hey guys jay here welcome to jan's battle and i just got back from adepticon and i bought arguably
way too much stuff it was so much fun having all sorts of miniature things at my fingertips i think
one of the big reasons why i constantly fall back in games workshop is just because it's so easy to
buy their stuff but being an adupticon i was exposed to everything and so i tried to dip my
toes into a little bit of all of the different miniatures available so i want to look back on
what i bought because i barely know it was such a blur but the first thing would probably be
this which is a victoria miniatures and i've bought from them before and they are
excellent it is a victoria miniatures sister preacher fema i just thought this was a really
really nice little model and if i ever get around to sisters of battle which i will
i think this model would look lovely on the floaty pulpit with the flame throwers i think she
would look awesome on top of there and it was so much fun i just got to dig through all of
the piles of cool miniatures they produce but yeah victorian miniatures good stuff after them
i found some stuff some very utilitarian stuff these are squad marks and these really really
jumped out at me because i think they'll be perfect for my star wars legion armies because
star wars legion i have three squads of storm troopers which are all completely identical
and these clip on to the bottom of the bases and they'd one of the bases will become blue
the other base will become red and i'll be able to tell my three squads of storm troopers apart
often when i'm battling sean and i'm just fighting against his sea of battle droids it's like i'm
gonna shoot at them and he's like which squad them you mean this squad they're just pointing at a
big blob of battle droids so my stormtroopers will be properly marked with some squad marks
and these are really pretty looking injection molded uh plastic parts really really cool
anyway let's get the non-miniatures out of the way first i bought a very very pretty d30 i
can't i can't imagine what game systems use a d30 it's a ridiculously big golf ball size die
but i really like it it's just really pretty and it was two bucks so why not and there was
another seller selling dice and he had a whole bunch of the games workshop dice poured into
a bucket and you could buy them for a buck piece so i decided to get six orc dice because i really
like playing orcs and kill team and so six dice is all you need and now i have some really pretty
green skins dice with a nice [ __ ] symbol on the six so these are gonna be super fun
and in other non-miniature purchases i got some supplies from huge miniatures and i got some
really really nice um prairie ground i would call this probably a little house on the prairie ground
and some weathering pigments that i don't have i really like weathering pigments but there is
definitely a learning curve to them but i got some patina which is a bluish greenish
and some white and so i want to play around with these and see if i can really up my miniatures
weathering powders are a lot like washes you kinda you slap them on and they do their job but it does
take it does take some knowledge and experience to really get them looking good but once
once you've got it under your belt you know you can add so much to your miniatures in just a few
quick steps with weathering pigments i'm excited to add some more colors to my collection
those were some of the purchases that made sense but i had plenty of purchases that did not make
sense they were really impulse buys because i was so excited being there and one of those is
this fallout wasteland warfare box and the reason i bought this is because it has veronica and if
you've ever played fallout new vegas veronica is a companion you're basically just handed and she
is by far my favorite every playthrough i do of fallout new vegas and i'm probably on play through
eight i always use veronica especially because she is always uses close combat to fight things
sometimes if you're using boon or it's one of the other companions they are ai and so they will see
the enemy and shoot them before you get a chance to but i want to shoot them i want to play the
game and so it's great i can kind of use veronica i always get the drop on the enemy and shoot them
first but if i get overwhelmed there's veronica backing me up with her power fist so i'm really
excited to have veronica in my collection so even when i'm not playing fallout new vegas i can still
have my companion with me and speaking of things i enjoy and so i impulse bought them i found impact
miniatures had some absolutely adorable chibis and so i got some of their alien and predator
chibis and i got little sigourney weaver in her power loader and i got the predator from the movie
predator and the most hilarious chibi i think i've ever seen this is jesse ventura
from the movie predators and with his big old chin and his big old painless machine gun i think these
are going to be super super fun i'm starting to get into chibis i think they're really really fun
to paint you can really go extreme on them they have lots of beautiful big smooth surfaces to try
out blending and freehanding on i think i think when i'm taking a break from war painting i think
i'm going to be doing a lot of chibis because they're just so cute and i love them and speaking
of impulse buys black site studios was selling a bunch of their miniatures and i bought this bounty
hunters and if you can't tell it is very clearly our heroes from the movie the fifth element and i
love the movie the fifth element so much and so these are super super small uh 35 millimeter
scale miniatures and i can't wait to paint them up i can't decide if i'm going to paint them up
on regular 25 millimeter bases and just have them as game pieces or build a little diorama i think
i'm leaning towards diorama this is one of those things i'm gonna have and cherish and take a very
long time to get around a painting but i think it'd be really really fun when i do get a chance
at adepticon there was a few different vendors who were doing a pick and pull warhammer thing
and they had tubs and you could dig through them and they had ziploc baggies with prices sharpied
on there and you kind of had to push your way in and and get your grubby hands into it and so i
i took a bit and i got some demonets of slaanesh for a reasonably good price but i got 20 which
should give me plenty for a kill team 21 kill team and maybe eight more for a secret project
that i'm gonna be working on and in the pick and pull section they had bits 10 bucks for a mug of
bits and so i thought what the hell i decided to get it and i've been going through my bits
and it's a lot of junk obviously but there's actually some pretty cool stuff in here there's
like seven storm bolters and tons and tons of the little scary chaos faces that you glue onto
your predators and your rhinos weapon systems for chaos-based marines so there's actually some cool
stuff in here and i'm gonna have to further go through it in peruse because i didn't i didn't do
any looking i just took the tote full of bits and turned it on its side and poured myself a cup full
but you know it was kind of it was kind of one of those things like i was at adeptcon i felt like i
