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*Opens the mighty Tome of Grudges* *Cracks knuckles, licks quill nib* *A few thousand years later....*

My Master of Executions is ready, along with his 'cool' or rather icy base. Quite happy about the result, it spend 6 yrs in a box and now 3 days and it's ready. (I just realized I left some seams unpainted sigh). I wanted a unique base but without giving him extra height, he is quite tall already. So, decided on ice, with a marine trapped underneath: No, I didn't attach the base yet... I wanted him on 32 instead of 40 mm, but it's not the best fit. Some more pics:

Stripped the last 3 wounds off a baneblade with a venom doing a tank shock on Friday night. Rolled a 1, which killed my venom who had 1 wound left. Baneblade proceeded to explode and kill a nearby leman russ on 6 wounds and a chimera with 5. We both laughed manically and I pulled up the clip from Return of the Jedi with the A-wing ramming the SSD bridge. Kept saying "Too late!" and miming diving off to the side every time I tank shocked with raiders constantly, the rest of the night.

Wildcard that will piss everyone off. Legions of the damned is a new transfer sheet bundled with the old tactical squad.

Bananas = new jokaero confirmed.

I had forgotten there was a reason I never bought any Sternguard.

Cawl Pattern Expanding Combat Knife. Stores small, draws big.

Hello everyone, Everyone did outstanding work on their pledges as always! I have completed my pledge for this year! Dr. Ruminahui, for what it's worth, I'd like to submit Godsworn as my candidate for Master of the Forge. Godsworn is kitbashed from: -his chest is from a Horus Heresy Gal Vorbak -his legs are from a Chaos Knights War Dog smokestack -his head and his right arm are from a Horus Heresy Ursurax Cohort robot -his left arm is a random Necron bit I found in store's bitz box -his back banner is from the Chaos Enforcer He's a bit smaller than last year's Defiler. All 8 models More Photos and Brief Write Ups for Each Model Enjoy the photos and congratulations on all the hard work everyone! For the glory of Chaaaaoooosssss!!!!!!

And with this all five stronghold vows are complete: With his earlier friend:

Agree 100%. It still is for many people. It's actually nice to see more people bringing this up even here where it is not the dominant topic. Some crazy people (me, and sometimes my opponents ) even act out particularly wild scenarios as they happen on the table, complete with sound effects. If you aren't going *PSHHHHEEW* *CHHHSSSSHHHH* *PCHHHWWW* and turning minis over on their sides to demonstrate how badly they just got wrecked, are you really even playing a game?

Vow finished - 1 Lord in Terminator Armor, 1 Master of Executions, 1 Warpsmith, 5 Terminators, 5 Chosen, 5 Havocs, 5 Legionaries, 2 Obliterators Lord in Terminator Armor Master of Executions Warpsmith Terminators Chosen Havocs Legionaries Obliterators

I'm going to have to grab one of these guys for my Risen Dark Angels. I can finally model my plasma gunner the correct way... on fire.

Only 3 hours to go.... Then all will be revea.... oh... sorry had a technical proble... I think it's fixed now. As I was sayi....

Oooh, Matron!

Apologies for the potato photos, but they're done! Hopefully I'll have better light for photos soon. And much thanks to @Dr_Ruminahui for allowing my out of competition entry, definitely got me off my butt to paint for the first time in nearly a year.

The pose is a huge soup sandwich from a realism perspective. 1. He has a spare magazine/drum in a pouch back center of his belt. 2. His pistol is next to it, on the back-left of his belt. 3. He is presumably right handed, like every other space marine, and the other eradicators in his squad. So, following this logic, he ran out of ammo, dumped his magazine to start a reload - which he would have to do with his right hand, because he decided to put his pistol in the way of reaching for his reload with his left - and decided that the threat was immediate enough that he needed to go for his secondary. However, because he has his secondary on the left side of his belt instead of his right, in order to draw his secondary he first has to shuffle the heavy bolter between his hands and brace it on his knee so he can then draw and fire his pistol. This guy is a larper that has never had to actually use his gear before today.

So Space Wolves are going to pass on their rules by oral recitation? Special closed session at the local GW, where we bring in beer and meat and the blackshirt tells us our sagas?

For those looking to make visual comparisons. I'd like to have seen more bones on them.

