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[hollow goblet]

So I usually pick the darker colour, paint the whole panel and then use the second colour for the lines

[faint aurora]

sweet ill try it out still got 8 rubric marines to paint

[hollow goblet]

But honestly you also don't need to do them rubricks look fine if you solid colour the bands

So if you're someone who hates that kind of fine painting there's absolutely ways around it

[faint aurora]

yeah but i figured painting the lines is a good way to practice keeping my hand and brush steady

[hollow goblet]

Yeah ksons is one of the harder factions to start off on but they'll bring your painting up to speed quick

[faint aurora]

that way when i get more mechanicus minis i can finally paint their faces

[hollow goblet]

Yeah admech and genestealers are the only armies that have a reputation for being harder to paint

Oh and harlequins but you don't have to do the pinstriping

[faint aurora]

what did you use for the gold btw? i just used some balthasar gold but it came out too bronzy for my liking

[hollow goblet]

Also honestly your lines aren't even bad I didn't notice they were crooked until you mentioned it lol, I think having slightly thinner paint with less excess is all you'll need

retibutor armour

It's liquid gold (Lmao)

[faint aurora]

lol

ill have to pic some up

[hollow goblet]

it looks great on its own + adding some reikland fleshshade gives you a really warm brassy version that looks a little more aged and less shiny (its what they recommend for the offical box art ksons)

[naive umbra]

I also don't think the lines are crooked, but just the yellow coverage is a little patchy in spots. Yellow is a really hard one to get a nice solid colour, needs a few thin coats to really get there

[faint aurora]

yeah i noticed that but by the time i id my fingers were already getting stiff

ill prolly go over them a couple more times when i get some more paint

[hollow goblet]

If you ever wanna do a bright yellow/cyan/pink its a good idea to put down a base coat of off-white first bc it'll usually pop super hard and only need one or two layers

Yellow especially its really hard to get good pigments for yellow hobby paint and most GW brand ones are notorious for being awful

[faint aurora]

yeah im using phalanx yellow and that shit is thin

[hollow goblet]

Corpse will almost certainly have a more detailed explanation when he read this lmao

[plush swift]

yeah

[hollow goblet]

Flash Gitz is the only GW yellow that I like tbh

[faint aurora]

my local hobby shop only had phalanx when i went

[hollow goblet]

bad moon constrast is good too but I only use that to colour blend oranged and pinks generally

[plush swift]

what did you use for the red

[short pawn]

It covers really well if I use zandri dust under it

[hollow goblet]

Volupous pink over gold primer + gal vorrbak red

[plush swift]

tanks

[hollow goblet]

True I've yet to use zandri dust apparently its a really good primer colour

[faint aurora]

huh i wouldnt have guessed

[hollow goblet]

Gold primer tints contrast paints generally

I'm never quite sure how the colour will go on lol

[short pawn]

I use it for all of my guardsmen. It makes a really nice olive green when painted over with castellan green

Plus like 80% of the model is already base coated

[faint aurora]

i use mephiston red and flesh tearers red for my mechanicus minis

[hollow goblet]

Those are a good 1-2 punch, good contrast between the two but they both still read as red

sometimes highlight colours being a different shade or colour gets too visually busy

[faint aurora]

thats what i was trying to avoid im still a newby at painting so i was just goin with what id know looks good

red on red for a better red is easy

[hollow goblet]

Yeah its the old addage from music school: gotta know the rules before you know how to break them

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-baby-ash-ash-baby-ai-gif-6011494206707975197

[hollow goblet]

There's this guy who does these absolutely gorgeous custom titan kitbashes and he uses super heavy white shading but because he largely uses cyan + pink colour scheme it looks fkn phenomenal

bc the colour theory is still strong yknow

[plush swift]

whats his name

[faint aurora]

honestly color theory scares me

[hollow goblet]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyOL_GgtFAI/?igshid=dHZqY3dnemZsdGhl

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[hollow goblet]

It's a lot like music theory, most of it is very intuitive and stuff you're gonna do naturally BC it just looks good, but having clear words and rules for things helps you organise things mentally and plan out your colour schemes instead of kinda feeling them out if that makes sense

Also if y'all get a minute gives this guys insta a browse it's legit just mini porn

[faint aurora]

my adhd raddled ass cant organize, ive just been going off vibes

[faint aurora]

[hollow goblet]

Can relate homie unmedicated ADHD got me standing in the kitchen waiting for my next Sim command to hit currently lmao

[faint aurora]

be standing at work like an npc waiting for a customer to press Y

[plush swift]

huh??????

[junior meadow]

Love muh beaked marines

[faint aurora]

beakies on top

[junior meadow]

[faint aurora]

what chapter/legion are you gonna go for

[junior meadow]

a custom one

Also here is this monstrosity in progress

[clear finch]

This is my current project, cause I wanna make some Chunky marines after seeing some art by dan morrison.

And now im referencing art from the old rogue trader 1e for poses to maybe make dioramas with.

[faint aurora]

sick hes like that one native warrior from south american who replaced his hands with knives after the spanish cut them off

[junior meadow]

yeah

i was trying to get close to this

[clear finch]

this looks cool

[faint aurora]

chainsaw marine is sick

question is

[junior meadow]

lol

[faint aurora]

traitor or loyalist?

[junior meadow]

im still deciding

[junior meadow]

noice

but yeah i want to paint my marines like this

old legions of power figure

I’ve already got one done

[hollow goblet]

Not actual porn just good painting lmao

[hollow goblet]

Lore accurate Iron Hands

[short pawn]

Anybody got any experience with a miniature diorama?

[plush swift]

Ohhh

[short pawn]

Or i guess diorama containing miniatures incase anybody is a smartass

[hollow goblet]

A tiny bit but probably nothing you couldn't find on the first page of google

[plush swift]

What if I said its mid and that the best dont paint under mini painting, they paint it under figure painting

this is purely hypothetical by the way, i have no strong opinions on anyones work but my own

Huh

basically the trained and professional artists post their stuff under figure painting that is what the actual genre of this kind of art is called

mini painting is things like paint on grains of rice or small canvases

which the grains of rice takes way more skill than this does, you cant change my mind

[hollow goblet]

What was EC's playstyle pre-refresh? I'm assuming they'd be like Chaos version of Sisters, wanted to get into them instead of ksons at first but I'm not paying that much for shitty old metal minis with no rules, hoping its around the corner

[hollow goblet]

I mean yeah, true lol, I went on a massive rabbithole watching these chinese/korean dudes who would paint on rice but it fucked my algorithm up something fierce and I got sick of not being able to read anything in my feed lmao

Ended up swapping to my alt account permanently

[plush swift]

man, you should just watch that shit, its incredibly impressive

[hollow goblet]

Also if y'all need cheap gemstones for basing you can get little things of fluorite for like $2 and they're clear to blue-green and look like huge chunks of quarts or smth similar on a base

You gotta break em up a bit but I just took it out onto the street and threw it a few times then used my clippers to crush bits that were too big

[faint aurora]

who knew crushing rocks could be part of painting minis, truly we all return to monke

[naive umbra]

It's annoying though searching through "figure painting" and having to wade through heaps of Napoleonic soldiers and stuff, whereas "mini painting" results get you mostly 40k

And also heaps of nude paintings of the human figure

In my experience those little canvas ones come up a lot under "mini painting" but not under "miniature painting" and I'd say the terms are kinda distinct now

[short pawn]

It kinda just makes sense for the painting of miniatures to be called "miniature painting"

[naive umbra]

Although keep in mind I'm basing this entirely off Instagram search results

Case in point

[hollow goblet]

Yeah it's annoying asf for twitch streams as well, you have to stream under art but it's not exactly gonna advertise your stream to people who actually wanna watch 40k painting if you do that: so you're almost better off using "just chatting" and just loading up on engagement buzzwords for 40k in your tags and title

[naive umbra]

Then you have the opposite problem where Just Chatting is diluted af

[hollow goblet]

Also forgot to provide evidence of rocks lmao

[naive umbra]

The catseye looks great with Tzeentch models

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I saw them online and immediate neuron activation

[naive umbra]

I'm afraid to use heavy things on my bases coz I put a couple rocks on one back when I was doing LOTR models, and it eventually came unstuck while transporting and just rolled around crushing shit

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I was semi worried about it but these aren't particularly heavy considering the size, there's only one chunk on one of my SoT bases where I'm worried it might do a lil damage if it breaks away

[short pawn]

Man I love what people do with their chaos basing. So whimsical

[naive umbra]

My rocks are all just woodchips now painted to look like slate/stone

Also has the benefit of sticking better with PVA

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I so nearly went superglue for these but the PVA pulled through

[short pawn]

Has anybody tried static grass before?

