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Taste like crab, talk like people. With the God Legion head options Valrak mentioned:

Damn GW works fast when ultramarines are in question

Yes, absolutely! That's why it actually looks good.

Now THAT's a glowup

Oh good, new 13th Company Grey Slayers!

Warjack? I hardly know him! Eye of Terror book reveal next week probably, according to the article.

It's actually tragic to me such a cool concept, calling back to the glory days of the hobby, will be erased when the new edition drops. GW, you need to get back to this as the CORE of the hobby.

Isn't nature beautiful?

Do you think it's simply a coincidence that the skull on the night lords box is from an Imperial Fist or is GW sending a message to Valrak for being correct once again with his rumours?

Yeah so ive still been slowly working on these over the past 2 years the cerastus turned out pretty nice. I used a taro shield, which was great. Ive started using enamel streaking grimes and mud effects, which has been very interesting. Mostly using turps to clean it off, which has the effect of not stripping the paint underneath, but instead just kinda making it ripple a bit? idk, it just becomes a bit more textured. Obvs also i've been trying to use transfers more The above photos were taken on my phone, which doesnt have a very good camera, but the colours are probs a lot more true to life than the ones I took on my partner's phone, even if those photos did turn out a bit better. I also made a pilot for the cerastus. Haven't quite thought up of a name yet. https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4opniyyaxdpbekg7kqdxyrqs/bafkreiecg4muawjd4m4d7sq2em32qfutjyaujyanekol7u5doq5jmzurhe@jpeg/ I also ended up making this armiger using all the space rocket pods I'd amassed. and also i put leaves on the base later But yeah, it's turned out to be a pretty good force. Me n my partner joined a local games group and i've been running knights along with some of the solar auxilia as breachers. I still want to keep on slowly working on them, maybe add another big knight at some point. It's a pity that i'm not particularly interested in the dominus chasis (aesthetically i just dont like it as much), but I'll think of other stuff to put in here. I'm less driven by getting models for playing games, as much as I just like making and painting them.

This is without a doubt one of the most over-blown complaints I have come across.

My mate Lachy from Zorpazorp was involved with the Horus Heresy 2nd edition release and needed a few models done for his Mark of Calth Campaign and hit me up regarding this Reaver Titan I've had sitting in my collection longer than I'd like to admit and agreed to paint and swap it for a replacement Reaver. He needed it painted up in Legio Suturvora and after searching that up was dead set keen at trying to do the Hot Rod Ghost Flames on this model. For my first time attempt I reckon it went pretty well but I'm convinced I can do better in the future, luckily I've a Chaos Warhound also sitting here I will be having a crack at using the Legio Suturvora scheme again.

Vow complete, photos taken and uploaded! Just in time, I must say. Here's the new model next to my old metal Emperor's Champion. Talk about scale creep... I gotta say, subjectively I feel it's one of the best models I've painted. It for sure was the most complex and fun and pushed me to try new things out (e.g. the reflections on the armour). If you're interested, more angles and close-ups are in my gallery.

See, I prefer the hinged door on the rhino and land raider- that way you can store stuff in it AND the model doesn't suck.

I do like the new Heavy unit but I can't help thinking of these guys from back in the day. Cheers Vogon

Time for an overdue update. I finished the Pathfinders, and for funsies, a turret. Next on the chopping block is their Devilfish, and then an XMas box full of suits to tinker with. Hope ya'll enjoy! Photo quality still needs a bit of work but for a cellphone and some fluorescent overhead lighting, I'll settle for what I got.

Not to be pompous and also betray my age a bit (though not as ancient as the creators), but rpg's generally, and D&D specifically actually grew out of historical table top role playing in the 70's, where Gary Gygax and the rest of the d&d crew first introduced fantasy rules for their medieval battles, then added individual heroes and leaders with more capabilities then the basic trooper, and slowly refined it down into the single character per player rpg in the original d&d releases. There's nothing wrong with playing 40K as a competitive game, using stock characters from the books, or using the chapters/warbands/legions etc presented by GW, but for me one of the biggest draws of Warhammer was the ability to create your very own army, without necessarily being held down by actual history of any sort, with leaders and units that you can theme around. In the past few editions, GW has steamrolled over the ability to customize characters and units by reducing options and seeming to concentrate on Unique Named Heroes, which definitely has watered down that part of the hobby, while also making kits themselves more difficult to mix and match then before. They've also removed numerous units from play, invalidating whole armies in some cases. It doesn't matter to me whether it's matched play available or not, my friends and I are more collectors that roll out our armies 3-4 times a year when life makes it possible to actually get together and play a game. It's exciting to see GW embracing any form of customization these days instead of further making everything cookie cutter and the same. Going forward, I hope they do expand upon it and bring a lot more of that "your guys" magic feel to making your army, even if it is "optional" or "narrative" rules , because I feel that has been withering away more and more since 8th.

