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This isn't a single retcon, and is a little petty, but I would like to excise that trend a few years back where it was a rite of passage for everyone and their grandma to beat down an Avatar of Khaine to prove how awesome they are. I'm not saying it can't happen, just that it was so prevalent that it became a meme and the biggest example of "The Worf Effect" in the setting. I'd also like people to stop treating Anzion's theory of Ork's "power of belief" to be taken so literally by the fandom. In recent years it got turned from a possible theory that Ork's latent psychic field can make unexplained things happen with their technology to an Ork being able to convince his mates that a cardboard box is a Battlewagon, so it starts behaving like one. I think various Youtube content creators are responsible for this one growing out of hand, but I think that the Ork's psychic influence should be the grease that helps a Trukk to run properly, not that the engine of that trukk is an empty metal case filled with nails with the word "Enjin" written on the outside, otherwise the first madboy to get it in his head that he is Gork will convince his mates and then we have a problem.

Vow complete!

Done with reds, moving on

Uriel Ventris got a model long after he became popular in BL novels (not counting the very poor BL diorama version of course). This guy seems to be getting one before he gets any significant popularity or profile. Bit like the Minka Lesk models. Nice models, but the main reaction is - Who?

The Horus Heresy (series 1) Book 53 Titandeath by Guy Haley Its interesting going back to this book with knowledhe of how it came about. BL for anyone who doesnt know, in one of the many many many questionable decisions it made for the HH (series 1) was originally going to skip not only the titandeath, but the entire Beta Garmon theatre. Now for people who got into the HH by the book series that would not have been a problem. For anyone who knew HH lore this was a big :cuss: moment. In the end for reasons we may never know they made a last min pivot and got Guy Haley the master of last min books to get a novel ready to cover the Titandeath. Why is the above important to review this book? Because Guy Haley was once more given a studio made mess and told to 'do what you can'. The Great Slaughter at Beta Garmon to my knowledge is the single greatest battlefield of the HH, it was pivotal to having a siege of terra, and unlike things like Istvaan where it was ultimatly a small scale legion affair, Beta Garmon was the chance to show THE SCALE of the conflict. Two sides in a galactic scale war, fighting over a entire star system, feeding in billions and billions of troops, entire armadas of ships, marines and of course the books name sake Titans. A battle fought over years, with objs, commanders and forces constantly changing. So enter guy haley, who has to somehow cover this, PLUS the additional new stuff (Primarchs involved, Horus stabbed by Russ, etc) in 1 single book, with little to no prep work having been done by other works. And for me, with the above context he knocked it out of the park. He presented two main characters (one on either side) and thru them their respective titan legion. He showcased the wider theatre by having them both involved and take part in battles around the system before the actual titan death takes place. And shows the various other forces taking part in the conflict, imperial army, marines, mech they are all involved. I fell in love with this book with the way the legion solaria enters the battlefield, because it does several things naturaly and at the same time. It shows us how a titan legion operates by showcasing their fleet assets and their ability to work without support even in space, it shows us the command structure and its internal politics by having the Mechanicum Magi play politics with how and when they inform their theoretical superiors in the titan legion of certain facts, and their reaction to it shows us the legion character. By having Solaria be met with multiple 'supreme loaylists commanders' it showscases the chaos that the Garmon cluster is in and paints a picture of the system all while also providing us a little space battle. It does what i want all HH books to do and that is SHOW us the war and how it is being fought, not only our characters but in a more general sense. It secondly does something i wish the HH did more of, and that is show us the different levels of chaos taint that co exist in the traitor side. But more specifically the Dark Mech. I have always belived that most of the Dark Mechanicum spent most of the Heresy not really knowing about chaos. They were political and ideological rebels, or simply Martian loaylists. With the % going ever more towards actual chaos involvement as the years go by. But even during the scouring there should be entire traitor forge worlds where chaos is simply not really a thing, despite them being 100% Horus/Dark Mech Traitors. And in Halek the book gives us this kind of person, tho he learns about chaos taint quite a bit by the end. Now the more the book goes on the more rushed it all gets, but again this book had to cover allot. And i cant bring myself to blame it all that much, I ultimatly enjoyed the battles, the characters and writing. I know some people had problems with this book being 'woke' in legio solaria. But i find that as stupid now as i did then. This is a book about Titans at Beta Garmon, and hot damn it, thats what it gives us, and i for one found it to be a enjoyable read and a welcome break from the pure MARINES WHOO RAAA books. If anything this book could have used another 50-100 pages. 7/10 Normally but it becomes 8.5/10 when you take how it came about into account.

