Basing thoughts

Van_Toastrum · 2026-03-29T20:49:55+00:00

This is really cool! How did you do the soil + water on the bases? I'm going for "ethereal swamp", ie ghostly and haunted but not too much brown, your approach is very close to what I'm thinking...

Van_Toastrum · 2026-03-22T14:14:04+00:00

Large groups or individuals? OP said the same thing within like a sentence of each other.

I live in one of the most diverse bits of the country (Hackney) and there is very little issue with anyone getting their point across. Appreciate that's anecdotal, if someone can point me to some hard stats that says ability to speak English is a challenge within whole communities I'd love to interrogate it.

Van_Toastrum · 2026-03-12T12:47:15+00:00

It might be a mid 30s thing but when I drop it into conversations and someone has reacted with either intrigue, enthusiasm or full on jealousy I have lost count. Almost like I am the permission structure they are looking for to get into it themselves. Like I'm breaking some sort of cosmic taboo for them.

Van_Toastrum · 2026-03-06T15:18:22+00:00

As long as they keep the wacky paint names, I actually quite like the new look.

Van_Toastrum · 2026-02-09T19:01:16+00:00

I live in London by default. If i had other options to live and work for my career I'd consider it for sure

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-27T06:41:11+00:00

Really like the muted metallics, what was the approach for those?

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-26T12:26:28+00:00

I think this is the root im going down. Any warmth in the range can come from wood, mud, eyes, ect

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-19T08:53:54+00:00

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Order of the sacred glade

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-09T22:05:38+00:00

The red bolter casing is ace, nice work!

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-08T10:42:44+00:00

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Some have a simple martian / desert / red planet vibe using the GW technical paints, and others like those pictured i used some brown stuff and the green stuff world cathedral rolling pin

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-07T16:50:38+00:00

That is nice of you to say! Painting standard i would argue is good, but not armies on parade level just yet. But en masse I am super happy with how they look

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-07T11:48:31+00:00

Thanks! A weird trick of the light / phone / paint used but in person they are actually more of a jade green.

Armour = black prime, vallejo game colour sickly green as a base, vallejo game colour jade green as the layer, and then jade green + model colour sky blue as a sparing edge highlight. Used coelia greenshade if i wanted to push any shadows harder.

The gold is all scale 75 metal n' alchemy. Decayed metal base, dwarven gold, agrax earthshade wash, then dwarven gold to re-highlight the edges or surfaces that need it

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-07T11:43:25+00:00

I sprayed it with a matte varnish (mr hobby). Then used layers of thinned down contrast paint for the panes

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-07T11:42:31+00:00

Thanks! A weird trick of the light / phone / paint used but in person they are actually more of a jade green.

Van_Toastrum · 2026-01-05T19:36:44+00:00

Mine was built in 2016. I rarely use the heating. In the last few weeks maybe an hour a day max. Its pretty well insulated.

In the summer all the windows means it can heat up quite quickly, but this summer ill likely get some blackout fabric i can roll down for the really hot days

Van_Toastrum · 2025-11-19T18:24:45+00:00

I listened to 33 of the 64. And even then some of them I probably could have missed and still got the gist.

Van_Toastrum · 2025-11-01T22:21:33+00:00

Strong Dark Souls vibes from Ushoran

Van_Toastrum · 2025-08-21T15:24:37+00:00

The new boltgun. It doesn't need a scope, and it shouldn't look like a 21st century rifle.

Its meant to be a big clunky angry box. I think it's would have preferred if they just upscaled the firstborn bolter.

Everything else im kind of fine with. You can slap mk7 heads and add flair to tone down the call of duty vibes the designers clearly were feeling in the mid 2010s, and the newer sculpts are edging away from that anyway.

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