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)imp123 said:
Good luck with getting a copy, opportunistic a
holes have bought all issues up and are bunging them on eBay.
Not sure you understand how Hachette's business model works. They only send to the store roughly the number of magazines that sold in previous weeks. holes have bought all issues up and are bunging them on eBay.So, there are only copies in store if the "opportunistic a
les" have bought them in previous weeks and if you're just looking to cherry pick the one or two copies that are decent value (e.g. this week's libararian model), then it's you who is the opportunistic ale" . 
The recent bump in this thread has made me buy a small batch of models and paints etc. Recently moved over to NY on my own so have been thinking of what to do to keep me occupied, this seems like a good thing. I'm not naturally gifted but hoping a bit of time and focus will get me able to be at least not ashamed of my output!
Should be arriving later today although I can't really spray paint the base layer (21st floor apartment in Manhattan) so going to have to do a bit of research on hand-painting - any tips?
Should be arriving later today although I can't really spray paint the base layer (21st floor apartment in Manhattan) so going to have to do a bit of research on hand-painting - any tips?
Mannginger said:
The recent bump in this thread has made me buy a small batch of models and paints etc. Recently moved over to NY on my own so have been thinking of what to do to keep me occupied, this seems like a good thing. I'm not naturally gifted but hoping a bit of time and focus will get me able to be at least not ashamed of my output!
Should be arriving later today although I can't really spray paint the base layer (21st floor apartment in Manhattan) so going to have to do a bit of research on hand-painting - any tips?
First tip is: find a gaming club near you, there must be one in Manhatten and it's a good way to get you out and making me friends at a time when the loneliness might otherwise creep up on you! Should be arriving later today although I can't really spray paint the base layer (21st floor apartment in Manhattan) so going to have to do a bit of research on hand-painting - any tips?
Re spraying in an apartment, you can get mini spray booths with an extractor fan pushing the air out a small gap in the window. Or just use a brush and a brush on primer followed by two nice thin coats of the base colour.
If really not suggest using aerosols with the desktop booths - they're fine for particulates from acrylic airbrushing, but solvents are a different matter...
However, vallejo surface primer is superb with the brush. Perfect consistency to copy when thinning paints out of the pot.
Great thing to start with is kill Team. Then can build up your army if playing 40k appeals.
However, vallejo surface primer is superb with the brush. Perfect consistency to copy when thinning paints out of the pot.
Great thing to start with is kill Team. Then can build up your army if playing 40k appeals.
Would love to see what everyone is working on at the moment, this is my latest project, picked up relatively cheap off eBay.
It's absolutely massive, the board it sits on is 60cm x 60cm and it must be at least 10" high at the top of the Thunderhawk. Will post up a progess picture later on.
It's absolutely massive, the board it sits on is 60cm x 60cm and it must be at least 10" high at the top of the Thunderhawk. Will post up a progess picture later on.
youngsyr said:
Would love to see what everyone is working on at the moment, this is my latest project, picked up relatively cheap off eBay... /snip/
Here's my current projects - Deathwatch kill Team roster (which I keep expanding - just picked up KILL Team Cassius as they're all highly individual sculpts, can only run a couple legally, but the rest should provide some bitz for other conversions... Also, the Kill Team starter scenery - crikey it takes ages!
All just blocked in base colours currently, shading/highlights/weathering and texture all to do.
Sway said:
youngsyr said:
Would love to see what everyone is working on at the moment, this is my latest project, picked up relatively cheap off eBay... /snip/
Here's my current projects - Deathwatch kill Team roster (which I keep expanding - just picked up KILL Team Cassius as they're all highly individual sculpts, can only run a couple legally, but the rest should provide some bitz for other conversions... Also, the Kill Team starter scenery - crikey it takes ages!
All just blocked in base colours currently, shading/highlights/weathering and texture all to do.
Are you painting the scenery like you would a mini? If so, it ill take AGES!
Technique I use relies heavily on "wet brushing" with a big (1 inch wide) brush. You base coat in the colour you want the shadows to be, then dip the big brush in the mid tone and wipe about half the paint off before painting in broad light strokes to cover all but the recesses. Then dry brush the highlight colour. Gets large areas done quickly,
Painted the Fortress in just two evenings (about 8 hours total) and it's massive (pretty much covers a kill team board)! Fine detail left to do, but the base colours are all down nice and quick.
Edited by youngsyr on Saturday 27th October 18:32
Here's how far I've got with the Thunderhawk, probably about 10 hours in so far. Nearly finished, but I'm struggling with the Martian landscape and getting it to look right. Plus I'm thinking about putting some flashing LEDS in to simulate warning lights and flames.
