warprat

Hey, thanks! I need to get plastic glue. You get this from a hobby store? What brand do you use? Also, I have... a story... A couple years ago, my wife mixed up the super glue and the eye drops bottle. Some of them do look very similar... She placed a big old drop of super glue right in the middle of her eye. Yes, the Horror, the horror... Immediately realizing what she had done, she ran for the sink and flushed her eye with water. It loosened just a smidge at the widest part of her eye. But most was glued shut. While saying goodbye to her eyeball (under the water), she managed to call the optometrist, then called me at work for an emergency drive. My wife is very good in an emergency. I advised her to place a patch over her good eye, and try not to move her eyeballs, for fear of tearing flesh. We raced to the eye doctor, and he placed some drops in her eye. Long story short, she lucked out with only superficial scratching, and many lost eye lashes (that had to be cut away). Needless to say, "Please don't try this at home kids." LOL!

Hello fellow geeks and geekesses, The other day I was glueing up my fifth Rhino, feeling rather smug, as I noticed my building skills have been slowly improving with each build. Then, as I was finishing off my little masterpiece, I happened to get glue on my fingers and gluey fingerprints all over the model in an attempt to save my fingers from bonding to each other and to the plastic. The Horror! The shame... I scraped a bunch off with my new best friend, the exacto knife, when I noticed that the knife was not removing it without scratching a bit of the surface. Eeeek! I then applied my other best friend, the scrapper, newly purchased at GW. That helped a bit, but I can't help but wonder what this poor model will look like once it is painted. I was using Krazy glue, but recently switched to the ultimate, Loctite Ultragel Control. What do you use? What is the best way to glue up the final top piece that fits over the Rhino? Do you manage to get all the seems and what-not? Is there some sort of liquid, like cooking oil or something, that would help remove glue without scrapping? One final question, the lights... Which way do you glue them? Roundy lights to the inside, or to the outside? Thanks, so much! Warprat

Well, I never liked Crunch HeadSmack anyway... good riddance to that git! Just wish I had the gold to replace him, LOL.

I would like to give a shout out to GW for their outstanding customer service! A few years ago I bought an Apocalypse Battle Company and parked it in my closet. Lately, I started on building the rhinos from said box. To my horror, I noticed that each of the nine rhino sprues were all missing the same parts. The L4 and L7 track pieces, to be exact. I had visions of having to troll eBay from the 40K parts mongers. Paying out my rear end... To my pleasant surprise, they found out what I needed, and sent it out the same day. I received the parts in about 3 days. OK, one could say that the problem should have never occurred in the first place. But, "stuff" happens. To support a product many years old, is outstanding. Their stuff is not cheap, but they sure have great customer support. Go GW!

It's all good... I'll take the blame, since the new guy should always get all the blame, just for being new... LOL!

Hi savion, I didn't see my Orc team in there... The Green Skin Slackers. I have created my team on the website.

Please add me to the League... I will be playing Orcs. Team name: Green Skin Slackers

I will be there on Tuesday as well. I will bring my 40K and Bloodbowl Orcs.

Hi Everyone, I am planning to make my first new appearance on Tuesday. I will be bringing some 40K Marines and a Blood Bowl team, if no one wants to play 40K. Hope to see you there!

Oh darn, it showed up in the post, and now it's gone... Well, it was dark angels green for base color. Gold highlights around shoulder trim and eagle on chest. Black eyes, mouth grill and gun (with gun metal... I could also go bronze or silver with metallic pen? ). White emblems on shoulders (but could be metallic silver?). There are other sharpie markers as well. Red, green, purple, black, blue, orange, yellow, etc... Some of them are called permanent paint markers, and are made to be used on metal, pottery, wood, plastic, etc... About warprat... it is actually a combination of the "warp" and the "Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison. I have an avatar picture that Harry Harrison the author drew, and which I found and appropriated. I used the name in desperation after about 10 different tries with something more heroic sounding, LOL. Some how, some people get war-prat out of it, and I can't figure out why... When I typed "prat" into the online dictionary it came up with "the buttocks." Do I resemble a butt? Maybe a butt head, because I am so smart, LOL!

