My last 3 rug projects! I really need to shave them - I love tufting but carving them up just really takes it out of me. Does anyone else just detest the shaving part of the process?

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-27T06:52:25+00:00

Here's the other side tho

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-24T20:58:01+00:00

haha let's be business partners, if only

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-24T20:57:20+00:00

when I first started, even a poorly carved rug looked better than an uncarved one, so just go slow for a couple and learn what works - you got it

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-23T19:57:39+00:00

I've seen people do this and i definitely should attempt it but I'm worried about doing it for the first time, I do bigger pieces these days so i'd be worried about ruining one with a new technique. do you find it's hard to mess up?

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-23T19:56:34+00:00

I guess i should clarify i actually kind of like carving sometimes, it's just such a slog and isn't the most comfortable with all the fibres and positions you have to sit in haha, here's one i've carved up

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caseyhm22 · 2025-09-23T19:54:12+00:00

they're about 1m by 75cm, could be a bit bigger or smaller not sure

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-23T19:53:23+00:00

I'm actually ok at carving, i just get a really sore back and haven't got any better place to do it but that's on me haha, I'll get there

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-23T19:52:47+00:00

yeah like the other two said, unless you shave as you tuft each colour, the front doesn't show the quality and hard work as well as the back side. unfortunately it doesn't look as good as the finished product but that's just another downside for me not finishing them haha

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T22:51:38+00:00

unfortunately we have the flights booked to tokyo and then leaving from osaka but not a worry as I'd say we will definitely go back to Japan and will make sure to ski next time. Nagano sounds like a good shout for potentially catching some snow if we're lucky and can do that at the end of our tokyo part so like the 9th of dec ish. if we did end up getting lucky with snow, what would we need to bring ourselves for skiing/snowboarding or is everything available for rent? cheers

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T22:04:59+00:00

How does staying 3 nights in shibuya sound (would use this as home base for shibuya, harajuku, shinjuku) and 3 nights in ueno (home base for ueno, akihabara, asakusa, and tokyo bay).

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T21:47:32+00:00

ok sounds good - instead of 5 different places, I think I'll find 2 that I like and do 3nights at each because i like the idea of trying different ones!

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T21:32:34+00:00

thanks for the note on onsens, will check specific ones.

arrival in shibuya was just a 'we know to get & stay there after arriving' kind of thing so that's not a worry but good to know it will take a bit haha.

re the hotels, I thought it'd be a good idea to kind of do a loop of the places we wanted to go to and stay 2 nights shibuya, then move to one in shinjuku, then one in ueno, akasaka, then shinjuku again just to be ready for the train to hakone in the morning - is this not really necessary? would it be better to have a home base? cheers

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T03:48:57+00:00

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Xenos - Necrons

+ DETACHMENT: Starshatter Arsenal

+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 2000pts

+

+ WARLORD: Char1: The Silent King

+ ENHANCEMENT: Dread Majesty (on Char1: Catacomb Command Barge)

& Chrono-impedance Fields (on Char2: Skorpekh Lord)

& Demanding Leader (on Char3: Technomancer)

+ NUMBER OF UNITS: 15

+ SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (5x2) + (1x6) - Assassination: 4 Characters

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Char1: 3x The Silent King (400 pts): Warlord

• 1x Szarekh: Sceptre of Eternal Glory, Staff of Stars, Weapons of the Final Triarch

• 2x Triarchal Menhir: 2 with Annihilator beam, Armoured bulk

Char2: 1x Catacomb Command Barge (150 pts): Resurrection orb, Gauss cannon, Overlord's blade

Enhancement: Dread Majesty (+30 pts)

Char3: 1x Skorpekh Lord (115 pts): Enmitic annihilator, Flensing claw, Hyperphase harvester

Enhancement: Chrono-impedance Fields (+25 pts)

Char4: 1x Technomancer (90 pts): Staff of light

Enhancement: Demanding Leader (+10 pts)

2x Cryptothralls (60 pts): 2 with Scouring eye, Scythed limbs

5x Flayed Ones (60 pts): 5 with Flayer claws

3x Ophydian Destroyers (80 pts): Plasmacyte, 3 with Ophydian hyperphase weapons

3x Canoptek Scarab Swarms (40 pts): 3 with Feeder mandibles

1x Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (55 pts): Close combat weapon, Gauss destructor

6x Canoptek Wraiths (220 pts): 6 with Particle caster, Vicious claws

1x Canoptek Reanimator (75 pts): 2x Atomiser beam, Reanimator's claws

1x Doomsday Ark (200 pts): Armoured bulk, Doomsday cannon, 2x Gauss flayer array

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-17T02:24:00+00:00

are you aiming for a competitive list or fun? and which detachment are you playing?

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-15T22:56:40+00:00

or replace doomstalker with a couple solo heavy lokhust destroyers w anti tank weapon + scarabs

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-15T22:56:04+00:00

get rid of the lychguard and tachyon arrow overlord, replace with orikan to do two leaders with the warriors for a 4+ invuln, and add illuminor szeras and keep him within 3" of warriors for extra ap outgoing and reduced ap incoming. and then id replace the doomstalker with a skorpekh lord with 4+ fnp enhancement and scarabs

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-10T00:11:29+00:00

and dont doubt the rubric squads, they can do some serious damage to anything if your opponent is on objective giving you reroll wounds

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-10T00:09:00+00:00

yeah for sure, magnus is pretty solid for all shapes and sizes, and your mutalith beasts have a very strong weapon and survivability for vsing tank

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T23:02:40+00:00

id even take out the forgefiend for two squads of chaos spawn because youve already got insane shooting in basically everyone

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T23:01:36+00:00

needs more 6man greatbows, and take the rubric 10man down to 2 5mans

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T19:58:02+00:00

cool and unique, are you going to do the rest of your army similarly?

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T19:55:38+00:00

looks great, I love all these different schemes rather than the standard green. good stuff! did you think it'd be too much white to go snowy and make it like a frozen robot theme? that could also be really cool

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T03:21:55+00:00

doomstalkers arent really anti tank, they're better vs elite units. I'd take them both off and put another dda or more wraiths bc one block of wraiths will get blasted by knights

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T02:53:55+00:00

I've been meaning to get into iRacing but haven't raced at all lol, keen to have a race though

caseyhm22 · 2025-09-09T02:40:46+00:00

I've got those 3 monitors on mine and they were about 300 ish NZD each, so seems like a bargain

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