40k-minis-and-armies

[pastel grotto]

AGAGAGAGA

[silver thorn]

i tried mixing ultramarine blue with white

to get like a sky blue

but its just gray

:<

[proven grove]

My fellow Darktide Gamers.
Say hello to my new Terminators.

[brisk vapor]

Hello Terminators

[plush swift]

The brush you're most comfortable with

[silver thorn]

i ended up using a round 2

[plush swift]

I use flats personally

[naive umbra]

Inb4 they release Kroot as standalone Xenos and piss off all us T'au players by taking away one of our few auxiliary model lines.

[carmine meadow]

My uncle bought T'au how do I disown him?

[brisk vapor]

T'au cool

[teal wolf]

Hello terminators

[visual turret]

oh wow that's a really pretty scheme

[edgy jackal]

There's a combination of household materials (CA glue, PVA glue, baking soda or alcohol) that causes the resultant goop to bubble and form these nurgle-esque shapes. I can picture it in my head, but I forgot what materials react like this. Anyone know what I am talking about?

[stray elm]

Also i’ve been unsure for a while my my marines are accustomed scheme sort of meant to be like crimson fist but the terminators are different because I didn’t just want to paint blue the whole time but instead of silver, would something like a red look better?

I know I need to redo the power fist and have like the top cover be blue

For reference the rest of the Marines look like this although these guys might also need a little bit of redoing

[edgy jackal]

Found it, it's a PVA layer with CA/super glue drops, which forms these patterns.

Not mine, just a reference picture if other people want to make tyranid/nurgle effects

[silver thorn]

my first based and painted model

the helmet got me fucked up Dx

[primal plinth]

That looks fucking disgusting

Awesome

[dark violet]

how do i easily fix my paint being too runny?

[silver thorn]

shake it

SHAKE IT

[dark violet]

since i started painting my minis again my retributor gold has been too watery

I HAVE

its just reverse drying

[silver thorn]

sorry i just learned that today lol

i learned so many things

😭

[dark violet]

like suddenly it stopped drying

and i dunno absorbed all water in the atmosphere or so

[silver thorn]

do you have a dehydrator in your house

[dark violet]

pfff do i look rich

[silver thorn]

a lot of air conditioners have that as a setting

mine does

[dark violet]

my country doesnt use air conditioners

[silver thorn]

ah sorry ;_;

Americans must stay cool 😎

[dark violet]

your houses are also made of paper <-<

[silver thorn]

mine is brick

😄

[dark violet]

mine is brick AND concrete

[silver thorn]

give me this in darktide

[dark violet]

Nah give me this

[silver thorn]

when you look the ogryn in the eyes

[dark violet]

just rain down missiles on a horde

and then impale a chaos spawn on a custodian spear

[naive umbra]

Why does that look like some of the missiles would just hit her hood and explode her head if they were fired?

Mostly the left pod

[dark violet]

nah

[naive umbra]

Maybe just the angle though

[fallen beacon]

that is so well made I thought it was a dollar store pizza

[arctic stag]

Just kitbashed a custom techmarine!! He's so cool, probably one of the coolest models I've ever built

[last stratus]

Finished Dreg Rager conversion

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[peak flicker]

Rough finish

[edgy jackal]

Good job man

[short pawn]

I've been struggling to find a guard fatigue recipe that I like, honest criticism on this rough draft of the shading? It hasn't been cleaned up yet but the idea is there.

My plan is to lightly streaking grime the clothing afterwards

Going to nuln oil recess shade the armor and do light sponge weathering on it

[hollow goblet]

Playing a combat patrol tourney in half an hour wish me luck fuckers

[plush swift]

what dont you like about the recipes out there?

[short pawn]

Oh it's nothing that I dislike, I just like finding my own method

I've only painted a couple miniatures and all the stuff i read is so intimidating

[toxic rampart]

Good luck!

[jaunty trail]

Current wip on gladiator lancer..

[visual turret]

Just needs his shading

[plush swift]

Hate to say this but painting tau is so much than sisters

[plush swift]

What color do you use for the fatigue

[plush swift]

well good. I'm going to avoid giving you feedback though as you're new and most of what I have to say will get fixed as you paint more and gain muscle memory

so they are non-issues

[lavish crescent]

Remember to highlight the black

[junior meadow]

Pilots for a Valkyrie?

[midnight locust]

Gunners

[junior meadow]

nice

[midnight locust]

Pilots

[junior meadow]

awesome

ive always wanted a valkyrie

[midnight locust]

It's a very cool model, even though I won't put in on tabletop

[short pawn]

Fellow valkyrie interior painter

[light zenith]

Three more to be built tommorow, then its priming time.

[sudden crypt]

Some work done on the Power Fist, testing a prototype shoulder pad, and WIP Big Bolter

[short pawn]

Yeah i know my painting is all over the place. It makes me sad but I'll always take any advice

[plush swift]

hey, its a learning process, you can always fix mistakes. Dont feel bad about them

mistakes and imperfections are where the art is

[short pawn]

So far this is the best model I've painted

[plush swift]

perfection is devoid of personality

[short pawn]

Actual badass quote

[plush swift]

i preach what i teach

Within art theory, good is just an opinion and so there is no factual good

so if you think its good, then it is good

paint for yourself and not for others

[short pawn]

I think some of my work is at least average and that's more than fine by me

No matter what I pull up to my local game store with, they always cheer my stuff on

Watching youtube channels of people painting and visting the 40k subreddit has definitely given me unrealistic standards. I assumed a lot of people in the hobby paint to that meticulous detailed level but its far from that

Not like in a negative way, they still paint really cool stuff

[lament path]

'There are more armies of grey models than there are fully painted models' - Sun Tzu

[short pawn]

Also a decent job I like to think

[short pawn]

I really thought everybody had fully painted armies 💀

[north fjord]

@silver thorn It's an old painting, but it's something.

[hollow goblet]

Tourney did not go well but I did manage to win 1 game so I'll take it

[simple thorn]

Indeed.

I mean, sure, I can try and make something look absolutely flawless, with no scuffs or anything whatsoever.
or, simply because I lost the base he was supposed to have, I can turn a Necromunda Enforcer into a god damn badass who went through hell and came back alive.

Sergeant Farley had fucks to give.
Had.

[plush swift]

The trick is to watch people paint in full, if you want you can watch me paint something, I tend to be much faster than the average painter because I have decades of fine art training, what helps is also I'm very quick to think of what I need and I know how to mix it all out of the most bizarre things.

For instance my grays do not contain black at all.

I just use cobalt teal, ultramarine, bismuth yellow, cadmium lemon, pyrrole red, quin magenta, burnt umber and titanium white

Sometimes I switch up the pyrrole red for cadmium red... And if I'm feeling really crazy I use raw umber

I have hundreds of paints but I only use 8

[plush swift]

It's something that gets lost on people in this hobby all the time

It's why this is not truly a full art form yet, It doesn't have the artist's perspective as of yet

It tends to fight it as well

[tawdry spear]

do people paint before they put the mini together or after?
Or do people do both?

[edgy jackal]

Depends on the mini. I used to assemble them fully, to have them ready to play, but now I only fully assemble minis if that doesn't create awkward gaps that make the model harder to paint.

[mint merlin]

You understimate the size of the various piles of shame aroun the world

Personally I don't have a pile but that's just because I don't have much money to spare, but if I had it I would absolutely have one

the number of times I went into a shop to buy two boxes or more because I had a kitbash idea, then left after seeing the prices...

