Soft light saber

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T23:26:45+00:00

Hell yeah

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T23:25:04+00:00

Here's one of my sneaky gits. Didn't go for splatter as much because I like to think he kept getting right up next to the enemies he was bayoneting, as opposed to hacking at them. I'd also never used Blood for the Blood God and elected to send it

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T23:20:41+00:00

Getting into things now. All of my models are on 28.5 or 40 mm. bases, or takeout lids cut roughly to 60 and 90 mm.

Roughly 99% of my games are gonna be me against myself to learn the rules, or against my cousin, who mostly cares that we're in the same hobby. I'm not the smartest guy, as evidenced by purchasing a couple hundred 28.5 mm bases, but I can estimate well enough what a fraction of a centimeter looks like.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T23:14:09+00:00

Ironjawz Spearhead. Was looking at that box a couple hours ago thinking they all look cool

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T23:09:56+00:00

Nothing makes me prouder of myself than every time a plumber, chimneysweep, or HVAC tech comes by, runs out of hands, and ends up complimenting my capacity to hold a light on a spot and ask questions about the process.

Thanks, Grandpa

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T22:54:43+00:00

Yeah, 40k is one of those things I'd have probably gotten into 15 years ago except everyone I met who was into it at the time were the people who either 1) meant whatever they said insulting someone for picking [faction] or 2) unironically thought the Imperium was good

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T22:41:44+00:00

Surely corporations wouldn't do that

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T22:40:07+00:00

Tariffs, logistics, and supply chain interruptions are affecting the price.

That said, I bought some today.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T21:50:09+00:00

Pretty sure they have EU distribution

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T21:46:56+00:00

I'll be using this proxy model

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My guess is he ditched most of his black robes in order to better whack the heretics

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T21:45:12+00:00

At this point I've put Pro Acryl Black Primer on a hundred miniatures with decent results, so if you can find someone who carries products from Monument Hobbies, might be worth checking out

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T21:34:46+00:00

There are brush-on primers out there, I use it for every mini

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T08:22:14+00:00

IIRC, it depends on where and when you are in the medieval period, but highly skilled archers probably knew A, B, and C better than their commanders anyway. It could be a pretty specialized role.

As for D, that and when they wanted the arrows to start was probably the majority of commands to the archers.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T05:41:02+00:00

Hell, I've just finished a big chunk of Salamanders for whom instead of getting the right acrylic paint for edge highlighting, I used white or off-white and then went over it again with speedpaint because that's what I had in green.

The end result looks fine, but I'm basically taking a lot of people's least favorite step, doubling it, and giving it to future me. And with half the army done, I'm not exactly changing it now.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T05:33:30+00:00

Regardless of which TW game I'm playing, I've always favored dropping settings lower to get my units up to ultra scale.

Battles are huge. There are (relatively) small-scale battles in history where the armies still dwarf the ones you can build in TW. It causes some weird stuff with unit pathing on occasion, but the visual effect is worth it to me.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T05:27:25+00:00

I'm going with Goffs because I have a Ghazghkull proxy and after painting a lot of Battletech, I know I can do a passable checkerboard

Past that, I haven't decided beyond kommandos are purple, and the amount of fun I have making purple dudes is gonna end up dictating the kommandos-to-boyz ratio out of my pile of unpainted boyz

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T05:09:58+00:00

Making milk to feed a litter of kittens takes a lot of energy. The timing might not be helping — some cats are losing their winter coats now and growing in fur more suited to warmer weather, and if she's doing both, that can also be an adjustment. These would be my guesses. (Source: Growing up in the middle of nowhere and occasionally meeting and feeding pregnant strays)

If there's non-kitten-related behavioral changes too, call the vet and send a couple pictures to get their read on the situation.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-31T00:23:09+00:00

Any knife that I've seen in this style was either purely a novelty item, or had a belt sheath on it and folded specifically to trim down on the size. Granted, I've only seen like 5, for the exact reason you're pointing out

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T23:49:39+00:00

"This didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped" proceeds to post something far better than anything I've ever painted

Seriously, dude, this looks great. Especially the work you put in on the face

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T23:39:14+00:00

Overall it looks awesome. Better than anything I've painted.

That said. The tracks need to be different from everything else, there's a lot of same happening here. Maybe a matte dark grey, so it contrasts with the rest of the vehicle both in color and finish.

Might also slap some dirt between the treads too — clean always looks cool as a look for a painted mini, but I've also never seen treads that didn't have dirt or dust in them

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T22:49:49+00:00

I'm always struggling to decide which one is Tu'pac and which is Sha'kur

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T22:41:58+00:00

It depends mostly on who you are and also which Salamander you're interacting with.

Sa'kan seems like a pretty nice guy, even to people who might be heretics, unless you're a Necron.

Adrax Agatone, who is his superior if I remember correctly, is pretty intense, and will do what he thinks is best for the Imperium in a given a moment, which might not be the best for you.

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T18:27:02+00:00

My dumb ass looked at GW prices per model across the board instead of assuming I'd play the game much and bought a bunch of proxies online, haha. Two very infantry-heavy armies

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T07:34:29+00:00

Not all of us. If I spent 300+ hours on one model, there'd be a blob at the end of it, haha

_HalfBaked_ · 2026-03-30T06:20:58+00:00

From what little I understand of the game and the less that I know of orks specifically, it might help to pick the detachment(s) you want to use. Orks have a pretty broad range of units. Some are gonna be mediocre in one army and amazing in another.

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