people who buy limited edition models are dumb why would you get suckered
into pulling the trigger just because they made thousands instead of tens of thousands
I'm not dumb though I needed all these
limited edition models are a form of fomo the fear of missing out which is a bad thing it's
a manipulation it's an attempt by companies to coerce customers into buying like it's objectively
bad but it's also kind of fun right let me put on my shill hat for a second all entertainment is
exchanging money for emotional manipulation I mean yes some things are free you can go for a walk or
look at a tree but if you want to have some real fun you have to pay roller coasters make you feel
fear and excitement for the cost of a park ticket movies make you feel intrigued or sympathetic but
you still have to buy rent or stream for the privilege Miniatures are in the same boat you
want to experience the tactile enjoyment of building a model the artistic satisfaction
of painting and the Triumph of using that model on the tabletop well you have to pay in limited
edition adds another layer to that transaction in the world of miniature wargaming few things
spark the same amount of desire and panic as a limited edition models you see something like
Inquisitor Erasmus cartavalness or you know maybe you see Soul Blake gravelords anasta malcolorion
vampire lord or you know maybe you see a pilot Luke Skywalker and you think oh yeah I need
that model and it's only available right now so I have to buy that reaction is part of the fun that
feeling you get in your gut of I need it I want it I'm gonna try to get it it's fine I'm not saying
fomo is great we should all just buy everything what I'm saying is I don't have a problem with
cool count as or alternate Scopes that are limited in number and cost the same as a regular model I
think it adds to the excitement of the miniature hobby I do have a problem with very expensive
limited edition bundle boxes but that's a story for another day making something limited edition
is supposed to increase demand and create greater sense of value in that thing but when it's just a
model we know exactly what the value is going to be in the value is objective and not every limited
edition model is just a marketing strategy I have a lot of Miniatures for the game Mars Attacks by
Mantic from 2015 and that game is no longer made so technically the entire model range is limited
edition same with Mongoose publishings 2007 game Starship Troopers that game has been out
of production for years so every time I see one of those Miniatures I get the same butterflies
stomach of ooh I should buy that right now I think limited edition models are just another
part of the Hobby and I have maybe indulged a few too many times because I have not only
a pile of shame but I have a limited edition Miniatures pile of Shame and so I think it is
time to tackle this most shameful of collections I paint these Miniatures up but I'm not just going
to paint them I am going to really put all of my efforts into painting these models because
they're limited edition I feel like I have a lot more attachments and I I have a lot more value
that I place on these Miniatures so I want to get the maximum amount of enjoyment and satisfaction
out of these Miniatures so I am going to be Painting full ball sack it's time to get to work
all right let's get this limited edition Paint Party Started Hot with
Inquisitor Erasmus cartavalness my newest limited edition model
I could use a little more light
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this model is actually from this year it is the Warhammer 2022 birthday model where the stores
have a birthday and you get to buy the limited edition models and it's kind of a flip-flop of
the Warhammer day Miniatures where there was a really really cool Aegis Sigmar model in the
vampire lore that I got and kind of a OKAY model with the blade Guard veteran Lieutenant which is
kind of lame actually I think it was a blade guard Sergeant which is even worse it's just
an alternate for normal units but this model the Lord Inquisitor is badass compared to the
gut Ripper boss for age of Sigmar kind of lame just an alternate normal troop but I think the
inquisitors are the perfect thing to do a limited edition model on because people who
love inquisitors absolutely love inquisitors and everybody else does not care at all which
is great for a limited edition model it gives is the people who want it something to get but
nobody else feels like they're really missing out because inquisitors really aren't a big
deal in Warhammer 40K they haven't been an army since second edition some people make it work
by like taking an Inquisitor as their warlord for an Imperial Guard Army but really the inquisitors
are just for the super weirdos who like to get into the nitty-gritty of the Imperial society
and I really love it I already have two I have Kyrie addresses The xenos Inquisitor and I have
a rogue Trader Inquisitor in Terminator armor and now I have this guy and they always say it's that
third wheel that makes it a tricycle they also say groupings of three is what makes something
in a collection and I now have a collection of inquisitors because this guy is done
oh Inquisitor Erasmus cartavalness painted to the best of my abilities and I continue to be
very impressed with army painter's speed panes it let me get a lot of work done on the model really
quickly so I could focus on the little things that I really wanted to one of those things being
object Source lighting object Source lighting is one of those magical things that some of the best
