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Being a Catholic who joined The Church as an adult I am often asked how it is that I came to find God, and my answer generally holds great interest in the many 'cradle Catholics' who ask. My wife has on more than one occasion suggested that it was my finding of faith that inspired my love for the Sisters of Battle - the faction I've been collecting for the last year - upon seeing their exuberant Cathedral-Cannons on wheels (as she calls The Immolator Battle Tanks), rosaries wrapped around bolt-guns and simulacri. (An Immolater - check out the Reddit profile who shared this great piece here) 'No' is the answer, of course - as I had actually began collecting them before my finding of faith... I swear! But similarly to the popularity of this question within The Church, I find that everyone who pursues this amazing hobby has their own origin story of how it is they came to find themselves pouring over these exquisitely detailed plastic miniatures, their stories and their game that hold such a special place in our hearts. "So how did you get into The Hobby?" For the vast majority of people their answers will fall into one of three categories: a) I walked past a Games Workshop and went inside because I thought it looked really cool. b) Friends or older-relatives introduced me to the game. c) I got into it through the books/lore. I can't actually think of any other 'broad categories' of answer to this (in)famous question... if you can, can you let me know in the comments below? But, as the face of the hobby has evolved over the last few years and continues to do so, I wonder how these typical answers will change and grow. Especially as the hobby starts to enter more of the mainstream! No doubt aided by the burgeoning value of Games Workshop following their steady pre-pandemic growth followed by their Pandemic-explosion in business and the developments being followed closely by many in their negotiations with Amazon about a TV series with Henry Caville, there are signs all around that Warhammer is becoming more widely known as a hobby to share and enjoy. For example, this post I recently shared on my Threads (below). However the question is answered, there's always a unique spin for each partaker of the game. It usually gets the nostalgia going and is a reminder of simpler times. I was about 10 years old when I first became exposed to Warhammer. A family friend whose son was about 6-7 years old than me had a major home clear out and from them my twin brother and I inherited 'The Box'. 'The Box' was a large container of toys and other such things that didn't survive their cull and were promptly taken off their hands by my mum and dad. Within the box were toy cars, action figures and that sort of things but nestled right at the bottom was... a 3rd Edition Warhammer 40,000 rulebook. Paperback, with the famous Black Templar Illustration on the front. Now you may be looking at my profile picture and thinking that there's no way I was 10 years old in/around 1998 when this was first published and... you'd be right! Even then it was old and battered, but it was enough to ignite a passion in our young hearts that would continue to burn to this day. The topic of the introduction of The Warhammer Universe to the young and inquisitive mind is a subject that requires its own article another day! But suffice to say it was... horizon expanding. From reading that book obsessively cover to cover we dragged our poor mum to the Games Workshop in Central London where The Battle for Macragge was all the rage and the rest, as they say, is history. I wish that I still had that copy now, but, growing up is first abandoning our childish ways and then reminiscing about the lost pieces once we realise that our happiness is worth pursuing even if doesn't fit the idea of what others think is 'cool' around us. I was heartened to see when searching for the above image on google that there are many copies going cheaply on eBay...! Warhammer has had a profound impact on my life. As a bit of an odd-ball child/teen with a lot going on at home it gave me both a creative outlet and a place/community where I could go and actually interact with others in an accepting and healthy environment. I look back now at my childhood and really thank God that the hobby came into my life when it did. And now as an adult, I returned to the Hobby in 2019 with the aim of once more making friends and finding a counter-balance to my extremely busy and demanding professional life and, five years later here I am! So let me know down in the comments, what's your origin story? With best wishes, Mini Painting Mike. PS: If you've made it this far down my post, thank you for sticking around. This is the first of what I hope will be many blog posts and articles I will write and share here about the hobby, my hobbying and other things related. From my painting projects, to games, to hobby-life in my world and discussing developments in the wider Warhammer/hobby-landscape.

