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So, I logged onto GOG a few minutes ago and forgot that I had picked up a White Dwarf issue at the store a year ago, and It had a code in it for GOG, and it gave me a ton of warhammer games.

I think I actually tried to join B&C years ago, but I had issues signing up. Anyway, It looks like the site has been redesigned, it's looking good! I'm totally for forums, but this blog focus seems great. It's also nice to see people share hobby content in formats that aren't A) youtube (not that it's terrible at all, but it's a lot of work editing videos and therefore still somewhat inaccessible.) B) Not on facebook. Some years ago I deleted my FB, but had to get an account again for hobby stuff. Not gonna lie, I wish tabletop communities didn't rely so much on Facebook. So I'm glad that I was able to sign up just now to the B&C!

So far I'm really enjoying Crusade (week 4, which is the end of Phase 1 of our campaign) and am probably going to continue playing it whenever I can, with whatever army I'm able. I wasn't super enthusiastic at first- why play with old models that have been sitting on the shelf for a half-decade, but it has turned out to be one of the better 40k experiences I've had recently. Getting to go back and re-do all my lore, turning the Forgotten into extremely angry, bitter Fallen rather than the noble knights that they were originally intended to be is just fun. Since the Forgotten were supposed to be Fallen hunters, I find it quite amusing that they are now Fallen themselves, though disdainful of the gifts of Chaos and those that use them too frequently. They are similar to Iron Warriors or Night Lords who look down on the corrupted as weak and foolish, everything is about their own misery and anger- they need to help from Neverborn deceivers. Which does mean as the Crusade goes along I'm going to walk a tight-line of not using some of the more powerful CSM Crusade options such as daemon weapons, ascending to Daemonhood, or even Chaos boons. Or perhaps the Forgotten will have to comprimise their honor to gain and advantage in the battles to come... Nachmund rules are really interesting as well. Phase 2 is when we will start using the Tactical Reserve rules (Phase 1 was to ease in new players to the general game/Crusade specific stuff like upgrading), so I'm pretty interested to try out the Reinforcing Wave reserve stuff and Precision Deep Strikes. I think my army style will play right into it, as I'm going heavy on termies, bikes, transports, and advancing Chosen packs, which will allow me a fast base list and reinforcements designed to keep hammering the enemy.

Very nice models, pics and photoshop job. As always may I say.

So, I'm very, very hesitant to dip my toe into your fan project because it involves your actual religious beliefs and that's an unbelievably huge kettle of worms. However, taking the concept in hand, I do want to say I disagree with this concept from a Christian perspective; 'Religion of the populace is heavily regulated as allowing outside beliefs often leads to a weakening of the faith for the entire community.' My objection is based on two points; 1) Regulating religion is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 13:24-30) 2) I don't really believe that allowing outside beliefs leads to a weakening of faith. It leads to a broadening of knowledge and understanding of others, but if that consequently leads to a lack of faith then the problem lies with that person. The passage about POW's I think could be expanded on or maybe rephrased, as it looks now that POW's are given the choice to convert, leave or die, which is certainly contrary to Jesus' teachings. Conversion under duress is not faith and there is a responsibility towards compassion. Jesus' second greatest law is, after all; "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," not "You shall love your neighbor as yourself...but only if he believes the same as you."

You’re not bad at painting! I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been proud of a model, then photographed it and been like “what is this foul abomination I’ve created?!?!?” Zoomed right in, the details are always going to look a bit funny, but my trick is to take the photo from further away so when you zoom in the resolution isn’t as high.

The thing about the 40K canon is that a Galaxy is a big place, and 10,000 years is a long time. Hard to say 'X is true' and have that somehow cover all that and catch every single exception. And, frankly, I'm just in favour of more custom successor chapters, regardless of origin or canon alignment. Making your own thing is the heart and soul of this stupid hobby.

And here's the terminator guy. Incidentally, these pictures also let you see how well the "rust" is differentiated from the metallic bronze/gold colour, even if they're both metal and reddish brown. This is something I actually really like when it comes to not just Death Guard, but also terrain painting, where it's nice to have the possibility to differentiate between different kinds of metals. Again, I think I might actually have overdone it with the metal step as the rust texture is almost too subtle, which is kinda weird for a technique which is basically all reddish-brown rust colours Again, I know it's not exactly golde daemon standard or anything, but I really think the recipe works quite well for how easy it is and how good it looks (especially at army level and/or at a distance).