Damn never added my Exorcists Chapter Scout squad Kill Team led by Scout Honoured Sgt Shu'kar

Cheers from Ukraine, everyone! I'm a newbie to the hobby (less than a year), so I'm not into gaming or painting yet. However, I'm very much into reading and exploring the lore. I love reading series like the Horus Heresy and the Dark Imperium simultaneously, as it allows to see how it was, what went wrong, how it ended up, and why. At some point, I’ve had enough of the usual “Horus/daddy issues”, “Guilliman/Excel spreadsheets”, or “Commissar Cain the coward” memes and chats (which don’t really capture the depth of the characters), and started looking for a place where people appreciate the versatility and multi-layeredness of the Warhammer universe, and have meaningful and detailed discussions. I now have twelve hardback books read, and another seven are on their way from the UK :) Actively looking at some board games as well. What I know for sure is that when I eventually fall into painting, my first model will be a Necron Overlord — this faction truly fascinates me. Glad to be a part of the community! P.S. I've even started working on a fanfic. With no intention of posting it anytime soon, though, since I’ve still got a ton of books to read to keep it lore-consistent - something I’m very conscious about.

Looks like something got posted early on GW's German IG page. I thought I saw something about this guy getting a model recently but I don't remember where.

I've finished Fabius' chirurgeon with brass scorpion, rune lord brass and more Abaddon black to pick out the joints and bolts. As well as flesh tearers red shared with flesh tearers/gryph hound orange for the injector vial. I was hoping this would make a smoother colour transition. Finally, I started in Fabius coat, I went with a thin cadisn flesh tone coat followed by guilliman flesh contrast and then a bit of Kislev flesh over cadian flesh on the raised areas to highlight. Next it's the back of Fabius armour, the tubing, the metal details on the shoulder and his apothecary's tool belt.

Another kill-team of marines inspired by the War of the False Primarch project. Jade Talons, 8th Company Kyndred, Endurance Cadre. Led by Veteran Noor, the Jade Touched. Leading endurance cadre against the Red Talons. Jade Talons engaging the Death Eagles (II?)- Saphrax IX orbital defense ring: Jade Talon Sniper <//IDENTITY REDACTED>, Saphrax campaign. ( I must know more! ) Jade Talons- original chapter by @adams_james_creates, recently featured in White Dwarf 515!!!

Something quite difficult to understand. Supposedly a massive weapon, with Str 10 is as deadly as one with Str 7 in a T4 miniature, if both just cause 1 wound per impact.

Thanks guys, this weekend has been productive. Straight from the big fella and into the Smol Soldiers. Here's my completed Aerial Assault and Drop Pod Formations.

That is correct, Instant Death is gone.

My guess is 11th edition Ultramarine release. It’s pushing Dawn of Fire, and someone at BL really wants DoF to be more than it was, in my opinion. DoF was wasted as a weak retcon of Psychic Awakening’s purpose.

In Insignium Astartes the 6th Co is more of a coppery color than true orange. Although there is an image of a shoulder pauldron later in the book that is hard orange.

I like the model but feel it would be better if they followed the artwork showing him standing with his hands resting on the thunderhammer in front of him for his book. Will definitely get though

I agree and would like to add: every craft world, kabal, cult, coven, ork clan, forge world, chaos legion, sept, etc etc etc Bring on more variation in each army!

Oddly enough the only place you can find evidence of Final Deployment existing is a digital library app called overdrive, which has a sample here. It says the book’s out on the 30th so maybe it’s just delayed a week? Either way it obviously exists and is ready to be published. My assessment after reading the sample: pretty good. The prose honestly isn’t the best or the worst, there’s a lot of reused words (colors other than ‘ochre’ do in fact exist) and instances where it feels like a thesaurus was used, but there’s also good descriptive language and engaging dialogue. The characters seem lively and had decent interplay. It felt appropriately detailed and crunchy, you can tell Wilt has military experience. Looks like it’s going to be a relatively brutal novel as well. I think it’s exactly the sort of slightly exaggerated, American military fiction inspired piece the Scions deserve.

