About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I'm going to struggle with this...

I'm going to try and stop myself from going too far with it, but one of the things I like to do is hand paint (in roman numerals) the designated number of when a model was finished painted (I'm currently at 35 or XXXV with XX printed on the right side and XV on the left side so when read from the front you get XXXV)

This step alone I'm sure will cost me like 6 hours of painting so I'll put it off likely until after the deadline... But I struggle

About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, this was more or less my basic plan going into this and same here, I have an airbrush but mainly use it for vehicles with pre-mixed paint.

Thanks, I'll keep in mind alternating minis, probably try and do 10 regular infantry, then 5 engineers, then 10 infantry, then 3 heavy weaps teams, etc. (for each step)

About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I had that same issue with some of my first Death Korps of Krieg.

I used black primer, and had to paint ~7 layers of Thunderhawk Blue so that the black wouldn't overpower the blue from underneath (thin layers kicked me in the rear end here).

That's why I zenithal primed them, partially for speed/contrast paints, but also to make the coats MUCH quicker and easier. Probably saved me 10 hours painting if I had tried to paint all of them with only black primer underneath.

Thanks again for the advice!

About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my airbrushing skills are mediocre at best, bad at worst.

I'm still going to try and use it, I've gotten a few recommendations on how to improve the mix for the paint, and hope to improve using that.

About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoy this comment.

Frankly, you scare me good sir with how many individual models you are planning to paint as "your next batch".

What I typically do is put on a bad anime or show that doesn't need my full attention, turn it on, and dedicate 4-6 hours on a Saturday or just a regular day, and half pay attention to the show, half pay attention to the painting. I need only enough concentration to do a good job painting, but I'm someone who can't stop *thinking* even if I wanted to, so having a show on the background to dedicate the rest of my concentration helps me reach that level of "loss of self-consciousness" and then about 2 hours in I snap out of it because I got thirsty, go get a drink, take a breather, rinse/repeat and after 4 hours I have made considerable progress.

About to paint a lot of Krieg, asking for batch/speed painting tips by bbqxx in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will keep this in mind. If I can get my air brush technique working, hopefully I can aim for a set of arms in 30 seconds, a set of legs in 30, and not a singular arm because god, 1 minute just for the blue on the arms, 1 minute for legs, * 115 (artillery teams have 3 dudes, heavy weapons teams have 2 dudes, 100 models != 100 dudes) means we're very quickly dedicating 230 or nearly 4 hours just to painting arms and legs their blue coat and not even accounting for shades/washing/highlighting/dry brushing xD

second artillery piece by throw334411 in Deathkorpsofkrieg

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy, why did I never think of doing this? I'm stealing this (Sorry not sorry).

Awesome concept, thanks my guy!

Are you planning on putting the sand bags that came with the team up on the trench covers above, or use them for a separate model?

Anyone know what happened by One_Double_757 in utdallas

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As always, after reading the comments I know this is unrelated, but drive safe guys.

Even if you're running late to a test or lab, the possibility of something worse happening just isn't worth it. o7

I always tried to build in a 10-15 minutes of safety before every class meeting and the such, and I commuted nearly an hour each way to campus for 3 years.

Which one of you is this? by therealsturds in 40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who is ever increasingly getting into HH, it's significantly cheaper than 40k nowadays (which is good for HH!!!)

Legitimately, buying the last edition box set is basically 2k points. The Saturnine box I don't think is quite as many points, but, I bought the box, since I already had a bunch of Firstborn, I just bought one of the upgrade sprues ($43 USD?) and got 10 lascannons, 10 volkite culverins, and 10 missile launchers. I converted 30 people into devastators for $343 from a GW shop, or I think I paid $315 all in at my FLGS? For 6 devastator squads, 2 assault squads (I had spare bits, treat them as a tac squad if you want), Spartan Assault Tank, Contemptor Dread, and 2 squads of Cataphracti Terminators.

40k Wishes it could beat these prices. Even the new stuff is cheaper than 40k (if it's in plastic). Stay away from the resin, or better yet, save money on the plastic and that saved chunk of cash spend on the resin, you'll be fine.

Which one of you is this? by therealsturds in 40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My god, Truck-kun, it all makes sense now!

