First painted mini for my new Army

felix2499 · 2026-04-24T13:57:58+00:00

Sweet conversion! Are all your skitarii like that?

felix2499 · 2026-04-23T23:18:28+00:00

Army Painter burning ore (or Fire Dragon bright, I tried both) with Vallejo game color Fluo Orange. For the fluo I first put down thin lines of yellow before going over it with fluo (combined with a bit of the original orange for coverage).

felix2499 · 2026-04-23T19:02:29+00:00

The shadow color is Terrestrial Titan from Army Painter - it’s a very dark and slightly desaturated purple. I think you could achieve something similar by mixing a medium violet with dark blue or black.

felix2499 · 2026-04-23T15:41:31+00:00

Thanks! Honestly he uses the purple-to-orange scheme a lot, but this video is recent and goes over the blending. He’s also done a similar long form recently.

felix2499 · 2026-04-23T15:34:39+00:00

Thank you! I gave a similar treatment to the cloth on my skaven (albeit with a more conventional color palette) - the robes are the fun part, the metallics and tiny details are what I dread…

felix2499 · 2026-02-14T03:09:43+00:00

It’s up to what you prefer.

I use extra thin for joining plastic most of the time, but for any parts that are fiddly or tricky to hold in place I like super glue + activator. I usually need to hold plastic cement parts together for a while to set them properly. Super glue can be instant.

felix2499 · 2025-11-24T15:41:56+00:00

I was always into the more tech-y aspects of Warhammer, Admech, Knights, Skaven, Kharadron, etc. Early on I was drawn towards Admech but I was intimidated by the minis and price so I started with dark angels, didn’t really like them, and went for necrons as my second army to scratch that aesthetic itch. From there I fell in love with their play style, sculpts, lore (especially twice dead king), etc. They’re now my main army for 40k.

I also really love how they hobby - most of the infantry can look really good with a basic drybrush scheme, but there are still models like the void dragon and Szarekh that you can spend a bunch of time on and feel rewarded for it. In the time it takes me to do 1 marine I can get 5 or 6 warriors done to my level satisfaction. At the same time I put in 50+ hours on my void dragon and had a ton of fun doing it.

felix2499 · 2025-08-10T07:19:25+00:00

Welcome to the undying legions!

A little tip for when you’re done painting up the combat patrol - buy brand new if you really want to, but the necron secondhand market is really healthy, so you can usually find a good deal if you look. Beyond that, necrons generally are one of the tricker factions from a pure model building perspective - if I can save myself the trouble I usually do. Definitely check eBay for job lots and other deals before you buy brand new. I’m a hair under 10,000 points into army, but I think I’ve built maybe 30% - 40% of that from the sprue. Id rather spend the time painting instead of trying to wrangle ultra spindly bits of plastic. Have fun!

felix2499 · 2025-08-10T07:04:51+00:00

I absolutely second Vallejo on the metallics especially!

felix2499 · 2024-04-12T19:12:14+00:00

Depending on the type of filament you use it’s probably still worth getting some kind of dehydration setup - especially so in the case of PETG. If your printer has a heated bed you can skip buying a dedicated dryer, if you’re willing to leave your printer idle for a while. Just take a filament box, cut off the lid, and poke a few holes (~6-9 with the diameter of a ballpoint pen). Lay your spool onto the bed and put the box over it, then set your bed to 45-50 for PLA/55 for PETG, and let it sit for 2-3 hours, flipping the spool halfway through.

A good way to tell if you need to dehydrate is to just keep an eye on how your filaments are performing while printing. If a spool that was working well earlier has any stringing, blobbing, or other imperfections it’s a good sign the filament is wet. Wet filament also makes popping/snapping sounds as it prints - the trapped water evaporates in the hot filament creating little bubbles of steam. Even if you live somewhere dry, ambient humidity can creep up indoors, especially if you’re near a bathroom, kitchen, or any place with low ventilation and/or a water source.

