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No we don't! We needed zero of them! They were legendary figures of barely remembered mythic past, their absence symbolising the decaying nature of the current Imperium. Bringing them back destroyed the thematic core of the setting, and was completely unnecessary as there already was a fully supported separate game for inconclusive primarch slap fights. Oh, and chaos can have theirs. They are already a bunch of losers hanging around in desolate corner of galaxy, so at least having some primarchs whilst the Imperium has none gave them some chance to seem like a proper threat once in a while.

Its 1993 and i'm excitedly looking at thunderhammer and lightning claw terminators in GW Harrow display cabinet. It's 2005 and i'm excitedly looking at thunderhammer and lightning claw terminators i've just bought on pre-release at Gamesday 2005. Its 2025 and i'm excitedly looking at thunderhammer and lighting claw terminators on the internet.

Hi everyone, Just thought I'd share that our second Warhammer Conference is set to take place next week. As with last year's event, the panels are free to attend online. I will also be editing and uploading the recordings to our YouTube channel once the conference is over. Thanks so much :)

There's still possible Dorn return

Exorcists Vth company captain, Arcturus Veth, bearer of the relic Expulsiaris The relic is mentionned in the Exorcists Chapter approved (WD 462)

No, sir. You are the one saying Legion of the Damned should all cross the Rubicon because it would look real neat, and people are disagreeing with you based on what the Legion of the Damned are. Put that victim card right back where you found it.

People have been saying this for 20 years and it still hasn't happened. I will believe it when I see it.

Vallejo are launching a new metallic paint line with 80 colours. Juan Hidalho has put up a first look you tube video here. The paints look very impressive. Any EC, TS, AL, or painters of metallic schemes should certainly take a look.

Long, long time since I've posted on the B&C. I used to play and collect 40k about a decade ago, some might remember my old Sons of Tyr log and "A Lesser Son of Greater Fathers", my Heresy Ultramarines log. I've been enticed back in to doing something in the 41st millennium again by the advent of the Astartes short (and its sequel), the Secret Level episode and Space Marine II. Absolutely wild growing up with a hobby as niche as Warhammer and now seeing it in the proverbial mainstream. Anyway, without much ado I've been looking at jumping into some narrative games set in the modern 40k setting. I don't know yet what my group is going to use for a ruleset - we're pretty narrative-heavy and focussed largely on non-GW games - but Kill Team has gathered some interest, not least of all for the smaller scale and the chance to tell some character-focussed stories. My offering will be focussed around a Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes bearing suspiciously familiar heraldry who find themselves on the wrong side of the Cicatrix Maledictum...and more than likely, facing the very real prospect of their own mortality as a host of existential threats pile on their doorstep. So rage, rage against the dying of the light, and let fly the Sons of the Condor...

I'll save you some time and summarize using my precognitive abilities: Guy 1: I want to roll the lore back to pre-8th Edition. Guy 2: PRIMARIS HATER REEEEE Guy 1: OH YEAH?? *ANGERY COMMENTS FOLLOW* God bless and enjoy your day.

Hey folks. I've been painting exhaustively since the army box came out, I wanted to finish the troops in the box before tooting my horn, lordy knows this project wasn't going to get off the grounds without a round of Bloodclaws and Grey Hunters as a foundation.

Another model for my Emperor's Children force. The Lord Kakophonist. I imagine I will be painting at least another of these guys, so decided to mix his war gear up, so it is at least slightly different to paint!

Slow going but almost have the miss launcher arm done. stripes are kinda kicking my ass, but coming along

I have recently painted up a Crusade Ancient for my Son's Black Templar force. I wouldn't normally paint one in this way, the grey highlights, as opposed to the colder edge highlights they are traditionally painted with. But my lad decided this is what he wants for his army! Turned out okay though!

My September vow addendum is complete (I will base them along with the rest of the squads). Prepare to be judged

Got commissioned for a BT Emperor's Champion over the weekend. I received it and assembled on Wed , and spent Thu and Fri mornings working on it, really happy with the result.