Line of sight really needs several images illustrating things clearly. Explaining things with examples for line of sight always works far better than without. And they definitely didn't explain that very well either.

No? Captains wear their company colours. For example, the Uriel Ventris model has green trim, and Captain Centos has red.

I have some progress to report. I’ve actually been away from home this week so haven’t been able to paint anything, but before that I got my Mastodon and four Vindicators finished. the review is up on goonhammer: https://www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-reviews-legions-imperialis-armored-reinforcement-models/ Here are a bunch of pictures. I’ve made decent progress on the rest of the vow. I did the yellow in one big batch and am working through details in black, metal and transfers. Here’s the most recent picture I took of the LI stuff all together. Most of it is actually further along than this now. I sprayed the whirlwind turrets and the gun shields black, which is why they aren’t in this shot. I’ve made a start to painting the Saturnine dread too, though nothing worth photographing. Edit: here is a photo of the contents of my vow prior to painting. I took this before starting but couldn’t show it till now due to the embargo.

Nah I think you are right on the money here. They write like this to not have a lot of work later on with FAQ and such things and fail miserably as usual. Problem is they put too much words in the wrong sections and way to less in the important ones. Like Line of sight for example. Or terrain. I just looked at 1ed rulebook which is half the size of the 3ed one and frankly it was easier to understand and a lot clearer than the 3ed one although using half the words. Same number of questions I would say. So they tried to make it clearer, didn't succeed, in the end making it harder to read for no gain. Hopefully they will put out a good FAQ soon to clear things up and continue doing so once in a while. Without trying to defent any of this I would say that from a certain point of complexity onwords there will always be things people get wrong or don't get at all. That is inevitable. Key is that GW handles that sort of thing with FAQ.

Alright, somewhat unexpectedly I decided to go for one more vow: I, Lautrec the Embraced, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 10 Raven Guard Assault Marines for 10 pts for the Glory of ... the Warmaster (!) and the Heresy Stronghold on or before 15th September 2025, or bear the badge of failure until year's end. Don't expect anything too traitorous looking though. I plan to paint their armour rather worn and rusted, maybe even give them all red gauntlets as they'll be "allied" to my Night Lords? we'll see Btw, that's a third post in a row with a Raven Guard Assault Squad ...

I debated whether to include this mostly off-topic defence of technical writing. I see it being maligned enough in this thread, though, that it would be easy for a casual reader to get the wrong ideas about the communication form or the profession. My degree program required courses in technical writing, and I spent a good deal of my early career engaged in it. This book does not appear to me to be an example of technical writing. I am truly sorry to anyone whose experience with reading technical documents feels that all technical writing has to resemble what GW has presented. Even though the following website appears to be selling AI writing tools, there is a surprisingly good blog post about the aims of technical writing here: https://document360.com/blog/technical-writing-tips/ The writer goes on to provide guidelines to be considered in technical writing, and I highlight the most relevant of them below: Know Your Audience and Understand Their Requirements Choose the Style and Structure Keep Simple and Concise Language Add Visual Cues Be Clear About the Purpose of the Content I point especially to "Keep Simple and Concise Language" and "Add Visual Cues" as failings in the way GW communicates the rules in the new book. Technical writing is hard. It requires careful planning for how to best present ideas as clearly as possible and even then, a healthy dose of revision.

What a great choice for color scheme. It's always nice to see little variations that make a Legion your own.

