i think i can scrub down the other half of my current computer table and use that lol

watching painting videos

why did i start this lol

i have no art skills and programmer potato eyes why did i start buying this shit lololol
[demonic fallout lust]

sprues is a fun word tho

altho the fallout warfare stuff comes pre-assembled

i've also learned to hate every single miniature painting tutorial blog post because they use 234978292542345 words to say one thing

also no one explains the myriad tools involved

the eight million different types of paints, primers, and brushes

they're all like "pick an appropriate brush". thanks bruh, i'll figure it out

seriously considering just buying some random ass vallejo color set and fucking shit up since that's what i expect from a first time anyway

i should look at my figures and actually plot out what colors i would need instead of winging it

tbh that feels a lot less exciting than winging it

i almost failed art class in high school

did you know that about me

well now you know

i just realized i can use one of my new fallout mugs to hold water for painting

the synergy

i think imma have to reorg my older desktop 'puter, shift my work laptop to my long table, and this will clear up my square work table to be a painting table
will this new hobby be an excuse for me to buy a brand spanking new high cri headlamp tho??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

are miniature brushes supposed to cost like $20-30 each

these are disposable items right

i assume they last longer than toothbrushes at least xD

i'm sorry

dickblick?

midlund flesh

a work lamp i can clamp to the edge of my table is prolly better than a headlamp

disappointed by this tbh

i'm in a forum discussing the grain of paint pigments

help

i'm getting the feeling i am in very subjective "just try a buncha fukken paints and see what works/what you like" territory

this is why hobbies are expensive

is 100ml of a paint a lot

it feels like a lot

in my wasteland there will be canon giant otters and hippos and you cannot stop me 🦦🦛
i thought to myself "alright obviously start with power armor because you can just prime it and start with a gray metal base layer and highlight whatever" and it turns out metal paints are a whole other kettle of fish
i might need to make a tiny minutemen stencil

i wonder if modiphius sells fo76 specific minis like excavator power armor

i didn't see any but that site is a little... confusing, sometimes

it does not inspire confidence when you try to make an account on some hobby store and the account creation fails with a blank page
oh shit but they have a sale on some fallout minis lololol
don't do it bums

gonna sleep on this and the colors i want

also: i still can't make a goddamn account on this site

i lied i added more brushes and ordered lololol

ALRIGHT

NO MORE SPENDING MONEY UNTIL I ACTUALLY PAINT SOMETHING

i clicked on a 20 minute video on how to thin paint

that's where my head's at

the best thing about modding fallout 4 to hell and back is modern equipment totally fits my headcanon and opens the field to me utilizing a broad array of more modern wargaming assets lololol

none of the vehicles work tho

you'd need some very specific atompunk or whatever style to match aside from some tanks or apcs fallout has in-game

all the wasteland/punk opposition minis on etsy totally slot right in as fallout raiders, as long as they're 32mm and have roughly actual realistic human proportions xD
this could be a grognak lololol
i am 9000% spoiled by the idea of the mini being one solid piece instead of gluing together shit because i just saw an exploded parts list and i wanted to turn off my entire computer

like it's cool to customize i get it

but like two dozen different facial expressions lolol

cyberpunk dog? dunno never played the game, but it looks suitably fallout xD

i was excited because i saw a big scorpion i thought i could use as a radscorpion but then i realized there was a tiny naked lady sitting on it

why lol

that looks like a power fist to me

*favs*

the helmet does look like an assaultron tho >.>

why y'all obsessed with sexy predators and assaultrons

BRUH LOL

ALSO I HAD TO FUKKEN TAG THIS LOOOOOOOOLOLOL

not me faving every cyberpunk doggo i see

i'm just saying i feel like i could turn him into preston xD

no laser musket tho

finding out who has the best prices for some of these because they're just printing stls from the same third parties

also sometimes you get a better deal direct from their own website stores, if they exist

*waits patiently for a coupon from etsy*

was browsing games workshop for minis that might match the colors of paint i bought

not really into warhammer at all but i did see this "kill rig" xD

i just figured if i like painting minis i'll prolly paint a buncha power armor and super mutants which means a lotta black/gray/green

orks are green, badda bing badda boom

"minis"
bringing up the question if doomguy could just murder everyone in 40k
i am in a 7 year old thread about this topic and the 40kers are convinced doomguy couldn't even kill a space marine, but i'm also pretty sure space marines die to genestealers just because... their claws are sharp
i dunno if that tracks in the boardgame lore but like, that's a thing in at least some of the games so xD
i'm in a newer thread and someone calculated the odds of a guardsman killing a warlord titan
the summary of two posts

what i'm getting from this is you want like 10e100000 guardsmen to swarm a titan

pro: your statistical odds go up since they don't attack one at a time

con: physical constraints mean most are queueing to die

no one wants to concede that lore takes a backseat to game mechanics, in the games

lol

mostly these threads have convinced me that 40k has a wildly inconsistent power scale that is mitigated in lore by "there are quadrillions of the meats to vaporize"

i have browsed several threads. the choice bits of information i have obtained:

1) goku and vegeta are basically gods and could terminate 40k by farting if someone pissed them off,

2) kirby is universal god level, but slaanesh (sp) could tempt him easily with food

kinda wanna play 3.5 now tbh

i am like... not far off from headcanoning a fallout toon into tes and vice versa tho tbh

MAGIC MOTHERFUCKERS

someone mod giants and mammoths into fo4 for me thanks
@worthlessbums :Bums gets dangerously close to getting sucked into the Dominions series or at least Conquest of Elysium:

@worthlessbums ahem.

'minis' (Imperator Titan at 40k scale)