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Last Notes npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin This is just so hostile it's honestly pretty dang funny. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/06/kill-team-managing-the-range-of-kill-teams-in-the-new-edition/ npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/113/080/958/096/660/674/original/f8193ce387a11d59.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Real talk my favorite parts of these are the bright af blades. I need to find some projects that let me do more of that. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Not entirely satisfied with them but they’re done! Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone Arasaka https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/968/727/985/969/513/original/5cebeed1e534c5f2.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/968/728/137/966/122/original/2b1f1993697d2d36.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/968/728/246/519/799/original/9ba1040bf2a35b9c.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/968/728/446/424/281/original/e76ca0bd51b9ecd5.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I did check ahead of time with the TOs (who are my friends) if they'd be OK with me deciding the vibes (air quality, crowding) will be bad and peacing out; they are. I love our scene; we've got the best people in it. Unfortunately, I've played 4 games of N4 and haven't really thought about the game in literal years; time to build some lists. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I'm going to NOVA Open! I mean, I've been to all of them (except that first, outdoors one), but since the pandemic I've only been for a few hours to keep up that streak. I've been going stir-crazy this summer, though, and I just _miss_ gaming folks. So, I've decided to hit the Thursday Infinity tournament with on the basis that I was going in on Thursday anyway and it'll be as uncrowded as it's going to be. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1w9a…04m0 hopefully it won’t inconvenience too many people and it’ll be easy to message “just use the website” npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I'm plowing through Stephen Graham Jones' Indian Lake trilogy (finished the first two over the weekend, eagerly looking forward to the third) and I had a revelation: horror novels don't scare me. I can think of two moments in my life where a horror _book_ has scared me: Lovecraft's _The Lurking Fear_ and Danielewski's _House of Leaves_, neither in the last 20+ years. I read a decent number of them, and tend to enjoy them... but they're never _scary_. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun LOL npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1me6…c4gq Surely, this isn't accidental. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Stormcast - I painted the Dominion half a couple of years ago and they look _great_. I think it's a dick move that they replaced Vindictors with Vanquishers but I feel comfortable proxying them). No Stormstrike Chariot, though. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin YEE-HAW, the first round of varnish on my Western table is complete! It'll take me 4 days: each round will get most of a day to rest/cure/whatever, I need to do a round top then bottom, and I do a gloss coat before a satin coat. But: once that first lick of varnish is applied, I count a thing as "done" in my hobby tracking sheet and I get to clear my desk and move on to the next thing. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin They’ve been painted (not by me) and are ready to be distributed tomorrow! https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/695/316/481/436/519/original/8ec61a148fff2f54.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I feel like I should know the answer to this but I don't: Does anyone know how Perry minis scale with the Northstar Frostgrave minis? Or Fireforge minis with Frostgrave? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I realized I could do better than those Bakshi Orcs as trophies: obviously these are great and will work painted Gold/Silver/Bronze... but what about a Wooden Spoon and Best Painted? Problem solved. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/638/252/750/826/462/original/d8191d8438c34c2e.png npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub12j0…va9g (I've got too many friends, with and without children, who've been divorced for "divorced dad" to be a punchline, but also: there _is_ a stereotype and Musk _does_ sure lean into it.) npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub12j0…va9g The personality of Milhouse's Dad from The Simpsons. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Don’t mind me, just printing trophies for a friend’s Lord of the Rings tournament… https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/543/666/754/898/372/original/0282b9e0320330dc.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nlh…kt3e They look great! And I really love the Fabelzel sculpts a lot! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1axx…v3tt Like: I don't feel much compulsion to _play_ Age of Sigmar but I've painted 4 armies for it in the past 4 years? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Ryu for #Bushido https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/475/860/087/407/672/original/d3ba460cf086e8b7.