You have the entire rest of the Space Marine range already.

Pff. Always someone who doesn't like barbeque.

This might be the best thing they have released for Loyalist Space Marines in anything outside of 30k for 10 years. I said before that i was in agreement that i didn't really want sculpted flames, but this? Holy God Emperor. The flames are pretty minimal. They look so well done. It took a lot of restraint not to destory them with flames and smoke effects. All firstborn, zero primaris. I am 2000% buying these the moment they get a seperate release. This is all i could have ever asked for, and i hope it shoots the idea into GW's head that, this is what normal marines should have looked like. It is amazing. I actually have no issues with this set at all. Zero. 10/10

I got no pun for this one.

Just want to say ”I told you so”

When it comes to the edition cycle, which I think is probably the most recurring serious complaint for what I might affectionately term us old timers, I do wonder about two things a) whether GW has chosen three years based on any kind of statistics of the amount of time the average customer is in the hobby and b) whether younger players actually feel that it's a problem. I mean, three years is a lot of time if you're in the 12-22 age bracket, plus you (generally) have a lot more time to actually play the game, so three years probably doesn't have the same "blink and you'll miss it" feel that it does for us older hobbyists. I guess there might also be the fact (if indeed it is a fact) that people who have been in the hobby for longer tend to have branched out into different systems and that sort of compounds the whole "Oh, Age of KillCry has a new edition already? Again?!?"-effect that can be both frustrating and exhausting. The clever solution, of course, is to only buy the rules you'll actually play but then, what would we fill our shelves (and cupboards, and spare rooms, and attics, and cellars, and garages, and...) with? Finally, if you're not actually in the hobby for more than, let's say six years, 1-2 edition changes might not feel like that much of a problem and it'll be a new edition anyway, if you return to the hobby at a later point. I don't have any sort of statistical backing, but lots of people seem to have taken a break from the hobby somewhere in their 20s. From that perspective, the 3-year cycle might not seem as much of a problem as it does to us older, more jaded hobbyists.

On the one hand, yes. If (general) you don't actively enjoy the constant evolution and rearranging of the game, it's a pretty infuriating situation (personally, I don't enjoy it, just to be clear) and it's clearly a business model, not something that's done for the health of the game. On the other hand, being a bit more (perhaps too) charitable, people do want the game to "evolve" (or at least they complain when it doesn't) and there's not necessarily a clear "upwards" for it to go. All editions have their advantages and drawbacks and for all the complaints about GW it's not like other miniature wargames really seem a lot better. Personally, I think 40K as a game peaked in 4th edition and I like to imagine I'd have been happy with a bit of tweaking and periodical points adjustments/new unit drops, but it's also possible that I'd be bored out of my skull with 40K if we were still stuck with core rules that were really 3.x. However, assuming going back in time is out of the question, I think an Index edition without codexes but with about the same regularity of "patches"/points adjustments as now would be the best choice for the health of the game. It's not going to happen of course, and people would 100% complain about the "lack" of codexes, but I'm pretty sure it'd be a lot better for the game itself.

They have zero incentive to do so. They have a model (from their point of view) that "works". As long as things stay fresh and new with the constant turn and keep making a profit, they think this is the path forward. It's been this way for too long, and its frustrating that more people don't see it for what it is. It's junk. Just junk disguised as a premium product. But I suppose people are ok with that. That's just it, its not evolving, its just something different each time. Moving sideways as apposed to moving up.

Even more incredible work. People have been really putting in the effort. Meanwhile, I have gone to the extreme of polishing off my last 5 models, plus the random bonus one to round out a squad. Very happy with how they've come out: Yes, eagle eyed pedantic observer, I had forgotten to do the plasma coils when I said they were all finished but for the bases last time. I fixed it in time, ok? I even did coils on his backpack fuel thingy. So there. Might as well cover the remaining two cardinal directions now: Bosh. Very happy with how they came out. Of course, I do have probably a hundred or so more to do, and many of those will need heavy conversion jobs, but there's no time crunch on them so it's fine. For anyone wondering, it's Victoria Miniatures for the legs, Anvil Industries for the torsos, arms, special weapons and pouches, and OOP GW for the rifles and heads. Right, good luck everyone, hours to go yet!

Vow complete!

