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

@worthlessbums The orks or the space marines?

Old ork dreadnaughts are fuckin ace

@DarkestKale space marine mechs yeah

also a lot of the non-space marine vehicles of other factions are kinda boxy looking too

@worthlessbums in-universe, what they have is what they *have*.

The tech for designing/making stuff like Dreads is... gone. The imperium is relying on STLs (standardised manufacturing plants they sometimes find, but often end up fucking up) and don't have many - so there's a reason the designs mostly stayed.

@worthlessbums Sleek and smooth was the Eldar design stuff. Look up their Wraithwalkers, wraithguard, etc

Imperium stuff is meant to look basic, clunky, a bit brutalist to juxtapose it.

@worthlessbums Also, you have to remember that it's like watching Monty Python: you're used to all the stuff that's come later and been inspired by this, so it looks primitive and a bit awful.

At the time - and in the vacuum it sort of resided in - well, holy shit, it was cool.

@worthlessbums Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is dry and a bit boring - but only because we're so used to all the jokes being flogged out, and all the stuff that's riffed off it, built off it, etc.

Fallout, for instance, takes a lot of influence from Paranoia.

Played Paranoia the other night and something came up and I was like 'that's a Fallout reference', and got told 'no, Fallout stole that from Paranoia'. etc.

@DarkestKale i have no idea what paranoia is lol

i only found out a while back old movie references fo3 made in one of their giant ant quests