High Grade People in a Perfect Grade World

veck

A wee photo dump of my recent builds (believe the hype regarding those G-Witch kits! So good!)

antillese

I thought I posted it in the hardware showoff thread but I can’t find it.

It was a kit from the old management at https://recroommasters.com/ . I cannot speak for their current management or product line. To my knowledge I have the last sit-down one ever made.

For years I’d been avoiding building a cabinet out of some kind of desire for authenticity, but what I really wanted was something that felt like a candy cabinet, but ran modern stuff. Once I realized I wanted a glorified Ikea kit I went and ordered it.

Behind the coin door (which is a sweet sticker) is pawn-show Onkyo home theater receiver driving a comically large Yamaha sub I got off of craigslist and cartoonishly small Pyle speakers I got on Amazon for the tweeters. But they’re totally fine. I’ve got a nice 1080 HDR monitor, but because of the older receiver, I can’t actually do HDR on the monitor right now. It’s fine - it looks great.

Because it’s effectively a home theater, I can connect anything that eats HDMI. So I have a hand-me-down Windows PC in there for emulation and PC games that don’t require a ton in the way of horsepower (it’s a 9th Generation i5 Intel). I can play Streets of Rage 4 on Steam, and emulate up to GameCube which is great. If I want to play Persona 4 Arena or Guilty Gear Strive, I connect the PS5. Gonna do that for Street Fighter 6 in a few months too.

I’m very proud of the control panel. It’s a full custom replacement of what it came with. I did the layout, and mechanical/manufacturing engineering myself in CAD (SpaceClaim if you’re a CAD nerd). It’s two Sanwa sticks, and the buttons are all 30mm Sanwas which I put silencing pads in so I don’t annoy my wife. It’s driven by two Brooks Universal Fighting Board PCBs which eat the button inputs and spits out USB so I can connect it to anything that takes accepts a USB joystick. I threw an extra switch dock in the cabinet too so I can play Sega Ages Thunder Force/Litening Force on it too. I commissioned a buddy who is a graphic designer and he did the marquee and panel artwork and I love it.

It completely rules and any time I get to play something on it or share it with friends I feel like I’m getting away with something.

antillese

… But this thread is about painting! Here’s what I finished most recently: I painted a Hero Forge model for a buddy who plays D&D. This is his character:

My display case is mostly Infinity:

I play Aleph (top) and their sworn enemy the Nomads (bottom two). The majority of my Aleph models are in my case for game night (though I haven’t been able to play since January 😭😭). I’m intending to bang out that Marut (the big primed one on the left) over spring break. We’ll see!

sabertoothalex

I very recently gave my boy a little tlc after more than a few years on display. Washed some caked on dust off of him and gave a once over with rubbing alcohol. Redid the panel lining too because it had mostly faded.

My most recent build was an RG Zaku which I didn’t have much fun building. Too fiddly.

Chopemon

I have completely fallen off Gunpla after going hard on it for a few years but as part of my mental health rehabilitation, I have turned back to another form of plastic; 40K.

I used to play 40K as a teenager and then in my early 20s when I had a good friend group and before I moved away for work. I realise that I need to get out and socialise and do something that isn’t making and playing games so I’ve picked 40K back up so I can go to a local game shop and play.

I used to play Sisters of Battle and I’ve gone for them again since they have all been redone in plastic. I really like the new models, the detail is phenomenal. The new paints are great and I’ve invested in decent budget brushes and I’m having a great time painting them. Soon I’ll be going to a store and learning to play, just in time for the new edition to change everything.

Here are my first couple of figures.

rejj

I haven’t played 40K since … 2nd edition. GW just announced 10th ed.

I do, however, listen to some lengthy 40K lore videos on youtube. Often while falling asleep so I only really hear the first few minutes and need to play the same video about 5-6 times to actually hear it all.

I always liked the models, I still have some from the 90’s (when I had 2nd ed) on a shelf at my parents’ house. I had some khorne chaos marines, and then some tyranids - probably the best of the lot there was a carnifex. I’ll try to remember next time I’m visiting to grab a photo.

rejj

rejj I’ll try to remember next time I’m visiting to grab a photo.

Ha ha ha oops. I guess emphasis was on try.

I shall continue trying to remember

Chopemon

I’ve been plugging away at my Sisters of Battle army over the months. I’ve almost got 1000 points assembled so I can get to playing.

I did my Paragon Warsuits today. Just need to add green stuff flames to the candles I added once the gree stuff is dry.

antillese

I finished the Marut for Infinity recently and in the grand tradition of freshly painted miniatures, it was a total clown show on its first outing. Didn’t really kill anything and got hacked, possessed, and killed all of my own midfield units. A+, would paint again.

Chopemon

Multi armed suits are cool

antillese

Chopemon I also need to shrink down photos before posting them. They look OK on a phone, but boy do they look stupid at 30″. 😛

KingTubb

A gift from my brother from his last trip to Tokyo

Jack

KingTubb Hell yes, no gunpla beats 80’s gunpla (or reprints).

Mnemogenic

I’m a very casual gunpla builder, but this cup noodle was a really fun kit and I love seeing it on my shelf.

Last thing I built was a Quebely, but I will not be posting photos of that because that was a difficult kit and I put it together sloppily.

HyggeState

Does digitally sculpting my own creatures, 3D printing them, and painting them still count?

Chopemon

HyggeState heck yeah. I’ve been buying 3d printed accessories from Etsy to add to my Warhammer. Nothing as exciting as creatures but 3d printing has been a real boon to people who like to convert their miniatures.

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