hey guys Jay here welcome to Models memories weekly episode seven to nine miles memory is a
show about nothing and is filmed in front of a live studio audience this is a show
where I talk about my painting modeling and wargaming experiences from the week now you
might be thinking yourself Jay you put out three YouTubers a week how could you possibly have more
to say well I do and here goes this week I want to talk some squats the brand new Warriors of
paradise and how Games Workshop kind of screwed up their terrain but first I want to talk about
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watch all my favorite soaps let's get some of the boring stuff out of the way first the squash Army
box sold out in about a day which is kind of cool it means that people are really into the
squats which is good some of the factions I guess the only faction that Games Workshop really came
out with that didn't take off was maybe Gene Steeler cult they're popular but they're kind
of on the lower end of popular whereas mechanicus and sisters of battle I would consider sisters a
battle a new Army because they barely existed before what 2016-17 but the squat box is sold
out which means that people are digging it which is cool and it doesn't matter that the squat box
sold out because it looks like the combo Patrol was shown off some people have already received
their Squat codexes and in the Codex you can see a picture of what almost certainly is the new com
Patrol and it's pretty much the same thing you get the call you get the three Hurrican Pioneers the
jet bikey guys the 10 hearthkan Warriors instead of 20 and no enire Champion but you do get five
Berserkers with the mole Cannon so apparently the mole Cannon is actually going to be included
it in the box of the Berserkers so I actually like this box better because it comes with four
unique units and a hero instead of doubling up on some of the squat just the regular squat Warriors
so if I was gonna go in for the squats I think I would wait for well I guess I have to because it's
sold out but I would be much more interested in the combo Patrol instead of the army box
the Army boxes are a little gimmicky and they come with this fancy codex and the cards but I'm not
that big into codexes and I do not care about the cards but speaking of things that are very very
interesting I also cut out all of the new Games Workshop turned down for what no it's called into
the dark terrain and it's really really gorgeous and cool and I absolutely can't wait to play with
it but there is a little bit of I hesitate to use the word controversy but there it's
really Persnickety it's really frustrating how games are Chef engineered it it's certainly over
engineered so you've got your pegs and you got your slots and you're really you're really forced
you force your wall into the slot and then you take a cap and then you put the cap on
top and now hurricane force winds couldn't pull them apart which ice it's it's well done it's
well designed if if you were in engineering school you could get an A plus on your paper
or I guess on your down your model but for miniature War gaming this is grossly Overkill
um there's a few ways I think this could be fixed I think the easiest way would be
all right I'll work on that later I've got more pieces the easiest way to fix it would
be to grind down grind not sand I think it's going to take a little more than sanding grind
down probably a 30 seconds of an inch off of your Peg and that way it just kind of nests
into your slot this one's actually pretty loose um and then you still deal with your caps but I
still don't really love the cap because you know it's just going to scrape a little bit
of paint every time you're trying to finagle your board together so I think what I would
be tempted to do is grind down your Peg and then cut off that little retaining stick up
that way you can just glue your cap right onto the onto the strut and then it'll just slide in
the the I sort of see the benefit of having it all locked together really really tight because
I can definitely see some frustration of trying to reach into the terrain to manipulate your models
and then you knock something over and that's going to really really get old fast
but I think it's also going to really get old fast just really using some effort to build your board
every single time so I think there's probably a happy medium between a decent pressure fit and
the Games Workshop locking mechanism that is is very good but oh my goodness Games Workshop
I also saw on Facebook somebody magnetized this by cutting off the pegs putting three magnets
on their walls and then they put a nail in the slots and that if you do it right I think that
would be amazing it would probably hold good enough that you're not gonna knock
it over or knock it apart although my friend Sean I think would manage to knock it apart
I hope he watches this but the tricky thing about that is there's this there's a lot of this terrain
and I'm probably gonna get all the boxes because I really want all of this because I think this is
going to be super fun for kill team but also it would be really fun to play like um age of Sigmar
war cry or big 40K on this type of terrain and just see what happens so it would be kind of a
Monumental task to magnetize everything so I think just grinding down the pegs and living with it is
going to be my solution but yeah a little a little frustrating I don't know really it probably only
needed one peg not three pegs and a hook but it is what it is and it is very very pretty Terrain
I've I've I've seen some slightly more pessimistic takes about this terrain that games are chat made
it this rigid because they hope that people will just give up and glue it together and then buy the
