Doghouse

Really tempted to get these (no pun intended). I was looking at Aeldari but these are really nice models and a personal favourite Legion of mine.

I personally have never actually met anyone that gamed in that setting in person, (back in RT or modern Forgeworld 40k) but the lore is very interesting especially after FW expanded it with the black books. In my personal experience it was originally more of a lore and Chapters article although I have seen lots of great models and armies that it has inspired though. At this time in my own circles back around 1990 most stuck to the Chapters in the RT book so it was fun to see more examples. If I were to do it I'd probably use the Pride of the Legion detachment rules from Heresy, it's a bit chop and change as to who fought who and where though as the Loyalists were subbed in and out to keep up the attrition rather than it being a Heresy style conflict. It was quite a recent conflict starting in 904.M41 if I remember rightly so a lot of the Heresy vehicles might not be around. I think the easiest way might be to use 5th edition and just go old school. Might make for a really good pdf on the Warcom page giving people the chance to use Legends units again if they were to do it in 10th.

Totally agree. In fact it's so simple once I got the hang of it my pile of shame became HUGE because I kept printing everything and anything.

Based on my personal experience. For the longest time everything I read online put me off until one day I finally bit the bullet and never looked back. Electricity costs are very low, I have the Saturn 2 and it's basically a motorized arm and a UV light. You will need Isopropyl Alcohol for cleaning unless you use the water washable variant. You don't need a washing station, for more prints I use a Pickle Jar strainer and find I can reuse the alcohol for several washes. Noise is fairly quiet, not as loud as an old fashion paper printer but more of a brief motor sound as it pulls the plate off the bottom then lowers it back down. You will hear a slight snap sound if you listen closely but this is a good sound as it is detaching from the FEP film. The smell isn't great but you can get resins that have little odor but to be honest the odor is telling you not to breath this stuff in so try no to get complacent. You can get chalk filters to go in the Saturn printers that do reduce some of the harmful odors but you really do need a ventilated room. I use the same precautions as I do when painting walls in doors to be honest. I've never had any issues with contact to skin on my hands but still wear the rubber gloves to be certain, most of the time you are only really being exposed at the cleaning stage. In terms of value for money I can probably get over a demi company of marines from one bottle which is normally about £30. A marine size model normally takes about 2-3 hours depending on the positioning. I once printed truescale rhinos in one piece and they took 11 hours each. If you do large models always remember to hollow them in Lychee or Chitubox and to leave a drainage hole as the inside will cure to certain degree on the model BUT will capture resin as the model is printed meaning it can leak later. Also if you print a rhino you will come back to find a huge brick of resin and your resin tray drained. Once you strip most of the mystery away it's really simple. I just stick the stl on a thumb drive, put it in the printer, load up with resin and press print. You will get fails from time to time but you can just go on youtube and there are a bajillion videos on there about it. Just research before you buy.

If it's any consolation I felt the same. For me it leant too much into the tone and pacing of Astartes, it was ok but I had hoped for more. I did actually burst out laughing when he produced the psyker from his lunchbox, it definitely works nicely using humans as tech in terms of the lore but I couldn't help but laugh. I think the downside was I kept thinking of the Inquisitor in Astartes which kept throwing me off. For a short it worked fine as they are limited in terms of story that they can cram in so went with the visuals rather than masses of dialogue and that's also what made Astartes so great for me. Both being examples of show rather than tell. From an interview I read the other day one of the guys from Blur studios when talking about this episode mentioned they are currently working with Henry Cavill on an unspecified project which did make me think that the deal had gone through and that more animations are coming.

I'm currently enjoying what I intend to be a very long break from the hobby although I do on occasion stop by here to look in and this topic peaked my interest. I have packed it all away with the exception of my sculpting tools and put it all out of sight because at the end of the day the hobby isn't going to be going away anytime soon. While expensive for the most part the models retain most of their value so if you decide you prefer not having Warhammer in your life you can still sell.

I am probably in the minority but I personally think mark ten is a misunderstanding. During the initial interview with Jes Goodwin on the Vox Cast podcast he explained it as the letter X and not the numeral ten with it effectively being a collection of armours. The idea was X was a starting armature point then extra plates were added or taken away to create variants such as Gravis or Phobos. Whether this has been retconned since I have no idea but the idea of it being a project x breaking tradition with the numbering made it fairly interesting and maybe a secret title for GW staff during development. I think the only truely acknowledged missing armour mark is probably the theoretical Imperial pattern mentioned in the WD article covering armour through the Heresy.

Love the bare heads, empty hands and the Umbra pistol especially.

I think for me it boils down to the need to release of an edition with a big plot hook to begin and end each one to tie in with big boxset release and a Primarch to end the edition. Guess it's Russ this time.

Not really no, the bulk of the lore probably up until the rise of Black Library (circa 2008?) was in the Codex for your army and main rulebook. The specialist magazines were more old school alternative rules for existing games in line with fanzines and never really considered mainstream enough to consider 'official' by most players. The naming of the second Legion is a good example in one of them. People used to come to me for advice on making their own army lore or Codex or asking questions and I have never referred anyone to any specialist magazine. White Dwarf articles were mostly reprints of the codex stuff maybe with a bit more of insight from designers and their thoughts. Even Black Library wasn't considered canon at one point but I think the Heresy series probably changed that mentality. I personally think the 2nd edition Codices were best for lore.

This may come across as being a bit Grognard but it is my intention that I am being honest in a respectful way from my personal perspective and not bashing what others might love. I think they should have left the Heresy at First Heretic because seeing the rise of the Imperium was genuinely interesting but I really do not need to know all the tiny details that made the mystery of the setting. On the whole I prefer the setting as a sandbox and don't buy into the "you asked us to advance the timeline and we listened" in the slightest, it's blatantly a marketing tool to sell more products which at the end of the day I can't really blame them for because at the end of the day they are a business first. Up until 8th edition I knew the lore inside and out but these days I struggle to keep up with it all. It feels like some modern films to me these days where you have to watch the film, read the comics, read all the blogs, read the spin off novels, I much preferred it when it was all in the Codex and you were left to speculate.

I think that given the Fists and Sons of Horus are the current poster boys for Heresy it's extremely plausible that he would get a resculpt first.

That's not really a new thing though as it's been the same way with most editions, but I think some people are hopefully growing weary of it. My ideal would be a bit of tweaking of the current edition in a similar way to 3rd edition 40k becoming 4th.

I'm hoping that 30k new edition is more of a 2.5 and isn't going to invalidate all my books I've bought.