paxmiles, I think you make some very good points here. It is amazing to me that people will pay good money for terribly painted GW minis on e-bay. Talk about re-sale value... I have been buying metal dreadnoughts for pretty cheap, though. The paint should strip off quite well. Nobody likes dreads right now, but things change and can swing around again. I really like the added weight, it somehow feels "right" when you pick it up and move it. I have been looking around at what is available. The amazons were kind of an impulse choice, which is why I posted. Thankfully, you guys managed to talk me down from the ledge. But I do love Deamonetts. I bought 10 of the old metal figures just before they were discontinued... I have noticed that there are quite a lot of good non-GW Ork figures. And since Orks are so non-standardized and chaotic in nature, I think they could fit in with GW figures quite well. And I have seen a nice Highlander set, that looks very good as Imperial Guard. I believe they are pretty spendy, but less than GW.

Thanks so much for your posts PourSpelur! I do have lots of mini's to do. I have read that one advantage of dipping is that it provides a very tough coating. What would you use for the dip? I will have to do any heavy painting on my front porch, so I have some time to plan everything out before the weather turns. As far as colors go, I am completely overwhelmed, and have no idea on which direction to go... Maybe something like this: I could use gold and black pen, perhaps... I guess white paint for the raised shoulder emblems. Ideas?

Amazons with apocalypse arms. Put some deamonette type claws on some. Make them into a Slaanish traitor guard. Add some deamonette summoning.

Thanks guys! Well, I probably don't need any more mini's anyway. Got plenty of Space Marines to work on... But, these looked like they might be really fun to make into a Imperial Guard force:

Hey Guys, Before I pull the trigger on buying some cheap non-GW minis, what is the general consensus on this? OK or not OK? Can you use them at tournaments? What if they have some GW parts, like guns? Thanks in advance!

Found them, dark blue and dark brown...

Sounds promising! What is the purpose of the heavy black wash? Is it to give the grey paint some shading in the recesses? Thanks, sounds fairly challenging for my meager skills, but I think I could do it. I'm not in love with the black color scheme. What colors would really work well together, if I was to use the silver, gold, and/or copper metal?

Oh, that sounds like a great idea. Painting the guns and bits on the sprue, and then snipping and touching them up. Brilliant, thanks so much.

Thanks for your long and helpful reply AbusePuppy. I have read many of your posts, and always find them thoughtful and well written. So, maybe something like this: 1) Spray paint black primer. Is it worth it to buy an air brush? 2) Paint Eshin Grey. 3) Highlight with markers (or if they look ass, use paint.) 4) Wash with Nuln Oil. 5) Paint on Lahmian Medium to remove gloss and seal colors. Is there a good spray for this? One last silly question, do you like to be addressed in posts with your full name, AbusePuppy. Or do you like to be responded to as "Abuse" or "Puppy?" LOL!

So, for years I have been buying Space Marines. I have starter boxes, I have a full battle company box, complete with rhinos. I have Battle Force boxes, etc... All of them are unassembled. Last week I pulled everything out and found stuff I didn't even think I had. Scouts, bikes, speeders, etc... Of all my minis, I "have" assembled two boxes of Black Reach tacticals and termies. Two boxes of Battle for Macragge tacticals and all the marines from a Dark Vengeance set. Nothing is painted. Poor me, I know, right? But here is the problem. I am totally ignorant in the ways of properly assembling and painting all these guys. This week, after I finished assembling the Dark Vengeance set and gluing it up, I noticed that the chest areas were now covered by the bolter, and that this was probably going to make painting much harder. I also noticed that the models have really nice shoulder detail that stands out, and should really help my novice painting non-abilities. I saw Vengeance tacticals going on ebay for $11. I bought 6... plus a slightly damaged Dark Vengeance box on amazon for $82. And I bought other bits and things, like combi-flamers on ebay. Plus, I am the proud owner of 5 used, (some very) metal dreadnoughts that averaged about $25 each. And I bought some 3rd party conversion bits for whirlwinds and razorbacks from puppetwar with a 15% discount on Black Friday. I am insane. I know it... totally out of control and bonkers. My wife, may just decide to kill me... justifiably. Today, Cyber Monday, I looked at the Betrayal at Calth box. It is on sale at Frontline Gaming. I would like to support them by purchasing something. I so want the missile launchers! But I resisted... so maybe there is hope. My dream is to paint these guys black, and use them as a successor chapter. I noticed in the space marine codex that there are lots of chapters painted black. Also, the pre-heresy Dark Angels were, well, dark. Before they were green and bone colored. So, I could use some of the minis to make an early traitor force, that got stuck in the warp. I know other people are doing this too. Am I stupid to think this way? I could use a few good links on how to properly clip, trim and file, There are so many tutorials, I just get confused. I found this at Bolter and Chainsword for black: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/284451-captain-volos-black-armour-tutorial/ And I found this for painting with markers: Can a basic table top paint job be as easy as painting the black, then using markers, and finally gluing them together? What would you do, if you could do it all over again? I don't want to ruin good minis... Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I just found my Eisenhorn trilogy book, while going through my wargamming boxes. I turned my wife onto reading the Dresden Files. She loves them! Next I'm going to suggest Eisenhorn. Plus, I've been gluing up and trimming models when we watch TV together. Then I show them to her... Who know, maybe I can get her to play a game or two? What if she got hooked? A man can dream.... LOL!

