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Big balance dataslate incoming. Think GW have lost the plot with it completely. Marines are now so under-powered that they're dropping the costs to basically turn them in to a horde army!
 
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Many thanks for highly useful feedback and kind and encouraging words Pardon the Wait and Warbie, it's much appreciated. Maybe I could do another wash of just Nuln oil, I can see how slightly more grime might improve it, my first one was so grimy due when testing a earthshade wash to paint thickness it looks like it's been dragged through a sewer and I left blatant sprues on it too, I guess I could say it was explosion damage on an unfinished armour set.

Really enjoying this as a hobby so I will try to paint the 20 models I have first as different space marine colours and then maybe something different, my ultimate plan is to do a fair job on the giant Space marines and chaos marine models that I have. Thanks to all for all the great advice in this topic because I know it's saved me likely having to give up, or just try strip paint off and start again, but I'll keep the first two as reference to know possibly how to get better on the next ones. I also may just try to paint the other that already has heavy black undercoat spray as more of a cartoon style rather than try strip its paint down.

I'll definitely sub to all the Youtube channels recommended and really appreciate all the great advice.
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Two good youtubers below that had decent priming videos. Also check out cult if paint and the painting coach.
 
Did anyone get one of the Supply Drop Mystery Boxes? I hesitated too long and now out of stock so would be keen to know what is in them when they arrive for future reference
 
Mooooooore boys

Why did I choose Orks

There's so many straps and buckles and dooberrys all over every single one of them :(

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JRed said:
Did anyone get one of the Supply Drop Mystery Boxes? I hesitated too long and now out of stock so would be keen to know what is in them when they arrive for future reference
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From what ive heard they're mainly stuff they cant sell, I bet they'll be some khorne bezerkers in every one and the old chaos possessed.
 
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It was a kustom boosta-blasta, deffkoptas, Fabius bile, genestealer cults reductus saboteur, and tau dark strider in the UK.

I’d have been happy with it for the ork stuff but no interest in the rest of it really. Got enough of a backlog to get through without a load more random minis I don’t need to add to the pile :D
 
2K pointer last night. My Salamanders and Eldar vs Tau and Eldar using the new balance dataslate. What a slog! First off my usual list has gone to pot thanks to the points changes so thought i'd try something a little different and drop my dreads to switch in some heavy intercessors, an apothecary, bladeguard and eradicators.

It worked.

5 bladeguard were a seriously tough unit. Charged a wave-serpent with 5 banshees inside. Killed the wave-serpent, got charged by the banshees and only lost one guy with a wound on another. Completely whiffed my slap-back on the banshees so dropped out of combat only to be shot by 2 broadsides and 3 vypers. The wounded guy died. That was it. Unfortunately so did my apothecary before I could bring anyone back from the squad :( His FNPs and healing however kept a squad of HI's and the eradicators at full health for the entire game despite them taking a massive amount of firepower. In one turn they literally had 1250 points firing at them which by the start of my next turn was for nothing. The one dead guy was back and all wounds healed. Dense + light cover didn't hurt!

In the end we won 50pts to 5. Sticky obsec is great. They only had 3 rangers left on the board.
 
I’ve had the urge to buy a full range of paints for a little while now and wanted to try something new, so I’ve just dropped over £200 on the whole pro acryl range except metallics and washes.

Can’t really provide a good justification for it but I’m super excited so that’s nice
 
PardonTheWait said:
I’ve had the urge to buy a full range of paints for a little while now and wanted to try something new, so I’ve just dropped over £200 on the whole pro acryl range except metallics and washes.

Can’t really provide a good justification for it but I’m super excited so that’s nice
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Treat yo Self ;)

I'm trying to wein myself off GW paints picked up a couple of Ak interactive and Greenstuff world to try out over Christmas.

It's hard though when they have colour ranges just for specific armies. It's just the easy option hah
 
Bigpig said:
Treat yo Self ;)

It's hard though when they have colour ranges just for specific armies. It's just the easy option hah
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Yea true, but the pots out weight this imo, im so done with citadel paint pots.

Bought a couple from Duncan Rhodes range, not tried em yet but ive heard good things from some unbiased youtubers.

I also bought "royal purple" from Vallejo a few weeks back for my orks, great colour.
 
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Johno please? said:
Yea true, but the pots out weight this imo, im so done with citadel paint pots.

Bought a couple from Duncan Rhodes range, not tried em yet but ive heard good things from some unbiased youtubers.

I also bought "royal purple" from Vallejo a few weeks back for my orks, great colour.
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I believe Duncan paints are the closest match to CW with a slight better consistency.

I totally forgot to check if he had death gaurd green.
 
This one's a WIP, pretty much done aside from the rokkit pack and base.Trying for the first time to paint without using any washes, just using some transparents and very thinned paints for lining shadows. Spending absolutely ages on this one, didnt really intend to but have found myself really getting stuck into it. I really like the Pro Acryl paints. The range is a lot smaller than some of the others so lots of mixing to get the different colours which will take some getting used to. They mix really well though.

Also trying for the first time really to use different colours for shading, just on the skin on this one with the magenta shadows but would like to use it for other bits too. I'm not super artistic though so stuff like that is quite challenging for me.

I painted a normal Boy before this one a lot quicker and I kind of feel like once I get some practice in, it won't be much slower than using washes as there's a lot of cleanup after an all-over wash to make it look clean again.

Still going to stick with washes for doing squads otherwise I'll never get the army done. Painted a deffkopta last week, it's not even finished but it took me forever. Need to bite the bullet on those and just smash them out, I really havea habit of getting caught up and trying too hard, easy to forget I'm trying to finish an army.

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Not a huge WH40k fan but know a small amount and have a "who are they" question from a now lost Youtube video I saw a few months ago, where I'm trying to remember the name of a group which was formed a bit like the Nights Watch in GOT (or Dirty Dozen), where the best individual fighters from the various different loyal legions (no Chaos) would leave their legion to join a single "unit" to fight against the worst outbreaks of Chaos/Demons and I'm sure their armour was painted black - does that ring a bell to anyone from my fairly poor description?
 
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Not a huge WH40k fan but know a small amount and have a "who are they" question from a now lost Youtube video I saw a few months ago, where I'm trying to remember the name of a group which was formed a bit like the Nights Watch in GOT (or Dirty Dozen), where the best individual fighters from the various different loyal legions (no Chaos) would leave their legion to join a single "unit" to fight against the worst outbreaks of Chaos/Demons and I'm sure their armour was painted black - does that ring a bell to anyone from my fairly poor description?
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Deathwatch
 
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