Kit bashed miniatures? you guys have any? I just bought these

>>52441403
wow, these look hella cool, considering the scout face sculpt looks like the retard brigade. Only thing is I know I would get shit from the red shirt at Jew-Dubz for having these

>>52441741
I thought you where allowed to kitbash?

>>52441804
any third party shit is grounds for austic reeeee from the redshirts, and I can't afford to get banned again

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>>52441741
bro these are not even the coolest heads i've found. Kromlech, puppetswar, and Anvil industry have some great bits for conversions.

>>52441822
That's a shame. I was under the impression you could kitbash freely as long as the model in question was still mostly GW parts.

That kills my dream of making a bunch of Orcs dressed like space marines and playing them.

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>>52441922
As long as it's GW parts your good no?

>>52441922
the model has to have like 99% Jew-w purity (its ironic isn't it that now they believe just like the nazis who tried to exterminate them)
>>52441950
this

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>>52441403
I use the Grenadier legs with FW Hostile environment Cadians. I like it, and the only way to get non metal Kasrikins

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>>52441978
Blue pilled faggit.
Play at an FLGS or garage. Who the fuck goes to those one man stores, anyway?
Personally, I used tempestus heads. They look good, and keep it 100% pure.

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>>52441978
>the miniatures Nazi kicked me out for my 99.999% Golden Demon winning conversion
5+ GWs under my belt now, every single one has toed the party line at 75% of the model has to be GW shit or homemade. No FLGS has ever given a shit.

GW doesn't want other sellers getting free advertisement at their stores. If you wanna proxy a bunch of shit, play at the LGS, or at home.

>>52441978

You know movie theaters and restaurants don't let you bring other company's food in right?

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>>52441403
literally all I do as a guard player.

Honestly if you play IG and don't convert those poor Cadians and Catachans you seriously have something wrong with you. IG is made for conversions and having a regiment that is distinctly you.

Also helps that I never have to play at a GW, so I go nuts and use all kinds of 3rd party stuff

>>52442750
>Commissar, what good's a lasgun gonna do in a virus bomb fight? All it takes is pushin' a button.

>>52441804
iirc the rule is that its ok if it's at least two-thirds geedubs parts

>>52442038
Got any pictures?

>>52442750
Got any pictures of your minis?

>>52442750
There places to with tips on how to kitbash, maybe with some ideas of what to do with IG specifically?
Any time I google it I get articles from 10 years ago referencing buying Necromunda parts from GW...

mfw it was GW employees who actually told me to order from these guys for my carcharodon project

https://www.shapeways.com/product/VUHAXBA2E/carcharodon-gen4-maximus-left-shoulder-x10

What did they mean by this?

>>52443227
Get those disloyal scumbags to recommend it on tape and send it to GW with their information.

>>52443314
Why would I want to fuck shit up for the rare GW employees who are actual bros?

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>>52443314
>go squeal on a redshirt bro

Tom Kirby plz go

>>52443227
>What did they mean by this?
GW staff are for the most part enthusiastic hobbyists, instead of the corporate robots people on the internet think they are.

the easier solution is to just not make a big deal about it and claim it's greenstuff or something. even the kool-aid addicted manager at my local gw doesn't give a fuck about non-standard parts if I don't make him notice.

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>>52443082
There not done with the paintjob, and I'm still a novice painter at best. Still in the time since I took that photo I greenstuff some cables to em and worked on the bases a bit. Anyone have a guide on how to highlight black? And how should I paint the back powerplants?

>>52442750
Those Light Infantry troopers are rare af, where the hell did you even get them And why aren't they painted like in the movies you heretic

>>52443227
>>52444153
>GW doesn't like the second hand miniature market
>bought 80ish plastic cadians for cheap off an actual redshirt at a meet up day arranged by the local second hand mini peddler website

>>52441741
Any redshirt that gives you guff for aftermarket head swaps is a faggot and you have a duty to call him one to his face.

t. an actual redshirt

>>52446084
Kinda off topic but does GW have an officail policy to kitbashes? Whats it like being a redshirt under the new CEO, better?

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>>52446513
>Whats it like being a redshirt under the new CEO, better?
Much, Kirby was a tool and he had no business being in retail. Every single bad decision GW ever made was as a result of his leadership, since he had the perspective of an early 90s finance guy and never actually saw the inside of a hobby center, delegating that sort of thing to middle managers whose advice he would ignore.