Vow complete!

Great work, everyone! Some fabulous completions and progress! I too have now finished my vow, so no longer have to fear failing at my own event. First is my chaos abomination, which is my Master of the Forge entry. Second is my vindicator kitbash - kind of wish I had vowed it for MotF instead, as I'm really happy how it turned out. And the whole vow together.

Yes, some truly amazing works around here. But this is getting out of hand, now there are 2 latin named knights in the same thread! Meanwhile, I am working on my single mini... Steady progress over the weekend, feel like I should get it done by tomorrow.

The end of an Era, 11 years since release. Defending my paint station in his basecoated form. But I finally got around to painting him. See it can happen! Fairly happy with him as he's the first bit of Heresy I've felt like painting since April.

its really funny, ive been a blood angel player since these were death company: And honestly, I much prefer the level of bling on them to the set we got in 5th edition. They look like blood angel space marines that painted their armour black and painted saltires onto it. Whereas the 5th edition ones looked like christmas trees where apparently someone etched the saltires into the armour instead. I quite liked the 3rd edition ones too: Though again, sculpted saltires annoyed me. Don't get me wrong, I bought multiple death company kits, but I always had to mix them with tactical or assault squad parts to tone them down dramatically, and never used sculpted saltires if I could avoid it. IMO the blood angel tactical squad was much better for blood angel designs than the death company kit (though personally, even these I tended to mix with regular tactical squad): But the tabards were bad (too wide) and the muscle armour details on the sergeant never sat well with me as the point was always it was artificer armour (same reason 10th edition blood angel captain having separate rules and NOT being a 2+ save annoyed me). Anyway, long story short, whilst I appreciate the view some have of "how the mighty have fallen" comparing 5th edition DC to the upgrade kit, and agree with the general sentiment, I think the actual fall was losing a more subdued but undeniably distinctive kit like the blood angel tactical squad, NOT the death company squad. I'd personally like to see a "blood angel intercessor squad" one day with a slightly more aggressive mix of poses than the base ones and slightly more subtle bling and details like these had than a return to the 5th edition DC kit.

And got that vow finished. Still got 12 models to paint before the month is over, but I'm not risking any of them for a vow.

I believe these are two of them, which were eventually used for WarCom articles come 2nd edition.

CALL TO ARMS 2026 IS NOW OVER! (or at least the painting and submitting portion) ANY VOW COMPLETIONS POSTED AFTER THIS POINT WILL NOT BE COUNTED AS COMPLETED. That said, please continue posting in the Stronghold and sharing pictures of your models. I will post further soon after I record the final week of the event. THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING

Vow Complete? I have painted all 16 models, unfortunately in the roughly 10 minutes between finishing and taking pictures I managed to loose one of the traitor guardsmen, so I leave it up to others to decide if I have completed my goal in your eyes.

Vow complete! 5 kitbashed Dark Furies ready to roll The whole vow with 20 guys finished a while back:

Complete!

Vow Complete: Gartok Gorewader, Paragon of the Daemonforge, Doom Weasel Why not squeeze a third Daemon Prince out of my bits box right at the end, right? "He's a fun lil guy!" - Angron probably Loving these threads at the minute - having all the reveals at the end is really something! Good job, and good luck to those of you who are still celebrating... Cheers, The Good Doctor.

My vow is complete. Just got there considering I didn't really properly start until August.

I only make those noises when doing Lego fights with the nephews and niece. I go full Shakespearean and make a death speech on 40k for each model that dies instead.

