Kinstryfe

The best I've been able to make sense of thirty years of fluff about the warp is that it's essentially full of giant blobby Venn diagrams representing abstract concepts that coalesce into something resembling sentience. The more of a similar emotional or symbolic shadow they absorb, the stronger they are. I really like the occasionally but not often enough used concept that there are many sentiences in the warp, it's just that for survival most of the smaller ones ally with or serve one of the larger entities. Just like Drach'nyen is "the first murder and the end of (human) empires), so to would other warp entities be born of a concept of symbolic action, and I like to think that the big 4 we see are the result of countless absorbtions, mergers, and acquisitions of various warp sentiences into the big powers. In the same way I love the ancient fluff that there are independent movers and shakers who fulfil their own niche and try to remain both independent of and off the radar of the larger gods, and that some may be weak enough so as to only manifest a few daemons at a time in real space compared to the endless legions of the Four. In effect I think the warp is home to countless "gods", it's just that the majority of them are weaker than even a greater daemon of the Four, jockeying for power that they will likely never possess. It's Game of Thrones with sentient maelstroms of emotional energy, except basically everyone except Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh tend to die.

TITHI worked on building some dollar store fueled terrain for a Shrine World table. I may have a terrain addiction.

Specialist stuff sure. Maybe for wet blending because you can simultaneously blend the recess and highlight colors easily. Other than that I can't think of anything that you couldn't accomplish with conventional methods and paints. I think it'll boil down to preferences and some things being "easier" one way or another. Having the edge highlights partially done with certain dark colors will certainly help people who have trouble edge highlighting, for example. But I see it mostly as a matter of ease with some things versus being a superior method. Honestly in my opinion the only "must have" in your toolkit is the medium, and maybe if you want to play around then pick up a Iyanden Yellow, Talassar Blue, and Blood Angels Red so you can mix and match as needed if you do find that project where you want to play around a little.

So I've had the chance to play with a few colors and the medium and here's what I've found. The contrast medium is nice and useful. I've tried it with several acrilic inks and being able to adjust the pigment is nice. I haven't tried the browns or Black Templar and I doubt I will with how nice this is working. I've also found it pretty much essential to using the paints at all, and highly recommended putting it in a dropper bottle to avoid pot contamination. My first focus was on the lighter colors. Apothecary white is meh, basically acting like a very light grey targeted wash. I guess the nice thing is not having to be as controlled as traditional methods? Vulpus Pink is...I don't know why this exists, honestly, as no matter what I do it keeps coming out deep magenta. I'm hoping I find a way to make it work as heard other people say they've had better results. There turquoise is ridiculously dark, and I guess it works ok if that's the shade you want. Iyanden yellow seems to want to pool into deep orange recesses, and my only good results have been using it more like a stain and less like a wash. Apply, then wick most of it off, seems to give me the best results. The one potential saving grace to these though is that they wet blend like a champ, so I'm sure I'll find some applications for them down the road. On the other end of the results was testing Talassar Blue and Blood Angels and Flesh Tearers reds. I made sure to pre-shade and highlight a couple of Marines, and predictably this gave much better results than just using a single flat undercoat. I also found that the results can be greatly enhanced by working with two color shades and wet blending them together. The reds in particular gave a very nice red gradient between the preshading and blending. I was also able to go back after it dried and target shade some spots lightly which was nice. The end results were fairly nice blue and red power armour. The blue I could have probably accomplished easier with traditional methods, but the red was nice enough that I will probably use it in the future. Note that due to the preshading and the drying time of contrast paints it still took about 4 hours to pull off so wasn't really a time saver. Overall verdict: the medium is fun stuff, wet blending is super easy, but the amount of time needed to make it look truly good makes it another method to use, not a massive time saver. Not that that's a terrible thing, it'll just be (as has been said a thousand times by now) another tool to use.

My pot is exactly like you're describing, despite shaking the heck out of it. It's almost doing nothing to whatever I tested applying it to.

TITHI played in my flgs' Kill Team tourney. Only won one of four games, but my Harlequins were voted best painted for a small prize, which I'm pretty proud of.

You, sir or madam, are exceedingly gifted at kit bashing Space Marines. Excellent work, and I especially love the Captain with the guardian spear.

I use the 25mm Necromunda bases for that purpose. They match well enough for my tastes to mix and match as needed.

TITHI got in my first game of 40k in awhile, and my first with my murderclowns. It was actually 2v2 with it being both Harlequin players' first outing. Narrowly lost but had a lot of fun. Also painted 3 more Players to complete my first fully painted squad :)

That's great progress! Now finish those last thirty so you can start on the next hundred!

Usually just the whacking side, unless the other side is very prominent.

TITHI decided, as I always do, that my latest Kill Team will become at least a 1500pt 40k army, my first Xenos army, the murderclowns™. I picked up some more bikes and a transport and started assembling everything. This confirms that I am a glutton for difficult paint schemes.

TITHI painted a death jester, and had a game fall thru. Spot the parts: axe head I think is from an AoS bloodzerker dude, as I think are the legs. Head is a standard csm I think, and backpack I know I have somewhere but can't for the life of me place...

Looking really good. Your conversion work is great.

Well, in 40k belief is power, even among non psychics. So if you have who knows how many Astartes, plus who knows how many chapter serfs, plus anyone on a planet they've saved, and anyone who's heard those stories all legitimately believing that the Champion is one of the best swordsmen ever, then whomever is the Champion could end up being one of the best swordsmen ever, regardless of what skills he possessed going into the role. It may be fortuitous that the title is simply Emperor's Champion. In essence the player loses their self and becomes the role, and throughout the Imperium the role is huge.