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1) Those back banners on older SM models.

2) Those back banners that were supposed to be on every 2nd edition Snakebite model. (mine were folded and used to weigh the underside slotted bases)

3) waterslide transfers (but you know you can actually get money for some on ebay?)

4) paint

5) primer (somehow even if they paint, that I never get)

Maybe I just know weird people.


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6) advanced painting techniques

The grenades that come with the Tactical Marine kits.

Those little pouches and holsters that come with Tac Marines.

coolyo294 wrote:The grenades that come with the Tactical Marine kits.

lol, yeah, less so for the rare handheld ones though. you should have also included their sheathed knives.

The only reason I never used those belt accessories for my models is because they never fit, or they looked like they were on wrong.

I agree on the various SM belt bitz, they don't fit or they look like gak.

Chaos have some nice user friendly belt bitz however.

I'd like to hope that anyone who uses the deathwatch bits doesn't really have 1/2 the squad members with the same angry head.

This is stretch, i'm out of ideas to list.

The grenades or belt pouches don't look so awful to me. For my money, it's the holstered pistols. There's nowhere you can glue them on that looks good.

Jimsolo wrote:The grenades or belt pouches don't look so awful to me. For my money, it's the holstered pistols. There's nowhere you can glue them on that looks good.

Honestly it was 10 years ago that I had to deal with it, so I don't remember. I can say that no model (that I put together) that I own now has a pistol that isn't built onto a metal body.

Still nothing else to list...

Jimsolo wrote:The grenades or belt pouches don't look so awful to me. For my money, it's the holstered pistols. There's nowhere you can glue them on that looks good.

And they're obviously not bolt pistols... (too small)

erikwfg wrote:3) waterslide transfers (but you know you can actually get money for some on ebay?)
4) paint
5) primer (somehow even if they paint, that I never get)
6) advanced painting techniques
Maybe I just know weird people.

I guess so.

"And they're obviously not bolt pistols... (too small)"

Yeah, there's still some of that going on, not as much as in the past though.

Come to think of it, I had the model for Leman Russ, an actual primarch. He was about the size of a scout, and his chainsword is pathetic as hell. Real men use 6' chainsaws nowadays.

Those spikes that come with every Chaos vehicle that seemed to be designed to break.

I have never used the strange large circular pouch attached to the canteen, I think it just looks weird, I stick to the normal grenades and knives with canteens.

erikwfg wrote: 4) paint

I think most people who stay in the hobby more than a few months paint their models, other than TFGs.

General Seric wrote:I have never used the strange large circular pouch attached to the canteen

It's a spare cylinder (presumably loaded) for the grenade launcher guy.

Scott-S6 wrote:

General Seric wrote:I have never used the strange large circular pouch attached to the canteen

It's a spare cylinder (presumably loaded) for the grenade launcher guy.

Oh, I had thought it was a mess kit or something, thanks for the info.

I used the spare grenade drums on my new heave flamers

Scott-S6 wrote:

General Seric wrote:I have never used the strange large circular pouch attached to the canteen

It's a spare cylinder (presumably loaded) for the grenade launcher guy.

I always thought it was a mess kit...

+1 for water-slide transfers... What a pain in the arse to apply to a model in anyway that looked good.

The little grenades and spare ammo clips for Eldar Guardians.

Eldar Guardians have no options for taking grenades, why these bits are included, I do not know. They are a pain to attach and look good too.

I see we can also add in things that can't be used. Like why do devastator marines come with a servo skull?

winnertakesall wrote:Those spikes that come with every Chaos vehicle that seemed to be designed to break.

Oh yes, I do not look forward to my Chaos IG tanks at all. You know it's bad when no matter what you have for transport options, they still can break.

General Seric wrote:I think most people who stay in the hobby more than a few months paint their models, other than TFGs.

That's not really fair, because I don't want to be a Temple Flameguard. In the beginning I cared more about collecting than painting, plus any paintjobs I did were guaranteed to get ruined from slowed cats (seriously, not worth explaining), or TFG's who only played using my models. Even having all armies (but Tau) I only had less than 10% painted.

Now I have much less armies, and nothing else to do. If I could afford paints I'd be doing that, but this house was built in the age of dinosaurs so there is no room with light. I'm not doing it outside, I'd somehow get shot. Plus i'm lucky if I get to wake up before the sun starts going down. So I don't really have a choice, even when I want to.

Psienesis wrote:+1 for water-slide transfers... What a pain in the arse to apply to a model in anyway that looked good.

I think it's an acquired skill, like working with Zap-a-Gap. I never really used them anyways, too annoying, too easy to get scratched off, and they have this circle of glare to them. I prefer painting details on anyways, I used to be good enough to do so.

Shadowseer_Kim wrote:The little grenades and spare ammo clips for Eldar Guardians.

Eldar Guardians have no options for taking grenades, why these bits are included, I do not know. They are a pain to attach and look good too.

Most of my guardians were 2nd edition, but still I don't remember anything except for scopes (yay, a scope for something that can only shoot 12"). Unless those things I thought were ammo are grenades... Don't matter much to me, I didn't even use the spines that go on their backs.

Orks........nuff said!

The scopes on Ork sprues. I mean, seriously?

Water slide transfers. Prisoners should be forced to try to make them come out good as torture.

I always put the Ork aiming devices onto the cc weapons. ALways figured the Orks would be more concerened with putting the pointy end into the fleshy part over being to shoot anything.

Rippers,Grots,Scouts,Scarabs,Tau Drones,and IG snipers lol

Anvildude wrote:The scopes on Ork sprues. I mean, seriously?

I've found them realy usefull for two reasons.

1) Building komandos from a pack of Boyz with burner heads. Scopes make them look more sneeky. I see them as having seen snipers and thinking they look dead killy, even if thay have never used them.

2) Putting them on silly weppons, like sluggers, for the extra killyness thay must bring. Somehow. This is orks we are talking about. If thay think something is extra killly then it is.

Its the little round gun sights I don't understand. Thay stand no chance of staying on.

Some of the random chains and spikes in the chaos terminator lord kit. Unless you want him to look like a rhino (which actually looks cool) then I can't find a use for them.

Paul wrote:

Anvildude wrote:The scopes on Ork sprues. I mean, seriously?

I've found them realy usefull for two reasons.

1) Building komandos from a pack of Boyz with burner heads. Scopes make them look more sneeky. I see them as having seen snipers and thinking they look dead killy, even if thay have never used them.

2) Putting them on silly weppons, like sluggers, for the extra killyness thay must bring. Somehow. This is orks we are talking about. If thay think something is extra killly then it is.

Its the little round gun sights I don't understand. Thay stand no chance of staying on.

For humor alone I have put them on Burnas for Orks.

I have to second the additional SM bits along w/ transfers. Seriously, they all just suck. As it was in a different thread, riders... On almost any vehicle. (Dark Eldar Raiders for example.) I personally hate models that pop out of the tank hatch, such as the Tau w/ the binoculars. They just make the model as a they fail to make the whole thing look proportionate. And one you don't see any longer? The paper sticker banners for the models in the past. (2nd edition era?)

-J.

Anvildude wrote:The scopes on Ork sprues. I mean, seriously?

I can see orks putting scopes on their weapons because the shoota looks coola with extra bitz on it...not that they would use it or anything, but it looks cool!

Skriker