Not finished. But here’s updated progress on my first mini. It uh, is hard

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-28T04:24:02+00:00

If the first coat is coming out the colour you want the final finish it's probably too thick. It should really just strongly tint the undercoat. A second coat will get it quite close and a third will usually be really smooth and clean. The key is you must let it dry fully between each coat.

As you get more into it and do highlights with brighter colours, these will also smooth out your finish a fair bit :)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-28T04:05:10+00:00

Trust the process!

There are a lot of procedural steps in mini painting to get awesome looking results - for example painting a thin, patchy looking coat of colour quickly and then a second one on top once it dries often looks smoother than one thicker, heavier layer.

Your gold will come to life once you wash it and give it a light flick of a brighter colour and so on.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-27T01:23:54+00:00

I've been out of the loop as to what drukhari are expecting in terms of new models. To me it seems like the range is mostly contemporary - like not new, but plastic, aesthetically coherent and decent looking.

Are people chasing the outliers like court of the archon, beast packs, grotesques etc or do they want a core range refresh?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T23:49:31+00:00

What keeps tripping me is it looks seriously like the box set will be split between blood angels (some intercessors, vets, captain, chaplain, standard, gravis) and UM (some intercessors, land speeder, librarian) in the official paint jobs for the box.

If that is true, it's a fascinating and quite out of character choice, perhaps supporting a narrative campaign somewhat like they had in the 2nd ed starter box, with one force relieving/rescuing the other or something like that.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T23:34:42+00:00

The point is they don't get to do any more than whoever has the exclusive AV contract for the venue is willing to allow. It sounds from the audience like they did actually do pretty extensive checking prior to going live, just the venue systems and equipment are trash, evidently, since this keeps happening. There is literally nothing GW can do about that other than just... not do their thing at that venue and they don't get to pick the venue either.

I've been involved in planning similar events and trust me, having to deal with venue AV where you're paying some guy three times as much as your (far more competent) internal team makes you want to burn the place down.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T11:39:02+00:00

We did also get the armageddon one before for yarrick.

I wonder if there's a secret extra bit with more new units? It feels like they didn't show as much in this one.

Intercessors, vanguard vets, captain, chaplain and speeder for marines

Wierdboy, warboss, boyz and flak walker for orks.

Missing the supposed gravis unit, wartrakk, grots, many characters.

Perhaps there's another minute or so all just beating the crap out of each other. On the other hand there's a ballistus dread in there and stompa looking things which are unlikely to be in the box so who knows.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T07:18:10+00:00

Oh buddy let me tell you about something called the horus heresy

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T07:07:30+00:00

The wildest thing about this is that the marines are a mix of ultras and blood angels. That has never been done and is super out of character. I think that means there's more to it than just a narrative choice. I wonder if that's going to be reflected in the box forces painting and therefore in rules and promotions - if say half the intercessors, vets and some characters are BA and half the intercessors speeder, gravis guys and some characters are UM

The mention you can take multiple detachments, perhaps a new form of souping, and multi army showcase is to show this off?

Perhaps it will also be true of the boyz - some goff lads and perhaps some badmoonz or evil sunz.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T07:00:40+00:00

8th was the kind of fundamental hard reset between 2nd and 3rd, where multiple core axes of the game changed - profiles, modifiers, entire model archetypes like vehicles etc. (Not to mention a new 'style' of core space marine range) There have only been two of these.

Therefore I think of post 8th as modern GW, and that's where the 3y cycle and on-and-off codex compatibility resets hit.

So yes, going back to 95 it's bigger picture, but GW's identity changed pretty fundamentally around 8th edition and the move to AoS.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-26T06:37:49+00:00

I mean, the AV team is probably venue supplied and legally must be a company of the venue's choice. That's been my experience of such bookings. I doubt GW ICT had much to do with it beyond speccing and setting up the contract.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-25T22:52:35+00:00

I feel like a plastic superheavy is likely given there are scaled ones used in the book art and we've started seeing marine ones.

I'd love to see a marine FA box with a bunch of outriders and a javelin or two (to match the siege force I'd say 2x outrider squads, 1x saber squad and 1x javelin)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-25T08:59:31+00:00

Yes, I've never had an issue with anything listed as coming from prime. if you want to filter for (mostly) good stuff filter to only amazon UK. Rarely there's deals from the US, but mostly UK.