I... I don't like it. It really barely resembles the classic Defiler design at all. The old one was definitely showing its age and 100% needed a replacement, don't get me wrong. But I would have preferred a proper refresh of the same basic design with refined detail, rather than this whole-cloth reinvention. Ironically this has the opposite problem of the Mutilators; it feels too much like a mass of flesh and bone amalgamated with bits of machinery rather than a mechanical beast with a daemon bound within its shell. Too much daemon, not enough engine. It isn't a terrible model, but I don't think I like it as the de facto new Defiler.

Recently, I did an interview with Graham McNeill, and I think this excerpt fits well here. For me, it’s always interesting to read – or, in this case, to ask directly – what authors themselves would like to write about. GM: Too many to list! Obviously, I’d love to continue the Uriel Ventris series and develop more Iron Warriors books. I also want to delve into more Chaos and Xenos stories too, and if there were a new Big Series to really sink my teeth into, then that’d be great too – you know, an Age of Apostasy/Scouring kind of thing. I’ve always wanted to tell the story of The Battle for Macragge, as it has everything you want for a powerful and dramatic story. From the fantasy side, I stand more than ready to write a book on the Siege of Carroburg, as well as pen stories set in the Great War Against Chaos. Some really juicy stuff there that would be awesome to see brought to life. ... And hopefully the powers that be at Black Library will set me loose on more Uriel Ventris, Honsou, et al stories. So, yeah, busy, busy, busy… You can find the full interview here (though it’s in Ukrainian, so you’ll need to use a translator): https://uageek.space/interviu-z-gremom-maknillom/

I've completed another Death Guard Legionnaire for my Plodding Along vow,

There is no chance for me to finish the remaining 6 skits, so I will call it partially done for Feb and I will continue in March

Mechanicus Jump Scare.

Dorn Heavy Tank need to finish cooking first, when we get a version with a bloody floor then we can use it as a example of a FINISHED model. People bashing open topped vehicles when GW rolled out a open bottom one.

It's a rare techno-relic, the Archaeotech Restorative Solenoid Engine (or A.R.S.E for short). It restores mechanical parts by its mere presence, and can even cause machinery to upgrade itself- some Skitarii reported merely witnessing the A.R.S.E turned their floppy discs into hard drives.

You know what made me happy about this reveal? There was no talk of it beforehand, or any potato cam images. Just a nice, unexpected surprise.

Here is the first model for my Ultramarines "Scourge of the Xenos" 3rd company collection, a nice dirty Whirlwind, I always liked the stories of the Ultramarines during the First and Second Tyrannic Wars. My exposure to this Company from the Ultramarines was the first White Dwarf I ever bought in 1998, magazine: Issue 225, and the big tease for Warhammer 40k 3rd edition was this absolute badass Space Marine Command Squad as the centerfold. While being unable to buy this set back then, about 15 years ago I managed to grab this complete boxset for not much more than the asking price from back in 1998, and has sat in a sealed box with a number of other items. I feel in the next batch of minis to do I should slip these in.

Had a few minutes of spare time before going to work this morning so I managed to finish off the bases of my sternguard squad and to take nicer pictures

I got inspired, went overboard

courtesy of gidthedestroyer on reddit, the options we know of so far

I could've sworn I put WIPs of these up but whatever haha The Repulsors are for a local guy who regularly beats me, so I made sure to fart inside of them before sealing up And this was a used one I got locally I've done literally nothing on Disco and the Knight I'm so good at finishing things in order

Update from yesterday Need to add highlights to robes, reds, and metallics and some touch ups.

I, bouargh, engage in 12MoH 2026 and pledge for the month of February: - 1 ooP Epic Warlord Titan - 10 Dark Eldar Wytches - 1 piece of scenery made out of a cut Container Here I go!

Whew let’s not come down to wire again…. Retributors done! February vow done!

