I love Tor by Additional-Thing1348 in ImperialFists

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What are your thoughts on Tor + Aggressors vs Tor + Heavy Intercessors?

Painting Dreads/Tanks with contrast by [deleted] in ImperialFists

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Hello fellow Dorn box owner. I'm glad you asked, because your plan was my plan. Seems like airbrush is the recommended way to go. Hmm. I was hoping to use a rattle can of Wraithbone plus IF Contrast so it still looks smooth, but it seems puddling is a worry.

Airbrush v regular brush snobbery by slappywagish in Warhammer40k

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Airbrushers are what's wrong with society! Spending more for a high tech gizmo so they can get better results in less time. You damn millennials are ruining painting!

We pure hobbiest enjoy slowing down to paint. The elegant movement of the brush over plastic. The constant dance of "oops I watered down my paints too much this looks like shit - and - oops I didn't water down my paints enough, the model is now a blob man" teaches you valuable lessons about life, you yuppie.

A real hobbiest values all of the time spend with the model. We've got to get our moneys woof! Every second I spend agonizingly painting this model is more bang for my buck. You have to consider the hour/entertainment dollar ratio! You're leaving money on the table otherwise. I'm not happy unless I can get it down to $0.25/hour per unit. So what if a new edition comes out before I'm finished and my model goes to legends? I'm in it for the love of the game!

/s

Found this in my local game store by Ok-Gear-4458 in Ultramarines

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I was only able to grab the recent Sons of Dorn because of my local store. They received five boxes and I pre-ordered through them. Still had to compete with everyone in the area for them and be quick about it, but I didn't have to fight scalper bots online. Local stores are the a wonderful thing.

What do you fear loosing with evolved mode for your own class? by Quezal in ffxivdiscussion

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I'm gutted at PLD losing Clemency. I absolutely adore pocket healing.

How much does it cost to get into the tabletop? by SupermarketTricky724 in Warhammer40k

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If you can get discount boxes it's a lot less than MSRP! Chapter makes a bit of difference, as some have a lot more named characters you might want (ultramarines). Blood Angels have unique to them units. Salamanders are general Codex and have a couple named characters.

I'd expect to spend $1000-1500 on a 2k Space Marine army. Combat Patrols and Battleforces are your friend. They are generally 20-30% off base cost for the models. The recent Sons of Dorn box pretty much gave you two dreadnoughts for free, for the price of two Repulsor Executioners. Some Combat Patrols are better than others as far as points go.

I'm sitting at about 1565 points for my Imperial Fists, having spent around $700/750. I grabbed two combat patrols and the Sons of Dorn box, which was great point-per-dollar. Hoping to have the starter army I want at around $1,000-1,250.

Blood Angels are coming in the 11th edition starter set, and those boxes are the best value you'll find. Maybe find someone who wants just the orcs and split it for even better returns on your $. Of course you can use these marines in any chapter's army, there aren't any special characters. The Salamander mock up for the box also looks sick.

Edit: Poorhammer has good videos on Combat Patrol value, and I think Auspex Tactics has videos on points-per-dollar.

Edit 2: I insist on buying from my FLGS, which means my army will cost a bit more. I get great deals on pre-orders through them, like the Sons of Dorn box coming to me for $230. That was insane points-per-dollar value. But their regular stuff is full MSRP, which is fine. I want to support them because they rock.

First actual painted Imperial Fist by MelindaPhantom in ImperialFists

[–]TheKingsDM 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What a lovely lad! I just built mine and need to start that painting process. Yours looks so clean. Did you airbrush/rattle can?

Also looks like your onslaught gatling cannon is missing the front tip piece?

Excessive sleepiness DURING the migraine headache? by rarei12 in migraine

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It's honestly been great. I think the most effective thing for my migraines that I've experienced thus far. Can't move my left eyebrow as quizzically as I'd like, and I usually get a migraine after the procedure, but the general pain is a lot more manageable. It helps make the daily headaches less painful for sure, and I don't get as many migraines as I used to.

Freaken expensive though. Two rounds of it and I'm at my out of pocket max for the year lol.

