You shouldn't sell your community to these companies. No posts about dubious companies that clearly want to destroy the market and do not respect copyrights
@@JR-uu1xl I am not sure if it is the same now, but last century some of the "Knock Offs" were made by the same companies contracted to make the authentic stuff, they would just change the label/print to the knockoff label and do another run. So if you get lucky you might be getting the same item as the brand item without the brand name markup.
Temu and Wish exist to force small businesses to close. Temu might have higher quality (usually) than Wish, but they lose money on every sale because the goal isn't to make a profit, it's to ensure that people buy from Temu instead of from smaller or local businesses. It's the same thing that Amazon did but with more 'questionably ethical' labour.
With regard to the airbrush, I have one almost exactly the same and, while they'll never work as well as a good quality brush, you can drastically improve these cheap brushes with a couple of simple steps. First, replace the cheap, nasty, rubber O rings with decent nitrile rubber ones and, most importantly, polish the needle with some very fine (at least 1000 grit) wet/dry sandpaper. A lot of the issues with these brushes is simply down to lack of finishing at the factory to save production costs, so a little work will greatly improve these, although there's no substitute for a good quality brush like a Harder & Steenbeck, Iwata or similar, but they're OK to get you started for a fraction of the cost. I still use my cheapo brush, but now I generally use it just for primers or varnishes on larger items.
Just a comment on that, Iwata didn't suit me much although I knew it was quality.. But by god, Harder & Steenbeck is really working out for me. I really love it.
Yeah, I've never seen one of their video before and pretty much lost any confidence in them the moment they labeled the airbrush a 10/10 scam. For one, it's what, $20? Did it work? Looks like it did to me. I understand english may not be their first language and maybe thats the issue but who knows? I'd think labeling something like an airbrush a 100% scam would at least mean it doesn't work at all. Nope, works fine. And in case my first point was missed, you get what you pay for. A scam is when someone is promoting things that aren't true for usually for some kind of profit. And in that regard, NOTHING was a scam. I'm assuming you can actually see pics of these things on the site, mainly because it's 2023 and if you ordering shit sight unseen nowadays and feel "scammed" you're a moron. The rest of the vid is them just trashing things and giving a random star count, like they're shopping at the five star warhammer painting outlet. I'm trying to watch a few more vids before passing judgement, but not exactly off to a great start. (btw thanks for random tips, just starting painting myself and really hoping it becomes a hardcore hobby for me)
For fine grit or any sanding with wet sand paper, specially when working with metals, i would highly suggest using little tab of oil like wd-40 on the paper before you start. Oil wet sanding will give finer result and allows to use paper far longer before it gums up and usually little more oil will get it going again. I have small peaces of paper that has been served for several projects due this. While i would not go to sand wood and most plastics with the same paper afterwards, if you work with metal its god sent how long you can use same peace. You can also use double sided carpet tape to glue the paper into peace of plastic or wood put the needle or what ever round object protected by tape into cordless drill and if centered in chuck properly hold the wood/sand paper with front fingers and hold it against the metal with thumb while sliding it along the part and up and down the paper for even finish. Finally use polishing compound and rags to smooth and clean everything. Just my two cents on fixing things like that in cheap tools. Also as side note, you can make your own "drill bit" from straight piano wire peace, just diamond file sharp end and the flatten two sides. It needs to be removed often the remove chips but beats buying micro drillbit set when piano wires come in 0.05mm increments. Piano restorer/builder/tuners propabably have loads of them around to get the material for free or really cheap. Also can be used to make custom springs.
People can't handle that they're spending ridiculous amounts of money due to the brand label, compared to what they're actually worth. Saw the same thing with their 'lego', all these lego-focused TH-cam accounts trying to demean the products because instead of costing $500+ they cost under $100 for the exact same quality and size. And the cope for 'stealing from the artists' is bullshit because I doubt the artists are collecting revenue of every 'genuine' sold kit. People are also surprised that something worth 80% less than something else is of lesser-quality (in regards to airbrushes and etc) well who woulda thought... Temu is ruining small businesses yes, but people don't wanna spend 100+% increase on something made in a factory down from the Temu one.
I highly doubt that Tarrasque was printed with the permission of Lord of the Print, the creator of the model. Probably can't do much though considering Temu is a Chinese company, and we all know what they think of copyright.
And as a D&D player i can say that if i order a Tarrasque and it came in that size i'd feel realy scammed, you shouldn't be able to carry one in a single hand
Regarding the temu Tarrasque, they're not scamming you (other than down scaling the size), but they probably don't have the license to sell from LOTP, which is included in one of their Patreon tiers. I think it's like 60$ a month.
Yeah if you think the cost is just about 1-2$ worth of resin, you have never printed at any kind of scale. There is an expected lifetime of the very expensive curing screens, the consumed electricity, IPA, Nitrile gloves, FEP replacement screens, time spent overseeing, removing and sanding supports and then quality control. It's the same as saying "driving a car is cheap because a liter of gasoline only costs x amount". It ignores like 50 other associated costs and maintenance.@@lordkubikum
@@ThewickedVik As an old man can one of you young punks tell me when schools started teaching people to put the $ after the number instead of in front of it? I mean I was taught in school to write $20, or if taking about cents 50c. Oh, and get off my lawn you darn whippersnappers!
Sculpting Set was for Ceramic based clay where you'd need a sponge sometimes. Guaranteed that exact sculpting set is for sale on some knock off pottery place too. Edit: Also light boxes are meant to blow out the backdrop. The photos you took light the models nice but the back drop is this drab grey. with your method you'd need a second light to illuminate the backdrop. If you want to amp up the light box results tone the light down a bit and use some white paper or a reflector and bounce some light back on the mini to get more detail into the shadows. You guys should work with a photographer or something and do a little mini lighting tutorial!
@@Ultr4l0f Eh, I've been a pro photog as well. Still like lightboxes. Not with a white background though, because it will indeed blow out everything. A box with a black background, reflective surfaces on the sides and especially the front work fine. :)
@@Ultr4l0f Not sure if he was or not, but there are lots of types of professional photographer. You wouldn't necessarily want a wedding photographer doing product photography or a graduation photographer shooting a wedding. I shot jewelry for years, a light box was a must. Using a single light source is rarely good though. If he had combined the light box with it's light on, the desk lamp, and a grey or white background sheet out of the kit it likely would have beaten both the pictures he showed. That definitely isn't the light box I'd pick if I were buying one though.