Look, I've been visiting this thread since the rumours started and I was very excited.. but the more we learned, the less excited I got, culmination with the Liber Leaks and finalised by the gutting of the Custodes/Sisters. I was gonna post a big ole spiel of what my thoughts on the issues with the edition is rah rah rah, but after all the discourse of up and down and all around both here (which I love B&C as forums, to me, are so much better than facebook groups and reddit) but at this point I feel heresy has probably 4 main 'camps. All of this is my opinion, only my observations etc ad nauseam but here we go Camp 1. Sycophants GW can do no wrong, don't absue the mutli-billion dollar company. They send me a Saturnine box, they can do no wrong. This can also be a section of people in a 'sunk cost' sort of equation, they have existing armies, with love blood sweat and tears poured into them, so :cuss: just 'needs' to be good, so thats not a waste. Or often, their armies aren't adversly affected so care less. These can be new or old players. Camp 2. Grognards Generally resistent to change for both reasonable and unreasonable reasons. Probably been in the hobby a long time, probably have extensive collections where resistance to change can come from, also peoples whos aremies got decimated on an edition change, even if 'newer' will pop into this camp(I probably fall here). Most likely to be old players, with a small contingent of 'burned' new players. Camp 3. The Middle Men Happy as long as their army works, or they're getting into the scene for the first time. Happy cracking out whatever the 'current, supported' rules are etc. This I feel is probably the majority of people in GW games and probably aren't frequenting forums, reddit as much etc. These are a both new, old and 'tourists' types of players. Camp 4. The Rage-Baiters I feel this is the worst kind. They exist only on forums/reddit/facebook etc. Very low chance they've played any reasonable amount of games, or have any large amount of actually painted models. They can masquarade as either camp 1 or camp 2, but don't really add anything except vitriol and 'feel-bads' to any discussion and don't care about being constructive as they have no, or less skin in the game. So after reading though each page of this thread, we started with a pretty solid spread of Camp 1-4. I think though at this point we've lost the middle men of Camp 3 who are off enjoying themselves and we're really just degrading into Camp 1 and 2 gnashing their teeth at each other, with Camp 4 just throwing fuel on the fire of their randomly selected host camp. It's a shame that this thread has just sort of turned into headbutting of firmly entrenched camps as like after reading the last 5-8 pages it just seems to be a sniping back and forth where Camp 2 brings up an issue or concern, and Camp 1 says its not a concern or 'get with the future old man' remark. Or Camp 1 brings up a new mechanic they like and Camp 2 says its a terrible change for no reason. Personally 3.0 is not for me, if people are enjoying it, have it it, Hobby is Hobby! If somehow the Victoria (and Australian) Heresy Community gets back to the heights it reached Pre-2.0, I'm not opposed to rattling together a force (I desperately wanted 3.0 to be 'for me' as a good excuse to start a new army) and trying 3.0 out. But given 2.0 only had a handful of events in its very short life, with all the 'spruiking' of it being supported, well see. I'm not going to harp on 3.0 and my issues with it, they are what they are and its all very subjective. One final thing I will add though is I think older, existing players get poo-poo'd on a bit too much, I wouldn't have gotten into Heresy the way I did without the fantastic, grognardy exisitng player base that was there and all the amazing work they did for the community, espcially in the nominally unsupported except for occasional black book drops that 1.0 had toward the end. With 2.0 and the, honesly, lack of support it recieved, the community (in Australia) lost a lot of those older players and I don't think it ever recovered. So while new blood is great, its the old blood that is normally hovering around, suckering many new people in with 'try this' or running events etc..... none of which GW actually does. Also Australians are filthy criminals, so the greater community relied on nefarious means to get access to models due to GW price gouges... so we never had issues with stock, cost of OOPness of a great many things. It turned into a spiel anyway, sorry gang haha.

My point was that this is not a game for new players. You want us to celebrate them including 3 pages about dice rolling and tape measures? For a game with 300+ pages of rules and a buy in of what, 1,000 USD? 2,000 USD? They also justified cutting actual content existing players wanted 'in order to save space' so of course we're gonna be critical. We have every reason to poke fun of them for it!

Before the wave of complaints come in about retreading ground, I would just say that I am so excited to have a PoV on the Massacre written by French! Guy knows how to write pitched and grinding warfare better than most and I genuinely don't think BL has done the Massacre justice yet. So a straight win in my book.

Guess who's back: Also Knights confirmed: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/l8pdgqps/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-iv/

Every person with a printer fearfully opening their inbox to find an email from Metallica..

I've had a few quiet days, and have spent some of the time putting together a pair of trainee Biophagi (see here with their boss). It means I can make more use of the Biosanctic detachment rules. (The arms are from the broodbrother killteam kit; the bodies are standard neophytes.)

Pour l'Empereur! Finished this project today. Very happy with the result. What do you think of the French Legion of the 42nd millennium?)

It cheapens the setting when Grey Knights are ordered to combat every peasant uprising in the galaxy. They are specialized demon hunters and should be treated as such. In 2nd 40K you had a 5-man terminator squad of them and that was it. They were tough as nails and not grunts to be used as speed bumps for a non-demonic foe.