>Kinda off topic but does GW have an officail policy to kitbashes?
70% GW product any time the question comes up but by and large it's left to the individual discretion of the redshirt making the call. I've personally allowed complete scratch sculpts as long as they clearly represent what they're supposed to be while banning others that don't. The kid with the Aku Tyranids used to game in my shop and I wouldn't let him put his Sculpy mess on my tables unless there was an identifiable GW model underneath it - which is how you wound up with pic related.

As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't have any trouble as long as it's based on a GW model. Don't be the guy that tries to field a Tamiya Tiger II with some IG bits glued on. If a redshirt gives you a hard time for your Kasrkin with Anvil combi-weapons or Kromlech heads, or your box-standard Space Marine tactical staff with Shapeways shoulder pads, he's an ass.

>>52447249
I should probably add, there are a lot of asshole redshirts out there that take themselves way too seriously and been anything you didn't actually buy from them. I've personally known Hobby Specialists who forbid Forge World in their stores because they don't sell it, so your mileage with this advice may vary.

That being said, don't start none, won't be none are words to live by - just about anything will fly under the radar as long as you're not advertising it.

>>52447249
Wait Aku nid was from you? Neat, not the first time I've seen that model. And I'll keep that in mind thanks redshirt guy

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The whole of my army is kitbashed/converted to some extent. My standard guys have Pig Iron militia heads and cut down space marine backpacks.
These guys weapons are mostly from Anvil Industries.
Shield dude's gear is from Victoria Miniatures
Female heads are from Statuesque Miniatures
Commander's power fists and the Ogryn's chains are from Zinge Industries

I fucking love kitbashing my dudes it's just a fucking shame they die so easily.

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Kitbashed chaos lord, out of the chaos sorcerer on manticore model and some vanguard vets/raptors

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Used the other body option for this dude. The manticore wings are on my daemon prince. Got a lot of use out of that kit. Just need to use the manticore itself now...

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100% Nob approved

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>>52448092
Mr Potato head?

>>52448123

Mr. Potatork Head

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>>52443227
Lawdy lawd. Thanks anon. Expensive as shit though.

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>>52448291
Only sightly more expensive than Forge World's shoulder pads, though, and with a much greater selection. I use Pop Bits and Plokoone exclusively, now.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/popbits
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/plokoone-s-bits

>>52441403
This seems like a good place to ask, any of you guys know how I could go about contacting based chinaman?

About how long does it take mad robot minis to ship an order? I ordered 10 jump packs on the 27th and the status still says processing

>>52448416
By researching like the rest of us. No handouts.

>>52448092
I remember a different one that still had a hat on.

Nearly every Polish bits producer makes Orc Pirate heads, but how come only Spellcrow makes other Pirate Orc parts?
And for fuck's sake, why must everyone pack heads in tens and legs or torsos in sixes. Drives me crazy. If I wanted to make a full custom Orc squad rather than mixing with GW parts, I'd have useless leftovers.

>>52448826
That's what this one was based on. I'm not original.

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>>52443082
No really good painted pictures at the moment. Odds are you've seen them before. I'm the guy with the Red Valhallans. Have a not retarded looking taurox in the meantime.

>>52443183
Best advice I can give is read a lot of history, then look at everything out there online that sells human sized bits. Not just for 40k.

I personally use tons of WWII bits as I play Bolt action. Many of the pouches, backpacks, shotguns, and hats (Anything German is perfect, the Eagle the Germans wear is identical to Imperials at tabletop)

Good websites to start with for bits would be Victoria Lamb, Mad Robot, Kromlec, Max Mini, Warlord Games, and Forgeworld. Pig Iron stuff is great too if you can find it. From there you will go further and further down the rabbit hole.

As for general advice, go to Walmart and buy a ton of Plano storage cases. They're like 4 bucks a pop and clear. Hoard bits like a madman and keep them categorized. Then, dip into your supply for inspiration. Hit up all your buddies, especially people who you know play historicals, and ask them if they have parts laying around. Other IG players are a good mine as well. Many have similar obsessions and will have picked up odd lots of bits that they won't use in a bulk purchase. They will usually trade these for a song to a like-minded brother in arms. Hell I gave a new player a sandwich bag stuffed with bits because he wanted to make veteran Cadians and I had Cadian bits out the wazoo that I wasn't going to use.