Those clippers are made of chinesium alloy. I got the same ones from ebay and one of the tines flew off at speed and stuck into a wooden table leg across the room, like a ninja star.
That is the tiniest tarrasque I have ever seen. Fun story about that design, though! I ordered the same LotP tarrasque off of Etsy, and the model looks great, but even at a larger size it was still smaller than I needed to really make my players afraid. So it sat in my pile of shame for a while until I brought it to a local convention to paint for their at-con mini painting contest. That tarrasque then became my first (and so far only) contest win.
I can see an adventure Arc where the players rescue a Baby Tarrasque and let it go live its best Tarrasque life somewhere. Then years later tales start to get back to them of a creature that is destroying villages and towns in a land they visited when they set off on their adventuring life
The starter hobby tool set is actually available on Amazon. When I started in the hobby last year I actually got that one in a pinch when I realized I only had a set of clippers. Honestly not a bad value I don't think I paid as much as you guys did either
That design of sprue clipper is actually not supposed to be aligned. There is nothing stopping the cutting action until the two blades hit so it's designed not to meet sharp edge to sharp edge. So it cuts easy, but not clean on larger objects. Old school plastic modellers will be familiar with this kind of tool. God Hand and the like made it obsolete. I still use my 30 year old Testors nipper with this design, though.
The foam cutter is honestly safer than some I've seen. There's really not much to them. A source of voltage passed through some resistance wire (nichrome wire, usually). The resistance wire has a resistance given in ohms per metre, you measure out how long you want it to be, calculate how many ohms that is, and then calculate your voltage such that you're in the 20-30 watt range. No need to be precise. Worst case scenario, you'll never get the nichrome wire hot enough to burn the MDF (maybe singe it lightly, but not start a fire). You're more likely to just burn out the wire, and that'll go like a lightbulb filament. It won't catch fire. I used to work in an electronics store, and people would come to me asking for the stuff they need to build a hand-held foam cutter using nichrome wire, and a lithium ion battery AS THE HANDLE. I told them "sure, I can sell you everything you need to blow your fingers off when the battery catches fire".
How places like Temu work is it isn't always you getting scammed. Rather they work with factories to overcharge companies making their product so if say your order 8000 units they'll charge you for 10,000 then ship you the 8000 and re sell the other 2 thousand.
Hey Squidmar, generally love your videos but just wanted to make sure you're aware... Temu and it's parent company are under ongoing investigation for installation of spyware on users devices, extraction of personal data to then take repeated charges from bank accounts, and use of slave labour. While the concept of these style of videos is fun, I'd take some time to make sure 1) your data and devices are safe and 2) do a little reading on the charges for sites like temu, wish, shien etc. and consider if you're comfortable giving them any attention, positive or negative, in future vids
If it's undergoing investigation, and not actually fined, I'd say it's fair game. Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz. Nowadays anything from China is considered "suspicious" due to the new cold war going on. Not saying it's not true, maybe they really are bad, but until it's proven I wouldn't think too hard on it.
I have bought several loads of those "3/10 scam" trees. They're not really 'warhammer' trees... but the price makes them a good bulk buy to multibase for 15mm gaming.
yep Temu and Wish and just in general site are terrible whit correcting listing. like they list a tree as fit for warhammer 40K because the person putting them up (the whole website system) can´t scale, so we see stuff like this tree works perfect in warhammer 64:1 scale exept the tree was actually for 100:1 scale it can be used in 64:1 but then it becomes a bush.
Buying an inexpensive product, getting the product and realizing it was cheap for a reason isn’t a scam. You bought low cost stuff and found it to be low quality. Definitely not a scam
truly no better way to avoid finishing my university finals than by watching y'all...another great vid by what feels like 2 old friends to me at this point! :)
That ball end tool that came with the sculpting tools looks like a cake fondant tool. I bought some ages ago and use them in plumbing lol. I use it to make rounded seams when working with silicone or other caulking type materials.
That last one is pretty dope. I have some experience with jank machines that are a fire hazard. And I have a simple solution: just put a ceramic tile underneath whatever jank machine you have. I had a few left over from when our bathroom flooded and we had to change all the tiles. Luckily, the ones I have are quite thick and relatively large, still, I can easily place them either on the floor or on the table or even stack them together if it's a larger jank machine. Most people have some trash like this lying around their storage. I had a few sticky situations and they held up great. I'll check that little machine out.
I still think a cheap airbrush like this one is an awesome tool. I started with a 250€ pack for an Harder& Steenbeck Evolution + compressor. I had no experience at all, clogged pretty often because I didn't know sh*t about airbrush. Despite thorough research, it doesn't make up for experience. Spent 40 minutes cleaning because it was so expensive... Didn't reuse since I bought a cheap Chinese airbrush that I clean in 10 minutes without being worried. I'd use my Evolution again now that I'm more experienced, but I've found that for zenithal highlights and painting terrain, it does the job 10/10... PS : I have some of these bamboos, I think they're awesome. In fact bamboos are pretty original and it's great for a jungle !
The Grass and Flower spots are actually very nice to use on a 40K Gamingboard. I used them already from Temu. But I still have a bad feeling about not going to a local store and instead ordering with Temu. But, here in Germany those grass and flower spots are ridiculously expensive in store so I had no real choice.
I bought a pack of cheapo brushes off Temu awhile ago. Didn’t expect much out of them but I was really pleasantly surprised. Held their shape, shed no hairs, felt good in the hand. They were some weird hair or artificial stuff, icr, but the belly held paint to a ridiculous amount and released it in a very controlled manner. They’re a pleasure to use. I’m no expert painter, but they perform admirably when compared to some of my more expensive ones. It may be that they match my skill level, idk if thats actually a thing?
if your starting don't buy expensive paint brush just buy cheap one that passes the minimum (pro painter have a high ceiling but as a starter that ceiling is nothing you will need to think about in a long time as you will probably first ruin the paintbrush long before and your skill level will be irrelevant).
Honestly, I once bought a really cheap synthetic set from Amazon that was ~6 brushes for 7£ and one of them turned out to be better than my Citadel Layer brush whilst the rest were trash, and the brushes were definitely not that high quality, so maybe you just get good luck for brushes sometimes?
