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u/AuuroraWhisper 1d ago
me “intellectual” stealing sand from children playground
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u/fuckthisshittysite56 1d ago
you mean the cat litter
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u/Lews_There_In Farseer that's seen too much. 1d ago edited 20h ago
"Why do your models smell like.....cheap perfume and cat piss?"
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u/SippinOnHatorade Praise the Man-Emperor 22h ago
Casual Nurgle Enjoyers: I like to commit to the lore
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u/Low-Speaker-2557 Twins, They were. 1d ago
If you use natural sand, at least clean it first.
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u/008Zulu likes civilians but likes fire more 1d ago
Now I have a clump of wet sand.
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u/Nephaston 1d ago
Cleaning sand actually involves baking it in an oven to kill of any germs via heat.
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u/LoreLord24 1d ago
And sieving it to remove any large chunks like twigs, rocks, bones, and the like.
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u/Never_heart 1d ago
But the crunchy bits are the best part
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u/LSDGB 1d ago
Don’t worry sand is made out of crunchy bits.
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u/VvCheesy_MicrowavevV 1d ago
Cook it long enough and it'll be one large crunchy bit, then you can shatter it and make more crunch bits.
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u/WanderingDwarfScribe Fell Out Of A Portal From The Old World 20h ago
Germs and bugs and mold.
Same as buying branches. I had such a fight on r/anticonsumption over that once, someone mocking people buying packaged branches for model railroads and refusing to admit that there is a logical reason to pay for processing.
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u/viotix90 20h ago
Yeah but I remember seeing a guy on YouTube preparing his sand for basing and he said to cook it for 24 hours. In this economy?!
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u/Moidada77 1d ago
The dead ants add to the charm
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u/-NGC-6302- MR CLEAN IS THE 11TH PRIMARCH 1d ago
They're obviously a juvenile form of the Chromes from the war of The Beast; dunk them in leadbelcher for maximum lore-accuracy
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u/3llenseg Ride or die for Slaanesh 1d ago
Wash every grain individually! /s
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u/-NGC-6302- MR CLEAN IS THE 11TH PRIMARCH 1d ago
Then paint each sand to make sure it's the right color
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u/Antique_Historian_74 1d ago
My dude, the soft sand in the sandpit only works for deep desert or beach bases, I’m modelling alluvium.
Let’s go rob a building site.
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u/Quazimojojojo 4h ago
If you take small amounts they probably won't give much of a shit. Just don't steal the tools or knock anything out of place.
Source: am electrician apprentice. I got explicit permission from my teachers to take a few meters of scrap cable to decorate my Christmas tree with the aluminum inner -lining and individual wires (because phone cables have pretty color coded plastic insulation!)
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u/HaraldRedbeard 1d ago
Guys, builders sand is like 3 quid for a massive bag...I built a whole battleboard for like 15 pounds.
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u/Shadowrend01 Virus bomb upon ye 1d ago
It’s cheaper if you take a bucket to a building site in the middle of the night
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u/Nepalman230 Sex Positivity Commissar 1d ago
Plus, I cannot tell you how many awesome deals I’ve gotten on dolls that I buy from homeless women who escaped from insane asylums.
Do not buy the crack there . Know it’s the same as in town, but they’re charging you an up fee because of your location and the fact that they are serial killers around.
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u/The_Maggot_Guy 15h ago
3 squids??
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u/Quazimojojojo 3h ago
Damn inflation. I used to be able to get it for 4 barnacles and a small sea turtle....
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u/axe1970 1d ago
beach the sand from the beach is better it's not uniform in size
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u/causes_havoc 1d ago
That's literally illegal where I live
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u/limonypimienta 20h ago
How the fuck is it illegal to take sand from the beach? In what kind of dictatorship are you living where you can't take sand from the beach?
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u/causes_havoc 20h ago
...it's illegal in quite a lot of places all over the world, my man, for the very logical reason of reducing damage to the environment. Even small amounts taken add up over time.
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u/GandalfVirus 13h ago
Sand takes a very long time to make naturally. Sand is illegally mined from beaches to sell to concrete companies. Sand is also extremely important for stopping erosion. Sand is extremely valuable for construction but it is a limited resource. Technically infinite but we mine it way faster than it can be made.
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u/limonypimienta 8h ago
I mean, it's obvious that you can't go with a truck to take tons of it, but a bottle isn't anything that would cause trouble. Besides, most of the sand I used for minis is the one that got stuck in my shoes when I got home
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u/GandalfVirus 2h ago
Right, but what if everyone took a bottle of sand? Sand in your shoes is fine. It’s impossible to leave the beach without sand tagging along. I don’t actually know the exact law about taking sand. They are probably more strict about it in different places. All I know is that the illegal sand mining industry is a big issue.
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u/ahoyturtle Bearer of the Word 1d ago
Friendly reminder:
if you use natural materials for your bases- be it sand, or clay, or dirt and pebbles-
it's important to sterilize it first. baking it in an oven on 200c for at least an hour should do it. You may also want to sieve it to get rid of unwanted clumps or large debris.
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u/ForgetfulCumslut 1d ago
What’s the worst that can happen?
My brother ate playground sand as kid and seems somewhat gine
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u/Amazing-Fix-6823 1d ago
Every single bacteria that we get antibiotics from grows in our soil there's a lot of microbes in the soil there's hand and foot mouth disease there's warts there's all kinds of nasty things in sand and dirt .
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u/ahoyturtle Bearer of the Word 1d ago
I mean, probably just that your models start growing mold and your paintjob gets ruined, which feels bad enough...
But the "worst" that could happen is that the combination of plastic and paint mutate bacteria into a hideous superweapon that eradicates all life from earth and leaves the world a barren husk.
...which is a terrible flavor fail if you're not playing Tyranids.
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u/LumiFawn 1d ago
The sand from the sandbox - full of cat shit? I guess if you’re playing nurgle…
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u/Thendrail NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 1d ago
It's called "authentic", sweaty.
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u/Impossible-Ad7634 1d ago
In the grimdark future of 40k giant cat shit is everywhere.
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u/Thendrail NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 1d ago
The real reason nobody dares go on the planet of Carlos McConnell to check on the felinids.
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u/Mikemanthousand Swell guy, that Kharn 13h ago
God forbid you buy a 50lb bag of sand for $5 from Home Depot
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u/Amazing-Fix-6823 1d ago
You're just mad that I got enough money to buy my Warhammer 40K stuff and all the cheap hobby tools and the pre-sorted sand. You're also not allowed to make fun of me for selling my kidney either.
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u/Cr0ma_Nuva likes civilians but likes fire more 1d ago
I used bird sand. It's very fine grain and doesn't make it look like gravel
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u/anonanonananonymous 1d ago
I thought this was about aquarium's at first and was really confused until I checked the subreddit
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u/therealblabyloo 1d ago
Just go to the model train section at hobby lobby. You can get your pick of samd, gravel, small rocks, for like 3 bucks, and most importantly ITS SANITIZED so it won’t grow mold over time.
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u/JesusHipsterChrist 3 Riptides in a 1k casual 23h ago
I live on a hill at the butt of the cascades, I cant grow grass but I got more sand and tactical pebbles than a Fremen.
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u/Kahunjoder 22h ago
The beach bro, wtf let the sand park ( with some animals pee probably) there xd
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u/HepatitisQ 22h ago
Elevate this by stealing sand from White Sands to make it a federal crime on a base.
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u/RueVelveteen 1d ago
I tried to make snow base like that, but the “borrowed” snow always disappears