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1. General Pencil Company Inc., The Masters Brush Cleaner & Preserver 1 Oz.
- Formulated for use with oils - acrylics and watercolors
- Will even remove dried on paints and paint stains
- Clean fresh scent
- Plastic jar contains 1 ounce/28.3 grams
- Cleans and preserves brushes
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2. Master Airbrush Multi-purpose Gravity Feed Dual-action Airbrush Kit with 6 Foot Hose and a Powerful 1/5hp Single Piston Quiet Air Compressor
- Professional Master Airbrush Airbrushing System with A Model G22 Multi-Purpose High Performance Precision Airbrush with A 1/3 Oz. Gravity Fluid Cup and A 0.3Mm Fluid Tip.
- Premium Master Airbrush High Performance 1/5 Hp Air Compressor with Air Filter Water Trap with Pressure Regulator Along with An Airbrush Holder For 2 Airbrushes.
- Includes Master Airbrushes Best Selling User Friendly and Versatile Gravity Feed Airbrush That'S Commonly Used For: Hobbies, Crafts, Auto Graphics, Temporary Tattoos, Cake Decorating, Fine Art, Nail Art and More!
- Great Starter Airbrush Kit For Beginners and Students, As Well As For Advanced Artists Since It Works Excellent For Most Airbrushing Applications and Also with Most Types of Paint Spray Media. Includes Bonus How-To-Airbrush Manual & Guide Booklet By Master Airbrush.
- Buy with Confidence, If you are not satisfied with this airbrush system at anytime within the First Year of Purchase Or The Compressor At Anytime within The Second Year of Purchase, We'Ll Provide A Refund Or Replacement.
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3. Princeton Artist Brush Select Synthetic Brush Filbert Grainer 1/4" Width
- Brushes are perfect for your decorative and technique painting needs
- A variety of synthetic and natural hair
- satin-finish jewelry box blue handles are the icing on the cake for these unique specialty brushes
- the short handled select brushes with their distinct shapes allow you to truly express your creativity
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4. Testors Spray Lacquer 3oz, Clear Coat
- For use on many surfaces
- Finely ground pigments give superb flow and coverage
- lead free, fast-drying, and easy to apply
- Contains one aerosol can with 3oz (85g) of enamel paint
- Available in a variety of colors
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5. MagNetSol Magnets Combo Pack Miniatures (Qty 300 Magnets - 3 sizes) Warhammer wargaming miniature
- Mega Combo Magnet (Qty 300)
- 100psc 1/16" by 1/32" (2mm x 1mm) Disc Magnets
- 100psc 1/8" by 1/16" (3mm x 2mm) Disc Magnets
- 100psc 3/16" by 1/16" (5mm x 2mm) Disc Magnets
- AS GAME Accessories: Warhammer 40000 40k Games, wargaming, WAR GAMES, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons and another similar figures, sculpture supplies.
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7. Preamer Modeler Professional Tools Craft Set for Car Gundam Model Assemble Building Kit
- This modeler basic tools set is suitable for a begin and advanced modeler as well.
- 1xSide cutter,1x Pen knife& 12 spare blade and sawblade File, 2 type Tweezer. 3xdouble-sided polished bar,1x transparent box.
- Modeler building tool set .Perfect Grade,Perfect Grade,Metal Build tool
- HIGH QUALITY :Trimmer pen is tightly clamped and has high hardness. With safety protection cap to protect blade. The cutting pliers is made of carbon steels, good durability. The tweezers are made of high strength stainless steel, anti-static, anti-acid, anti-corrosion and anti-magnetic. Other items also have good quality.
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- PERFECT FOR THE JOB --- This kit is a tremendous help. It's great to use the proper tools for a job and watch your productivity go way up and your frustration go way down. All Pieces in One Package, As this set will also save you money over buying things separately.
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8. LITKO Horde Tray Set, 5-Man 25mm Circle (8)
- (8) 5-Figure Horde Tray for 25mm Circle Bases in 3mm plywood
- Use LITKO Horde Trays to group various sizes of hordes of troops. This set includes 8 different trays each with 5 base cutouts for your miniatures
- Laser-cut from durable 3mm plywood uppers with thin .8mm bottoms. Designed for your 25mm round bases. Can also accommodate 1-inch round bases Use LITKO 25mm circular magnetic and flexible steel base bottoms to secure your figures.
- Paint and finish your Horde Trays to complement your terrain.