[hollow goblet]

just gotta trust the process and not test them too much

[naive umbra]

Yep

[toxic stratus]

Yup

[hollow goblet]

Nah I've been sticking with the lil glue on bushes and tufts

[naive umbra]

I've done both full base coverage with it, as well as using it for little clumps on sand, imo it looks more natural as small clumps on a different surface than as the whole base

[short pawn]

How did you guys feel about it? I'm really not enjoying flat grass

I use the army painter green grass and its just weird to me

[hollow goblet]

My plan is bringing these minis into a tournament on the 19th and being like "what's up fuckers I have never played a game of 10th" with the most lore accurate bases of all time

[toxic stratus]

Then don't make it flat. Show mud underneath, paint some of them yellow and brown, don't cover the whole base...

[hollow goblet]

You could also try adding some taller flowers/ferns to break it up visually so people's full attention isn't on the grass

[naive umbra]

It's pretty easy to build up some texture with layers of PVA and sand, then add a little static onto it

[short pawn]

For my larger bases sure, but I don't really like adding a whole lot to my guardsmen

[hollow goblet]

doesn't have to be anything crazy, one of my tzaangors has something similar 1s

Something like this but done with flowers would be enough to draw attention away from the grass

[naive umbra]

Or else you can use whatever texture paint you like to add some depth to it so it's not just a flat base.

[plush swift]

They are only partially distinct now, the problem now is that 40k painting has legit removed data and history of miniature painting and over the past year i'm having to reconstruct about 1400 years in information so mini/miniature painting terms might have to change due to the over a billion dollars at stake here.

Yes this is actually a thing thats happening due to them not using the term figure painting, weird, right?

[toxic stratus]

Random chaos dude with grassy base

[naive umbra]

When it comes to language, I'm much more in favour of descriptive/common use over prescriptive.

[short pawn]

Love what both of you did with your bases

[hollow goblet]

Word bearers in UM colours actually go kinda hard lmao

Unless that's meant to be CSM I'd go word bearers for that scheme for lore reasons lol

[clear finch]

Im wondering, would the old space crusade chaos warriors look good as chunky space marines?

[plush swift]

My problem is that I'm working 100 hours a week digitizing books and if I don't I will have lost the last 20 years of my life because of outsider artists refusing to use the correct terms, its like slapchop, that method was created in the 1300s and has a huge history and its erasing a lot of the work i've been doing. The correct word is scumbling

[short pawn]

I'm still pretty new to the hobby and basing especially, so I'll at least try what you guys suggested. Still very tempted on some static grass though

[plush swift]

I'm just closely tied to art history and I selected such a weird niche of study which was my fault

[naive umbra]

I get how that would be frustrating. But like, even the creator of the GIF can't get anyone to pronounce it the right way, so good luck changing how everyone speaks once they decide what something is.

[plush swift]

Because the resources are getting so heavily tied up with 40k, we have actual educational books now with stupidly bad information because of 40k painting taking out all of the online archives

thats the issue with common usage words with art

we are legit about to lose a lot of human history due to algorithms and bad terminology

its fucked up

[toxic stratus]

It's a relatively new hobby with people still figuring out what to use and how they call them

[plush swift]

its not though, the hobby started in the 1700s

40k just popularized it

[hollow goblet]

Yeah but in all fairness the guy who created the GIF is objectively wrong

[naive umbra]

Hence figure painting being all the Napoleonic soldiers I was talking about

[toxic stratus]

But it saw the most popularity and improvements in the last 30 or so years

[plush swift]

yep, thats one of the popular ones

[short pawn]

Just like uno being wrong about their rules

[plush swift]

40 years, but yeah

[hollow goblet]

Also true lmao

sorry but I didn't put a jraphics card in my PC

[plush swift]

but 40 years, is a long time for human history

least we forget, WWII ended almost 80 years ago and the first space launch was almost 70 years ago

Modern hate, the stuff everyone hates? yeah that started in the 1860s

we think things are newer than they actually are

[toxic stratus]

And contrast paints are released 4 years ago.

Also this is a niche hobby. Not a world changing event

[plush swift]

And contrast paints are... Transparent paints that have existed for a long time

[plush swift]

No longer niche, it makes more money than most professional art companies do

the hobby is actually incredibly wide spread now

covid caused it, its because its a super easily accessible for of art

[toxic stratus]

Great. Now we can finally figure out some terminology then, eventually

[plush swift]

As a colorist, I adore it

[plush swift]

I hope so, but the last time I brought it up at adepticon, someone threatened to stab me and then i was punched in the face for being "one of those narcissistic artists"

[proud glen]

Someone tried manually applied primers?

[plush swift]

yes

[proud glen]

Like Vallejo has

[plush swift]

vallejo isnt actuallt a primer

[proud glen]

Is they worth their price?

[plush swift]

it doesnt bond to the surface

[proud glen]

Noted

[plush swift]

ehh, some kind of are but most primers generally are nothing more than normal acrylic paint with marketing

[toxic stratus]

Rattlecans work the best for me

[plush swift]

rustoleum for life

stynl rez white is the worse white paint ive ever used

btw

its fucking garbage

its worse than corax white

10 psi, and it just gathers into corners on an air brush

and then cracks while it dries

[naive umbra]

I was happy with my results from Rust-Oleum. I used the 2X Ultracover cans. Was worried it would go on too thick and obscure detail, but been pleasantly surprised

[proud glen]

I was asking about primers because I maybe to invested in getting it on the mini

And it gets splitter

[plush swift]

rustoleum makes most of the hobby sprays, so keep that in mind

[proud glen]

Crap this looks bad

Especially backpack

[hollow goblet]

Is this after priming?, it definitely shouldn't look like that

[naive umbra]

But there's also a good technique to spraying, you gotta keep your hand moving while spraying short bursts

[hollow goblet]

Did you possibly prime these outside during the 42 degree day we had in australia a few days ago? I can't think of how primer would crack like this unless it dried out super aggressively maybe

[proud glen]

Yep

[plush swift]

for spray cans you need to make sure the temp is around 20c and humidity is around 40%, 44% and orange peeling can occur, cracking was caused by a major change in both

[proud glen]

Nah I Live in Ukraine and I primed it inside

[hollow goblet]

Oh man I defer to corpse then I have no ideas

[proud glen]

That’s why I was asking about hand primer

[hollow goblet]

All I'll say is my vallejo light grey has never let me down as far as prepping minis goes

[proud glen]

And still it`s is susceptible to temperature and humidity?

[plush swift]

yes

very much so

while its drying make sure the heater isnt running near it and the room its in is stable in temperature

https://justpaint.org/defining-the-difference-between-a-crack-and-a-craze/

Golden released an article about this a few years ago

well worth the read

I love this site, its a stupidly good resource

[low glade]

New to this, i know theres glue everywhere

Also the glue taste like burning

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I'm pretty sure crackle texture paints crack way more aggressively if you heat them with a hairdryer too, just random fact

[plush swift]

yep, that they do. chemical reactions after all

[plush swift]

glue is acetone, a chemical known to cause major neurological damage

[proud glen]

happy brain damage noises

💀

[teal wolf]

Found this relic in a box today.

[plush swift]

erm thats not 40k🤓

[teal wolf]

Your not wrong. But the kit has some big leaves in it I'm using for some tyranids

[brisk vapor]

Old box art rules

[teal wolf]

It was pretty wicked stuff

[fair lagoon]

So tyranids and elves are the same?

[teal wolf]

Only after snacking on em 😉

[plush swift]

Coffee backwards is effoc

[hollow goblet]

I have exactly one pink horror face that I got from a bits box: who dares me to recast it 20 times and then freesculpt myself a bunch of free horrors out of milliput and greenstuff lmao

[plush swift]

Do it

I’ll pay you 30$

[lyric nimbus]

anyone got a fully painted killteam, how long would doing it all take?

[toxic stratus]

it's a very personal question imo. you only stop when you think it's done. it may take months for some and 2 hours per model for someone else

[hollow goblet]

Depends on the army and your skill level, even a bad painter could probably smash out a box of necrons if they've got a spare afternoon but some armies require a lot more attention to detail

[lyric nimbus]

yeah, I have spares. how does killteam comps work?