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin "That Briar and Bone box looks neat. I like those weird Ossiarch guys. You know, I should probably paint Kainen's Reapers, since I've had those guys unpainted since they came out to decide if I like painting those boney boys." :paints Kainen's Reapers: :digs it: :waits impatiently for Briar and Bone to come out: :now has a Praetorian Spearhead in his cart and is avoiding clicking checkout: npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1vx0…u4dm I do it all the time. Paint it black and it’s invisible npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1vx0…u4dm this is after my first attempt to regular failed. I’m going to try pinning up with a thick brass rod from the base up through the ASSHOLE before I give up. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin :screams: https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/396/687/153/053/895/original/7e9de2d4fe9bb549.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Painting some models for Black Site Studios’ Mobile Arms https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/388/896/206/020/543/original/28a385c401a24960.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun 😄 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin (To understand me, it is essential to know that I think “Rectum?! Damn near killed ‘em!” is the funniest thing ever. Always have, probably always will.) npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1xtf…8rcj I have six Kill Teams assembled and awaiting paint. 😓 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1chy…pr5r Who’s Blackrock? I missed that part. But certainly: shitty people being shitty taking that turn doesn’t surprise me. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin B O N E S #Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #WarhammerUnderworlds https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/276/988/398/356/273/original/a47d23df2b7bcba4.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Petition to have Warlord Games sculpt and produce the 22nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment flag as a promotional diorama. https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kppa4umsy32f npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun There's definitely a setting that will delete your toots after a period of time. Not the worst idea in the world. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Little heartbroken today. Got out to my old FLGS to play Infinity for the first time in too long; I also wanted to give my air quality monitor a spin. I’d been there a month ago, masked of course, and it started getting a little hot and stuffy, which had me questioning the air circulation. So, back again with something to hopefully show me that was just a hot flash and in my head. Not so, unfortunately. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/232/719/208/745/290/original/3867eb2f1d55e4f6.png npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin And really- heartbroken is the word. It means I won’t be heading back to game there again which, you can imagine, is something I’d really hoped to do. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun could you repost your painting commandments? I bookmarked them but I think your toots age out. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin 😂 https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/219/232/988/410/532/original/8109d1cd4cc424a7.png npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Finally consistently not freezing enough for me to deploy the new ventilation approach to my resin printer and give it a whirl: first print in several months. Wish me luck! (Wow does my space look messy.) https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/209/206/287/426/878/original/e733b20549c57257.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin My wife made me a little Easter basket. Instead of eggs or candy, though, she filled it with some GW paint pots because they’re eggish. ❤️ npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1avt…eenk Just one, though? Shouldn't I do 2? Or maybe that's not enough and I should do 3 of every option? Is 5 too much? Oh no I've painted an AoS army! 😅 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin They're closing the Port of Baltimore because of the destruction of the Key Bridge. This is going to be really hard on a lot of people. https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-port-closure-could-cost-15-million-per-day-2024-3 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1axx…v3tt Anyway: I think the Vanguard box is a good place to start! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1axx…v3tt Overpainted on Squigs and Sneaky Snufflers because it just felt cleaner to do the full sprue for each. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/167/879/046/464/433/original/2563fc50599ea262.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/167/879/206/131/861/original/ebd141b7be9625d4.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/167/879/330/716/894/original/a823cfcd1ad93218.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin This is awful: https://wapo.st/4af8H1y npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Last night I dreamt I was at a mini gaming con (probably NOVA Open but wasn’t), no masking anxiety, which is nice because that’s what those dreams are normally about. Anyway - one of the events was “Food Wars” which was a system built on something to do with collectible cereal. Not cereal boxes: the cereal itself. I never could learn how it played, because I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere to try it. I assume this probably had something to do with Legions Imperialis. