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Are you sure this is real? The other YouTube channels told me he walked away 35 times and burnt his Custodes army in his backgarden.

Who let the MKV dogs out?

At long last.

Sometimes I wonder to myself, why do I even like the Horus Heresy? I already know how it ends. It's using old rules, like it's the Windows XP of Warhammer. Then I look at miniatures like this and I'm like, oh, right, that's why I like the Horus Heresy.

Mecha-Tzaangor

This past 26th of November, the workers of Vallejo Acrylics, started an strike, in search of better payment and improved labour conditions. The situation of the works in the factory of Vilanova i la Geltrú (Spain) is dire: lack of safety and hygienic protocols, low payment,"major deficiencies" in the maintenance of the building and the "obsolescence" of the machinery, among other serious problems, such as the lack of a protocol against workplace harassment. The workers have the nearly total support of the Spanish wargaming and miniature painting community, and from other countries. Vallejo Acrylics,the management, does not seem to want to sit down to negotiate with the striking workers for now, and the latter may take new protest measures. Some members of the Spanish community are calling for a boycott of the company to force it to negotiate. Some extra links (In spanish): https://www.viaempresa.cat/es/empresa/98-plantilla-acrylicos-vallejo-se-suma-primera-jornada-huelga-indefinida_2206222_102.html https://bsky.app/profile/cgtcatalunya.bsky.social/post/3lbxf5taocs22

Heresy Thursday up really early this week! https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/0jkicabz/eschew-the-flesh-once-and-for-all-with-this-kitted-out-iron-hands-legion-praetor/

The honorable "Veritas Superiorum" Scion of Legio Xestobiax and God engine of the Imperium of mankind.

Honestly this whole thing is depressing. It's like if an army gets a detachment and it's not a 55% WR+ meta silver bullet it's deemed a useless insult to people's intellect. There is a whole lot of mid ground for people to just play the game for fun, try things out, use stuff because they can. Not everything needs to rock the competitive world to have value.

I'm working on a year-in-review for my blog, and having some trouble picking my favourite model of the year. I'm pretty happy with my work in 2024, especially my Tau... But if I can only pick one, I may have to go with Captain Cominius of the Sin Eaters 3rd Company from way back in March. Light kitbash, but a paintjob I'm very happy with. Easily the best cloak I've done.

Yeah another year where AoS steals the show for innovation and interesting sculpts.

Basically all small British hobby companies are going through this at the moment, there is a lot of chatter (and despair) on social media. Companies looking for ways to sell, and a lot of the time these are small one or two man operations that don't have the capacity to get around it. Now going to be losing a good portion of their trade to their EU customers, all a result of the massive self-own the UK inflicted on itself and which we must not mention..

Surely the job should be 'Creative White Metal'. They haven't used lead for years! I'll see myself out.