[hollow goblet]

Basically smaller squads of kits from the main army in a way

[hollow goblet]

A lot of the sculpts are unique and tend to be usable as proxies, there's a bunch of warcry, killteam and necromunda boxes people use as chaos cultists pretty often

The game is kind of like smaller scale 40k and instead of putting troops together in units and moving everything at once on your turn: the game is more of a chess match where you take turns doing everything

Most of the comps tend to be either a combo of a few different unit choices from an army in whatever amount you want or a very specific list of characters with their own models and datasheets (most of the armies lean this way especially the newer ones)

[lyric nimbus]

I'll look into the scoring system.

[zenith monolith]

Excuse the poor picture quality might have our might not have been drunk at the time

Also still wip, some bits at least

[low glade]

Im in the army, It cant get worse than it already is. But ill try and not get it on there from now on.

[midnight locust]

What color have people base coated the Valkyrie interior in?

[plush swift]

Took me about an hour

[plush swift]

Pink

[midnight locust]

Alright let me get that pink sauce

In all honesty, would a black base coat be better just so I don’t have to worry about the interior walls as much? Or like a flat grey tone

[patent bluff]

I’m not a big fan of the death guard but good gravy, that paint job might change my mind

[summer sparrow]

I love how wet it looks

I would like to share my pain, my Imperial Knight Castigator has 4 pistons per foot, and I had to hand sand each piston rod to fit in its sleeve, next nightmare is posing them but I'm out of glue so I'm briefly saved that pain

[zenith monolith]

Glad to hear, tbh I'd recommend you don't XD pain in the ass to paint i just like them aesthetically

But so many bits and bobs and the fact every single model is fucking unique

[zenith monolith]

Would be a shame to not make death guard look at some and grimy

[patent bluff]

Fair enough, I’m working on my Admech rn. Just recently got into Warhammer in the past two weeks but so far the Admech just look so cool

Even Debating getting a tech priest at this moment lmao

[zenith monolith]

Mmm i am looking at building done at some point, studying mechanical engineering so it's only right i do

[patent bluff]

I felt that lmao

I was actually looking into some of the lore and there are Admech who have white cloaks and shit and it looks so cool

Don’t get me wrong, praise the Omnisiah and glory to Mars and all that. But the white goes so hard

[zenith monolith]

Studying mech eng as well? If so how the thermodynamics going XD

[patent bluff]

it goes lmao

[zenith monolith]

Hating refrigeration systems atm

Ill stop myself from going into a rant but anyways please do share some of that affect if you paint some more

[patent bluff]

Oh I’m not too good at painting just yet, still trying stuff out to make them look passable at a distance lmao

These are the only ones I can be proud of atm

[zenith monolith]

Dw it comes with time to me a bunch of figuring out for to do stuff as well

[patent bluff]

True, I’m going to invest in an airbrush so I can start doing glowing effects for my weapons or baseplates

[zenith monolith]

Watching videos and looking at what they do can help a lot as well

[zenith monolith]

Oo nice

[patent bluff]

I really wanna make a baseplate with a dead Xeno on it and a glowing purple effect going off of it

[zenith monolith]

They do help with more "uniform" minis definetly

[patent bluff]

Just tryna figure out what chapter of space marine I wanna do, or say screw it and make my own

[patent bluff]

For sure

[silver thorn]

a part of me wants to make a canis rex so bad but I'm a hobby noob and should probably get done with more lower level projects first haha

it just seems fun to make it though.

[summer sparrow]

If you get the plastic I say go for it, printed knights have so many points of joining that can fail, also no idea if there's STLs out there for Questoris knights

But plastic probably will go together just fine which is my issue, and painting an immortal Knight is easy as pie because the fancy armor panels are literal separate pieces you can paint then attach to the underneath that most people do in a very slap chop manner

[plush swift]

Knights are a pain in the dick to build

[brisk vapor]

Flag update

And all glued and tomorrow I shall varnish her and finish the deal with oils

[whole scarab]

Yoooo tiny titan

[silver thorn]

that flag is amazing

i like to imagine the skulls on the flag represent enemy titan kills

[plush swift]

That flag is nuts

[silver thorn]

is that all hand painted??

or is some of it transfers

its really really pretty

[silver thorn]

you can get Chinese resin knights for like 60 bucks

i mean its illegal but :3

[summer sparrow]

I can print one for about $10

[silver thorn]

that's awesome

honestly i might get into 3d printing but i for now I'm just focusing on painting

its just a big whole thing to get into

[floral wind]

Really didn't like how this turned out but lessons learnt are experience gained. Also got to try my new photo setup from gsw

[silver thorn]

did you 3d print that flag?

[silver thorn]

the base looks nice though.

[floral wind]

Thanks, I tried to make it like the older edition bases in mind

[plush swift]

Cool color scheme

[floral wind]

Thanks it was mostly contrast and accidental overbrushing lol

[brisk vapor]

Exactly

[brisk vapor]

Skulls are transfers, rest painted

I cut it out of an aluminium can and twisted into shape

Same with the banner between the legs

[plush swift]

Started to paint my sisters

[whole scarab]

It's only a crime if you're caught

[plush swift]

I live by that saying

[sweet stirrup]

It's not 40K, but for Inktober I painted one miniature every day for Warcry

[jaunty trail]

I see Black Templars i upvote

Crusade well battlebrother

[whole scarab]

Damn that templar CHUNKY

[jaunty trail]

Just a normal Castellan

[patent bluff]

Current W.I.P Skitari

[whole scarab]

Looking cool!

[patent bluff]

Appreciate it, decided to take a bold risk and do some purple. I adore how it looks

Somewhat of a better quality photo

[ornate bramble]

The EC praetor model so chonky

[jaunty trail]

Ballistus Dreadnought "Balthar" reinforces the crusade...

[plush swift]

Did you free hand that

[jaunty trail]

With Artist pen yes... The crosses are decals... but rest is freehand

And next up is a Gladiator lancer

Ballistus Dread is just double height of a normal Dread XD

[patent bluff]

I love when people put text on vehicles, it’s like crack for me

[jaunty trail]

Why should a vehicle not have insignias? And even for BT it's fitting to put prayers etc. on the vehicles ^^

[patent bluff]

Based mindset

I don’t know what imma get for my first vehicles but imma lather that bad boy in text

[jaunty trail]

I got plenty vehicles battle Ready now:

1x Land Raider Crusader
1x Predator Destructor
1x Ballistus Dreadnought
3x Dreadnought
1x Razorback
1x Impulsor

Enough points for vehicles XD and the Gladiator Lancer is next up XD

[patent bluff]

I’ve never played a match but imma assume those are worth some good points

[jaunty trail]

1x 230 pts
1x 130 pts
1x 140 pts
3x 135 pts
1x 95 pts
1x 85 pts

Total: 1085 pts

[patent bluff]

Dang

You got pics of them?

Curious as to how they look

[jaunty trail]

I have but i would DM them towards you cuz i posted mostly any vehicle here xD

[patent bluff]

Sure go for it

[jaunty trail]

gimme a sec ^^

XD

[true path]

Group shot. I only need to paint the greys on the karkadrak and the wizard's base.

[patent bluff]

Purple based

[true path]

I'm loving the big classic dark knight from final fantasy energy from these guys.

[patent bluff]

Hell yeah I respect that

I plan to get some Space Marines and paint em purple, white and gold or sum like that as my own home brew dudes

[true path]

I love it. That's a wonderful colour scheme. If you can play around with some spare parts, what I did was mix leviathan purple with black legion, and then dilute it with a lot of lahmian medium. Contrast medium would look different but might work better.

I applied it over metallic zenithal to get a metallic purple look. Unfortunately I didn't tune the paint enough and when I pulled the trigger, my brush loaded black on top and a bunch of models came out unevenly black/purple. I will have to correct my scheme.
On the lord and sorceror I stopped fooling around and just diluted leviathan purple with lahmian medium and put on six layers over zenithal.

[patent bluff]

I will keep that in mind

My first attempt with that color scheme is going to prolly be either an Apothicary or Terminator

First gotta do my Admech and Tech Proest

[jaunty trail]

Go with Termies first.. They are usually first company and they may always be prolly xD

[patent bluff]

They also look so cool

I kind of wanna get the Horus Heresy box set and try it with them. I love the bird mask

[true path]

oh hell yeah, go for it.

[true path]

I love the HH termies and they're great for standing out in 40k. With some beakies your purple marines will look wonderful. I have a kit of HH MK3 marines which aren't assembled, and the kits for HH are much more customizable than 40k kits. (Probably because they're made for more experienced hobbyists.)