First of all, thank you for all the amazing and kind words that I've left hanging without a reply, at least until now. My forum time is quite limited by other chores and activities, so I'm around on and off more than I'd like. It has been an absolute pleasure seeing how much interest the last update has generated. The massively positive feedback also reassures me that my 'new approach' to painting Primaris not only works on a personal level (i.e. is more enjoyable than the more traditional technique), but also produces eye-pleasing results. The time savings from painting armour and being able to focus more on tiny details and freehands, instead of paying attention to hitting all the edges, are well worth it. Speaking of time, I've decided that these guys are 'good enough.' Ideally, I think I'd like to do some more work on them BUT, at the same time, I think I want to focus on the bigger picture and paint infantry with an army-scale in mind. As such, I've declared these guys complete for the Call to Arms and 12 Months of Hobby challenges. For years, I've been promising myself (and mentioning it here) that I'll buy a softbox to take proper photos of my minis. I still haven't gotten around to doing this, but I figured I'd try a different setup for photographing my Plasma Support Squad. I must say — I'm surprised by how cool the photos turned out! And the photo session wasn't particularly time-consuming either. The 'new' aspects to taking these photos were: not rushing things, remembering the important settings (white balance!) and using a tripod; using the board from the DoW: Onslaught game for the 'base'; using a piece of 40k artwork displayed on my monitor as the backdrop (quite a lazy but ingenious trick). How do you like style of these photos? Do you think a solid background is better? Wow, yeah. Thank you for pointing this out. It seems that I haven't given this any thought and just had a rough image of the aquila (i.e. two heads, wings, tail) without consciously realising what it ought to be. You're absolutely right. I mean, it's embarrassingly now. I'll make sure to pay attention to the position of the heads and wings in the future. And to receive such a tip from a heretic, huh... You have all other kinds of patience, though! And ingenuity, too. I've just had the time to take a short glimpse at your recent updates, but I've noticed some crazy-good stuff there (a wicked trike, IIRC)!

And done. That was close. Only started this at the weekend.

Okay, I'm pretty knackered, so I'm calling this done - Vow complete! My tablet is messing with me, pretending it has no battery after taking one-two pictures and then shutting off, despite being 100% charged, so I've just tried grabbing some pictures of everything. This will have to be it for now, as I'm getting quite frustrated and tired. There's also some issue with uploading some of the pictures, for some reason, but I think everything in the Chaos vows are in these pictures. I'll be back later with better pictures of individual models, if anyone wants to see them. Edit: Okay, getting connected to my computer seemed to help with the battery issue, so I took some better, less messy pictures:

Ouch, those are some not great prices... Land Speeder is a great kit in my opinion, but not a £41 kit. Monopose Eradicators with HBs costing more than the multipart Eradicators is not good either.

So i figured..."lets just build all my kits!" So i used some bits from that miscast bundle i mentioned previously, as well as that mechanicus crawler thingy, and the recently replaced (the older one) ork trukk kit. I wanted to go.with more of a submarine or metal ship kind of vibe, i think i was mostly successful. You tell me... I love the idea that the orks just mount the heavy shoota on the outside, then just cut a hole in the side so that theu can stick their arm through it to fire it. Also here is an update on where my orks arm is. As you can see, i have a lot of infantry, hense i think why ive beem on a building spree lately....to procrastinate. Well thats it for now, im going to start on the painting tomorrow, so hopefully you'll be able to see somethinf finished soon. Thoughts? Thanks for looking.

It's a bit late ... but since I'm like 95% done with Heresy vow and I have yet to paint any Night Lords this year... I, Lautrec the Embraced, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint 1 Master of Executions for 5pts for the Glory of the VIIIth (Heretic Astartes) and the Chaos Stronghold on or before 15th September 2026, or bear the badge of failure until year's end. I'd like to enter him as MotF, I have an idea for a hopefully cool base...

Amazing work, people! I am at a point where I think I can comfortably -and, more importantly, honestly- say that I'm definitely going to make it! Sure, some things will be a lot more basic than I had originally envisioned (and the Knight might not get a base, as I don't think it will arrive in time), but everything will be at a reasonable table-top level. I can always come back and do more later on, if I really feel the need, I guess (yeah, that's going to happen...). The wall terrain could be jazzed up a little more if I have the time, but we'll see. I went with the slightly banged up head, because it's the only one where you can really see the eyes (the other chaotic masks didn't really fit as well on the Imperial head, for some reason, so that also made the choice easier). I hope to manage some battle damage and heraldry, but he's just about at a point where you can at least say he's painted. I have not thought of a cool latin name like Lupus Nox for the knight yet (amazing work on that, btw!), but I definitely should. Maybe "Rex Doloris" as a veiled reference to the guy in Mercyful Fate's "Evil" who a) becomes a mercenary in the legions of hell and b) is, at least according to himself, "King of Pain" and c) insane. So it's somewhat thematically appropriate, as this is an evil mercenary knight who is probably not all there anymore, but I'm not sure if it actually sounds cool?