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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.

Done with reds, moving on

40K Ultramarines haven't felt like Ultramarines for a while now. This bloke doesn't even want be one, by some din of choice? I remember when Ultramarines were Greco-Roman in theme and proud warriors. Now they're petulant, ungrateful recruits who feel entitled to service gratitude from the institutions of the mysterious and aloof Chapters? Yuk.

I waited a bit long this morning to take the Pic, and it's a little bright. But here are my completed Dark Angels Aerial Assault and Drop Pod Formations.

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.

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

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.

Everybody happy to go through the webway gate? If so I will move us on tomorrow.

Mitsman is back and alive! After a short(?) break of a few weeks (years) due to moving house, covid, and a huge pressure from work, I feel like I am ready to be back. I left at the middle, more or less, of 8th edition 40k and late 1st edition HH. I never played a game of 9th and never touched even the rules of 10th. Having done some work for HH2, I am now committed to HH3 and have started porting all my mk2 to mk7 marines (I refuse to use the stupid firstborn name) to HH3 along with most of the vehicles. You will be seeing real progress from me in the next few weeks, at least until work makes me forget my name again... Mitsman

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.

Just realised that my subs are due end of this month and wondered if I'd missed any clues on what it may be? Neil

So, things are getting close to completion! However, there's still quite a bit of work to be done, including: - pretty much everything on the Beasts (but now the sculpting is done, so now it's "just" a question of finding a nice scheme for them and applying it...) - Armour and details on the Prince (I went with a preheresyish Death Guard armour, trying stippling off-white on top of the primer as a sort of "reverse weathering" but there's still a lot to be done) - Boils on the 20 remaining Plaguebearers (9 that still need everything done, 11 that just need their boils dotted with yellow), plus some details on the banners - Finishing touches on the Heralds and the snail mount Writing it out like that, it seems like a lot of work, but I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be able to finish these up today, so I can get started on a final(?) Nurgle vow.

Soairse: With a shudder, she let the little fish free of its burden with a soft sigh, allowing her consciousness to bleed away from her impromptu scout. 'Shallows, and clear water, Venkarryn.' With a thought, she sealed her suit, closing to harden her form against the pressure difference of this world. Soairse waited for the others to move, to step through in their own little shoal.

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.

That is correct, Instant Death is gone.

Well, since I started vowing again for the 12 months of hobby challenge, I guess I should be painting my librarian. BUT I ordered myself some ebay rescues for my birthday and here I am, after 3 days, not having set up the painting space, and instead tweeking already build marines and building some more to flesh out my void cuirassiers. The upside is that it will allow me to post actual WIP pictures in my WIP thread instead of finished models.... I first received a lot of 10 intercessors with assault bolt rifles (actually it was more like 8 intercessors built rather normally, another with a heavy bolt pistol (no idea why) and a converted lieutenant on a larger base. I kept the 8 regular intercessors as is, just removing pouches and gluing them more appropriately (most were juste glued onto the legs instead of the belt...) I also received another lot of 10 marines, this time unbuilt, but with paint on the bodies and some parts (but there were loooooooooads of parts) this helped me make a grenadier out of the "hybrid" intercessor with a heavy bolt pistol, who now looks like this : I used one of the bodies to make another intercessor, but instead of having another boring one holding his rifle, I built him holding no weapons, but instead appearing to be communicating and telling his squad mates to stop. The converted lieutenant got his arms and head ripped off, and was used as a base for a sternguard sergeant : I also built 2 more sternguard veterans as tributes to the original metal sternguards : That's only 3 marines, but I plan on subscribing to Combat Patrol as it just launched in france, the issue with infernus marines will net me 3 extra bodies as I already have two infernus marines (the freebie from the warhammer store, and the one that comes alongside a termagant in the getting started brochure), add to this the special infernus sergeant from combat patrol, and that leaves me with 3 extra bodies to do with as i please. Two of them will be used in the sternguard squad, one of which will be built as a pyrecannon wielding veteran converted from an old terminator heavy flamer (wish me luck on this one i guess it will be quite hard) and the other one will be armed with a combi weapon (proxied with a flamer pistol and a regular boltgun) The next body will be used to make a bladeguard veteran with some spare original parts from the bladeguard kit and some greenstuff shields made with a mold. The other two bladguard will be made with 2 spare bodies from the current lot of marines. And this leaves me with 5 assault intercessors to fill out my already existing squad, i mocked up some poses already, but still have to magnetize them (on hold for the moment as my hand drill seems stuck...) sorry for the long post but it's been quite some time and I'm rather enthusiastic about this as it gets me closer to finally getting a full company of marines !

And perhaps most importantly is not sufficiently resourced (time/money/effort/expertise) if my understanding of GW's resourcing is correct. So I personally believe that the staff have done the best they could with the number of man-hours they had at the level of expertise said staff have (i.e. better technical writers don't work for GW's pay) Edit: I went on Glass Doors and Indeed and yeah min wage is about £24k per year and GW pays a little bit higher on some roles (including roles which require degrees or technical experience) and only pays managers sufficiently more... What a disgrace...

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

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.

Fall in, Meatsacks! Die for the Emperor, or die trying! Cadia Stands Version 1.1(Updated for Astartes 9.0.3) at Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Nexus - Mods and community A random video showcase (check his channel out, he's done some modding work for Iron Warriors in SM 2). What are you waiting for meatsack - a medal? The Space Marines want a pile of bodies to put a flag on! Move!

Who is this nobody? We got years of loved main protagonists characters, fell enemies and supporting characters, so we can have this irrelevant spod? Amazing

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.

Heh, what? They're breaching 4+ compared to 6+ on plasma. IMO seekers were one of the best units for their points last edition, easily able to kill half a tactical squad from 24" away. In this edition they doubled their shots and kept then points the same, in an edition where loads of stuff got worse and sniper/precision weapons got toned down. The maths has been done above, but 5 seekers are putting average of 3 AP2 wounds on a model of their choice from 30" away each turn.

Overpowered seems a bit of a knee jerk reaction but I don’t have enough experience with v3 to have a truly informed opinion. On paper, having good odds to take out all the things that boost leadership stats or improve odds of removing status, and also flexibility to apply different statuses, could be overwhelming if facing multiple units. Add in deterrence for exposing any consuls/disruption of game plans (such as risk of losing a Master of Descent auto pass reserve rolls due to sniping) and I sort of understand the reaction. If they were the best at killing everything and could switch to causing statuses then I could see seekers being labeled as overpowered. As they are, it seems similar to saying armor is overpowered if you take no anti armor, in my opinion. A lot likely depends on local metas and army comp.

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.

They fly now?

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).

"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."

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:

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.