[patent bluff]

Hell yeah, I wanna name my little group “Calus’s Selected” as a home brew Space Marine group and make the leader named Calus. Sadly I don’t know enough about the lore but I’m learning. Also fun fact if that name sounds familiar it is based off of a shader in destiny 2

[jaunty trail]

The starting bits for your homebrew Marines sound good 😉

I would recommend you to get into the lore with the "Horus Heresy"... Most of those books are also availiable as audiobook via for example: Audible.... (no advertisement!)

[patent bluff]

Bro is getting paid for this lmao

[jaunty trail]

?

[patent bluff]

Sponsored

Nevermind

[jaunty trail]

Ah i see... but i just alwas state this cuz' i don't want to violate this servers rules in terms of advertisement ^^

[patent bluff]

Ah okay, that makes more sense

[true path]

making up your own stuff is a great way to learn!

[patent bluff]

Hell yeah

[true path]

that's exactly what I'm doing with my aos guys, I don't know anything about that but I did like the evil himbo hosses, so I made up a colour scheme out of complementary colours. And then I started listening to video essays about chaos while I was painting them. Now I know a little more but I still don't know so much.

I ended up calling them "the wandering flame", and they disguise themselves as a mercenary group that "helps" people, lords, nations in need, until they turn themselves against each other. They recruit from local populations, and their thing is, when the flame is ready to consume the local city, those new recruits have to lead the raid that kills everyone.

so with a bit of illusion/glimmer magic from sorcerors, some deceptions, a little primordial truth, and enough strength to throw everything in their path down, they persist.

[patent bluff]

Just watched a 40 minute video about the Horus Heresy, man that shit is cool

Kind of wanna make my dudes a small group of loyalists from The Death Guard because that name goes crazy

(I am aware The Death Guard are traitors)

[hearty bear]

Perfectly reasonable, there were plenty of loyalist splinters in the traitor legions (even though most were wiped out at istvaan)

If you want to make loyalist death guard, go for it

[patent bluff]

Calus and his men were purely “built different” (little does Horus know the man was heavily wounded)

Time to dig into the Death Guard lore. Because they became shit eaters, literally

[pallid lichen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5KOFvBxFIQ

i got no fucking clue where to share this

but i had to

[patent bluff]

Need

Damn the Death Guard are cool

Too bad they suck ass now

[patent bluff]

Not sure where to send this but what I’m thinking right now for my home brew Death Guard squad for the Horus Heresy

Calus was originally in The Dusk Raiders (I think that’s what it’s called) before they turned into the Death Guard. Of course following in his Primarch and the changes that came with as he was loyal to him. But come the heresy and being betrayed on that one planet (don’t remember the name) he took what remained of his Brothers from the Death Guard pledging what remained of his life to taking revenge upon I think it’s Mortarion right?

That’s all I’ve cooked up so far. Prolly not the best but I’m still learning the lore for the Horus Heresy

[faint aurora]

man that looks sick

[hollow goblet]

Not quite the same BC of the blue but those colours are one of my favourite palletes to work with

This exalted is probably my favourite model I've ever painted

[patent bluff]

Love that

[naive umbra]

I'd base coat in a metallic like leadbelcher, that way you get the effect of painted steel. Planning to do the same with my Devilfish interior soon.

[midnight locust]

Might drybrush that on top

[naive umbra]

I normally do underneath so you get a hint of that metallic sheen beneath whatever the layer paint is, then use the sponge technique to add weathering with leadbelcher or sometimes runefang, so it looks like paint chips exposing bare steel beneath

[midnight locust]

I see, so if I’m going with the khaki/olive drab of Cadian 8th, would be interior be khaki inside and then sponged with some LB it Runefang?

[naive umbra]

I'd do thin base coat leadbelcher, then layer olive drab, then sponge LB/runefang

[wintry sphinx]

moral dilemma, do i expand on my already large ork army, or do i build a 2k point imperial knight army

[tiny cairn]

Buy this army, expand that army. How about up your terrain game? That's the only moral thing to do

[toxic rampart]

2k Imperial Knights is what... 3? 4? Models? Lol.

You could make Stompas! Or more Boyz! Or Boyz in Stompas!

[simple thorn]

I really need to paint the terrain I do have

[tiny cairn]

I need to paint anything I have right now, I've been slacking hard

[obsidian flax]

Dark Angels eliminator sergeant

[plush swift]

Same for me.

I'm too anxious to paint my 8th edition guardsmen that I have left

I fear I'll fuck up and ruin the last nice models I have before I'm forced to buy the new Cadians

[hollow goblet]

Sign up for a tourney that will require models you haven't painted, its been a real boot up my ass

[jagged sparrow]

Szarekhan Plasmancer

[silver thorn]

i don't care cause it doesn't effect me but they should make an orc version of imperial knights

everyone should get a knights style army

tyranid kaiju, orc stompas, eldar wraithknight

taus biggest battlesuits look goofy af

why does it not have arms???

[simple thorn]

this MF thinks it can be a Hunchback-Longbow double-up

[silver thorn]

nah this is way cooler

[brisk vapor]

Orks do have gargants and meka dreads which are in between knights and armigers in size

[simple thorn]

This MF is the Juggernaut with Arms

[silver thorn]

from what i know (which is not a lot) ork gargants and meka dreads are really bad in the game though

like if you tried to run 4 gargants you would just lose so fast it wouldn't be even a little bit fun

[brisk vapor]

Wouldn't be surprised, Ork rules don't really support lists with huge single models

[silver thorn]

idk what game this is but i like how the pilot is off to the side on the shoulder

[simple thorn]

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

The final game in the Tiberian series

[silver thorn]

that's what I'm saying. give them rules so they can play like imperial knights xD

[silver thorn]

ah, never played command and conquer

i played age of empires with my dad

xD

[simple thorn]

I've played CnC 3, Red Alert 2, Generals, Renegade, and a little bit of RA3 and Tiberian Sun

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/space-tim-curry-gif-7935778

all i know about command and conquer is this

[simple thorn]

TibSun was a bit too prehistoric for me, though. I grew up on Warcraft 2 so I wasn't completely unsued to the ol' left click is select AND move, right click is deselect

[silver thorn]

i played a lot of warcraft iii

[simple thorn]

And that's Tim Curry having the time of his life in RA3

[silver thorn]

the only games my parents let me play were age of empires 2 and warcraft iii

[simple thorn]

Red Alert 2 was pretty good. Had Udo Kier in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnd0qg4I_MM

[silver thorn]

xD

i love Tim curry

where do you read rules for forge world units?

[brisk vapor]

Warhammer community has them as downloadable pdf

Not sure if they were updated with the codexes

[proud glen]

They are somewhat cheaper

or atleast were cheaper

before dataslate

but

UHHHHH 5+ shooting

is bad

for big vehicles

[silver thorn]

well they ARE orks

xD

[plush swift]

true

[fiery dove]

Love me 4+ shooting on Ad Mech

[silver thorn]

I'll wear this while i game 😎

[proud glen]

I am 3+ CSM shooting enjoyer

with Exalted Champion it`s even better, 2+

[fiery dove]

Yeah but I can give them heavy

[silver thorn]

did someone say 3+

[proud glen]

I don`t need heavy

[fiery dove]

Lmao. Yeah. I hate casual ad mech

[proud glen]

Funny fact Death Guard also can give heavy to all units

even

cultists

[fiery dove]

how?

[proud glen]

AND YES

[proud glen]

Stratagem

for 1 CP

[fiery dove]

Which stratagem

[proud glen]

It gives heavy and ignore cover as I remember

[fiery dove]

oh right

yeah

[proud glen]

But it`s in Contagion Range so yeah

[silver thorn]

the optimal 2k sororitas list is 14 battle sisters squads with imagifiers

[proud glen]

But works with DG Dread

[plush swift]

holy shit

[teal wolf]

Does that include based Morven Val?