>>52445634
I have 40 of them and a "commissar" that's one of their spooky intelligence guys, along with like 8 chicken walkers, a couple ape suits, and more mobile infantry than I can count. I picked it up over time from friendly grogs because I love starship troopers. I also have a ton of bugs that are in the makeline as well.

As for why they're not painted like the movies, movie scheme doesn't really stand out much at tabletop, so I lightened the colors and mixed a few things up to make them pop.

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Used to do a fair bit of this, back when I gave a shit about 40K

Some Inquisitorial Stormtroopers

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And the command for this plastic Daemon Hunters force, back when all plastic armies was something unusual and there were zero official DH plastic figures.

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Some more stormtroopers, this time a plastic Imperial Navy Security team.

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Some penal legion.

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A primaris psyker

>>52445514
LOL I thought the dude sitting down was in a wheelchair I was about to say "what a fucking savage"

>>52447846
that looks hella sick

>>52449463
I can promise I aint ever seen shit here before. I've been coming to 4chan since 2006, this is my first time on /tg/

I need Stahlhelm heads. What manufacturer would /tg/ recommend?

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>>52450302
>I need Stahlhelm heads. What manufacturer would /tg/ recommend?

Warlord Games has this thing called a "modular head system"

Since they make WWII Germans, you'll have stahlhelms out the wazoo. May need to shave some necks a bit but they should work fine.

>>52450330

Doesn't look bad, thank you.

>>52445514
Best tip to highlight black is not to use white as a highlight. Ivory colours are my go to for it, using a space wolfy blue grey can also look pretty good.

Unless you're dealing with razor sharp edges on armour plates and such you will always need at least 2 levels of highlighting. I'll usually paint on a wider rough line then apply a fine hilight line on the very edge using the side of the brush where possible, then go back to black to tidy up the highlight line. For belts and straps I paint the whole strap the first highlight colour, apply the brighter edge highlight, then run a line of black down the middle. Much easier and much quicker.

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>>52445634
oh yeah and almost forgot best part

I bought them for a dollar apiece and use them solely as conscripts

I will say whenever I play nids they do insanely well.

It's like they really hate bugs or something

>>52448489
contact him, he usually shipped really fast for me. Try messaging him on Dakkadakka, he's pretty active on his news threads, as are most other bits companies.

>>52447663
Where's the Ogryn's head from?

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>>52443082
Here's a couple partially done squads to just show you what I'm usually goofing around with. The painscheme sucks and I need to find a new one.

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>>52452830

>>52448410
>costing more than FW
>acceptable

Nigga u wot

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>>52452854

I'm planning on getting some of those new Anvil bodies and legs for Skitarii Vanguard and Rangers, as I have a shit ton of arms, heads, and backpacks leftover from making Peltasts and Hoplites.

>>52453107
Are those Victoria?

>>52452830
>knifehanding gunny
This tingles my pringles

>>52453179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qN_DJOjeE

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>>52453129
yep, excellent models, worth every penny. Granted mine are heavily kitbashed, the base models are arcadians, and an excellent start to go with.

Gunny here
>>52452830
Has parts from something insane like 5 different companies/boxes

>Mad Robot head
>Victoria rifle arm, torso, legs, chainsword
>Knife hand arm is a Warlord Games USMC arm with knife hand coming from dreamforge's accessory sprue
>Bolter is a Betrayal at Calth straight mag Bolter because they're a nice size for guardsmen.
>Backpack is a US GI 1944 or something backpack
>Miscellaneous pouches from who knows where because I have a hoarding problem and grab all the pouches and bags I can get my hoarder hands on.

Hell the Chimera commander here has parts from the Warlord USMC and German Grenadiers kits as well as a Victoria Lamb head

No the irony is not lost on me that I used WWII German bits for a black guy

>>52449720
What did you use for the legs?

>>52455692

Looks like Tau Fire Warrior Legs, judging by the armor plates, filled in, and the hooves replaced with human foot boots.

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>>52455464
>No the irony is not lost on me that I used WWII German bits for a black guy
It's not that out there

>>52453053
Like by a buck and that's since the pound bottomed out. A year ago it was the cheaper option.

