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hey guys Jay here welcome to Miles memories weekly episode 85. model's memory is a show
about nothing in this filmed in front of a live studio audience this is a show we're talking about
painting modeling and worrying experiences from the week now you might be thinking yourself Jay
you put out three to visit a week how could you possibly have more to say well I do and here goes
this week I actually got a lot of hobbying done many of you might have already seen
in the Wednesday video I built a sort of golden demon piece I wanted I just wanted to try to see
if I could do something organize a piece to make it look kind of like I saw in the golden demon
display cases and I was very pleasantly surprised it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be
and it was very interesting so this piece isn't going to be entered in Golden demon uh mostly
because we use 3D scans and 3D prints of our heads Nick and I which is very funny and it makes this
great this is going to be like an awesome piece to have on my shelf but it does get me really
excited for Golden demon also a lot of people in that video brought up that you can't have 3D
printed Parts in Golden demon and that is actually not true you absolutely can have 3D printed parts
sort of actually 3D prints have one golden demon in the past two events Tom hughes's
Tau bust which was amazing sculpted by him printed by him and painted by him one gold
and Eric Swenson's mephistan won Gold in the open category here at adepticon and it was super cool
um the only stipulation and it's the same stipulation that they have for anything in
Golden demon is it must be a Games Workshop kit or completely originally created by you
so if you want to sculpt on a tentacle or some extra hair it has to be all your design and if
you want to 3D print something it has to be totally your design and so it actually you
know it makes for some really cool stuff like these models the mephistan and the Tau they're
exceptionally cool and they look great in the display cabinets although I do think if that
that rule will change one day I do think that eventually they'll they'll ax any custom sculpt
any custom digitally sculpted stuff and say that it must be an original games or trap kit because
I think it'll happen the day where somebody wins a golden demon with their original amazing sculpt
and then after they've won a golden demon they make that sculpt available online I think that'll
be the day that that rule changes but I don't even necessarily think that's a bad thing I think it's
just the evolution of Warhammer and all the stuff that we do and it's really really cool but yeah
you absolutely can have 3D printed stuff however what you can't have is an orc that looks like Nick
I think even if I painted it amazingly and technically I mean it depends on what what that
individual judge thinks about is a 3D scan your own original work or not but I just don't think
that this would ever pass the judges uh because one of the criterias is that it has to represent
the world of Warhammer 40 000 and you know I could come up with a great Warhammer story that involves
Nick head Nick's head being on an orc but I don't know if the judges would see it that way also
another thing that I think I sort of screwed up on as I was trying out I was trying to get black
armor to look good because it's impossible I am completely convinced that is impossible
um the way I do it on my black Templars is I use a black Templar contrast paint from Games Workshop
which works pretty good and it makes for some interesting looking stuff but in general the the
black gray spectrum is just not a very exciting or engaging spectrum of colors and so if I just made
really nice blends of black and gray I feel like the model would just it would just not be good
it would not be as exciting or interesting I mean clearly on this diorama Nick is the thing to look
at with all those colors and the checkering and the hazards um the purple was good and I actually
think that if this guy was in if I if this diorama was like inside of a space Hulk with like dramatic
purple and red lights this armor would look really really good however standing on a rock in the
middle of the desert I probably should have gone with like um yellow or maybe yellow on the bottom
and then like blue on the top to represent the sky reflecting off of the all of the shininess of the
black armor I think that would make it look a little bit more appropriate but I gotta start
I gotta get started on my golden demon pieces the categories I'm most excited about is dual
single model Warhammer and vehicle which are like three like the three most competitive categories
because they're just awesome and they're sort of easier to do like large model is very difficult to
do unit is very difficult to do because you just have to paint more stuff and the more stuff you
paint the more opportunities for doing something wrong and sort of being disqualified from uh from
actually winning a golden demon but I'm very very excited I didn't I thought like I really wanted
to compete but I was kind of planning on like making my pieces and just going for the buttons
the finalist pins and then I could have like a dozen buttons on my shirt and it'd be hilarious
but uh I I I'm excited to sync Some solid hours I mean I have a thousand hours in um in Fallout New
Vegas so how hard would it be to have one or two hundred hours actually painting a single miniature
especially dual I really want to take an orc and have it shooting at a towel and have that little
towel hiding behind a drone like the Drone is already dead and you just lifted it up and the