It'd be cool if you guys did a local game / hobby store run and base your purchases off of employee suggestions or something. It would be nice to get some hobby/art store representation in your videos.
There is one thing with Temu though - it's REALLY easy to get a refund if stuff isn't up to the quality you want! If you make a ticket for an item which isn't good it's literally just a few clicks and a picture - and you get an instant refund.
Oh dang that's actually the same airbrush I've got XD As someone who doesn't do a lot of airbrushing and who's only owned one, personally found it basically alright! Had to take it apart a couple times to clean it and yes it's a bit finicky but works well enough! (didn't get it from Temu though so mine might be different internally, IDK)
Yeah, I used the same one for a while. It's great if you only planning using it a little bit or to see if airbrushing is right for you. I still use it periodically.
I got that tool box you bought a few years ago. The clippers on mine aren't bent like that but it's all the same stuff. Really nice toolkit for just starting out. It won't survive beating it all to hell but it's all of what you need.
Almost the same thing as trying to find good stuff on Amazon nowadays. Just FILLED to the brim with scams. And the search is so terrible now, even the sorting is just broken. It's easier to find stuff on eBay.
"Hot wire cutter is expensive" .. A resistance wire is like 3 bucks, a few pieces of jank that can be turned into a bow-like configuration are free, and you probably already have some sort of dead appliance that you can extract the wire and wall plug from.. Although if you're doing this, I would personally recommend extra layers of insulating tape around every no-touchey zone on the thing, and a button that you have to hold to keep it running.. When you're cutting and see occasional sparks jumping around near your hand, it doesn't inspire confidence...
thank you for this, i've been skeptical of the 3d printed minis but have them sitting in a cart. I also like how the natural hair brushes keep changing which animal they're made from every few months.
Problem with almost all Temu models is, they’re stolen .STLs. They don’t pay for resale fees because they are…well, scammers. Sure, the print quality might be good, but they’re still very amoral
Fucking thank you. The amount of warhammer TH-camrs collaborating, endorsing or promoting Temu / Shein in any capacity is fucking disgusting, and abetting a literal genocide.
@@slowescomb4558 You don't think other big-name brands are not doing the same thing? 90% of modeling equipment comes from the exact same factories just with a different label on it lmao. The rest is locally made to the country with a 500% production to price increase lmao
Pretty sure I bought that same hobby tools kit off Amazon years ago for my kid. That foam sander nail file thingie is great for polishing out rough spots on clear plastic models.
7:20, Those airbrushes have been around for a long time. I purchased like 4 of them about 15 years ago. They are great, never had trouble with any of them.
I got that starter set, I got it for about $18CAD. I still use the knife, you can easily change the blade for a better quality one but it holds up decently well. Ive upgraded the clippers but they worked great as long as you were making super precise cuts. The thing I like the most though was the filer, it does a really good job IMO, but it doesn't last a long time, if I could buy that separately that would be great, I haven't found one that's the same.
These are some of my favorite videos y'all have done. They're silly and lighthearted, but also satisfy my inner demon who wants to buy from these scam websites lol
2:10- Those are nice! That set kinda looks like the one I got….. if it comes in a black fabric-ish case that you roll up to put away then it might be the same one!?! But I was curious if any of you guys ever heard of “diamond files”? And yes, they are designed and made to file diamonds into shape!!!
That airbrush also sells at Biltema for about 300 kr... Have had two... one broke after about three weeks and the second was pretty much dead on arrival. But i bought them to get the base basics down so i expected them to break.
I got that tool set from Amazon a few years back and I have been very happy with it. I am not an enthusiast or anything but for the price it was worth it. The knife is meh, the blades are junk, but the rest is pretty good. I really like the tweezers and all mine were aligned ok.
DSPIAE products are awesome. They have a mini-rotory drill, an aluminum brush w/ replaceable tips, and the SHARPEST side cutters I have ever used. If you get these, it won't be a scam.
That's a Baby Tarrasque, unless it's intended for Epic scale Warhammer. Are those Heroquest Miniatures old school ones, from the recent Kickstarter rerelease, or 3d printed ones? Or can you just buy them now?
I've ordered from Temu for rocks and other basing material so i don't really care whether it looks good or not, durability doesn't matter too much and quality is ok for what you get.
funnily enough i bought those exact brushes a few weeks ago and I've just painted be'lakor with them. i actually love them, and they work really well for me
1:48- So I think it’s kinda funny how many different channels (including this one) talks about how “the name brand dry brushes are so expensive just for 1, but you can get a makeup brush that does the same thing (usually) in a pack of 3 to 5 and it’s still less money than that 1 dry brush”!?! But I never hear anyone talking about all the other things you could use as a alternative to the more expensive versions?!? Kinda like the “snippers” (I think that’s what you called them lol)! And those are also in the makeup aisle!!! And they are pretty good! Obviously, just like all the other ones, if you are constantly cutting the thickest part of the sprues or anything thicker and/or stronger than they won’t last long! But some of them get so thin that you could actually cut the connector at the bottom of a Space Marines backpack/jet pack that’s right in the middle of those thrusters/vents….. whatever they are lol And you can do a perfect cut!!! It even shocked me how good they were for $5!!!
See the tiny plant stocks I was like "eh, miniature scale flowers, makes sense you wouldn't get any detail-" but if you look at the video the damn things are disintegrating in their hands. Right out the bag. *11/10* Scam right there!
we actually asked lord of the print, they said there's no way for them to control if they've got the license from them. And even if its a scam its not worth chasing down the people selling prints.
Those cheap airbrushes can be improved quite a bit if you use some really fine abrasive paper to polish the needle, the cheap ones are usually really rough to the point you can feel the difference with your fingers.
The hotwire thing is perfectly safe, there's not enough voltage in those batteries to even give you a zap let alone start a fire. I've bought a bunch of stuff from Temu (not just hobby related) and while there is still some amount of crap, the overall quality is _much_ higher than Wish.
That airbrush looks like the one I got in a kit with my compressor but packaged differently. Might just been one that fell off of the quality control line, but tbf you probably still got over charged. Look up FENGDA-130. Been using it for a few years, works 'good enough' but because of how the cup connects to the airbrush, paint always traps in the cup and you don't get to use up all the paint you put in
I'm honestly not really sure why all the hate for the hot wire cutter. I got one of these for my infrequent foam usage and love it. The hot wire doesn't get nearly hot enough to ignite MDF and MDF is non conductive. There are so few parts on here I can't imagine how it could possible start a fire with 4 measly batteries.