IMPERIUM | CHAOS | XENOS | HERESY Call to Arms 2024 Final Summary First of all, thankyou to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2024 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the four Strongholds, we completed 3,136pts, and painted 2,300+ MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. This year I have managed to secure four (4) prizes, and they will be awarded to the following four Categories: Master Artificer, Favourite Young Blood, Master of the Forge, Grand Marshal. What are the prizes, I hear you ask? Long ago, even before my time, the then Moderators commissioned a custom art playing deck by Aerion the Faithful, and I have secured four of these decks. Below you can check out the four Aces from the deck, Stronghold Artificers POLLS: IMPERIUM | CHAOS | XENOS | HERESY Across the four Strongholds, the Mods and Admins faced the difficult task of voting for their favourite 3 entries from within each Stronghold. These three entries then faced off against one another in a Frater Poll to claim the title, and badge of Stronghold Artificr. Below you will find the four Stronghold Artificers, please join me in congratulating them on their oustanding entries, Master Artificer POLL: MASTER ARTIFICER POLL Once the four Stronghold Artificers had been selected by the Frater, they faced a new poll against one another, this time to claim the title and badge of Master Artificer. Surviving three rounds of voting, from a sea of outstanding entries, please join me in congatulating 2024's Call to Arms Master Artificer... Favourite Young Blood POLL: YOUNG BLOODS There we just two entrants into the Young bloods category this year, who both completed their models to an excellent standard. They faced off in Frater Poll to claim the title of Young blood for 2024, the voting ran neck and neck the entire time, but there can be only one..... So, congatulations to Master of the Forge POLL: MASTER OF THE FORGE This year's Master of the Forge featured 13 entries, each a masterpiece in their own right. There were several early standout entries in the polls right from the start, but slowly one began to stride beyond the competition. Please join me in congratulating 2024's Master of the Forge... Grand Marshal We had a total of four Frater complete over 200 points worth of models, a truely monumental achievement. Competing in the Imperium Strongold, we had crimsondave complete 246pts worth of models, in the Chaos Stronghold, we had Cryptix complete 248pts worth of models, competing for the Heresy Stronghold, we had Dwango, 2023's Grand Marshal, complete 308pts worth of models. However, 308pts was not enough to claim Grand Marshal for a second year, this year's Grand Marshal is.... Now we come to the answer we've all been waiting for; Which Stronghold has claimed victory, and bragging rights over the others? Masters of the Horde This badge is awarded to the participants of the Stronghold that completed the highest overall points worth of models. Please join me in congratulating the.... Masters of the Call This badge is awarded to the Participants of the Stronghold that has the Highest Participation vs. Completion Percentage. Please join me in congratulating the... and with that, we are at the end. Thank you all, once again. Without your participation and support, this event would not be the success it was, so pat yourselves on theback, maybe even a high-five, you all deserve it. Hoping to see you all at the next Forge Event..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Previously there have been some issues with sizing/formatting to add these Badges into you Signatures, the *best and most reliable* way we've found to reduce these issues is to; - Right click on the badge - Select "Copy Image Link" - Paste the link into your signature, and the forum software will automatically turn it into the image.

Ha! Jokes on them! I skipped the middle part! ... Oh. Seriously, how many of us here follow these steps (middle step can be adjusted to other things)?

OMG; so many parts!!! I'm hoping I can remember where all the parts go.

Indeed, that's what this stuff should be about:

10 December 2024 Games Workshop Group PLC ("Games Workshop" or the "Company") Agreement with Amazon for films and television series Further to its announcement on 18 December 2023, Games Workshop is pleased to announce that it has now agreed creative guidelines and reached a final agreement with Amazon Content Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., ("Amazon") for the adaption of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe into films and television series, together with associated merchandising rights. Under the terms of the agreement, Games Workshop has granted exclusive rights to Amazon in relation to films and television series set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, together with an option for Amazon to license equivalent rights in the Warhammer Fantasy universe following the release of any initial Warhammer 40,000 production. Production processes in respect of films and television series may take a number of years. The Company makes no change to its forecast for the 52 week period ending 1 June 2025. https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/GAW/agreement-with-amazon-for-films-and-tv-series/16803258

My brother is not much of a painter and i like the model so i guess you know whats coming :)

Raven Guard Praetor revealed. So sneaky!

Missed opportunity to give him a rule called "The codex Astartes doesn't support this action" where he and his unit get deepstrike as long as you don't have a Chaplain in your army.

WarCom Article. It's Christmas time, so obviously time for church.

After another long break, I'm back! Now I've started working on a squad of new terminators from Leviathan.

An Azreal for a friend.

Lovely thread and equally lovely models! I had to choose between my latest (Warhammer World) HQ Land Raider and Castigator, simply because they got painted after YEARS of collecting dust. I'm just happy they're finally painted, and to a standard I can be proud of. Especially that Knight, since the release of the new kit stung quite a bit. I had to wrestle with damn resin because of my impatience, and then did nothing with it for way too long. Still got to add some more freehand on the empty plates when inspiration hits and finish the base, waiting for those new juicy Kriegers.

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Gonna go with my translocation shroud lord. It was fun but I am hesitant about any idea of doing another. Unfortunately the "why" for this chosen model isnt very exciting as its pretty much the only thing i got done haha. But I'm super happy how it turned out. Proud of the time I did manage to scrape together to get the digital squares the way I wanted. Glacial pace year for me.

The old metal Avatar was my favourite mini back in 2nd edition and I wanted to paint the new one to try and match the imaginary vision I had of its predecessor. Hopefully 2025 will be the year he sees battle.