painters in the world can do and it's so hard and amazing it's recreating light in a 3D environment
where you know light exists but faking it making it sort of 2D in a 3D model I don't know I tried
it out on this guy to make that evil chaotic zinchian book He's stabbing glow and it sort of
works but the whole model ended up really really dark so I would I would give it a medium success
needs more experimentation but overall I really like this model it's really cool I like the posing
I like the like the dynamic Source down having of it but you know what else is really really cool
Inquisitor gray fox or Inquisitor kyria draxus the other Inquisitor models that Games Workshop
sells and I think I would be just as happy with any one of those Miniatures as I am with this
limited edition Inquisitor so did I really need to buy this no glad I kind of did yeah yeah it
is really but it's time to leave 40K behind for a little age of Sigmar all right time for soul
Blake gravelords a nasta malcolian vampire lord the model I definitely should not have bought
what up
I really don't know why I bought this model this model is from Warhammer Day 2021 and I remember
being very unimpressed with the Warhammer 40K model it was a blade Guard veteran uh Sergeant
or no Lieutenant no it was a sergeant and it was just a normal guy and I was really disappointed
because the year before I had actually gotten the Warhammer model the 2020 model the chaplain
in Terminator armor and it was super cool and I painted it up to the best of my ability and it was
awesome but I wasn't feeling the Warhammer model from that year but I was kinda digging the age of
Sigmar model the vampire lord and so it was the first time I'd actually bought a Games Workshop
model without it being for an army without a good reason to actually have the model and it's just
sort of sat on my shelf I have no intention of starting a soul blight grave blade army
um I didn't think I would start one back then but I just kind of liked the model
I bought a lot of models from other companies just to have but usually it's because it's like
oh it's from Fallout and so I need to have that or it's from Star Wars so I need to have that
but usually I only buy Games Workshop models if I'm going to use them in game that's how I can
justify the outrageous prices that Games Workshop charges but I just kind of liked this model and so
I decided to pick it up and I'm kind of glad I did I'm really enjoying painting this up it is
a little bit making me want to start this little bright blade blap army which is bad because games
are show models are very expensive but uh it's kind of neat I think my logic at the time was
maybe I would turn it into a gene Steeler called Magus but I already have three so I definitely
don't need a fourth and games have already made a really cool lady Magus model that I have and
I've painted up so kind of weird I don't know why I just needed to have this model when I
saw it on the Warhammer Community page and so I took a trip down to my local Warhammer store but
I don't know I think it has something to do with how age of Sigmar models are
just a little bit silly and I like a little bit of silly I've painted probably over 1
000 Warhammer 40K Miniatures and 40K can be silly too but it's often just you know guns and pouches
and armor and paint chipping and streaking Grime where a lot of age of Sigmar stuff just feels like
it's a lot more light-hearted and this model is definitely very silly and it is just about done
boom boom that is a vampire lord and boy oh boy I had a lot of fun painting
this model it is an absolute cartoon character standing on a very realistic Cobblestone base
um my reference material for this was the Yu-Gi-Oh card vampire lady and I definitely
nailed it with the Jade skin and pink and red clothing I really really like this model but
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really took a look at it I was kind of shocked at the juxtaposition between the very cartoony
model and the really realistic bass but now that I think about it I think I really like it and I
would be really interested to see this particular color scheme taken throughout a soul blight grave
blade army maybe have all of the Heroes of the faction the vampires painted perfectly
in this style but then have all of the death rattle skeletons and the zombies painted very
very realistically so that they really really stand out I feel like Aegis sigmar's wackiness
just lets you do weird interesting experiments like that and uh do I do I really want to start
a soul by grave light Army I mean the real question is if I had painted a really cool
limited edition nighthon model what I really want to start a night haunt Army right now and I think
the answer definitely is yes and you know what before I start adding things to my shopping cart
I should work on my next mini and that is going to be from the galaxy far far away all right I'm
chugging along through my limited edition pile of Shame it's time for Hoth Luke Sky Potter
why did it come with an extra base he's already got a base
contains an unpainted hard plastic miniature
this is limited edition Luke Skywalker Commander expansion for Star Wars Legion and in my opinion
one of the more egregious limited edition models because this is pilot Luke and pilot Luke is a
really really cool Luke the the standard Star Wars Legion Luke Skywalker you can get is bespin
Luke Cloud City Luke kind of a bad Luke in my opinion I mean just compared to the other
Luke's even Dagobah Luke is more interesting than bespin Luke I mean Farm Boy Luke I would
take a farm boy Luke over bespin Luke obviously Return of the Jedi Luke best Luke and this guy