7:08 I think thats the same airbrush that comes with the airbrush kit that Harbor Frieght sells (my first/current airbrush) I really only use it for my inital basecoat for my space mariens or zenathol highlights for my dnd and other stuff that I just use slapchop with. It gets the job done even if its temperamental at best
Those trees you guys got would make a good piece for a Gundam Diorama, since the kits are much larger than a Warhammer mini. But even then, you'd need a bit of work to make them look good and the scale would still be a bit off I think.
That airbrush is eerily similar to the Panzag airbrush, just without the hard case. Same pipette, wrench and style of airbrush, even the ablong hole. I use it as a trash airbrush for more rough paint types like enamels, grimes and such. But yeah pretty sure that's the same as the cheap Panzag airbrush but not 100% sure.
It's identical to mine (Fengda FE-130) except mine didn't have a quick connector. It's probably one of those situations where a manufacturer makes them for a bunch of companies and just changes the labels
@@SilverLeaf91 sounds about right, it's identical to mine as well, except that all parts are the same color on mine. I do have the quick connector though. Same blue foam protection and everything.
Im not sure you know what scam means... You got what was on the picture and for the price u paid... Thats not a scam, thats just high expectations for no reason. If they sent you a rock or a low quality product for HIGH price than it's a scam...but that did not happen. I bought a few items from them and got what I expected for the price... Low quality but sufficient for use so exactly what I wanted :D
I have a light box and i frequently use it and the results are awesome....BUT.....i modefyed it ;-) just like you sayed in the video, the light only comes from the top anf you also whant light from the front, so i added a 3rd strip of led lights to the buttom front and et voilat you have a perfect photo booth :)
i was waiting for more figs in the video, the brushes etc doesn't feel like a scam especially made for warhammer, they are just bad articles. The video itself feels like a scam
I have a similar foam cutter. It's not big, but, it does work and is great for cutting bricks. I rewired mine using an old mouse cord so it has usb power instead of batteries.
I have a similar hot wire foam cutter, wired it to a USB plug so it can run on batteries or wall plug. For the $12 I paid it is well worth it and good if you are not sure if you are going to use a cutter enough to warrant spending more cash
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You shouldn't sell your community to these companies. No posts about dubious companies that clearly want to destroy the market and do not respect copyrights
@@JR-uu1xl I am not sure if it is the same now, but last century some of the "Knock Offs" were made by the same companies contracted to make the authentic stuff, they would just change the label/print to the knockoff label and do another run. So if you get lucky you might be getting the same item as the brand item without the brand name markup.
Bro literally everything is sold out! I mean, good for you guys, but I need that ork hoodie. Any ideas on when it will be restocked?
@@remkometkrullen yes it's up today:)
The real scam were the friends we made along the way. And temu being basically spyware.
That wasn't a smoke effect showing off the items it was actually the foam cutter on fire in the background.
I'm pretty sure Temu only exists to harvest and sell personal information. Their money certainly isn't coming from their products.
Iv heard the same
The products are dirt cheap because they use Uyghur Muslim slave labour.
And what's gonna happen when someone buys that personal information?
Temu and Wish exist to force small businesses to close. Temu might have higher quality (usually) than Wish, but they lose money on every sale because the goal isn't to make a profit, it's to ensure that people buy from Temu instead of from smaller or local businesses. It's the same thing that Amazon did but with more 'questionably ethical' labour.
Yes, Temu and TikTok should just be banned.
With regard to the airbrush, I have one almost exactly the same and, while they'll never work as well as a good quality brush, you can drastically improve these cheap brushes with a couple of simple steps. First, replace the cheap, nasty, rubber O rings with decent nitrile rubber ones and, most importantly, polish the needle with some very fine (at least 1000 grit) wet/dry sandpaper. A lot of the issues with these brushes is simply down to lack of finishing at the factory to save production costs, so a little work will greatly improve these, although there's no substitute for a good quality brush like a Harder & Steenbeck, Iwata or similar, but they're OK to get you started for a fraction of the cost.
I still use my cheapo brush, but now I generally use it just for primers or varnishes on larger items.
Thanks
Thanks, I got an "Avanti" kit at harbor freight whose brush kit looks identical to this one
Just a comment on that, Iwata didn't suit me much although I knew it was quality.. But by god, Harder & Steenbeck is really working out for me. I really love it.
Yeah, I've never seen one of their video before and pretty much lost any confidence in them the moment they labeled the airbrush a 10/10 scam. For one, it's what, $20? Did it work? Looks like it did to me. I understand english may not be their first language and maybe thats the issue but who knows? I'd think labeling something like an airbrush a 100% scam would at least mean it doesn't work at all. Nope, works fine. And in case my first point was missed, you get what you pay for.
A scam is when someone is promoting things that aren't true for usually for some kind of profit. And in that regard, NOTHING was a scam. I'm assuming you can actually see pics of these things on the site, mainly because it's 2023 and if you ordering shit sight unseen nowadays and feel "scammed" you're a moron. The rest of the vid is them just trashing things and giving a random star count, like they're shopping at the five star warhammer painting outlet. I'm trying to watch a few more vids before passing judgement, but not exactly off to a great start.
(btw thanks for random tips, just starting painting myself and really hoping it becomes a hardcore hobby for me)
For fine grit or any sanding with wet sand paper, specially when working with metals, i would highly suggest using little tab of oil like wd-40 on the paper before you start. Oil wet sanding will give finer result and allows to use paper far longer before it gums up and usually little more oil will get it going again. I have small peaces of paper that has been served for several projects due this. While i would not go to sand wood and most plastics with the same paper afterwards, if you work with metal its god sent how long you can use same peace. You can also use double sided carpet tape to glue the paper into peace of plastic or wood put the needle or what ever round object protected by tape into cordless drill and if centered in chuck properly hold the wood/sand paper with front fingers and hold it against the metal with thumb while sliding it along the part and up and down the paper for even finish. Finally use polishing compound and rags to smooth and clean everything.