For (Evil) Science!

Actually the middle one is beginning to remind me of Birdo

Since the MoTY poll was posted on Warcom, it got me thinking about my own hobby this year and what I was proudest of. Now I'd like to propose a question to all Fraters: what is your Model of the Year, and why? Disregarding my AoS output this year (the Seraphon and FEC remakes ruined my 40k plans), even my 40k work is hard to pinpoint. I finished my Necrons in Call to Arms, expanded my Kroot and even got their lore written down, finished more 40k beastmen, and I even painted a one-off space marine I was pretty proud of. But of everything I've done, I'd say my proudest work has been my Tzeentch Grenadiers What I'm proud of isn't even the paint work (I think my Necron, Kroot and AoS projects are better painted) or the conversion work, but its because these guys were the completion of a vision. I always loved the idea of the Traitor Guard/Militarum Hereticus/Lost and the Damned/Renegades and Heretics/whatever GW calls them in the future. The Vraks books were a huge part of my 40k discovery. Cultists are cool, but something about actual (semi) disciplined soldiers fighting for the Dark Gods spikes my interest. I always wanted something to represent some elite Tzeentch soldiers, but without the focus on melee or spikes the Blooded have. Men tasked with securing arcane lore or guarding occult rituals for their masters. So, what's your personal Model of the year?

Whips are for Traitors anyway.

I was thinking that the model's helmet seemed a little less "beaky" and a tad more "duck-billed", and now I'm assuming that's a purposeful reference to the RT art.

In the Rogue Trader days it was for 'Field Police', which now seem to have become Overseers. A Space Wolf 'Overseer' from the pre-Russ times had the symbol also, back when they had to serve as Not!Commissars before their Primarch banged heads together.

Hmm. I really didn't have any outstanding models this year, as it was more of a "clean-up" year where I was painting and finishing off armies. Next year is going to be some more individual models I think. Anyway, I'd probably say the 18 Bullgryn I painting for my gaming buddy- my first real time painting for anybody else and they turned out definitely good enough for the table. Probably not the most complicated or interesting paintjob I did, but it meant a lot that my friend trusted me to not screw up his army.

What should the Aussie mark up be boss?

CONDUCTOR OF THE HYPE ENGINE ENGAGE THE GLAM DRIVE FABULOUS SPEED

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/doxl2avk/the-ecstatic-epistle-immaculate-armaments-of-agony/

I'm going to go with my Blood Wolves Defiler, Blood Golem. Blood Wolves, "Remember Fenris!"

Hopefully the quality will be more like the Boys/Invincible rather than Wheel of Time/Rings of Power...

This was actually a very tough choice, between my Bandai chibi project, and the model I settled on, Ghazghull (because it's one model, not 12...),

My model of the year is my Abaddon the Despoiler Statue from Forge world. It's been a 23 year work in progress, but I finally got it finished this year, so it has to be this one.

For me its definitely m Helbrecht. Hapoy with the paintjob especially the sword. The reposing and getting rid of the servitors yet still him having the right gear. And the base symbolize my friend's armies.

The bare head looks a bit like a dashing RAF ace.

You might say they're excessive.

All of these are based on classic models/art, but I particularly like that the helmet on the right seems to evoke one of the art pieces from the original Index Astartes. Sick. All three look absolutely fantastic. Also love that we only had to wait a fortnight between teaser articles - hopefully this cadence continues as I need more. Mooooooooooooore. edit: a chap on reddit added some colour, credit to Moist_Poet_9950. An appropriate name for a cultured EC fan.

For the record, the SoH Overseer from the Beta-Garmon book may clue us in as to what we should expect from the Traitor version:

I have a small mountain of (skulls) oldhammer and I have decided to use them for a Horus Heresy World Eaters warband. At this stage they have begun to experience the corrupting nature of chaos. the first few are almost done I’m using a very maximalist approach to these, using a variety of techniques and paints. Stippling, grisaille, technical paints, real metallics and more in order to create an updated version of the rogue trader style. the blueish tinge is an homage to the original secondary colour and to contrast with the red details

November vow finished- Inquisitor Coteaz and his psyber-eagle count-as, Inquisitor Draxus, and 20 Imperial Navy Breachers.