[hollow goblet]

aaand I left my minis on the train

Tried my absolute best to have a good day today but a bad day was trying to have me apparently

[silver thorn]

I'M SO SORRY

🫂

you had a nice box too

ahh that's so sad I'm sorry

any hope of recovery??

[simple thorn]

Personally, I paint first then assemble

Sometimes with really finnicky bits with fuck-all points of contact it does lead to glue smearing and paint getting rubbed off, but that's an acceptable loss imo.
The alternative is trying to paint with the damn thing assembled

I mean
Have a look at any ad-mech unit and tell me that shit is easy to paint post-assembly

Look at those coat insides. I could not for the life of me get both the coat AND the legs looking that good if this shit was pre-built THEN painted

I'd have lost my fucking mind around the fifth paint-over attempt

[primal plinth]

I wouldn’t paint the pieces individually for the most part but yeah you just can’t be basing/painting Skitarii without subassemblies

[sterile grail]

admec newest invention

[simple thorn]

...I like those plasma guns

[simple thorn]

Also I am still buying one of the leggy lads the moment they come out

[sterile grail]

gotta have the high ground

tactical advantage

[toxic stratus]

I like painting "important" bits like heads and capes and backpacks in subassembly but I don't really mind hard to reach parts. "If I can't reach it, they won't see it"

some people like to paint inside their tanks, some people just slap contrast over zenithal and call it a day

it depends on how much effort you're willing to spend

[short pawn]

I'm going through that current dilemma rn

I really want my soon to be purchased baneblade built as soon as possible but idk if I'll regret it

[silver thorn]

damn i was able to clean up and fix a lot

but the helmet is borked

I'll just look at her from behind lol

[tulip fiber]

Finished my first Eldrad

[river sierra]

Lil salemander finished up

[dark violet]

thats why i paint each piece before i put it all together

like i assemble the legs then i paint the legs

i assemble the upper body, paint it and when all is done i put it all together

[brisk vapor]

did some photography practice with older models and it's starting to look pretty good, just need to get better lightning instead of the single desktop lamp I've got

[light zenith]

oh damn, thats like an actual work of art. the glow on Horus's head is amazing, all of them are amazing even.

[red sparrow]

in contrast to the previous pics, mine are not as good, but i just finished this knight and kinda want to share

photography isn't my strong suit either

[light zenith]

"the best paint palette is your cutting mat" gang 🤝

[red sparrow]

i am just very messy, i actually have a wet palette (and that one you see in the image too)

[pastel grotto]

Biovore purchased.

We win these

[pastel grotto]

What in the fuck

[brisk vapor]

Thank you

[bronze knoll]

WIP Loyalist Khârn

[toxic stratus]

great idea but please clean your mold lines and sprue bits

[primal plinth]

Archeotech spotted

[bronze knoll]

That is why it's a WIP, please don't be snarky

[toxic stratus]

it was a direct advice, I don't get how did you find me snarky.

[visual turret]

@rare hornet opinion required

I wanna do the core/reactor piece in bronze, but do I do the shroud pieces also in bronze? Or just the exhaust bits and the shrouds in silver?

[rare hornet]

leave the shrouds as the armour colour, do the exhaust tips silver and the reactor bronze

[visual turret]

sound

[wild monolith]

3 assembled, 3 to go

[wild monolith]

I managed to get 100 32mm base pieces for $35 from Amazon instead of getting from GW for like $60 CAD. It's just ridiculous. I still got my Tactical space marines on 25 mm base, which I'll convert all of them.

[plush swift]

I do both, it depends on what is getting painted

[plush swift]

thats why i always put my contact information in my bag

you'd be shocked at how often I get my items returned

[visual turret]

Dread work

Also my chaplain

[novel atlas]

What in the god fresh hell Emperor am I looking at?

[toxic rampart]

The Future

[jovial siren]

Has someone experience with diy washes and can tell me, if I really need to buy inks for them or if it's ok to use normal paint to make my own wash too? And maybe has a recipe, as I somehow find only ink recipes

[wary trench]

vrrrrrr, woooooosh, brrrrrr

[midnight locust]

Nyoom noises

[rare hornet]

He do be going

[lavish crescent]

Looks fucking gorgeous, but yeah needs a clean

[visual turret]

@rare hornet

gentle nuln oil stripes to give her tiger shark-style patterns

[rare hornet]

Oooh I love it

[silver thorn]

this helmet is coming out SO much better than my palantine

[plush swift]

What’s up with the grainy texture on the armor

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I probably would've but it was the first time I'd ever taken the case out so it wasn't really prepped properlu

[plush swift]

yeah it sucks when it happens

there is a chance someone might have turned it into lost and found

[formal lichen]

Chonky suit done

[plush swift]

How do you paint large areas without leaving brush marks

[formal lichen]

Thin coats

[clear fulcrum]

Thin your paints

https://youtu.be/wxWgsqSf74s?si=UBTgsVrAP9wJgcju

Iconic video

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I live in a reasonably low income high theft area so I'm not exactly gonna get my hopes up, but I'm about to ring the metro company to see if there's anything in lost and found

[silver thorn]

not done yet, spent 5 hours painting lmao

have to go work:(

[mint merlin]

At first glance I was wondering why his sword had a looted sign on top, which struck me as oddly orky

[mint merlin]

That usually happens when you spray paint primer at a bad angle, the paint comes out with less bonding agent and looks more like a powder.

[silver thorn]

i spray painted from like a 45 degree angle

its zenithal highlighting

you get an even black coat then you do just like one spray from the top and it shades everything

[plush swift]

What’s the best way to prevent burnout

[silver thorn]

i think i need to get a new red paint. i know red is usually not very opaque but i worked up from brown and it took me like 10 layers to get it actually red lol

vallejo bloody red

it was very very thin out of the bottle.

i tried mixing it with brown to thicken it and it didn't work very well

then i thickened it with black and it was perfect but i didn't realize until like 5 minutes before i had to stop

[silver thorn]

idk i have the opposite problem

i want to paint but i have homework

[mint merlin]

Just telling of my experience

Holding the spray can straight gives me much smoother results (and shaking the can ofc)

[wild monolith]

Crimson Fist Captain Alejandro Guerrero's elite squad, Primaris Aggressors, assembled.

[short pawn]

The baneblade is so fucking massive its not even funny

Its a little funny

[tiny cairn]

Especially when you take into account that the comissar is probably like 7ft tall

[short pawn]

It's such an awesome model but the idea of magenztizing some of it is so stressful

[plush swift]

what variant are you going to build

[short pawn]

I'm gonna do a pentablade

[plush swift]

thats going to be sick

[dark violet]

i love how i look for a gif with "eat paint" and one of the first gifs is charlie and matt

https://tenor.com/view/barstool-pmt-drink-paint-gif-13673611

[rare hornet]

Chonky boi

[solemn falcon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104466465740038245/1174656412161409054/IMG_20231116_122437.jpg?ex=65686308&is=6555ee08&hm=75170634c8b4f7872186f053f5b07a6d0f7edb06737b48097ddcb9b8f3636be1& ikr?

[brittle goblet]

Why are warhammer minis so expensive 😭

[mint merlin]

because it's GW, baby

joins us in Poorhammer
Revel in Etsy proxies
Master the ways of the 3d printers
Joins us in the purity of the blessed machine, for your wallet weakens and decays

[plush swift]

The Brit’s love stealing money

[short pawn]

I audibly laughed when i found out the size scale

[sterile grail]

Ill stick my mini in because i wanted to. Anyone knows where the tabard and the helmet for the black templar variant is from?

