#40k-minis-and-armies

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elfin yew
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Or just Wanderers but they aren't really a faction

hasty sorrel
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the sea elves are fine

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but the high elves specifically

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i dont like the new models for

elfin yew
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Are you still going

hasty sorrel
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yes

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๐Ÿ˜ 

elfin yew
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Die mad

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New hoeth models good.

visual bolt
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listen skele

hasty sorrel
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no

visual bolt
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i was on this "new elves shit" train

rose sluice
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i like the lamias for the dark elves ๐Ÿ˜ณ

elfin yew
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YERS

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I FORGOT ABOUT THE DOK

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OMG.

visual bolt
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it doesnt go anywhere but in a circle

elfin yew
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The DoK are SOO good

visual bolt
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HOW ABOUT SILVANETH?

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BRUH

elfin yew
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Sylvaneth aint elves doe!!

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Well they sorta are but not really

hasty sorrel
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like i said

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only the high elves suck

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is sad

rose sluice
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Teclis T pose

elfin yew
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AHFNUDFHND

rose sluice
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with scary cat

hasty sorrel
elfin yew
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Teclis' model has one problem and that's the fact that

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Celannar is the model

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not teclis

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DSUHFNDSN

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Teclis is a terrain feature t-posing on them

rose sluice
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teclis is the nurgling of the model

elfin yew
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Literally

crisp forge
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not sassy enough

visual bolt
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talk shit dilara i dare you

obtuse sinew
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woah

rose sluice
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drycha's glow up doe ๐Ÿ˜ณ

crisp forge
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Im not

elfin yew
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Oh yes

rose sluice
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mech ent

crisp forge
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the revenants look hot af

elfin yew
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Drycha's BEE ARMOR

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I love her.

edgy cipher
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Did you guys saw the teaser for the new Underworld mini for the bonereapers ?

obtuse sinew
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WOAH

visual bolt
crisp forge
crisp forge
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KEK

elfin yew
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I do love me some Ossiarch content

edgy cipher
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Want a pic ?

elfin yew
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I don't play them but I love their aesthetic

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yes

obtuse sinew
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fucking HIVE ARMOR AMAZING

crisp forge
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post

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More skelly bulges

obtuse sinew
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anyways yeah sure why not

rose sluice
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show the bones

crisp forge
obtuse sinew
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shut

crisp forge
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BOOOO

edgy cipher
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WELCOME TO THE BONE ZONE

elfin yew
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Oh that's gonna be Good.

rose sluice
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john

crisp forge
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WE CANT SEE HIM YET

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ARGHHH

rose sluice
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i can

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๐Ÿ’€

edgy cipher
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I mean just look at the size of this lad

crisp forge
elfin yew
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Absolute Unit

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Katakros made me fall in love with the Ossiarchs, so this'll be Good

edgy cipher
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And you can see some details because the fitler is shite

crisp forge
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Lets hope he gets a jockstrap like katakros

edgy cipher
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I like Underwolds boxes

visual bolt
edgy cipher
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They make for good paint projects

rose sluice
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they just aint tomb kings though

crisp forge
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calm down honey

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HES FINE

edgy cipher
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I like em better than Tomb kings tbh

visual bolt
crisp forge
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???

rose sluice
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he sunk Ulthuan?

crisp forge
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You literally told me hours on end about how much you want him to die

elfin yew
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Yeah Ossiarchs are way more chadly than TK(not that I dislike TK)

crisp forge
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LOL that too

elfin yew
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It's just that

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Ossiarchs drank their calcium

visual bolt
crisp forge
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Yeah i got that too

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but still

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leave him alone damn it

visual bolt
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thats it thats all im talking about

crisp forge
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yeah but you still dont like him!

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its pretty mean!

rose sluice
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i don't like him

elfin yew
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didnt teclis like use magic to erase some girl's memory after fucking them

rose sluice
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he's fucking annoying in total war

obtuse sinew
visual bolt
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what can i say

obtuse sinew
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hella fucked

crisp forge
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I admitted they're cool tho

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so no

visual bolt
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its sad

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like

rose sluice
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good

crisp forge
rose sluice
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don't want to like him

visual bolt
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every named character who got extensive writing in whf are pricks

crisp forge
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no joke

obtuse sinew
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jeez

elfin yew
visual bolt
elfin yew
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Wants to save the world from chaos
skeleton
cool.

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big hat

obtuse sinew
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I think mayhaps the writers are... hmm...

visual bolt
obtuse sinew
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that for sure

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but also

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some kind of fucky writers

visual bolt
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its from the 80's

obtuse sinew
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ahh

visual bolt
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what do you expect really

obtuse sinew
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yeah

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not much

rose sluice
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Settra is good man

crisp forge
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Settra > Nagash

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he got punked sadly

rose sluice
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Nagash canโ€™t kill rat

elfin yew
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nagash beaned settra

rose sluice
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Big fail

crisp forge
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KSFDS

elfin yew
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ok that's true.

visual bolt
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writers be like "hmmm today i will have one of the most major elf character date r*pe two other characters yes"

rose sluice
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Bone rights removed

edgy cipher
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Don't mention that before Skely

visual bolt
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dont start dilara

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KHDSFDSFAJH

crisp forge
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he didnt... date r*ape them, he literally erased one of their minds because she was snooping in on his work

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lol

obtuse sinew
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hmm

rose sluice
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Donโ€™t see Gelt doing that

crisp forge
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LOL

elfin yew
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GELT

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IS

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SUPREME.