The hull was painted using the wet brush technique with blue over a black base coat. To give you an idea of the size of the thing, that's a normal sized Rhino door you can see open on the side!
The hull was painted using the wet brush technique with blue over a black base coat. To give you an idea of the size of the thing, that's a normal sized Rhino door you can see open on the side!
youngsyr said:
Not sure you understand how Hachette's business model works. They only send to the store roughly the number of magazines that sold in previous weeks.
So, there are only copies in store if the "opportunistic ales" have bought them in previous weeks and if you're just looking to cherry pick the one or two copies that are decent value (e.g. this week's libararian model), then it's you who is the opportunistic ale" .
Sigh...ok I will explain it to you a little more simply as you appear to have missed the point entirely. People have come in and bought multiple copies at one time and sold the "extras" on ebay to make a quick profit thus making it difficult for people to come in and pick up a copy unless they are willing to pay extra on ebay (Hachette has also run out of stock online).So, there are only copies in store if the "opportunistic a
les" have bought them in previous weeks and if you're just looking to cherry pick the one or two copies that are decent value (e.g. this week's libararian model), then it's you who is the opportunistic ale" . I assume you are one of those people.
Edited by imp123 on Saturday 27th October 23:59
imp123 said:
youngsyr said:
Not sure you understand how Hachette's business model works. They only send to the store roughly the number of magazines that sold in previous weeks.
So, there are only copies in store if the "opportunistic ales" have bought them in previous weeks and if you're just looking to cherry pick the one or two copies that are decent value (e.g. this week's libararian model), then it's you who is the opportunistic ale" .
Sigh...ok I will explain it to you a little more simply as you appear to have missed the point entirely with your obviously flawed logic. People have come in and bought multiple copies at one time and sold the "extras" on ebay to make a quick profit thus making it difficult for people to come in and pick up a copy unless they are willing to pay extra on ebay (Hachette has also run out of stock online).So, there are only copies in store if the "opportunistic a
les" have bought them in previous weeks and if you're just looking to cherry pick the one or two copies that are decent value (e.g. this week's libararian model), then it's you who is the opportunistic ale" . I assume you are one of those people.
There were 3 stores local to me that stocked issues 1 to 4. Two of those stores stopped stocking the magazine from issue 5. No-one could buy issues 5 onwards from those stores.
The one remaining store (a big town centre WH Smiths) had two boxes of stock for issue 1, literally dozens of copies. Every issue since their stock of the magazine has been reducing as less of them have sold. For last week's issue (#7, the one with the two washes), there were two issues in stock in store. I bought one of them.
The remaining issue 7 was still there this week when I went in on release day (Wednesday) and there were 2 issue #8s there and I bought both.
So, the only people I stopped from buying issue 8 did not buy issue 7 anywhere locally, despite having the opportunity. I suspect I'm the only person who bought several of the earlier issues too.
youngsyr said:
Well, let me explain it even more simply to you - Hachette's business model with the magazine was to sell issues 1 to 4 in stores and then do subscription only from issue 5 onwards (this is why issue 5 was the exclusive marine).
There were 3 stores local to me that stocked issues 1 to 4. Two of those stores stopped stocking the magazine from issue 5. No-one could buy issues 5 onwards from those stores.
The one remaining store (a big town centre WH Smiths) had two boxes of stock for issue 1, literally dozens of copies. Every issue since their stock of the magazine has been reducing as less of them have sold. For last week's issue (#7, the one with the two washes), there were two issues in stock in store. I bought one of them.
The remaining issue 7 was still there this week when I went in on release day (Wednesday) and there were 2 issue #8s there and I bought both.
So, the only people I stopped from buying issue 8 did not buy issue 7 anywhere locally, despite having the opportunity. I suspect I'm the only person who bought several of the earlier issues too.
Well you certainly went for simple in your response There were 3 stores local to me that stocked issues 1 to 4. Two of those stores stopped stocking the magazine from issue 5. No-one could buy issues 5 onwards from those stores.
The one remaining store (a big town centre WH Smiths) had two boxes of stock for issue 1, literally dozens of copies. Every issue since their stock of the magazine has been reducing as less of them have sold. For last week's issue (#7, the one with the two washes), there were two issues in stock in store. I bought one of them.
The remaining issue 7 was still there this week when I went in on release day (Wednesday) and there were 2 issue #8s there and I bought both.
So, the only people I stopped from buying issue 8 did not buy issue 7 anywhere locally, despite having the opportunity. I suspect I'm the only person who bought several of the earlier issues too.