Knight armies should have household infantry. An army of nothing but big vehicles was always a terrible idea.

So posted a complete vow in the Chaos Knights's thread and then saw the heading saying to post vows in here So to post it here: Vow Complete! 14 Wardogs (various weapons swapable) and Tyrant Editted to move images into spoilers Wardog close Tyrant Full army Including spares

I'm new to this forum and I'm not totally sure how image posting works so I'm sorta testing the water with this. This is a Primaris Marine from my own Storm Crows chapter. The Chapter is still a work in progress really. Raven Guard successor chapter..... But white... maybe grey I'm not totally sure yet. This is a test marine and as I dont play much 40k i didnt know the tactical icon I used would make him a Devastator? or Heavy weapon trooper? I used it because I liked it lol. He was painted in just over 4 hours. Hope you like him.

August complete Void Shield Generator complete 1/1 complete

I never used to care about the annual price hikes... then my wife and I decided to have kids, and she stayed off work. Now I view the costs differently lol

Girls on tour. Nice throwback to the 2011 metal Archon there.

Stop. Hammer Time.

I'm sorry guys, I failed miserably for a few good reasons and a few poor excuses. The heatwave sapped a lot of my enthusiasm, I got taken to hospital after developing a kidney stone, I needed to get my kitchen ceiling replastered and I spent a few days repainting it, and my mental health and motivation have been all over the place. It's frustrating because I got so much prepped to paint but once the basecoats were airbrushed and ready to go everything slowed to a crawl. Yesterday I packed away my Aeldari and picked up an Ork model I intend to gift to my girlfriend to try to help with the burnout and it felt much easier to get started on that. I didn't finish my first squad of Aspect Warriors so I earned that failure badge big time.

Thanks! No, I haven't - old habits die hard. As such, I haven't considered getting outside of the yellow, green, (standard) blue palette for details on a Techmarine. And here are some photos of the finished model: And some close-ups: As always, close-ups reveal some things that I could improve but not this time - I'm calling it done, as part on my journey to learn to let things go. Overall, I'm very happy with this one. It was quite fun to paint (although it has taken me a long time to get him done) and the result is very nice. I've even limited the amount of battle damage to a minium.

very slow progress on my EC but have nearly finished this guy up. converted him from the cataphractii warsmith, which is a great sculpt :D this is the 299th company's captain, Lazonus Muzaneel. Going to run him as a Centurion and maybe as a Praetor in some lists (even if he is, fluff-wise, meant to be a centurion). ignore my very messy desk haha

Decided on a new army for all the MKII marines I've now got. Test boy done for the scheme and I'm really happy with it. Ticks all the boxes for an army project for me - it's fairly quick, uses techniques I enjoy doing, is a bit grimy, and uses a colour I've not really painted much before. Couple of tweaks that I'll make when I roll it out, but for now it's building time.

I understand both the question and the question behind the question, and they're both good. 1 image to explain it all: GW shows dollar amounts, but that is enough for someone like me. We'll look at the Decade of Decline from 2007 to 2016 mainly. GW raised prices to keep up with inflation (Tariffs are on top of that now). Economists' rule of thumb, 3%. Prices go up gradually. But from 2007 to 2016, it's flat. Prices still going up on that inflation average 3% a year...so it means sales were going down 3%. In other words, during that era, it's exactly as you think, the classic demand curve playing out. Price increases, demand drops. Even when Age of Sigmar came out, flat. It was missing things like points value. Its 1st General's Handbook fixed that, line goes up. Then 40k 8th ed came out and it went up 40%, at that point GW more than caught up with a decade's worth of price increases. And ever since then, it's been going up and up, the hype is not fabricated, Warhammer HAS been increasing in popularity. +++ The Magic Number +++ Seventy. The Magic Number is 70% Core Gross Margin, what other companies just call Gross Profit Margin. What this means: you buy something, say, a Combat Patrol costing US$100, it cost GW $30, $70 is profit. That means THOSE miniatures cost $30 with the labour, the energy costs, etc. NOT the Warhammer Store's rent. GW does not increase prices willy-nilly because they can get away with it. GW follows this formula based on its costs. GW 1st finds every price reduction on their end. Then when they cut until they can cut no more, they increase prices. That 70% is high! It's at a level of Tech Giants and, oddly, LEGOs. But GW doesn't just increase prices for the sake of it. And you're right to ask. Here's why. Tariffs are just part of this Core Gross (Profit) Margin formula. That's why I'm sure. +++++ Brothers, my fellow Veterans of the Long War, you know how I've been saying about this 70% formula? It's that reason I'm saying Tariffs are part of it. I always said GW followed this code of Honour Among Thieves, Tariffs are part of this same thing that we've come to understand. That's why I say it. And I understand your incredulity because EVEN I had forgotten it's a thing, then I was like "oooh...shucks." Edit - you guys are also saying it's other stuff, like the regular annual price increases. Yes, yes yes yes yes yes you're absolutely right, it's those TOO, and Tariffs on top. It's the regular price increases, because GW's own input costs are increasing, inflation happens to everyone, then Tariffs as well. Not an IF THEN, but an AND statement. It all goes into the calculation, and it sucks.

