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God I hate rule lawyering and honest sometimes I feel this kind of exploits are the reason why we can't have nice simple written rules.

I think the original is perfect as it is.

...and experimenting with sculpting feathers. Any C&C welcome.

I think this looks pretty cool:

Rules are temporary, models are forever (when you've bought them anyway)

The Vespid is done. Still working on the Deffkoptas.

Regarding removed units, it is at least great that the Legends go to the app. Then it is easier to use them and hopefully people will be more accepting to them being played.

trying some new bases out for BA

I fell far short of my goal this month, but still did get a lot done. The primer I used for the Thousand Sons has been a bit of a pain (rubs off on my fingers, doesn't seem to take paint very well) so I probably need to find something else. I ended up finishing 20 Tactical Marines and a White Scars Leviathan I did to take a break from the TS: I'll be going out of town shortly so no chance I'm finishing the rest.

And I finished my vow for May- here it is, one Night Lord Kratos. I am very happy how it turned out.

Well, in the pre-CtA lull, I've been converting rather than finishing painting models as I really ought to be doing. Anyway, I gave capes to bunch of Flawless Blades a few weeks ago, but didn't share those here as there really wasn't much to the conversion other than using some 3d printed capes. If you are interested, you can see them here. I also finished painting some of the noise marines I had previously shown the conversions for here, but they really aren't any different than my previous squad other than for their cape colour - they can be seen here. On Saturday I was able to grab a copy of the Murderwing kill team, which I used to convert up some old metal raptors I have to have the new melee profiles. Here's a picture: I have enough metal raptors that I can do another squad of 5 and one of 10, and then have a few special weapon troopers (and an aspiring champion) spare to swap other options in should I need them. I also picked up some Age of Sigmar stuff that I intend to convert into 40K stuff - the Glutos Orscallion kit and the Hedonites of Slannesh Spearhead (which oddly isn't on the GW webstore at the moment - its a character, 3x Slanngors, 10x archers and 5x guys on seekers). Anyway, I'm going to turn it into a defiler - here is the "hull" on a 160mm base next to my own defiler, which I have now based (you can see more photos of it and its new base here) Given that my old defiler doesn't fully fit on the base, and not having a new defiler to compare it to, I suspect my Glutos-filer will be smaller than the new official model, but not hugely so. I intend to fully build and magnetize the various options except for the scourge, which I haven't yet figured out how to do. I am also doing the same for my old defiler, except for it its the ectoplasm cannon that won't be available. Finally, I bought the Necromunda Malstrain Coalescence model a couple of years ago, but hadn't bothered trying to convert it - until now. Here's a more top down view. Anyway, I have to say my defiler is no longer the creapiest model I've converted. Basically, in converting it, like the defiler, my goal was to disguise the tyranid parts to make obviously a chaos model, not a genestealer/tyranid one. For this guy, the most problematic parts were the very zoanthrope head crest, and the 3 vents on either side near the top. So, I glued demonette claws onto the vents, and replaced the crest with a bunch of beads - I had originally intended to greenstuff around them to make them eyes, but I think I will leave them as is and make them into eggs instead. Anyway, I'm really happy with how he turned out - I intend to use him + my rogue psycher to be a chaos enforcer with ogrynn bodyguard (this is the "ogrynn"), given that the rogue psycher is legends only these days.

The parallelogram look is iconic for the Land Raider. Start adding things on top and it no longer has that look.

update to this long neglected thread. Added the biggest mini ive ever worked on and a hornet.

