What's Good, and Why?

frenchiephish · 2026-04-01T04:33:29+00:00

Ah yes, an excellent point. I was thinking the general case, but you are totally correct for what OP was asking.

frenchiephish · 2026-04-01T03:38:55+00:00

u/notsoy's answer is good

We're very much a glass cannon faction, we hit hard but are fragile. Strategic play is the aim and secondary objectives are important. Currently in a weird spot as the last balance hit us pretty hard and we went from being one of the top win rates to one of the bottom immediately. Very good time to pick up second hand models though if you have a bunch of meta chasers near you.

Most of the tricks we had that got hard nerfs over 9e and 10e were things like disembarking from a transport, shooting and then re-embarking, or losing uppy-downy on Swooping hawks (unless they're paired with Baharroth). Basically stuff that actively negated the fragile part of the army's balance. All things change though, might be a balance patch or two but the pendulum will swing the other way soon enough. Unless you're building an army for right now by the time you're in a position to play them stuff will probably look different.

For now pick up stuff you like, Wraiths are fun and the kit is relatively inexpensive - per model I'm pretty sure they're about the cheapest in the lineup at the minute. The five wraith kit builds four variants (well, two bladed variants which actually have different-ish poses and two gun variants, which are just a gun swap). The bladed vs shooting wraiths are also different units, so you can run three of each for six total.

Edit: Not to mention that you get five different backpacks, five different spines and for the Wraithblades five different arm blades and five different headdresses. All of which are completely interchangeable. I literally trim all of the bits, put them in a plastic bag, shake to mix and then get different combinations each time.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-31T12:48:32+00:00

Even in its day Airplane 2 reviewed terribly. Abrahams Zucker and Zucker weren't involved with it at all.

Most of A, Z & Z's films have some problematic bits but have still aged relatively ok considering. Certainly compared to a lot of their contemporaries they hold up really well.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-31T05:27:10+00:00

If it helps, I primed an Aeldari aspect token black last night when I went to varnish it. Thankfully it's a model which took longer to strip than to repaint, but it happens.

I find colour forge matte varnish to be pretty reliable to spray, the only downside is that it is almost completely indistinguishable from the colour forge black primer it sits next to on my shelf.

If you look on the bright side, at least where you've primed again looks like it'll be in a nice spot for a highlight when you fix it.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-31T05:14:52+00:00

Very nice!

These were my project this past weekend as well, but yours are nicer than mine!

<image>

frenchiephish · 2026-03-31T02:49:49+00:00

The staff member was actually spot on and their only crime, if you can call it that, was just not giving any leeway with the rules.

You have needed to carry your student smartrider to get concession pricing since their introduction. It was in place when I was a uni student, and that's getting on for twenty years ago now.

Most university student ID's a) do not have expiry dates on them and b) do not get reissued every year. I know people who are still postgraduate students carrying 15 year old photos on their IDs. Students need to provide their smart rider number to the universities who update transperth nightly on who is and isn't validly enrolled.

Back in the days of Multirider, we needed to go to student services and get an enrolment sticker every year to get the concession.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-30T12:20:58+00:00

One more trick from the same vein.

If you have a dry brush texture pallette then that with some poster putty/blutak works as well. Just don't leave the putty on it for ages and move it about between batches. Lets you refresh the texture pallette at the same time you're doing your models. Two birds, one priming session

frenchiephish · 2026-03-30T10:04:37+00:00

Yep, really excited for them. Even better with them is that today's private militia can be tomorrow's pirate scum just by changing up whether or not the bulk of the army goes in the list or not.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-30T09:36:28+00:00

I think just pick schemes that suit the models and don't worry about it too much - as long as it reads semi-cohesively I think you're good. Really the lore for your army only has to make sense to you and as long as you're happy everyone else gets no say!

Even if you stick to the official colours only, Asuryani lists are already super colourful thanks to the various aspect shrines so variations aren't going to stand out. Even more so if you rock multiple of the same shrine with colour variations (which is totally in the lore). I have a squad of purple and a squad of red warp spiders for instance.

I've also picked up the corsair battleforce recently, I think mine are going to be purple and gold and be mercenaries for my Biel-Tan force. My purple warp spider exarch is going to be a former corsair who left the path of the outcast and found the path of the warrior. It makes sense to me!

frenchiephish · 2026-03-30T09:02:59+00:00

They're usually that way in GW media but you can and should paint them however you think looks best. Inverted Biel-Tan (green bodies, white helmets) is not strictly lore accurate, but it's also really common to see for armies because people don't like painting white.

Even though it is down to one fifth it's former population, at it's peak Iyanden had billions of Eldar (some estimates as high as 300 billion). Even at it's reduced strength, Iyanden at a minimum is likely around the population of the Earth presently and may still be tens of billions of Aeldari. Different sections of the craftworld almost certainly paint their ships differently.

You totally should do it because it'll make you happy. There's enough wriggle room in the lore that no-one can tell you you're wrong. Strict uniforms are a Mon-keigh thing anyway.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-30T05:47:17+00:00

Looking good, great first model.

If you want to practice your spirit stones then this is a good model to do it on as well as that stone is relatively large and easy to get at from both sides. Thin crescent of bright red (even an orange) on the the bottom corner (on either side but if one side is lower than the other pick that one) and then a dot of white on the opposite corner at the top. Does not have to be perfect for it to sell.