[silver thorn]

no only sororitas

and a single palatine

xD

we are just PRINTING miracle dice

okay you can bring 3x crusader units for 75 pts

xD

[simple thorn]

Question: anyone know of a good off-brand replacement for Necron Pariahs?
Since they don't fucken exist anymore on the GW store and haven't for ages

[silver thorn]

ask someone to 3d print them for you lol

[simple thorn]

I don't care if they're bad or replaced by Lychguard, THEY AREN'T THOMAS FUCKING MACABEE

[teal wolf]

Lotta bodies. Almost wanna do the same with generic chaos. You can fir 95 bodies in 595 points

[simple thorn]

I don't know anyone who does or can

Do ye know anyone, or print them yourself?
I do have money

Wouldn't be in this fucking hobby if I didn't

[silver thorn]

there are a few printers here i haven't got into it myself

[teal wolf]

Black firday or cyber Monday I may cave on a printer ngl

[simple thorn]

Like I'm on Etsy right now and all I'm getting is generic knock-offs for everything except Pariahs.
And Crypteks, no knock-off crypteks

[silver thorn]

etsy doesn't have the actual models

just proxys

cause etsy will stop copyright infringement

[median thistle]

I gotta find some knock off landspeeders at some point

[simple thorn]

I know, I know
But there are like
really fucking good models on here, knock-off or no

I mean look at this stuff
My camera is shit but these models are not

[silver thorn]

i ordered some repentia proxys i like way more than gws models

[simple thorn]

Seriously though, I don't personally know anyone with a 3-D Printer, and I can't even find STL files for something convincingly similar to a Necron Pariah online, let alone someone selling something

[silver thorn]

didn't gw retcon pariahs from existence?

why is that?

[simple thorn]

I honestly don't know.

If the issue was that it implied that new Necrons can be created or something - well who cares, Tech Priests exist and there's a whole McFucking Forge World that already acts like Necrons right down to their tactics (they teleport onto the battlefield, then teleport out when a unit has taken critical damage and needs to be Reclaimed)

If the issue is that the thingies that are supposed to create Necrons are actually all destroyed or lost or something, well...I mean, I guess that's neat.
Or if the issue is that Necrons are trying to get into fleshy bodies rather than put fleshies in metal, well, make it a Destroyer Cult thing. Their whole thing is destroying life, and Pariahs are really fuckin' good at that

Added bonus - Resurrection Protocols don't work

Bottom line - Pariahs were explicitly created from Humans carrying the Pariah/Null Gene. So if a Sisters of Silence team was lost on a Tomb World, chances are they've probably been Macabee'd.

[silver thorn]

well it seems weird to retcon them then make the current mainline story called pariah nexus

[simple thorn]

EXACTLY

[silver thorn]

and the necrons do mind control on people...

[simple thorn]

I was fucking hyped when I saw Pariah Nexus announced because I thought 'holy fuck, are they really bringing Pariahs back?'

But no

[silver thorn]

id be fine with it if it was just a really rare thing

that most necrons considered extremely perverse

like it its not like the necrons don't know how to do biotransference

[simple thorn]

Pretty sure half of them already have that attitude to regular old Crypteks, but they let them stomp around ruining museums

[silver thorn]

the most irritating thing to me is the never explain WHY the necrons want to reverse biottansference

like it makes sense for the tomb kings cause they are stinky gross rotting bodies

but the necrons have moddable, perfect bodies

the down side is "having no soul" which isn't really even explained how its a bad thing

[simple thorn]

There's a few reasons I guess

[silver thorn]

they don't use the warp for anything and they live forever.

they are basically kind of like nulls

and nulls themselves can live full normal lives

(just everyone hates them)

[simple thorn]

1: Robo-senility. The ages do wear on the ol' cogitators a lot.
2: C'tan Fuckery. It's implied at a couple points in Trazyn and Orikan's Super Friendship Adventure (Infinite and the Divine) that the C'tan actively fucked with the Necron's memories - or at least the Deciever did. An organic body would probably break some of that.
3: The Destroyer and Flayer viruses. They're literally lines of code that probably don't affect living creatures, and regular Necrons do NOT like either of those things. Having a buffer against that would probably be cool as fuck.
4: Their bodies of metal are constant reminders that they were swindled, bamboozled, tricked and possibly even given the run-around by a race of assholes of their own technical creation, and most egotists (which is like, 99.9^ of Necrons with working synapse-simulators) would probably loathe that because even though they're playing Pokemon with their dead gods they're still constantly reminded of how badly they'd been Had.

[silver thorn]

on the robo senility belisarius cawl would like a word

[simple thorn]

As for the lack of a Soul thing - well, when a Necron dies, that's it. They're gone. Sure that's a mercy in 40k, but it's comforting to think that even when there's an Ending, there's a Beginning right after it. A continuation in a new story.
Necrons don't have that. Sure the next chapter would be 'and then they were eaten by daemons that their fuckery created in the earliest days of the universe,' but they'd at least like to know that there's something afterwards.

[silver thorn]

the afterlife is 100% just a bad thing in 40k

[simple thorn]

Cawl has lived so long and burned through so many hard drives he outright has copies of himself backed up on multiple planets, and having to access those from time-to-time has given him cyber-DID

[silver thorn]

also in 40k unless you are a daemon prince of some kind like angron or celestine

when u die in the warp u die for real

so when humans die they just get painfully devoured instantly

or you end up in some screaming wall of faces

its just bad

not having an afterlife is just an upside

the eldar know this and put their dead people in big computers

[simple thorn]

That or they get saved by the Emperor's presence and eaten later

[silver thorn]

ig, that's not explained very well

[simple thorn]

I mean, the Eldar straight up have a direct line to Slaanesh. When they die they straight up get {{REDACTED ON THE BASIS OF SANITY}} before they can yell 'Oh dear, it seems like I've died'

[summer sparrow]

Slaanesh basically self inserted they/themselves into the Aeldari reincarnation cycle

Instead of twiddling thumbs in warp limbo before being reincarnated, now you just get slurped unless you're a phoenix lord, have a spirit stone, or just surround yourself with so much pain and suffering your soul is basically obfuscated to Slaanesh

Or whatever the fuck goes on with the Harlequins

[rare hornet]

And so it begins

[pastel grotto]

Is that alpharius

[rare hornet]

Nope, it’s hard to tell atm but he’s and iron warrior, the helmet actually has a little IW skull in the middle

[simple thorn]

Soul Stones too. Unless you're a Solitaire, in which case you go to Slaanesh.
But then Chegorach swoops in to challenge Slaanesh to a dance-off and a fiddle contest. If they win, your soul goes to Clown Heaven instead. If they lose, they replace your soul with a body double and you go to clown heaven while the body double kicks Slaanesh in the groin region.

or the normal part and the soul goes to Slaanesh anyway

[summer sparrow]

Spirit Stones

Soul Stones is Elder Scrolls

Oooooh

Like Tanith Ghosts with PPsh's

[proud glen]

cringe

[silver thorn]

should i get another bottle of tamiya to make sprue glue xD

[silver thorn]

i ordered some over expensive dice but the packaging is really pretty

[teal wolf]

I kept the envelope lol.

[silver thorn]

yea im keeping it :3

[teal wolf]

I wish they had some Raven guard dice. Unfortunately the chapters colors don't look the best on dice

[summer sparrow]

black... and white... don't look good on dice?

[teal wolf]

Not my personal favorite 🤣

[summer sparrow]

lol

[teal wolf]

Back at the start of my hobby journey I was gaslight to have dice that match my army colors 🤣

[silver thorn]

i got || sororitas dice ||

[teal wolf]

I went for their world eaters set

[fiery dove]

show

[teal wolf]

Very nice

[fiery dove]

Very pretty

[summer sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0IIHNp4DxM

They likely still suck ASS, filthy bois, but they kick ass too

Lots of use of Rhinos and Plague Crawlers

[patent bluff]

I don’t like Nurgle Plague Marine, pre Heresy are the goats

[summer sparrow]

I don't like any Death Guard, always cringe

[proud glen]

[summer sparrow]

But they have done very well at tournament recently is all I'm saying.....
Cringe but strong... Wait that's like their whole thing

The more cringe they get, the harder they are to beat

[patent bluff]

L opinion

Look at these beasts

[summer sparrow]

Oh boohoo "I come from a swamp world and nobody likes me"

[patent bluff]

Bro is taking this personal lol

Also not all of the death guard came from that planet

Pretty sure it was mainly the Primarch

[summer sparrow]

White Consul fanboy, I hate all Nurgle affiliated past and present

[patent bluff]

The rest merely adopted its culture

Boo Womp

Death guard on top

Bro prolly a Raven Guard fan

[summer sparrow]

I said White Consuls

Vitrian Messinius says Nurgle is cringe

[patent bluff]

No idea who that is

[summer sparrow]

Roboute's Lieutenant of the Indomitus Crusade, a Captain of the White Consuls chapter

[patent bluff]

Huh, interesting

[summer sparrow]

A chapter whose homeworld has been wiped out by cringe nurglings, so fuck 'em

[patent bluff]

Damn, me personally I wouldn’t take such an L

[brisk vapor]

imagine having your homeworld destroyed by mere nurglings

[patent bluff]

Right?

