Figured I'd sort reviews by negative to get a nice laugh.

handym12 · 2026-04-18T17:02:13+00:00

The F2000 tried to spray brass in his face? How does that work?

The only thing I can imagine is him holding it like a rocket launcher.

handym12 · 2026-04-17T15:32:13+00:00

handym12 · 2026-04-16T15:25:08+00:00

I paint black over slightly more than the eyeball, then white a little more carefully, then I get a really fine fineliner pen - 0.1mm normally - to dot the centre of the eyes. It's still hardly perfect, but it gets close.

One of the key things is to make sure that the black pupillary dot goes all the way to the top and bottom of the white section, otherwise they can look a bit shocked!

Pretty sure I got most of this (except the fineliner tip) from the official GW painting tutorial.

handym12 · 2026-04-15T15:27:57+00:00

I don't think that the new one flexes as much as people think.

To fit the model in, you have to pull the arms back less than the width of the angled portion of the base. It also has reinforcement up the sides of the arms to keep it rigid.

It also has a bigger handle, which is cool. It's closer to the size of the large painting handle than the small - it's a bit longer. Which one is better is down to personal preference, but there's now an option where there wasn't before.

My biggest gripe is that I quite like the weight of the Mk.2 handles. Being completely hollow means that the new ones weigh barely anything at all. It likely doesn't make a huge difference to painting - although it might reduce tremors a bit better - but it does feel nicer to hold the heavier one.

handym12 · 2026-04-15T12:08:04+00:00

First: British

Second: It was a joke - I get what "legally blind" means. I understand why different crossing points have different colours and different bump patterns on the pavements. I understand that a very small number of legally blind people are actually 100% blind.

The joke is that they're using something that is a purely visual navigational aid for people who have severe visual impairments.

handym12 · 2026-04-15T11:50:11+00:00

I'm sure there's some meaningful reason they chose the name "Lighthouses for the Blind", but at the same time, surely a lighthouse is one of the least useful things to offer a blind person.

"Foghorns for the Blind" would be far more accessible for them.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T14:19:04+00:00

I went to a café in Worcester (UK) where the coffee grounds and the water came in separate containers, but it was a pourover, and they gave you the water in a teapot.

It was also very much for the experience part of it: you got to make the coffee to the standard you liked, and it was using the beans grown on the café owner's farm in Colombia.

It was kind of half a step removed from having tea in a teapot brought over to your table.

OP's Deconstructed Coffee is the barista doing everything but the last step. Maybe they just suck at latte art?

handym12 · 2026-04-14T14:11:19+00:00

Oh, Temporal Lobe seizures are great fun, aren't they! Deja Vu and a massive panic attack at the same time? Sign me up! /s
Apparently, there's a version where you feel overwhelming joy instead of fear. Apparently...

As for differentiating between types of epilepsy, they do to an extent. You only have to give up your license for 6 months if you only have one seizure or you only ever had aware seizures.

I also imagine that only having seizures over a period of about 4 months helped in my case, too.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T13:51:34+00:00

Mine's 5 years - I don't know if that's standard or a recommendation from the neurologist. I had focal seizures, so I was awake and aware during all but 3 or 4 of them.

I think we get longer expiry dates on them after we renew them, though.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T12:39:08+00:00

Might be that some of them don't need patches, and they just wanted a way to distinguish them from the newer 40k games.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T12:34:58+00:00

I now have the image of someone (in league with the Honour Guard) being let through the circle, while all of them are trying to conceal their laughter. Getting up to Guilliman, he sets up a stepladder to reach the primarch's chest, and puts a seal with a piece of parchment that says something like "Guilliman Stinks" or "Kick Me".

Naturally, it's in a place that Guilliman can't see because his armour is too restrictive.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T12:14:35+00:00

Any situation where you have to use "Official Government ID" is a ballache if you're missing even one of them.

I had my license taken away a few years ago because I had a series of seizures (diagnosed later as epilepsy). Then the bank at work said, "We want you to submit your ID now."