orc is firing his shooter into the towel the Tau drone the Tao's just hiding there and I also want
name plates on all of my on all of my pieces to make them into jokes essentially because I just
can't help myself and so I think the name of that one is going to be please help the greater good
because the town need help the Tau are totally The Underdogs of everything the only time the Tower
actually on top is when like the enemy is 30 miles away and they have their pulse carbines ready but
yeah golden demon golden demon is a fun exciting challenge I am really looking forward to it but
speaking of things I'm really looking forward to I put together my tempestus Scion no actually these
are kazer can but that's what I wanted to talk about so the kazakin and the defense to test this
tempesta Scions in Kill team are a little bit the same exact thing they are almost the same exact
thing in the Lord and pesticions are the Elite human forces who kind of work alongside like the
um the sisters of battle an inquisition so they're a little bit more on that side of the Warhammer
universe and then the kazarkin are the super Elite humans who fight alongside the Imperial Guard and
the the Cavs or can have definitely helped out the Inquisition and the pesticions have definitely
helped out the guard before but they fulfill the same exact role and so when it came time to look
at their rules the rules are very very similar they between the two teams a lot of they actually
share a lot of the same abilities and so I'm really looking forward to seeing how they actually
play the the pesticions they have a three up to hit which is very good shooting and the kazakin
have a four up to hit but they have their Elite points which means that you can fudge dice results
by spending their 10 uh 10 pool of elite points so is that so the topest ions are naturally good
at shooting and these guys are naturally good at shooting using their Elite points so is it kind of
going to mean that these are two teams of 10 guys essentially with the same guns who often will hit
on threes I'm interested to see how they play oh maybe I can get Nick to play one of these teams
and I can actually have them versus each other and then it'll be a little bit of a mirror match
um these guys I was a little nervous to put them together because I uh the um the veteran Guardsmen
Imperial Krieg those guys stunk to put together the way that they laid out all the pieces on the
sprue especially since they are um the death core of Krieg and they all are identical it was really
hard to find like okay I need to find the Krieg arm piece number 51 and I'm looking through three
humongous Brews that are covered in identical arms to find that piece it was really a bummer
and I had the same problem with the Imperial Navy breachers uh they're great models I like
the Krieg I like the Navy breachers but the uh they were annoying to put together and I
actually just put together a bunch of Imperial Navy breachers but the kazakin for whatever
reason the Sim very similar models 10 guys all pretty much exactly the same but they actually
managed to get all of the necessary Parts clumped together on the sprue so you could almost uh just
not look at the instructions but say like hey look a pair of legs a pair of arms a torso clip
all of those pieces that are right next to each other glue them together I mean you should look
at the instructions because especially for kill team because you want those specific loadouts but
it was much much better to put together than some of the recent Games Workshop kits I put together
and speaking of loadouts I suppose one thing that does make them a little different than
the pesticions is they can actually bring more special weapons I think the topest ions can bring
to usually a plasma gun and a grenade launcher these guys can bring four option four models
of six options and so I picked the sniper the melta the plasma gun and the grenade launcher so
all special weapons are like the key to kill team you need them because they can actually deal good
damage the you know regular Guardsman last gun you know if you if you pop like the stratagem like
bring it down you might be able to do a little concentrated fire and get the job done but a
grenade launcher or plasma gun has a good chance of actually killing the operative you're trying
to shoot at in one go so I guess that's one area where the kazer can are different from the other
Imperial guardi factions of kill team I can't imagine that Games Workshop is gonna make any more
normal human kill teams because holy cow we've got veteran Guardsmen compendium Guardsmen compendium
to pesticions blooded is essentially another Guardsman the kazarkin the Imperial Navy breachers
what is that six six very similar human factions I wonder is there anything else that would just make
sense I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I'm sure Games Workshop will figure it
out and put it in the next doubles box for kill team but speaking of things that Games Workshop
came out with they showed off a new model lead the Astra militarum from the front with the legendary
Lord solar Leon leontas leontas so legendary Lord leontes but uh he's new he's we've never gotten
this guy before and the model is decent although I would argue that this model is a giant slap in
the face to all Warhammer 40K fans and the reason is look at the bass does anybody else see what I
see that is a Reaver titan head that is a plastic Reaver titan head games I want a plastic Reaver
Titan make a plastic Reaver Titan and make it cost a lot less than the four jeweled one I want it
and they're teasing us that is a plastic Titan but there is no such thing as a plastic plastic Titans
