brain: "you don't actually need to paint the minis to play the game solo"

me: "shut up brain"

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

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 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

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 🤔

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 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xY3EWsS81o

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

also like, just a ton of keeping track of random crap

scoring every turn with multiple objectives etc

why does it lean so heavily into all the stuff physical games suck at and computer games excel at

me: *not even painted one mini yet*

also me: "i should build a fallout 4 radio that i can trigger to play sound effects and atmospheric music"

not really interested in getting into warhammer, but the space nuns and orcs (orks lololol) are kinda neat

feel like they'd be fun to paint

but also super mutants are basically orcs

not feeling the giant ass mechs they have

first they're not mini at all ololol

also most of them look real boxy and like they were definitely not designed by engineers