crisp forge
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gate would just turn them into gold

rose sluice
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Superior wizard

crisp forge
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chad

visual bolt
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GATE

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GATE

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GET HER ASS SHE SAID GATE

elfin yew
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GET HER ASS.

rose sluice
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Pictured sylvania

crisp forge
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Shoulda turned mannfred into gold and put him in his basement

steel scarab
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Nagash is a chump. Dude got stalemated by a buncha rats over some warpstone

crisp forge
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look

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they were really tiny

visual bolt
crisp forge
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he didnt see them coming

visual bolt
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black pyramid 5th construction model

rose sluice
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In his floating pyramid

steel scarab
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Lul the Skaven are still dunking on him in AoS too? xD

rose sluice
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Skaven arenโ€™t real

visual bolt
rose sluice
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So nagash failed to nothing

visual bolt
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and eat his pyramid

rose sluice
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Just miss my boy queek man

crisp forge
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he'll come back

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one day

rose sluice
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I like to think heโ€™s ascended to verminlord

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For being chad

elfin yew
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Apparently there's a skaven character who's implied to be Ikit Claw/some descendant of him who reverse engineered stormcast reforging

rose sluice
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Love

summer pawn
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Want to have a Mommy Skaven, just for getting an army of Skaven who say Yes-yes

elfin yew
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He died then vanished in a bolt of green lightning

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So probably still alive

crisp forge
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can we get some female skaven lords yet tho

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not the fat overdosed ones

rose sluice
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Female skaven are not a nice thing to look up

visual bolt
elfin yew
steel scarab
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Fortunately AoS does not exist for me. Warhammer Fantasy died and it was The End til GW decided to bring it back after Total War: Warhammer exploded in popularity

summer pawn
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Skaven can't die, they die-die

elfin yew
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It's still ded

visual bolt
elfin yew
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Well, mostly, sort of

rose sluice
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Love Throts uncontrollable sex drive. Half of moulder are his kids supposedly

elfin yew
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chad rat

crisp forge
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NOOOOOOOOOOO

rose sluice
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The fat rat bangs

elfin yew
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biggie cheese

visual bolt
crisp forge
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STOP

summer pawn
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Oh god

crisp forge
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LOL

summer pawn
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XD

crisp forge
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god i knew it was coming

crisp forge
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we'll take a visit to Nippon

visual bolt
summer pawn
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Just want Bretonia back ๐Ÿ˜ข

crisp forge
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and visit clan toyota

summer pawn
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XD

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Nisan better

rose sluice
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Clan Honda

visual bolt
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yall mean you dont wanna visit the states and go to the gay ass ford community here?

steel scarab
summer pawn
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For the Lady

rose sluice
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Bretonia all joined nurgle after thry were cat fished by the elves

visual bolt
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i think it had more to do with a general abuse from the nobility

summer pawn
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But better this one

visual bolt
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but elves can be traced back to that, to some degree, i do agree

rose sluice
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Gross

steel scarab
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Gotta establish dominance over the enemy. And give the peasants a morale boost that won't help cause they break immediately anyway.

rose sluice
elfin yew
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I think some Grail knights still exist in fluff tho I'm unsure

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Could be fridged for a potential later faction release

summer pawn
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On TWW2

elfin yew
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Something to do with Ladrielle's little pocket dimension or smthing

summer pawn
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Ladrielle is a good elve girl

rose sluice
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Cute

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Kruber in there?

elfin yew
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One can hope

summer pawn
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Me ?

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no

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Just a Woman Tau from Water cast

visual bolt
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ladirelle better not have one of those in her pocket

crisp forge
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What? A drone?

rose sluice
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She has pain and misery

edgy cipher
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Nice gif

summer pawn
chrome niche
steel scarab
edgy cipher
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I found my old Magore's fiend box

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I'm glad I improved on my painting

proud gorge
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actually yes lmao

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also holy moly many messages

dusk hill
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is incan into large posteriors

void orchid
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who isnt

proud gorge
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I appreciate a wide range

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pun not intended

void orchid
urban harbor
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?

proud gorge
fervent ice
summer pawn
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thanks

proud gorge
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Kamelia is very cool

summer pawn
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I'm not

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I'm a dumb Gue'La

proud gorge
summer pawn
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XD

vivid rune
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Im getting it down to just 3 hours...almost there

plush swift
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i feel like the skin is asking for a bit more contrast

uncut olive
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I have multiple questions. Why is there a random alpha legion astate chilling with those loyal Primachs?

bold copper
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it's alpharius

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or omegon

uncut olive
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But those are all the loyal primachs

bold copper
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exactly

uncut olive
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Eh ok

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Itโ€™s a cool image and Iโ€™m not going to pick it apart

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I didnโ€™t know Sanguinies use a spear and a sword

surreal iris
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according to a wiki, in the Horus Heresy TT game you can equip him with either a spear or a sword

uncut olive
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โ€œSo are you going to take your spear or sword into battle lord Sanguinius?โ€

โ€œYesโ€

plush swift
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I think that might also be the Sanguinor. Look at how Ferrus Manus is accompanied by Legion of the Damned marines. Even the figure's face looks like a golden mask.

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However, the Sanguinor only has a sword, so it might be the artist trying to imply the Sanguinor is actually Sanguinius as a fan theory thing.

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That's probably why Omegon is there as he is theorized to be the loyal twin of the 20th legion.

urban harbor
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thats not a theroy tho

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omegon is alpharius' twin

plush swift
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But is he?

