The GRcade Tabletop Gaming & Miniature Painting Thread (Warhammer etc)

Green Gecko wrote:I have a space hulk 90s release box, board and various pieces if anyone is interested. I have no use for it whatsoever.

Same for Hero Quest.

I’m definitely interested in these! What are you looking at for them?

Joer wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I have a space hulk 90s release box, board and various pieces if anyone is interested. I have no use for it whatsoever.

Same for Hero Quest.

I’m definitely interested in these! What are you looking at for them?

Oh damn False PM'd me, guess it's time to price it up.

I'll get pics up and you just shoot me prices or maybe you each take one, I've been hoarding them for at least 20 years so won't let them go for next to nothing but not going to sell the individual parts and the boards and all that crap just to milk people trying to put a set together. There's not enough there to make the logistics worth it so it's kinda you get the box and the board and all the other little bits that weren't swallowed by history. What I had at the time, is still there, it came to me incomplete from the start I'm afraid. Kinda the shell of a set.

It's something to build and play on, get it together and you have a small nest egg, I've just never been that-interested in the gaming aspect but they are pretty much relics now, time to go to someone who appreciates them.

All the Citadel boxed sets (that weren't actually sold by GW) are weird novel little things and they don't make them anymore so there's that, there's something about the style that is just different, novel coloured plastics, printed cardboard parts/nets etc. There's everything from legit minis and scenery to small markers, some cards and other useful/interesting bits in a little baggy.

Fill the box with joy where there once was, at some point.

OH and dice too, the dice are pretty neat.

Myself I simply prefer setting mins on a table with scenery, look at them and then put them away again, this middle ground between boardgame and tabletop gaming has amused my brain but just not got into it (plus it costs strawberry floating crazy money to get into, for these as full sets you're looking at £100+ easy).

Been binge watching 40k painting videos while working from home, and I'm itching to get my hands on some paints and minis, but nowhere has them in stock for delivery.
Tempted to take advantage of their extra £5 when you buy a £50 voucher to grab a few minis and paints to get started with once they're open again, and see how I get on with it.

check some indie shops, they carry stock still mostly

elementgames is a big one

my advice is start small, get one small box and a couple of brushes and a few paints - dont go deep into it as it gets out of hand and overwhelms you and your desire to continue

the £20 starter boxes with paints are good to get into

False wrote:check some indie shops, they carry stock still mostly

elementgames is a big one

my advice is start small, get one small box and a couple of brushes and a few paints - dont go deep into it as it gets out of hand and overwhelms you and your desire to continue

the £20 starter boxes with paints are good to get into

Yeah, it's these I'm looking at, plus some primer, a couple of brushes, etc.

Most of the indy sites I looked out were out of stock, but I'll give element a check.

Edit: yeah, element has everything down as dispatching on 20th May.

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Knoyleo wrote:Edit: yeah, element has everything down as dispatching on 20th May.

As a rule of thumb, if it's not in stock on element there and then don't bother, those dates are not a reflection of reality.

False wrote:my advice is start small, get one small box and a couple of brushes and a few paints - dont go deep into it as it gets out of hand

this is my local

https://www.rebelbasegaming.com/warhamm ... -358-c.asp

they have a few sets with paints in stock

otherwise they have basically every paint in stock and the individual sets - refer to the warhammertv tutorials for an idea of basic paints or feel free to ask here

if you do put an order and they ask for referral just say joel sent you

You could try Dice Saloon in Brighton as well, it's literally a small warehouse and the store is about as large as your average GW. They have a web shop so maybe that's a bit tidier as they tend not to upload any photos for products etc, I know the owner so they are legit.

Trelliz wrote:
False wrote:my advice is start small, get one small box and a couple of brushes and a few paints - dont go deep into it as it gets out of hand

do as I say, not as I do

I wont show you the cupboard and boxes of shame

so this is what a mid-life crisis looks like if you already have the car!

yes

don't have the subru anymore no?

did you ever get into Vallejo as an alternative False? Just wondering if there's any particular reason. I still not even tried a single pot lol (except their big grey poly primer which is excellent.)

