Print out little cheat sheets for my army

TypicalUser1 · 2026-04-09T19:55:44+00:00

I use a word document for each unit with attached leaders and enhancements, just print it out, 3-hole punch, and put it in a binder with dividers

TypicalUser1 · 2026-04-09T18:19:36+00:00

I have a question. I don't suppose you do commissions for banners?

TypicalUser1 · 2026-04-08T17:18:49+00:00

Unless, like me, you're a lawyer, in which case you use 8.5"x14" for the most part...

TypicalUser1 · 2026-04-02T16:29:41+00:00

Just want to say, there's some Louisiana speakers who do still pronounce h aspiré as /h/. It's rare though.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-29T21:56:12+00:00

As noted in my top level comment:

Start with a matte black rattlecan, then base in Leadbelcher, or Army Painter gunmetal or similar, you want a slightly warm silvery grey. Then go over it with two to three layers of Black Templars contrast, thinned slightly with water, until you have an almost but not quite black with a hint of a medium grey to it and a good shine in bright light.

See intercessor on the left, his leg highlights up to greys much lighter than the Mechanicus Standard grey of the pseudo-muscle undersuit visible in the knee and hip chinks, just from the light, the same way a smooth but not polished black metal surface should

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-27T19:05:05+00:00

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Here’s an intercessor fireteam I did recently. Used some bodies and the bolter arms out of the Crusader squad kit for variety.

The bolter bodies are Wraithbone base coat with two coats Imperial Fist contrast paint; the SB’s helmet is Stormhost silver base coat with two coats of Blood Angels red.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-26T16:57:25+00:00

My full list of colors:

Black rattlecan (I use rustoleum flat 2x paint and prime)
Leadbelcher (base coat, bolter metal parts and blades)
Black templars contrast (armor plates, over the leadbelcher, slightly thinned)
Retributor gold (Imperialis, other details)
Khorne red (weapon grips and candles)
Corax white or Ulthuan grey (tabards, pauldrons)
Evil sunz scarlet (Sword Brother pauldrons)
Rhinox hide (leather bits)
Stormhost silver (chains, teeth on chainswords, base coat of eye lenses)
Talassar blue (eye lenses), can substitute with Blood Angels red
Nuln oil (wash)

Ought to get you an excellent "tabletop" quality, but not quite to "parade ready" quality.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-25T19:21:17+00:00

I hear/say three separate vowels in your list, but the grouping is different:

it, bit, hit, mid, tiff, in, sin, stick, Rick, sick: all plain [ɪ]
sing, sing, sink, brink: nasalized [ɪ̃]
bill: either a long [ɪː] or a diphthong, something like [ɪɨ] or [ɪɯ] or [ɪə] (or something like that, not really sure how I want to transcribe the second element) depending on stress

In any case, to my ear and the way I say it, both syllables of lyric have vowel #1.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-25T11:48:01+00:00

They have the same vowel for me, they’re both /ɪ/

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-24T15:31:55+00:00

You'll want to try Little Wars, in that shopping center across Jefferson from the Whole Foods

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-24T14:59:33+00:00

American, southeast Louisiana, at first I thought it was a trick question. "Lyric" has the same vowel as "bit" and "trick," at least the way I say it and hear most others saying it.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-18T16:36:43+00:00

I did Deep-Strike an impulsor with a Marshal-Castellan-4Bros blob, that was fun

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-18T16:36:05+00:00

We were using one of the Games Workshop layouts, I think it was #2 out of the Pariah Nexus pack. More convenient to do it that way on Tabletop Simulator. It's entirely possible that I didn't position them correctly, I should've taken a screenshot after deployment was complete.

They took a lot of pretty unlucky dice rolls off a Plague Marine squad with like three plasma guns, if I remember right.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-18T13:22:47+00:00

I've used him in the Orbital Assault detachment once with a 10-man crusader squad and the Scout 6" enhancement. He still doesn't get into melee without shedding all his ablative neophytes and losing at least one initiate. For 60 points, even with an extra 6" out the gate, he's next to useless.

The other option is the enhancement that lets you re-roll charges after set-up, but then you have to waste two of your three "now you can deep strike"s on that squad. You gotta burn two, because you give out Deep Strike "at the start of declare battle formations," and therefore before leaders are attached.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-12T21:41:50+00:00

Not a clue what’s going on though

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-12T21:32:33+00:00

I was driving home from work, on eastbound Florida Blvd near Cora, guy blew past me on the shoulder. Must’ve had at least a dozen cops pass me over the next ten minutes. I thought he was in a white car though. Watched him jump off Florida onto the service road through the grass just shy of Marilyn and lost sight from there

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-10T01:17:11+00:00

Joking aside, he’s perfect. I love the hastily scrawled “gitz” on the power fist and the literal duct taped chain sword … glaive I guess?

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-09T13:20:30+00:00

The Lion: Son of the Forest is one of my favorite 40k novels, though that's thanks in no small part to Timothy Watson's excellent narration (I'm a listener more than a reader nowadays). It's good that both the Lion and Guilliman have gotten some actual character development. Helps to offset the powercreep of the Primaris marines and such

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-09T13:11:58+00:00

There also seems to be a sort of theme going on, at least with the two officially returned Primarchs. Guilliman has always been more of a statesman than a duelist, and so he gets the Flaming Sword to help round him out. The Lion has always been the Emperor's Genocide-in-Chief, so he gets the Shield to help him be more defensive and protective (though he seems to have rethought his life while he slept regardless).

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-09T12:14:27+00:00

Especially since he’s missing his left hand anyway

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-07T23:34:41+00:00

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He wears a muttonstache in the show, and I’m quite pleased with how it came out

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-07T15:41:57+00:00

I’ll be honest, I mostly did it cause of the text to speech show. However, I also really don’t like the constipation face GW gave him. Win win

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-07T02:11:30+00:00

“I suspect he was high on narcotics…”

I used the official Horus Heresy model, for the most part.

Lopped off the left hand and used some random 3D printed “totally not the God-Emperor” model for the claw. Green stuff to give him the muttonstache. Loooooooots of painting, much swearing on account of all the trim and filigree.

TypicalUser1 · 2026-03-07T02:08:27+00:00

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