I just go to the art supply store and get some good ones there. I can’t remember the brand name right now, though.
I ordered a few off of DickBlick, they’ll be here in a little over a week. In the meantime, I’ll muddle through.
I have a souvenir mug from the Texas Renaissance Festival that is so full of brushes that I have trouble squeezing new ones in. Can’t claim they are all great, or ever were, but at least the old crappy ones you can use for drybrushing or mixing paints a couple more times before you throw them away.
For inexpensive brushes that last long enough to paint a few miniatures before they’re not good for anything but drybrushing or mixing paint, I pick up packs of Artist’s Loft Golden Synthetic brushes at Michaels with a coupon. Never go without a coupon (although smart phones can pull them up and they accept those)! If you do, you’re paying too much.
They do have nicer brushes in stock - just about anything with white or golden nylon will do the trick - but you’ll pay more per unit for better brushes only to find out that painting little metal or resin figures takes a serious toll on even the most expensive ones …
… and before long, all they will be good for is drybrushing and mixing paint, too!
I’m told that natural fibers stand up to repeated use better than synthetics. A properly cared-for natural fiber brush should last you years, according to a couple of pros I talked to.
Got in TWO skirmish matches of 40K last night. 1000 points vs. Eldar, where I got hammered, and 500 points vs. Sisters of Battle, where it was a draw.
5 Assault Squaddies done, another five more than halfway to the goal, and I’ve started tinkering with a Rhino that I’ve had primed for ages - finally broke out my airbrush to basecoat it.
VERY nice on the assault squad. I especially like the work on the eyes and the super-heated exhaust on the jump packs. Never thought of that but I may use it if I ever have the opportunity.
Can’t take credit for the idea, only the particular execution. I saw someone had done it somewhere, and liked the effect.
Wish me luck. I may have a buyer for all my unpainted gray knights! Around $200 (or more if they like my painted stuff, too).
Sweet. I’d actually talked to someone on the board once about buying their old 40K stuff, but nothing ever came of it.
It’s sweet for the buyer as well. I got the GK as part of a huge deal and so they were practically free. So I’m letting him have the power armored GK at $4 each and the terms at $6 each. All metal. Since this customer also plays Space Wolves, I’m hoping he’ll spring for the NIB runepriest, Logan Grimnar, and Bjorn Fell-Handed. If things go REALLY well, he’ll buy the painted stuff (Space wolves, gray knights, and lots of various Imperial agents).
Well, I hadn’t wanted to spend more on 40K this year, apart from the Space Marine codex, but… a local guy is selling about $600 worth of Grey Knights, mostly unpainted, for $250, so…
It can be hard to resist the siren call of a good deal…
Now if only my buyer would stop delaying and putting off the transaction.
Got the Grey Knights. Not quite as good a deal as the other Marines, but we’re looking at 40 Power Armor bodies and 14 Terminator bodies (all armed in various ways), Crowe, two Dreadknights, one Dreadnought with double twin-linked autocannons (and mild deformation of the central chest plate) and Kaldor Draigo (minus his banner). Plus some storage foam, and the Lasgun pack of objective markers. Also three Servo-Skulls, and what looks like a Daemonhost, but it doesn’t match the picture in the GK Codex exactly. Combined with the one box of new Grey Knight Terminators I bought a while back, I can field… well, a metric crapton of Grey Knights in terms of points.
Roughly :
5 Man Interceptor Squad
5 Man Purgation Squad x2 - I may have Purgation and Purifier Squad backwards.
10 Man Purifier Squad
10 Man Strike Squad
10 Man Grey Knight Terminator Squad
5+ Man Paladin Squad w/ Apothecary and Banner
2 Dreadknights
1 Dreadnought
Castellan Crowe
Kaldor Draigo
That’s a whole lotta kill.
Funny! I sold most of my GK last night. 27 power armored guys and 7 terms, including Stern. The guy is also interested in the unassembled metal Bjorn Fell-Hand and my other terms as well.
Looks like the economy is coming back in our branch of the administratum.
It’s nice to basically have a whole second army. But I seriously gotta refrain from further 40K spending until next year… except for the open box, unassembled Term squad that I’m buying tonight for $25. But that’s it!
I hope to never let my parents know how much I regret getting suckered into WH40K in the 90s. I’ll be chagrined, they’ll be vindicated, etc. I stopped rather abruptly at age 16, but that wasn’t soon enough. No offense intended to anyone here, certainly; I just think about it a lot.
I’m not sure if this is related or not, but it never dawned on me that the fluff is tongue-in-cheek. I had no idea. I obsessively read the stuff in the rulebooks, Codex Imperialis, Angels of Death Codex, and so on, and I thought about it a lot. I took it very seriously. I hadn’t played in more than ten years or so, though I had occasionally read some of the fiction and such, and then I saw a YouTube comment about how one is not supposed to take this stuff too seriously, and I had this sudden flash of realization: “Aha! Of Course!” Of course, I was reading about the Holocaust and such in (I think) First Grade, so my perspective had been tuned that way for years.
I wonder what that says about my psyche.
Well then, don’t look at the Astartes Ultra offer. The entire Ultramarine chapter for between $11,500 and $17,500. The price keeps changing for some reason.
Because the price of the underlying models is probably varying somewhat, and GW would rather kill themselves than give anyone a discount?
Haven’t been painting much, lately - been doing a lot of assembly, though.
It turns out that the $17,500 price is for Australia. $11,500 is the US price. I should have noticed that it was always $17,500 when viewing from one PC but $11,500 on another.