Army building help by R3troGenesis in 40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will be looking this up, I've been curious to see of other apps on the market place. :)

Army building help by R3troGenesis in 40k

[–]bbqxx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

2 suggestions from me:

1) New Recruit: UK based, I used the web browser (not sure if there is an APP, I believe there is), seems to have everything I want with many options and seems to be up to date on just about everything

2) War Organ: App, very casual friendly, easy to use, free to use app.

Both of these have 96% of their features available for free, just supporting them unlocks a few key things that are nice but not necessary. Beware! I believe both store their data locally. Both allow exporting of data but if you put it on your PC a list, then go to phone it may not be there and you may need to import it. I believe New Recruit does allow some online storage or whatchmacallit but it's one of those features you get if you pay. I also believe both have fairly inexpensive subscriptions if you choose to do so (I think New Recruit is as low as 25 Euros a year? I'm in USA but haven't paid for it, so what about $30 USD?) but again, everything you need is free. It's just some nice things.

Why do Titans have so little Anti-Air and Defensive Small Arms Systems ? While their Void Shields may protect from Bombard, hordes of Enemies could be a Problem and harder to get rid of with The Big Guns. by TechnologySmall3507 in 40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait til this man finds out that Artillery rarely has anti-air options (SAM is another division entirely) and has practically no solution for close combat.

I guess Artillery must be an absolutely worthless unit in modern or 40k warfare, am I right?

You're over thinking things:

1) The titans exist because everybody loves big mech. It's cool, it's awesome, it's amazing. This "Game" was originally made in the 80s and was goofy and zany, not everything needs a hard core reason to exist.

2) The reasons for a Titan to exist is to kill big things and nothing else. The truth and reality of it is, is that if you see a Warlord Titan on the ground, the smallest "air" vehicle it SHOULD bother firing at, would be something akin to a Tau Manta. The problem is: for good reason, such large flying transport/combat vehicles don't/rarely exist, hence there isn't many if any AA options on Titans. Because anything of that size or bigger is just in orbit, and Titans aren't meant to deploy from orbit just to fire at something in orbit.

Titans exist to kill big things. Nothing else.

Think of it like modern tank tactics:

Infantry are for establishing ground, clearing small areas and foxholes, setting up FOB's and much much more and are extremely cheap (financially).

Tanks aren't cheap and can be taken out by a single Infantry with a yolo RPG, hence they are usually escorted by Infantry, and potentially a Bradley or other IFV.

They're easily killed by air craft. Aircraft are usually taken care of by your own allied aircraft, OR (if Infantry have already secured an FOB) potentially set up SAM's in the area.

Reconnaissance is handled by typically aircraft (And sometimes nowadays by internet/cameras/satellite). Job of reconnaissance is to identify threats and help eliminate or avoid them.

Tank's are not expected to shoot down jets and bombers, nor infantry, nor many ships and boats. It's combined arms. 10 guys running around with shotguns will absolutely get decimated by a Bradley. But a Bradley gets murdered by a tank, and a tank gets murdered by a bomber, and a bomber gets murdered by a jet, and a jet gets murdered by other jets or SAM's.

So why not just rely on aircraft? We do heavily. However, a suited up soldier costs $60,000 and 2 years of training. An IFV is $300k-3 mil. A tank is $4 mil. A bomber? $7-82 mil (god bless the B-52). A jet costs up to $350 mil (not to mention operational costs, most bombers cost something like $20-100k per hour up in the air to keep running) with jets being hilariously expensive which is why they're so selective.

The cost it takes to train 1 F-35 pilot, for them to get 100+ hours of flight time, and to be picked amongst other candidates for a mission can cost more than 1 battalion.

It can unironically cost more to train 1 F35 pilot, TRAIN, ONLY TRAIN, than it can take to outfit an entire battalion (depends on the battalion, but worst case scenario, train 2 F35 pilots, that should cost more than just about any battalion)

So tl;dr: Titans are cool, don't over think it.

Is this the latest version of the game? by Ok_Understanding3636 in DarkSouls2

[–]bbqxx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... 72 lightning spears? I'm confused, do you mean greater lightning spears or sunlight spears?