Not so much a retcon as a refocusing, I want to spend more time looking at the Imperium fighting itself. Give me jilted Marines chapters raiding worlds that refused to pay them an extra tithe of warm bodies and fresh bolt rounds. Give me more revolts and revolutions that aren't just genestealers or chaos, as always. Hell, commit to the bit with armies showing up late (or early) due to warp shenanigans, and going to war with allied forces because they pop through expecting an enemy, and those cussers are in different uniforms! Also put the Custodes back on Terra and limit Grey Knights and Deathwatch to single squads attached to larger, conventional armies. There's nothing special about 'the threat so great it means a full army of them!!!' when that's just the only way they appear in the lore and tabletop these days.

Aye Brother, they can tear my Black Trim from my cold dead hands! (Also, I respect the black chest Eagle, but it's not for me).

Black trim never went away (yes, I will die on this hill! )

- reintroduce the black trim on Blood Angels pouldrons - get rid of gold helmets on BA veterans - back banners for everyone all the time, with personalized heraldry for characters. And for dreadnaughts - there's not enough burning heretics in SM artworks - Sons of Medusa have faithfully kept the precepts of Moirae, maybe expanded upon with time, but the core remains the same and their beliefs are unmistakebly those of Moirae Finally, I don't know if it counts as a minor change, but SM should belive in Emperor's divinity like everyone else and it has always rubbed me the wrong way that the space warrior-monks do not. It was a bad retcon introduced in the end of the 2nd ed. Either this or get rid of all those monasteries, chaplains, brothers, relics, prayers and what's not.

"Zog me, Yarrick! Where's yer been? I'z missed ya, me boy!" "It takes more than foul warp-spawn to...wait, what?" "Oh come on, Yarrick, you'z me best foe ever, it just 'asn't been da same wivvout yer!" "...Huh. Um...thank you, vile xenos? I won't lie, that's far from the worst thing I've heard from a bitter enemy. Though I don't remember you being so big, I swear you used to fit on a 40mm." "Yeah, scale creep's weird like dat."

While I'm fine with how Imperial Fists now stand, part of me wishes that 3rd edition had grasped the nettle and had the Black Templars as a particular detachment/faction/modus operandi of the Imperial Fists (much as the Deathwing were an alternative scheme for Dark Angels). Likewise, I'd retcon the Alpha Legion to be slightly less insufferable and spool back to their 'superiority over all' schtick rather than 'sneaky sneaky ah-ha!' villains. Don't get me wrong; I like the 'hidden knife' idea; but think it rather fights with the idea of a Legion fighting battle-scale operations. By all means have the top brass and special forces in a tangled web of intrigue and misdirection, but it'd be nice to make their warbands (rather than individuals) have a bit more character. +++ Beyond Space Marines, I'd like regular ork boys to have a bit more 'dark mirror of humanity' about them. They feel better when they're more comparable to a Guardsman than a Space Marine – tougher and more of a threat up-close, sure; but fundamentally an equivalent to a human, not a superhuman. I'd like more to be made of their settlements, kultur and personal/tribal rivalries; that strikes me as more narratively interesting than just the hulking mindless monsters. Like the baddies from old films, they should be a proper scary threat, but not as alien in their aims and desires as, say, Tyranids. Orks should love a proper scrap and not have existential fear of death – but that doesn't mean they're idiots or can't get scared. Let's see some taktiks and straturgee from them; give them the credit for outwitting Imperial and other forces every once in a while, even if they generally prefer to out-muscle them to prove how 'ard they are! +++ Also, I'd like the psychic part of Eldar to be made more of – superhuman reflexes married to a psychic communications grid should make them the masters of battlefield understanding. They're the elves of the setting, so I'd like to see Guardians get a bit more respect. Militia they may be, but they've still often hundreds or thousands of years of life experience – and in a galaxy of war, you bet they've seen their share of conflicts. Many have walked the path of the Warrior themselves, and their physical conditioning is – well, elf-like – so they're no slouches. While I'd expect them to get pasted one-on-one with a Space Marine, a five-man group of Guardians should be a respectable opponent that's a genuine threat: operating with great equipment, a close understanding of their role and comrades, and with a psychic 'spider sense' helping them identify, neutralise or eliminate threats.

Terminators should wear the Crux Terminatus on their right shoulder pad so their chapter insignia can go on the left like everyone else in the chapter. Alternatively everyone else should move their chapter insignia to match the Terminators.