[sterile grail]

warhammer 🗿

[brisk vapor]

Helmet is a MKV but it could be from myriad of sources, but probably 3D printed

Tabard could be from Black Templar specific units or Bladeguard Veterans or Vanguard Veterans or a captain etc

Never seen anyone paint lenses on the helmet studs though

[naive umbra]

I watched Eons of Battle's recent vid on magnetising all variants, it seemed pretty involved

[short pawn]

Yeah its all a bit much. I just decided on slotting my 3 favorite variants in, no magentizing

[midnight locust]

Honestly perfect acceptable

[short pawn]

I'm really not a fan of the transport versions anyways

[rare hornet]

Best guess is that looks like a standard Mark V helmet, the tabard though is hard to tell and quite possibly from any old kit, although maybe some Phobos character if I had to guess?

Maybe give the librarian a look? He might have a tabard but that’s purely a guess

[rare hornet]

Big gun

[naive umbra]

That's kinda cute

[lyric nimbus]

here's a question. say if I wanted to paint up the Kasrkyn kill team but didn't want to paint them as Kasrkyn, what else could I paint them as?

just want some ideas rlly.

[sterile grail]

blows my mind MK V is not in any of GW models

ok FW supposedly have them, for a premium 💀

[brisk vapor]

Yeah MKV gets very little love

Sadly

[midnight locust]

Anyone with experience gluing the cockpit glass on the Valkyrie? Or the metal struts onto the glass for that matter? I know that plastic glue and superglue will fog so I wanna know what’s my alternative? PVA?

[jaunty trail]

What about using wood glue to put the glass itself on valkyrie?

@midnight locust checked some tutorials at YT and all of them using PVA/wood glue for cockpit glass/canopy

[short pawn]

I wish i knew about fogging before i glued mine

So sad still

[midnight locust]

Pva/wood glue. Alright cool

[jaunty trail]

But be careful with that stuff,, not too much not too little

[midnight locust]

Yeah it’s a very delicate process

[jaunty trail]

yup... most of the guys use toothpicks to put it on surface

[midnight locust]

That seems like a good way to go about it. I’ll remember that

[true inlet]

Mk V is heresy pattern?

[brisk vapor]

It's the nickname for it yes

[true inlet]

Mk 3 is Iron, Mk 4 is.... hmmm. Mk 5 is heresy, Mk 6 is corvus, Mk 7 is aquilla, Mk 8...? There is no Mk 9 and Mk 10 has a lot of variants

[brisk vapor]

Mk 8 is the Errant

Mk 4 is the Maximus

[true inlet]

ah

I knew what Mk 4 looks like though

[toxic stratus]

mk10?

[true inlet]

I never knew Mk 8 existed XD

my favourite is Mk 3 Iron Armour and Cataphractii Terminator Armour though

[toxic stratus]

mk4 armor with mk7 helmet, that's the classic look to me

[brisk vapor]

Mk10 is primaris and it's variants

[toxic stratus]

I meant mk4 helmet looks like mk10

[brisk vapor]

Ah, true

[short pawn]

Now I just need a manticore and a chimera, then I got all my favorite vehicles

Sponson time

[true inlet]

I knew I wasn't the only one who thought like that

[sterile grail]

Mk 7 has always been my fav.

although beaky boiz is in my heart

[light zenith]

Just to polish up the gaps with greenstuff and pin them and i can get them primed ready to start painting tommorow. Yipee

[jaunty trail]

Current wip on Gladiator Lancer...

[silver thorn]

nice

im gonna base coat a rhino in black soon

hope I can get a nice finish like that

[jaunty trail]

Just white scar rattlecan and some Black Templar contrast paint ^^

shade/weathering and stuff is still missing...

[devout lake]

What's a good trim color for nightlords? I'm undecided on either sliver, gold, or bronze.

[sterile grail]

why not all 🧠

[rare hornet]

Can't wait to get into smallhammer

[edgy jackal]

If you want to go the easy route, you can pick silver, so you spray the model with leadbelcher, then paint the panels with leviadon blue contrast paint.

[copper siren]

Still need to redo half of the top shelf, edge highlights, bases etc.

But this is my entire collection thus far

Redo the ballistus to bring him in line with the redemptor

Grav tracks in Leadbelcher

Etc.

The lancer is fucking lethal btw

If it survives

Its awfully frail

It reaped an entire "large monster" army in a 40k doubles tournament

My Death Guard partner sat still and watched the fireworks

[plush swift]

Explaining people that I paint Minis is really awkward

[lavish crescent]

Welcome to the club my guy

[copper siren]

"Some people paint pictures, I paint army men then I play board games with them"

[plush swift]

I had to explain what 40k is to a old lady

[jaunty trail]

Most people i tell this are paying much respect to me cuz' of the patience i put in this hobby

[silver thorn]

i showed a coworker cause i said i was really nerdy

and he was like what do you do that's nerdy

and i showed him this picture

and he was like OH YOU DO ART THATS NOT NERDY

lmao 🤓

[plush swift]

Wip tau

[plush swift]

Lmao

[plush swift]

just do it like a real artist, say you figure paint

or say you paint miniature canvases

[silver thorn]

nice tau are cool

i would probably collect tau if they had more allied races

i kind of want an army thats like 1/3 humans but they dont have rules for gue'vasa

[plush swift]

I like tau for the mechs

[silver thorn]

i want a mix. the tau have gundams and they have allied races and i like both those things

i dont want an army of JUST mechs and fire warriors cause i feel like it doesnt really capture whats cool about them

they could be like the border princes from warhammer fantasy with a bunch of allied races working together

in theory orks could even join the tau haha

there are tau eldar too

[plush swift]

Get a hammer head

[silver thorn]

hammer heads are so cool

nah you know whats cool

wait let me look it up

[plush swift]

Is it the giant mech thing

[silver thorn]

the manta

is so cool

[plush swift]

Mantas are sick

[silver thorn]

giant armored aircraft carrier that can fight titans and are hybrid space/atmosphere

thats so coooooool

imagine a rogue trader got one that would be so cool

[plush swift]

I want really want to make my own tau faction

[silver thorn]

if I did tau I think I would do a conversion and make some of the fire warriors have human heads and tau heads

[plush swift]

Samurai style tau would be nuts

[silver thorn]

they have no melee though!!

maybe something like this

but make it like a stealth suit

with the laquered armor sheets

[plush swift]

I can Home brew my own lore and shit

[silver thorn]

there is a tau leader who uses a khorne daemonsword lol

[plush swift]

Might steal my friends resins printer and print some bits

[silver thorn]

this is the most OC thing ever lol

rip and tear until it is done 😈

[plush swift]

Chaos tau😈

I have so many idea for custom tau army’s but i don’t have the skill or resources to do them

[silver thorn]

i have i really cool idea for imagifier kitbash

gonna replace the state of a martyr with a shield attached to a warhammer as a pole

and the inquisition seal on the shield

my sister's army will be inquisition themed

ordo hereticus, let's fight some daemons

i got 3 knock off imagifiers coming cause I'm not paying 100 dollars for 3 models lmao

then i get 2 boxes of battle sisters

[teal wolf]

Medic!

[silver thorn]

each unit of battle sisters will have an imagifier

[silver thorn]

WHAT HAPPENED?

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-medic-team-fortress-2-medic-medic-team-fortress-2-medic-tf2-medic-tf2-edit-gif-6108638276408014241

[teal wolf]

Kharn happened

[teal wolf]

You don't wanna hunt down these old beauties?