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It's the alpha legion. Trust nothing.

urban harbor
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fair point

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i mean we are all alpharius in truth

green cave
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Guys, that image symbolise the ulanor triumph

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You know, the moment when all the 18 primarchs were on the same balcony, and the artist took a artistic license in their representation... As that is fan art, not an official one

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The question should be: what the hell is doing there cawl of the 41st millennium there??

plush swift
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I mean, there is artistic license and then there is 10/18 primarchs and legion of the damned ferrus. Pretty sure it ain't that moment

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As you pointed out, 41st Cawl is there.

green cave
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Those aren't legion of the damned... Those are iron hands... You can see the SM on the left have the iron hand prosthetic and the one on the right has the cog on the armour

plush swift
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Do you see Ferrus's head literally burning?

green cave
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Yes, artistic license, but i must admit one thing, there are no traitor primarch, so yes, i was wrong, it is not the ulanor triumph, but it is inspired by it

plush swift
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I believe it is the artist's depiction of post dark imperium all the loyal primarchs coming back together.

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Which hasn't and probably won't happen.

green cave
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You are probably right... As guillman has the emperor's sword and the golden guy on the right must be a custodes...

plush swift
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And Sanguinius is the Sanguinor instead. He even has the Sanguinor's posse. It's basically all the theories coming together for one picture.

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Not gonna lie. The guy next to Cawl that people think is Omegon might be Cawl's own Alpha Primus, a special Primaris Marine that has unpainted armor and is unable to be replicated.

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Doesn't explain the shape shifting though.

wary adder
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Finally got my first squad of Intercessors done for my custom chapter The Artifactors (bitter enemies of the Relictors!). ๐Ÿ™‚ Tada!

grizzled stump
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That's alot of green boys

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Nice job

wary adder
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All the green! ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you very much!

grizzled stump
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If you dont mind can I ask what colours you used for the armour?

surreal iris
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Sometimes I wished that I'd gone for painting my own chapter, rather then painting some Salamanders

wary adder
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Undercoat black, then Waagh flesh, then Warpstone Glow (two thin layers). ๐Ÿ™‚ I like that green, vibrant.

hasty sorrel
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they look great

twilit cliff
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What's that dope ass terrain?

wary adder
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Thanks!
I believe it's one of those old bunkers from GW, and a ruin from GW. ๐Ÿ™‚

twilit cliff
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I love it

wary adder
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Awesome! ๐Ÿ˜„ Yes, terrain can be just as important as the models themselves when creating cinematic scenes on the battlefield. ๐Ÿ™‚

twilit cliff
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I'm still planning on poorhammering some cardboard terrain

twilit cliff
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Noob question

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how do you guys decide beforehand what special weapon to put on your marine? i mean the weapon other than bolters

edgy cipher
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You mean when it comes to building the miniature or in army building on tabletop ?

hoary ermine
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Easy

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you pick what looks cool

hasty sorrel
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ye w/e is coolest

twilit cliff
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alrighty

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what do you guys think is coolest?

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i kinda like melta guns

edgy cipher
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lasguns

hasty sorrel
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im a big fan of plasma or rocket launchers

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snipers are also good

twilit cliff
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always thought missile launchers looked a bit too goofy

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maybe its bc i remember them from dow 2

hoary ermine
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@twilit cliff heres my ironstrider

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@twilit cliff heres my older skorpius antigrav kitbash

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which i might continue with due to the issues the malcador has

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@twilit cliff and here are some of the skitarii as an example

uncut olive
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How good is citadels liquid green stuff? I was thinking about getting some so I could customize my modules

hoary ermine
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Well, its just greenstuff world greenstuff but it shrinks more than youd hope it does

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also

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the moment you open a pot, it has a shelf life, where other liquid clays can be kept cool to prevent this, GW LGS is.... it dies off after about 7 months or so

uncut olive
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Ok

twilit cliff
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so in those seven months you better sculpt a lot of crap?

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how durable is it anyway, once finished and painted

hoary ermine
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It doesnt like being sanded

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but its fine

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its literally liquid plastic

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works a bit like a thick gel

twilit cliff
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oki good to know

hoary ermine
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Too wide?

hasty sorrel
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wide load

uncut olive
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Maybe bring it in just a little bit

hoary ermine
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Yeah ive remove 1 link

dusky mango
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yeah 1 in ought to do it

uncut olive
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Yeah

dusky mango
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that is beautiful

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The Machine God's foes are not gonna be happy when that rolls in... whatisitbtw?

plush swift
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anyway for anyone else that likes these short stories, i'm posting the krieg story here too where it'll get less buried, if you have any feedback or questions i'd be glad to hear them

hoary ermine
dusky mango
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ahhh nice

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that explains what I assume are meltas and Volkite to get through enemy hulls?

hoary ermine
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Yeap

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okay so, you cant see em

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But the tracks have shields with stabby points on the front on their sides, these generate a gravitic wave that pushes against the enemy hull, the las cannons below fire probing shots that act like seismometers, scanning the hull for a weakpoint where it can dig in.

the moment it finds a point, it accelerates beyond turning back using two smaller fighter engines and fires up the volkites, which start to finalize the hull weakpoint as an accessible attack point, when it gets close enough it also fires up the melta cannons and the graviton beamer on the top, which repeatedly sledgehammers the weakpoint.
At this point the forward shield is used as a drill as much as a shield, as the generators on the front and sides push out any molten hull as the melta cannons fire continuously to dig the vehicle through the hull.