- Bases not included
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10. Primal Horizon Super Pack of Magnets for Miniatures (154 Magnets, 6 sizes) PHZ210
- Magnets for Miniatures
- Contents: 40 x 0.0 6 inches magnets, 40 x 0.13 inches magnets, 20 x 0.18 inches magnets, 10 x 0.25 inches magnets, and 4 x 0.38 inches magnets
- Weight: 0.063 lb
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11. DEWALT (DWST17814) Tstak Tool Box, Deep, Long Handle
Extra Large volume for Large tools storageTop organizer fixed dividers for organization of drills & bitsBi material handle on Top of each unit for Easy & comfortable liftingHeavy Duty rust resistant metal latchesDurable side latches allow unit to be stacked to other tstak modules
12. Plano 137401 By Rack System 3700 Size Tackle Box, Multi, 16" X 12" X 17.25" 6lbs
- Tested for durability
- Made in the USA
- Made using the highest quality components
- Includes Plano large 4-by rack system, Plano brochure, nameplate order form
- 3503 spinnerbait box fits in bulk storage (not included)
- All 3700 utility boxes are interchangeable
- Four 3700 boxes utility boxes included
- Limited lifetime warranty
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13. Self Adhesive Magnetic Sheets - Make Anything a Magnet! Magnetic Adhesive Sheets -Premium Quality Peel and Stick Magnets by Flexible Magnets (5, 8" x 10" - 60 mil)
- 8" x 10" adhesive magnets from Flexible Magnets
- 60 Mil Thick - Strong standard indoor adhesive.
- Very easy! Just peel back the protective paper and place your photo! Peel and stick!
- Perfect for photos, Crafts, Kids drawings, Save the Date, and much more!
- Sold as a pack of 5 adhesive sheets.
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> Is there any reason to take Hormagaunts over Genestealers?
When having more bodies on the table and tying up enemy units in melee is a greater consideration than just killing units outright.
This is a rare situation lol. Killing is good. But there are some fringe cases... for example, you're playing Hive Fleet Behemoth rules and you want to use their unique stratagem (Brute Force, which basically has a 16% chance to deal a mortal wound for each friendly model that makes it into close combat) and you need to bring down something with a strong invul save (so like... Mortarian, or Guilliman, or somebody) and your only option is to drown it in low quality bodies.
In those cases it might be more useful to just have a fucking gargantuan amount of Hormagaunts.
But in 99% of situations, Genestealer spam is superior, for the points.
> I'd like to use florescent dye on my 'nids, so they glow-in-the-dark. Is this viable; If so, how would I go about it (mix the dye with the paint? Apply it as a gloss?); & what should I use to do so, specifically?
I haven't messed with this myself but I would assume if it is of a compatible material it should be mixable. Is the dye acrylic? Most miniature paints are acrylic.
> * Any painting/modelling tips you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Make a wet palette, learn the difference between priming/basing/layering/washing/highlighting/drybrushing, get a drybrush, get a base coating brush, get a fine detail brush.... then once you figure out what you're doing and you're ready to REALLY detail some fine detail, graduate to a Windsor & Newton Series 7 sable hair detail brush... sable hair is so much better at holding a fine point and stays moist longer.
Also, invest in a tub of brush cleaner: https://www.amazon.com/General-Pencil-Company-Masters-Preserver/dp/B001TNR7VM
It's cheap and lasts forever, just get your brush wet, brush it back and forth on the top of the block o' soap, get the soap all massaged into the bristles, and rinse with room temp water. Repeat until the bristles are nice and silky smooth.
Never get paint in the ferrule (the part where the bristles join with the rest of the brush). Never get any sort of chemicals in there either, like isopropyl alcohol or even soap if you can manage. Cheaper brushes use weak glues and soap could dissolve them - probably not an issue on a Windsor & Newton brush, but you don't want to take the risk. Just be in the habit of only immersing brushes in things-other-than-water up to the ferrule, never past it.
Water in the ferrule is fine and should not be a problem. Always rinse your brushes when you're finished painting for the day, dried paint will fuck your brushes up over time.
Decide on a paint scheme and then paint your SMALL models first! Do all your learning on the little dudes that nobody is looking at on the table lol. Then once you've built your skill up, do the big impressive looking monsters. When you have 30 Hormagaunts all climbing over each other to get to the enemy, they can look like absolute shit individually but as a horde they look awesome as long as you have them all painted identically. The uniformity is what makes them pop. But when you have one single monster by itself, people look very closely at that and technique is more important.
Paint your swarms in batches. Prime all 30 Hormagaunts. Wait till the next day. Base coat all 30 Hormagaunts. Wait a day. Layer the Hormagaunts' carapace. Etc. Do one step for 30 models, not 30 steps for one model. This prevents a lot of logistical bullshit like running out of space on your wet palette.
Most importantly, make "om nom nom nom" noises when finishing off enemy units.
This is the one I use, it's a good starter set with a decent brush and compressor.
