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  1. Stahly being a mensch: https://taleofpainters.com/2022/09/top-tip-visual-comparison-of-all-61-contrast-23-speedpaints-24-gsw-dipping-inks/
  2. Buy the cool new stuff, and sell the moldy old stuff through Mindtaker. Life is short, enjoy the ride.
  3. Man, I miss Zgames. So many good memories
  4. I think most paint lines are pretty good nowadays... I mostly use Vallejo paints though have started adding Scale Color, which I really like. They have high pigment density so are great for glazing, and dry super matte. GW paints are good, but like people have said their bottles are craptacular. I use their shades and Contrast (stupid expensive but pretty useful) lines as washes and glazes but am transferring them over to dropper bottles. Next time I order paint (afaik there isn't a decent source for paints in Portland/Vancouver so I mail order) I'm definitely going to add in some Pro Acryl -- I hear their Titanium White is awesome. I tried a few bottles of Army Painter but didn't really care for them, the colors I had were pretty thin and chalky but I probably just got unlucky. Every paint line has great paints and stinkers, I probably just chose the stinkers. AP has a lot of fans so they must be alright. If I were starting over, I don't think I'd buy a mega-set. I suspect there's a lot of dead-wood colors I wouldn't use very often. Maybe I'd pick up a basic set and add to that depending on the colors included.
  5. Finished the 33-ork batch. Hooray for Contrast paints.
  6. Progress... but 33 boyz is probably too large a batch 🤯
  7. Trukks are boring, so I painted Makari instead.
  8. Trying a new technique I've named "zenithal weathering" -- by leaving a model on a shelf for a really long time, I slowly build up an initial layer of dust that adds an authentic lived-in feel to the model. You can see the effect best on the primed trukks in the pic below.
  9. Hmmmm, decisions decisions... the pile o' shame is wide, and deep. Ok, sticking to the fundamentals: 4 ork trukks painted and ready to WAAAAGH! by the end of June.
  10. They've improved it a lot since I last checked it out well over a year ago. I'll be using it to make PDFs to dump on my iPad. Thanks for the pointer.
  11. I've got one more week before my 2nd vaxx dose takes, and my lockdown 'ends'. In celebration here's a psychopatic assassin I just finished:
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