As AC-4B's bad luck continued in the melee against the mutants guarding the first generator, Ghanz managed to (finally!) close the gap and take out some of the mutant scum with his axe, which meant the fight turned decisively in our favor. So reactivating the first generator was merely a question of figuring out the technical stuff, which A-C4B proved surprisingly adept at. So on our left front things were looking up. But on the right, more and more mutants streamed into the big chamber and managed to both wound and pin down Stalker under heavy fire, while a mutant champion approached him with malicious intent. Calamity Joe still had a good firing spot and had managed to take down quite a few mutants, as well as sending his faithful Phelynx out to finish off some of the wounded, but both time and numbers were weighed against them, so they desperately needed for their team mate's to "pull their grokking finger out, already!" and join the main fight... At this point, we were very much at risk of getting bogged and/or taken down and so we naturally forgot to take pictures. Oh well. Luckily, we did win as we not only managed to reactivate both generators, but also racked up quite an impressive kill count. It was probably best not to stick around and wait for the real leader of the strange sect to show up, so we high-tailed it home and collected our well-earned rewards! As fate would have it A-C4B (or "Snake" as he generally introduces himself when entering the local establishments to look for clues) was captured by the self-same mutants (which was quite a coincidence, as it was totally random, but it did fit nicely into the emerging story), while gathering information in the local drinking holes, so the next mission was for the team to head to another set of tunnels and rescue him. This turned out rather well, even though the odds seemed unfavourable, as Stalker's webgun combined with a well-planned route through the tunnels meant that the team managed not to alert any sentries without also killing them off before the alarm could be raised. I'd not completely planned out the rules for the rescue scenario, so it was a bit of a surprise to roll the random event meaning we had to play it. But the scenario actually played quite smoothly, although halfway through the game I thought of a much simpler/better way to handle sentry patrolling on zone mortalis boards - but now we know that for next time "someone" gets in trouble because he can't hold his liquor *cough cough* a picture of yours truly moving aaaaallll the sentries, while his poor character is languishing in a cell (although with only a slight hangover and several interesting clues to share with the team, once they bloody get here...)

I keep spelling "Khalkotauroi" incorrectly. Another change - the Fist of Purity member will be the alternate sergeant (equipped with a Deathwatch boltgun and power weapon [sword]). So I'm changing the "fist" member in this initial group to some other Chapter, a new DIY that I have to work on. Assembly of the initial six members begins today. Since I've changed the Sergeants around and didn't assemble the storm bolter warrior's bits, I'll have to rearrange the bits and collect some new ones. I'll try to post pictures as soon as I get them all assembled.

I definitely appreciate that offer, but there won't be any Exorcists battle-brothers in this kill team. If I ever get around to a proper Exorcists army/kill team, however, I may take you up on that offer (since you and I both know that the Exorcists are the greatest Chapter ever ). In other news, I've decided to move Chapters around a bit. The Veteran Sergeant will be from the Khalkotouri Chapter since the thunder hammer is more in keeping with my concept of that DIY Chapter and less appropriate for the Fists of Purity Chapter. The Fists of Purity veteran, then, will become a Warrior. I may swap one of the [Warrior] shotguns for a boltgun option (either the Deathwatch boltgun and power weapon or the Stalker pattern boltgun). I really wish the Deathwatch still had the boltgun/chainsword combination that was allowed when they first appeared in the Chapter Approved article back in 3rd edition. That would be so much more in keeping with both our name and lore. I guess the Intercessors offer the next best thing, so I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever do a Primaris version of this kill team.

ohhhh nice idea Fallout Hobbies

You went on your honeymoon , tried to blog about it, got distracted by Warhammer stores near your hotel , and ended up planning a side trip to Nottingham for Warhammer World ? Sir, I think we’ve just found your first marital negotiation of many. But seriously — mixing a romantic getaway with a pilgrimage to the holy grail of miniatures? Bold move. Respect.

To think I'd never seen that painting chart before. What a great guide! Sure, I've got the standard colours of my army sorted but if I want to paint something else, I know where I'll be turning to. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I love the setting, I really do. But, I've always seen the lore as a guide. Given the vast expanse of worlds the Imperium covers, it cannot be held monolith. Take the variety of Imperial Guard regiments, for example, or the vast difference in dogma and paths Inquisitors take. I enjoy writing about characters and the setting gives so, so many options for it. Regarding language, anyone who's followed the setting for some time will have seen their fair share of Pig Latin. Thought I'd tap into my roots and do something a little different. I do plan on making some character conversions for my main characters; the narrator, Jagiełło, Mona, Laska, and The Fennec. I am looking forward to it!

I just bought it, haven't played since it was a new release....

