it's possible i like looking at how people paint, than actually painting

is this what it's like to watch streamers

reading golden throne lore and cannot help butt notice how even at this scale the artist decided she needed clear buttcheeks 🍑

my package has been out for delivery since 6am but nothing yet

please say you didn't lose my minis

THEY CAME
What I like most about this is I paid a lot less than sticker price xD
runner up is that these boxes were in fact very smol so all 3 came in one cardboard box that fit in the usps lockbox without issue xD
realizing i am gonna get confused by x6-88 (the courser) and xv88... the tau battlesuit model my brother got me

"you can paint this!"

me, loudly: "YOU can paint this"

(i'm having another bad eye day i'm not gonna paint today)
i am finding out you can literally play the scum and villainy faction in x-wing

oh wait... maybe i shoulda primed all the minis first tho

ah fuck it, still feeling sick and eyes wonky xD

Decided to try the trend of making a run down, rusty transformer. Absolutely love how this turned out

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Oh shit these are not all in one piece xD

interesting

the feet have pegs on their feet to insert into holes in the bases... but i could also shave those off and totally rebase them

i didn't really care about mold lines at all on the other minis, but it sure is annoying if you need to attach stuff right on them lol
i dunno if i should assemble or paint first 🤔

fuck this gorilla super glue is really thick

too thick

TOO THICC

i need to think this through a little more lol

also will priming them before assembly fuck up my tolerances for assembly

i guess this gives me time to order super glue gel as well
can you loctite resin lol

I QUICK GOOGLE SHOWS NO RELEVANT RESULTS

KINDA WANNA KNOW NOW LOL

cait's left arm is such a bastard

the little nubbin to fit in the forearm is like a little nothing

also her bat rests right against her shoulder/neck so definitely gonna wanna paint her top section before assembly
feel like some of these nubbin/hole connection points are so miserable you are better off chopping the nubbin completely off and trying to glue the flat surfaces only

lol nick's arm snapped off, prolly sometime during transit

straight snapped off the sprue

That doesn't look annoying at all

strong has a rando nubbin on his right foot and i dunno if that's actually supposed to do something lol

watch me snip it and realize what it's for 2 seconds after

The easiest one lololol

the left arm of this missile launcher synth makes no sense

where the hell does this nubbin go lol

hey
wear your helmet
i don't understand how the mechanicum survives

airbrushes don't really speak to me

i dunno why

painter cursing as she has to strip a mini face and start again because she's entering a contest

me, having painted like a handful of minis, badly: "i feel ur pain"

me: "fucking enclave. me and all my homies, all hate the enclave"

also me: "fuck enclave power armor looks good tho"

when a package service uses usps for the final leg of delivery

my cobalt keep display cases supposed to arrive today

babysitting the front door worth it? hope so xD

1) i wanna measure internal dimensions and stuff so i can plan out dioramas,

2) i want display cases to keep dust off my painted minis!, and

3) i can then move them to my shelf so my worktable has space for my unpainted/unassembled minis >.>

me, trying not to buy rollers for $15-20 a pop for terrain textures

also like, i just wanna say the perfectly straight/grid repeating pattern for stone work or bricks wouldn't look real anyway

because that's not how you lay stone

but still xD

you'll know i've absolutely lost my mind if you see a work in progress of me literally laying individual bricks in putty
... does anyone sell bags of individual bricks
oh shit

it's really wild how the photos they take of the golden demon winners are overexposed shit

like just wall to wall shit

you can't even take the effort to make your goddamn contest winners look good, and maybe from more than one angle?

like this is embarrassing man

the official photo taken versus images from instagram

they're all like this. one shot, many taken from some dubious fucking angles, overexposed

and then people looking at them complain like why did X beat out Y (total other conversation lololol) but it's like YOU SHOWED THEM LIKE CRAP IS PART OF THE REASON

i like cmo games because they're relatively near me and ship usps and have good prices, but their stocks leaves a little to be desired

(said the fallout centric player)

TUFTS. GRASS. FLOWERS

The cobalt keep army display cases are pretty nice. Maybe a touch overpriced even when buying four at once

Top has refraction rainbow circles but side views are good

Metal base altho none of my minis are magnetized xD

Better shot of the top

You see this at a shallow angle, not straight down

the locking tabs are a bit... well, i wouldn't drop this xD

but given that it's a display case and not a carry case i can't ding them for that

me: "don't buy 64 cubic feet of foam, don't buy 65 cubic feet of foam..."
Phoenix light my way in the deep

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You're a pain in my ass piper

Not your fault you came wonky with a busted arm nubbin tho xD

honestly i have no idea what the quality of these sorts of minis should be

jesus tap dancing christ hancock's right arm will not glue on

what is it with everyone's right arm

X6-88's right foot keeps wanting to pop out

Holding him there till it dries

i do not like assembling minis lol

the payoff might be worth it, but this process... solid C- lololol

alright one more

this super mutant with two hands on this super sledge i can barely hold together with my own goddamn hands even without glue on it

lolollololol CAN'T WAIT TO FUCK THIS UP

i snapped the sledge in half
i don't know if this is basically impossible to fix or merely almost impossible now
@worthlessbums yeah, you're going to fuck up a few times starting out, you'll want to get double that
@psilocervine i think all my display cases combined is less than 1 cubic foot in volume