[silver thorn]

ahahaha i love those eyes

[teal wolf]

Tis a legendary sculpt

[jaunty trail]

Gladiator Lancer 90% done.. some flaws need to be corrected, inscripts, decals and inscripts still missing....

[silver thorn]

I'm not visiting family for thanksgiving this year so I'll be building a combat patrol 😄

[jaunty trail]

Which one you will build?

[silver thorn]

sororitas 😄

[jaunty trail]

Aah SoB... Good choice

[silver thorn]

my steel, white, red, black color scheme

[jaunty trail]

Looks good!

I stick to my BT minis for the next while.. still got some BT Char Units to do as also a bit Báttleline

[silver thorn]

these are my first two minis ever

ah BT, we can team up to kill daemons 😄

i need a higher pigment blue paint

[jaunty trail]

Yup ^^

[silver thorn]

this is my favorite part honestly lol

[jaunty trail]

i believe that

[silver thorn]

it looks so vibrant irl

[jaunty trail]

My 3 fav Minis are Grimaldus and my 2 Chaplains in Terminator armor

[silver thorn]

grimaldus is cool. one of the first 40k books i read was helsreach

i got it in an airport and all the books at the airport were bad

i ended up getting into 40k lol

[jaunty trail]

Ever seen the Helsreach Fanmade Film on YT?

[silver thorn]

clips but it looked really scuffed

i saw the part where the land train kills the gargant

[jaunty trail]

I would recommend you to take time to spend 2,5 hours lookin' the helsreach film.. It is worth it, and there are some Soroitas in it ^^

[silver thorn]

I'll peep it 🙂

[jaunty trail]

just look for Helsreach from the rostam 40k archive

[plush swift]

i spilt earth shade on my mini

[light zenith]

dinnae fash its "weathering"

[plush swift]

Yep

He looks brown as fuck

[plush swift]

Did you drink the rest of it?

[plush swift]

YEAH

[true inlet]

cut the stick part and let your SoB grab it

REPENT!!! REPENT!!! REPENT!!!

[true inlet]

is that a Nurgle Daemon Prince?

[idle ibex]

It is, from the Slaves to Darkness box.
I want to have it as a centrepiece to a Death Guard Army

[silver thorn]

thats daniel for sure

id recognize him anywhere

[heavy needle]

Trying out some basing techniques with faux grass on a termie swarm.

[true inlet]

I should get a termie swarm one day

and my that it means terminator swarm

[dawn stream]

My eventual 2k list has a ten brick of terminators led by a terminator chaplain

Chaplain is in the mail, termies will have to wait

[dark violet]

Nice

Really want a palatine myself

[visual turret]

Ork

[plush swift]

Turnip 28 looks so cool

[potent pilot]

Also my Hellblasters conversion

[brisk vapor]

That's a funky looking plasma, nice

[pastel grotto]

Hellflamers or Plasmus marines

[lyric nimbus]

Dang, the new night lords kill team looks nice.

[brisk vapor]

It does indeed

[plush swift]

wip

[lyric nimbus]

Should I snag some Necromunda, ship deck-esque basing for the Imperial Navy breachers since they're space hulk based.

[jaunty trail]

@plush swift

This is my lancer currently... Inscriptions, weathering and Shades are missing

[plush swift]

nice

i will also add weathering and that sword from the bt upgrade kit

[jaunty trail]

I'm currently thinking about adding some additional gear to the tank...

[jaunty trail]

Already used all that stuff 🤣

[plush swift]

me too

[true inlet]

quick question

is there no unit for primaris that uses special heavy weapons like grav cannon or las cannon?

[jaunty trail]

🤔

So you want Grav/Las Cannon Primaris marines?

[true inlet]

I mean, it seems that they are replacing all firstborn with primaris

so why not

well, I personally just want a Devastator squad's new kit tbh

Desolation Squad's rocket launcher design looks even worse than Nurgle's worst pest

[jaunty trail]

Currently we have only Plasma, Multi Melta, Flamer, HBolter & Rocket Launcher squads on Primaris level

And i'm not sure if they will bring Primaris Devastors...

Cuz' firstborn Devastors still kicking asses

[true inlet]

we can maybe get a new kit

the sternguard and terminator treatment

I don't know what others may say but firstborn marines looks a bit... short for me

so when I once start actually collecting, I think I'll focus on primaris

[jaunty trail]

Then we have to wait for further reveals... But the last reveals were DA focused... so reveals are going with 10th Ed roadmap

[true inlet]

I do like firstborn comp tho

[jaunty trail]

Without firstborn there would be no primaris

[true inlet]

yeah

[jaunty trail]

But as said, i think GW will stick strictly to 10th Ed roadmap.. so they will release the next things like shown before

[true inlet]

my custom chapter will be forgotten after HH and somehow withstand for 10k years while being beaten up like a pulp

[true inlet]

they will end up with like less than 100 battle brothers, and then the primaris will come in so they are like: Well we have no choice

thats the shortened lore I came up with

[jaunty trail]

So next reveals should be Custodes, T'au and Chaos

[true inlet]

yeah I knew that

I'm waiting for IG codex tbh

krieg enthusiast XD

[jaunty trail]

I wait for BT and LoV Codex

And i think these will be some "Last Faction releases"

[true inlet]

League of Votann and... BT?

oh black templars

[jaunty trail]

Yup

[true inlet]

IG will come relatively late for what I guess

weren't they like the last codex in 9th ed

[jaunty trail]

Summer/Autumn 2024

[true inlet]

I know World Eaters were truly last

but yeah

[jaunty trail]

I will wait for 2nd part of roadmap in spring 2024

[true inlet]

hmmmm, IG is coming pretty early

[jaunty trail]

and after that i will see how long the wait is 😄

[true inlet]

I may not be a Catachan player but I do hope for a new Catachan model

they are too old XD

[jaunty trail]

Only things i like in IG are Kriegsmen and Kasrkins

[true inlet]

Once I start collecting I think I'll collect Krieg and Astartes

aaaaaaaand maybe one more type of Xeno to set up the cinematics

tbh, I'll go bankrupt within hours once I actually start collecting XD

I'm like, OHHHHH 30K SALAMANDERS

OHHHHHH ASTARTES

[jaunty trail]

That's why i save up money before spending....

[true inlet]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KRIEG

DAMN NECRON LOOKS COOL

[ocean pendant]

That's the old roadmap, here's the new one

[true inlet]

and my money will melt faster than the termagents in front of Heavy Flamer

[jaunty trail]

A buddy of mine just has 9 factions and nearly for every faction 1.5k battle ready minis

[true inlet]

why do I think that redacted have a high chance of being Emperor's Children 40k release

I just... feel like it

you can take a picture of this

I'm something of a psyker afterall

[jaunty trail]

it is time to release EC cuz' many want to play them

nearly any buddy of mine that plays chaos wants to field EC

[true inlet]

GW: fk you we are giving you Iron Warriors

tbh I'd take that

gladly

[jaunty trail]

Would make at least one of my buddies happy 😄

[ocean pendant]

Leaks from GW a while ago suggested there would be two new factions in 10th, a Chaos faction and a Xenos faction. So it'll probably be either of them

[true inlet]

the worst situation possible?

[ocean pendant]

and EC is likely

[true inlet]

another Primaris Lieutenant

or PRIMARIS LEGIONNAIRE

...just shoot me if that happens

[jaunty trail]

Hmm another Xenos Faction? Ynnari?

[true inlet]

okay, so Emperor's Children would be fixed in that case

and Xeno?