[proud glen]

Weaklings

[patent bluff]

Like yeesh

[summer sparrow]

The chapter keeps kept half their strength at Cadia..... And then dispatched more to Terra when the Great Rift threatened Sol

It took the galaxy tearing in half

[patent bluff]

Hey man, sorry for your loss and all that but Cadia didn’t too to well either

It’s okay though, so long as they are kicking and all that

[summer sparrow]

Idgaf about Cadia, your door keeps out an intruder 12 times you can't be that surprised when the 13th time he destroys the door

[proud glen]

Black Crusade Moment

[patent bluff]

Well. I mean yeah I would be surprised

[summer sparrow]

I'm more surprised Cadia lasted that long tbh

[patent bluff]

Average Cadia L

Too bad I don’t care for it all that much

[summer sparrow]

Nah, Cadia W, made Abaddon try a dozen times and fail

A 12:1 ain't an L

[patent bluff]

A 13:0 would have been a W

A loss is a loss dawg

[summer sparrow]

12 Losses is lots more losses

[brisk vapor]

the dozen tries before weren't just for cadia you know

[summer sparrow]

If Cadia stood at the end and Chaos was back in the Eye, I'd say Imperial W

[patent bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-crying-geometry-dash-sad-spunch-agony-god-i-love-trampolining-gif-25250082

[rare hornet]

Ngl HH death guard colour scheme is awesome

If I wasn’t doing iron warriors I’d do deathguard

[patent bluff]

Thank you

It does go insanely hard

[rare hornet]

Absolutely

Not the biggest fan of their unique terminator design, but that’s just me

[visual turret]

Considering picking up Mozrog

[rare hornet]

What’s that?

Quite excited for getting my iron warriors done as a HH/40K army, the contemptor has already proven its worth

[visual turret]

Mozrog Skragbad

[rare hornet]

Oh him, completely forgot he existed

Yeah go for it!

[visual turret]

It’s such a cool model

[rare hornet]

I wasn’t a fan as I don’t feel squig riders fit 40K but if you wanna get him then go for it

[jaunty trail]

☕ finally i work on my Gladiator Lancer... first parts are cutted out of the sprue and soonish i will prime some main parts 😎

[summer sparrow]

They do when the squigs have cyber legs and exhaust pipes in their chest

[rare hornet]

Eh, I don’t like them really, they feel too AoS

I like me killa kanz and buggies

[silver thorn]

not mine, just reposting

[median flame]

Just got this from my bday got a lot more I have yet to build

[silver thorn]

my problem with the death guard is you look at them and you think SURELY THIS IS THE TANKIEST INFANTRY IN THE GAME. NOTHING CAN KILL THESE DUDES.

and then they are like technical debuffers with vehicle spam

[median flame]

Also quick question what size magnets do y’all recommend for vehicles? And drill bits for Bolters?

[fiery dove]

I miss 9th death guard. Where they were just, resilient. I guess in 10th they lowerd the S and AP of weapons but still. There’s no invul or FNP saves on the DG infantry. At least they get T5, but still. It just, kinda sucks when they don’t live up to the Death Guard resonance

Resilience*

[silver thorn]

I'm a noob at this game

so i have no context for what used to be good

I'm just mad that arco flagellents are better than repentia

repentia should get an entire extra rule on top of what they have

[silver thorn]

does a 4+ mean i pass on a 4 5 or 6

or just 5 or 6

[visual turret]

Any number is included

So a 4+ would be 4 and up, no?

4/5/6

[silver thorn]

cool ty, that's what i thought

[plush swift]

My 2 other sister sets are coming

[tawny glade]

Repentia got hit absurdly hard with nerfs

They got hit with the general nerf to melee S and AP

And then another one

[jagged sparrow]

“My Lord. I have been pilfered”

Nerf Arco. They’re such a pain

[proud glen]

Casual Blood Angels

[plush swift]

Why is he kidnapping the necron 😢

[silver thorn]

stealy boyz

[plush swift]

Free my man

He did nothing wrong

[proud glen]

Nuh UH, HE IS GOING TO BECOME NEW PLASTSTEEL PACKS

[plush swift]

I’m gonna eat you

[primal plinth]

Another one for the British Museum

[plush swift]

I guess

[dark violet]

Boltgun

[dark violet]

Necron just has no clue what to do he has no directive for this scenario

[karmic coral]

Powered stealth cloak WIP

[dark violet]

Also the bolt gun is my first attempt at dry brushing

[silver thorn]

I just had my palatine and canononess come in

another project i need to prime aaaa

[twilit token]

my army so far, I have to paint a few units yet

[toxic rampart]

Beakies! Krump em Boyz!

They look good so far! Keep learning and painting!

[twilit token]

WHOLE LOT OF WAAAAAAAGGGHHH

that orc looks sick

[toxic rampart]

Thank ya! Working on fleshing out my army now. Just hit 2k points for base models. Going to get things to swap in and flesh em out.

[twilit token]

I'm just shy of 2k BT they are my first army :3

[toxic rampart]

I also built a goofy ass battle wagon because funny

[twilit token]

its a good meme

[twilit token]

needs more daka

but it looks good fr

[toxic rampart]

It does. It has its limit of 4 big shootas, but I need to figure out how to attach a Kannon.

[turbid brook]

They look great so far I like how clean the eyes looks I bet the rest will look great if you keep doin what you’re doin

[turbid brook]

That tank looks ridiculous, thrown together and poorly maintained overall it’s the perfect ork tank for da boiz

[twilit token]

perfect for da waaagh

[turbid brook]

Exactly

[turbid brook]

Da boss is lookin good 👍

[turbid brook]

Ooooh that looks niiice and I love how clean that armor

[karmic coral]

Thank you!

[rare hornet]

Muddy boi

[twilit token]

this looks phenomenal so far

[turbid brook]

That looks fantastic I like how his feet sorta blend in with the mud from the grime build up

[toxic rampart]

Thanks! Gets to be used next week with 8 Burna Boyz on board for group clearing

[turbid brook]

I really gotta get back to painting my genestealer cult leman Russ

[rare hornet]

Thank youuu!!!

[rare hornet]

Thank you! I’ve been working on trying to ensure there’s a fair bit more weathering on my iron warriors

[turbid brook]

They always got the worst the great crusade so that’s more than fitting

[rare hornet]

Got some bared wire I’m going to experiment with on my terminators when I do their bases

[turbid brook]

Oooh that sounds fun I hope it goes well

[visual turret]

I've bought an orc

[toxic rampart]

Orks! Yeah!

[visual turret]

that is gorgeous what chapter/kit is that

[rare hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/orks-ork-waaaagh-slugga-boy-dawn-of-war-gif-15592891

[rare hornet]

That is the HH praetor with axe (with a custom helmet)

Being painted up to be iron warriors

[summer sparrow]

F's in chat please

I have failed a print, ending a dozens long perfect print record

[plush swift]

F

[karmic coral]

F

[rare hornet]

E

[summer sparrow]

I failed to clean the build plate of my resin printer fully, and a tiny piece of base skate remained so when the print began the bed was misaligned and half the base layer didn't attach, some parts salvaged but half my Knight Torso is wasted resin

Last fail was in the spring when I drunkenly made a print job with no supports

[turbid brook]

F

[jaunty trail]

https://tenor.com/view/top-gun-icemav-top-gun-maverick-top-gun-maverick-funeral-funeral-gif-26848803

@rare hornet question: Which Armor Color do have the BT Tank Crew Marines?

Black as the rest?

[rare hornet]

Red, as it would contrast nicely

[jaunty trail]

kk Thx.. Then i will try to make one that look like that

[rare hornet]

No worries

[drifting stratus]

I used to paint before my carpal tunnel got bad

these are years back now

[turbid brook]

Looks awesome man

[turbid brook]

That gold and the trim that looks incredible nice one man

[drifting stratus]

spraycan gold too, so i wa surprised how it came out

[static elk]

Thanks, i feel guilty using black armor but like, their supposed to be black

[drifting stratus]

man i wanna try painting again

[static elk]

Isnt there surgery for carpel tunnel?

[drifting stratus]

yea, hands still arent great though

[static elk]

Ah thats rough

I work in the trades so my hands are already kinda shaky

[drifting stratus]

holding a brush for any longer than a min or so makes them hurt

[static elk]

Damn

Btw any tips on painting orks? my buddy ordered the starter kill team set with orks and vets and he wants me to paint them

[drifting stratus]

im the last person to ask tbf, i havent painted in years

[static elk]

Yeah it was more of a general question to the discord, but i get it

[turbid brook]

That gold and the fuckin scales goddamn boi that is fantastic

[twilit token]

Black templar??