You also seem to be missing Rogue Trader, which is lot of fun - its a tactical RPG type game, though not strictly "table top" 40K. Another is Battle Sector, which is kind of your traditional 3/4 top down turn based tactical 40K game, updated to the current 40K with things like primaris, etc. To be fair, it could be on your list, but just cut off at the top. There is also Sanctus Reach, which is similar to Battlesector but a bit older of a game and centres around space wolves instead of blood angels. As well, I seem to recall it being pre-primaris in regard to unit types, but that might not be correct. Another of this genre, which I haven't played and looks to have more retro graphics, is Armageddon. And, obviously, there is now a Space Marine II, which I haven't played. Another game I haven't played is Space Hulk Tactics, or Space Hulk: Deathwing - and Chaos Gate Demonhunters. And yet another I haven't played is Necromunda: Underhive, though it, like Rogue Trader, aren't strictly 40K as in the tabletop, though. Another in the wider 40K setting is Battlefleet Gothic 2 (and 1), though I haven't played those either. I have, however, played Necromunda: Hired Gun, though the machine can't really handle the graphics. In short, there are a lot of 40K related video games, even just on steam. I may be able to dig up a few more if I look at my own steam list...

Looking forward to seeing the end result! The trim is a pain, but I've started cheating by spraying the rubrics metallic, then filling in the panels with my armour colour, and it's all contrasts for my Tzaangor!

The team takes shape... (left to right: Hon. Br. Adámastos, Vet. Br. Pyrisous, Sanctifier Skeptukhos, Vet. Br. Megasthenes, Lexicanium Vrotoktónus, and Vet. Br. Oplophoris) Before any paint touches these guys, I need to go through another round of filing/trimming, and that icon definitely needs to be fixed.

I am rather confident. First I paked everything with care. Second it went quite fine last time we moved in the other direction. Yet it is sure I did not had all these AdMechies spiky bits last time... I am eventually more concerned by my "other" collections: 200 bottles of wine. What's one may call a heavy load...

I hope everything makes it to your new home safely. I know when I moved or had the previous house remodeled, the added stress out over my models, move, demo and reconstruction did not help the stress I was already under. Cant wait to see no place

Now that's a tempting fix, I think I've ended up with spare barrels

Yeah, barrel drilling can cause some headaches. Should be an easy enough fix, though, either with a little greenstuff or, like I did after messing up the barrels on one of my Terminators, snipping it off completely and gluing a new barrel on instead!

Thank you so very much for your input! I understand your hesitation & I’m very grateful for your input as it does give me a number of things to ruminate on. Part of the reason for the way this has been made is to try to fit in with the grimdark themes of 40K, where even the good guys are still somewhat villainous & good deeds often lead to terrible consequences. It’s a bit difficult for me to write as my attention span is difficult to maintain & I’m a very traditional “good always triumphs” type person (I also can’t always put things into the correct/understandable wording). Part of the reason for the regulation of religion has to do with the dangers of Genestealer cults (who I honestly need to do more research on) whose sole purpose is to infiltrate worlds & corrupt the populace. I haven’t written it yet, but I have also been formulating the idea of a library where tomes of other religions are kept & are open to the public, that they may read about other religious beliefs to better prepare themselves against ideals that are contradictory to the Word of God. You are right about the POW section as I should have written more about it rather than give it a sentence in passing. The idea of executing POWs who refuse to convert is less about “convert or die” & is more supposed to be for those who won’t convert, but may not be able to return to their former lives as being held prisoner by my faction may be treated the same as exposure to warp corruption. Their faith in their own faction’s ideology is too strong for them to simply throw it away, but returning home will most likely result in some form of twisted punishment (dreadnoughts, arco-flagellants & servitors to name a few), so the idea is more that my faction offers them the choice to be executed with honor rather than suffer whatever horrible consequences their own faction may inflict upon them. My faction views it as merciful, but it is also a choice that only the prisoners can make for themselves. Once again, I’d like to thank you so very much for your input. Criticism such as this really does help me to think more critically about this & better helps me to be a better storyteller & Christian. It’s also comforting to know that I’m not the only Christian in this hobby (or on this site). God bless you!

This may help mate from this article way back in 2018: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/JAcksor8/the-model-photograph/

While I've always tried to strike a balance between cordial, respectful and productive feedback on one end, while also being honest about my opinions and maybe even challenge others' (as that is what I want from others. Within reason, of course), I know I've misstepped a few times over the years. And while I personally miss some of the passionate discussions that used to take place in the Liber, I also think it's good to be reminded from time to time that this site is about helping each other enjoy the hobby. So, thanks for the reminder. Also: More brown marines!

Thanks, I am trying to go for 2k as of right now, Maby more once I get to that. My goal once I get good at painting is to get some Horus Heresy and some Death Korps of Krieg then jump back into Black Templars.

