hey guys jay here welcome to models memories weekly episode 45. models and memories is a
show about nothing and it is filmed in front of a live studio audience this is a show where
i talk about my painting modeling and working experiences from the week now you might think
yourself jay you put out three youtube videos a week and you stream every single night hi could
you possibly have more to say well i do and here goes this week we saw a couple of new models from
gamesworkshop and it was some sort of interesting stuff i think the boringest of the bunch was the
eldar but that's usually that's kind of been how it is for me because just not that big an eldar
fan i think they're kind of cool but uh the new models have just been taking the old models and
just bringing them up to the modern standards whereas i think i would have liked something a
little different a little a little changing things up and i understand that that's not for everybody
because some people want the new models to be able to look good next to their old models and if they
radically change things that wouldn't really be the case you would kind of almost have to replace
your old models with new models and they didn't do that i think what i would have really preferred is
i would have preferred the primarisification of eldar that would have been what i wanted but uh
you can't always get what you want okay warlocks i think the warlocks look pretty dope i think the
old warlocks actually didn't look too bad i think there were some of the best of the old metal fine
cast eldar range but the new ones definitely look great they're about 300 percent more customizable
because uh 100 for being made of plastic another 100 percent for having weapon options in the box
and then another probably 100 for being somewhat compatible with all the other elder weapons from
the range which is kind of nice i like the faces i like the cloaks eldar is just a little bit boring
they did show off a little bit of concept art and i think the concept art is a little bit more
interesting than the models they ended up with one of them has like a really really nice um fur
fur cape which i think it looks dope and if i were to ever get these models i think i would
try to recreate that that furry cape but overall i think these models look good i think they'll
make a good addition to people's eldar's armies blah blah blah i think they're cool whatever and
all i really want to talk about is a new model for everybody's favorite game adeptus titanicus
i hear nothing but great things about this game i hear non-stop publicity and talk about this
uh literally no one i've ever heard to talk about this game but they came out with a new titan which
is kind of cool we've gotten a couple of new titans and i do like the titans they're one of
my favorite things in 40k i love it whenever they pop up in the novels i just think they're neat
they're just a really really cool concept and we got a new scout walker in the same vein as the um
warlord reaver are they just called scout titans warlord reaver warhound warhound
warlord reaver warhound so this is in the warhound category of titans they're very
they're very small they got two little legs but uh this model is fine i think it's cool it's a cool
little model it's got some weapon hardpoints it's nice and stocky it's got good strong chicken legs
but one thing that kind of caught my attention was that this model is called the direwolf and there's
another boxy chicken legged model called the direwolf and that is for the game battle tech and
the similarities there are their similarities are there it's very interesting i think i wouldn't i
wouldn't have batted an eye if it was just they look similar because mechs can look similar i mean
it also kind of looks like mechs from mechwarrior and it kind of looks like mechs from uh from that
movie the stop-motion animation movie um like you know chicken legs and guns on the side it's
not the most amazing concept in the world but the fact that they share the same exact name
is interesting i don't really think any funny business happens it's just an odd coincidence
that's uh if you're you literally use the direwolf from these games interchangeably
and uh they would both have the same silhouettes and have the same structure and look
so i don't know if battletech needs to reach out to games workshop or maybe games workshop has to
send a cease and desist to battletech you know poor little games workshop versus the big dog
battle tech but i just thought it was kind of funny that the new titans look very very
very similar i would i would still i'd really like to give uh adapted tannic as a try it's
the problem is it's a very expensive game which i feel like is the wrong move like i feel like
40k and age of sigmar can kind of get away with being really expensive because they have such
a history and such like a you know they're a whole thing people play 40k people have
big armies people want big armies people want to play these big giant war games and it's a little
it feels a little bit more of an investment when you have a big 40k army like you can
play apocalypse you can loan models out to friends so that you can all play together
but with these boxed games that games or shot makes i feel like the price has got to
be more competitive and in line with other boxed games because that's the competition
like you know like normal you know boxed games you know settlers of catan is not
really competition to age of sigmar but i feel like katan is competition to adept as titanicus
but uh you know having one one warlord titan that's not the biggest model ever made for
like a hundred and you know some dollars like it's like 150 it's a it's a tall
ask so i don't know i mean they're not going to lower the prices now but um it's just uh if the
prices have been a little bit more competitive i think i would have given the game a try and
if anybody plays it let me know in the comments below is it is it fun is it worth it is it cool
because it looks neat to me also this week i was looking at my crude models because i'm painting
them live on stream and i've really been enjoying them and even though i don't have that many it
feels like i'm getting pretty close to maybe having the the bones of a new 40k army one box
of croot is 16 models and i also have some crew towns the croot guy from blackstone fortress which
is going to be my leader i think this is going to be what i'm using as a shaper for the meantime and
the wonderful crew talks which i actually do have a second crew tax i need to build up and paints
but i've really been thinking that this could be a really really fun army and i
really want to put a challenge to myself where i want this force i want to actually kit bash
