What did you do today.

[The Other Dave]

Finished up Ye Olde Starblood Stalkers for Underworlds:

Considering the rate I move through warbands, they may see play early season 6 some time.

[Jye Nicolson]

They look fantastic and I do suggest giving them a go when you can.



Despite being a bit messy (especially the crew who I glued on before painting) the Drukhari vehicles didn't end up feeling that bad to paint.

I think that's because my standard of bad is currently "Exorcist".

Anyway, the full Crusade is done and just barely within the planned timeframe. Lelith can wait.

[The Other Dave]

And here's the Storm of Celestus done:

Just my standard stormcast paint scheme, although the gryph-hound ended up looking a lot like a certain patriotic American popsicle:

[me_in_japan]

today, my graphics card finally bit the big one. Actually, I suspect it died yesterday. Turns out that while my kids were playing minecraft, the "computer started making a funny noise, and minecraft crashed". Further investigation led me to understand that actually windows had crashed, and the pc had restarted itself. Then (perhaps critically) the kids just restarted minecraft and kept on trucking for a bit, until it crashed again. Thereafter minecraft (and indeed, all games) Would Not Start. Further, further investigation made it clear that the aforementioned "funny noise" was the GPU fan going berserk. Initially I just assumed it needed a good clean, so I opened it up and took my airbrush to it (a wonderful PC cleaning tool, btw). When I actually opened up the graphics card unit it was clear that what had happened was some kind of mechanical failure - the retaining plug for the heatsink had...deteriorated? Broken? Whatever, the heatsink had popped off the chip, and was just swingin' in the breeze, leaving the poor GPU to cook slowly in its own exudations.

Anyway, so, I reattached the heatsink, muttered a prayer to the omnisiah, and put everything (now sparklingly clean) back together.

Nope. That card is dead. It is an ex-card. Its days of helping me disembowel daemons, tap lands for mana, and explore the wilds of skyrim are behind it. It goes now to the great silicon gates of the afterlife. May its framerate forever be high.

As for me, I must delve now into the mysteries and navigate the hazards of post-crypto-mining-era graphics card purchases. Pray for me folks, pray for me...

*edit* on the plus side, I've been informed by mrs MiJ that we've accumulated several man worth of airmiles, and since it certainly doesnt look like we'll be going anywhere anytime soon, I may as well convert them to Amazon gift cards! Huzzah! Crisis averted. Because airmile money is not real money, is it? So I can spend it willy nilly yes? Yes? Can I have a yes? please?....

[Grantholomeu]

@MiJ
It's just a sign that you deserve a new one anyways

[Karantu]

That sounds like a horrible way for a graphics card to die. I'm glad it served you well while it was alive.

I'm not sure how powerful of a GPU you're looking for but if you can't find anything decent, I do have a spare card (GTX 960, don't remember the details) lying around doing nothing. Other than one slight physical alteration, it should be in pretty decent shape since I only used it for 2-3 years before upgrading to my current card. Anyway, let me know if you're interested.

[me_in_japan]

@MiJ
It's just a sign that you deserve a new one anyways

That’s pretty much my take on it, too Having spent most of the weekend fighting my way from one child-induced crisis to another, I reckon I’m owed a new shiny (all very minor crises, mind, but my time-to-myself yesterday amounted to 14 minutes of The Bad Batch while I ate my croissant in the morning, then summat came up, telly was paused, and that was it until 11pm ) )

@karantu - that’s a very kind offer, and much appreciated, but with all due respect and gratitude I must decline. My now-dead card was a 660 (I think?) but I’m dead set on a proppa upgrade, so I’m looking at a 1660S at the moment. The ridonculous markups are wince inducing, but I’m kind of at the “ta hell with it” stage. I wants to shoot me some daemons, and doom eternal was on sale in the steam store.

Also, fwiw, my advice to anybody else considering getting a new graphics card just now basically boils down to: don’t. It’s teeth-grindingly frustrating reading 1-2 year old reviews for cards with lines like “this is a great card in the 150-200 dollar range, and stands up well against the (insert competitor here)” all the while seeing ads for the same card on Amazon US or Best Buy or whatever at 500-600 dollars. It’s just fecking nuts. Bloody crypto miners

[Konrad]

And here's the Storm of Celestus done:

Just my standard stormcast paint scheme, although the gryph-hound ended up looking a lot like a certain patriotic American popsicle:

I say don't stop there! Make some Captain America Sigmarines! USA! USA!
I need to get my a couple of the crossbow/ crossbow pistol dudes to Blanchits-ify one of these days.

[jus]

I want every square inch of my tower...covered in BRASS!

[jus]

It's a Levi-robot. (It's not for me)



Some painting on the side


these are pretty cool too