I can only think of Aeldari new kits or something else

they deserve it

if it is an entire new Xeno faction, I don't know what it'd be

don't know much about lore yet

maybe Scaven Space version? XD

[naive umbra]

Could be Kroot, coz a lot of Krooty stuff in Rumour Engines lately, but I really hope they don't take them away from T'au

[jaunty trail]

This would have some meme vibes as also some warhammer old world fantasy vibes... and last thing would be problematic

[jaunty trail]

"The Kroot Civil Wars" 😄

[ocean pendant]

Some people have suggested Exodites, Primal Eldar who ride dinosaurs.

[jaunty trail]

Sounds dope

[true inlet]

Warhammer 40k ???????th edition: We now have Emperor of Mankind that we can use for 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 points

[jaunty trail]

This won't happen... Big E might be healing but according to the newest books i'm afraid he could get the worst enemy of the imperium

[true inlet]

hmmm, interesting

[true inlet]

I don't think there will ever be a Warhammer 40k End Time equivalent

at least for now

it is sci-fi so you can extend the stuff infinitely unlike fantasy

you can get primaris primaris marine

[jaunty trail]

Newest books are talking about the yellow king and the black king... i won't spoiler any details... but if you are interested look this up...

[true inlet]

you can spoil it

all my sources are rather... untrustable

but do it on DM though

don't wanna ruin it for the others

[jaunty trail]

no i can't in respect of the others here that eventually want to read the books.

[teal wolf]

Some people say it already started with G man coming back lol

[woeful vale]

As somebody who just got into the hobby early this year I'm gonna be so mad if they turn 40k into an end times event

[naive umbra]

My quest for a fully operable Devilfish with all hatches continues

Pretty much ready to spray prime everything then paint interiors before final assembly

[summer sparrow]

Got some painting done at work last night

[sterile grail]

strangely realistic humanoid pose

[summer sparrow]

Cerastus Knights are the most human proportioned knights

The carapace will add some hunch tho

[visual turret]

I love cerastus knights

There’s a castigator in a local store but I want an Acheron

[plush swift]

I might get turnip 28 bits

[plush swift]

do it, turnip 28 is great

I love the style

[summer sparrow]

This Knight is gonna be a Castigacheron, magnetized arms and printed both weapons

[jaunty trail]

Still need shades but i'm pretty happy how it turned out...

[final scroll]

I finished my first Dark Angel today, was testing out some new techniques I have not tried yet, and wanted to up my base game.
EDIT: added the company marking, had forgotten about that

[whole scarab]

Well I successfully dragged someone else into the pit that is warhammer today

[hearty bear]

Where do you get those?

Is there an official catalog?

[plush swift]

I think there’s a kick starter

But you can find bits on Etsy

[true inlet]

...what in the world is turnip 28?

[plush swift]

its another miniature war game thats based around modifying other figures in specific ways

like you put slaaneshy parts and medieval bits onto Napoleonic soldiers type thing.

[plush swift]

Warhammer fantasy but cool

[hearty bear]

Napoleonic wars fought by mushrooms

[plush swift]

And turnips

[hollow yoke]

I touched up my first mini and added a new base

[hollow yoke]

Added dirt

[silver thorn]

so many sales right now for 3D printers

https://tenor.com/view/anime-nichijou-shake-head-shake-no-gif-12179349

i shouldnt right? I shouldnt haha. I dont know anything about it haha... unless?

[plush swift]

do it

[fiery dove]

Do it

[summer sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/chris-farley-running-lets-do-this-excited-gif-328561374425154053

[plush swift]

why shouldnt you?

[silver thorn]

ITS MONEY

money is a finite resource

I did it tho haha

[summer sparrow]

Save $20 by getting the Mars 3 4k instead of the Mars 3 Pro 4k

[silver thorn]

too late

v_v

[plush swift]

print some

[summer sparrow]

Welcome to the hobby, @silver thorn !

Remember you need a curing station, all it is a box to blast intense UV at printed parts, I got mine off Amazon for 30 bucks

Message me if you need any technical help or suggestions

[silver thorn]

thanks! i appreciate that

tbh I'm really interested in kitbashing

and bits get EXPENSIVE

[summer sparrow]

Printed bits don't

Check out Solutionlesn on Cults3d I know they've got a free pack of imperial bits. Kinda stuff you'd tie off on a tank or find in a trench

[hushed summit]

not darktide but mr titus look awesome here

[summer sparrow]

I expect nothing less from Weta, nor do I expect less cost for that fucking statue

[rare hornet]

We stating to get there

[native sluice]

eats the resin

[naive umbra]

Been standing guard on Terra so long his sword has a patina

[toxic stratus]

uhu glue and red ink for blood 👌 acrylic just don't look right imo

[dark violet]

i actually looked at that one myself although rather the mars 4 max and it was double price for me :(

looking at this one atm since it has a bigger space to print with

since i have no clue about 3dprinters i dunno which ones are good

[silver thorn]

i watched a few videos i saw really good results with the one i got

i think once you put paint on it it doesn't really matter tbh

you arent seeing these deals right now?

i saw this sale from a UK youtube so...

it should be international

mars 4 max 6k is down to 205 USD with free shipping which is 50 more than the model I purchased

[dark violet]

i am not american

[dark violet]

duno what store thats from

[silver thorn]

https://www.elegoo.com/collections/mars-series

manufacturer store

black friday sale

[dark violet]

if its UK i will pay alot extra

[summer sparrow]

TBH, I think the Mars 4 is overkill, especially for a first resin printer

[silver thorn]

thats the vibe I got

mars 3 seems to produce really good results for minis

the higher resolution is better if you are printing like

ACTION FIGURE type stuff

cause the extra quality goes a long way

[summer sparrow]

UK orders are handled as "Global" with USD

[silver thorn]

i saw 2 videos where like... the extra resolution didnt look any better and sometimes worse than the lower resoltion models

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKG5eB2YIHU&ab_channel=Miniac

[summer sparrow]

I will say I can See faint layer lines after priming, but not after painting

Speaking of, got more painting done

.

proud of my Acheron flame cannon

[silver thorn]

dont talk to me or my armiger son ever again

😄

[summer sparrow]

LOL

[gray pebble]

custom miniatures (cursed i know)

[summer sparrow]

Not as cursed as the five nights at Freddy's Knight army I just saw on reddit

[dark violet]

The sniper is cute as hell

[short pawn]

Kasrkin playing in the mud

[midnight cairn]

The marine looks ready to stomp them. As he should.

[jovial siren]

Mean like "five (k)nights at Freddy's"?

[summer sparrow]

I assume that was the motivation

Pretty sure it was a 1k 4 Armiger 1 knight list

[median thistle]

Pre work shenanigans

When it sends lol

[ocean pendant]

I didn't think the new terminator box had plasma cannons, are they from an older kit?

[median thistle]

Yeah kitbashed from the current deathwing box, since it was one of the view spares I had from it

Means I don’t have to buy a third box of them before the new knights kit comes out

[ocean pendant]

Nice, it looks awesome

[plush swift]

using the wrong acrylic paint then

tons of acrylic paints work perfect for blood, you just dont find them in hobby paints because if the poorly conceived notion that opacity=quality

[toxic stratus]

problem isn't the quality or wrong color matching for me. it's texture and color variation for blood

I just can't convince myself painting blood splatter and seeing it as just red acrylic. that transparent shiny glue and uneven ink color seem to work for me way better

[flat niche]

Use the red gemstone paint when it dries it looks like fresh blood

[toxic stratus]

thanks. I'll try it

[light zenith]

Practice of doing my custom chapter symbol. I tried to dry it quickly but held it too close to the flame coz im super smart.

