28mm Miniature Tabletop Wargaming Thread

Ah I saw earlier in the thread someone was at Adepticon. I was up there too playing in the Warhammer 30k events. I just signed up for the Texicon event in Arlington, Tx (can't make it to the Alamo event).

I hate that this game has the bigger following in Cuckeurope. One of the facebook groups the mods actually edited or forced people to change a couple different words in one post and the ensuing comments.

One of the words used was spastic...... and was used saying they thought the writing in one of the books was spastic..... They said it's offensive to people with MS.

They even had someone with MS or similiar say wtf. Seems like maybe it has a bigger connotation or something over there. But it's not the first instance of these fucking 90lb faggots crying about someone triggering someones safe space with a word that an elementary school teacher wouldn't bat an eyelash at.

(Just seems extra odd given the grim violent/graphic content of 40k.)

Amazing visual pen art animation of an audiobook. Very nice and grim.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/this-warhammer-40-000-animated-short-series-is-unbeliev-1794935716

Part one so you dont have to click link.

My lady and I just painted our first mini's ever. Not amazing, but came out pretty good I think? We started with skeletons because we thought they would be easy, what with the whole "mostly just bones" thing. Excited to try some more diverse models. We are going to paint a bunch of wolves tonight, try our hand at fur. I'm going to start running a Curse of Strahd game in a couple of weeks, so am painting based on what I think I'll use early on.

Prepping for 8th Edition, wife got this for me for my birthday

Nids are gonna be good again

Just gotta buy a Get Started Collecting Tyranids box and im set!

Nice!

94 models in that box to put together and paint. It has taken me over a month so far to put together and paint my Death guard army for 30k of 41 models and I still have about a week left!

This box of Tyranid's look's like Mount Everest sitting on my table, daunting!

What happened to the 95th one?

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What happened to the 95th one?

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Oops 95 model's heh

That many 'Nids will take for-fucking-ever. And, it's about half to 1/3rd of what you'll need. They're one of my past 40k armies. I used much too fancy of a paint scheme, ugh.

Nids are easy. Prime white. Buy Privateer Press Inks. Apply different color Inks to different areas of the model. Profit.

They will be Hive Fleet Leviathan painted. Really easy to get table ready and still give room for details

Onoes said:

My lady and I just painted our first mini's ever. Not amazing, but came out pretty good I think? We started with skeletons because we thought they would be easy, what with the whole "mostly just bones" thing. Excited to try some more diverse models. We are going to paint a bunch of wolves tonight, try our hand at fur. I'm going to start running a Curse of Strahd game in a couple of weeks, so am painting based on what I think I'll use early on.

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I did some Heroscape commissions with those figures! The dude painted them and gave me stats and I mocked up the cards and made tweaks to bring cards in line (some were overcosted, some under, or redundant, outright broken/not working as intended. Sending me notes from phone without spell checking. Laughably bad.)
I enjoyed the challenge, so those figures have surprisingly hit me in the feels.

.. Anyway dude got worse and worse and wanted me to simply print as he sent it. I grabbed cash for a bit, but ultimately lost fun due to creating mediocre product as some dweeb douche barked inhospitality at me.

Btw: Your models look much much better!

Sounds like some website work I did for a guy once, people are the worst.

Thanks for the encouragement, we painted a bunch of wolves next and... uhg, lets just say I have no desire to post the results, they did not come out as intended at all. Pretty sure I'm going to do a couple of dozen rats next, then move on to zombies. I'm trying to paint the figures I see myself using soon in that Ravenloft campaign.

Onoes said:

Sounds like some website work I did for a guy once, people are the worst.

Thanks for the encouragement, we painted a bunch of wolves next and... uhg, lets just say I have no desire to post the results, they did not come out as intended at all. Pretty sure I'm going to do a couple of dozen rats next, then move on to zombies. I'm trying to paint the figures I see myself using soon in that Ravenloft campaign.

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I'm not tying to be patronizing, but do you know how to drybrush? Really helps with fur for animal models

Rengak I was about to ask the same thing, Onoes the easiest way to paint when you start, especially for fur, is basecoat, wash, drybrush.

I watched some youtube video's on it, but have no actual experience. It didn't help that I have 24 wolf models, so I dived them into 4 groups of 6 and decided I would paint one group black, one brown, one grey, and one white. I was planning on differentiating each 6 as well, but groups of 6 similar colors. My SO said she was going to try the grey ones, so I thought I would start easy with White.... Well, turns out its really hard to wash white without it turning whatever color you try to wash it with. Same with drybrushing, I went with an off white and then, the whole thing is off white.

I realized after a couple of frustrating hours that I should have started with the darker colors and worked up to white, the exact opposite of what I did. I started over and did that... but pretty much still just ended up with 6 white wolves. I did a better job on the black ones, highlighting with dark grey, and my lady did decently with the greys, not great, but better than my stuff I think. The should be browns are still just sitting here, primed and waiting.