Thank you, brothers for all the encouragement! May has been an extremely intense month so I don't have as much time for the forum as I'd like. However, between work and preparations for a half-marathon, I have been consistently finding time for the hobby. Over the last week or so, I've been splitting my hobby-time between painting a Stardrake (ineligible for this forum, regrettably), deliberating on the future Primaris purchases and utterly wasting time on my Techmarine. This Techmarine/MotF is definitely going to be my last ambitious character-level conversion project. As such, I'm chipping away at it without counting the time. Having said that, I'd expect I've spent around 8 hours so far conceptualising the build, dry-fitting and whatnot. The progress isn't impressive, especially given the time, but I am quite happy with it and looking forward to discovering where it takes me. So far, despite some setbacks, I find the project satisfying and, design-wise, quite pleasing. I will post some photos of what I have so far but I'm not sure how useful they are in this still early WIP stage. I feel I finished the sub-assemblies for the top servo arms and am now working on the frame of the backpack. Now, I need your feedback. For some time now, GW opts to use these auxiliary servo arms: They have a very clear design language, with clearly-defined mechanical sections. Do you think that a set of wires/cables from a Centurion kit could work as a base for a pair of these tentacle-like arms or not? If not, I think a cable from a Hellblasters kit is more clearly identifiable but, for whatever reason, I'd prefer to use the leftover bits. And here's a close-up of the backpack: As insignificant as it is, I'm quite proud of the idea to refit the vanilla backpack vent. I'm not sure where the tides of design will take me with this, but I know that I want to retain some of the Primaris design language (the circular bit at the back; the rounded top of the backpack). The part of a hunter-killer missile will serve as a base for the heavy-duty forklift-type servo arm; on the right, below the cables, I will place the flamer servo arm. *** I'm also trying a different approach to painting minis/bases. Since I need to properly finish my Assault Squad for the 12MiH vow, I prepared some bases for the Jump Pack Marines, as well as a set of bases for the 5-man squad that's next in line for painting. I want to paint the Marines separately and bases separately. One of the 5 bolter&chainsword marines has a scenic base (he's from the kill team box) with some moulded-on rocks. I decided to try and place similar rocks on the other bases, too. And I updated the tilt shield for the Assault Marine For convenience, here's the before picture: The updated tilt shield is definitely an improvement but I've slighly messed it up, too - the yellow chequered stripe is slightly de-centred but it something that I can live with.

Indeed. My rule of thumb for people who put a lot of stock in AI's use as a research tool is "ask AI about something you know a lot about yourself and see what it answers, then ask yourself if you really want to trust it about something you don't know anything about".

AI will hallucinate and make up stuff and present it in very confident ways. Unless theres a link to an actual warcom article, don't trust it, its just repeating back speculation at best, or outright making up stuff.

I believe heavy stubbers on SM vehicles/Dreadnoughts to be the work of the ruinous powers

Here's my take on strike force Variel using different minis from several squads instead of the Warhammer Heroes

I gotta say, the LR kit has held up really well over the years. When new, it basically the defined the slabbed, layered armoured look that defines the Marine STC look. Could GW do something better after 25 years of progress with injection moulding? Maybe. But that iconic design still looks great to me.

Thats like saying GW doesnt care about sales or money anymore since the 90s.. because they stopped including catalogue pages in codexes they used to do. There is a lot more than just codexes. Hobby sections went the same places as those catalogue pages -> mostly online. ( and white dwarf like always.) The community site has hobby related features with almost every mainstudio release, though these are more showcases ofcourse, painting guides are a regular feature on their youtube... a medium far more suited for it than a codex. ( same way in this era a webstore > a catalogue inside the codex.) and warhammer plus has a lot of hobby related focus, but I never subcribed so I dont know the details apart from that they announce the features on wednesdays. Its not as many youtube painting guides as they used to a couple of years ago, but instead of that there is a lot more focus on presenting the personal projects of fans/staff. So the hobbyside is presented a bit less paint-by-numbers and more personalised and inspirational. All of these things release far more regular content than codexes did back in the rosetinted glasses days. Its especially funny as this is regarding pre-painted terrain Terrain GW offered in those nostalgic days ? prepainted terrain was already a thing ( prepainted cardboard even..so even less hobbyworthy (but I liked them alot) ) But, that was a convenient thing for those who wanted to focus on the miniatures.. and it didnt mean that GW ignored the hobbyside of terrain making at all, only some of their studioshots featured the cardboard terrain. So this whole prepainted terrain thing is just another back-to-the-old-days thing, just slightly more advanced and fitting with the modern time. Opinionwise, I dont really like the new terrain or the layouts, but thats another story and not something I want or need to empower by trying to make it a "fact". But the example layouts in those days, the ones they clearly balanced the game on, I didnt like either ( the flat green board with 2 hills and a building in the middle and a handful of trees ), so its nothing new. I like full boards of terrain ( I think I also had this one from the cardboard era, but I thought it was for necromunda not 40k ) And if I make a board again ( Im really itching to combine Necromunda ashwaste terrain and the weird warcry trees into something strange and alien ), I will probably deviate from the adviced, as is usual, and if it doesnt work out with someone's army ( I only know infantry focused players right now so that shouldnt become issues.) .. houseruling things is part of the fun. Im already thinking of for tanks or knights to have some crew jumping out of the vehicle mechanism to include to have those objectives inside or on top of buildings covered. ( ok for knights.. they dont have crew, but perhaps they drop some oddball servitors from orbit once they come across an objective they cannot control... a fun project for many bits I have that dont fit other projects.) This too was par-for-the-course in those days by the way, at least in my experience.

