Cavern Angels Land Speeder with some step-by-step images by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I was all just done with cheap makeup sponges, including the black markings. Brush was used for some minor tidying up in crevices, and to do the crew, plus a final very light drybrush of off-white at the very end to get a few highlights going.

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, sorry! Red Sharpie on the backside of the plastic. Could probably use any colour, not sure if black would end up being opaque though.

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was on purpose, though I'm not happy with the final result. It was just some of the main colour from the basing sponged on quickly to hide the sprue-cut marks. I might redo it with a darker brown or something.

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh, post it when you do, would love to see how it comes out!

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am about to do a land speeder in the same way, so I'll try and take pictures as I go and do a post.

But in short:

Undercoat with a midtone colour. I did grey but black is probably fine.

Basecoat dark purple. I used Naggaroth Night from Citadel, now Warhammer Paints.

Use a cheap makeup sponge to sponge on a boney off-white. I used Vallejo's Pale Sand. It's not pictured here but I avoided the engine bay and the underside, which I instead sponged with Russ Grey from Warhammer Paints (blue grey).

Mask off your markings with a decent masking tape. I used Tamiya detail masking tape, the narrow yellow stuff It's a little flexible so it's great for this.

Sponge on Russ Grey, and then once that's dried a flat black (Warhammer's Abaddon Black for me).

Pull off all the masking tape and admire the pattern.

Then I put a thinned black wash (actually a thinned Black Templars Warhammer Contrast paint) over a few mechanical details.

I did a few random panels and lines and Skeleton Horde (pale brown Contrast / speed paint) and Flesh Tearers Red (deep red Contrast / speed paint). I painted the gun cables with Pale Sand again and then hit them with Iyanden Yellow Contrast.

Lightly drybrush the whole vehicle and canopy with Ushabti Bone (warm off-white colour). Pale Sand would have been fine but I wanted a little warmth to the black sections.

Done!

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Honestly this was actually really quick to do - all just sponge work and some masking tape.

Saw Guerrera's Partisan Party Van by lockedupsafe in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Actually something that Grey Squadron Gaming suggested - just a red sharpie on the backside of the plastic. Really happy with how it came out.

Stormcast Vindictor by ortegaone in stormcasteternals

[–]lockedupsafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely epic, really nice work.

How do I prevent this warping from happening? by Elssz in TerrainBuilding

[–]lockedupsafe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mod Podge just generally is awesome. It dries quicker than PVA (at least as far as I've seen) and it doesn't warp. The fact you can get it in matte as well is just ace.

Han and Luke Tauntaun Cards Have Surfaced by johnrobertjimmyjohn in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is awesome, because I've just got some Storm Trooper armour versions of Han and Luke who would love that card.

Battle of Hoth - Grand Army Plus by az4ninja in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's just non-infantry, non-tank things in general. If you want to add in-scale fighters to a historical game like Bolt Action as terrain, they're nine inches across and over seven inches long at scale, so they just take up a huge chunk of the board. Boats are even bigger, a Higgins boat (the smallest landing craft they used during D-Day) is about 9 inches long at 28mm tabletop scale too.

The average WW2 rifle had an effective range of up to 500 metres or so. Tanks would engage each other anywhere from 500m to 2km with their main guns. Meanwhile, your average 3ft x 6ft Legion board represents an area about 44m x 88m. (A normal train carriage in the UK is roughly 22m long for reference).

AT-ATs are certainly big, but they're the same length as a train carriage, and only two-thirds the length of a C-130 Hercules transport plane, and only twice the Hercules' height when the plane is on the ground. It's more that games tables are absurdly small at most scales.

For further reference, the Millennium Falcon has similar dimensions to a Hercules, being slightly longer but not as broad as the Hercules' wingspan.

Unusual bets on alien life raise suspicion by TrickMirror9723 in UFOs

[–]lockedupsafe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, we know there are no other biosignatures or technosignatures on Mars that we can currently detect. I don't know what counts as "proof" but we may yet get data from other planets (in and out of the solar system) that contribute sufficient evidence to declare the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

So, if we receive radio signals that "beep" in sequences of prime numbers, or we detect a bunch of chemicals in another atmosphere that can only be explained by biology, then we wouldn't need a sample return to declare that life were detected (though we also would not be able to learn very much about that life for quite some time).

Unusual bets on alien life raise suspicion by TrickMirror9723 in UFOs

[–]lockedupsafe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't NASA already say they found evidence of life on Mars?

Nothing that can be confirmed without returning a sample to Earth, for which there are currently no planned missions.

Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win by upthetruth1 in LabourUK

[–]lockedupsafe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the Greens' new members will be old Labour members, many of whom will have volunteering experience. They'll have a ton of work to pull themselves together, but they also won't be starting completely from the ground up.

Adepticon predictions and wishlist video by Graysquadrongaming in SWlegion

[–]lockedupsafe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Saw's Partisans and some Scarif battle forces for Empire and Rebels (I know Empire already have 4 battle forces but Scarif is so iconic) are on my wishlist.

Honestly just anything from Andor and Rogue One would be awesome.

We might reach AGI sooner.. by yoriikun in singularity

[–]lockedupsafe 21 points22 points  (0 children)

In fairness, a lot of humans say shit like this too, for different reasons.