What do you feel like saying, right now?

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Lmao. Wow! You have any pictures on the internet you don’t know about? They find pictures of people then photoshop the image and then put it on the net. You talk about your brother a lot. Are y’all close? Do y’all look alike?

Probably pictures from Konclaves I’ve been to, but I think that’s just random artwork, which is what makes it funny and weird at the same time. My brother and I don’t really look alike, maybe somewhat, but in a way you definitely can tell we’re brothers. Yeah, we’re very close. Second to my wife, he’s my best friend.

Originally Posted by XAntoftheSkyX

I totally get that for the display and artistic part of the hobby. On my end, having a model that is posed in an interesting or exciting way, or something that was changed by using other model bits or made with a more display-styled base with the added accomplishment of being able to say "I built/customized/painted that all by myself" (with help/inspiration from Youtube) makes it much more valuable in a certain way.

I enjoyed those videos, there's a lot of overlap with what I do and scale modeling with the techniques. I would like to get into airbrushing to get base layers done quickly and efficiently, but logistically it may not be possible without a lot of leg work and approval from The Boss.

As far as mixing models/armies goes: In the core rules with the Open Play ruleset, you can mix and match armies as much as you like, and have as much on the table as you want. I only play with the Matched Play ruleset, which is more equivalent to a proper sport or game, where you are limited in how much you can bring, and tries to balance each faction/army so that it's more on how well you play vs having a stronger army.

For Open Play, you can totally have Space Marines and Guard mixed together. For Matched play, you gain access to additional rules like "If your army is all SPACE MARINES, you can re-roll dice results of 1". Sometimes you can ally in small portions of other armies and not lose the benefits of having your main force be one army, but that's the exception and not the rule.

My main armies are the Imperial Knights (building-sized mech suits turned into war machines with a GOT vibe), the Adeptus Custodes (Literal superhumans with advanced gene-therapy and functionally immortal) and now the Drukhari (Dark Elves with a heavy raiding/pirate theme that are the most evil faction in the game by far, even when every other faction is very evil.) I chose Drukhari because I wsn't happy with how the other armies played. The Knights and the Custodes are tough, elite armies that leverage their relative power to be as efficient as possible to defeat their opponent. Drukhari on the other hand are what's known as a glass cannon, they can hit like trucks but are equally as fragile.

I'll stop there as that was actually the Reader's Digest version of all that, and I could easily let my autism run wild and hijack this thread even moreso.

Let’s go ahead and hijack the thread then. 😂

This is really cool stuff, man. I was talking to one of my colleagues about it yesterday. He’s bringing in some of his books to show me this morning. It seems like it’d be hard to learn. Have you seen some folks with some terribly painted figures? And who hosts the games?

I hear you on the airbrushing. I have one, but haven’t used it yet. I definitely need it for layering my figures, though.

I’m about to start a podcast, when time allows. My wife told me because I know the history behind the cars in my collection, I should do something with all of that “useless information” (her words), so I decided to do a podcast with them. Should be cool.

I like the customization you’ve got going on. Very cool. I build my dioramas from the ground up so they’re all custom.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

For the record I was messing with you and PB. But I did crack myself up though LOL!

Who’s “The Boss?” Must be The Wife. That’s why I asked you and PB what your wives think about all these toys.

As long as I’m not giving my “toys” (real car and model cars) more attention than I give her, they’re in their confined rooms and not all over the house, and I don’t bring a motorcycle home, she’s chill about it.