[jaunty trail]

Yup

Currently workin' on a Gladiator Lancer

[twilit token]

they follow the same scheme as sword brothers

i would say red and black

[jaunty trail]

Current wip

[twilit token]

The Emperor protects, keep up the fine work brother!

[jaunty trail]

Crusade well battlebrother!

Ye i try... Hoping that by Dorn that damn rainy weather will stop tomorrow, so that i can prime the main parts of the Gladiator Lancer...

[twilit token]

Keep me posted on the progress brother. By Dorn there will not be enough distance in the galaxy to outrun the glory of our crusade

[jaunty trail]

I will keep you on track, as there is progress.
If you want i can port some pic's in your DM's of the current ongoing crusade detatchment 😉

[twilit token]

that would be sick, im always down to see some dank models. Especially if they are BT

[jaunty trail]

Teleport incoming ^^

[plush swift]

Do underpainting and use a transparent green, red for shadows, yellow for highlights

[static elk]

thanks

[toxic rampart]

I like that!

[terse dew]

Wish somebody made a little 3D printed red dot like the Veteran has

[pallid lichen]

Almost forgot I had this boy watching over me every day while I play darktide

[true path]

nuln oil should be illegal

[naive umbra]

The reason the Stormsurge has no arms is because it's not a battlesuit. It's an open topped mobile artillery walker. Basically like a version of those open topped SPG artillery vehicles in WW2 if you stuck a pair of legs on it instead of tracks.

[summer sparrow]

"You wouldn't download a millenia old Imperial Knight"

[slow saffron]

A project I started a while ago I need to finish one day

I hope you guys can see where I was going with it

[plush swift]

is traitors cures out????

[slow saffron]

not the place to ask but yes part one is

[plush swift]

i thought i was in general my bad

[hollow goblet]

Bit of a long shot but would anyone happen to have a box of base Cawdor Gang/Ash Wastes Nomads lying around that they don't plan on using? Need cultists and you won't catch me dead using the emo khorne units that are most chaos undivided miniatures

[true path]

yesss

[slow saffron]

need to bust out the greenstuff one of these days and get these done

i also have a few bodies that are going to be my reject team but they will need work

and an old valk at my friends house that i can make the extraction point

[hollow goblet]

Yeah and I'm honestly pissed off that GW tried to pull the "Death Guard's identity was never about being tanky what do you mean??"

When the Death Guard's lore states they always heavily prioritized extra armour plating and slow advancing frontline troops with tank support, the death guard are on average much broader and a little taller than the average space marine, Nurgles gift literally makes them borderline immune to damage and they can't feel pain, Mortarians entire identity is built on the idea that he got physically stronger and more resistant to pain and damage by being constantly damaged by poison gases. Not to mention they're the chaos inverse of the Salamanders: who are a tanky, slow advancing gunline army with tank support

Death Guard are absolutely defined by their tankiness, I understand they wanted that to be Votann's thing: but their entire justification for it was pure gaslighting (plus Votann aren't tanky or elite anymore so what's the point)

[fiery dove]

Also, digging deeper. They use Mark 3 power armor which was designed to be thicker and more protective

[sudden crypt]

Slow progress on my big black templar terminator.
Managed to find some old unused Contemptor dread fingers which saved me from having to try and GS each finger (thank the emperor)

Currently working on the sword and shoulder pads, then onto refinement and making everything look nice. A tabard, some filigree, other ornamentation, chapter iconography, and something cool to put on top of his armour.
Also planning on giving him a Cenobyte Servitor on his base, who'll be hefting around an extra chonky bolter for the bossman (similar to Helbrecht)

The unpainted Termi is an old Dark Vengeance box one for size comparison.

[plush swift]

totally dont send me information where that comes from as I need a replacement part for my knights due to it breaking

[summer sparrow]

I don't have info on Questoris Knights, but can send if other

[plush swift]

I said dont 🙂

[summer sparrow]

my mistake, citizen

[plush swift]

we are all law abiding here

[silver thorn]

Ive ordered small stuff from here and it was very nice quality

@plush swift

I think they clip it off the sprue themselves tho

i might order the canis rex kit for myself for christmas :>

[plush swift]

cough thats a piracy site, I would highly recommend deleting that link

cough

[silver thorn]

i plan too

well its not piracy, its just

direct copyright infringement

they are chinese so they just dont care lol

[plush swift]

I also dont need it, I can just sculpt everything I want in blender

plus it fits the style I like more

[silver thorn]

oh thats pretty cool. I know the STL files for most things are around as well

I dont have skills like that, in scuplting or 3D printing

most ive ever done is like minor edits to warcraft iii models when I was a kid lol

rip warcraft iii 😭

[plush swift]

most of my grebels I have made with clay and put them on there

classically trained artist and all, so I have some level of knowledge on how to sculpt

not great at it but yeah

[silver thorn]

ive sculpted with clay before but only stuff I had to put in the oven

[plush swift]

Slight addiction

[summer sparrow]

The joy of printing out a Knight instead of buying it. You feel like the Sacristan overseeing production of every piece of a new war machine for the great House

[fair lagoon]

Your Home is now a Forgeworld

[summer sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/darktide-adeptus-mechanicus-mechanicus-warhammer-tech-priest-gif-14919800332216808310

[silver thorn]

nooooooooo xD

then 3000 point of sisters later

https://tenor.com/view/sister-of-battle-warhammer40k-flamer-adepta-sororitas-flamethrower-gif-15890264

[plush swift]

wip

[summer sparrow]

Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs!

[jaunty trail]

Stubber tank crew marine 90% done... some flaws that need to be corrected... and shading are missing

[silver thorn]

not a fan of the default imagifiers statue personally

I think Im gonna replace it with a shield with a skeleton on it

i want to make the slogan for my army Redempta Traitoris

redeem traitors

(by killing them)

[jaunty trail]

Then i would recommend a relic shield like number 09

or 05

[silver thorn]

Yea 9 was what I ordered

I need to figure out a way of attaching it to a some sort of pole though

Im honestly thinking of ordering some bits that are warhammers

because the pole is thicker than flags usually are and has more detail.

number 10 I could attach the shield to the warhammer and cut the bottom of it off so its positioned at a good height in the imagifiers hands. it will look REALLY cool

yea done, this is going to be awesome. when I actually finish them in like 3 months ill have some real cool imagifiers to show off for it

[lavish crescent]

Anyone else order the MK Emperor model?

Stripping my whole custode army to repaint to better standard, fuck NMM, gonna do alot more detail work and make them actually look good

For big E

[summer sparrow]

You use acronyms I don't know

[toxic stratus]

majorkill, nonmetallic metal, emperor

[lavish crescent]

???

Ohhh

[lavish crescent]

The Major Kill Emperor mini

[sinful depot]

Worked on my second mini today think I did good

[plain granite]

Termie Chaplain I finished last night.

[crisp nimbus]

Anyone know of infographics or game aids for the new 10th edition of WH40K?

[summer sparrow]

Probably the most needed

[exotic roost]

There are some websites that habe formats for stratagem and rules printing

[lavish crescent]

Check wahpedia

[crisp nimbus]

I found this (For anyone else that is following and would like it too)

This too

Additionally many many other things here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-40000-downloads/

[visual turret]

14 is so cleannnnnn

[lavish crescent]

Wish I knew about this when I was making my 30k army. Would have upgraded my axe prateor to have a hammer

[midnight locust]

Agreed. Had to reference that page so many times lol

[summer sparrow]

30,000 points? you must have, like, twenty Custodes

<obvious joke, I know about HH>

Know what I love about 3D printing, I can just change shit before printing, it's my Forge World bitches!

Something is different about this Castigator Ammo fanny pack, brownie points to whoever tells me what

[formal lichen]

Shouldnt the slot for the ammo belt be on the left?

[summer sparrow]

Correct, if I was gonna have the gun mounted in the left arm at all, but gun should be on right hand in my American brain

Mirror function ftw

[formal lichen]

Better yet have two slots..

https://tenor.com/view/gundam-wing-heavyarms-gif-5781797

Building that ammo belt on my castigator was hell, 2 parts per block and a hell of a lotta blocks

[summer sparrow]

The whole belt is a fixed piece on these files, so easier set to but less control in the where

[formal lichen]

I do like the floppy belt

Kinda wish crusader had double avenger gatlings

[plush swift]

Flying Nuns

[brisk vapor]

Some oils, tomorrow final touches if it needs any

[silver thorn]

still in love with that flag

[midnight cairn]

You must be insanely proud of this chonk. It's so beautiful!