Well, the list may be a fairly good, but I'm pretty rusty on the rules, so I'll probably make all sorts of rooky mistakes. I've always played foot armies in the past. I'm actually pretty jazzed to try out the transports. Never played one before... I'm going to try to glue a bunch of stuff up this weekend. I have a decent shot at making the club on Tuesday, with some sort of cobbled together, bastardized army. It won't be the full Battle Company, probably just some Tacs and Terminators. What time do you guys start?

Thanks for the heads up deadwing34! But I guess some games are better than no games, LOL. Is my list acceptable, or do I need to tone it down? Are you playing space marines?

My first attempt at a Battle Company list. Good, bad, ugly? Ideas, comments? HQ 150pts Khan Moondraken 1 115pts Chaplain Bike, Auspex 1 Troops 170pts Tactical Squad Flamer, C Flamer, Plasma Cannon 10 Rhino 1 170pts Tactical Squad Flamer, C Flamer, Plasma Cannon 10 Rhino 1 170pts Tactical Squad Flamer, C Flamer, Plasma Cannon 10 Rhino 1 185pts Tactical Squad Flamer, C Flamer, Plasma Cannon 10 Drop Pod Deathwind 1 105pts Tactical Squad Plasma Cannon 5 Razorback Las Cannon, TL Plasma 1 105pts Tactical Squad Plasma Cannon 5 Razorback Las Cannon, TL Plasma 1 10th Company Task Force 72pts Scouts 2x SR, 2x BLT, Missle Launcher 5 70pts Scouts 3x CC, 1x SG, Missle Launcher 5 70pts Scouts 3x CC, 1x SG, Missle Launcher 5 Fast Attack 143pts Marine Bikes Grav x2, Multi-melta Attack bike 4 50pts Attack Bike Multi Melta 1 Heavy Support 130pts Devastators Las Cannon x3 5 Drop Pod 1 145pts Devastators Las Cannon x3 5 Drop Pod Deathwind 1 1850pts I also have a couple of Blood Bowl teams laying around some where. A Human team, Ork team, and a High Elf team. OK, thats three, LOL!

Hey Guys, I have been down to WOW a couple times in the distant past and really liked the people there, but already had a regular gaming group that I played with. The group broke up, and I played on-line games for a few years. Now I want to get back into miniatures again. I have a large-ish space marine collection of a couple hundred or so figures and transports fully unassembled and unpainted. Along with some speeders and whatnot that I have collected from the various battle boxes (the ones that contain the small rules and figures from two different armies.) I am wondering about a few things... Is the club still active and playing 40K? What is the meta like there? Friendly or super competitive? What kind of list should I bring? If I bring a battle company will that be too much, too little, or just right? Do my minis need to be painted to play? WYSIWYG? Finally, does anyone have any advice for a simple and fast way to paint lots of models to a fairly table top standard in a short-ish amount of time? Is one color easier than another? I would like to play my army with a paint scheme that could let me play as a successor chapter of any codex. I also have some chaos bits to add to some figures to make sarges and whatnot chaosey. Just to spice things up. Thanks in advance for your replies! Warprat