Once inside, it delivers a robotic payload

dusky mango
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lascannon sonar? i love itt

hoary ermine
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the entire vehicle is a driving battering ram designed to literally Drive over the enemy hull, find a point, dig in, and deliver a deadly payload

dusky mango
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that is great

hoary ermine
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after which the vehicle is set into full reverse, where, because all weapons are forward facing, it can use its shielding as a defense, before blasting off of the side for a recovery craft to grab it

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Oh right, capture is a dangerous thing

dusky mango
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ship to ship WH40k tank wars

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perfect

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*robot wars

hoary ermine
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The onboard gravitic engines implode and activate all onboard fuel cells to melt the entire vehicle to slag should the mission become un-recoverable

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the wreckage will look like a modified Macrocarid and nothing more

dusky mango
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so what is it controlled by?

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machine spirit or techpriest

hoary ermine
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The driver

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and the machine spirit

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they decide together

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My forgeworld borders on slightly heretical, for example, theyre all mutants

dusky mango
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nice

spark hamlet
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Two CF aggressors including the sgt and only one more to add

edgy cipher
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Nice

potent rampart
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looks sick @spark hamlet

spark hamlet
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Thank you ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

plush swift
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That's a lot of fisting power

tacit chasm
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๐Ÿค”

hoary ermine
edgy jackal
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did they remove a bunch of terrain?

uncut olive
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First time ever really doing a human face

dusky mango
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nice, thats a good one

void orchid
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not mine, i just thought this was pretty cool

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ive always wanted a good excuse to try out a marble effect, this one looks not too hard and pretty legit

dusky mango
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that's cool

dusk hill
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human faces are usually p easily handled with just like. base paint, hella wash so u can actually make out where the eyes are and stuff, then a bit of lighter fleshy highlight if u want

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i refuse to do anything more, eyes scare me. they stay as black voids

dusky mango
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I'm scared of attempting eyebrows when I eventually do a face

void orchid
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Reject faces, embrace helmet

dusk hill
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so long as it looks good on the table, it's fine

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nobody cares if a model doesn't have eyes or eyebrows unless ur going into painting competitions or smthn

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also yes helmets > faces always anyways

plush swift
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i want to give my hqs scarred faces

grizzled stump
void orchid
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helmet gang

grizzled stump
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Clap Helmet Clap Gang Clap

dusky mango
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helmet gang

hoary ermine
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i am, construct

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so basically

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im bolting the top one to the bottom one

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then im making the bottom one longer so it can house weapons

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And it needs wings or floatation

dusky mango
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tecc

wary adder
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Chaplain done! ๐Ÿ˜

hoary ermine
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nice

wary adder
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Thanks!

dusky mango
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that's incredible

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how did u get that effect on the bottom right (left of image) of the cloak?

lapis tundra
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Nice highlighting!

hoary ermine
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hm...

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i could of course also use sprues as a framework and build over it...

dusky mango
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yeah, or as support stuts for custom wings

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*struts

hoary ermine
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nah ineed them for the frame where ill connect the two body pieces to make it longer

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on the red

dusky mango
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are they going on the outside or on the inside as a chassis?

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oh wait

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I see what you mean now

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could u get the cardboard centre of a toilet roll and put that through the very centre before giving it green stuff ribbing and making it look like a giant barrel of plasma

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as a really powerful reactor

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that is exposed for cooling reasons

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and it has the sprews around it

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for structure

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*sprues

hoary ermine
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nah its meant to be another compartment

dusky mango
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ah ok

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I'm looking forward to the end result

hoary ermine
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same lol

dusky mango
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yeah but for me its a suprise!๐Ÿ˜ƒ

wary adder
dusky mango
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ah right. thank you

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I will try it

wary adder
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Good luck!

dusky mango
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thank you

hoary ermine
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L o n g

dusky mango
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I just imagine the Omnisiah nodding like Gandalf in the meme where his nodding is looped with epic sax guy

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at this glorious sight

hoary ermine
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That second macrocarid

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its going to be up there

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Ill mount it with some kind of access in the middle

dusky mango
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this is going to morph into a boarding titan eventually isnt it?๐Ÿ˜†

hoary ermine
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perhaps

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it has the correct hull head size

dusky mango
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That would start to look like a loyalist deamon engine if u put a titan head on it

hoary ermine
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no i mean

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the ''sensorium'' at the front, its the size of a titan head

dusky mango
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oh right

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that's cool

hoary ermine
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green is an outline for a platform i might want to add

plain zenith
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My first custom Custodians. Fur is fun to sculpt lol

dusky mango
dusky mango
plain zenith
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Thank you

shell yacht
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Soon maybe.

plush swift
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i already thought it was gonna be impossible but i inked it

sand tulip
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medic!!

tacit chasm
plush swift
hoary ermine
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welp

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i have officially lost inspiration and knowledge on what to do with my macrocarids and malcadors

feral valley
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One Squat Heavy Weapons Squad

crisp forge
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hes PACKING DAMN

vivid rune
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@feral valley nice use of the bloodbowl dwarfs!

feral valley
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Thanks!

