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2015/08/18 16:52:11
Subject: What Do You Listen To When You're Painting?
For your listening pleasure, try DVDs/Blu-Rays of movies or shows you've seen before, this time with the commentary on. Gives you something to listen to without as much visual distraction/temptation.
I lost interest in metal after I turned 18. And yes, I've heard this or that genre of metal, and I'm still not interested in any of them.
I sometimes put on an episode of Star Trek or SeaQuest DSV, or sometimes even MacGyver while I paint. If I just listen to music, I usually search YouTube for some Two Steps From Hell. TSFH is great epic music that seems to go really well with 40k. Heck, a lot of the pictures that go with the tracks feature 40k imagery.
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/7/24, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~16000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Imperial Knights: ~2300 | Leagues of Votann: ~1300 | Tyranids: ~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000 | Kruleboyz: ~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: ~700
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2024: 40 | Total models painted in 2025: 25 | Current main painting project: Tomb Kings
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2016/11/23 10:56:12
Subject: What Do You Listen To When You're Painting?
I'll check them out!
Even though I am in my late 40's I still like the dystopian sounds and rythms found in Dark Industrial Techno/Metal. But not always. Sometimes i throw on cable Sci Fi flicks I havent seen, like last night I finally watched the Mist. What ending... Yikes!
"Exitus Acta Probat"
2016/12/01 06:43:47
Subject: Re:What Do You Listen To When You're Painting?
I like a fair bit of new music, but the stuff I play when I'm painting is all from back when I was a teenager or in my early 20s. It's probably because for me painting, and gaming in general, has a really strong nostalgia component.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2016/12/01 09:29:38
Subject: What Do You Listen To When You're Painting?
I occasionally run good ol' Ludwig van in the CD player while assembling/painting. But only if I'm home by myself, because everybody else in the house complains about the volume. They don't appreciate good music.
My favorite among Beethoven's timeless works
Proud Purveyor Of The Unconventional In 40k
2016/12/02 21:19:03
Subject: Re:What Do You Listen To When You're Painting?
Can be a good thing if she's having dirty times with you ;P. Of course if you can do that, listen to her and paint you'd be one talented individual indeed. I actually remember a clip from an odd dirty movie where they painted with their bodies while doing the deed. It was interesting.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
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