ASDA, some W H Smiths and few other outlets are and will be stocking issues from 5 onwards, this has been made clear in multiple forums, facebook etc. The point you make only serves to confirm the one I make people being opportunistic or are you planning to field more than one primaris space marine librarian?
imp123 said:
youngsyr said:
Well, let me explain it even more simply to you - Hachette's business model with the magazine was to sell issues 1 to 4 in stores and then do subscription only from issue 5 onwards (this is why issue 5 was the exclusive marine).
There were 3 stores local to me that stocked issues 1 to 4. Two of those stores stopped stocking the magazine from issue 5. No-one could buy issues 5 onwards from those stores.
The one remaining store (a big town centre WH Smiths) had two boxes of stock for issue 1, literally dozens of copies. Every issue since their stock of the magazine has been reducing as less of them have sold. For last week's issue (#7, the one with the two washes), there were two issues in stock in store. I bought one of them.
The remaining issue 7 was still there this week when I went in on release day (Wednesday) and there were 2 issue #8s there and I bought both.
So, the only people I stopped from buying issue 8 did not buy issue 7 anywhere locally, despite having the opportunity. I suspect I'm the only person who bought several of the earlier issues too.
Well you certainly went for simple in your response There were 3 stores local to me that stocked issues 1 to 4. Two of those stores stopped stocking the magazine from issue 5. No-one could buy issues 5 onwards from those stores.
The one remaining store (a big town centre WH Smiths) had two boxes of stock for issue 1, literally dozens of copies. Every issue since their stock of the magazine has been reducing as less of them have sold. For last week's issue (#7, the one with the two washes), there were two issues in stock in store. I bought one of them.
The remaining issue 7 was still there this week when I went in on release day (Wednesday) and there were 2 issue #8s there and I bought both.
So, the only people I stopped from buying issue 8 did not buy issue 7 anywhere locally, despite having the opportunity. I suspect I'm the only person who bought several of the earlier issues too.
ASDA, some W H Smiths and few other outlets are and will be stocking issues from 5 onwards, this has been made clear in multiple forums, facebook etc. The point you make only serves to confirm the one I make people being opportunistic or are you planning to field more than one primaris space marine librarian?
And yes, I have 3 space marine armies and I hope my two sons will take up the hobby on top of that, so not only am I not opportunistic, but me buying more than one copy is not taking anything away from regular in store buyers, as I know for a fact that no-one else is regularly buying copies in store in my area.
youngsyr said:
I was taught to modify my writing to take into account the comprehension level of the target audience.
And yes, I have 3 space marine armies and I hope my two sons will take up the hobby on top of that, so not only am I not opportunistic, but me buying more than one copy is not taking anything away from regular in store buyers, as I know for a fact that no-one else is regularly buying copies in store in my area.
Would have thought it would have been more productive to have taught you to make coherent arguments.And yes, I have 3 space marine armies and I hope my two sons will take up the hobby on top of that, so not only am I not opportunistic, but me buying more than one copy is not taking anything away from regular in store buyers, as I know for a fact that no-one else is regularly buying copies in store in my area.
Sounds like you should have got many more copies for your two sons (heirs to the great tri-chapter space marine horde).
Re your Thunderhawk, have you thought about kit bashing together a skeleton and marine model as a long dead survivor of the crash?
Edited by imp123 on Sunday 28th October 00:41
Monsterlime said:
I had so much trouble finding issue 4, I gave in and subscribed. Didn’t consider Asda would stock it though, but tried every WH Smith I could find around me.
It was very hit and miss around my way too. 4 or 5 newsagents didn't stock it at all, a couple others stocked it for the first 4 weeks and WH Smiths had bucketfuls of the first issue and then decreased down to only a couple per week now, whilst the WH Smiths in the next big town over either sold out or didn't have it at all as I couldn't find any copies there.Contents of issues 11 to 14 have been confirmed (not necessarily in this order):
- 3 Easy To Build Primaris Aggressors
- Foul Blightspawn
- Mechanicus Standard Grey + Dry Brush
- Munitorum Container Sprue (Container with 2x Storm Bolters, 3 barrels, 2 crates)
Not bad value all around, it's about £48 worth of stuff at full retail (assuming you could buy the munitorum sprue on its own), so about £40 at independents, for £31.96.
- 3 Easy To Build Primaris Aggressors
- Foul Blightspawn
- Mechanicus Standard Grey + Dry Brush
- Munitorum Container Sprue (Container with 2x Storm Bolters, 3 barrels, 2 crates)
Not bad value all around, it's about £48 worth of stuff at full retail (assuming you could buy the munitorum sprue on its own), so about £40 at independents, for £31.96.
Edited by youngsyr on Tuesday 30th October 23:14
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