that you can only buy them in Forge rolled resin so meh but this model is fine it's a cool guy it's
a guy on a mechanical horse Captain Leon this which I want to say Leonidas which is probably
what Games Workshop was going for the king of the Spartans although this guy doesn't look anything
like a Spartan I mean I've seen 300 I know history and I don't think that that is the type of armor
that's uh that the Spartans were wearing but what's what was weird to me is I I thought I
knew who this guy was like the legendary Lord solar I remembered this the history of this guy
and the lore of Warhammer 40 000 so I'm like okay that's kind of cool they brought this guy back uh
I thought he died but actually I was thinking of macarius which macarius is Alexander the
Great in Warhammer 40 000. he just is his story is like identical to the story of Alexander the
Great he went on a great Conquest arguably he did a better job conquering Conquering the Galaxy than
the primarks did during the Great Crusade um but then he the the thing that was interesting about
him though wasn't really his story I mean a lot of 40K characters boil down to they're the best of
the best of the best of the best and they're just awesome and they're just so good at it and they
never really struggle and they never really have a lot of interesting character depth they're just
uh Alexander the Great in space but what was cool about that story about macarius is that um key at
the end of this seven year Crusade he had made it all the way to the edge of the Galaxy the edge of
the astronomicon's light the the emperor shines the beacon and they use that to actually navigate
the warp and so he wanted to push Sean and keep conquering planets and all of his men said
nah we we don't wanna it's scary out there we might all die let's just not do that and I think
in the Lord actually says that uh Alexander the Great uh macarius got drunk and then was like ah
okay whatever we'll turn around and then very quickly he died um he succumbed to a sickness
that he got fighting uh the death guard or the the nurgle the death guard there were huge parades in
his honor and Shrine worlds were created in his honor and millions and billions of pilgrims from
all over the Galaxy come and visit these sites and these temples and look upon these holy relics and
he was actually sainted by the Imperium and so uh that is what happened but in reality they actually
murked him they actually sent an assassin to go kill him because uh the Imperium is awful and
evil and what's great about this story is they took the historical story of Alexander the Great
but what would happen if Alexander the Great existed in Warhammer 40 000 where everything
is awful and there's only War the Imperium decided oh this guy is a better figurehead like
even though he's a great General he he did that for us and so now we're just gonna kill him and
pretend the pretend who he was and make up this great story and so he can use that as marketing
and that's wonderful and so I thought that this guy was mercarius because also he looks just like
Macario as macarius does have some artwork about him and this guy looks exactly like that guy so
I wonder if Games Workshop was maybe thinking like man we I really wish we hadn't killed off macarius
because he would have been a great choice because he is this guy I mean if this guy is supposed to
be some brilliant perfect General who leads the Imperial Guard on Amazing Crusades macarius is
the dude not um not leontus who is maybe is Leonidas maybe not Leonidas I mean there's
the Imperial Guard aren't the Spartans so I don't know maybe I'm just making that up that
leonta sounds like Leonidas and in reality the name generator that they use at Games
Workshop just came up with that and it doesn't mean anything but uh the model is neat I guess
um a lot of people have been saying that he looks like a stormcast Eternal because he does
but I don't think that that's really a big issue I think if you just didn't paint him gold he would
actually look totally Imperial guardsy like if you took all the gold on them and just painted
it like military green he would stand in as a great kiss of just a perfectly good Canadian so
weird on games workshops part and this isn't the first time that they've done something
like this like they pulled Morgan ball right out of their butts for the Sisters of battle
um and I don't know why but that didn't bother me at all I thought Morgan ball was really really
cool especially since she was sort of appointed by gilaman to try to pull the ecclesiarchy kind
of out of the Dark Ages and kind of into a more enlightened ideas because he has 30k
sensibilities and so I really like Morgan ball so I guess it remains to be seen what lore they'll
write for this guy and how they'll make him cool and you know if if the story starts to
sound a lot like the story of the king of the Spartans well I guess it is what it is also the
Spartans I don't think they had horses so I also this guy looks kind of like Alexander the Great
it's very confusing and it's very funny and you know what it is very 40K uh this model
is neat I like it there's actually if you read the article there's actually almost more lore
on this guy's horse than there is on the actual guy the horse is like 100 years old and they've
slowly been turning it into a robot so that he can keep his trusty Steed around but uh it's a
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now I have got to get going because I really need to start on those golden demon pieces
I feel like I say that at the end of almost all of these episodes but now I really gotta