Pro Acryl makes a really good white that also comes in an airbursh primer. You could give that a try, though be warned the primer is super delicate. I don't know if this is common with airbrush primers specifically but even after a full day of drying it'll rub off with some minor pressure from your thumb. You might want to give it a once over with a thin base layer, or make sure it's on a good handle.
Best airbrush primer is going to be the solvent based products you normally see get used for scale modeling and gundam stuff. Mr. Surfacer, Gaia Surfacer, AK Primer and microfiller(tiny glass bottles), Alclad II, etc. rather than the water based acrylic products out there like proacryl, vallejo, even badger stynylrez, and so on. It'll also avoid the problem @Spilled Spaghett mentions with how fragile the water based acrylic versions can be. But if you've never airbrushed with solvent based paints before, you'll absolutely want ventilation and a mask with VOC filters as it isn't just the normal dust in the air you get from water based acrylics.
Part of what I hate about the new KT. I have the app, browsed it, but it’s not the same as flipping through a rule book and having it all laid out right there in front of you at a glance. And even having a few of the unit cards you get in the boxsets on the table feels so clean and hassle free. Wahpedia is more useful than the official app because you could still have what you wanted available in a few browsers open on a tablet.
I've got a PDF of the 7e Dex, and its the complete opposite. For those unaware, pages 43-58 are just flat images of Sept colors and alternate schemes, and then 59-70 are all painted models, half those pages in diorama format as if they were on a board.
Because that's what people want. A lore book with art, painting guides, etc. basically a coffee table book is perfectly fine as it won't end up immediately obsolete or even need to be updated every edition. Will fewer people buy it? Sure, but it would also eliminate BS required for the game while providing a chance to have a better product for those more interested in the lore and hobby aspect. People flip through old codexes all the time, but they're rarely doing it for rules. It would also alleviate GW trying to keep codexes as limited print runs to avoid overstock as what happened in previous editions as well. Currently GW stores don't stock most of the available codexes, and local game stores now will rarely bother with buying codexes after the initial release(I've seen more than one store in the past couple of years having 7th-9th codexes in the clearance bin for ages that no one wants to buy). As it is, there are tons of people using waha, newrecruit, etc. anyway these days(especially after battlescribe finally fell apart, that was a shitty app) for rules.
I believe the White Scar chads are blasting “Hordes of the Khan” at record volumes now. Pretty awesome that almost every 40k army has a Sabaton track.
I remember the Gathering Storm book that had a conversion guide for Fallen, the idea of an official GW product encouraging mixing models, between game systems nowadays is a stillborn dream.
I found a copy of it myself and the difference in quality is night and day. Not only is it loaded with beautiful iconography, and artwork but actual interesting lore than you don't find elsewhere. There's an actual breakdown of T'au military structure, an actual map of the empire and where everything is. The different units all get a full page with custom artwork to show them off and explain what it is. There's even a timeline of major events. There are no hard dates but at least we have an order of events. I can't tell you if the artwork in this codex is all original, but I can tell you that nearly all of the art in my 10th edition limited edition codex was in this book. Even the fullpage cover art for my codex is just a reprint. Hell the cover of the standard edition is literally the 9th edition cover. You couldn't possibly tell the difference without opening up the damn thing. You would think with how many of these books get churned out and reused they could at least put an edition number on the spine or something.
I’d buy a CSM codex omni, that’d be my new coffee table book. I love those old codexes where they’d go into recommended Fantasy kits whose parts were likely where the unique aesthetics came from, like NL being vampire-themed and actively giving sculpting and kitbashing advice. It’s really cool to realize the now iconic styles of each legion were likley just from office kitbashing.
"I have Inquisitorial immunity!"
Oh yeah, its exactly what would get someone excited about playing Tau. Of course, the Tau aren't SPESS MEHRINES, though. Christ, the situation in recent dexes is bad. I remember in older editions you had a few complete separate dexes and a lot of people like them since they showed how Black Templars were different from the Dark Angels who were different from the Ultramarines, but even then GW managed to find time for different Guard regiments like the Steel Legion and Death Korps. I really don't mind the current speed of the rules updates per se, but GW really needs to stop charging money for them if they're going to churn them out this quickly and have lore stuff and plastic crack be their money makers.
If you've been having success with the vallejo black, then just get the vallejo white or grey. And yeah, even rattle can primer is best left a couple of days for the best chance for it to stick even if the bulk of it flashes off fairly quickly and is dry to the touch and paintable within an hour.
If 40k was the future of another franchise Id definitely assume it was judge dredd. All the pieces fit.
It's not. As a MOBA veteran, DOW III has no MOBA aspects at all. If having hero units and lanes is enough to be a MOBA then Call of Duty qualifies as a MOBA. Really the main issue is the lack of content and depth of strategy. There's only three factions, and their unit rosters aren't that impressive. They almost never have special weapon options, and your tech progression is mainly more stat boosts. The game wants to promote a very aggressive playstyle by refunding some of a unit when it dies. In theory this makes players feel better for taking risks, but in reality it means the winning move is to spam the fuck out of your opponent. Everything is so fragile there's no point trying to keep anything alive. With army powers like drop pods or warp storms, it's a one button solution to wiping your opponent's whole army unless it's made of tanks.
This is just an invitation to stop using citadel paints because my god they've capped the upper limits as to what to charge for one of those pots. They can't go any higher because they now have fierce competition in both traditional and "contrast" style paints options from army painter, AK and vallejo.
