Worthless Bumsi watched some 40k painting videos and was slapped in the face with some very fash-adjacent ads
i then watched some fallout warfare gameplay videos and got... bath fixture ads
take that as you will
me: *no real desire to actually play the game*
also me: *intense desire to make custom unit cards for fo wf*
Found some old dice I think I got them from sone kickstarter a million years ago 🎲🎲
the ball one looks cool af and rolls like shit tho lol
the other three are cool, but probably imbalanced due to metal
but no one in a non-competitive environment gonna care
a reason i wanna make fallout warfare cards, aside from the fact that i like cards, is that the profile images are photos of the minis... but totally unpainted lol
just solid gray minis
THIS RPG ALLOWS YOU TO BE A SUPER MUTANT OR GEN 3 SYNTH AND SHIT FALLOUT 5 BETTER ALLOW YOU TO BE ALL THOSE THINGS AND GHOULS ETC ETC
one of the premade character sheets is a mister handy
i kinda like the idea of like... merging warfare and 2d20 and my permadeath toons from the video games
use the rpg/warfare stuff for side quest scenarios that would be a pita to re-create in any of the video games
also @DarkestKale can look down upon me with contempt when i dm myself badly
ALSO because it is such a huge pita to swap control of characters in fallout 4, i can use this for non-main characters 😁
oh did you die chasing that story in that custom scenario i made in 2d20, piper?
DIE IN FALLOUT 4 😈
the 2d20 core rulebook is 400 pages
lol the fuck
look i don't arr pee gee but that seems like a lot of pages
oh man mutant chronicles. i forgot that was a game, i just liked the movie which apparently everyone else hated xD
/r/rpg really hates 2d20 apparently
also, fallout 4
oh warhammer gladius is free on steam rn
free to keep if you get it before june 1
the game's not very good but i bought my captain a +2 sword relic so
i only got a black primer which i am learning was probably a mistake
ah well
i have not cleared my table yet or made a wet palette, but i will prolly paint this weekend
poorly xD
none of the army painter brushes came with caps, and the detail brush has bent bristles
hrm
actually one of them did: the kolinsky masterclass
also it's triangle shaped so easy to hold, and doesn't roll
My brother got me extra thin cement and a very old timey looking brush cleaner
brain: "you don't actually need to paint the minis to play the game solo"
me: "shut up brain"
i read too much conflicting information so imma just prime my minis later today for painting tomorrow >.>
also apparently i accidentally got an airbrush primer but imma brush it on
it'll be fiiiiiine
Nora went first so she could experience the full brunt of my mistakes lololol
Also holy shit that super mutant hound was such a pita because it's so low to the base
yes it took me 2 hours to clean off the table, lysol and wipe it down, set up that shit, and prime them badly lololol
i also jacked up my brush getting the primer in every nook and cranny
my inexpertise with thinning aside, i think i need a smaller brush and/or need to learn how to repair bent bristles >.>
i feel like i might need to go back and recoat some minis/sections
hilariously my phone acts as a good magnifier for details
i didn't get any white paint which i am now realizing was a mistake
i got black paint (not the primer) to mix, but not white
fucking why bums lolololol
i don't think i need it, i got all the colors i /really/ need for most of what i have now
but just... why
exception being if the blues i got don't match the vault suit blue. I GUESS I WILL SEE
i figured out why
there's no white vallejo paint on the store i bought it from
gonna buy a fucking magnifying glass lolololol
weirdly even tho the coat of thinned primer on the power armor guy showed the gray underneath it turned out to be perfectly black coated after it dried
like it's basically indistinguishable from nora who i did first with absolutely no thinning
my understanding of thinning is you want the paint (or primer) to be a certain consistency or thinness to coat <whatever>, but also it /should/ be partially opaque?
like layering is also a reason to thin? the primer bottle itself mentions you can use it with or without thinning
possibly i am misunderstanding something here 🤔
i don't think it /really/ matters, since i think the whole point of the primer is to get a good surface for your actual colored paints to adhere to, so really the thinner the better since it allows more detail on the mini itself to show after it plus X layers of paint
anyway this is a learning experience so i tried a variety of ways to get that fucking primer into hard to reach nooks and crannies
WE'LL SEE HOW EACH TURNS OUT
painters: "you want to shade and highlight your minis for maximum looking cool"
me: "what if i install actual lights in the bases of the minis"
look all i'm saying is i've now seen a lot of "glowing" energy weapons and while they look cool they do not look like they're glowing
we can change this
we have the technology
like yes i could paint glowing power armor eyes
or
i could hollow out the head and jam an led in there
also what about my pip-boys
MY PIP-BOYS
might be too small tbh xD
i may not be a good painter, but i am willing to buy $50 worth of electronics to use $2.45 worth of electronics to do things with lights
i wonder how good glow in the dark paint would look tho
i wonder how much effort you should invest in making the led replaceable without cutting the mini apart
i kinda want one of those things to hold the base of the mini while i paint
i bet you could just use putty and... anything to hold onto
i bet the first time i drop a wet paint mini into something i will regret thinking that lolololol
i like this eonsofbattle guy
infectious enthusiasm
do people slap their paint on cardboard or something to see the actual color when it dries
is that a thing, or is this just a waste of paint lol
also: i think i underestimated how much primer it takes to coat all those minis
i didn't waste very much at all (left on the palette) and still
make sure to get different primer colors next time i order too xD
this dude has like over 100 painting videos in a playlist
lololol good for you man
but i do not have the patience for that i'd rather make a buncha mistakes yeeeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww xD
it's so cute
Chibis DESTROY 40k's Grimdark?
not many people play the fallout warfare game lol
one channel seems to have a bunch of battle reports tho
also like: why is moving units in 40k the worst thing i have ever seen
holy shit i know i'm a computer game guy but this is exactly why. measuring out every unit movement distance with a ruler must be maddening
gamedev.lgbt/@psilocervine@worthlessbums I usually used a primed posterboard but really it's the kinda thing I only ever did with new colours. after a while you sorta just get a feel for it, y'know?
@worthlessbums new colours as in "I just bought a new colour," not mixes
@psilocervine yeah i have programmer potato eyes and am not patient enough to watch tutorials so... i am gonna brute force trial and error my way through this experience lololol
banneret@worthlessbums I don't mess with miniatures these days, but often I would prime and paint pieces of sprue for comparison to plastic models.
Supervinh47@worthlessbums pilot assays are always a good idea