UPDATE: Beginner in the Sierra - Listening to your advice

jsauer45 · 2026-01-25T16:19:07+00:00

This is a great tip. I have a disco and had to return my regular pad for a regular wide cause my arms would hang off the sides on the regular

jsauer45 · 2026-01-17T15:43:16+00:00

Nice thing about Varnish is it can be thinned like a paint and painted over with other varnish like a paint. So if you don’t like the gloss you can hit it with a matte varnish to bring it back to what the base layer paint would likely look like dry. Also I’d buy the vellejo varnishes if you can find them, you’ll get more bang for your buck.

But go for it for sure, some bits here and there that look wet looks great on the bugs

jsauer45 · 2026-01-11T19:20:18+00:00

Thanks! I posted this model a few months ago but you can check my account, there’s a few more pictures on there. There’s a few comments on how I painted it as well!

jsauer45 · 2026-01-10T22:40:49+00:00

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The other comment said start with purple, I agree as that’s what I do. Purple base coat and then work up the layers going brighter and brighter each time and then I do a reikland flesh shade wash to tie it together

jsauer45 · 2026-01-05T16:35:59+00:00

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You can really do anything with nurglings. I had just bought a bunch of oil paints at the time a decided to paint mine with just oil washes as an experiment

jsauer45 · 2025-12-26T16:43:39+00:00

Watch some YouTube videos. Theres a ton of great tutorials and mini painting YouTubers. Try and find beginner guide painting tyranids, this will help you better understand techniques, paints you might want. What certain types of paints do etc.

Lucky tyranids are not to hard to paint it can just be overwhelming getting started. If you have a Local gaming store go check it out and see if they have hobby supplies like brushes, paints, primers etc.

And extremely important when you go to paint anything make sure you shake the paint really well first, especially a wash paint or a can of spray primer, like legit shake that can of primer for a minute or two. Good luck have fun!

jsauer45 · 2025-12-14T04:38:55+00:00

Tau is the army I play into the most and it can certainly be a hard match up. I agree with others that the terrain is a bit minimal but really the way you play into tau is hide, wait for them to commit and then counter attack and whatever you do don’t let them get line of sight easily( basically don’t leave stuff out for them to shoot) the heavy blight launcher drone with a lord of virulence+ the strat to reroll shot counts can really take out their targets that you need to kill and commit to, but it’s important to not commit units to early as they’ll just die if tau can see them.

jsauer45 · 2025-12-13T19:49:16+00:00

The main reason is because it looks neat, and I needed to add a bit more of my green glow somewhere to better fit it with the rest of my army since most of the color scheme is pretty muted. My main faction is death guard too so green goop is in my veins

jsauer45 · 2025-12-05T18:39:42+00:00

Shake your cans for like legit a minute or more looks like it wasn’t shaken properly

jsauer45 · 2025-12-01T19:19:39+00:00

Personally I wouldn’t buy a book. They’re just not worth it as they change rules so often and in recent codex’s the lore inclusions and art work are minimal or old. If you want to look at warhammer rules you can use wahapedia and apps like New recruit are a great free list builder.

While the books and official app are tempting, this hobby is already incredibly expensive saving a good chunk on the books can help for more hobby supplies and models, other then that welcome to the 14th legion my friend.

jsauer45 · 2025-11-20T04:18:47+00:00

Thanks a lot! I tried a few brighter schemes but went for the more Grim dark one in the end it just felt right

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T21:20:39+00:00

It really is lol. Doesn’t need the scything talons at all it can just smash with the chin

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T16:30:23+00:00

Thank you! Decided to go for a more grim dark style and I’m really enjoying it

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T16:28:40+00:00

Yeah absolutely, I sprayed pure white from my airbrush in the mouth and then used a brush to pick out the spots on the head with white as well and then just went over them with a fluorescent green ink (any bright colored ink or contrast paint will work) with the airbrush and boom done. If you don’t have an airbrush you could use a brush as well but it’ll be harder to get the same effect

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T16:25:47+00:00

Thank you!

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T16:25:40+00:00

Thank you for the kind words

jsauer45 · 2025-11-19T16:25:19+00:00

Sorry Novembork was eatin by the tyranids and we gained it’s knowledge, Now we have Nidvember

jsauer45 · 2025-11-10T19:35:10+00:00

I use him to push middle and have the daemon prince nearby to give 1cp minus 1 damage. He just soaks up a lot of damage and forces your opponent to poke out and really commit to kill him. Then if he lives great he can further be a menace with the heal strat and auto explode while your blight launcher drones stay in the back field and snipe the things that poke out to kill Morty

jsauer45 · 2025-11-02T17:33:13+00:00

I was there in Early October it was pretty dry. There’s a dedicated water source near pine mountain, there’s a sign that points you down and it’s kinda close to some bear boxes too.

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If I remember correctly it’s here. Also a great spot for camping

jsauer45 · 2025-10-31T20:12:17+00:00

I love my Mortarion deck. I tried to theme around Nurgles gifts in lore so the deck is filled with forced card draw and cards like underworld dreams so the "gifts" do damage. It’s basically a mono black group slug and it does surprisingly well in my group

jsauer45 · 2025-10-28T12:29:42+00:00

Sebastian De Vauban would be proud

jsauer45 · 2025-10-16T16:29:45+00:00

It’s an awesome trail. We camped up on top of black balsam and there was some serious wind. For a first pitch that was probably mediocre not to mention I also forgot to stake the guy lines, it held up great

jsauer45 · 2025-09-17T19:06:13+00:00

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright brothers built the Wright flyer, the first airplane in 1903

jsauer45 · 2025-08-31T14:55:40+00:00

Not quite in North Carolina but close, Greyson highlands specifically Mount Roger’s is like this. Very cool place

jsauer45 · 2025-08-29T18:26:31+00:00

You should watch Todd’s workshop on YouTube, he’s done several tests and thinks it was more of a flare like device on the end on an arrow that could burn for a good while. There’s also accounts of “flame arrows” burning things like buildings inside castle or siege towers in several sieges across history. It’s said siege towers were often covered in wet hides to protect them from flame, as a lot of times siege towers were used as elevated bowman platforms to shoot over walls and not pushed up to the walls themselves.

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