The "Wolf" stood on the hasty redoubt and gazed across the torn landscape at the Forgeworld Manufactorum Complex. More like a fortress than a factory, its walls were nearly a quarter mile thick of solid steel and rockrete. Crenalations crowned those walls with an entire PDF regiment attached to guard it with anti-air and surface batteries. Finally the complex laid safely beneath a kinetic shield, designed to withstand even orbital bombardment....to penetrate these defenses was considered impenetrable. The "Wolf" however was a specialist in destroying the impenetrable. He was there at the assault on the False Emperor's palace. It was there he earned his name "The Wolf of the Wall." He earned it by, utterly breaking the back of the defenders on the wall in which he and his forces assaulted. He had fought the forces of the Imperium for 10000 years. In that time he had earned other names, "The Siege Breaker," and "The Fist of Perturabo," to name some of the most common. But the one he preferred was his real name, Agarax Tull. And he would raze this factorum to the ground. Tull clicked his vox channel open, "Begin." And a 360 view for those who want one. What a project! Had a blast converting and painting this guy. Really makes me want an army of these guys. Anyway C&C welcome, thanks for looking.

Alas, my brothers, I have failed. The hobby time was there, but the desire to paint was not, and there can be no excuses. But truly, can you be surprised that a Thousand Sons enjoyer had a change of plans? What little painting I got done. Seven terminators completed, three more wip's, and one Plagueburst Crawler that is 90% complete. Despite my pathetic output, I am very happy with my paint jobs. Congratulations and great work on all the completed vows!

Crimson Fists. Have the 11th edition stuff done up in Crimson Fists colours and have a new Pedro Kantor release at the same time.

Two types of space marine collector. meanwhile, in my overwhelmingly correct observation

Vow Complete! I hereby present one Winged Hive Tyrant for your consideration: This one is all my GF's doing, as mentioned previously. My only contribution was gluing on the head, which I'm happy to say I managed without destroying anything of significance

I delt with it surprisingly well, to be honest. I'm quite surprised how easily I conceded, after exhausting reasonable measures to make the idea work. Not this time! But old habits die hard: with my Oldmarine Templars, I've almost always used mixed paint schemes, incorporating the Martian reds and Templar blacks. With this chapter, I felt the purple doesn't work so I turned to the familiar. The issue is that it's a bit bulky/wide and takes too much of the gorget but, despite that, I decided to go with this option. I've grown to like it (thanks to GW's best advertising device: Space Marine 2 where I enjoy Vanguard and Sniper!). My only criticism is the weird greaves but I definitely don't hate them. I just think that the heavier, standard armour would work better. It's either from a Stormtalon or Stormraven - or maybe some Dark Angels bike squad upgrade? My best guess is that it's from the Stormraven kit. Regarding what you said about the colours: oh, that's a great idea - I could go with it. To be honest, the main motivation was what I mentioned above. But you've pointed out something that opens more possibilities - thanks! *** I feel I'm very close to finishing the model. I took some quick photos to inspect the work. While the compressed photos are enough to give an overview, the full versions helped me assess what I did... and it appears that the model passed the inspection. The only faults I can see is some superglue frosting around the base of the thin servo arm and some areas where the reds are a bit too flat/undefined. But I don't feel like redoing them again so I'll just fix the frosting, finish the base, make an attempt at taking better photos and call it a day. I'm particularly curious about what you think about the helmet. I'd be leaning towards saying the black is fine (it works well with the black shaft of the axe, bolter case and servo arm) and the random (intuitive?) decision to paint the camera/targeter thingy red was good. However, I'm still open to repainting it red.