Just my two cents on fixing things like that in cheap tools. Also as side note, you can make your own "drill bit" from straight piano wire peace, just diamond file sharp end and the flatten two sides. It needs to be removed often the remove chips but beats buying micro drillbit set when piano wires come in 0.05mm increments. Piano restorer/builder/tuners propabably have loads of them around to get the material for free or really cheap. Also can be used to make custom springs.
Item exactly as described:
“Definitely a scam!”
People can't handle that they're spending ridiculous amounts of money due to the brand label, compared to what they're actually worth.
Saw the same thing with their 'lego', all these lego-focused TH-cam accounts trying to demean the products because instead of costing $500+ they cost under $100 for the exact same quality and size. And the cope for 'stealing from the artists' is bullshit because I doubt the artists are collecting revenue of every 'genuine' sold kit. People are also surprised that something worth 80% less than something else is of lesser-quality (in regards to airbrushes and etc) well who woulda thought... Temu is ruining small businesses yes, but people don't wanna spend 100+% increase on something made in a factory down from the Temu one.
I highly doubt that Tarrasque was printed with the permission of Lord of the Print, the creator of the model.
Probably can't do much though considering Temu is a Chinese company, and we all know what they think of copyright.
And as a D&D player i can say that if i order a Tarrasque and it came in that size i'd feel realy scammed, you shouldn't be able to carry one in a single hand
@@Cthucal
You can also buy the model for $5 less and see if a friend could print it out for said $5.
Printing a model that size is like 20¢ max aswell
The size information is right there in the items page, you'd be scamming yourself honestly.@@Cthucal
They think as much as American companies do (not alot unless its from the US of course)
Regarding the temu Tarrasque, they're not scamming you (other than down scaling the size), but they probably don't have the license to sell from LOTP, which is included in one of their Patreon tiers. I think it's like 60$ a month.
Which is a scam because you are paying 20$ for 1-2$ worth of resin since they are stealing the intelectual property of the artist.
@@lordkubikum the 20$ is absolutely worth the labor, to their credit. Dealing with support removal and cleanup takes time
Yeah if you think the cost is just about 1-2$ worth of resin, you have never printed at any kind of scale. There is an expected lifetime of the very expensive curing screens, the consumed electricity, IPA, Nitrile gloves, FEP replacement screens, time spent overseeing, removing and sanding supports and then quality control. It's the same as saying "driving a car is cheap because a liter of gasoline only costs x amount". It ignores like 50 other associated costs and maintenance.@@lordkubikum
@@ThewickedVik As an old man can one of you young punks tell me when schools started teaching people to put the $ after the number instead of in front of it? I mean I was taught in school to write $20, or if taking about cents 50c.
Oh, and get off my lawn you darn whippersnappers!
$20 for that is actually quite fair, looking at the labor that goes into it. Still theft of LOTP's property though@@lordkubikum
"what the fuck is this?!" My motto for the last 15 years of my work life.
Sculpting Set was for Ceramic based clay where you'd need a sponge sometimes. Guaranteed that exact sculpting set is for sale on some knock off pottery place too.
Edit: Also light boxes are meant to blow out the backdrop. The photos you took light the models nice but the back drop is this drab grey. with your method you'd need a second light to illuminate the backdrop. If you want to amp up the light box results tone the light down a bit and use some white paper or a reflector and bounce some light back on the mini to get more detail into the shadows. You guys should work with a photographer or something and do a little mini lighting tutorial!
Do you know that Emil used to be an actual proffesional photographer?
Or was this some kind of joke that I missed? :)
@@Ultr4l0f Eh, I've been a pro photog as well. Still like lightboxes. Not with a white background though, because it will indeed blow out everything. A box with a black background, reflective surfaces on the sides and especially the front work fine. :)
@@Ultr4l0f Not sure if he was or not, but there are lots of types of professional photographer. You wouldn't necessarily want a wedding photographer doing product photography or a graduation photographer shooting a wedding. I shot jewelry for years, a light box was a must. Using a single light source is rarely good though. If he had combined the light box with it's light on, the desk lamp, and a grey or white background sheet out of the kit it likely would have beaten both the pictures he showed. That definitely isn't the light box I'd pick if I were buying one though.
Those clippers are made of chinesium alloy. I got the same ones from ebay and one of the tines flew off at speed and stuck into a wooden table leg across the room, like a ninja star.
Truly a mark of the orient
Nice
That is the tiniest tarrasque I have ever seen.
Fun story about that design, though! I ordered the same LotP tarrasque off of Etsy, and the model looks great, but even at a larger size it was still smaller than I needed to really make my players afraid. So it sat in my pile of shame for a while until I brought it to a local convention to paint for their at-con mini painting contest. That tarrasque then became my first (and so far only) contest win.
I can see an adventure Arc where the players rescue a Baby Tarrasque and let it go live its best Tarrasque life somewhere. Then years later tales start to get back to them of a creature that is destroying villages and towns in a land they visited when they set off on their adventuring life
The starter hobby tool set is actually available on Amazon. When I started in the hobby last year I actually got that one in a pinch when I realized I only had a set of clippers. Honestly not a bad value I don't think I paid as much as you guys did either
That design of sprue clipper is actually not supposed to be aligned. There is nothing stopping the cutting action until the two blades hit so it's designed not to meet sharp edge to sharp edge. So it cuts easy, but not clean on larger objects. Old school plastic modellers will be familiar with this kind of tool. God Hand and the like made it obsolete. I still use my 30 year old Testors nipper with this design, though.
The foam cutter is honestly safer than some I've seen. There's really not much to them. A source of voltage passed through some resistance wire (nichrome wire, usually). The resistance wire has a resistance given in ohms per metre, you measure out how long you want it to be, calculate how many ohms that is, and then calculate your voltage such that you're in the 20-30 watt range. No need to be precise. Worst case scenario, you'll never get the nichrome wire hot enough to burn the MDF (maybe singe it lightly, but not start a fire). You're more likely to just burn out the wire, and that'll go like a lightbulb filament. It won't catch fire.
I used to work in an electronics store, and people would come to me asking for the stuff they need to build a hand-held foam cutter using nichrome wire, and a lithium ion battery AS THE HANDLE. I told them "sure, I can sell you everything you need to blow your fingers off when the battery catches fire".
How places like Temu work is it isn't always you getting scammed. Rather they work with factories to overcharge companies making their product so if say your order 8000 units they'll charge you for 10,000 then ship you the 8000 and re sell the other 2 thousand.