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Has anyone done medieval-themed Imperial Guard? Not entirely satisfied with my first try at it.

>>52458876
http://anvilindustry.co.uk/regiments-medieval-torso

>>52458876
paintjob could be better but honestly that's not a bad looking attempt. Have you tried converting up a character like a sarge or officer?

Honestly kind of surprised how good that looks, it looks like all you did was slap a lasgun on a medieval guy. Try adding a couple of sci fi bits like pouches, cybernetics, or something to make him look more unique.

>>52442750
WHERE DID YOU GET LIGHT MOBILE INFANTRY I CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE REEEEEE

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>>52458912
I definitely plan on redoing the paint job. Haven't done a sargeant or officer yet but tomorrow I'm going to try to use a Perry foot knight for one.
I did stick a wargames factory German pack on this guy but it could use something a bit more sci-fi.

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>>52458897
that place is great, that is here I bought my muzzle flashes

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I don't think i counts as kitbashing, but the Kromlech Clanking Destroyer kit (made from random mechanical orc parts packed into a single blister) is adorable.

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made a squad of imperial guard veterans w/ shotguns from cadian plastics and some third party bits from victoria miniatures

love that company

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Can tg recommend some good legs to go with this torso?

>>52441741
>Playing at a GW store

>>52455692
>>52455983
Yup, latter Anon is correct. Fire Warrior upper legs and some filler, lower legs, combined with essentially no filler. I suspect both kits are sculpted from a standard set of armatures as several poses are identical in both kits.

>>52441922
>That's a shame. I was under the impression you could kitbash freely as long as the model in question was still mostly GW parts
thats the company policy yeah.
Of course some stores will have an overly draconian manager. Though in my experience at least 2 3rds GW (or completely scratch built) is accepted by any of the 5 GW stores I've actually been to.

>>52460373
If you can think of somewhere else that has full-size, fully furnished 6x4 tables available for free play, I'm happy to hear it. I live in a major metropolitan area and of the half dozen or so hobby shops that are currently or have previously been open in my area, only one of them provided table space, no terrain, which you had to rent. The table, not the terrain. I want to say it was fifteen bucks for an hour but I honestly never gamed there and they've been closed for a few years, now, since their business model sucked.

One provided space only for there own events two nights a week.

And two others had card tables, which you were free to use only if you could snag them before the Magic players did, and then you were pretty much limited to playing Kill Teams. Again, you had to provide your own terrain.

The rest are primarily comic shops and don't regularly provide space to game.

With GW, you take the good with the bad; yes, some of their employees are tools but there's nowhere else to reliably find a pickup game or play on a properly dressed table, unless you want to buy your own terrain and play at home - and I don't know about you, maybe you have your own game room, but I pretty much have to make due with my dining room table and I'd rather keep that clear to dine on, myself.

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>>52463053
Join a club? Fucking relocate? Your apologist post for GW stores is pathetic. If you live in a metropol, then you should be able to find an alternative.

>>52463096
You seem upset.

>>52463096
why would you need an alternative to a FLGS?

>>52463096
>uproot your entire life for a game
How's life in your mom's basement? Is she going to be making snacks for you and your friends' game, tonight?

>>52463096
Why has /tg/ become -so- retarded recently?

Trumpkins shitting in most threads as if their delusional opinions are insightful, interesting, amusing or (most importantly) remotely fucking relevant to /tg/

Then we have chumps like this who seem to be unable to understand how -reality- even works. "Sure I'll move hundreds or thousands of miles across the country and sack my job off so I can push plastic space figures on a table without a fee".

This situation is the norm in the UK, particularly down south. The FLGS model just isn't viable with shop rents in this half of the country. I get the impression things are better across the pond, but even there there's going to be gaps in coverage.

>>52463053
It does not necessarily fit the free-to-play category, but there is such thing as gaming clubs. Non-GW games players usually hang in those, because stores have limited space and there's multiple games they want to play. So if Flames of War has an event, Infinity players need to find somewhere else to play.
Try getting in touch with the wider gaming community. Just endure remarks about playing shitty GW games.

>>52463634
This. Land of the free has a billion acres to build sprawling warehouses on. PISSLAND is short of space, and stores with gaming tables are vanishingly rare. Unless they're GW stores, which are ubiquitous.