Calling the bloodletters done although think I'm going to have to put weights in the bases as several are not the most stable with the way they are leaning - lesson learned for next time to check how the models will be fit on the base. Might come back to these after I've finished up all my daemons to fiddle with the shadows and highlights. Happy with them overall but so much more that could be done to pick out details that no one will ever see from 3 feet away.... I'll need to take better pictures another day. This was a bit more of a last-minute scramble to finish than I had anticipated as there was some unplanned stuff that my parents needed help with.

Well despite jetlag hitting me harder than I anticipated, I did get a couple of completions done - Moritat and Boreworms.

Unironically in the same vein as the other article claiming he is editing scripts day and night; AI generated slop articles skimmed from meme-reddits. Afaik he is currently busy with Highlander. Unless the News comes from GW, Amazon, Warhammer Jesus Henry Cavill himself, or reputable actual news sources (and maybe Valrak) it is most likely Bait.

Thanks @The Pounder and @BadgersinHills. And BadgerinHills, your protestations seem quite suspect, as they are exactly what one would expect a hill dwelling badger hive mind to say. I had originally meant to finish these last month (they've sat with the capes does since at least the new year), but got distracted by my knight kitbash. Here's my second squad of tormentors - squad leader has the whip not because I thinks it the best choice (though it was when I built the squad, which was pre-eratta bumping the S on the power sword) but because I don't like to build cookie cutter squads. And with my other tormentor squad: Seeing the two side by side, I'm really happy with the how the cloaks turned out. The main purpose of the symbols on the back of the cloaks being different colours is squad differentiation, and I wasn't sure that would be distinct enough with the slannpat. So I'm really happy that it seems to the 4 colour camo pattern, with 1 colour as base common across both squads, 2 for the slanneshi "blotches" and the 4th for the symbol (which for the other squad would be a blotch colour) seems to have worked well. Does mean that I can only do one more squad this way before I need to come up with a different slaanpat pattern, but it seems unlikely I would want more than 3 squads, so I'm fine with that. I have also mostly built 2 5-man squads of infractors - I just need to do the greenstuffing for the cloaks. As that's quite the chore, I think that will wait until I need a break from painting.

Had a productive day and finished my infernus marine. He's from the 3rd company of my void cuirassiers. With him done, I also kind of complete my plodding along vow of finishing 1+ kill teams this year. Might as well push it to 2+ kill teams now ! Using already finished models plucked from different squads, here's my take on strike force Variel :

Needing a palette cleanser after working on commission models for two weeks straight, I decided to do a TDA Imperial Fist Captain, courtesy of Combat Patrol finally hitting Oz,

Welcome to a warhammer 40k forum. If it's something new, it will automatically be hated by a vocal minority.

Hello, I've never used a forum before so please bear with me. Been a warhammer fan since I was in my early teens but only really owned a couple of metal high elf and dark elf models. I have only really been following the hobby from afar until a few years ago when a mate of mine gave me a big box of spues and old models and I decided to give it a proper go. I bought a box of blood angels tactical marines to get started ( I have only just finished them) but quickly decided that I like so many different kits out there i dont want to collect one faction. I am much more interested in the painting side of the hobby and am starting a blog to give me some encouragement and focus to finish painting what I have and to hopefully improve as a painter. I am looking forward to becoming part of the comunity!

These pair of Salamander Contemptors also from that acquired lot got a fast re-paint and moved out.

During the whole 2020's surprise house party era we all experienced I managed to grab an impressive space marine collection from a friend that was leaving the hobby. This included a large number of duplicate models I already owned and decided to paint them up in random legions and move them on. This Imperial Fist Glaive was one such model, having one in my Sons of Horus this gave me an opportunity to paint something completely different.

My wife says that chess in our house is. You should see it when she moves the knights and 'neighs' accordingly.

this is perfection

Hello, just a random mini painter here, I want to share pics of finished Lorgar, hope you like it. I'm not a regular. I painted another Lorgar in almost identical color scheme few years back. I remember that I posted pics on the forum but on my Activity page there is no trace of it, has there been a cleansing commited on the forum? It is wierd because I can see much earilier posts.

I, JuliusAgricola, embark on the 12 Months of Hobby Challenge, and for the month of February pledge to complete 5 Deathwing Knights (carried over from Jan) and 5 Hellblasters by month's end.

I have completed my February pledge! Great work ya'all! Keep it coming. Moravec, Legionaries Aspiring Champion, The Unchained, Warpborn Warband