[hollow yoke]

Finished it put it up for contest

[hollow yoke]

It’s honestly my favorite thing I did

[hearty bear]

Blood ravens dreadnought is fierce competition

[hollow yoke]

yeah

This is part of it there are even better looking ones

[plush swift]

once again, using the wrong paint, look outside of hobby paint

I use a lot of pr264 and pr177 for blood, and they are lightfast unlike the majority of red paints out there

[toxic stratus]

I sincerely wonder when I implied I was using hobby paint 🤔

[hollow yoke]

(still new to figure painting) arnt you supposed to use hobby paint? sense its a hobby?

[hollow yoke]

why not use a blood technical

[plush swift]

You can use what ever paint you want to use, professional grade stuff however is generally of a vastly higher quality and there are a lot more styles that can be tailored to what ever purpose you need without too much hassle

hobby paint has TONS of myths surrounding it.

99% of those are false.

[plush swift]

what paint are you using then?

[toxic stratus]

vallejo thick blood, bloody red, beastly brown

well, actually, now I'm using liquitex red ink and uhu

[plush swift]

thats hobby paint

[plush swift]

and thats a lower end professional ink, which is a VERY different thing

low end professional doesnt mean bad

there are just a lot of professional grade products that are better(also more expensive)

❤️ holbein inks

(but god damn is this shit expensive)

[toxic stratus]

sorry but honestly this feels more like paint snobbing than an alternative suggestion

[plush swift]

I can come off like that sometimes, i make paint actually

[toxic stratus]

yeah, not interested. sorry.

[plush swift]

Well I did actually suggest what to look for

and liquitex does in fact sell it

PR264 and PR177

look for those

hobby paints tend to be thicker than professional paints too

they are more akin to soft bodied paints

fluid acrylics are thinner than soft bodied but thicker than ink

the only difference between ink and a heavy bodied btw is a chemical thickener

literally thats it

short answer to what hobby paints are:
They are student grade paints that use a large amount of chalk in them to provide opacity as most pigments are transparent.
They do not have a different grind size compared to craft paint at all(I can provide proof of this).
They are an ecosystem designed around convenience colors, making it harder to mix your own but easier for those who dont want to mix colors

this doesnt mean they are bad, this just means they have a lot of marketing on them to make them seem like they are better than they actaully are. Being real about paints doesnt make me a paint snob

I'm just someone who's spent the past decade as a lead formulator at a paint company

[smoky axle]

the older lines of GW paints (talking like.. late 80's/90's) were made by a .. airplane paint manufacturer .. i think? its so much less of an issue now but holy shit they were light years beyond anything at that time

at least here in the states

[signal plover]

Wish Citadel used dropper bottles

[plush swift]

ESM, which they actually still use

They switched to winsor and newton for a few years then swapped back

[smoky axle]

nice! that's good to hear. i still have a few of my 3e paints sitting around needing to be 're-energized' but my last remaining chestnut ink still puts work in

[plush swift]

You want to replace that chestnut ink?

[smoky axle]

mostly on acrylic stuff now since i just paint terrain/minis for d&d. yeah if you've got recommendations? flesh wash was pretty goat too if you thinned it a bit

[plush swift]

https://www.jerrysartarama.com/holbein-acrylic-ink-100ml-imidazolone-brown-0v3305700000 @smoky axle

thats your replacement

its literally the same pigment

[smoky axle]

there used to be a jerry's across town. a road trip might be in order next day off

[plush swift]

Another fellow person in NC I see

[smoky axle]

not far. in Nashville. there was one on the south side but i haven't been there in like 8 or 10 years so it might be gone

[plush swift]

its still there

its on main street

[smoky axle]

yep! good ol' East Nasty

[plush swift]

I have been to that store a few times for supplies for work

its nicer than main stores in NC

[smoky axle]

might have to paint up some old stuff when i get in the mood for it. i've got a lot of 2e/3e stuff that i haven't touched since high school. so many hormagaunts

[plush swift]

what old paints do you have?

I'm actually looking for pictures/swatches for a project im doing which is converting all of their old colors to pigments so i can give people accurate matches

I have about 30 done

Turns out the majority of the old paints contained chromium oxide, which explained why they were good

it just isnt an air brush friendly pigment

[smoky axle]

sadly not much. last time i moved a lot of them had completely dried up beyond saving. i'll check and see what i've got

[plush swift]

ANything helps

also the original ultramarine blue wasnt cobalt

thats phthalo blue green shade and titanium white

[smoky axle]

Rowboat Gorillaman lied to us

[plush swift]

this is just chromium oxide, white and yellow ochre

original goblin green

[smoky axle]

also, it looks like i might just have the flesh wash and chestnut. either got rid of a lot of them during the move or i gave a few out to my old ttrpg buddies

goblin green - a base's best friend

[plush swift]

I dont have flesh wash actually

[smoky axle]

its the 3e era one in the shorter bottles. i know some of the paints b/w then got changed up some so i dunno if the washes are different

[plush swift]

flesh tone for changed several times during 3e

hobby paints as a whole will change pigments based off fluctuations in the price of them just randomly

You can see this all the time with vallejo, hell I have 8 unopened bottles of agrax earth shade and 4 bottles of nuln oil, all are different hues

ever so slightly different in some cases

but modern nuln oil aand agrax are.... bad

they lowered the pigmentation again

[smoky axle]

oof. i'm used to fluctuating washes since i usually make my own. try to buy them for minis so they're a least a little more consistent.

[plush swift]

I have a wash recipe thats super easy to follow and reproduce

only issue is the agrax one is... a bit pricey and requires you to go into a different line that isnt technically an ink but is

[silver thorn]

Feels a shame to glue these Sororitas Rhino doors in... covers up some nice detail.

[hollow yoke]

if your wondering how to get that coat you put contrast arthermatic blue over lacquer pure gold airprush paint

[plush swift]

which laquer?

[hollow yoke]

Gpaint studio its expensive production has been put on hold too until next year so alot of the choices will be sold out but i got 2 boxes of them

[plush swift]

I'm shocked you got those, my company ordered enough for a store and we never saw them. But keep an eye on those as we had some reports they were oil based as acrylics kept turninng into goop on them but gstudio refused to say anything about the binder and then has been dark since his company was found out for violating import laws by declaring everything for personal use and not business, and then failing to list that his paints were hazardous materials(which require special clearance)

lacquer based doesnt actually mean much as you have oil lacquers and acrylic lacquers

IE most automotive laquers are oil based

[visual turret]

Shark Squig is getting sharky

[lavish crescent]

Magnets then!!

[silver thorn]

I just orederd some

gonna fuck it up, but ill try 😄

[ocean pendant]

Dropped a leg while assembling, meaning I had to crawl around on the floor for half an hour with a torch

[plush swift]

dont fuck it up then

if you dont fuck it up, then you wont fuck it up

[silver thorn]

xD

[silver thorn]

i dropped a 2mm in length inquisitorial rosette

and just said fuck it and used a book instead cause i didnt want to find it

haha

[plush swift]

Fuck it you ball

[hearty bear]

My American ass misunderstood “torch” so I literally thought you were searching for it with a stick on fire

Flashlight

You were using a flashlight

[glossy hawk]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/870537725432987681/1177059875335979049/Screenshot_20231121_135139_Facebook.png?ex=6571216e&is=655eac6e&hm=1e5ef715ccbbbdd50eacfc65c0e802c429b535d05125842fa22e3aff91a06c59&

[ocean pendant]

I’m actually a 12th century peasant, so I was indeed using a flaming torch to search for the leg.

