BrotherJim

So great to see you painting again. Your Shadow Force Dragomir was a one of the first armies I remember following on the B&C back in the day. It’s still on the first few pages of the most viewed tab in the W.I.P forum - a testament to your skill and dedication. Did you quit the hobby for a while? Is that why you got rid of your stuff? I ask because I did much the same, I cleared out a whole bunch of stuff and didn’t do much for awhile, but over the last year or two I’ve been collecting and building back up bits and pieces. Peace

Hey man. My pictures are always too large to upload to the B&C. I’m using and IOS. It’s a shame but my photos will never upload here. I am using imgur but I’m uncertain about linking pictures, is there a tutorial somewhere for that? https://i.imgur.com/zMC2S5g.png When using my iPhone I can past links like that but I’m not sure how to get the picture to show up Edit - I’m dumb

Ok yeah cool thanks! that’s what I thought! I swear to god one of the red shirts at GW was trying to convince me that the colour sprays were primers too, and could be sprayed right on to plastic. I told him he should read the description on the webstore more carefully, because only the black and the white spray cans are referred to as being primers. Thanks a bunch you have totally validated that for me. Plus it’s good advice to spray black first to check for coverage. Thanks

Hey IP, great to see you still chugging along. The new chaos marines look dope, I’m thinking of doing them up as Iron Warriors myself. To that end, can I ask a dumb question? Do you just spray the leadbleacher spray directly on to the plastic? Or do you spray them black first? I sort of feel I want to prime them black before I spray the boltgun metal... hope that makes sense! I’m re-reading your old thread too it’s so chock full of inspiration!

I think the Primaris are GW’s answer to true scale marines, that’s kind of obvious and goes without saying. If they are working 3-5 years out, then the timeline (rw) works out. True scale marines grew out of the Inq28 community, which is another thing GW have just come to the party with Rogue Trader. So the studio (imo) is mimicking the community. It’s also true that the community mimic the studio, and especially the artwork. So for me it’s a real shame about the fluff behind the primaris. GW’s writing has always been bad, not very good at least. But something went severely wrong this time. The primaris to me represent a changing of the guard. Out with the old and in with the new. Both in the studio in terms of the way the miniatures are made, and also in the real world in terms of marketing to a new (younger) audience. From the interview it sounds like they were only intended to be an upgrade for marines, but somehow they have been twisted into all our replacement for marines. Just my speculation

Cool thanks guys. Yeah I’ve tried using the full site mode to upload to the gallery, my pictures are always “too big to upload” I can do it on imgur on my laptop, with wifi - just don’t have access at the moment. Not to worry, I’ll just go to the library on Sundays. See you in the WIP forums soon!

That’s all I got. I’m on my iPhone only. Posting pictures to the B@C seems like a major chore. I have imgur but I can only copy links into threads. None of pictures have ever uploaded to the B&C gallery, they are too big. It sucks because I really want to share my work here, I may have to go to the last library on Sundays just so I can use the wifi and use my laptop to blog here. How to ppl upload pictures to threads here from iPhones? Why is life so difficult. (The mods deleted my earlier replies to that guy, which is probably for the best - I’m ignoring him now.)

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZbOdyVW

Kitbashing Space Marines was for me at least, the backbone of the entire hobby and by extension these here hallowed halls aswell. I really wish they would just put everything back to rights so we could all get back to business. Things were way simpler when it was just Tacticals, Assault, CSM, and the Berserkers. The entire space marine range is in an absolute shambles. We’ve got old marines, Horus Heresy marines, old chaos marines, new push fits, Japan only, Primaris, like it seems GW are just flailing wilding in all directions at once trying to get the right mix. I just want to grab them and slap them. ‘Yo, finish one thing before doing the next. Where are the plastic MkIII despoilers? Where are the plastic MKII? Stop making things bigger. Anyway, cheers!

I used to love to see the behind the scenes photos of the W.I.P space marines that Juan Diaz was creating. Guys like the Black Templar Sword Brethren were just plastic tacticals that Juan converted up and sculpted cloaks and details for. I thought that was absolutely genius. Jes created the blue print, the basic framework and made it available in plastic for everybody. I used to love seeing what people could do with them. It’s interesting that they touched on so many points that are personal gripes for me. The loss of all the heritage is probably the strangest side effect of the primaris issue. If they had just updated the space marine tactical kit I don’t think anyone would have battered an eyelid. I’ll need to think more about it. He literally said that the arms, heads and shoulder pads are all the same size, but I don’t feel it to be the case. However slight, there is a disconnect. Anyway I need to watch the interview again tomorrow and think about it some more

Dude Jes Goodwin designed Space Marines from the ground up, probably before you were born, what are you even talking about? Jes created space marines. It was a great interview. I’ve been pouring over the old White Dwarf that Wade mentioned at the end, with some space wolves that Jes kitbashed for the 3rd edition release. (I would upload photos of the article if posting pictures wasn’t so difficult here from my phone.) Back when they first released the space wolves upgrade sprue which was the only type of accessories for space marines for so many years. Really warms my heart that they even mentioned it. Really great to hear Jes speak. He may have finally sold me on the Primaris. My main gripe is that there are no Assault arms available, but herr-derr now I realise that they are in the Reivers box. So good. Can’t tell you how great that interview was. What a dude. I’m going to buy a knight.

Some really cool Wolves you have there!

Awesome updates Midnight. It’s great to see your army again, especially in the thick of it. Love all the little details

I just have something in my eye right now... If it bleeds, we can kill it....

Always love seeing your updates IP looking strong