Hmm, just saw this doing the rounds:

Vow Two complete Void Shield Generator complete 9/9 points complete

i actually like the warp manifestations/ghost rider concept for LoTD, but them being homogenized and all having mx tacticus and cawl bolters would not only be boring but contradictory to the previously mentioned explanation for LoTD. Why would the ghosts of space marines, most of whom died during the ten millennia preceding primaris marines, all have primaris gear? if one or two are in spectral mk x, fine, but homogenizing such a unique unit runs contrary to the whole spirit (heh) of the idea, be it the fire hawks angle or the ghost ride one. also theres nothing wrong with carbine length bolters. i wish they were still the norm

My personal take on the Legion of the Damned is that we shouldn't actually know what they are- half the appeal is the mystery of "what the hell are these guys anyway?". The other half being Marines clad in cool armour bedecked in death's heads and flame paintjobs. Personally I think making them be actually on fire is unnecessary flanderization; when their armour is spooky but "mundane" it keeps the mystique of whether they're time-displaced, mutant Marines on an endless crusade or actual ghosts. If they must have a concrete backstory, my personal vote would be a mix of the two; they're not literal Emperor's Daemons, but they are undead/revenant or at least mutant Marines- those who were lost in the Warp but did not lose their faith (including the Fire Hawks) find themselves guided to find each other by some unknown power. They now sail the Immaterium, kept alive unnaturally long by the Warp but not descending into madness by sheer force of will, only able to enter realspace when the Imperium's need is dire, and always at the site of a terrible battle.

When I was scrolling I thought this was the happiest robot ever!

Rules are temporary, nice Assault Terminator models in your collection are eternal.

Hi everyone, just realised it's been about a month since I posted any progress . I've been sucked back into some video games and my painting time has suffered as a result. I have been chipping away at Azrael slowly, having a lot of fun with different textures for the robes and leather

Here is my group shot: My choice for artificer entry And my MotF entry:

And vow complete:

Thanks @derLumpi! Yes they are great kits. And the scale works well with modern HH bits, I have found a lot of parts are easy to swap. I have finished this Reaver, made from a Berserker kit, who is about to get high score in an Arcade Whacking game!

Got my flag and it is perfect!! And “yes” I will cut the hand off before I get any comments on it

Some progress on the workbench here, with an Ultramarine Champion about 90% done (unless I repaint the face)…

Lamenters Sergeant. This model is from the Space Marine Heroes collection. I think they were for the Japanese market but some FLGS stores had them here in the UK. I love check patterns... I hate painting them but I love the end look of them. Painting them on a marine shoulder pad is the worst though. Anyway, this dude is a one off but turned out quite nice I think.

I have finished off a couple more SoH Veterans. Firstly, heavy weapons guy. He is a mix of Chaos marine, the new MkII marines and some shoulder pads from I know not were (old metal ones!) Then another Veteran, stalking his prey in the ruins of an underhive. Armed with a Volkite, just because the description made it sound like the gun from District 9 (this is the level of analysis that goes into my army choices! :) )

Have you considered: A.) Your personal experience is not universal and different scenes might have different levels of interest in particular games? B.) That 3D printing has plenty of hoops to jump through for Bill Consumer?

Little bit over time, but I have managed to complete my August vow Cultists Accursed cultists Cultists of the Abyss