A year-and-a-bit-ago, someone on reddit posed a question, and I did my best to answer it; with the caveat that I was doing so based on some half-remembered thing I read thirty years ago as a kid. A bit-ago, someone on reddit posed the same question, and I was typing out the same answer when I thought: "hold on, I've got nothing better to do. I bet I can track down an actual proper source." Whilst attempting to google various things, hoping to turn up where I had read it (and maybe find a scanned pdf), I noticed that (at least) the AI seemed to be in agreement with me; confidently stating the same as my vague recollection from a year previous. Eventually, I saw that the AI gave a source for its statement, and I thought: "Aha! Maybe it will be able to tell me where this came from!" And I clicked through, only to find... The AI's source was my reddit post from the year previous, presented with none of my caveats. // Generative-AI is a fantastic tool, but it should be treated like paying a random unskilled worker (who lives millions of times faster than you) to help you out. They're very fast, but it's a coinflip whether or not they actually "get it".

Also, it is named after feral pigs. Can the Impulsor say that?

And it is done! Sitting outside on my balcony, in 30 degrees and sunshine, with a light breeze, I managed to add the finishing touches to my Night Lord Kratos. I am very happy how it turned out. Oh well.... the tortured and chained Ultramarines did not show up as well.... I had painted them up differently with different shade of blue and light blue highlights, but after weathering and applying a generous measure of weathering, dirt and gore.... it just all bled into one. But hey, I wanted a tank that looked right off the battlefield, and this is what I got. And it would be understandable that touching up the armor color of the chained victims is not very high on the agenda of the Night Lord crew! However, the ominous glow of the ominous glow of the viewports worked very well. I tried to do them the same way as the windows of the small thunderhawk I painted. I am also very happy with the heat- discoloration on all the main guns: Discoloration on the Lascannons: Since it worked well this month with my resolution to "paint ONE thing", I think I will do the same for the month of June and will try and finish the Chaos War Dog. Right now, I am in the mood for some vehicle painting.

Having read this discussion kinda makes me want to put tracks on my Land Speeder Seriously though, every vehicle in 40K is obviously based on rule of cool, but things still have to actually be cool to be cool. When something is described as being able to do everything and be better than everything else, it tends to just fall flat.

That makes sense. I've always advocated rule of cool. Meta chasing is a fool's dream (in my humble view). There was a reason I played kakophoni in heresy 1.0 when they were released with book 2 and it sure as heck wasn't their rules.

May vow complete, here's my standard trooper for the campaign:

Tried Vellejo Ruby Red through an airbrush, its pinker in real life so im not thrilled. but its nice to know you can absoutly put vellejo metals through a cheap airbrush you just have to do a full breakdown clean afterwards.

You are correct, While I like the flamers in place of the heavy bolters, that turret is like sticking a drag spoiler on a Bentley, just so cursed.

It's nearly done. I didn't work on it for 3 days because I couldn't find the 90mm base with 2 holes in it, searched the whole house looking for it. Found it in the last place I thought to look, the compartment with the rulebook in the Leviathan box. All the cutting, scraping and gap-filling is done. This project felt like an on-going disaster, every day I found some new issue or some new part I had to cut off to make the 3D print parts fit. Gluing the head gave me the most trouble, I had to glue a small girder made out of sprue to get the head to stick out of the gorget and then I had to cut a hole into the remnant of the sarcophagus so everything fits nicely together. The model is now 90% done and all the upgrade kit parts are glued in place. I've kept the weapons separate for painting later. I didn't glue the Illiastus assault cannon yet, it's meant to represent the two Deredeo heavy bolters. The slot on the left is going to be filled in with a searchlight. All the parts marked in red and yellow are parts I had to cut off and discard or fill in with milliput. The lower legs and knees had to be completely destroyed to fit the Castraferrum style plates. I've done some work on the back of the Dreadnought too, I had to replace the armour plates shielding the reactor and the exhausts. I feel quite happy with the result.

