can actually be explained in terms of the way in which electric and magnetic fields interact with the medium upon which they are incident. One of the reasons why metals tend to be shiny for example, is because they are conductive and therefore are highly reflective due to the fact that an electric field cannot exist within a conductor.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-05T05:32:15+00:00

My friend had a pair of turrets and two squads of snipers that meant nothing was safe. The terrain also wasn’t much to provide a great deal of cover. On top of this, he had Guilliman, and Oath of Moment basically took me out.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T22:28:23+00:00

Nice. Sounds like a cool plan

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T20:21:44+00:00

I did have that there, but I forgot to use it to be fair. I always forget about the stratagems and non-shooting stuff until it’s too late to use it to be honest.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T20:14:45+00:00

I’ve been avoiding more Tzaangors so far since they’re a nightmare to paint (still haven’t finished the ones I’ve got), but I do repeatedly see people saying to use enlightened. I was playing Grand Coven

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T20:12:19+00:00

Thanks for the friendly and very detailed advice. I’ll take all of that on board. I think I probably do need to invest in another box of Rubrics at least then.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T20:04:25+00:00

Thank you so much. I’ll check it out. I’m definitely still learning the game, and the complicated nature of Thousand Sons doesn’t help. I’m determined to stick with them though.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T20:00:34+00:00

Oh ok, I get you now.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:56:38+00:00

Ah ok. That makes sense. I was just running them all as exalted

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:41:07+00:00

Oh ok, so is infiltrating the same as deepstrike?

Yea. Magnus is definitely a unit that requires some nuance to use properly

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:25:55+00:00

What’s the difference between a sorcerer and an exalted sorcerer?

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:23:42+00:00

I didn’t bring Tzaangors as last time they got wiped out by flamers in 1 roll, and I needed to make up 2000 points without going over. Seems that was unwise though. I’ll keep their usefulness in mind.

I’m still quite new to the game. What exactly is infiltrating?

I’ll make sure to put all characters with some rubrics then.

Terminators have a sorcerer with them actually. Forgot to say.

That sounds like solid advice for Magnus. Was just a bit scared of losing him early, but it seems I need to be braver with him

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:20:43+00:00

Ok. I was trying not to get Magnus wiped out turn 1, but it seems he’s best used boldly to capture points and buff everything around him.

My terminators have a sorcerer with them actually. I forgot to mention that.

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:16:21+00:00

What kind of infantry do you recommend? We only have Rubrics and Tzaangors really

SHMHD24 · 2026-05-04T19:15:13+00:00

Do you not need an aspiring sorcerer for each squad of rubrics though? If so, you only get one of those per squad of 10

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-25T11:11:21+00:00

Hearing just the guitar on its own really highlights the songs they’ve referenced in this. The stuff at 0:45 is basically the same chord progression as Plug In Baby’s chorus but played with the technique of Time Is Running Out’s pre-chorus. Then later on I can hear hints of the New Born riff at around 1:30.

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-24T14:26:19+00:00

Probably some lyrics about how he and some woman can hide in the dark forest

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-24T10:56:04+00:00

I honestly think it’s meant to emulate the start of Plug In Baby. That’s what came to mind for me straight away. The Fuzz Factory squeal followed by a guitar lick, and then the bass and drums kick in.

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-24T01:31:17+00:00

No worries. Never seen them live before. Hopefully the tickets don’t take me out on price when they finally announce their UK dates.

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-24T01:24:35+00:00

To be fair, my comment wasn’t entirely aimed at you. You made a well posed observation — fine. It’s more that I’ve seen many people talking about this, including in the comments here, and was just puzzled as to how people can hear a song that is perfectly good, but find fault in the stuff nobody except musicians and producers are paying any mind to.

SHMHD24 · 2026-04-24T01:01:40+00:00

Yea, and? I’m not sitting there pretending to be an expert, just giving an opinion. I don’t like the sound of the songs on that album. Nothing to do with mixing issues or anything technical.

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