next box so they have more terrain but no I've built a lot of things and this is good design
the only problem is um probably the tolerances of plastic and the different pieces it just leads to
it leads to things just being a little bit too stiff that is nice it is very nice I don't know
it's good stuff and I can't wait to paint and build it it's going to be so nice it's gonna take
it's gonna take a while to prime it all and get every nook and cranny but I actually
think painting is going to go really really quick just some good dry brushing is going to make this
really really look good but speaking of things that look really really good the Warriors of
paradise these are our new eons of battle Minis and I really really like them I painted them up
in a long one long painting session I used Army painter speed paints and I I used iron painted
speed paints but I don't think I really took advantage of armor painter speed panes because
I did a lot of layering I think I have a little bit of a crutch When painting where if I want to
do a perfect job I layer and layering is great if you're amazing I'm okay at layering and so
I feel like I can see the trend in my color transitions a little more than I would like
to because I'm lazy like if you watch like Lila mini witch or somebody's very very good
layer they'll do 25 layers to get between to get between two colors whereas I'll use four
and then wonder why my models don't look as good but I really like how these turned out I
think they're lovely and I have a bunch of games workshops demonets but I wonder if maybe I just
don't paint them because uh you know I'll just have Nick print me out more of these I'm sure
he would love to do that and I can have some some more demonets right now I have nine but I need 12
for a proper kill team demonets and kill team is a as a faction I'm really interested to play with
the demons come in four flavors three stabby flavors and zinch which is the shootie flavor
I'm definitely gonna have to give zeen a try because that seems really fun and flavorful
but the demonets have a speed and re-rolls to hit and so they seem ooh they seem like they would be
really really good on the kill team Turn Down for What terrain because they get that little extra
boost of speed and then they get into close combat re-rolling their hits ah I think the demonets
could be really cool and a flavorful on a space hook because spacehogs often do have demons it's
not just Gene Steelers and Orcs sometimes demons get infested in space hoax maybe the demonets
have created their own Palace and they're they're ready to fight off any Invaders these models are
really really nice I really like them they're sculpted by licorice the same artist who did
our animated intro and she did a phenomenal job these are available on our patreon along with some
really cool Gothic turret terrain which is awesome our patreon is pretty cool you guys I don't know
if you know this but uh you get models you get terrain you get one extra episode of eons a battle
a week we have exclusive Discord Hangouts and we also have merch that's not part of the patreon
but we we have it so these models ah they're very dynamic they're very fun I I don't I don't dislike
games workshops demonets I actually think that they're pretty good I know everybody in the world
is in love with the old Juan Diaz demonets and they're they're fine they are fine they're good
models but they're just naked ladies they're just naked ladies and juandia is sculpted everyone's
favorite models he's amazing you work for Games Workshop for 13 years he sculpted the classic
metal demon Prince all of the coolest characters for the old tomb Kings most of the blood angels
like he sculpted everybody's favorite models and the only thing he's known for is the titty demons
the nice thing about the titty demons was the posing and kind of the presence that they had
and I think these models capture that perfectly and what these models have which I really really
like and actually Games Workshop is doing this a little bit with their age of Sig Marshall
Nash range is instead of just having them be weird like half Harpy half Medusa monsters
they kind of do feel like folks like these are I can see them as as folks living their lives as
you know slanesh demons whereas games workshops models feel like just berserk kind of monsters
essence of the warp which you might think demons are but demons aren't actually just warp Essence
that's what they're made out of but each demon is a person they're a fella and they have their
own thoughts and opinions and so these models have armor that suits them and fits them they
each have a little bit of a different style thing going on they have different weapons
different poses different accoutrement and I really really like them they look great together
they look like proper Warriors and I think these would actually work perfectly for a lot of other
games I know there's a lot of miniature agnostic games out there and I I don't really care the I I
appreciate miniature agnostic games and I think that they're really cool and I don't begrudge
anybody who really gets a kick out of them but for me I I want to be wined and dined by a proper game
I want I want them to show me beautiful art I want them to sell me models sell me a system
sell me a game make me rules have models to go along with the rules have make it a whole system
that I can buy into as opposed to just selling me a book and then it's up to me to acquire all
of the other materials to actually play the game with it is cool because you can get you can do
a lot of um a lot of things that wouldn't really exist maybe as a larger game but yeah but I think