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Yea hes a tank

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Stronk

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I'm split between a chaos squat army next, or using the really nice chaos beastman models to make another abhuman armu

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I like abhumans a lot

plush swift
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I want to paint chaos now.

obtuse sinew
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damn that is sick

plush swift
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Optional ultra marine sergeant you can use on the base as well.

twilit cliff
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ver nice

obtuse sinew
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nice

elfin yew
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New belakor POG

edgy cipher
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And ofc he introduces a new SM lieutenant miniature with him

elfin yew
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I love how the base has variants for if its for AoS or 40k

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Really funny touch

spark hamlet
#

Took a mini break from my Crimson fists and khorne stuff to test out a new scheme for my praetorian flak armor and may do this when I start my praetorian project after some of projects Ineed to complete

elfin yew
#

Holy shit ok, belakor is WAY bigger than I expecter

obtuse sinew
#

woah

rose sluice
#

handsome man

obtuse sinew
#

He does seem to be pretty horny

#

badum tss

elfin yew
#

Also hes gettint a book

#

Seems like the Soul Wars plot is going to close with Teclis in full and something new is starting with the broken realms stuff to come

chrome niche
#

He accessorises like the goth kids in school

#

MORE CHAINS

dusky mango
chrome niche
#

Everyone else is just a poser

plush swift
#

i still have more chains

grizzled stump
visual bolt
#

alright i fucked around and drew a GSC patriarch from memory

#

for some reason they remind me a lot of giant ground sloths

#

anyway Rate my Patriarch โ„ข๏ธ

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btw i did not look at any references while drawing this

plush swift
#

i would not guess it is a gsc patriarch, but i don't know a lot about gsc. 10/10 claws

#

to be honest

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i prefer your head

visual bolt
#

thank you thank you

void orchid
#

He looks like a very sweet boy

visual bolt
#

i have no idea if patriarchs have antenna but they should

void orchid
#

I want to give him pets

plush swift
#

i looked it up now, the og head looks too much like the xenomorph

visual bolt
#

ah already garnering followers

#

i think this boy is a winner

plush swift
#

definitely a winner

#

hearthy and he looks unfuckwithable

visual bolt
#

he is very fat he enjoys treats

plush swift
#

respectable

visual bolt
#

and ye i agree about the xenomorph part i never liked the fact that genestealers genestole Alien's designs lel

obtuse sinew
#

looks like a Chinese dragon mixed with a gorilla

#

but in a good way

void orchid
#

If I had one critique

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It would be that he could use more brain space

plush swift
#

i'd just say he needs the second pair of arms

void orchid
#

For his big boi brain

plush swift
#

to consume more treats at once

visual bolt
#

oh good points good points

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hmm yes i will use this info to cook up another boy

void orchid
#

Very good

visual bolt
#

boy is evolving

visual bolt
void orchid
#

Check out his model from the 90s lmao

plush swift
#

gangsta bling

dusky mango
#

mf looks like he stole all the wrong genes

void orchid
#

Wallace and grommit: the wrong genes

visual bolt
#

UGH

#

old patriarchs BAD

obtuse sinew
#

that is gross

void orchid
#

He needs an ugly bastard tag

obtuse sinew
#

I don't think it would be easy to tag this thing, aren't genestealers supposed to be really slippery and good at hiding?

#

would be hard to catch and tag 'em

visual bolt
#

alright design update

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decided not to change his body or head too much

#

it simply ruined what mad him a good boy

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i did however add the extra arms

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and i decided to modify that xenomorph extra mouth tongue that i know patriarchs have

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and make it a lot more tongue like

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no worries though it still serves its original purpose

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now it is also very good at detecting treats in the air

obtuse sinew
#

snake tongue

obtuse sinew
#

and I see that the extra arms are coming out of the chest, which looks pretty funky

#

OH

#

I see, I see

visual bolt
#

i would actually say is more like komodo dragon tongue

obtuse sinew
#

Yes, for sure

#

and you made the boy more textured too, which looks nice

visual bolt
#

@void orchid @plush swift

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thank u thank u

plush swift
#

i dig this

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he does have the komodo dragon vibe like

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i am big boy. fuck with me and regret it

visual bolt
#

if i could redesign all tyrannids to look less like xenomorphs i would

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its so regrettable that they do like it just feels like an intrusion of another medium into 40k

40k genuinely has such unique aesthetics that its very disruptive to the setting imo

obtuse sinew
#

yeah

plush swift
#

that could be interesting

obtuse sinew
#

I like the Genestealers that are on that one moon

plush swift
#

i think they need more variety like

obtuse sinew
#

the ones with the mindflayer heads

plush swift
#

they're supposed to be super adaptive

obtuse sinew
#

yeah, they definitely need more variety

plush swift
#

yet they look rather alike

obtuse sinew
#

bug monster, bug monster, big bug monster, big-human monster, bug monster but with gun, etc.

visual bolt
#

yeah they all look so similar

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admittedly i think that if i did other nids

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i would use a variety of bug mammal combos

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like theres sooooo much you could do with them

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very squandered

#

like imagine a manti tyrannid

obtuse sinew
#

indeed

plush swift
#

bug mammal serpent

#

maybe a bit of bird

visual bolt
#

i already drew a centiepede one

obtuse sinew
#

oh?

visual bolt
#

ye

plush swift
#

marine life nids

obtuse sinew
#

Nid whales

#

wait

#

Nid Space Whales

plush swift
#

give them mouths like this

obtuse sinew
#

ooooooh

#

yes

visual bolt
#

here he is

obtuse sinew
#

oh, dat boi!