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Got my Dead Man's Hand KS shipping notification, and I'm _extremely_ hyped about it. I've been fiending to marathon a lot of Westerns, for the past couple of months, but have held off until it's in hand to help feed motivation to paint it. SOON! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Not shown in the photo: their little eyes glittering back at me. Fuck up some mosquitoes, buddies! Fuck 'em up good! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin It’s in the 70s here in Virginia (because we’re careening towards climate change catastrophe), so we are dinner on our porch last night. The cats were really fixated on a ceiling corner throughout. We assumed it was stinkbugs following the setting sun until— VROOM a bat dropped from it and flew off! Then— VROOM another! It was so cool! I went around to see what I could see this morning and yep: they’re up there! 🦇❤️ https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/099/505/064/196/462/original/940ea38427182f8c.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1t3f…r8yf I have an unreasonable love of these missle mechs. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Daylight Savings Time has really fucked me hard this year. I don't normally have a problem with DST (besides an ideological opposition to it and the fact that it confuses the biscuits out of our dogs), but this go-round: very much so. I've been in the dumps, dragging ass, and just trying to get through the day all week. Ugh. Don't care for it. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin GOBBAPALOOZA #Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #Warcry. (I need to retake the individual photos, ‘cause they look a little washed out.) https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/112/037/796/424/072/008/original/b94a62f119261445.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun they look great! And absolutely: Bugmans -> Cadian -> Kislev -> Flayed One -> dare I push to Pallid Wych are all a nice little progression and you can pick where you want to be on that spectrum. Flesh and hair are the easiest place to go off book/pick your own path because it’ll still work. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1um7…2mt3 Happy to help, my dude! Looks great! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin While I'm complaining about a miniatures company in Nottingham shitting the bed with product distribution... I ordered a Kings of War rulebook from Mantic over a month ago and still no sign. I've been waiting a week for a response from customer support with no non-autoated response. I can be patient folks, but c'mon! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1cuk…595x Gorgeous. 🤤 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Workbench https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/993/825/898/643/794/original/809156baac2b1582.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin It's sad, though, because because Infinity, and Infinity events, was a huge part of how I spent my time, and this is a clear indication that my time with it has been over. It's probably been more time since I ran ODD than I was active in the Infinity scene... and that's what has me bummed out. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub137k…3esy I hate when that happens. If it helps: E-6000 is _the_ way to glue magnets to your base. CYA is too brittle, and greenstuff is a bad joke. Even on uneven base surfaces, like Underworlds sculpted bases, I'll use greenstuff to hold the magnet, let it cure, then (trivially) pop it off the base and the magnet out, and glue everything back together with E-6000. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Have they considered the far more effective, "Hey buddy, don't be a fucking asshole" approach? Maybe because I've swung so anti "competitive" wargaming in general, this stuff just feels like a problem that doesn't need solving, and is just inheriting baggage from a decade-dead game where everyone thinks they need to fix it before they've even seen it. 5/5 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin More key: I have always believed that TO comp rules are those TOs showing on the doll where the bad opponent touched them. They're nothing more than an expression of where the rule writer had a bad time. And... maybe that's useful. It's not like GW did a very good job of maintaining their ruleset with WHFB was around. But it has always struck me as deeply reactionary and emotional. 3/? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin WHFB has a long history of TOs applying list composition rules. Stuff like that, and pre-submitting lists to events are baked into the culture of the game. First off: I refuse to accept that a game that's been out for less than a month _requires_ external comp rules. It simply hasn't existed long enough for cracks to form that require an amateur's hand to spackle over. 2/? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1pcj…vrhw Would Offal Hounds from the Royal Beastflayers box work for you? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I want to support my store; it's a small outfit, so I think every purchse there matters... but also I'm clearly a chump if I want to order anything that isn't 1) a preorder or 2) just luckily on his shelf. If it's not one of those: if I actually want the product, I gotta shop around. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub12r6…zlyj This article should be SUPER useful: https://taleofpainters.com/2022/04/review-6-acrylic-mediums-ranked-incl-contrast-lahmian-and-speedpaint-medium/ npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub12r6…zlyj I'm at the point where I just get this stuff in a sixpack. It's such a useful tool. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub12r6…zlyj Use it for everything. ✅ Thin paints with it. ✅ Thin Contrast with it. ✅ Thin Shades with it ✅ No thin it even more. Keep going, make it a glaze, nothings' better. ✅Apply contrast/shade/paint and then immediately apply Contrast medium to the edge to blend things out for a seamless transition ✅Liberally apply contrast and shade to a base or small piece of terrain then liberally brush on a bunch of contrast medium to thin, target, manage, and smooth that wash. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub185v…ky5r Nice! My closest GW store, Pender Village in Fairfax, will fucking look you dead in the eye if you ask for one and tell you “What free model? I’ve never heard of thst. We don’t do that.” with a stack of them clearly sitting _right there_. I do not like that store. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Hey #WarhamFam - does anyone have build instructions for Celestial Dracolines? I bought some used and they came without instructions. Normally, I can pull those off of Reddit but no luck with these. All I get is a (sketchy) link to a OneDrive and a (sketchier) link to a site to download a PDF. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Sick of painting Legions Imperialis tanks, so I took a break to paint some Martians for Lunar. Finished them, worked on the tanks for like 15 minutes, then set them aside to work on some terrain. Might not want to paint tanks any more. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun It was originally a Shopping Cart Return Theory post. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1851960-the-shopping-cart-theory npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1val…rgrc THESE ARE GREAT! 🦇 ⚡ npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I would call this online transaction "actively hostile." Deeply awful. I'm clearly pretty angry about it. * That's right: you need 3 accounts to purchase this thing: a HumbleBundle account, a clownshow Kobo account, and Christ help us an Adobe account. ** You also need 2 intermediate Windows applications to get these books: ADE to get the ePub and (otherwise very useful) Calibre to convert it to mobi. If you don't have a PC: just get fucked, I guess? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin 15. Go back to Kobo. 16. On each of 38 books, click "...", "Download", then "Download Book" 17. Get 1-2 files for each book. 1 will throw an error, the other won't. 18. Drag the one that won't throw an error into the sketchy Adobe tool. 19. Do this 37 more times. 20. Adobe tool has generated ePubs. Find them. 21. Now open Calibre** 22. Import those ePubs into Calibre. 23. Plug your Kindle in. 24. Have Calibre convert those files to Mobi and send them to your Kindle. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin This has been the highest friction media purchase I have ever engaged with? Certainly in the last decade. 1. Purchase Bundle 2. Go to library 3. No downloads, just a key (weird, but OK) 4. Go to Kobo site. 5. Register on Kobo site. 6. Select each of 38 books individually. 7. Enter key 8. Complete Purchase. 9. Navigate to Account/Books. 10. Try to download books, fail. 11. Download sketchy Adobe tool 12. Install sketchy Adobe tool. 13. Create Adobe account* 14. Log in with it in the tool. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin There's a Terry Pratchett HumbleBundle up and, I gotta tell you: stay the hell away from it. These things are normally truly excellent deals: all you have to do is drop less than the cost of 2 books, struggle with HB's crappy bulk download tool, plug your kindle into a PC to drag them overand you're set for months. The Battletech and Black Library bundles I've done have been just so very, very good. So this should be a no-brainer, right? Very wrong, apparently. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1am4…q4tl I go around and around on what to do with these guys. One minute: I’m going to sell them. The next: I’ll just paint them. The next: I’ll print new heads for them and headswap! The next: I’ll do Mantic’s !Epic KS if they have their !Skaven and run them instead! A real rollercoaster! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Seriously considering canceling my preorder for #TheOldWorld over this. Why bother if you’re not going to support my army? I’d be better off with 9E #, WAP, or even Kings of War. I’ve got Dragon Rampant on the shelf and Hobgoblin kickstarted. Why bother? https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/705/895/555/484/888/original/9a4b672fa19c141d.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1pcj…vrhw that’s only true if they’re supporting your army at launch. If you’re a Skaven player, for example, it’s $70 and make-do with a pdf? npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1ytd…e833 The Baroque Cycle remains one of my all time favorites; read it! And nothing after! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1am4…q4tl I’m printing my tanks, so it’s a _little_ easier for me to just say “Fuck it, it worth it.” I’m magnetizing the turrets though. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Finished Xandire’s Truthseekers for #AgeOfSigmar, #WarhammerUnderworlds, and #Warcry. Very happy with how they came together. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/771/459/974/240/original/a9894be73038915f.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/771/427/081/465/original/62f655319470769d.