uh for like d d or mini trick Gnostic games if I ever were to do them I'll definitely play DND oh
and maybe in d d I'll play what somebody somebody in the comments who plays DND which um what are
they called guides factions classes classes which class do I play as if I want to play as a demonet
let me know in the comments below so that I know what to tell my DM so that they can uh they give
me the sheet to fill out for one of these but yeah I really really like these bases and I really
liked about the bases I had a really fun time with airbrushing uh airbrushing marble effect I've seen
a bunch of people do this but I've never given it a try before but it's super it's super easy barely
an inconvenience you just take a wet wipe and you sort of tear it apart just a little bit and then
you airbrush through the cracks and then it looks like marble it looks just like marble it's weird I
wonder if there's like a physics thing about that because like marble and stone and stuff is just
created by layers and layers of sediment just like getting compressed and it's got different minerals
in it and so I wonder if there's something with the physics of like wood pulp fiber tearing and
sediment crushing that like kind of goes along together kind of like um there's this uh type of
woodworking that's insanely dangerous and should is banned where like you take two electrodes and
you let the electricity move through the wood to find each other and it looks exactly like
Google Earth photos of like streams of water and how at the edges of them they kind of spread out
into little tendrils and so yeah I wonder I wonder if there's like a physics thing to that
and speaking of models Games Workshop showed off a brand new model and I love it
but at the Nova open games are trap showed off a new character for the sons of bahamet
a new Mega gargant called King Broad and I really really liked that model but it
was the fourth model to use the standard Mega Gardens body essentially the body and the legs
and I think that was pushing a little because I can't imagine you're taking many mega Gardens
in that Army probably one or two so you can maybe get away with reusing the same legs
but they just came out with their fifth Mega gargant that uses the exact same torso and legs
in the Beast Smasher the model looks fabulous I love that he's got a gate for a loincloth
um and his legs are identical to all the other ones because they are all literally the exact same
legs and I feel like the problem with the problem with the Giants is that they're fleshy like the
I feel like Imperial Knights get away with all having the same legs because they're robots and so
there's a lot not a lot of variety in those legs like there isn't flexing muscle in pants
it's just steel and if you really wanted to you could just kind of break your legs
a little bit to get a slightly different pose whereas you can't like grab onto the
mega gargan's legs and like twist it because then it just looks like they have a broken leg
and I don't want to do a bunch of green stuff work to get the legs into a new pose so pretty lame
pretty lame that it's the identical legs I do know that there there exists there may exist some stls
of legs and torsos for the Giants because with the original gargan model kit yeah it comes with tons
of extra heads and arms and so if you have those extra bodies and legs you can build more models
which is super great to get extra models out of that box because it is a two hundred dollar box
the models look good the models look very good they're very impressive I haven't seen one in
person I don't know exactly how big they are but I mean judging by the new model is holding
humans in its hand and they're very small so it looks like these guys are truly massive but
I uh Games Workshop make make new legs and bodies like you just do it I don't know is
it these boxes the new boxes aren't cheaper like because they're reusing Parts they're the same
price 200 smack runes for the same exact pose that you probably already own so just kind of
just kind of a little lame and like you know some people are gonna be Mega fans like if the sons of
bahamat is your only age of Sigma Army and you collect it you're probably going to get all of
these models and they're gonna be five guys who have very cool heads and very cool unique arms
and some different chest you know decorations but if you crop the camera down to below the
belt buckle exact same legs it's just kind of lame they really should have come up at least
come up with if there were two leg poses because I think most people will probably have one or two
of these things in their army two leg poses would be perfect but yeah only having one leg pose one
leg and body pose to be used on all of the gargans is pretty lame there's also five of these things
like how many how have we seen the end of the mega Gardens is it gonna end at five or are we
going to every two months get a new Mega gargant where there's going to be ten I don't know if I
had to guess it's we've probably Seen the Last of the mega Gardens but yeah I just thought that was
rather lame and games hasn't done something that's lame in a while it's just weird especially on like
these beautiful humongous centerpiece models that like people on Instagram take and paint
you know to the best of some of the best paint jobs on Earth and uh they didn't they they saw
the same legs kind of poopy but you know it's not poopy the Warriors of paradise I actually haven't
gotten to paint for a little while and so it was really nice getting to take a little break sit
down for like nine hours and just paint up some models it was really really nice but I do have
lots and lots of stuff on the painting desk so I'm gonna have to get to work thanks for watching