I know this is unrelated to this video but is there a place were we could submit our own painting terrain picture for yall at play on ?

Your ability to stay positive and only sound mildly annoyed yet mostly happy during this build is astonishing. GW/Forge World should be ashamed of still selling this piece of shit model at this price. Part of me is wondering whether still thinking it's fun to build this abomination is the 40k version of Stockholm syndrome? ;) Anyway best of luck with the build.

Thanks. Nearing the finish line! By the way I’m loving your diorama.

Imagine being able to pay a team to do your hobby for you 😏

@@funoff3207 jealousy is such a pretty thing ;)

@@funoff3207 Not for, *With*. We also call that "Having Friends".

@@PlayOnTabletop hi nick

@@Stevie-J a really excellent high-quality opera cake

2 months of work should be around 6k-8k € in working hours alone excluding any tools, parts or consumables. That beeing said I feel like if it takes two months to build then there is something very very wrong with the model in the first place. It shouldn't be this bad.

@@MrSinfold a cake where a show girl pops out with Danny Devito in a tux reading a thank you card for keeping GW's lights on for a solid month.

@@Metalbirne and now they try to give them away as prize lol. Dunno who would even want it, cheaper and faster to buy a 3d printer get a 3d cad masterclass, design and print it yourself.

Assembly is part of the charm

I want pics of that Nautilus!!!!

these sound magnificent is there any way to see these?

Dude I wanna see them.

Sounds like daddy-o is living the retirement that I have planned!

Definitely more of a point defense looking turret

Yeah honestly if I order something from them, I'm writing replacement requests for any sufficiently warped or misaligned parts.

Absolutely mad that they wouldn't be good enough to do some QC on parts for a customer that's spending £1,100 with them.

@@asaffin1 Tbf, they WILL replace them all. You just have to wait for those bits to be shipped etc - and living outside the UK, that takes the cake I imagine for just turrets and the odd large-ish piece

@@JBS482 Yeah, that's true. I suppose though if it's between spending two months wrestling parts, or two months waiting for shipments and working on other models in the mean time, I'd probably pick the latter.

@@JBS482 These large kits used to come with a disclaimer saying they wouldn't accept returns or send replacement parts. Has that changed?

He's gonna have way too much fun and it will be glorious

@@SarajevoKyoto watching him have so much fun with the Rvarna back in season two is half of why I decided to play 40K in the first place; it will indeed be glorious

@@colinchristiansen6000 Back when I joined 40k, it was a toss-up between T'au and Salamanders as my first army. Nick helped nudge me towards T'au, he's just so much fun to watch and his enthusiasm and love for the faction is infectious.

@@SarajevoKyoto T'au or Salamanders, eh? You are a person of taste!

@@avozsaj Thanks! With my current schedule I don't have much time to hobby, but I'm closing in on 2k points of T'au and then I may start on Salamanders

I was cringing every time he said it. LOL DEEE CAALS... DEEE CAAALLLSSS... Not Deck ELs.

That's how we say it in Western Canada haha!

It must be a Canadian thing... Every one I've ever heard say Deckle is either Canadian or lived there for too long... Soory not soory aboot it.

Same. I had a moment of, "da fuck did just say?" 😆

Dekil

Thanks! It’s been fun!

Im no paint expert but I think self etching is more for metal since it has acid and zinc in it and I'm not sure if acid would do anything to resin. Most automotive primers with solvents should help, worst case 2k urethane primer should do the trick.

@@thomasbrandon8029 you'd be right there. I suppose I "am" a paint expert as I work for a paint manufacturer and retailer. There are specific adhesion primers you can use by brush or aerosol, but you can't beat 2pack epoxies for adhesion really. Although smallest tin we do is 4 litres of that ...

@@Stevie-J resin has a 'release agent' all over it so that it will come out of the mold. They don't clean it off for you unfortunately. Don't know why, would be nice for the customer. Not many products we accept bought 'dirty'.

I say he helped build it, he's in charge of test flights ✈️💥

But the thing is, he'd let them do it

@@jamesbrooksby3789 surely he can’t be that “no wait”.

Jajajajaja

@@jamesbrooksby3789 They rolled a '6'....KABOOOM

You thinking about rumbling with Nick? Ohhh, boy, that'd be a game I'd LOVE to see! You BETTER be bringing some big, BIG guns if you're up against the Manta.. and a LOT of bodies.

@@DJROCKSTAZ i bring justice and terror. That is all i need...Hehe

I've thought about getting a tigershark recently. Would you say it's worth it despite the poor build quality? Or should I just skip it?

@@MrBochunks it took a couple of weekends just to get it to assembled. a large amount of scrubbing, cutting, sanding, soaking in hot water to straighten and finally a large amount of milliput. Looks good now.

Welcome to the hobby and community!