[hollow yoke]

i got them a year ago but yeah good product tho

[static elk]

Barriers be done

[naive umbra]

A 12th century peasant would use an oil lamp like this. Imposter!

[plush swift]

womp womp

[short pawn]

Anybody got a magnetized leman russ? Shits so hard for me to do for some reason

[silver thorn]

scottish sister from reddit

looks very cool haha, must have been a pain to paint

[lament path]

I just friction fit the sponsons, and use blu-tack for the turret gun

[dark violet]

The back cloth piece of one of my warsuits has gone missing

I have no idea how it went missing

So now one of my warsuits will have an exposed butt unless I find some idea to handle this

[silver thorn]

green stuff or milliput??

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325483888810?chn=ps&var=514517110149&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=514517110149_325483888810&targetid=1529493974622&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9004331&poi=&campaignid=19851828444&mkgroupid=145880009014&rlsatarget=pla-1529493974622&abcId=9307249&merchantid=675188781&gclid=CjwKCAiAjfyqBhAsEiwA-UdzJHJjFV4taua5suFSGtGam2YgAxO6YvxfW0ZwEhShUBSJmitL_TeRUBoColgQAvD_BwE

my understanding is green stuff capes is the easiest thing to do learn

[short pawn]

Haven't even considered blue tack

Gonna have to try it, thanks

[dry needle]

He looks like a Greg

[ocean pendant]

Bro thinks I can afford oil

[tiny cairn]

A torch with tallow will suffice

[plush swift]

IT HAS ARRIVED

Hype

Now which 3 heavy weapons do I build

So in total I have:
1 Shadowsword Titanicus (Baneblade Box)
1 Squad of Guardsmen Box
1 Squad of Bullgryns Box
1 Chimera Box
1 Sentinel Box
1 Heavy Weapons Team Box
1 Start Collecting Box
(I think 10 Guardsmen ,1 Heavy Weapon Team , 1 Commissar and 1 Leman Russ?)
(All Pre 9th Ed)

Question is what to throw together to play my first match, hobby kinda started out as just collecting neat warhammer figurines but now with more free time I actually wanna play a small scale skirmish or maybe killteam.

Guardsmen players I ask for your aid!

[silver thorn]

kill team is pretty easy, I never played it but its a small model count game so Im sure you can make a kill team out of all that stuff you have.

check all the kill teams available because I think there are like 3 guardsman ones.

i have a kill team box coming because I need it for kitbash parts :3

[plush swift]

Kriegers (which I dont like) Kasrkin and Catachans.

So most likely Kasrkin. Unless I can use any of my current models for Killteam games.

[silver thorn]

that would probably be your best bet, but if you are just playing with your frens or at a store you can probably use the guardsmen models you have as proxies

kill team usually has every character have a special weapon essentially

dont know the specifics of those guardsmen kits but here is an example kasrkin kill team

you can kinda see how they have every guards special weapon pretty much haha

[plush swift]

I think I have uh...

8 Lasguns a plasma and a GL?

In my Infantry squad?

Id have to check later.

[silver thorn]

you have so much mech and so little infantry haha

even the BANEBLADE

[plush swift]

Pre 8th Ed Guardsman dont exist anymore

[plush swift]

That was a gift from a friend

[silver thorn]

its a big kit haha, im building a rhino today myself

[plush swift]

I just need to figure out where I left out on my Shadowsword

[silver thorn]

in terms of points though, I dont think its very many

[plush swift]

My chimera and sentinel are built and primed but just need paint now.

[silver thorn]

not counting the baneblade which is like 700 or something right? haha

[plush swift]

I still dont know what pattern to give my vehicles.

here I go reinstalling Dawn of War II and DOW 1 to check the cadian 110th Pallette ingame

[silver thorn]

So I looked it up

in new recruit

(free online army builder thats pretty good)

all the stuff you have is 1180 points

half of which is the baneblade

so you can pretty much play a 500 or 1000 point game

i cant promise your team will be competitive cause i know nothing about your army but you DO have the points between everything you have

[plush swift]

Guessed as much.

[silver thorn]

honestly its not the worst team at 500 points. you have a mix of a little bit of everyting which is probably what other people at 500 points are gonna have

having the tanks could make it hard if you play other new players and they have ZERO anti tank units

which as a newb has never played a game, I hear is a problem for newbies

one just has tanks and the other doesnt so one side just face rolls because tanks are REALLY strong in 10th edition

[plush swift]

Im glad I thought of making my my Heavy Weapons Teams AT.

[silver thorn]

😄

[jaunty trail]

Lance of desolation ready for duty...

[orchid jungle]

I'm a simple man, I see templars I like

also servitor is ready for duty too

[jaunty trail]

This one is beautiful! By Dorn the emperor will be pleased ^^

[orchid jungle]

Thanks for your kind words brother, first attempt at nmm, it was pretty hard but i'm happy with the result

[jaunty trail]

Keep up the good work battlebrother! For the crusade!

[stuck trellis]

Got most of the reaver titan done, been a long process

[smoky axle]

i love seeing so many people building those titan kits now. we had a guy back in high school that played at our lfgs that custom built a lot of them. the only options then were very limited from forge world, and even then it was only like 2 or 3 variants

size difference b/w any of them and regular troop choices is still cool to see

[plush swift]

yep, 3d printing has been great for the titan scene

[smoky axle]

totally. its such a boon for the entire mini hobby. its nuts

[plush swift]

missed a spot

on the missile pack

[orchid jungle]

god of war spoted

god of painting too

[stuck trellis]

where?

[brittle goblet]

Missed a spot my ass

That thing looks great

[stuck trellis]

I do like some of the 3d printed titans but I had to get the forge world one, I wanted one since I was 12

[smoky axle]

100% feel that. last time i played in 6e i built up a tyranid army full of the 2e hormagaunts that look like xenomorphs. and the cooler tyranid warriors. used to love all the old nid models

[stuck trellis]

yeah guy I knew was a nut for nids back in the 6e era, he had the biotitan as well... thing was op af back then

[smoky axle]

always wanted a full metal cadian army though. only have a few models. the flak armored ones are cool but damn. those floppy shoulderpads

won't say things were better back then but damn there's something charming about the hand sculpted stuff

[stuck trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/jake-peralta-squinting-read-trying-to-read-brooklyn-nine-nine-gif-13387080

[plush swift]

bit of red there

[stuck trellis]

its just lighting.. nothing to see here

[visual turret]

With the xenomorph on the knee this feels like a big art board you’d find on the side of a van at a carnival or fair

That’s awesome though

[stuck trellis]

dont dis the waltzers like that

[plush swift]

I'll accept that as a valid excuse

[visual turret]

I’m not :D

[plush swift]

You pass with a B+ from my class

(I rarely give out anything above)

[stuck trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-gif-25358104

[plush swift]

After restoring a Caravaggio I became very jaded with everything, his work is just so... advanced for the time.

we didnt see anything even remotely close in style and technique for about a hundred years after he died...

[compact umbra]

OFF TO THE MINES FOR YOU

[plush swift]

Well goddamn.

Looks good.