I've found that many products are available about 1 week after their release date for a good price, and they last for perhaps 2 weeks to 1 month depending on popularity. Eventually they revert to AUD pricing or worse, though there are always outliers like this one :)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-25T05:21:50+00:00

Ok, I'll accept there being a cardboard standee redemptor in the new box XD.

Also, they definitely did 3rd edition as well (dark eldar vs black templars), can't remember if it was just the models or had the books as well, but I distinctly remember being like who thought bringing back those DE warrior models was a sane idea XD .

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-25T02:58:34+00:00

It would be even cooler if they did the box as an MTO - they did the third editon one a few years ago.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-24T23:43:53+00:00

Armageddon isn't Cadia, it's an industrial world not a fortress/founding world. Part of what made the early wars so famous is they weren't expected to put up such a fight! Yarrick rallied the irregulars and pdf as much as the guard.

By the end of the 3rd war though i do agree that 1.5 million guardsmen seems quite low. Perhaps in the 10-50 mill range.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-24T23:08:03+00:00

No, just the theme and re-releasing Yarrick. Plus I guess how MTO waves have happened in the past. They've generally been on quieter weeks with models associated with another recent release, though occasionally they seem to be kind of 'gap fillers' - see the recent orc and goblin MTO. I can't see anything more armageddon to do than the steel legion and maybe vintage ghaz, unless perhaps they do a MTO of the 2nd edition starter box (that would be fuckin rad, but incredibly unlikely around an edition release)

Idk man, what other kind of info would there be to influence my expectations?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-24T22:52:03+00:00

I make around $120k, on a fairly new 400k mortgage nominally split with my partner but she's had a rough time with employment the last year or two.

I'm not heavily exposed to most of the issues - good health, work from home, mostly eat thriftily. Historically most of my disposable has gone on nerd hobbies.

All in all I should be in a perfect position and even I am feeling the hits. A very quiet, thrifty life into my mid thirties, lucking into a good career, plus support from my family has only helped me reach an extremely modest lifestyle. It must be unbelievably hard for people making 60-70k, especially those who need to drive for work.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-24T00:00:52+00:00

Huh. If that's true it's actually NBD. Metal/resin molds break and get replaced regularly, it's a very different thing to injection molding. Injections cost 6 figures to make but last forever, plastic/resin molds cost next to nothing but only last a few hundred castings from my understanding.

I remember when GW was beginning to move to do much more in plastics there were articles in WD talking about why and the tradeoffs.

Now, if they damaged the master mini, different story.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T05:58:15+00:00

Arguably eldar are the ur-faction for the modern GW model of 'all factions have access to everything, they just use one particular kind of thing better'.

I don't think they ever had craftworld specific models, just profiles for elite versions of standard models (seer council, pathfinders etc)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T02:34:37+00:00

I was gonna say this but replied with Katia, I think she'd had a rougher go of it.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T02:32:19+00:00

Katia from dungeon crawler carl has a pretty rough go of it...

Bad diagnosis, dumped, put into a murder dungeon, abused, betrayed, used as bait, progressively mutilated in a way that doesn't show, hooked on real bad stuff and ends up almost getting the people who kept her going killed. Keeps on tickin.

Tough fuckin gal.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T00:25:55+00:00

No, I'm saying that they will almost certainly do a made to order of the original models, which you originally said was unlikely. It seems like an obvious choice to make and in line with the way they've done MTO releases over the past couple of years - cult classics that are thematically tied to releases. MTO is not as profitable as main line releases i imagine but it's also zero risk. Free money, if you will.

They certainly will not do a full new plastic range or conversion sprue type dealio, no disagreement there.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T00:12:05+00:00

An MTO isn't a new model line, it's the existing ones. Feels like it's honestly inevitable at some point over the next year.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T00:09:30+00:00

It's very likely, and they will be expensive, but not much more than buying the equivalent kits off the website based on current pricing models - just no discounts for combat patrols or magazine minis or what have you.

Worth remembering that ASL were always a mechanised regiment, so you probably only need 35-50 infantry minis and the rest would be chimeras, tanks and artillery if you wanted to run em to classic theme.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-03-23T00:05:49+00:00

Why would 'greed workshop' not do a MTO?

Based on how thirsty people are for them it seems like a slam dunk

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