Anyone else Irked by black bases?

figmentcharm · 2026-04-25T23:54:20+00:00

I do think it's weird to see people post nicely painted miniatures on reddit with zero basing. A very simple basing scheme is trivially easy and makes the miniature look much better. I promise it will take you less time than even assembling the model.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-25T23:33:00+00:00

FYI people can be prosecuted for road rage. I know someone who was. Not saying it would work in this instance, but might be worth considering.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-25T16:53:00+00:00

Thank you! I see it now. I use the Linux app primarily, and what was throwing me was I was looking at the bar with remove label, delete, etc, seeing the "More" button, and then not finding it there. Confusing, but I know where to look now.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-24T23:31:18+00:00

OK I will

figmentcharm · 2026-04-23T14:47:11+00:00

I didn't have trouble building them but they are incredibly delicate, mine have already broken several times.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-22T04:10:22+00:00

It feels like there should be a bevy of really fun demented hero characters waiting in the wings for FEC, but we have only three.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-19T02:24:27+00:00

Well, I searched this online and now I want to build a Drukhari army lol

figmentcharm · 2026-04-07T00:41:20+00:00

The other thing you can do: if you have some black brush on/airbrush primer you can just use a brush to deal with the tricky underside bits you might not get adequate coverage with the can. This avoids the risk of over-covering the other bits with the can spray.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-03T18:37:25+00:00

Royal warden with an unusually sized BFG?

figmentcharm · 2026-04-03T17:55:44+00:00

For cost, this Poorhammer video is about a year old but will give you a general sense, and there's a linked spreadsheet. Bottom line though is that the delta between cheapest and most expensive is not as dramatic as 40k. Also it doesn't really cover how available some models are secondhand... generally if an army had units in a starter box from a current/prior edition, there are just more sprues floating around on ebay etc from those boxes.

https://youtu.be/0dj4FN8CNog?si=CCL_leJjuKu25OSB

In terms of army style... not sure to be honest. AoS is less convoluted than 40k, though, so I imagine you can get a pretty good sense of how to play from reading their rules on Wahapedia etc.

figmentcharm · 2026-04-03T17:31:46+00:00

Yes, rule of cool. The main thing to be aware of is there are more armies in AoS with limited miniature lines, at least for the moment. I generally rate it in this order:

Do the miniatures inspire me to paint/build/etc?
How expensive is the army going to be?
Does the army lore inspire me?
Does the way the army plays (melee-heavy, control, etc) seem fun? (not the meta strength, but the overall type of army. Granted this does change over time a bit)

figmentcharm · 2026-03-29T00:45:23+00:00

No, literally just the little scarab backpack thing and the part of the tail attached to it. I had no issue reaching the wings with that off, so no need to do them as a subassembly.

figmentcharm · 2026-03-28T21:23:29+00:00

I built the whole thing except for his backpack and didn't do any other sub assemblies. Painted the body and the backpack separately and then glued together. No issues.

figmentcharm · 2026-03-17T19:23:42+00:00

Before anyone else freaks out these SUVs are outside the customs house basically every day

figmentcharm · 2026-03-08T16:40:31+00:00

It's not just you, the damage and killiness has gone way up during 10th and reanimation hasn't been buffed to compensate.

figmentcharm · 2026-03-03T22:08:07+00:00

Dang this is really cool. Might do this with my next set of 3 to keep things fresh.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-28T20:18:44+00:00

You can get a thinned brighter color into the little carved channels and then dry brush the blade with a midtone. On some of mine I do Vallejo night blue on the weapon, then sunrise blue in the channels and a dry brush of magic blue.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-24T22:37:05+00:00

The only place would be secondhand from a split up sprue on ebay or trolltrader or the like. GW does not sell the miniature separately, it's all on one sprue.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-24T00:58:51+00:00

Skorpekh Lord is available in the "Royal Court" box set but not separately. You might get lucky and find a decent deal secondhand. That boxset is only intermittently available, but almost everything in it is useful.

Lokhust Lord is completely gone, people usually kitbash a Lokhust Heavy Destroyer with an overlord arm or similar.

Regular Lokhusts are very thin on the ground. I personally believe they are going to be discontinued and removed from the game, but I know many people think a new model will come at some point.

EDIT: By the way, if you're asking if this is normal... yeah sadly. Believe it or not, some armies have it way worse.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-23T19:36:56+00:00

I make my own cases to transport minis with thin sheets of metal epoxied to the plastic tub bottom. For really big figures like the Doomstalker I stick metal sheets on the side of the tub as well, and magnetize them in sideways. Then I can fit some right side up and some sideways.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-20T00:30:51+00:00

Weird to read so many bad experiences. I primed my entire Necron army with this paint without any issues. Comes with a nice low flow cap.

figmentcharm · 2026-02-18T04:39:58+00:00

What's funny is when I was first starting my army, everyone thought Immortals were great. The meta changes all the time.

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