#

I remember him

plush swift
#

yeeeee

#

i really dig the colors here too

obtuse sinew
#

yeah, such a sweet little genocidal alien

visual bolt
#

theres actually a lot more depth to him

#

hes not just a centiepede

#

well hes actually been through hell

#

JKSDHFKJGF

proud gorge
#

can I eat him?

hasty sorrel
visual bolt
#

most of him is goo anymore

visual bolt
plush swift
#

i do kinda like the xenomorph aesthetic but i'd push it more into bug + marine life territory because that stuff is creepy to humans

hasty sorrel
#

depends what you consider xenomorph like

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they look vastly different

#

but they have the ribbing

plush swift
#

and it makes sense to be inspired by such for creatures that come from somewhere deep and dark, swarm in numbers and all

visual bolt
#

eh yeah see theres just a lot thats off putting about that for me... like its fine but idk id do it differently ya know?

#

i would highlight the mantis look more

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and less about the

plush swift
#

less mammalian limbs

visual bolt
#

weird sorta humanoid look

#

its not that its mamallian necessarily it just looks very human

plush swift
#

yes exactly that . the body structure is very humanoid

visual bolt
#

like the only mantis that he has is the arms.

#

what about the thorax?

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the head>

plush swift
#

when it doesn't really have a reason to be, make it more alien

visual bolt
#

so many things you could do!

hasty sorrel
#

most lictor art is more like this

obtuse sinew
#

My problem is mostly that they all look too alike. Like, damn, this is the perfect murder creature? Really?

hasty sorrel
#

but the models are old af

obtuse sinew
#

ah, that's neat

visual bolt
#

also why the hell are they so fucking white

#

HFDSKJFDHG

#

LIKE ITS EYE BURNING

proud gorge
#

you can't just ask why they're white wtf

visual bolt
#

damn ur right im sowwy

obtuse sinew
#

you're not wrong tho, that is p weird

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they all got albinism or something?

proud gorge
#

not a lot of sun

hasty sorrel
#

because they have colours defined by hive?

visual bolt
hasty sorrel
#

the white is leviathan specific

obtuse sinew
#

lies, they were in space for thousands of years

hasty sorrel
#

which was the most recent main hive

#

previously it was red and blue

plush swift
#

chitin?

obtuse sinew
#

oh alright

visual bolt
#

THEY FLY THROUGH FUCKEN SPACE THEY SEE PLENTY OF SUNS

obtuse sinew
#

yeah

plush swift
#

what color is unpigmented chitin anyway

hasty sorrel
#

this was the main hive

plush swift
#

this is the coolest nid color scheme

hasty sorrel
plush swift
#

well the coolest canon one

hasty sorrel
#

loads of schemes

hasty sorrel
#

actualy look before complaining lmao

visual bolt
#

THIS BITCH GOT HOOVES

hasty sorrel
#

yes?

plush swift
#

yes

#

cow nids

obtuse sinew
#

that's dumb

visual bolt
#

DFSHSFDD

plush swift
#

cows kill 22 people per year

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they're deadly

hasty sorrel
#

swarm lord is dumb yes

plush swift
#

don't udderestimate cows

hasty sorrel
#

its prob the worst looking nid

swift arch
#

Maybe it depends on the materials absorbed by the spawning pools? Maybe thereโ€™s certain elements (from razing certain planets) absorbed by each hivefleet that makes them have different colors?

visual bolt
#

tau better watch out

another hooved xeno on the scene

elfin yew
#

Swarmlord updste pls

visual bolt
#

then again

proud gorge
#

if Nids really wanted to be the perfect murder machines they'd just become Space Hippos

visual bolt
#

tau have multiple toes

obtuse sinew
visual bolt
#

it seems as though this fella only has one

obtuse sinew
#

useless feet!

plush swift
#

then it seems i am blind

#

i thought there were 2

obtuse sinew
#

ah, no problems

visual bolt
visual bolt
#

only 1 toes

hasty sorrel
#

i like dagon

obtuse sinew
#

but yeah, they have dumb inefficient feet that are sucky

hasty sorrel
#

red n purple

obtuse sinew
#

neat

visual bolt
#

I would rlly love to see some mandibles and stuff too

obtuse sinew
#

yesssss

visual bolt
#

admittedly i did not do that on my patriarch design

obtuse sinew
#

and more bigger eyes

visual bolt
#

but i was on purpose making him more mamalian

#

he lives with humans after all!

#

looking like a big buppy is advantageous

hasty sorrel
#

ouroboros is also a cool scheme

obtuse sinew
#

like, T-Rexes had huge eyes and could see better than hawks! and yet here we have tiny eyes

visual bolt
#

purpley red and dark blackish colors my fav for these guys

but im biased JKDSFAHFDJ since thats my color scheme

visual bolt
#

ah see now THERES something i can get behind

hasty sorrel
#

nids literaly exist in every colour under the sun

visual bolt
#

the tin roof design actually looks good on his back

plush swift
#

i dig the blue one

#

but i also like black and yellow

hasty sorrel
#

its just the white/purple is leviathan which is the fleet that attacked the blood angels home world

#

baal?

plush swift
#

and super bright nids

hasty sorrel
#

so they were the most recent "key" hive until they died

plush swift
#

disco nids

obtuse sinew
hasty sorrel
#

i cant believe scifi stole from real life

visual bolt
#

JFSDJFSDJK

#

moray eel mouth

#

a lot of fish have that tbh

#

well not predator mouth but

#

xenomorph mouth

obtuse sinew
#

what dat tongue do, tho?