Also it's strawberry floating ridiculous I haven't even tried making a paint station with my own CNC yet lol, I still just have a bunch of paints on top of a painters tray that slides around all over the place in a drawer :roll:

Ive got vallejo, its on the left out of frame

Ive got a bunch of paints, just mainly GW as thats what I started with

I use the gw paints I have and will keep getting stuff like typhus corrosion and ryza rust which are really good, but only buy vallejo now, dropper bottles are amazing and they do colour matched airbrush paints which are a big help.

I see. That's hella lot of GW's more diverse range of paints, the variation in tones is simply staggering these days. I still go to some pop-top pots with the hexagonal design (which saves so much space!!) from the early 90s (white, black and blue tops, for tone/metallic/washes) due to subtle variations. Now I seem to have about 10 different pots of what amounts to a bleached bone colour for 3nd gen tyranids...

Army Painter are great too.

False wrote:this is my local

https://www.rebelbasegaming.com/warhamm ... -358-c.asp

they have a few sets with paints in stock

otherwise they have basically every paint in stock and the individual sets - refer to the warhammertv tutorials for an idea of basic paints or feel free to ask here

if you do put an order and they ask for referral just say joel sent you

Ta for the link. I've ordered their last box of space marines and paints by the looks of it. Of the 4 different sets GW do, they're probably the models I'm least interested in, but it gets me started, and then at least by the time I get my hands on some models I do want, and some more paints, at least I'll have had some practice first.

Just ordered "GaGa MILANO SP180K" airbrush (clone of Iwata 180 apparently, please understand) on Amazon as I already have a compressor (old British model so probably pretty good, tested it worked first but strawberry float it phutphutphutphuts louder than most of my power tools). 30 snoops. I usually go for pretty decent branded tools even for edge tools and knives and the like so I'll let you know if it's shite, I had a £20 voucher sitting around since March.

Should help with painting my signs as well.

Any tips on home mixes for thinning paints? I have white spirit and methylated spirit (blue stuff, basically pure ethanol plus poison). Most of my paint is GW but I have loads of oils as well - comes with a moisture separately to stop water getting into oil stream so may have a go with that as pills are sick as strawberry float. Not on minis though, should speed up getting a good surface on planes/cars a lot. Technically water should work, what about a small amount of water mixed with meth?

Only really going to use for base coats and shading because I will probably always use a brush, but nids, strawberry floating hell man I need to finish some of these I have lying around.

Got one brownish shade of the new contrast paint, I reckon putting that on some airbrushing with bone/flesh tones should get the bulk of those done in a proper batch (something I've never really attempted). Then just paint in the sort of fleshy details, highlights and washes I do so they don't look overly smooth and generic - that's to keep them looking consistent with my brushwork which I don't try to make disappear with perfect gradients, the detail is there and I think you add more with good highlighting, otherwise takes the joy and artistry out of it imo. My style is pretty close to 'eavy metal around white dwarf issues in the mid noughties plus some of the exaggerated highlights seen more around WD issue 100 on marines, warhammer etc.

Should take some pics of the last few.

Trelliz wrote:I use the gw paints I have and will keep getting stuff like typhus corrosion and ryza rust which are really good, but only buy vallejo now, dropper bottles are amazing and they do colour matched airbrush paints which are a big help.

I've still got GW paints that really aren't that old separating completely into two halves and drying out. Added about 50% volume in water to a bone colour again and was mashing up blobs of paint for strawberry floating ages the other day, managed to get it usable again but still pretty wet.

Not sure what the strawberry float happened in the last two decades because my paints from around 1994 still deliver.

Perhaps it's a good idea to add a few drops of water to all their paints every now and then, even if it means thinning them out a bit, just to make sure they don't dry up. It's super annoying as when you have a decent collection of paints of course you're not going to be using them 90% of the time but for certain details. At least they're not expensive, but when you find half your paints have dried up, it's a pain in the arse.

Everyone knows the switch to a screw top designs was a terrible mistake , literally every single one of those has died, that sucked massively. I am glad they switched back to "pop" tops that actually seal the pot. What the strawberry float were they thinking.

Dropper bottles are the peak of paint pit design; no waste, it doesn't dry out, you only use exactly what you intend to. Cracking open a gw pot and having to use one of those pot holders to prevent it falling over from accidental movement feels like going back to the stone age.

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