i tried changing the amount of the bulky foam item to see if that affected the shipping nope

tuft and flock is... not cheap

their prices are pretty good relatively speaking

not sure about quality tho since i've never used any of this stuff

there is also the allure of having everything arrive in one package, because babysitting my front door can be very easy or take up my entire day waiting for delivery

so having my order split over X days will waste so much of my goddamn time

ooOoOooo their registered mail option seems to indicate final delivery is usps?

usps is way better for me than ups or fedex

that might have swayed me lol

15-30 working days

bruh that is so long lol

this is a horrible checkout process holy shit

bruh what the fuck even is this

uses some payment intermediary that defaults to euros and also charges a 2% transaction fee

LOL WHAT

i tried to go back to switch payment currency to euros

it errored out and my entire cart is empty on the website

... what the flying fuck man looooooooooooooololol

apparently green stuff world is based in spain and their entire payment process is absolutely donkey nuts

HOLY SHIT THE ORDER WENT THROUGH ON MY CREDIT CARD

WHAT THE FUCK

so somehow it errored out, completed my order, and i ended up paying an extra $27

this is extraordinarily not fucking cool

their fucking bullshit contact form is not letting me send a message, asking me to perform a recaptcha that does not fucking exist
LOL LMAO
email it is
well this was a rollercoaster two hours

i am now on hugeminis

hopefully they are less shit than greenstuffworld

yes

good xD

ooOoOoo they have mixes of grass and grit and stuff
it looks like pork floss xD

hrmph they also carry green stuff

kinda don't wanna buy given my recent experience

hrm their flock is made out of foam and is very... floofy xD

got a smattering of tufts and flowers and stuff for terrain decoration

no tax or shipping either. hopefully i can get usps shipping xD

reading 40k lore really be like "the emperor was not emotionally attached to the primarchs but also he got mortally wounded by a primarch because he refused to use the full might of his psychic powers against his beloved son"
Oh my paints did come today xD

the big bottle is glaze medium so i can try that

i mean washes fucked me up but might as well keep trying other techniques xD

also got a white primer and a few other varnishes to see if i like those

there's nothing WRONG with the vallejo ultra matt... i don't think

but maybe these will alter the final look more significantly

also doubled up on a few colors i really liked, like their bloody red

got some purple, another green, and a fancy ass REFRACTIVE green

This pleases me

the length of these cardboard boxes that can hold magic cards is gonna differ probably, but the width is basically perfect for 4 row

just sayin' if you indulged in too much cardboard crack like i used to

every 40k space marine vs argument in

/r/whowouldwin: "space marines stomp respect the humble space marine read your lore you fukken nerd in this ted talk i will..."

/r/40klore: "is the space marine named? is he wearing his helmet?"

40k numbers strike again

i tried to reconcile the populations on hive worlds and crusade casualties and stuff the other day

that was a mistake

they're arguing if codexes are lore

i dunno man. if that doesn't count as lore what does

"they changed the lore later" is valid

"i don't feel like the swarmlord is that powerful" is like, not really that valid

take it up with gw xD

i think one of the funniest things about 40k is the homogeneity. especially since it's sci-fi

a counterinsurgency in real life modern terms only needs like two dozen insurgents per 1000 populace

in 40k population scale and modern tech (everyone running around with lasguns) that ratio is prolly way lower

even the cults don't operate right, they're described as infesting whole planets/ships

bruh that place is fucked way before infestation levels

pour one out for the poor guardsmen who get rat fucked in everything i've ever read because they are led by the most braindead "supersoldier" motherfuckers you ever did see

i really REALLY don't like the guardsmen minis because of their uhhh

stylistic inspiration source

for the most part. some of them look like normal ww2 soldiers or whatever

these poor bastards tho

gonna get wrecked by abaddon or something

how are they replacing all their lost materiel anyway with the iom having such shit manufacturing capabilities

there is a weird contingent of 40kers who insist you must paint your minis to play (casually)

lol lmao

it would not surprise me if the majority of people who are in 40k at all are just hobbyists and don't play

just read lore and paint and shit

alright i'm gonna go now

now i just wanna get real good at painting minis

like fucking S-tier level shit. just a massive collection of fallout warfare minis beautifully painted

and then show up at my lgs with a totally unpainted 40k kill team like sup bitches

if anyone gives me shit i'll just be like "all space marines look the same anyway" and enjoy the show