I'm glad you like it. The Law Dog will also be getting a model as part of a more general 'Personalities of the Mavor Sub-sector" series, and Heinrad already has one (see second image below). As for the fluff itself, it was inspired partially by Tonto, as I said, and of all things - Jack Kirby's New Gods no. 7, entitled "The Pact". Niall will also take up another role later in life - one similar to that of Viktor Reznov in his later appearances. Lord Inquisitor Tomas T. Heinrad - a hateful Monodominant fanatic. Has come to the Mavor sub-sector with the intent of 'utterly cleansing the Emperor's frontier of the alien, the mutant and the heretic'. Unfortunately for him, the frontier is inherently a place of cultural exchange and the Greymanes have no love for such foolishness. Heinrad is sworn enemy of the Inquisitor-Lady Vreiken, and sees her as a heretic. Whereas Vreiken is more subtle, Heinrad is considered by many of his fellows to be, essentially, a terrorist with a rosette. Often leads blatantly overt campaigns of purgation, with Redemptionist militias and Ecclesiarchy assets at his side. His overriding hateful tendencies and brutal, messy methods gain few friends in the Inquisition, but his fervent faith has gained many allies in the Ecclesiarchy.

Of course, WAR! Take your time! Congratulations!

Scout Kill Team so far.

And here's the less than perfect shading (just using Snakebite Leather and water; might've turned out better with contrast medium...). It doesn't look quite as bad in this pic as in real life, but again, the beauty of painting plague marines is that another splotchy coat of brownish goop isn't really gonna hurt, at the end of the day...

Good, productive start there.

Hell yeah. I'll be honest, I think Crusade is the only way to play 10th - or 40K in general - right now, it's just has the sauce. As a veteran of two Crusades with Marines, you'll wanna get used to glorious last stands, I know I had to. What Detachment are you running? I had a lot of fun with Firestorm.

Thank you. The balance between simple colors, heraldry, and complex freehand designs was something I had to consider throughout the whole process. I appreciate it.

That makes sense too as Janus was a Thousand Son. Im just not a fan of the whole Emperor Geneseed idea. I tried it out last night....Lessons were learned.

Great progress so far.

Maybe you can ice the super glued part to weaken the bond.

Very nice!

I’m sure that must have been quite painful. Also a note, Slaughterbound will most likely lead a unit of Exalted Eightbound.

One of my Grey Knight Brotherhood Terminator squad received a 1st turn charge from Slaughterbound leading Eightbound. I did not fare well.....

Can't wait to see what you do with it @Cenobite Terminator

Ah that's right beside my work! The cocktails are devillish.

Great story. This chapter kept moving and the jump between each scene was perfectly timed

Some nice picks there. I am a fan of the Arbites models and have two squads to be painted up for my small IA army. The paints look interesting and if Blanche's name is associated with them, I'll definitely be looking those up; thanks for making me aware of them. In the meantime, I really must sort out some sort of racking for my Citadel ones! Keep it up.

@Xenith Necromuda is so much fun, I hope you enjoy it.

Thats 40k atm isnt it?

Thanks both! Yea, despite how 'strong' eldar were supposed to be I struggled with primary in 9th ed also, they quite squishy and vulnerable. I think their playstyle is maybe more hide for 2/3 turns, whittle the opponent down, then try and max primary in turns 3/4/5, or potentially go for a secret mission. However this is pretty boring - I'm here to play Warhammer, not Stand-in-the-circles-hammer. My opponent in this game is one of the best players at the club, though he took a 'weaker' list (though still with 4 WARBOSS models...) on my first try out with Eldar, he was always going to give me a run for my money. Thank you, I had to break the write up down into chunks, but worth it. I'm going to try and speed up also. I really didnt think I was consulting rules as much in this game as I have in the past, however Eldar are so fragile, mis-plays can kill them quick, so I have to be careful...maybe they're not the army for me, or I should play wraiths!

I think it was almost a year I was away from the hobby desk each time when we had our two children, so it's not easy to get that time in. Unless you can sneak some painting supplies into work for some lunchtime hobbying, the best you can do as Grotsmasha said is dip into other aspects of the hobby where and when you can (and plan all those new projects you'll do when you get back to it!). I don't think it was until the youngest was about 4 or 5 that I started to get regular hobby time again... but then that's also my wife wanting to decorate/DIY/"get stuff done in the house" getting in the as well. Pretty much everything goes on hold for those first couple years, but that's the sacrifice we make for the grots, and we do what we can for ourselves when we can. A loved, cared for and well raised child is more important and satisfying than a top notch painted army... or so I've been told I'm not quite so sure to be honest, as even the most stubborn and fiddly Space Marine figure gives me quite as much attitude or nonsense as either of my boys! Of course, you could just say "Honey, I'm not getting enough hobby time in, I'll take this evening off and do some painting." If you survive that encounter, come back and tell us how it went

These are great! I really like the sheathed phase-blade, though it's very funny to imagine the super cut-anything xeno knife just going in a leather scabbard.

Looks like a neat project - for inspiration, you might also want to look for images of the crashed aquilla lander terrain that came with the 5th ed boxed set - here are some crappy pictures of what I did with mine, which might (or might not) be helpful.