What's on your mind?

Is this all your own work? Or is Space Crusade getting some kind of re-release? (I know there was a Hero Quest remake, but hadn't heard about SC.)
 
Change of Mind

I am currently painting ten Iron empire models from Raging Heroes as a palate cleanser from working on Iron Hands (tall % small) nonstop. In the background runs Mortal Kombat 11 and my toons farm in-game resources for the Meteor Tower. This franchise has an underworld (Netherrealm) and their type of undead have grey skin, glowing red eyes and glowing, red scars over their body. They look quite impressive imo. As the Iron Empire military is also largely composed of undead I was wondering, if a change to my approach would be feasible (fair skin and glowing green eyes). So far only three models faces have been painted so that change wouldn´t be too much of a work.



So how often do you question a painting scheme while you are still at it?
 
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Just skimmed the Warhammer community article about their Black Library book of the year; "The End and the Death: Volume III" came in second, despite it being limited edition and it being mostly acquired by scalpers...

Makes me wonder how valid these polls are, and/or how many/what kind of people are actually bothered to vote in them.
 
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Just skimmed the Warhammer community article about their Black Library book of the year; "The End and the Death: Volume III" came in second, despite it being limited edition and it being mostly acquired by scalpers...

Makes me wonder how valid these polls are, and/or how many/what kind of people are actually bothered to vote in them.
Maybe the scalpers voted? I imagine it was quite a good book for them.

Not like they read it though.
 
How do they manage to machine paint this stuff? It looks printed, a bit like an inkjet if you notice the dotty pattern.

I wonder if GW will ever invest in a similar technology??

While I like painting and I guess a fair few here do too, there’s clearly a lot of people out there who don’t and a pre-painted kit might be perfect for them (even if it does cost more - but hey, they’re already paying GW prices).

 
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I guess it's printed the same way most toys are - template sprayed. The dotty pattern you see may be an artefact of the spraying. The technology is pretty simple, and those look like they get a wash afterwards which helps hide any overspray. Final details like the door handles probably done by hand.

I wondered if GW might do some products in that direction when they partnered up with Hornby, who are very experienced at it thanks to the railways, Scalextric cars etc.
 
@Stoof, I’m not familiar with that technology so I can’t say for certain how it’s done. It just reminded me of an inkjet when you look close.

Apparently it’s a very tough coating - so I see that being perfect for RPG DMs who don’t necessarily want to paint tiles up.

I wouldn’t want GW to move to a tech like this wholesale but I do think it might have a market, particularly for some ranges - like scenery.

There will always be people who want to paint their model kits though, so bare plastic is winner there.

Interesting though, wonder if they will ever experiment with it?
 
There will always be people who want to paint their model kits though, so bare plastic is winner there.

I'm in a couple of groups where people modify Hot Wheels for games like Gaslands. I've seen several people say they'd actually be willing to pay more for a car that came unassembled and unpainted, because it would save them the work of disassembling and stripping it.
 
I think GW should give it a try. But perhaps on a limited scale. I hate to say it but maybe a simple game designed for a younger audience. Help some dads bring their kid in. Like a dungeon crawler featuring halflings as the PCs but all the minis and 3d tiles prepainted.

But if I'm honest, I'm not against the entire GW range being prepainted and click assembly. Just so long as they keep things to assist conversions and re-priming. I think you would still get a ton of hobbyists painting their own stuff in order to personalize it.

And click assembly could double up as a guide to what works well together, like betrionian arms clicking into imperial guard shoulders. Helping people to get into converting.

I think it would help new people and tournament players. It would upset a lot of nostalgic fans and converters but it need not.
 
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Back to the pre-painted terrain again, found a link to their Prismacast tech:


It seems that they get someone to paint the terrain first, then it’s 3D scanned using photogrammetry and that is used to send to the printer which sprays the terrain using some sort of UV curing paint. This seemingly bakes the colour on and means it is remarkably tough.

Good news for those who like to rattle their painted stuff around loose in a plastic box.

Makes me wonder what else could be done with the tech though…

Would love to see a set of GW Sector Mechanicus Terrain done using this process - it might actually mean all the pipes and other assorted detail mostly ignored by painters (as it would take forever to do it on mass) actually get picked out and painted!!
 
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F*** ´EM!

So I painted all my junkyard/trash bases last week in order to mount the Necrons on them to create a nice rust robot faction.



But foolish me didn´t take into account that those necron warriors are a total bitch to assemble. They are more fiddly and fragile than Eldar, Raging Heroes Resin or Legions Imperialis tiny lascannons. I kid you not. They are garbage. I broke two parts on the first warrior and then had enough. Hobby time is to relax and not to rage about shitty minis.

As a consequence those warriors will end up as battlefield debris on bases or scatter terrain. The few models which allow themselves to be built without a fuss will probably act as NPC robots in a Stargrave campaign.

So F*** ´EM!
 
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