Wish isn't a scam, they flat out admit their shit is garbage but just cheap as shit.
Hey Squidmar, generally love your videos but just wanted to make sure you're aware...
Temu and it's parent company are under ongoing investigation for installation of spyware on users devices, extraction of personal data to then take repeated charges from bank accounts, and use of slave labour.
While the concept of these style of videos is fun, I'd take some time to make sure 1) your data and devices are safe and 2) do a little reading on the charges for sites like temu, wish, shien etc. and consider if you're comfortable giving them any attention, positive or negative, in future vids
Thanks for the heads up:)
They'll just pay off the fines just like how Amazon, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Apple, etc. etc. etc. do.
If it's undergoing investigation, and not actually fined, I'd say it's fair game. Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz.
Nowadays anything from China is considered "suspicious" due to the new cold war going on.
Not saying it's not true, maybe they really are bad, but until it's proven I wouldn't think too hard on it.
Temu is safe like google, facebook, instagram, etc...
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I have bought several loads of those "3/10 scam" trees. They're not really 'warhammer' trees... but the price makes them a good bulk buy to multibase for 15mm gaming.
yep Temu and Wish and just in general site are terrible whit correcting listing. like they list a tree as fit for warhammer 40K because the person putting them up (the whole website system) can´t scale, so we see stuff like this tree works perfect in warhammer 64:1 scale exept the tree was actually for 100:1 scale it can be used in 64:1 but then it becomes a bush.
Buying an inexpensive product, getting the product and realizing it was cheap for a reason isn’t a scam. You bought low cost stuff and found it to be low quality. Definitely not a scam
Temu is run by the Chinese government with an attempt to western businesses out of business. Force even more of the supply chain into china.
truly no better way to avoid finishing my university finals than by watching y'all...another great vid by what feels like 2 old friends to me at this point! :)
That ball end tool that came with the sculpting tools looks like a cake fondant tool. I bought some ages ago and use them in plumbing lol. I use it to make rounded seams when working with silicone or other caulking type materials.
It’s a clay tool for sculptors called a ball stylus
19:05 a Swede being offended that he has to assemble something... must not make IKEA jokes!!!
I can't wait to see how the foam cutter does, it looks like it'll burn the house down before it cuts anything
Love ur vids
you the man kirioth.🙂
With those batteries you're probably lucky if it gets warm enough to melt the foam.
"Potentially the most dangerous item in the office...except for me" 😆
That last one is pretty dope. I have some experience with jank machines that are a fire hazard. And I have a simple solution: just put a ceramic tile underneath whatever jank machine you have.
I had a few left over from when our bathroom flooded and we had to change all the tiles. Luckily, the ones I have are quite thick and relatively large, still, I can easily place them either on the floor or on the table or even stack them together if it's a larger jank machine. Most people have some trash like this lying around their storage.
I had a few sticky situations and they held up great. I'll check that little machine out.
I have that sculpting set. One thing to consider as a user; those silicon tips pop out of the ferrule constantly!
Have you tried superglue etc?
@@mandowarrior123 yes, unfortunately silicon doesn't cooperate with superglue 😄
@@AccoSpoot There are silicone glues. Superglue only works after priming and dries hard instead of flexible.
Hve you tried shoving a piece of paper inbetween the thing and the ferrule, since gluing it doesn't work?
They should do a temu vs wish mini painting competition (minis for the respective companies) with only stuff they bought from the companies.
Shots fired at Luke Towan. If you've ever seen anything he's done with "train dioramas" you'd think twice before mocking train scenery.
I still think a cheap airbrush like this one is an awesome tool.
I started with a 250€ pack for an Harder& Steenbeck Evolution + compressor.
I had no experience at all, clogged pretty often because I didn't know sh*t about airbrush.
Despite thorough research, it doesn't make up for experience.
Spent 40 minutes cleaning because it was so expensive...
Didn't reuse since I bought a cheap Chinese airbrush that I clean in 10 minutes without being worried.
I'd use my Evolution again now that I'm more experienced, but I've found that for zenithal highlights and painting terrain, it does the job 10/10...
PS : I have some of these bamboos, I think they're awesome. In fact bamboos are pretty original and it's great for a jungle !
The Grass and Flower spots are actually very nice to use on a 40K Gamingboard. I used them already from Temu. But I still have a bad feeling about not going to a local store and instead ordering with Temu. But, here in Germany those grass and flower spots are ridiculously expensive in store so I had no real choice.
I bought a pack of cheapo brushes off Temu awhile ago. Didn’t expect much out of them but I was really pleasantly surprised. Held their shape, shed no hairs, felt good in the hand. They were some weird hair or artificial stuff, icr, but the belly held paint to a ridiculous amount and released it in a very controlled manner. They’re a pleasure to use. I’m no expert painter, but they perform admirably when compared to some of my more expensive ones. It may be that they match my skill level, idk if thats actually a thing?
if your starting don't buy expensive paint brush just buy cheap one that passes the minimum (pro painter have a high ceiling but as a starter that ceiling is nothing you will need to think about in a long time as you will probably first ruin the paintbrush long before and your skill level will be irrelevant).
Honestly, I once bought a really cheap synthetic set from Amazon that was ~6 brushes for 7£ and one of them turned out to be better than my Citadel Layer brush whilst the rest were trash, and the brushes were definitely not that high quality, so maybe you just get good luck for brushes sometimes?
Dude, I love seeing the cheap air brushes. I only have an Airbrush for priming, so I have a cheap garbo one.
With all the "garbage" you have collect from temu and wish, can you try doing a diorama using only wish and temu items (paint too) ?
I got a 30 bucks airbrush just for priming and it does it job since 2 years. The evolution does the fine things
I got some amazing gundam clippers off temu for £16. Also got a joy toy primaris dark angel on offer for £12. There's some great stuff on there.
It'd be cool if you guys did a local game / hobby store run and base your purchases off of employee suggestions or something. It would be nice to get some hobby/art store representation in your videos.
Ooooh.
Could be like any kind of store.
Toy store.
Arts and crafts (but not mini related)
Hardware store.
Bunch of options here
There is one thing with Temu though - it's REALLY easy to get a refund if stuff isn't up to the quality you want! If you make a ticket for an item which isn't good it's literally just a few clicks and a picture - and you get an instant refund.