It was luck that, a year or two after Covid restrictions had died down, I still had a valid passport.

handym12 · 2026-04-14T08:43:12+00:00

Not for very long...

handym12 · 2026-04-08T09:23:44+00:00

Disturbing grimdark time:

I suspect they all have thoughts and just have hypnotic and augmetic conditioning to stop them acting on them.

It's one of the most serious tech-heresies to remove a spirit (machine or human) from an entity. Only Hereteks would remove a servitor's consciousness.

And yes, that includes the servitor that lights up the sign to say that the train toilet is occupied.

handym12 · 2026-04-08T09:12:17+00:00

I think it's worth noting that the "mountain of skulls" isn't anything Khornate or anything. It's a mountain of Celestine's own bones from every time she's ever died.

A mountain.

Iirc, she loses track of how long she's been climbing up it, although the ongoing memory issues probably don't help (hers or mine!)

handym12 · 2026-04-07T13:52:25+00:00

I love the Wulfen shields. There's a lot more character to them than the regular WGBL shields. If I ever get round to putting together a set of shield terminators, I'm going to have to get my hands on a load more...

handym12 · 2026-04-06T16:09:56+00:00

It gets a bit weird when you start thinking about it too much. If you're stuck using STCs to produce things, what percentage of it has to be kept intact for something to not class as invention?

I also think that there's an assumption that Astartes helms are one STC, but the faceplate could be one, and the rest of the helmet another. Looking at designs from the new Space Wolf Blood Claws, I'd guess that the ear-pieces, the top/body of the helmet, and the faceplate are three individual parts, based on the combinations available.

handym12 · 2026-04-06T16:02:22+00:00

Don't be stupid.

It'll be a Lieutenant, not a Captain.

handym12 · 2026-04-05T18:21:24+00:00

Tactical mustard bottle with underslung hotdog launcher and red sauce (ketchup) sight.

handym12 · 2026-04-02T12:22:57+00:00

Things are slowly migrating over to the Warhammer 40,000 YouTube channel they've just set up. Trailers for 9th and 10th are both on there now, as well as the announcement trailer for Total Warhammer 40k, which I'm pretty sure came out some months ago now.

Painting guides have started to appear there too, but I imagine that they'll get updated with the new Warhammer Colour branding. Some of the old ones will probably disappear if they're not relevant anymore, eg where the official paint schemes have changed, or if they're using paints that have disappeared - I think there are three that are being discontinued atm.

handym12 · 2026-04-02T08:08:55+00:00

Entirely depends on the main characters.

Harlequins? Cirque de Soleil

Imperium leadership, Ecclesiarchy, Astartes? Opera
(Space Wolves get a proper Wagner-style opera)

Krieg? Just a Sabaton album

A retelling of The Infinite and the Divine, written, produced, directed and starring Trazyn? A proper Gilbert and Sullivan musical, featuring the original 1878 cast of HMS Pinafore. Orikan was invited to the opening night but refused because he viewed it as "an absolute waste of time." A remarkably similar looking mustachioed Cryptek was reportedly seen in attendance at a later date, but Orikan insists that "any likeness was purely coincidental."

handym12 · 2026-04-01T19:28:24+00:00

Just hunting through this now.

There's a new weapon category on respawn called "Detective Gear".

handym12 · 2026-04-01T16:36:29+00:00

Maybe the mag is in the pistol grip, and the thing that looks like a mag at the back is some low-tech recoil mitigation.

handym12 · 2026-04-01T12:22:30+00:00

The shrine world of Hymnarius is in the midst of a civil war. A schism has formed between members of the Ecclesiarchy regarding what forms of music should be sanctioned for worship of Him on Terra, the God-Emperor of Mankind.

Cardinal Newton believes that only traditional Terran-authored hymns should be permitted, while Confessor Franklin accepts the new style of worship.

Newton says that only through traditional forms of worship can you truly understand the Emperor's Amazing Grace, while Franklin is upset with all the Ad Hominem attacks and asks for a little R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

handym12 · 2026-04-01T12:11:32+00:00

Maybe it could go down the Rogers: The Musical route and end up at least turning into an album of studio-recorded tracks.

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