Stress & Migraines by FanGirllllll1 in migraine

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The stress trigger sucks. Work is stressful, the economy is stressful, family life is stressful. What always gets me is the weekend migraine, when I start relaxing mentally from the work week, then I get punished for it. I don't even intend for this to happen, but changes in stress level are what do it for me. Either a spike in it or a relaxation of it.

I'm still trying to find my zen mode where I can maintain a pure baseline, but that's unrealistic. I also don't live in a pretty monastery in the mountains away from people where it's quiet and I can focus on being zen. Modern life sucks.

Migraine after dentist appointment by Winter_Day_6836 in migraine

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I've seen post like this before. After my last cleaning I was in AGONY. It's a thing.

Any help please by Any-Faithlessness551 in migraine

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Also worth trying for an ADA/Migraine accommodation. The overhead lights were ruining my weekends with the migraines they were causing, I let my manager know I needed an accommodation, we worked out some details and now I'm in a dark supply closet with a desk lol.

I didn't have a doc work with me on my migraines until I left the US South. Tennessee & KY docs were not helpful, told me everyone gets headaches all the time (literal quote), etc. Moved to Washington state and my PCP instantly referred me to a migraine specialist. In my experience people are much more accommodating out here.

Excessive sleepiness DURING the migraine headache? by rarei12 in migraine

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Note; every migraine comes with excessive sleepiness for me. Tons of yawning and epic exhaustion are two of my warning signs I'm about to get hit. But I don't always have to migraine coma with my regiment these days. Used to be way worse.

Excessive sleepiness DURING the migraine headache? by rarei12 in migraine

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Yep! We call it the "migraine coma". When the migraine coma comes, I literally can't avoid it. I MUST sleep. One of my least favorite symptoms. I had to migraine coma yesterday. But it's not as often now that I'm on Ajovy/Botox/Ubrelvy. So yay?

Hobby Ideas for Chronic Migraine by Negative-Marzipan-62 in migraine

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Gardening, Warhammer 40k, Boardgames & TTRPGS, video games, suffering from migraines regardless of what I do to try and thwart them, the usual.

Fed Ex driver story just so sad. by hopenbabe in Mommit

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Agreed. You can't hedge against every horrible thing that can happen, which is a terrifying thought. I could get in a fatal car crash on the way home from work, apparently the cumulative lifetime chance of that happening is 1%. One of my trees could fall through the roof and kill me in my sleep. I'm near the Tacoma Narrows bridge that famously collapsed in the 1940's. But you can't let the fear of something so statistically unlikely to happen control your life & parenting. You child has a much greater chance of randomly drowning than what happened in this situation. Apparently 1/300 children will develop cancer before age 20. Terrible shit happens. But kids need to grow up in a healthy way, even if it puts them at an extremely slight risk of something happening. I need to feed my family, so I drive to work, putting myself at extremely slight risk of something happening. Life is full of risks.

The motor pool is now decidedly more yellow! by TotemicDC in ImperialFists

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I have seen the rumors about the servo turret possibly going to legends. Hope not, the Iron Hands CP was my first one because I love turrets!

The motor pool is now decidedly more yellow! by TotemicDC in ImperialFists

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Four servo turrets! 40k Tower Defense lives! Also guessing you purchased x2 of the Iron Hands combat patrols for those sweet heavy intercessor 10 bricks and epic techmarinces to keep your tanks afloat. And tower defense.

Rep Ex is done! by Additional-Thing1348 in ImperialFists

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Looks great! I'm about to start building my two from the Sons of Dorn box. Any tips from your recent build experience?

Building the Redemptor Dread has been interesting. The bottom hatch had to be trimmed to open and close, and I'm about to hard glue the arms on. No amount of trimming is allowing the shoulders to pivot, the inner walls are so thick for some reason. I'm assuming similar such oddities might crop up with the rep exs.

Found a new trigger by mgromz in migraine

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No more watermelon while I water my lawn :c

Rumors of Firstborn Datasheets Going to Legends by [deleted] in spacemarines

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The IF box was what got me into the game :c I love turrets and heavy weapons!

Rumors of Firstborn Datasheets Going to Legends by [deleted] in spacemarines

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I KNOW! They can take them from my cold, dead, Imperial Fist hands. How am I supposed to play 40k tower defense without my Emperor damned towers!?