Oh dang that's actually the same airbrush I've got XD As someone who doesn't do a lot of airbrushing and who's only owned one, personally found it basically alright! Had to take it apart a couple times to clean it and yes it's a bit finicky but works well enough! (didn't get it from Temu though so mine might be different internally, IDK)
Yeah, I used the same one for a while. It's great if you only planning using it a little bit or to see if airbrushing is right for you. I still use it periodically.
'A box with knives and they warn people about the plastic bag' - See! Temu can make you laugh as they rip you off!
Now that I've seen half of my tools used in a Squidmar video, does that mean I can now list my work as pro-painted on ebay?
😂
I got that tool box you bought a few years ago. The clippers on mine aren't bent like that but it's all the same stuff. Really nice toolkit for just starting out. It won't survive beating it all to hell but it's all of what you need.
17:27 - Your "regular light" makes the club look grey. I prefer the brown club and solid white background of the box light.
Almost the same thing as trying to find good stuff on Amazon nowadays. Just FILLED to the brim with scams. And the search is so terrible now, even the sorting is just broken. It's easier to find stuff on eBay.
"Hot wire cutter is expensive" .. A resistance wire is like 3 bucks, a few pieces of jank that can be turned into a bow-like configuration are free, and you probably already have some sort of dead appliance that you can extract the wire and wall plug from.. Although if you're doing this, I would personally recommend extra layers of insulating tape around every no-touchey zone on the thing, and a button that you have to hold to keep it running.. When you're cutting and see occasional sparks jumping around near your hand, it doesn't inspire confidence...
thank you for this, i've been skeptical of the 3d printed minis but have them sitting in a cart. I also like how the natural hair brushes keep changing which animal they're made from every few months.
Problem with almost all Temu models is, they’re stolen .STLs. They don’t pay for resale fees because they are…well, scammers. Sure, the print quality might be good, but they’re still very amoral
Just get a printer of your own, or find a shop that will do prints for you if you want 3D printed minis.
One thing about Temu - they have no proven compliance with laws in various countries to avoid importation of stuff made by Uyghur forced labour...
Thanks for this info.
even better!
Fucking thank you. The amount of warhammer TH-camrs collaborating, endorsing or promoting Temu / Shein in any capacity is fucking disgusting, and abetting a literal genocide.
@@slowescomb4558 You don't think other big-name brands are not doing the same thing? 90% of modeling equipment comes from the exact same factories just with a different label on it lmao. The rest is locally made to the country with a 500% production to price increase lmao
7:36 Oh wow, is that an OG Heroquest Fimir? I still need to paint mine, it's been 35 years.
Ha ha and a Chaos Warrior too. That made my day.
Pretty sure I bought that same hobby tools kit off Amazon years ago for my kid. That foam sander nail file thingie is great for polishing out rough spots on clear plastic models.
I was like "They look like weed buds." then it cuts to the smokey scene at 14:08 lol
Well...if you are willing to have Teemu steal your personal info, it's a small price to pay for deal on stuff that looks real cheap.😂😂😂
11:18 My dad bought me that for my 18th birthday when I was getting into model kits. I still use it for my 40k stuff.
15:43 i would use that tree for Battletech, seems to be a comparable scale
7:20, Those airbrushes have been around for a long time. I purchased like 4 of them about 15 years ago. They are great, never had trouble with any of them.
Attention with the last item! A lot of stuff from temu isn't EU-proved, so it could literally burn your house down!
True, i would not be surprised if they found Carmine, Arsenic, Lead, and Cadmium to if they tested the stuff.
15:26 the tree is more of a 10 mm scale, like the Argatoria system. A little work on the tree and it would look beautiful, the base is not bad.
I got that starter set, I got it for about $18CAD. I still use the knife, you can easily change the blade for a better quality one but it holds up decently well. Ive upgraded the clippers but they worked great as long as you were making super precise cuts. The thing I like the most though was the filer, it does a really good job IMO, but it doesn't last a long time, if I could buy that separately that would be great, I haven't found one that's the same.
If you're looking for a similar filer, I think these shapes with four different grade is common for nail buffers.
These are some of my favorite videos y'all have done. They're silly and lighthearted, but also satisfy my inner demon who wants to buy from these scam websites lol
…and now make a diorama with the minis, threes and other tools you got. Remember to take the s**y final shots in the lightbox!
2:10- Those are nice! That set kinda looks like the one I got….. if it comes in a black fabric-ish case that you roll up to put away then it might be the same one!?! But I was curious if any of you guys ever heard of “diamond files”? And yes, they are designed and made to file diamonds into shape!!!
That mini used in the light box. Where have you got that from? Looks really awesome.
Mollog from Mollogs Mob (the game is warhammer underworlds)
what grass tufts/scenery tufts do you recommend? iv only ever used army painter
Gamers grass is one of the companies they use a lot for tufts
I'm just gonna go out and say it - That airbrush looks identical (even the packaging) to the one I got from Biltema back in 2006.
That airbrush also sells at Biltema for about 300 kr... Have had two... one broke after about three weeks and the second was pretty much dead on arrival. But i bought them to get the base basics down so i expected them to break.
Came here to say that. Jula also sell it (for 400kr). I'v had mine for years. Only use it for basecoating thou
I got that tool set from Amazon a few years back and I have been very happy with it. I am not an enthusiast or anything but for the price it was worth it. The knife is meh, the blades are junk, but the rest is pretty good. I really like the tweezers and all mine were aligned ok.
I use that airbrush. The nozzle angle isnt great, back the needle out 1/2mm and the sputtering stopps
DSPIAE products are awesome. They have a mini-rotory drill, an aluminum brush w/ replaceable tips, and the SHARPEST side cutters I have ever used.
If you get these, it won't be a scam.
Agreed. They're a household name for Gundam modelers, scale and mini modelers should be aware of them. Very nice stuff.
they are also crazy expensive
That's a Baby Tarrasque, unless it's intended for Epic scale Warhammer.
Are those Heroquest Miniatures old school ones, from the recent Kickstarter rerelease, or 3d printed ones? Or can you just buy them now?
It's the old ones from 80s :)
@@SquidmarMiniatures Noice! I still have mine too.