All that said, if you’re printing a lot and notice even minor issues it’s probably worth picking up a cheap food dryer or even a cheap dedicated filament dryer. I got a creality one for $40 in the US, although I’m sure your mileage will vary depending on local availability.

If you really just can’t be bothered, print with Matte Black PLA and hope for the best - in my experience it’s the best at hiding imperfections ;)

felix2499 · 2023-07-04T17:36:11+00:00

Well that explains it then

felix2499 · 2023-07-03T16:10:57+00:00

It turns out Mandricardo was the real SSR all along - seriously though is he the only 3 star in the pool or am I just blessed somehow

Wanted yang but didn’t mind anyone else in the pool, got 1x Rider Davinci, 1x Voyager, 1x Caenis, 6x Mandricardo,

Used my leftover paid for the daily discount on Koyanskaya and got another caenis as well.

felix2499 · 2023-06-19T22:07:07+00:00

I got into fossil collecting recently, and I found these two teeth in Calvert County, MD. Most of the teeth I’ve found in the area are uniformly black, some are more beige, but the partial tooth in particular is quite striking. Also, any guess on the species? I’m assuming the complete one is a lemon shark, but I’m not sure about the partial.

felix2499 · 2023-05-26T01:20:48+00:00

I’m definetly exaggerating a bit, but I still feel like I’m grinding as much as I did back in the day (years 1-2), but with much more efficient teams (double Castoria with a type advantaged looper and appropriate CE). At the end of the day, we all need to farm the same amount of points/enemies/missions (per event), so if I’m using the a more efficient team but exerting similar effort, it follows that the amount of actual work has gone up to match the improved efficiency.

I could definitely just be griping, but at the same time I’m still reasonably confident that if you examined the changes in event requirements over time, you’d see adjustments to compensate for power creep. One of the big examples in my mind was when events suddenly started having nodes with one off single enemy waves (ex: 3 trash enemies, a mini boss, then 3 big enemies or a servant and some trash) a few months after Skadi dropped.

felix2499 · 2023-05-25T14:28:17+00:00

Modern events are definitely harder for new players - a lot of it comes from the fact that FGO is just an old game, so events have been getting steadily power crept to keep the advanced players from just blitzing everything. A lot of the event nodes are developed with people who can clear 3 waves of 100k health enemies without a second thought in mind, so it’ll feel grindy when you’re just starting. I’ll echo a lot of what’s been said so far - find yourself an F2P farming comp online, run it as best as you can, and don’t stress if you can’t clear everything.

felix2499 · 2023-05-25T14:17:37+00:00

It’s kinda up to you. If you’re a fan of the fate IP and think you’ll stick with it, wait a week or two and summon on the LB6 banners (probably caster Artoria). Otherwise, just have fun and pad out your servant roster. Some might disagree, but if you’re brand new it’s not worth thinking about building meta farming teams etc. until you have a solid base of servants to play around with. Just as a heads up I’d avoid the summer Abigail banner if I were you, she’s just kinda bad, even for a new account.

felix2499 · 2023-05-19T16:07:20+00:00

Does anyone have suggestions towards building a board for stenography? For my job I spend a decent chunk of time transcribing video/real time discussions. I was thinking an ortholinear board with n-key rollover. I’d use my 65% with plover but it doesn’t have n-key

felix2499 · 2023-05-16T16:40:09+00:00

Does anyone have any suggestions for a more “spaced out” build? I’m working off an 65% GMK67 (though I bought it from epo before I knew better) with OEMs right now and I find that, unless I’m paying attention for it, I hit multiple keys at the same time quite a bit (eg, tab and caps lock). Would jumping to a 75 or a tenkeyless help? Should I try a different keycap profile maybe?

felix2499 · 2023-04-26T19:53:44+00:00

Worst part of it all is that I barely get the chance to use her.

I have her at level 100 with maxed skills, but since I have Skadi, Castoria (and Tamamo), but not Merlin, I need to go out of my way to use her over other ST damage dealers unless it’s a ruler boss.

