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

because it's basically impossible for me to reattach the arms via that thin ass sledge shaft now

so i have to independently glue each arm to each upper arm, and basically pray i get the exact position and angle to line them up again

this might be a lost cause

This is so fucking fragile lolololol

Behold the power of 0 skill, 100 stubbornness

watch it disintegrate when i try and paint it

alright that's enough frustration for one night

after all i gotta code in like an hour

i like the IDEA of customizing your minis and shit, rebasing them onto whatever you want

but holy shit do i not like this fiddly crap

i should put the tau battlesuit my brother got me to see just how good/bad/fiddly games workshop minis are

shoulda worn gloves

forgot how annoying superglue on skin could be

bruh

i just read like five million pages of bullshit, to find out it was retconned and redirected to another page of five million pages of bullshit, near the bottom of the first page of bullshit

fuck you 40k lore lolololol

i can't tell if this re-telling of what happened with the global campaign or whatever with the 13th black crusade is completely overblown by 40k nerds or a hilarious series of missteps by games workshop
having a good one

i dunno tho, maybe gw shares the lion's share of the blame for constantly lionizing the iom and space marines in all the marketing materials

could just be me

(it's not just me)

what kind of monster has white dice with white pips

wut

bolterporn is the funniest fucking word
Trying to finish assembling these minis so I can prime all at once
there's one synth i might wanna hold off on because he's got the most complicated stance with his missile launcher while kneeling, but also he's wearing mostly white armor so he's a prime candidate to prime him with white instead of black like everyone else

cait has her bat against the back of her neck which means i will prolly prime her before assembly (maybe prime her twice?)

but otherwise i think i can do all the other minis at once

@worthlessbums In my experience, people trying to cheat lol.
@worthlessbums They look like they're 'unpainted', ie: do it yourself.
@worthlessbums
Bums: that's enough fiddly shit
Also Bums: what if I do this fiddly thing?
@DarkestKale look it was a gift i didn't buy it xD