All they really need to do is tidy the lines up a little bit and improve the tolerances. Maybe make it 20% bigger so it looks mighty next to the indomitus terminators the biggest issue with a rework is that it’s going to go from £57 for the basic to probably £80

I just want multipart Outriders with weapon options for the Sergeant to be confirmed.

Thanks to all of you for the replies. As always: I'm glad you like my work. Thanks for reminding me of this publication! I've forgotten about it bu will make sure to check it out for inspiration in the future. I want to add some individualises heralrdy to my squads. Regarding the tilt shield: pushed by your feedback, I'll settle on redoing it. I think it's un-salvageable - I think I'll repaint it black and maybe take another stab at applying transfers. It should be easier than doing them on shoulder pads. Thank you guys for posting your suggestions. *** Since yesterday was a painting day, today I decided to bleed some of my precious life into the sands of pointless hobbying I've mentioned a new Techmarine project and here are the first steps. As with the tilt shield, this project revealed my poor judgement and lack of imagination (or foresight). The photo shows my today's progress; I'm quite happy with the pace and quality of the results. What you see in the photo is: > top-left corner - servo claw for the smaller servo arm; > my today's failure - the original small servo claw for the smaller servo arm; unfortunately, I've greatly underestimated the scale of the thing and it turned out too big/chunky for my taste; > middle row - components for the plasma cutter based on an old plasma gun and toothpicks; > bottom - the servo mechanism for the smaller arm. Comments: 1. I'm surprised by the quality and size of details I'm able to make. All those years of doing plasticard vehicles are really paying off now. All of this makes me quite excited and/or hopeful that the final thing will look great once paint is applied. Sorry for this borderline brag, but I've exceeded my expectations here. 2. I'll need to cut my losses with the too large servo-arm. I thought it's small enough for a Gravis model and have intentionally chunked it up. Then, I dry fitted it onto the mini and found it to be too big. It's a shame since I quite like all the details and trim, but there's probably no room for it on the mini. I'll want a slimmer, forklift-type claw for the second servo arm. Maybe I'll pop this one on the base somewhere (or attach it to the Techmarine's belt) as a spare claw - like exchangeable dozer blades on actual construction vehicles. The upside is that I built the second claw which, I think, is even better. 3. I hope that you'll be able to make out some of the details/greebles - due to lighting conditions at teh time of posting this, I find it difficult to take good photos of white plasticard. By the Emperor!! This kind of kitbashing/scratchbuilding is extremely time-consuming. But with the right mindset, it's also the best thing in the hobby. I don't remember being this excited about something hobby-related. The path of discovery, the mistakes, the focus, the annoying-yet-rewarding fiddling with bits this small... that's just great. I genuinely like it, even though there will be many obstacles ahead since I don't have a clear vision of what I want to achieve. Just some vague sketches in a notepad that must be out of scale and might be difficult to implement on an actual mini. Yeah, injection moulding or 3D printing is the way of the future. But I can afford this one last indulgence.

Yeah I tend to just use micro sol on it's own, they are really good. Something a little bit different. I was hunting through my bits boxes for parts and came across this old project I started years ago but forgot about. I may well go back to it at some point but for now just wanted to share some pics. The idea was to create a RT force in the style of the more military dioramas of WW2 tanks and infantry. The dreadnoughts I got from an STL file that I heavily converted to add new weapons and detailing but the infantry I sculpted in Blender based on the original RT era models for the Imperial Army. These were Army Dreadnoughts because back in the day they could be taken by Imperial Army and these original dreads could be piloted like a vehicle rather than having the pilot surgically attached. I converted the original file to turn the top of the dread into a door then flipped it open so the pilot could be seen standing in the cockpit. Unfortunately the door has broken so I will go back at some point and fix it. I also sadly can't find the STL files so when I do fix them up I can't really make any more of them. Like I say I am not touching them for now but thought some people might be interested to see them. I started to paint the lead dread but never really got much further than this.