needed to i needed to bring home something weird and wacky and random and boy did i definitely
do that i also stopped by at a booth called the miniature building authority because they had big
cardboard boxes full of resin terrain pieces for a buck a pop and so i picked some up i got some
boxes and some chests some tires and one that i'm kind of excited about i got some little bonfires
and i think these are all identical but they're very pretty looking and i think if i add to them
just a little bit and paint them up maybe a little green stuff to make each fire unique
i think these will be really really nice accent pieces for game boards maybe even maybe i could
even take some cotton and make it look like the fire is smoke is trailing up from the fire
i think that would look super super cool and i'm excited to have all these little things
maybe if i can think of a really cool idea i got i got a little tombstone this would be hilarious to
put on like a base somewhere just a little dead guy but super cool yeah we spent way too long
rummaging through these boxes of bits next up was a purchase that i had been eyeing forever but i
didn't pull the trigger because i had no reason to pull the trigger but my my resolve was much
lower at adepticon so i totally just went out and bought it i bought an arena rex model arena rex is
a really really cool game with unbelievably beautiful resin miniatures and that's why i
wanted to buy them because they just look like so much fun to paint like you really really go
all out and i got the scorpion rider and they really seem to take care of you in terms of
of war gamers because it's the scorpion and the and the woman riding it are sculpted in resin
so that they're perfect but her whip and spear are made out of metal which means they're not
going to snap or break and you can bend them into the perfect shape i absolutely love that
i'm so glad they didn't make them out of resin because i would have already broken them twice
and i haven't even opened it up yet and yeah i just i'm really excited i would love to get into
arena rex because it's such a gorgeous game i should have gotten a demo in while i was
there but i'm i'm lucky i only bought one because they're a little pricey i mean they're boutique
beautiful models that are kind of meant for people who really like to paint miniatures
as art and for that i am really excited to crack into a little arena rex and under the arena wrecks
a purchase that's not that exciting but i'm glad i was able to make it just some gamer grass two
millimeter tops i like the little tufts i think most companies make tufts that are way way too big
i mean you have a space marine and then you have a bush coming all the way up to his knee almost like
it's ridiculousness i like the little little micro tufts and so i just bought a couple of colors
and speaking of i was trying not to buy games workshop stuff i bought a bunch of games workshop
stuff because on the last day sunday of adepticon uh some of the stores were slashing their prices
to try to get rid of stock and so i bought some models at 30 off and i got the new gravis captain
that i have been eyeing this guy is going to be awesome for my black templars and he also has
a chainsaw which is going to be awesome because that probably means you could give him the teeth
of terra equipment which is always something i used to give to my space ring captains when i
was playing in 8th edition and so i'm really glad to have an hq choice who i'm probably going to be
able to give a very similar loadout to what i'm used to taking so this model is going to be dope
i'm sure it'll show up on stream very soon very excited for this model
and some adeptus mechanicus sicarans also i believe this box builds infiltrators
i have an eye on these puppies up because i need to have every single faction in kill team i need
to have everything games workshop makes and so i need one box of these and i think i have some
skittara kicking around my shelves that i can give a repaint and then i will have a hunter clade no
that's the towel whatever the adaptive mechanicus and kill team is they're white dwarf rules i will
have a kill team and i will play it and i will enjoy it and this is just one of the few things
they still had laying around on the shelves that i was interested in so i decided to pick it up
but not even that was it there's still a few things i was on the hunt for a very specific model
that i'm going to keep a secret for now but i will give you a little taste and it is some vampire
babes this is i'm important i had to buy this for a reason and that reason will be evident soon but
it was very fun it was very fun having an idea of a miniature that i wanted but not knowing
what that miniature was and then literally just walking around the halls looking at
everything that has ever been made and is available and then being like hmm that one covers
a and b but i also need c well that one's got c and b but it doesn't have a and this is the one
that checked all my boxes so i'm very excited to have this model from carnival which i believe is
made by the same company that makes drop zone commander so yeah td combat really cool model
this little double ziploc bag was really fun i haggled with a guy this is a whole bag of old
metal white scars upgrade parts i didn't plan on this i didn't necessarily want this but i think i
could do some cool things with this and it's neat to have like 20 20 old metal white scars shoulder
pads including spears and heads and decorations so i will definitely think of something cool to
do with this i'm sure probably a retro repaint or maybe a retro kill team but uh yeah it was fun i
remember i saw this on all every day i went to the con i saw this and on the last day when it
was still there i decided to haggle with the guy and i got a few bucks off and uh now i am the
owner of this double ziplocked bag of pewter and last but not least i got some stickers i didn't
buy these they were just handing these out but i love x-wing and there was a huge x-wing tournament
going on and so i got all of the factions except scum and villainy but i actually do have that
sticker i've just already stuck it to my ipad where i put all of my lovely wargaming stickers
but they're just really pretty looking they have the symbol on one side and then they have
the movement templates on the other and i think these are just great stickers i love x-wing i'm so
glad to see that it actually had a pretty decent turnout x-wing one took the hobby sphere by storm
but it seems like x-wing 2 is struggling to catch on i don't know if it's just
there's less star wars movies coming out and so people aren't as interested i think maybe
people who aren't really really into wargaming don't understand changes in addition and what
that means um but as x-men second edition it looks really cool so i'm glad to see that it is still
alive and kicking and i like these really pretty stickers i got a lot of cool stickers
when i was at adapticon i am gonna have to hide my wallet from myself for a little while because uh
this is probably gonna be my hobby purchases for quite some time but it was super duper fun
i had a great time at adupticon i can't wait for next year and i'm gonna go paint some cheapies