I've attacked nobody. I have broken no rule. I have not engaged with Real Life Politics. You've now deleted at least 4 posts, with zero explanation, guidance, or feedback. This site has always been militant in its moderation, despite allowing Blow Fly to exist here over and over, and so at the VERY LEAST an update to the user for WHY you deleted their appropriate content should be the bare minimum of feedback.

2 KT I've painted this year: Mandrakes Harlies: I have also entered recently a Servitor battleclade but I will rpobably not field it as a KT but rather as a mundane 40k AdMech unit...

@Sherrypie that is some awesome stuff @Monstra Sumus Love your work! ... I have been super inspired by the War of the False Primarch project for the better part of two years now, but only in the last month decided to paint up some stuff! Flesh Eaters Kill Team (Pentarchy of Blood) Iron Guard (Partisans) 212th Genswick Rifles Squad Link to more pics of these teams, still working on finishing one now for the Jade Talons!

I've not done as much as I would have liked over the last few weeks, but I've gotten everything on the body assemblies ready for shading/blacklining. Once that part is done, it's on to the edge highlighting, and then I can move on to the arms.

Having been barely keeping up with the hobby for several years, Indomitus reignited my passion for 40k last year, so I decided to try to actually build a force. This time it will be Primaris space marines, but still my beloved 3rd Company of the Ultramarines. The plan is to build the complete company, including officers and attached specialists and a dreadnought, plus a ten-man Deathwatch kill team, and such a project needs a fresh thread, so here I am. In terms of bulding the company, I will be dividing it into combat squads, to avoid becoming overwhelmed or bored, and alternate those with Deathwatchers and officers, so that it will go Combat Squad > Deathwatch > Combat Squad > Officer > Combat Squad > Deathwatch... and so on. This should offer a decent balance between progress and sameness of models. I started an Intercessor veteran sergeant (the 30th anniversary model) as a one-off before I decided to make a full army, so I decided to finish him before doing the rest of the combat squad. If you visit the Ultramarines subforum, you may have seen him, but here he is again with one of the Necrons the 3rd is fighting: The Necron is really just a color scheme test model, not the start of an army, any time soon at least. The rest of Combat Squad Ardias is in progress, with their bodies only needing cleanup: The bolt rifle arms are coming along too, I just need to highlight the black and tidy up everything before gluing them on. Then it's just the other arms, backpacks and heads and then finishing touches. Of course, an Intercessor squad isn't the end of it. I have plenty of plans for all the squads and in particular the command cadre. I don't feel like typing out all the minute details of my plan that I've spent the last nine months overthinking, so for now I will just finish off with something black for now:

Many thanks for the views and likes. I had been planning on making an update a week ago, on the 2nd, but a bout of illness got in the way, and put a damper on my painting for the last week. Not because I had a huge amount of painted models to show off, but because it's a special day in my hobby. 20 years ago on the 2nd of December, my 11th birthday, I got what I wished for. That included the wonderful 4th edition Codex: Space Marines, brand new at the time, and more. And that is how I started collecting Warhammer 40,000, and Ultramarines in particular. I did get the fresh brushes I had ordered in the mail that day, nice little present for myself, and put them to use over this weekend. Not huge amounts to show, but now I just need to finish the purity seals and the steel parts, and then paint the golds, and then clean it all off, and then I can do the transfers and move on to the bolt rifles with their arms. Feels like I'm making progress.

Edge highlights well underway, second thin coat in progress. I haven't done more than that because I've been busy with some other marines, and also this thing that I got in the mail on Tuesday: I'll have that primed soon and then I'll go back to the Intercessors for now.

More Unification madness! This time counts-as Harlequins. The Dancing Circuit of the Church of the Ravenous Spark, M29, dancing on the glowing ashes of Old Earth. Before their eventual demise before the Thunder Legions, their arcane mastery over reality-bending quantum field technologies was feared far and wide amongst the warlords of the era.

Many thanks for the responses and likes. I got a little carried away with the Iron Hand instead of painting Ultramarines. I just need to highlight the black and the leather on the body assembly and then tidy everything up. The head is just a quick color test for some of the new (to me) GW skin paints that I got in last week, though I'm using the same head for him (but painted properly), so it shows what I'm going for with this model. These specific paints here, Ionrach Skin and Deepkin Flesh, give a good pallid color that I think suits a heavily bionicized face.

Lovely painting. I especially enjoy that you picked the 3rd company. Not something you see everyday.