It can get a bit pricey to start up though, you'll want to get airbrush thinner (I use Vallejos), and I cannot reccomend dropper bottles enough over the pots citadel paints come in. Not just for airbrushing but just day to day painting is made so much easier.
You can get really great quality ones for like 38 cents each shipping is a little expensive though.
Another great thing is you can run vallejo primer straight through an airbrush too and never have to deal with rattle cans or accidental shitty prime jobs again.
https://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Artist-Brush-Synthetic-Filbert/dp/B0043G9A7Q
This is the brush I use. Its cheap and synthetic but works perfectly. Cheap enough I hope so you don't need to wreck an old brush
Testor's dull coat, after you're done painting and before you put any flock/grass/ w/e down (as it will weight it down and can look bad), just spray them like you would with priming them (short bursts from a distance). Let that set overnight and make sure to do this outside and/or in a well ventilated area as it has a strong odor that will linger. If you have to do it outside, leave them outside for at least half an hour and you'll be good to bring them in with minimal odor to finish curing.
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After that you can put down any grass/flock on the base.
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One caveat, if you have a lot of metallics on your guys this will be dulling them (this is matte after all), so gotta weigh durability with shinyness for if you want to varnish them. I usually still do for miniature games like this, as things bump a lot over time and are handled a bunch. The metallics are still metallics and show, just not as nicely as they did before varnish.
I'm in the same boat! Agree with the consensus that it's not critical for every model all the time, but definitely things like carnifexes that just have so many options. I went with this Amazon listing.
MagNetSol Magnets Combo Pack Miniatures (Qty 300 Magnets - 3 sizes, 3 Drill Bits) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NHMCR9F/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_Kp0TDbQQB6TRJ
Thanks! It’s a frost wyrm from reaper miniatures. It’s like 15 USD or so. https://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Frost-Wyrm-1-Miniature/dp/B00FIAFGWO
I think they are called salon style sanders. I think I got it in a modelling kit from Amazon
I think this is the kit that had it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071XCJ5YG/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_4zfDDbZN15F96
Or you could just get a Dremel with variable speeds but I found them to be a bit too powerful.
Been looking at these movement trans. Haven’t decided what looks most useful. I’m keen on these atm but ya e no experience using them.
Horde Tray Set, 5-man 25mm Circle (Set of 8) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M1U7OMO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HlZMBbTN1NKSX
I went with this. It really covers your bases.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A6VZ832/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This page is a good go to for what to use for what:
https://www.miniwargaming.com/magnet-guide
https://www.amazon.com/Warhammer-40K-Tyranids-Spearhead-Detachment/dp/B07TT88PN6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tyranid+spearhead&qid=1565433828&s=gateway&sr=8-1
it's cheaper on ebay and amazon anyway
A Dewalt Toolchest I picked up from Home Depot on sale for $25, then craft foam from Micheals, roughly cut to fit the big models, adn some cheap troop foam for gants and genestealers.
All together I spent about $65 on it, and the most expensive part was the the foam for my troops.
I put the smaller models in the trays and the bigger ones up top separated by terrain and my dice bag
Plano 1374 4-By Rack System 3700 Size Tackle Box https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E3FKTO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_7BsSDHkZZ3ogU
I have 2 of these plus a 5 drawer plastic organizer for models I’m not taking anywhere. Not that I’ve played since 2nd edition but...just in case...
Here's my Cantilever Toolbox Case,
It's a 17" Cantilever Steel Tool Box from Amazon (~£28)
I've used 5mm N35 Magnets (~£8) for the Larger models in the deeper bottom section, the Trygon has 3 of these an is actually magnetised to the side at 90°.
The smaller models aren't all magnetised, about 12 of the Gaunts (6 in each tray) and 6 Genestealers have 3mm N35 magnets (~£5). I've placed these 6 in the centre and they hold the models behind in pretty well.
Currently pictured in the case I have 1472 points, odd number because I haven't bought and assembled the last bits of my 1750 list. A second Tyrant, 3 more Warriors and I've got 2 more Rippers to add in to bring those to 4 Rippers per unit. I don't foresee that being a problem and I'll likely still have 2 upper trays entirely empty. Easily build up to 2000 on more Gaunts and Genestealers. The centra section is almost exactly a Hive Tyrant in depth.
Not including super glue, whole thing has cost me about £41, I still have half my magnets left for more models at least. It's not perfectly safe, the models can move unlike in foam so sudden deceleration from a drop will overwhelm the magnets and cause some to model to move inside the case. I think I'd struggle to crush them though. Thought I'd share the idea, see what people think.
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(I shared this a while ago and just recycled the post)
DId you glue the wings to you Hive Tyrant? Not sure if it'd fit even lying down in this box, might struggle to find a case it would fit in. If the wings are magentised though it'll fit fine.