I've ordered from Temu for rocks and other basing material so i don't really care whether it looks good or not, durability doesn't matter too much and quality is ok for what you get.
funnily enough i bought those exact brushes a few weeks ago and I've just painted be'lakor with them. i actually love them, and they work really well for me
The fact TH-cam is enabling scam websites like TEMU to continue to advertise in their platform is annoyingly disgusting.
I bought several figures from Temu.
The package arrived. It was several identical bags of clothes.
It can't just be me who hears Squidmar swear and gets a minor jolt and wtf moment?
I've either never noticed swearing or this is new 🤣🤣🤣
Same I just noticed it a lot too. Felt like they're trying to swear, and for no reason at all. I don't get it.
1:48- So I think it’s kinda funny how many different channels (including this one) talks about how “the name brand dry brushes are so expensive just for 1, but you can get a makeup brush that does the same thing (usually) in a pack of 3 to 5 and it’s still less money than that 1 dry brush”!?! But I never hear anyone talking about all the other things you could use as a alternative to the more expensive versions?!? Kinda like the “snippers” (I think that’s what you called them lol)! And those are also in the makeup aisle!!! And they are pretty good! Obviously, just like all the other ones, if you are constantly cutting the thickest part of the sprues or anything thicker and/or stronger than they won’t last long! But some of them get so thin that you could actually cut the connector at the bottom of a Space Marines backpack/jet pack that’s right in the middle of those thrusters/vents….. whatever they are lol And you can do a perfect cut!!! It even shocked me how good they were for $5!!!
See the tiny plant stocks I was like "eh, miniature scale flowers, makes sense you wouldn't get any detail-" but if you look at the video the damn things are disintegrating in their hands. Right out the bag. *11/10* Scam right there!
That tarrasque is from lord of the print. Sure hope Temu has a license to sell that.
So still a scam?
we actually asked lord of the print, they said there's no way for them to control if they've got the license from them. And even if its a scam its not worth chasing down the people selling prints.
I've had some decent stuff from Temu. Lovely Lego Dark Angel lol
Think those trees would be fine for Warlord Epic scale
What trees do you use for warhammer stuff and where to get them though ?
Those cheap airbrushes can be improved quite a bit if you use some really fine abrasive paper to polish the needle, the cheap ones are usually really rough to the point you can feel the difference with your fingers.
The hotwire thing is perfectly safe, there's not enough voltage in those batteries to even give you a zap let alone start a fire.
I've bought a bunch of stuff from Temu (not just hobby related) and while there is still some amount of crap, the overall quality is _much_ higher than Wish.
That airbrush looks like the one I got in a kit with my compressor but packaged differently.
Might just been one that fell off of the quality control line, but tbf you probably still got over charged. Look up FENGDA-130.
Been using it for a few years, works 'good enough' but because of how the cup connects to the airbrush, paint always traps in the cup and you don't get to use up all the paint you put in
I’ve watched so many of your videos, I feel like I’m hanging out with friends.
IF we've managed that, i feel like all goals are accomplished :D thanks for the lovely comment!
I use Temu a lot for my AirFix bases they do really cheap grass mats and tufts. I use the Zhu Ting brushes for my painting they keep a nice point.
I'm honestly not really sure why all the hate for the hot wire cutter. I got one of these for my infrequent foam usage and love it. The hot wire doesn't get nearly hot enough to ignite MDF and MDF is non conductive. There are so few parts on here I can't imagine how it could possible start a fire with 4 measly batteries.
Those trees are sold in my local hobby store in the model train section.
7:08 I think thats the same airbrush that comes with the airbrush kit that Harbor Frieght sells (my first/current airbrush) I really only use it for my inital basecoat for my space mariens or zenathol highlights for my dnd and other stuff that I just use slapchop with. It gets the job done even if its temperamental at best
12:20 I had ordered that exact kit for my model kits, it lasted me a good while
Those trees you guys got would make a good piece for a Gundam Diorama, since the kits are much larger than a Warhammer mini. But even then, you'd need a bit of work to make them look good and the scale would still be a bit off I think.
That airbrush is eerily similar to the Panzag airbrush, just without the hard case. Same pipette, wrench and style of airbrush, even the ablong hole. I use it as a trash airbrush for more rough paint types like enamels, grimes and such. But yeah pretty sure that's the same as the cheap Panzag airbrush but not 100% sure.
It's identical to mine (Fengda FE-130) except mine didn't have a quick connector. It's probably one of those situations where a manufacturer makes them for a bunch of companies and just changes the labels
@@SilverLeaf91 sounds about right, it's identical to mine as well, except that all parts are the same color on mine. I do have the quick connector though.
Same blue foam protection and everything.
Im not sure you know what scam means... You got what was on the picture and for the price u paid... Thats not a scam, thats just high expectations for no reason. If they sent you a rock or a low quality product for HIGH price than it's a scam...but that did not happen. I bought a few items from them and got what I expected for the price... Low quality but sufficient for use so exactly what I wanted :D
Big YT accounts trying to keep brand-affiliation on their good sides, and to justifying ridiculously over-priced equipment as per usual.
7:34 A Fimir! A HeroQuest Fimir! I've missed them so much ...
I ordered the same hobby starter kit from amazon! 4500 points of necrons and 3500 points of black templars later and the clippers are still going!
I have a light box and i frequently use it and the results are awesome....BUT.....i modefyed it ;-) just like you sayed in the video, the light only comes from the top anf you also whant light from the front, so i added a 3rd strip of led lights to the buttom front and et voilat you have a perfect photo booth :)
i was waiting for more figs in the video, the brushes etc doesn't feel like a scam especially made for warhammer, they are just bad articles. The video itself feels like a scam
I have a similar foam cutter. It's not big, but, it does work and is great for cutting bricks. I rewired mine using an old mouse cord so it has usb power instead of batteries.
A bit of added airbrushing/flock/leaves would elevate those trees easily. They seem pretty good.
Great video & I always pick up cheap acrylic paint sets like that for just painting hand crafted terrain & nothing else.
I have those silicon sculpting tools, and they cut into themselves at the metal spot. They work but after awhile they break from that cutting.
I have a similar hot wire foam cutter, wired it to a USB plug so it can run on batteries or wall plug. For the $12 I paid it is well worth it and good if you are not sure if you are going to use a cutter enough to warrant spending more cash
I got that exact same tool kit on amazon and it's been running strong for a year. Only thing in the kit that wasn't worth its weight was the clippers
I wish there was a channel like you but for historical minis.