proud gorge
#

๐Ÿ˜›

obtuse sinew
hasty sorrel
#

but yes

visual bolt
#

hjsdfhjkdshfjk i was correcting myself sol

hasty sorrel
#

nids have many forms and colours

visual bolt
#

well thank goodness

#

i am glad that they need not be searingly white

obtuse sinew
#

indeed

#

wait, maybe the bright white is actually on purpose? designed to be an assault against the senses!

hasty sorrel
#

i like the white as like

plush swift
#

this is also good

hasty sorrel
#

a chitinous bone construct vibe

visual bolt
#

i think this whole thing, for me, sums up to smth like this: oh man tyrannids are kinda cool, <looks at the canon models> oh no

hasty sorrel
#

all this stuff ive posted is cannon models

#

they gucci

#

its just their core troops need an update

visual bolt
#

yee i like a couple of em

hasty sorrel
#

or well

#

i say core

visual bolt
#

JKDSFJFJ

hasty sorrel
#

i like gaunts

#

lictors and tyrants need an update

plush swift
#

i like this color scheme if we're talking white too

visual bolt
#

also i know basically nothing about these guys really

then again thats how i like my 40k- the less i know the better it is

hasty sorrel
#

hive guard are neato

plush swift
#

the issue with combining purple and white is that it looks like a cake

#

and that's not very terrifying

#

is it

plush swift
#

absolutely

hasty sorrel
#

i think i just got used to it via DOW2

#

its fine by me cause they are creatures, and biology loves its colour palette

visual bolt
#

creturs...

plush swift
#

i mean there is a lot of stuff i would redesign in 40k too

#

adepta sororitas redesign with no heels and no boob cups

hasty sorrel
#

๐Ÿคท those are fun

plush swift
#

no

#

they're stupid

#

also like. most of DEldar stuff, or at least a whole lot of DEldar stuff

hasty sorrel
#

idk whats stupid about it

#

it existed irl

plush swift
#

where

hasty sorrel
#

its just rare u see shit on it cause most women in army didnt want people finding out they were women

#

seeing as, you know

#

it was mega fround upon and would cause them big issues

plush swift
#

i'm not sure if you're trolling right now but boob cups are absolutely nonviable in any kind of combat environment

dusky mango
plush swift
#

as are heels over 2-3 cm (and they would usually be worn by riders regardless)

dusky mango
plush swift
#

to have boob cups in any capacity on armor you would need specifically tailored garments that place each boob in a separate sleeve

#

and that's not possible with padding that must be worn under armor

#

you don't have to teach me shit i've been doing reenactment and fencing for 6 years

hasty sorrel
#

see: giant cocks on plate armour

plush swift
#

ceremonial

dusky mango
#

mostly

#

I think

#

the heels are 100% stupid

plush swift
#

and the codpiece won't be driven into your sternum on impact either

proud gorge
#

my opinions on the matter are

#

actually no I'd have to bonk myself

plush swift
dusky mango
#

The vid I posted does mention and approve of Sororitas armour as making sense by 40k standards

hasty sorrel
dusky mango
#

the armour shape still is not as silly as the paint work and tactics

hasty sorrel
#

nothing they are or do is efficient

#

in any capacity

dusky mango
#

40k is ENTIRELY governed by the rule of cool

#

if it can look "cool" (or marketable) it will be done

fresh island
#

kronos is best hive suck my nuts

visual bolt
#

marketability baby.

dusky mango
#

yup

visual bolt
#

idk if anyone paid attention to the newest disney movie but check out this atrocity

#

this dragon has human face BAD

dusky mango
#

i thought that was a my little pony

visual bolt
#

heres the dragon that its based off of

dusky mango
#

not a "dragon"

plush swift
#

fucking gross furry bait

dusky mango
plush swift
#

i go puke now. bye bye

visual bolt
#

yeah no its a pathetic presentation of the source material done entirely for marketing purposes

plush swift
#

disney ruins folklore, folk tales and myths and makes it look like shit. what's new?

visual bolt
#

but yeah the dragon in the movie is meant to be a thai dragon

#

but it definitely the fuck is not

plush swift
#

it's not even a dragon

dusky mango
#

it looks more like a unicorn

fresh island
#

it looks like that thing from neverending story kek

plush swift
#

it's a weird cotton candy horse

dusky mango
visual bolt
#

even if it was an original design not based on folklore.

#

it fucking sucks

#

so bad

fresh island
#

kek

dusky mango
#

looks like a myrmaid tail lmao

#

what kind of dragon has hair?

visual bolt
#

like this is literally such an obvious "we want to make a fucking ton of money off toys"

dusky mango
#

is that in the folklore?

visual bolt
#

idk if its actually like hair or what it is to the native cultures

visual bolt
#

but eastern style dragons very often have fur/hair/whatever

visual bolt
#

its egregious

dusky mango
plush swift
#

it doesn't look like an eastern dragon

dusky mango
plush swift
#

it doesn't look like a dragon at all

#

it doesn't even look good

visual bolt
#

oh it should be noted that eastern dragons dont HAVE to have fur

its just that they can

dusky mango
#

it looks like they designed the toys first then the animation model then checked the source

dusky mango
visual bolt
#

LMAO

visual bolt
#

like the only similarity between source and movie is

#

body is long.

#

horns.

#

sorta.