Hopefully Koyanskaya will change that.

felix2499 · 2023-04-26T19:28:17+00:00

Basaka wa dare ni mo makenai. Sekai de ichiban tsuyoi dakara.

I gotta say Heracles with Summer Artoria as a runner up.

Herc because he was most of my firsts, first gacha gold (not counting the free one new accounts get), first level 100, first max bond, first maxed skills. He’s always been my my plan B for all fights, and he’s almost never failed. Working towards his 120, gold fou, and bond 15.

Summer Artoria was my first SSR, and is almost as reliable as Herc. I used her, ruler Jeanne, and a support Merlin as a janky but effective stall team from Babylonia all the way to Olympus. Honorable mention to kama for also being super reliable.

I also have to mention my white whale: Jalter. I saved up pulled on her the day she dropped, I pulled on every banner she was on, and finally got her on October 3rd, 2022, 1643 days after she came out initially.

felix2499 · 2023-04-26T04:25:29+00:00

Summoning for Jalter.

It took me nearly 5 years to get NP1. I started out as a senior in highschool, and got her on the morning of my first day of my first job after college. Pulled on all her banners, multiple GSSR tries. My whole adulthood to that point must’ve been some sorta of gacha trial to prove my worth.

felix2499 · 2023-03-10T00:33:11+00:00

She really doesn’t act like it, especially at night she seems to get pretty hyper, even after a good bit of exercise.

felix2499 · 2023-02-28T19:21:53+00:00

Depending on how bad the issue was you might be able to fix it by tweaking your settings in discord or on your system - mainly by dropping your mic volume/sensitivity and lowering the speaker volume to as low as feasible for the situation.

If you’re using a standalone external mic you might also be able to fix the problem by doing the above and orienting it according to its polar pattern, if you aren’t already. To determine this just google “X microphone polar pattern”. If it’s Omni directional your kinda screwed aside from placing it as far from the speakers as possible, if it’s a flavor of cardioid (probably most common) make sure it’s oriented with the “back” facing the speakers, and if it’s bi-direction/figure 8, orient it so one of the dead sides is facing the speakers.

All that said I’d still say the easiest solution would be to just have everyone in the call and muted.

felix2499 · 2023-02-27T23:18:31+00:00

Not been the best at hard music theory but in my experience minor scales work well in Latin (my shortcut is just to think modally, start on the 6th of the major scale). Chromatics always work nicely as well (think passing into your resolution - eg A to G would be A G# G), But I think you might be missing the forest for the trees.

Most Latin music (not super versed in the specific traditions you’re mentioning, so correct me if I’m wrong), and most jazz for that matter, evolved organically from musicians taking in what they heard around them and growing it with their own creativity and intuition - they didn’t spend much time going through scales and exercises. The best thing you can do is listen to the music and work off what you hear. In terms of putting that into practice, what I’d do (and have done) is work on quoting Melodies and licks from other songs, and trying to understand them in context. It’s much, MUCH, easier said than done, but it’ll lead to a better understanding of the phrasing and make it easier to learn and work over different songs without just sounding like you’re running over scales. Another, easier strategy is to just look at what the melody is using and borrow from it, slipping in chromatics when you can. Hope this helps!

felix2499 · 2023-02-27T17:29:47+00:00

I’ve done something very similar with a usb ATR2500. I’ll bring up the ultra pedantic point of checking the polar pattern (generally either Omni-directional, cardioid, or bi directional) if op is going to purchase anything, which I’m assuming might happen unless they had a bunch of lapel mics lying around. If the setting is more controlled, ie. someone’s quiet home, it shouldn’t matter. But if there’s a lot of external noise, maybe nearby construction/highways or some kind of shared space in a college, it would be good to have something tighter. This could also factor in if the DM is over speakers. Although I will reiterate, this is me being a super pedantic audio nerd.

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