twopounder

I'm digging deep for the HH 3.0. I have parts soaking to strip the paint for my command squad and veteran assault squads, but in the meantime I'm restoring some old relics of another life. I do have a predicament. I normally do acrylic bases, but these aren't compatible with magnetic cases unless I custom make them. That would be about $6000 - $7000 for equipment and I don't feel like getting back into the lasering business just at the moment. The normal bases are boring, but I'm not confident that glued sand will hold if I remove the magnetized model - it might just rip up from the base. Resin bases are really expensive. Weighing options, but I don't like the way my customized bases turned out. Maybe I'll clean them and just reduce the debris.

I setup a camera rig to get better pictures. Still needs some work, but came out okay for the moment. Unfortunately I accidentally glued one of the sergeant heads onto the wrong body. Woops. I did take a couple with the cellphone though You can see a bit of the eye glow here

Thanks! UV paint is going to be on anything that glows - optics, screens, power weaponts, etc. I actually have another material that glows for a while after being exposed to any UV light source, so working that in as well.

Not trying to be difficult, but this is a bit confusing. What is the material difference between using BattleTech models for Titanicus game and using StarGrave for Kill Team? It appears from above that BattleTech is not allowed but StarGrave is in terms of models? Titanicus is allowed on the forums currently as its a 40k era/universe game. It is very specifically only allowed in the scope of 40k and not the specialist games?

Making slow progress on the 30k 1st Legion, but doing some interesting experiments. Hard to capture with phone camera because it doesn't let much light in. You can see it glow without the UV light, but I can't adequately capture it with my phone unless I use it. It has a dark glow, very similar to CGI stuff that has been released.

That's quite the Ironwing detachment to rollout.

I shifted to working on Heresy stuff (and have a way too big backlog now). I'm experimenting with the colors and how I want to do the legion. I had the idea to test UV reactive paint for parts of the model that technically glow. Its super hard to get a picture while holding my phone and the UV light, so I'll get a better picture later, but the effect is interesting. I think I may see if I can find a higher quality pain, as this stuff separated really badly. Though I did figure out how to do some basic glazing, it was ROUGH to work with. There is definitely an interesting effect when its under the UV light. I have more powerful UV lights to put under my display case for testing as well. I doubt it would be strong enough to really show on a board, but it could come through if they are in a building or shaded. I'll keep messing with it and see if I can make it cleaner.

In 3rd/4th it was common to see 6 rhinos on a table. It even carried into 5th, though drop pod assault + Sternguard made drop pods the new transport spam. I haven't seen a heresy army with more than 2. But hey, I forgot 6 is less than 2 whenever we have to defend GWs honor.

This isn't about providing a discount on something you need, its about moving inventory. The 2.0 box sold like crazy, so nobody is buying the separate mk6 boxes, especially with MK2 released. Rhinos are another thing that didn't move much, considering they were easy to pop and only carried 10 models. The leviathan is an interesting choice, but a powerful entry as an ally for sure. I think ad mech is the best value for someone just getting started or building a new army. Could easily snag two of those and then a magos to make a solid beginner army. Solar is weakest due to leman russ getting nerfed and needing a lot more infantry. Seems like they would have been better with two cohorts, command, and a leman russ (or ogryns). But again, its about moving models.

It was unbelievably atrocious, both in art and gameplay. I don't see enough content for a WoT style game. Maybe its 30k and not 40k, which would make a lot more sense (though once again screw xenos players). There just aren't enough vehicles outside of imperial armies for the type of vertical sandbagging required by these types of games to squeeze money out of players. A game more similar to Planetside 2 would have made more sense, but Behavior screwed that up quite substantially some years ago.

And of course, this 100% justifies removing Sanguinary Guard and making White Scar HQs walk everywhere.

Battles and events are not all new units. This isn't 40k. It has a very strictly defined beginning and end with a finished novel series. The unit list is complete, outside of things you could easily kitbash. This is Horus Heresy, not The Great Crusade. Its why Luthor and Astelan aren't even in it, even though they were alive and major characters throughout the entire setting. There is no battle where GW can reasonably say "oh, and there is this totally new faction in the imperium with 10 billion soldiers that nobody ever knew about and 10 tank hulls that are nothing like what already exists in the game". Not unless they decided to add the two missing legions. No, the unit list is complete and they know it. The entire hope was that the out-of-print resin and newest units would all get a plastic release. Not just unceremoniously removed from the game.

Which is what makes a 207 page legends PDF so frustrating. The storyline is finished and set. Its not like they introduced new aliens, surprise new war machines or a censored legion. They already know exactly what units exist, what people potentially have (either because they sold it as a box or its been a unit for 2 editions) and they act surprised when people are upset that the unit got dropped for extremely flimsy reasons. And these aren't fringe units either, many of them are core to how multiple legions army build. Look at how empty the pages are under the centurion and Praetorian entries. They could have easily put bikes and jet bikes on the pages. Same with terminator armor for the consuls.

There is QC in the design process, not just production. And yes, they let things go intentionally to save time and money on the design. It's not just the quality of finished product. When you have guns that are melded into each other, that's an intentional design choice. I've seen fallout from a product that was 100% on spec for manufacturing, but turned out to be highly toxic because QA allowed formaldehyde in the mixture and it off gassed. Just because QC in production did their job, doesn't mean QC in design did theirs.

My assessment comes from experience 3d modelling for printing, and manufacturing with laser cutting and PVC extrusion, and an elp company with hundreds of mills. These all involved dedicated QC departments. What backs up your assessment that my opinion is daft?