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/771/476/229/450/original/1a3b9e3e1214114d.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/771/460/082/463/original/ffd5620d3e909e47.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Finished my seasonal mins: Gremlins from Crooked Dice. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/749/413/827/351/original/aad718fa98a0ef16.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/749/343/287/652/original/fe245671754a3641.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/749/399/045/562/original/65491a883076df7b.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/749/373/281/307/original/877d96265c33c706.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1am4…q4tl GO GO GO npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1nxu…4hun @npub1t3f…r8yf I avoided BT for decades, but in the past couple of years have started playing it. It’s held up shockingly well for a 40 year old system, and is a lot of dumb fun. It’s also something I can get on the table with my non-mini-playing friends, which is why it’s seen more table time for me than any other game since the pandemic. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1am4…q4tl lookin’ great! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin I ended up picking up Neal Stephenson's _Termination Shock_ on that big Audible sale a few weeks back. He was my favorite author for years, but I've severely soured on him since _Fall_ but I'd been aligning KSR's Ministry for the Future against it in my head, so why not spend a couple of bucks to prove/disprove some assumptions about it. Turns out: worse than I thought! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin My hobby is “I just randomly found a stack of decal sheets an inch thick while looking for something else” years old 😅 https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/569/885/008/069/626/original/d4d5acd43c3c2e5d.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1am4…q4tl GW Averland Sunset is a godsend. Infantry Yellow Base - GW Averland Sunset Wash - 1:1 GW Nazdreg Yellow + Contrast Medium Heavy Drybrush / Tidy up - Averland Heavy Drybrush / Spot in GW Yriel Yellow Vehicle Yellow Base - Averland Pin wash - 1:1 Nazdreg Edge Highlight - Yriel Corner dot - VMC Pale Sand Tidy - Averland npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin First snow of the season! https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/561/881/095/638/212/original/fcbad99c9025f757.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Took me a longer than it should (thanks, work!) and I had planned on doing another one or two, but decided to wait for LI to hit, but here are my first two finished #Infinity #TAGRaid factions. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/523/515/300/100/811/original/9cb4cd3e16b69ef3.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/523/515/596/672/040/original/6289cf3cfe29ed96.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Affirming my planned approach for #LegionsImperialis on these random 3P Battletech tanks (yes, plan looks good) and testing the breathless “you gotta undercoat yellow with pink” claims I see made again and again (unconvinced, pink wasn’t hard to paint yellow over but I see no meaningful difference between these models, one undercoated pink, the other white). https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/457/418/745/806/508/original/16c9d50bf7bcea30.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub15vs…uu2n as long as you’re rolling dice and having a laugh, you’re winning. Have fun! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1x7e…qg8r You, too! npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin We're COVID-cautious, and so I'm still not gaming in stores. Gaming at home, though. Sometimes I worry I'm being overly cautious, but then: every game I've had schedule for the past month's been canceled due to people getting sick so... I guess not. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Lololol https://bsky.app/profile/jeffvandermeer.bsky.social/post/3kcyn4sfpd32s npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin Just in time, I’ve finished my #Orktober projects. They took longer than I’d have liked. https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/324/722/349/686/562/original/b156962e7acb2d8c.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/324/723/363/400/627/original/9e0f299fd98fc3ff.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/324/723/561/598/669/original/ce1661c7837f35cf.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/warhammersocial/media_attachments/files/111/324/723/797/482/817/original/7e1042dc70eee76a.jpeg npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin This is 'Notzilla' from Voxelforge. It's in their Patron this month. https://www.patreon.com/posts/notzilla-rises-91012613 npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin @npub1x4z…ne4s Easier said than done depending on circumstances, I know. That they'll exist is a step in the right direction. Absent your own printer, definitely turn to Etsy: I'm pretty sure Highland has a number of folks who have licenses for their models. npub14sz6uj2jgrkenduvp347aem0yrzu7e9hvnjhkstxs86gxsxre2aqgh4m75 Rushputin When I need an SVG, I create it in GiMP - get a selection, create a Path from it, save the Path as an .svg. I'm sure the tools people are recommending are more correct, however. For 3D design (.stl, not .svg) I swear by TinkerCAD (online tool), occasionally supplemented by Microsoft's 3D Builder (locally installed).