Games Workshop--what are you buying, selling, playing, or painting?

Completed 2 team of Ork specialists:





These are a pain to paint since they're extremely detailed and not that much rarer than grunts (I plan to have 5 more of each).

Sevej wrote: Completed 2 team of Ork specialists:

Wow, those are crazy great!

Finished my Orlock gang for Necromunda. We've already had two campaigns aborted halfway through, maybe the third will finish? I borrowed a set of Army Painter paints, basecoated all the colors, then used their Quick Shade stuff over the entire model. Then some minimal touchup highlights. They're a bit dark, but they're done. I think all the weapons are conversions except the two autoguns.

I'm never going to be a decent minis painter. I'm a speed demon on a keyboard, but those same hands are a little too quick and twitchy to do quality work with brushes and small miniatures. So I sometimes try to rationalize and justify my decision to buy stripped games and replace with wooden tokens with relevant art pasted on. I tell myself that painting minis is little more than a 3D version of painting by numbers, and that the important thing is the quality of the game not the components. Then I see pictures like these Orlocks and it makes me wish I had the time and talent to paint miniatures competently.

The gold detailing on those guns is SWAAAAANK. Love it!

Shellhead wrote: Then I see pictures like these Orlocks and it makes me wish I had the time and talent to paint miniatures competently.

I actually don't particularly enjoy the act of painting. I think these are the first miniatures I've actually completed (fully painted) since the Cryx Bonejacks were first released in the base boxes for Warmachine. Obviously I've painted stuff here and there through the years, but I never really finished anything. (Edit - That's not true, now that I think about it. I've finished stuff, it's just few and far between.) And to be honest, it was likely the Quick Shade that facilitated that. Washing/inking every different color would definitely have dampened my enthusiasm to finish them. I had actually planned to highlight all the colors but said, "Fuck it, they look decent enough as is." I'm going to have to check out some of those contrast paints to see if they will speed up my process.

And I would describe my skills as competent, at best. The basic process of basecoat-wash-highlight will give you good results for the least amount of effort. Obviously practice helps, but if you can paint within the lines, you can turn out some good looking stuff for the tabletop.

Happened to see this pop up in my news feed a couple of days ago. It's a couple of exclusives, one for 40k and one for AoS.

www.warhammer-community.com/2019/06/18/s...rgw-homepage-post-2/

I really like the latter model: I don't like Stormcasts, but she's got a dynamic pose and an actual face, two things that are lacking on almost all Stormcast models. And I've wanted a female Stormcast for Silver Tower for ages.

But the ordering process? Apparently, I can only get one if I wait until one day in April 2020 and go into my local store to order one. In this day and age that seems irritating and absurd. I get that the idea is to make them hard to get and desirable (and presumably to charge through the nose: I can't find a price anywhere, and I'll baulk if it's much over £10) but I imagine they'll just end up on eBay a day after release at scalping prices.