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>>52441403
Here is my lychshabti. I know filthy phone posting but it's all I got. Made from lychvuard kit and puppets war space Egyptian god heads

>>52463672
This is a great solution for non-GW games but if your primary game is 40k or AoS, what's the point? Clubs are notoriously cliquish and if you aren't playing what they play, you're either not welcome at all or, by your own admission, you're at the bottom of the social order.

There are also other considerations when looking at gaming clubs, not least of which is where do you play? If it's just some guy's house, you're basically just paying for his terrain, which you get to use when he hosts a game night at his own convenience. At least with a hobby shop, GW or otherwise, you can go over whenever during operating hours.

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>You will never have the kitbashing or painting skills to field a full Drookian Fen Guard army, even with Aunt Vicky's help

>>52463686
Close, but it's nothing to do with shortage of space, British towns vary between 10-40% empty retail properties. Landlords seem prepared to keep them empty rather than lower the rent to get the filled up. Most UK town centers have 1 street of universally big chain stores with the only difference between towns being the order of shops in the line. There's usually a smaller street or streets where independents have been pushed to and these are slowly changing into parades of empty units, hairdressers, charity shops, takeaways and bookmakers. Pretty much no other business model is viable.

>>52463823
One day I'm going to spend proper money on her stuff. I need a sufficiently interesting concept besides "another IG Kill Team" though.

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>>52463918
Field a full army of light infantry/cavalry.

>>52463796
Depends on the club really. In one in Warsaw that has a lot of space I went to play an Infinity game and at the same time people there were playing AoS, Warmahordes and X-Wing.

>>52463830
I wonder how much profit most GW stores actually make. I know they're virtually all one person operations now, which probably helps a little, but given the discounts you can get online I wonder how much money they actually bring in.

>>52463830
>1 big street
Can confirm. I was in Leamington, admittedly a rich city full of rich people but holy shit that was weird. Just one big ass street going through the city, with smaller streets going off it.
If you weren't on either the Parade or streets linked to it, you might as well be living in the countryside.

>>52463949
They're actually expanding again, my shop has one full-time and two part-time employees, now; down, significantly, from the four full-time employees it had before 2008, but up from where it was a year or two ago. It actually didn't even go one-man until, I think, 2013 when the lease expired and they relocated to a smaller space in a dodgier strip mall two blocks over; the company used it as an excuse to downsize the remaining staff and the manager has to reapply for his own job.

Because of how vertically integrated the company is, the math on how profitable a store is, is very straightforward; you're either making money or you're not.

But there's a lot of overhead tied up in GW's brick-and-mortar business, at least in North America, so they tend to take a pretty hard line on individual shop performance. If you miss your sales goal for a month, you get a reprimand and they post your job as a vacancy; miss it again and they replace you.

That may have changed under Rountree's leadership but I can't say for sure, since my shop has been doing gangbusters recently.

>>52463053
what city

>>52447249

I want to play at GW shop, but I feel like I'm obligated to purchase shit if I go there. I'm a cheap ass though, thoughts? I wish they would sell snacks or some shit. Makes me feel a lot better and everyone gets something.

>>52464114
>Actually expanding again.

Indeed. They are even opening stores in Asia, something unheard of before that.

>>52464155
Depends on the manager. If you're in an area where it doesn't make much money, he'll probably try to sell some more stuff, even more so if you're a newcomer, since newcomers are the ones that buy.

Unless you're socially akward, there shouldn't be any problems. Litteraly just say you're looking around.
As to snacks, why not save on that for a month, and buy yourself a box with the money you didn't use on snacks? Better for both you and the store.

>>52463949
Well I did spend 10 years with a pretty standard UK store 10years ago so here's some (somewhat out of date) facts.

Rent on the store was £27000 PA (I know they're charging in excess of 35K for those units now)

Business rates are based on payable rent (usually) so that was another 27,000 per year.

Staff costs were about 40K a year (appropriately enough). That's probably halved now they're all 1 man stores.

Turnover was about 10K per month with some heavy fluctuation some months 6K Christmas would deliver in excess of 20K.

So with the high margins the stores were turning over some profit in those days. perhaps less than some might expect though.

I know some major shopping center stores were paying 6 figure sums in rent and they didn't seem to be turning over many multiples of what we in our little provincial town were doing. So some stores in prominent locations were run at a loss for promotional reasons.