It's just the older casting methods and likely the molds they're using are slowly degrading. They can't just afford to make dozens of each part to make sure a "good one" comes out, because FW (if this is still true) makes all the casts in house, and the people who pour the resin are paid a pretty penny because they are REALLY good at their job. If FW was to re-make the casts, I'm sure they would come out faaaar better, and match up more closely to modern resin kits that (honestly) sometimes fit better than the modern plastic kits. That being said, I quit Warhammer and sold my army because of all the BS GW has been doing lately so I don't know why I'm defending them. o/

@@daringdarius5686 It's 20 years old. They should've updated and retooled the mould to make it easier to put together. Also there is a thing called a 3D Printer, that can do really high detailed resin printing, which would eliminate the need for sprews and the occurrence of mould lines, etc.

@@daringdarius5686 yeah i get that but they should really update lol. I still play 2019 kill team myself but sold my GW minis and either printed my own or bought them from etsy.

@@McCool117 I was just giving an explanation for the reasons/causes of why this particular 20 year old kit may not be up to our current standards. :) I do agree with what you've said, but I could apply that same logic to roughly 100-200 kits that are 15+ years old that haven't held up to the test of time that GW and FW need to both get to work on. I'm sure they have their reasons for not updating the moulds and plastic kits (probably because they'd be stuck in an infinite loop, but even this could be explained away with hiring new staff to fill up a department that specializes in doing just this, which should be easily paid for by their massive gains over the past 3 years) but I do agree especially on a kit that costs over $1,000 and is as beloved as this one, that they should update and re-tool how they created this every 10 or so years (even if it wouldn't be "cost efficient" because these are the models that people absolutely drool over, and mega nerds get excited and into the hobby for). Also, as for 3D printing, yes, I am aware of what it can do. I would like to add that detailed resin printing large parts (which would be necessary, if not vital) to print something like this properly comes with many challenges, including the fact that most (I will say 90%+) of resin's used for resin 3D printing have to be made a certain way, so as to be able to be UV sensitive, and not a complete pain in the ass to print with (high failure rates and high potential to damage to printer). Even the most durable resins I have seen are weaker than PLA which is achieved by FDM printers, but while FDM printing is far more durable, they aren't as detailed. It's crucial to have a durable resin be used for these projects, as your Tau manta wing falls 6 inches, at a slightly orthodox angle and bam! wing can easily be cracked in half! This type of rough handling will easily occur during shipping and handling and while that can be dealt with, if the customer drops his wing slightly, or you go to a tournament and during movement it tips and cracks, that's a HUGE mood dampener. FW Resin, as much as I hate it, is dense and durable if nothing else. I have seen parts whose cross section is maybe 1 cm^2, attached to the entire model of a leviathan, fall from 4 feet height, land in a precarious angle, and receive no more than a scratch. Now I can't promise that for everyone, I'm sure I got lucky, but the fact of the matter is I've handled many resin prints and they are notorious for cracked and breaking. Again, there are ways to improve 3D resin for durability, such as mixing resins to add more flexibility, but the end result is that it is always vulnerable and weak by comparison to FW resin. Source: Some casual 3D printing hobbyist going on to his 10th year of hobbying. Side note: 3D Printing is one of the biggest reasons/motivations for me quitting Warhammer. I printed 3 Warhound for $70 on my Ender 3. 1 Warhound from FW costs $700+ USD prior to tax, so, yea. If I was to go back and slice all the parts to resin print on my smaller Mars 2 Pro, or borrow my friends Mars 3, I'm sure I could get it to work, but honestly, the Filament ones don't look *too* bad, and a single Warhound printed using resin would likely cost around $70-80. I'd rather use that resin to print an army of smaller guys, and leave big bulky pieces and terrain to my FDM printer :)

@@PossQueen I'm still selling the remainder of my armies, but I kept my Death Korps of Krieg (those bastards cleaved them to pieces in the Compendium ;-; ) I also print a majority of models now, and have been enjoying it far more! I don't have a massive budget, but over Christmas I took advantage of some great deals and bought a few kg of PLA and 4 liters of Resin which came out to the sum total of 1.2 Executioners. I haven't purchased many models from etsy, because in general if I want a model, I either want it immediately and can usually find a similar model (or exact model) immediately and I set it to print, or I don't want it immediately but I do want it eventually, and I can't find it (like a Robotech Model), so I order it and wait and am pleasantly surprised a month or so later when I forgot I ordered it, and it comes in! :)

I agree, if GW make a simple investment in 3D printers and finecasts, they would probably have more customers. Even that instruction booklet gave me scary vibes that they had a "Third Party" make the model which would explain why there are so many issues with forgeworld models. 🤣

Usually if a resin kit has this many issues you can complain to FW and they send you another for free. The high prices of FW models pretty much account for the likelihood some will do this.

That’s fun!

Thank you! Hoping to get this thing finished soon!

Ohhh, you naive fool... if there's one thing Nick loves more than explosions, it's splitting fire! He's gonna do that any chance he gets!