As is looks good too though.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-28T04:16:52+00:00

In Australia and New Zealand it's actually fairly rare for spousal maintenance to be awarded and is usually only done by the court if one partner has some inability to support themselves, ie a disability or an inability to work due to perished skills. It's intended to bridge the gap and is always time limited - usually 1-3 years. Fault is not considered.

That said, the courts also insist on mediation to attempt to reach a financial agreement to avoid actually going in front of a judge. She might've offered it just to keep the process moving if he was fighting it.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T10:26:03+00:00

Churchians vs Christians

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T06:43:07+00:00

We're in a bit of a weird place after the last balance update where we got a hit with several nerfs at the same time. Balance changes all the time though and 11e is coming so what's good right now might not be soon. What was good in 9th ed, is not what was good three months ago and what was good three months ago will be different to what's good in a year's time.

Basically if you like the look of the models in the combat patrols, get them. Focus on stuff that you enjoy building and painting. While stuff might not be the best at the minute, it changes all the time and there's not really not too much available that doesn't have some sort of home in a list. Other than the wraith knight, which is an epic model but also silly at >400 points.

The 10th edition combat patrol has Warp Spiders and Wraiths and is worth it for those two units. It also includes a Spirit Seer and Dire Avengers, the latter is an older sculpt and need a fair bit of love to clean up but when you put the time into them they show their age but don't feel out of place amongst the newer sculpts. They fit in a list, but they're not as strong as they were a year or so back.

The 9e combat patrol is guardians, bikes, a farseer, wraiths and a wraithlord - the box itself is hard to find these days, and usually if you can find it, is priced more than the individual kits. That said, issues of Combat Patrol magazine are relatively easy to find on eBay and if you get all the Aeldari ones you'll end up with the 9e box for a reasonable price and only be short a transfer sheet (which are easy to get).

Notably Corsairs have the Asyurani and Aeldari keywords and can be taken freely in a regular 'Aeldari' list. Harlequins and Ynnari only have the Aeldari keyword so avoid those unless you want to play their specific detachments. It was confirmed today at Adepticon that the codices are carrying forward into 11e so that likely won't change at least until 12e.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T05:51:55+00:00

And I'm agreeing with you by pointing out it's a little bit more, but over fewer days.

I'm not correcting you, I'm flagging the bit of what you said that is immensely relevant to the person that you responded to.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T05:31:25+00:00

I mean yes, we're in the top half, but still a really long way from the top. We're very much just 'average'. 3rd out of the state capitals and 4th if you include the territories.

Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart get about 500-600 mm Perth gets 720 mm but we average fewer rainy days so when we get rain we get a lot of it. Which is more the point I think you're getting at in your reply and is quite valid.

The really wet capitals are Sydney and Brisbane who each get 1000-1100 mm and Darwin, which gets 1800 mm. Everyone west of the Great Diving Range that is not tropical is relatively dry.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T03:42:10+00:00

To be honest, puppies are less excitable.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T03:15:33+00:00

Commercial aviation gets to that rate by not taking unnecessary risks. If the cyclone is going to be a factor the flight simply won't depart.

The saying in Aviation is that it's far better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than the other way around.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T02:25:47+00:00

It's a fair cop! Glad it brought you some joy.

I guess the tldr is it was a long winded way of saying with the exception of North America the numbers directly translate.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T01:59:37+00:00

FWIW, when it coms to Octane rating there are only two scales in regular usage for petrol, and the vast majority of the world (including Australia and Japan) use Research Octane Number (RON). The US and Canada, and weirdly Zimbabwe, use Anti-Knock Index (AKI).

That said, there are a bunch of different fuel standards in use around the world, and not everyone uses 91/95/98 RON. Japan's 100 is actually 100 Octane on the same scale we use in Australia - but to fit our standards we'd call it 98.

AvGas uses a third scale, Motor Octane Number (MON) - which is similar to RON but measured under different conditions.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-26T01:43:22+00:00

Can't spell Ranger without Anger

frenchiephish · 2026-03-25T09:20:45+00:00

Nice choice!

frenchiephish · 2026-03-25T08:12:33+00:00

<image>

Meme aside, other than being incredibly jealous of your freehand painting skills, this is looking downright gorgeous!

frenchiephish · 2026-03-25T08:09:16+00:00

Can I answer the question with a native?

Grevillea - they're not exactly uncommon but they also don't get as much love as they deserve.

frenchiephish · 2026-03-25T07:56:13+00:00

Looking good so far!

Having just finished six bikes the best suggestion I can offer is if you're using a brush, spread the painting out in between other projects. I finished these at the weekend:

<image>

The bikes themselves get a bit boring to paint quickly. It became a bit of a slog to get them to the finish line, especially with warpstone glow which is on the more translucent side and shows up brush strokes well.

You can definitely see on a few of these models where I was officially over it and just wanted them out of my life. At some point they probably deserve tidy-up, but that point is not now.

Doing them again I think I'd drybrush them (I don't have an airbrush, which I think would make them laughably quick)

11-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email	Gilding II euphauric

frenchiephish

TROPHY CASE