pilot Luke is the coolest so much better than the actual model I think that's when limited
edition models kinda suck everybody wants pilot Luke but very very few people get to have pilot
loot because this is a limited edition model they're not making more of these this is it
and actually if you want one of these stick around I'll tell you how you can get one but I do have
to give Fantasy Flight a little bit of credit it's really cool how they release this model
they gave this model to free local game stores I think each store could order up to three and
then they could do with them what they wanted and I do think that that's really cool it gives
people a big incentive to go and visit their friendly local game stores and participate in
the hobby I know a lot of stores use these as um giveaways or for prizes for tournaments and so I
do think it is really really cool to support friendly local game stores like that because
those are really the Beating Heart of the war gaming world so I do appreciate that they they
did a very good thing by doing a very bad thing and making this badass model limited edition
also just in terms of being a miniature this is much better than the standard Luke Skywalker
because this model is actually made out of hard polystyrene where most stars Legion models are
made out of soft PVC and I think at least all Jedi holding lightsabers or Sith should
be made out of styrene because that lightsaber is straight as an arrow where a lot of the PVC
lightsabers they have a little bit of a Bend from being in a little Ziploc baggie and you don't you
don't want a floppy lightsaber Luke Sky Potter is finished let me show you what I managed to do
foreign this is my best painted Star Wars Legion model and it better because it's I think it's the
coolest good old-fashioned pilot Luke I do think my pilot Luke ended up a little bit too dark I was
playing around with inks and I really like how the inks perform they actually performed a lot like
Army painter speedpaint or Games Workshop contrast paint but the color was slightly wrong and that is
one thing I fall into a lot with Star Wars Legion models because I recognize the thing from the
movies and the shows and so I have to replicate them perfectly so even if those colors did give
me a very lovely orange it wasn't the exact right orange for pilot Luke and so I had to go back and
change it and I ended up using washes and then really really darkened things up so I'm gonna say
that this is not Luke at the Battle of Hoth taking down the app 8080 but I'm gonna say that actually
Luke crashed another z95 airspeeder in like the middle of the night during a blizzard and that's
why it looks really really dark I also tried a little bit of object Source lighting coming off
of this lightsaber and there's two different ways really you can do lightsabers you can either do
white at the bottom with uh the light with the color of the blade blue Illuminating up the top
I decided to go with that because I thought that having the majority of the lightsaber being blue
would look really good on the table top because Luke has a blue lightsaber but the way to make
things look brighter is to have it be closer to White and so a little bit of blue at the bottom
with a blade of white would probably make it look maybe a little bit more like a lightsaber or maybe
a little bit more powerful but I don't know that's that's an experiment I'll have to run maybe on
The Next Star Wars Legion model I paints but ah I absolutely love it the free handing on his helmet
was probably the hardest freehanding I have ever done on any miniature and I think it turned out
pretty good although I made a slight lore error on the top part of his helmet although technically
I made a big error because really I painted the helmet from Star Wars 77 A New Hope not Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back because if you look at Luke Skywalker's pilot helmet from Empire Strikes
Back it looks like he dropped it in a porta potty like it is completely covered in Grime and Gunk
compared to how clean and prop perfect it was in the first movie but I now have pilot loose I
have finished three more models from my vast pile of shame but I feel good these models were extra
shameful as not only did I buy them but I had to go out of my way to buy them I fought for these
models and then put them in a drawer and forgot about them until now but I use this little Trio
of exclusives to push myself out of my painting comfort zone but you know what else is great for
that 3 printing there are tons of great stls out there which are perfect for experimenting and then
as a tool I don't take advantage of nearly enough I mean games are shop charges like 35 40 bucks
for one of these things Nick only charges me 30 to print a mini I could have saved a lot of money but
at the end of the day why do we buy models because it's fun it's fun to buy models it's fun to have
them it's fun to look at them it's fun to play with them and I think it's okay to indulge once
in a while but don't get carried away with limited edition if a model catches your eye and you really
know you want it and you want to paint it now try to pick it up but just know that if you miss out
that's fine and there's always going to be new cool stuff right around the corner also before I
mention how you can get your own limited edition pilot Luke and the store Valhalla hobby has one
extra copy and for the month of December anybody who purchases any Star Wars Legion Miniatures will
be entered into a drawing to win their very own pilot Luke I'm now out from underneath my Limited
Edition model pile of shame but who knows I wonder what the next year will bring in