[lost dagger]

Gonna do all ultramarine named captain

[dark violet]

i do have some green stuff but its the butt cover thing thats missing which is rather big and somewhat detailed

i dunno yet how to make it work

i am also thinking about making maybe a broken down warsuit

like ripped off legs or an arm or so

[signal crane]

depends what you want them for

[dark violet]

dont even know how it went missing as it was lying on the same spot for days

[signal crane]

mortars with leontus or creed for fields of fire imo is best

[dark violet]

but this back cloth piece is missing now :(

was even half painted lol

[signal crane]

lascannons in regular infantry squads or by themselves

[plush swift]

I actually don't know as I never played and I put a list of what I own below.

I'm playing Cadians most likely Mechanized/Armored Doctrine wise as I'm imitating the 110th Cadian.

[dark violet]

i kinda wish sororitas would have lascannons for the warsuits or so

would be kinda funny to have

[plush swift]

Huh????

[crisp nimbus]

My daughter painted her first nids

[plush swift]

Yooo those look amazing.

[south stratus]

Fucken 10/10

[plush swift]

Holy shit those look good

[crisp nimbus]

When we were in Montreal last year near Xmas, and visited their Warhammer store in one of the malls. She (she is 11) learned how to dry brush from one of their expert painters who was teaching someone else at the time. It was an awesome way to wait for my wife when she was shopping 😛

She is also the reason I am going to be playing nids as she picked the faction I play with. She said they looked cooler than the other factions and looked harder to paint than Space Marines

[south stratus]

Hell yeah. Absolutely wholesome and fucking adorable. Hope you enjoy playing the nids and maybe her more in the future as well if she paints/plays more

[plush swift]

Happy thanksgiving y’all

[crisp nimbus]

So her and my wife will be doing the painting and I am to do the "playing". I have issues with my nerves so mini painting isn't something that is easy for me.

[south stratus]

Fair enough. Sounds like great family bonding

[crisp nimbus]

We all sort of agreed with painting them in "Tiamat" colors

[south stratus]

Sounds very fun. A guard and lamenter player though I may be. I hope you eat many a marine, man and Xenos with your army

[crisp nimbus]

She says that "they will rip and tear till they are gone"

[south stratus]

Damm. Now we know who REALLY almost killed the lamenters

[crisp nimbus]

If we went with Space marines, she wanted to paint them as Salamanders...

[south stratus]

She has fucken amazing choice of factions. Be proud of her. “VULKAN LIVES”

[crisp nimbus]

My wife wants me to get at least a combat patrol of Battle Sisters so who knows where I'll end up with.

[south stratus]

Can never really go wrong with some variety. Sister can be fun. I got some who are black and yellow

[crisp nimbus]

I think I posted this already but this really helped me learn 10th ed

However I'm very open to other resources and guides out there, not new to wargaming in general but the last edition of 40k I played (on sand using rocks and a White Drawf mag) was like 2nd or 3rd.

[south stratus]

It’s long video but midwinter minis has a good video explaining everything you need to know quite well

[plush swift]

I envy you

[hollow goblet]

I'm not gonna let losing my combat patrol break me goddamnit

Getting shit ready to recast 20 new tzaangors

I'll need to get new SoTs and an infernal master but fuck it we ball

Nothing turned up btw people in my city are total lowlives I never had any hope

My only solace is the chance they might try to resell them and I get to physically take my minis back

[midnight locust]

I don’t envy myself, but I thank you for the compliment lol

[plush swift]

I struggle with my Cadian vehicles

[midnight locust]

Airbrush or stippling with a makeup brush works wonders

[plush swift]

Well im stuck to normal painting.

I just dont have any idea what sort of camo to give me 110th Boys

Also the Transfer sheet has not 110th Cadian Decal I realized

I'm sad...

might have to splice 2 decals together

[tight root]

Hey, sorry if I am butting into an active conversation, but I'm a person new to the tabletop and what have and got to ask. Why do so many people on the tabletop seem to dislike/hate it when other players use Blood Ravens?

[plush swift]

I have no idea..

I just hate the blood ravens cause of the dawn of War games

where they actively kill guardsmen cause "Haha funny human lives don't matter to us"

Oh also they killed one of my favourite imperial Generals so I guess I'm just petty

lol

[tight root]

Oh! Well, thank you for giving me an answer mate! Also which general are you talking about?

[plush swift]

Lukas Alexander.

He only appeared in Dawn of War Dark Crusade

but his voice acting was top notch and also...

https://youtu.be/k3UhLEtc08w?si=gKc7ofFmtlh-rSVV

[plush swift]

Remember that's my reason why I just despise that specific chapter.

I actually don't know why people apperently hate on them in tabletop.

Wait it just clicked... is there an Imperial General Mini?

[silver thorn]

i think that they are fairly popular. they don't have rules on the tabletop though

you have to make a regular Space Marines army and just say they are blood ravens

[hollow goblet]

I think that may have been some sort of serious lesson from the universe bc I literally closed tab from typing this, opened facebook on my phone and I saw my minis getting resold, decent chance I actually get everything back

Not even bullshitting maybe the emperor does protect

[plush swift]

I wouldn't even pay for em.

And just say hey those are mine and they went missing.

Then again I am quite draconian >~>

[hollow goblet]

Oh I don't intend to lmao

I have more than enough documentation to get police involved, dude flogged them from a public train too so there's guaranteed footage of it too

And made no effort to return them before selling which falls firmly into the legality of stealing

Where I'm from anyways

[plush swift]

Go get em lad! Knock his block off!

[true inlet]

Quick question

I heard that one can take only up to 3 of the same unit on the battle field

but I want to have a mass guardsmen spam army

if thats the case, then I can take DKOK, Infantry Squad and Heavy Weapon Team individually right

since they are all different units

[short pawn]

Good i hope everything goes your way

I would rather my wallet get stolen than my minis it HAS to be a cardinal sin

[visual turret]

Getting closer!!!

[short pawn]

You can take up to 6 battleline, which infantry squad and DKOK are. Heavy squad is not a battleline though

But you can put heavy weapon squads into infantry squads. So i personally have 6 cadian shock troop squads, and an infantry squad blob with 2 heavy weapons in it.

[true inlet]

ohhhh thats nice

what would you say will be good for infantry spam IG army

DKOK with Take Cover Order, DKOK Marshal and Psyker attached to them can get up to 3+/4++/6+ FNP so I'd love to mass spam them XD

[short pawn]

In my opinion, 60 is bare minimum for any army. 80 is what I prefer. For spam I'm not entirely sure sadly. I haven't played a full 40k game yet, just combat patrol and mini sized games so just take my words with a grain of salt

[true inlet]

ah so 3 full squad of guardsmen is mandatory

thanks, new to this and I'd love to know as much as I can before collecting

[signal crane]

DKOK and Infantry are battleline so you can take 6 of each, and 3 HWT

You can also fit 2 heavy weapons in an infantry squad so that means even more big guns in the horde

[true inlet]

but commissar and psyker is a character so I can only bring 3?

[signal crane]

of each yes

bit of advice from a vet Guard player

Once you have squads put together get:
A) movement trays for them
and
B) paint the rims of the bases different colors to denote each squad

Like I have guard with green, yellow, red, and blue rims so I can tell them all apart

[true inlet]

ah

thanks a lot

and for leman russes and armoured units

how good are they

I asked it to another person and they answered that taking less than 3 leman russ is heresy

[signal crane]

lemans are a key part of Guard and always will be, but times change so loadouts change too

it depends

running no Dorns? yeah bring 3 lemans

Running a Dorn? Realistically you only need 2

[true inlet]

from what I heard, 3 Leman Russ with plasma cannon works 99% of the time

[signal crane]

I rarely use em

I run autocannons, battle cannons, and demolishers