#

sorta.

plush swift
#

god. so many times a day i want to go to the design department of so many studios

#

and just fucking

#

start slapping

#

start slapping people left and right

visual bolt
dusky mango
#

note to self: do not give @plush swift a powerfist

plush swift
dusky mango
#

or lighning claws

plush swift
#

those are getting kicked out of the window

#

i have a special hatred for producers pushing for marketability and cash grab creative decisions

dusky mango
plush swift
#

yes

#

it was exactly me

fresh island
#

I hate US media kek

plush swift
#

i'm also the person who constantly complains of consumerism in art & design

fresh island
#

and I have to live in it kek

#

I want to kill myself and everyone else in america kek

dusky mango
elfin yew
#

Le edg

fresh island
plush swift
#

no, thank god i'm actually european. but the influx of us media and their influences is strong

dusky mango
visual bolt
#

thats why i dont interact with any media lel i just make my own

plush swift
#

i read books written in like 1920

proud gorge
#

lol imagine being european or american

plush swift
#

but your approach is also valid

proud gorge
dusky mango
visual bolt
#

KDFSFJ

proud gorge
#

LOL

plush swift
#

or just. nonfiction yknow

#

but my hatred towards current disney burns especially strong by virtue of studying animation

visual bolt
#

lol i can imagine

proud gorge
#

same

#

but because of studying ethics

visual bolt
#

FDFSDJSDF

#

i think everyone should hate disney on the basis of being human and caring about life

plush swift
#

agree

#

disney supports gross infringements on basic human rights in prc

dusky mango
visual bolt
#

DFSHJFGHJ

#

making that awful film was indeed an infringement on human rights

chrome niche
void orchid
#

He looks sleepy

visual bolt
#

thank you

visual bolt
#

he works very hard you know

dusk hill
#

Might've already been posted but I ADORE the new be'lakor model

#

Not so much the random ass marine, I'd remove him

#

But still

dusky mango
#

u probably can

#

remove the marine i mean

void orchid
#

I like that a couple wing skulls have a 40k and non 40k look

dusk hill
#

Chaos undivided always needed more love so its nice to see it

void orchid
#

Agreed

dusk hill
#

Yea it's fairly typical of daemon stuff, trying to juggle 40k and fantasy aesthetics

void orchid
#

Yeah

dusky mango
dusk hill
#

Ppl are also thinking that be'lakor may get into total warhammer so poggers

#

Good time to be a boomer daemon prince

elfin yew
dusk hill
#

!!! Nice

elfin yew
#

And a new book for him

dusk hill
#

Lol I appreciate how explicitly that's like

elfin yew
#

Its Good

void orchid
#

Yee, different base, different skulls

dusk hill
#

this is a 40k/fantasy model

#

Yea I did hear about that

elfin yew
#

U can see the warrior base variant in this pic

void orchid
#

stomp

dusk hill
#

F

#

Also hot take but his VA in the teaser they put out a while ago was lowkey good

elfin yew
#

Yeeesss

dusk hill
#

FORCED TO CROWN MY INFERIORS hell yea u get them king

#

or uh

#

prince who would be king

void orchid
#

King-let

dusk hill
#

Man the word Prince has been so ruined for me by all the royalty kink stuff hijbuyti

#

Awful

void orchid
#

๐Ÿ‘€

#

I hear the glitter of gossamer wings as zher flies over here to bonk you

proud gorge
#

๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ

plush swift
#

zher is a silkmoth they don't fly

obtuse sinew
#

FIRST THE INTERNET RUINS DADDY, AND NOW YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY'VE RUINED PRINCE????

dusk hill
#

It's like

#

royal guard domming prince in privacy kinds of vibes. Weirdly common

obtuse sinew
#

is that, like, a fanfic thing, or an irl thing?

dusk hill
#

Idk a fanfic thing ig unless u wanna seduce the actual royalty

#

Which u shouldn't subject yourself to

obtuse sinew
#

ok

#

welp

#

as long as it doesn't become a whole archetype, like the word himbo has, then I am good

dusk hill
#

Do you have a vendetta against the word himbo

#

It's a valuable descriptor!

obtuse sinew
#

no, I love the term

#

but I figured it was better to say "like the word himbo has" than to say "like the word daddy has"

#

but now you have forced my hand

void orchid
#

uwu

obtuse sinew
#

I am done talking about this

dusk hill
#

Tbh daddy is permanently ruined

#

There's no salvaging that

obtuse sinew
#

yep

dusk hill
#

,,,, I have a friend whose mother apparently calls her husband daddy. All the time. My friend hasn't built the confidence to inform her of the implications

crisp forge
#

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

obtuse sinew
#

I wonder...

dusk hill
#

Nah they're like, the super prudish conservative type. Idk what kind of language barrier leads to that but

obtuse sinew
#

wack

dusk hill
#

Bonk, u might say

obtuse sinew
#

lmao, sure

crisp forge
#

Also man did i miss the boobcup argument

obtuse sinew
#

eh?

#

ah I see

visual bolt
crisp forge
#

Honestly women in armor are hot

#

as long as its clunky i dont care if it has cups or not

visual bolt
elfin yew
#

I prefer my armor to have cupholders

#

For my drinks

obtuse sinew
#

women who look like they could kill me on a medieval battlefield are chef's kiss

crisp forge
#

woop-woop!

visual bolt
#

hmmmm

#

my stance is

#

if you got them titties poppin then

#

the male counterpart better have a phat ass

dusk hill
#

This is the correct stance.

crisp forge
#

Stormcasts fail at this, their asses are literally fucking boxes