[fickle dagger]

Idk how this got no love shit is spectacular

[acoustic tulip]

That looks great!

Insane detail, I wish I had the same skill

[plain granite]

Thank you!

[devout lake]

Mediocre at painting lightning, but I like it

[copper siren]

Scared to edgehighlight this monster

[summer sparrow]

it's gonna pop!

[hollow goblet]

Nearly finished my SoT's

Have one infernal master and one scarab occult sorcerer to paint and I'm ready for tourney in a few days

[summer sparrow]

I really wanna play a thousand point game as Aeldari with nothing but Phoenix Lords and a Warlock conclave

Conclave is important cause they can hold the Battle Host enhancements that allow you to earn more Fate dice, keep them back on the home objective and just have 7 epic heros running into the field

1475 points you can give them each a minimum unit of their associated aspects, and for 2000 full teams of the aspect warriors

[lavish crescent]

Jokes on you, I have like 40 custodes so I have about 60k points!!

[summer sparrow]

LOL

[silver thorn]

black and red is probably the best, right?

[summer sparrow]

well which convent you going for?

[silver thorn]

probably a homebrew one so I can do whatever I want

I want like an inquisitorial / battle line focus

and Im going to take inquisitorial henchmen unit with grayfax

[sonic minnow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/663683290355597314/1174492396839505991/20231115_231640.mp4?ex=6567ca48&is=65555548&hm=60c73f6beb510a1b70b20448e9606ac983a040ae95e9af33e0bd52fa68c8fdcc&

[brisk vapor]

Thanks! It's up there. There's a few things I'd wish I'd done differently but I'm happy with it 😄 Next titan will be better

[summer sparrow]

oh shit, I just found out there's a fan revival project for Eternal Crusade....

[urban harbor]

really?

[fair lagoon]

Yeah

Just SM and CSM rn

I didnt tested it tho

[lavish crescent]

Yep, RU servers are lively but the EU and US aren't really alive

[lavish crescent]

Girl boss army?

[silver thorn]

YEA

and celestine 😄

[lavish crescent]

So yeah a girl boss army

Respect

[dark violet]

Am planning to get celestine and grayfax myself just to glue grayfax to celestines base

[plush swift]

white red and black is pretty

[teal wolf]

So this is Kevin

[simple thorn]

scremy boi

[teal wolf]

He's gonna debut in an apocalypse game this weekend. And probably die horribly

[patent bramble]

Absolutely fantastic base work!

[teal wolf]

Thank you very much! 🥹

[summer sparrow]

it's P2P and the group behind it seems to be russian, but I'm gonna download it when I'm home from work

[silver thorn]

I glued my cannoness wrong

😦

[teal wolf]

Plastic glue?

[silver thorn]

tamiya

[teal wolf]

Steady knife work it is sister

[plush swift]

how

[rare hornet]

Always got a soft spot for the reaver

[plush swift]

First time using a air brush

[silver thorn]

oh nice! was thinking of getting one

[plush swift]

It’s nice

[summer sparrow]

I watched a painting suggestions video and it made me decide I needed an airbrush

cause this guy with beautiful minis said "The best use for this paintbrush, is to type in 'air brush' into google and buy that instead"

[teal wolf]

Since I bought one I have yet to get hit with hobby burnout. Not doing the base layers by brush is sooooo nice you wouldn't believe

[solemn falcon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104466465740038245/1174606418649821286/IMG_20231116_090620.jpg?ex=65683479&is=6555bf79&hm=88053188a7d66e4bfd484bc6a2024db52a3d33a4c12394f76b731551a4e92673&

grithblade

[summer sparrow]

don't tempt me, I have STLs for a Baneblade

[short pawn]

Holy shit that model is insane

[solemn falcon]

i knew it was big... but i was still surprized :D

it is huge

good thing i bought an airbrush a while back

not painting that behemoth by brush :D

[solemn falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/chill-like-that-gif-26087950

[dark violet]

now paint every single bolt individually

[summer sparrow]

that's why dry brushing exists

[solemn falcon]

drybrushing is a shortcut that tue wolf sigma males should never take

[rare hornet]

I’ve done that to a knight, wasn’t that bad

Silver bolts on the knights bring out a fair bit of detail

[dark violet]

imagine how safe guardsmen must feel inside a baneblade

[solemn falcon]

and powerful

rady unleah 11 barrels of hel

[proud glen]

They just don`t know that it is just Group Metal Coffin

💀

[rare hornet]

Quite, although ironically it’s the stormlord crews that are the most gung-ho of the lot

I suppose when you’re armed with a Vulcan megabolter that generally happens

[solemn falcon]

shadowsword crews prolly dont feel that safe

[dark violet]

a baneblade cannot legally be used inside a sororitas army right?

[solemn falcon]

going against titans and all that

[rare hornet]

Nope, purely guard armies

[dark violet]

sadness

[proud glen]

NO ORGAN BANEBLADES

STOP

[dark violet]

YES

[proud glen]

IT WILL NOT BE TUNRED INTO MOVING TEMPLE

[dark violet]

YES IT WILL

[solemn falcon]

from a moving fortress to a moving monatery

[rare hornet]

Yeah shadowswords aren’t that good on their own vs titans. Generally they have to hide and wait for a shot

[solemn falcon]

with a few sisters repentia strapped to the side

[dark violet]

just take some exorcist and sister rhinoparts and slap them onto the baneblade

[rare hornet]

Apparently as well shadowswords are the worst one to be a crewman on

[fair lagoon]

Just stay with dropping churches from the orbit smh

[solemn falcon]

shadowswords are also the coolest

[dark violet]

god i love the sororitas

[proud glen]

"Forward, For The Dark Gods!"

[rare hornet]

Because of how much they had to take out to fit the volcano cannon in it’s an awful environment to work in, they also break down a lot apparently

[solemn falcon]

cant the sororitas take a baneblade as an allied unit?

[rare hornet]

But the shadowsword was always a stopgap design

[dark violet]

isnt it that you can take any normal imperial unit as ally?

[teal wolf]

Fooking based

[rare hornet]

I’m not sure how it works in 10th I think it needs to have the “agent of the imperium” keyword?

Knights have special rules for it

[dark violet]

if i do decide to get a baneblade i will make it sororitas based as much as i can

[rare hornet]

My next baneblade is going to the iron warriors for Horus heresy

[dark violet]

baneblade costs more than my big sororitas box

which had 5 individual boxes inside

[rare hornet]

Yes, I have 2 already :3

[dark violet]

send one over

[solemn falcon]

that is a cool fucking baneblade

[dark violet]

damn nearly all sororitas boxes are sold out in the store i use

[solemn falcon]

luckily you can use a few confugurations, and you dont even need to magnetize

like i can use basic baneblade hull here

or the one for shadowsword etc

[dark violet]

only 4 units are not sold out

[solemn falcon]

but big boom doe

[dark violet]

oh damn a new sororitas novel released in september but no paperback -.-

[silver thorn]

can you tell the 4 places i broke my canoness assembling her??

[rare hornet]

Oh I’m just talking in a crewman’s perspective

[teal wolf]

That's a rad backdrop for pics

[silver thorn]

i just printed out a picture of a 40k church so you don't have to look at my keyboard xD

my first 2 40k models

palatine was nice and easy but cannoness 😬

[solemn falcon]

the soon to be statistics may wallow in their sorrow. Besides suffering grows character

[silver thorn]

i keep hearing rhinos are free but they still only 20 dollars cheaper on ebay

i want so many rhinos xD

[plush swift]

I want to get a dreadnaught and kit bash it into a sisters one

[silver thorn]

that would be awesome.

we get these instead

or the mortifiers

xD

[plush swift]

Ik

But I like the stubbiness of dreds

[summer sparrow]

It makes sense for Sisters of Battle not having Dreads, they're not as resource intensive as Astartes or Custodes, so there's less imperative to preserve them as long as possible.

But also the heavy religious side of it, a Sister doesn't cease to be when she dies, she goes on to fight by the Emperor's side

Having Dreads could be viewed as robbing the Emperor of a warrior by the throne.

[toxic stratus]

for all intents and purposes, they tried. I guess dreads are iconic units for sm and gw wanted sisters to have something unique

[teal wolf]

That's a relic!

[silver thorn]

EPHRAEL STERN??

😮

[simple thorn]

Wait, she is/was a Dreadnought?

Last I checked she was ruining Ahriman's plans to get a library card to kill suns with