and convert because i never i never really do that i enjoy kit bashing and converting and i do
like kit matching and converting with the lowercase c because i love my space rings
and i'll give like one of them a death watch shoulder pad maybe i'll give another one a knife
you know little little kit bashes like that where it's still
it's still normal and i've just added a little something special to it but i think with the croot
especially since you can't really buy a lot of the crude models especially the old forge world
models that went out of stock like seven years ago like the the gnarlocks and the crude riders
i think it'd be really interesting to actually try to convert and kit-bash those models i was
thinking maybe like find something to be a great gnarlock and then maybe use the moomok
from lord of the rings use it some it's saddle and rider system i'd like to i'd like to make these
croots kind of something cool maybe maybe use them either as what they are crews or make them
into like a count as tau army where each each for each unit actually represents something in
the tau codex and games workshop actually put out an article that seems to maybe help me out here
in that you can in fact now with the new tau codex field in all fruit force
mostly just because you can now take a crude shaper as an hq option so i can i can fulfill my
hq requirements and my troop requirements and so i can technically technically field a crude army
will it win me games almost certainly not although i don't normally win games anyway but i think it
would be really really cool and i would like to give it a try like to really it's i always
i love it like i used to live on daca daca forums and love reading people's 200 page work
in progress where they're putting green stuff on a toy triceratops and turning it into some
awesome orc vehicle and i always super super loved that stuff but then for my hobby i would just kind
of i would build the kit as the instructions say but i think i would really like to kind of get
out of my comfort zone and really go to town on something wild and i think the crews are going
to be an excellent opportunity to do that because i think i mean 16 models come to box so if i buy
one more box i'll have over 30 crudes and i think even i'll have a few extras to sprinkle here and
there on some of my vehicles i would also love love love to one day get my hands on some crew
riders and some great gnarlocks but uh boy they get snatched up quick on ebay but maybe one day
if i keep my eyes peeled and i wish upon a star i'll be able to obtain those kits but the croots
the croot are one of those kits that has really really stood up nicely they they look good i have
i've already begun a little bit of kit bashing and converting as i have replaced the heads
with 3d printed heads from a creator called felix the crazy who does a lot of croot related stls
i love i love the 3d printing space because you get a lot of you find these wonderful artists
who are very specific i mean we have a creator who specializes in count as crude upgrade parts
how great is that and we see that all over the place with different
little indie designers and creators creating these really really niche products that are
like the perfect little thing for what you need right now it's super super cool and super fun
and that's another thing that i would love to bring into this fledgling little fruit
carnivore army i also really enjoy the crew and kill team that's really how this all started
is i want a team of crews for kill team and i've i have them and i've played them and you know what
they're not terrible they have one really tough matchup which is unfortunate because it's the
matchup i keep finding myself in over and over and over again proof have a really hard time killing
space marines in kill team a really hard time it's not impossible close combat would be more likely
but it is hard because the crew are not going to be able to kill a space ring by shooting at them
with their bolt gun equivalent weapons and the only way to really hurt them in close cabinet
would probably be to charge in with one but not engage in a fight because if i engage in a fight
with the space marine i'll almost certainly lose and die but if you can get multiple carnivores
into combat at the same time one of them is going to get a buff to their fighting which
means they're going to be hitting on two ups and now all of a sudden i have a much better chance of
getting past the space marines three-up armor save a better chance not a guarantee by any means butts
although the armor state doesn't matter in close combat but it's still really really tricky but i
haven't been enjoying the cruits they're a really really fun race in 40k one of the more unique
to 40k i would say these uh these bur super tall bird lizards who change their biology by eating
the meats of their victims it's it's kind of fun there's even some fun stories of the croot
who were really impressed by their by their allies the tao in combat and so they're like hey you know
not for nothing but can we eat some of these corpses because we're pretty impressed with
you guys and the tower like no thank you please don't eat are dead i just i think the crew are fun
and that is what i've been working on this week i'm getting really close to being done
with the other remaining 10 and i'll have to buy another box and put another box of
16 crew together which is super fun to do i feel like i've been on a much more painting
enjoying painting than enjoying building kik lately but i'm sure i'm sure the tables will turn
soon enough but uh it is fun and i like the croots i think out of all the old models
they might be the best i mean they came out right around like canadians orc boys
uh the original space marines and i think they honestly hold up better than those models
and as in their multi-part plastic kit way and there's only there's four bodies and four legs
and you just you just swap them all out and then the arms are paired with the guns and
it works out really really nicely the the box of crude ibot the instructions were literally
drawn on the side of the box which is great the the modern the more modern instructions
are clearly better because things are actually designed in the 3d space and so you can make
these great renderings that show you exactly how things connect but there is something really
classic about somebody's ballpoint pen ink sketch of you know arm a goes on to socket b
there is a lot of fun to be had but that is what i worked on this week i didn't get a ton
of behind the scenes hobbying and painting for myself done because i was super super busy
working on stuff for eons of battle that you will see soon but if you in general like what
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