Yes, obviously @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and I talked about Bluesky. I even asked him some of your questions. www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
![KABAS: Speaking of Bluesky, that's how we know each other. I posted that I was interviewing you and that I was open to suggestions for questions to ask, so here are a few. One, will you become a Kings fan if you get elected and need to spend time in Sacramento? KLUWE: So the funny thing is, I'm not actually a sports fan. I just really like playing sports. That's been the case my entire life. People are always like, who's your favorite team? I'm like, I don't really watch sports! I don’t have a favorite team. I am hoping, though, if I do get elected, I really hope they have an Adult Soccer League in Sacramento where I can go play soccer on the weekends. KABAS: So there's gonna be a top prospect in Sacramento if you get elected. KLUWE: If anyone needs a goalie or center back, yeah. KABAS: What are you currently reading, and what is next on your bookshelf? KLUWE: So I’m currently reading a bunch of stories on Royal Road. I am a huge nerd, sci-fi/fantasy fan. Royal Road is a website where people write their own self-published stories, and then occasionally they do get picked up and published. On a Pale Light is one story. The Tales of William O is another one. For what's next—actually, let me go grab that real quick. [Kluwe walks out of frame to grab a book and comes back with it.] So this one I'm actually looking forward to. It's called Legal Plunder. A guy who grew up in Huntington Beach and lives in Minnesota, Josh Page, he's one of the co-authors on this. He's a professor at University of Minnesota, and basically it's about the predatory aspects of the criminal justice system. KABAS: And then the last question—which I don't at all understand what it means—”Contrast or Speedpaint?” KLUWE: I actually don't know what that one is either. KABAS: Wow! KLUWE: I'm gonna have to ask that person. That's too much internet, even for me. KABAS: I didn't realize there was a level, but we found it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreibvulorb3fp4wkglsi3j7dzppcyhoucfqtq5mmgvdt6xfu7ggsrhi@jpeg)
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aug 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
lol Contrast or Speedpaint, that's great, they're both fiiiine paints
aug 28, 2025, 7:44 pm • 16 0 • view
illuminating to learn he is more the royalroad internet nerd and less the warhams internet nerd
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 31 0 • view
the funny thing is it's a legitimate question too, those paint lines are different in a couple ways
aug 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
I use both, but I prefer AP. Especially the first Gen, with reactivation that allows for better blending on the mini. Granted, I also seal Everett later, so later reactivation never was an issue for me.
aug 28, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I used Contrast myself when I had some time with my Battletech 'mechs, but I also probably used too much and the wrong brush, plus I took some... creative liberties with a drybrush color that probably negated any advantage those paints gave lol
aug 28, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I almost always do a final drybrush coat. That's how I did my Canopians. Made yellow super easy
aug 28, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
I love my Speedpaints, they make some of the chore-like aspects of painting so much faster. And with a little color theory knowledge, you can do some really fun stuff.
aug 28, 2025, 9:32 pm • 3 0 • view
They also airbrush like champs.
aug 28, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
do they need any special treatment to airbrush with?
aug 28, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This is orc skin green over Aztec Gold so, straight out of an airbrush with a satin clear.
aug 29, 2025, 1:28 am • 3 0 • view
Nope. Straight out of the bottle.
aug 29, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
This suddenly gave me the context I needed for the question to make sense.
aug 28, 2025, 8:03 pm • 12 0 • view
We need more Chris Kluwes in this world.
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
But how far does @chriswarcraft.bsky.social think he can throw a sandwich???
aug 28, 2025, 11:23 pm • 5 0 • view
More interested in which type of sandwich he thinks he could punt farther.
aug 29, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
Contrast is a paint type from Games Workshop, Speedpaint is slightly similar from a company called Army Painter. Contrast is a kindof inky paint for miniatures that handles both shading and highlighting of a miniature at once by pooling in the crevices and receding from higher points.
aug 28, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Speedpaint is similar, both slightly more opaque with a different range of colours. Hope that helped. 🤗
aug 28, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
it's about lines of miniature paint (generally for warhammer 40k)
aug 28, 2025, 8:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Generally, all miniature lines use the same paints. To say any brand of paint is "generally" used more by the 40 k crowd than any other is weird.
aug 28, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they do, I was just giving the likely context. Plus, 40k has to be the most commonly painted miniatures? And the context is def wargaming. It's a meme wargaming nerd (non prejorative) question.
aug 28, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
And those 40K painters likely use contrast more just because a lot of 40K beginners will be advised onto the citadel “on ramp” (contrast paints) by GW staff
aug 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I would guess that GW's largest single customer base is 40k people, but I don't know that GW is 40K most used paint. But I'm not a 40k'er. Just a metric shit ton of Battletech and RPG minis decorate my shelves. Among NEW 40k'ers? I would definitely agree GW is probably the most prominent paint.
aug 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
it would be curious to see the actual numbers
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
reading royalroad in a interview is certainly a moment, as a royalroad nerd.
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view