"IT'S BASIC RESPECT TO PAINT FOR YOUR OPPONENT"

your color choices are sad and you disgust me

respect-- go strip your minis and try again nerd

gonna go around rules lawyering marines throwing grenades if i don't see grenades glued on them

i have one unpainted mini left

the zetan

do i paint him today. hrmmmm 🤔

i feel like yes, because i have my white primer and white (and bone white! and off white!) paints now

but also if i don't get my minis tomorrow that will leave me with zero unpainted minis

why does that make my palms itch lololol

7 of the 9 coming tomorrow are named npcs tho, so i'd also like to slow down a bit and take my time

and not do nora 2.0 lololol

i had this idea last night that i wanted to handmake a power noodles stand

i dunno how imma do that, but it would also give me an excuse to hang leds in it

power noooooods 🍜

and choice chops 🥩

honestly it's weird i never bought this book

i kinda wanna expand it. the in-game diamond city is obviously super compressed because video game, but i imagine just a buncha lawn chairs and bleachers and scattered tables with food and shit

maybe takahashi hired some helping human hands as well xD

also like, i realize most mini/terrain builders /i've/ seen don't really use actual flowing fabrics and stuff?

they all almost always use stiff materials that look like it, and then paint them that way

why tho

i could just use cloth for the awnings xD

i'm not sure how to make that neon sign

do they even make lettering that small. how would i mimic the font/style

i feel like the big stylistic things here are:

1) the big tower shape of the power plant,
2) the awnings covering the counters/stools,
3) TAKAHASHI! and
4) that neon sign

the rest is all secondary

i could take strips of tin or copper and literally build the shell of the generator

the power connectors (and wires?) might be harder than i think

the wires would also interfere with gameplay if you wanted to play with it

i kinda want takahashi and a mr handy in there now

maybe it's ALL run by robots xD

this probably works better as a diorama

gotta wait for my display cases to arrive so i can take more precise measurements

@worthlessbums how are they going to throw them if they're glued on?
@worthlessbums bring a can of spray paint and just lightly dust them all at once if anyone complains. There, they're painted
@worthlessbums also legit, my like third or fourth place reason that I've never gotten into 40k is that I have no skill or desire to have skill at painting tiny things

@worthlessbums you’ve literally just described my husband and about 10 of our friends 😆

We have all the hours heresy books, warhammer fantasy role play, seen all the games & tv stuff, absolutely think Event Horizon is a 40k/chaos-coded movie...

...but like hell we can afford the models and paint to play the original games. (But we did as kids)

@Teaceratops i'm honestly impressed anyone has read all the fucking hh books lololol
@worthlessbums he’s at the point where he’s waiting for more to come out 😅 it’s taken about 15 years to get to this point though
@worthlessbums How do they react when you show them a freshly spray painted army?

@Zarkonnen i dunno i'm not gonna play these losers xD

it reminds me of mtg players who loser their shit over proxies because people didn't wanna drop $400 on a playset of a card

@worthlessbums Hive Worlds like Necromunda practically cannibalize themselves to meet quotas for materiel to send up as part of their tithes, importing thousands of tonnes of ore, food, and recycled parts from other worlds on a daily basis and using every part of the carcass to make new stuff. To the point that near the bottom of the hives the standard food is mostly made out of corpse starch and the general trade is ripping out collapsed parts of the superstructure to repurpose into scrap that can be sold uphive.

Just because the entire IoM is at war doesn't mean everywhere is on the frontline; it just means the entire galaxy that humans control is given over to the military-industrial complex.

@kaynSD you know i woulda thought this woulda been... the forge worlds xD

@worthlessbums The Forgeworlds do definitely do that, often for the ludicrous scale weapons, but the Hive Worlds are also massive producers of small arms, recruiting grounds, and tanks. Tertium (the fighting grounds for the recent Darktide game) has a large output of Leman Russ Battle Tanks.

Bascially every part of the Imperium that's not some very rich or very influential group's private little reserve is in pure war economy mode, either producing stuff for battle, or on it's front line.

There is only war, and all that.