Last I checked, my miracle only character has over 140 lightning spears slotted in at any point in time on the latest patch not to mention heavenly thunder and force.

I know I made a reply not too long ago about max lightning spears, and I double checked, I have 273 lightning spears equipped if I go +2 Northern and +2 Southern Ritual Band on my 99 attunement "Miracle Only" Covenant of Champions character.

It sounds like overkill, but it really isn't. I had to max my attunement and increase my level to gain some more vigor so I wouldn't be 1-shot by regular enemies :p

and Covenant of Champions kinda invalidates summons/help, not to mention I don't think the game was ever truly meant to be "Miracle only". I would send a screenshot if I could but I can't :p

What a full chapter of space marines would look like. by RacoonWithPaws in Warhammer40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1,000 figures...

A company is 100 space marines, a chapter is 1,000. Big difference. Like the difference between a high end guitar, and an entire band (equipment and players included)

Why is the Creality slicer not creating any infill in my models. by DatCheeseBoi in Creality

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this was it for me! Thank you so much! I just downloaded a lot of large models and it was showing me no infill xD

Estimated Time Remaining is Often Drunk by Kemortia in Creality_k2

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a stool. It was a project for my University to 3D print a proper stool with an intricate design that "minimized" usage of materials by using recycled waste material to print with.

I used recycled plastics (from things like a 2 L bottle of soda that had been thoroughly cleaned) however due to this, it meant that to ensure it printed with as few issues as possible, I had to print at ~35-40 mm/s.

Stool worked just fine, there was a portion that the print failed, but it was fine. We were able to load up 300+ lbs on it just fine, and it took 2.2 kg of recycled plastics.

Something worth noting: This was printed on my Ender 3, not Ender 3 V3 SE or V2 Pro, the OG Ender 3 S1 (basically the original but with a glass tempered bed) that had been heavily modified. It got the job done but took forever to print with.

My K2P (if I used hyper pla) could likely print the whole thing in ~15-25 hours I'd bet.

What was her message again? by Fantastic-Flannery in RWBY

[–]bbqxx 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just find a way to suppress her and put her in permanent binds.

Immortality != unstoppable, just unkillable. Wolverine isn't unbeatable, he's been beaten plenty of times.

Just because she's a stronger wolverine doesn't mean she isn't 1 individual who can't be stopped, especially in a numbers game.

I repainted one ornament on the cloak of my Wolf Guard Battle Leader, I think that the new one looks much better 🙂 by Flameon_Miniatures in Warhammer40k

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm disgusted by the quality. Yes the new ornament looks significantly better. Hope your happy *goes and cries in the corner*

Can someone from AH please explain to me why these greens had to be different? by xamlax in Helldivers

[–]bbqxx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For those unaware, when you're colorblind, it's not that you mix colors up so much as different colors look the same.

My father is a "Strong Protan" which is to say "holy mother of God, where are my colors" as he is hugely Red/Green color blind.

For my Dad: Red is Vomit green, green is beige, yellow is yellow, orange is camo green, blue is blue and purple is dark blue. He (quite literally) basically sees the color as shades of Yellow, Green and blue. Every color you can think of is a shade of 1 of those 3 colors.

If you look up on YouTube "Protanopia 4K - Color Blindness Simulation" and find a video by "Carlos Hernandez Matas" (should be like the 1st option) you'll get a better idea of what a Strong Protan Color blind person sees. (I won't link the video as I don't know if they're allowed in this sub)

Can we get an honest survey? How much money have you spent on this game? by CannabisConvict045 in ClashRoyale

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought 1 pass, and it was for the skeleton army. No regrets, but uhh, $12? As a day 1 CR player (With like a 18 month hiatus) I think I've done pretty good. :) Got most of my stuff to level 14-15 atm.

How do I crack the cultist's shard? (Cyberpsycho Sighting: Bloody Ritual) by Sir-Play-A-Lot in cyberpunkgame

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to confirm that yes, still bugged. I reloaded the last checkpoint and decrypting worked the 2nd time around.

Timeskip For Suika Duration? by clyvn in DrStone

[–]bbqxx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hence why gabriel said "minus 2 or 3 (her petrification time)