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After I have been lurking on this forum for too long and admiring everybody's projects, I decided it was about time I did something about all these unpainted/ half-painted figures sitting on my shelves collecting dust. So I joined up and start this thread to hopefully encourage me to get going and keep going. I have been in the hobby for more than 20 years now and collected, painted and played on and off quite a few times. Hoping to get back into it. Here I want to collect all my painting projects concerning loyal Imperial servants. I got the Burning of Prospero box when it first came out and started working on it, and over the years I have also added some other miniatures to it so I could use the growing Thousand Sons army also in modern games of 40k. For use as generic red painted Space Marines. I also have some forces of the Inquisition still waiting in the wings, half assembled, or half-painted. It is about time some of it actually gets done! So here we go. This is how far I got: Some Tactical Squads Terminators: Contemptor: A Librarian from Scibor Miniatures: These guys because I really adore the miniatures:

Hello Fraters! Having lurked and occasionally posted over the last few months I have decided to create a WIP log to document my re-entry to the hobby. This was going to be a Raven Guard-based log as I have a Strikeforce to build but I have already paused that plan, bought Kill Team Octarius and started some terrain painting. This is very much WIP as I test out washes and contrast paints and basically learn to paint. I only painted a few minis when I was at school, I think it must have been around 1989/1990. Edit: title updated to reflect that I have now bought two KT boxes and have been painting Genestealers to refresh my v.1 Space Hulk game.

From this week's Sunday Preview. Sunday Preview Kill Team Annual 2023 – Season of the Gallowdark includes all of the rules from the Into the Dark, Shadowvaults, Soulshackle, and Gallowfall expansions, with 10 full kill teams, 45 missions, five Killzone terrain expansions, and a gripping Spec Ops campaign to play through. It’s the ultimate companion for games of Kill Team in close confines. With 10 full Kill Teams, does this include the Ashes of Faith Expansion? The Inquisitorial Agents are also getting a release.

Everyone has to start somewhere but this is more of a return. I've always had a thing for the Chaos side of things since the Lost and the Damned books with the huge tables for gifts and mutations and different gods. Originally (probably because I was a lot younger), it was Khorne that caught my attention with the rage and love for martial prowess. But over time this changed. Not helped in any way by the old Index Astartes articles in White Dwarf. My eyes were opened to the truly horrific sides of two Legions in particular...Night Lords with their terror tactics (which still haven't fully been realised on the tabletop). The idea of a world being bombarded with psychological warfare before attacks really begin appealed for some strange reason. Then came the real evil side of Chaos...Emperors Children! Twisted, self satisfying, inhumane, and very individualistic. Khorne and his hack and slash ways just didn't cut it any more. Then A.D-B had to do the Night Lords books and Forge World had to do the Horus Heresy stuff. Time to attempt some EC and NL me thinks. So here's my attempt to get some Chaos minis completed and to keep me motivated while doing so. And here's where I'll begin... Call of Chaos 2013 I offered up one Chaos Lord and a squad of Noise Marines initially. And very nearly got started. But then a Kakophoni squad found it's way to me and frankly, they are amazing. The faces alone made me want to paint them. Everything starts somewhere and what better than taking a nice dip in something warm and bubbly to get you in the mood for a bit of work in the name of Slaanesh. Next step will be pins, bases, and undercoating. I always base my models before painting these days as I find painting them separately results in a better end result. With these I'm thinking along the lines of Isstvan V (and why not). Black ash, battle debris, and maybe a body part here and there. I'm also hoping to use them as noise Marines too so they may get a bit of individual work too as part of their journey to 40k. Part 1 has been pretty basic and a bit of an anti-climax I know. But, if you do have any ideas for bridging the 30k/40k gap. I'd love to hear them. Till next time, cheers for reading.

Revealed on the Kill Team stream.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/11/mutate-lowly-cultists-into-terrifying-monsters-in-kill-team-ashes-of-faith/

WarCom Article Beastmen for Chaos! Let's go!

Valrak is reporting next KT will be a beastmen vs votann. Hopefully the models are neutral in aesthetic, because I wanted to do an imperial beastmen army a few years ago.

This is the sign-up thread for the "Knives In The Void" Kill-Team Painting Challenge. See the announcement thread here: https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/376139-knives-in-the-void-kill-team-painting-challenge/#comment-5872561 Please post your Vows in the following format: I, (your name), vow to complete one Kill Team of the (your chosen Faction), to be fully painted and based by the 31st January 2023, and to provide at least minimal fluff/background for them. May (the Emperor or whatever 40k deity you wish to swear by) curse me to darkness and ruination should I fail! Please also edit in either a starting pic or a link to a WIP thread once you have one. (When we get a bit further along, I will start a second thread for people to post their completed entries!) We look forward to seeing what you come up with! Participants by Grand Alliances: Astartes: Slave to Darkness - Legion of the Damned Lysimachus - War Dogs COMPLETE! Sitnam - Carcharodons Astra COMPLETE! Brother Tyler - Legio Bolter and Chainsword Dumah - Dragonspears COMPLETE! Majkhel - Blood Angels COMPLETE! Mazer Rackham - Astral Claws COMPLETE! Mazer Rackham (2nd) - Celestial Lions COMPLETE! CaptainFrederickson - Raptors Azaiel - Raptors Tonius - Crimson Fists COMPLETE! Mazer Rackham (3rd) - Invaders COMPLETE! Lysimachus (2nd) - War Dogs Phobos COMPLETE! Tonius - Blood Angels COMPLETE! Valkia the Bloody (3rd) - Red Marines COMPLETE! Daylight - Marines Errant COMPLETE! Imperial: Valkia the Bloody - Navy Breachers COMPLETE! MadEdric - Ultramar Breachers COMPLETE! Trokair - Rhunish Dragoons (Vet Guard) COMPLETE! Arikel - Adepta Sororitas Novitiates Andes - Veteran Guard COMPLETE! Valkia the Bloody (4th) - Inquisition/Kasrkin COMPLETE! Chaos: Lord Ikka - Word Bearers COMPLETE! Xin Ceithan - Space Pirates! (CSM) COMPLETE! mr_r_parker - Word Bearers Galloway - Grey Death COMPLETE! Inks - Daemons COMPLETE! WrathOfTheLion - The Purge Doctor Perils - Blooded Mumeishi - Daemons Chaplain Raeven - Night Lords COMPLETE! Gaurdian31 - Legionnaires COMPLETE! Sitnam (2nd) - Diomedan Drones COMPLETE! Tonius - Chaos Legionnaires COMPLETE! Dr_Ruminahui - Emperor's Children Sitnam (3rd) - Fiends of the Apocalypse COMPLETE! Xenos: Axineton - Orks Valkia the Bloody (2nd) - Kroot COMPLETE! Arkhanist - Orks Drakheart - Kroot Anticontrarian - Necrons Rusted Boltgun - Kroot COMPLETE! Tonius - Orks COMPLETE! Jaxom - Necrons COMPLETE! Ripper.McGuirl - Corsairs COMPLETE!