>>52464114
>But there's a lot of overhead tied up in GW's brick-and-mortar business, at least in North America, so they tend to take a pretty hard line on individual shop performance. If you miss your sales goal for a month, you get a reprimand and they post your job as a vacancy; miss it again and they replace you.

This bullshit was the reason I left, it was tearing the company apart as they were hemorrhaging skilled staff with decades of experience in some cases and replacing them with ex-McDonalds managers (yes really) with no knowledge of the hobby whatsoever. Then they fired all the non management staff en masse in 2 waves, leaving most stores with one inexperienced manager with no hobby knowledge, trained to only -manage- other staff members and not to engage with customers as the soul remaining staffer. All the while they were turning out shit content that was borderline unsellable.

Tom Kirby doesn't get anything -like- the opprobrium he deserves for fucking up GW. The man was a corpulent subhuman moron.

>>52464356
Concur. I still have a copy of Tom Kirby's Little Red Book that I like to bring out when I need to demonstrate what an out-of-touch goon he was.

Presumably, he still is, just no longer calling shots.

>>52448123
What legs are these?

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Anyone know where I can find this style of helmet? Trying to make a GDI themed SM army.

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probably one of my favorite kitbashes I've done.

>>52464393
Retired to the golf course so just stuffing a chair at a couple of meetings a year (in exchange for 10s of thousands of pounds) if he can wedge his carcass into a chair in the first place.

>>52463634
>Bringing up political shit out of nowhere
>To complain about people bringing up political shit out of nowhere
Ah yes truly you have the moral high ground here

>>52464217
>10K per month turnover

What the shit. My store makes 5k euros on average saturday, without big releases or anything. Granted the store is in the middle of a 1M population town but still.

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>>52464393
Care to post a few examples? Never heard of the book.

>>52464416
http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/system-trooper-alternative-heads-p-54.html?zenid=991fdua6uatl55o43tot085b65
There you go boyo.

>>52464513
My town is less than a quarter that size and this is 10 years ago when prices were 30% or more lower. So I think there's the difference right there.

>>52443227
Damn, dawg. Those are nice. Thanks for showing us this.

>>52464555
I'll post some selected excerpts from it later tonight, if this thread is still going. Interest in it has always been fairly cool, so I've never bothered with scans or anything.

>>52464483

Post is about the unarguable retardation of modern /tg/ that -is- a contributing factor to the problem. The statement is correct.

It is also less than 20% of the post, but you still feel the need to focus on that specific bit of it. The statement is factually correct I don't care if it hurts immigrant /pol/'s feewings.

>>52464630
>unarguable
incorrect
>the statement is correct
arguable
Also
>Trumpkins
Don't pretend the post isn't a trollpost meant to be needlessly inflammatory itself.

Basically, it's clear you don't have a problem with out-of-place political bullshit on this board, only when it's not your political bullshit.

Nice trips anon but that's not really the same style.

>>52465169
It was meant primarily to answer the dumb fucking cunt who suggested someone should move house to get a gaming table. Was that you and this is your fucking retarded defense?

I stick entirely to my guns that this forum is increasingly full of pigshit thick cunts (which genuinely wasn't always the case, at least on this board), and I make no apology for correctly pointing the finger at immigrant /pol/ scum who have been deliberately shitting in every board they can. I will keep pointing this out every time I please and wherever I please until /pol/ returns to it's containment board.

I fully expect this will not occur, though as their new Wotsit king loses his lustre they may retreat at least a little. Somebody has to fight back though.

Your screaming about it will have as much effect as my pointing it out. None.

I'll point out further that I've contributed At least a dozen quality content rich posts in this thread alone, while you as the filthy cunt you are have contributed nothing whatsoever. Not least because you're not actually a gamer at all and are only here because you're /pol/'s designated board shitter on duty this hour.

>>52465423
ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>52465423
>I'll point out further that I've contributed At least a dozen quality content rich posts in this thread alone
Not even the fag you're arguing with, but this is an anonymous image board; you're anonymous, you don't get credit for contributing anything. You want recognition, put on a tripcode and we'll shit on you for being a pretentious twat who thinks he deserves recognition.

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Fuck GW's ice skaters is all I have to say