Thanks, fellas :) Ok, getting to do something I've wanted to do for AGES. We finally played Kill Team again last week and I've just finished writing it up into a proper, old-school narrative battle report. What do you guys think? First time I've done one of these in ages and would like to do more of them. I've tried to create some narrative hooks - namely, veteran Sur'gesh will now be promoted to Devastator sergeant in commendation of his actions on Relay Station Chi-Omega 714, and the Condors will be following up to find out who their mortal assailants were in future games...

Morning all. Colour Forge have announced an expansion of their core range of sprays with 7 new colours and a new satin varnish spray: Introducing The 2026 Core Range Expansion - The Colour Forge I for one am very happy with this. I painted my realm of battle board using Mournfang Brown spray which is of course long gone and I haven't found a replacement I'm totally happy with. And I have one tile I want to repaint and four second hand tiles from the AoS Shattered Dominion board to repaint so Bestiary Brown is a god send.

lTITH back after having heart valve replaced in October after complications spending a month in the hospital. And a long recovery time. I finally got to paint some Terminators. All different Chapters.A Silver Guard( assault cannon ) Kraken chapter , Golden Gryphons , Marines Malevolent , Praetors of Ulixis . I have five more put together but yet to decide what chapters . Also found my old copy of Codex Armageddon.

Heres hoping that we dont lose a bunch of Legends options this time around like we have in previous editions changes. I think a decent amount of the angst over things going to Legends would ease if we could trust that the legends rules would stick around, rather than it being a final stop before squatsville.

Or the authors signature could be... Now hold on a second for this wild idea... A part of meet and greet with the author... maybe there could be other authors there too... Maybe they could host a seminar or two... Could call it a Weekender or something...

This is all entirely debatable. If someone wants a Razorback or a combat squad with special weapons in their list they should have the option. If they start cutting units based on what's more viable or superior we'd end up with army lists that all end up doing the same thing.

Razorback just needs the return of lascannon/plasma combi-turret. With the amount of nostalgic returns of late, we're overdue for that classic to come back.

A little over halfway through but I especially loved the chapter of

Only about a 10th of the way through, but I am absolutely loving it. Could easily see it being my favorite BL novel of all time. It’s sprawling and filled with world building yes, but it also feels like a clear through line is being established narratively. It’s definitely more complex than the vast majority of 40k fiction, but anyone who’s read Game of Thrones (or any overstuffed fantasy/sf series) could pretty easily follow this. It’s nothing like Pariah or The End and the Death where you’re left trying to parse sentences or figure out what in the world is happening to the main characters. The prose is accessible and measured, with some unique but perfectly intelligible dialogue styles to represent the difference between various cultures. It feels like if Necropolis or Titanicus grew up from something fixated on war to something fixated on culture and people. Didn’t think we’d ever really get something like this from BL.

More building today jumping back to the Fists. I've not really enjoyed this build, bit of a pain to put together but nearly done. I think I will paint it in the Howling Gyre campaign colours which is black with yellow accents to make it stand out as a command vehicle. I do have a second one but not sure I want to do another just yet but now I have made one I think I could make the second a lot quicker.

So much similar / equally useful content is available online. It's not in GW's interest to compete in the space of 'how to build ruins from cereal boxes' guides. Their offering is unlikely to be the best and it only drives sales in a very indirect way. How to make your own terrain was a valuable product for GW to provide when there weren't many other sources and there wasn't an enormous range of card/MDF/resin/plastic terrain on the market. It's simply a different landscape now.

The Landraider has indeed stood the test of time. The size of the vehicle is also generally good. I actually built and painted one recently (even shared some pics on this forum) and despite the kit being old and wonky, an experienced hobbyist can get it fully assembled, and once painted it looks very good. A redesign could make it a bit bigger, but even a refreshed kit that simply looks a bit more jazzed up and actually comes together properly will be a win. This is my new Landraider (I used bits from my 30k Ultramarines to make the bolter and hunter killer look a bit more unique):

TONE is the inflection in your voice you must use when you look at all your unpainted miniatures and all the paints you own to command them to all be done with themselves when you wake up tomorrow or so help you, they are going to rue the day… Edit: 24 hours later update - apparently I’ve got a bad batch of TONE, because none of my paints or miniatures did a damn thing toward getting the minis finished. The bastards!

I think it's time to knock this line of discussion on the head. There aren't even any repulsors in the launch box!