Captain Pioneer is a youtuber located is USA how makes really good animation videos using action figures with Stop Motion technique, mixed with digital and other visual effects. Nowadays, is maken videos using Joy Toy action figures from Warhammer (W40k and Horus Heresy), for his *I think is HIS* YouTube channel and also, Joy Toy is using them as promotion of their own products range in their social media. In fact, I discovered Captain Pioneer thanks Joy Toy account in Twitter. Some videos here: For now, we have 29 videos in this channel about Warhammer action figures: And if you like Transformers,Gundams and similar stuff, you're lucky, because there're lot of videos about them. More https://youtube.com/@CaptainPioneer?si=yAKx1dHg0z6retnu Enjoy

Yesterday, I found this web called New Recruit. It's an online list Builder for several wargames, like W40K, Horus Heresy, WhTOW, Kill Team, AoS,...and other non-Warhammer games. They said also this is compatible with Battle Scribe, and it's multi-platform. Even more, they say this is fully compatible with Warhall, a 3D miniature game simulator. It's online, as web and app, and offline. And free to use (You can upgrade to Pro, paying of course and gain access to extra features and benefits). This is the presentation: "New Recruit is a modern, free, web based army builder. Historically New Recruit was only available for The 9th Age Fantasy Battles. Over the years New Recruit has been recognised as the best army builder for The 9th Age by thousands of people and it is now available for many more game systems like Warhammer 40k, Warhammer The Old World, Age of Sigmar, Horus Heresy, Kill Team, Warhammer Armies Project..." And, finally, they have other extras like Wiki, Ladder,... Just for your consideration

Mark Gibbons is my favorite artists since I started in this hobby ( that's a lot, I must confess). Thanks to @RushtheWash1 in Twitter, I found his official web page. Is loaded with lot of amazing art pieces from WFB, W40K, and Necromunda...but is also stuff from other non-GW games and other companies. You can check it here: https://mgartworks.myportfolio.com/

So I was thinking, after playing darktide a good deal over the past weeks, I wanted to find a way to simulate it on the tabletop. I started going through GW systems but never found one good enough. Then my friend invited me over and we played zombicide. While it would take some modifications, I think it would work pretty well! Any thoughts?

https://unherd.com/2024/04/britain-needs-to-deploy-warhammer/ Thanks to BL writer Justin Hill (Autor of several novels about Imperial Guard...oh sorry, Astra Militarum)I found in Twitter this article. How to weaponise the BBC Britain needs to harness its soft power And my first thought was: "Whoa! What the...this is quite insane!". But after think it a bit more, and recognised that my experience and knowledge about actual BBC shows and British TV broadcasts in general is not very, lets say ,wide (Just because I try to avoid watching TV as much as I can, british,Icelandic, spanish or whatever. I made mine this Groucho Marx quote: "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."), so I feel quite curious, and I want to know more options,specially from british people. Has the writer on that website gone too far with his statements or is he somewhat right, and in what way is he right?

Hæ! Yesterday I found this curious but useful web: https://buildinstructions.com/ This is a web with assembly instructions, every kind of them. Even have from GW boxes: https://buildinstructions.com/warhammer-the-horus-heresy-30k/ https://buildinstructions.com/?s=Warhammer&post_type=product&type_aws=true https://buildinstructions.com/warhammer-40000-40k/ https://buildinstructions.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-aos/ https://buildinstructions.com/warhammer-the-horus-heresy-30k/ The files are free but the web accept donations. Both in coin and pdf stuff. I think can be useful. I download a pair and the scan quality is fine.

I’m curious if anyone has used the Eternus Armor bits from Pop Goes the Monkey on their Contemptor dreadnaughts. I’d like to use some of the bits (heads mainly, maybe shoulders or greaves also) on a GW plastic dread to just add some custom flair. However the heads look like they might be too big, same with the other pieces.

Who might be attending the big London GT? I'm actually going, with a new list planned in the Ultramarines section here, link when I get confirmation from the TO about whether a Kratos is allowed. I don't expect to win of course but I expect to have fun and if I can get 40% wins I'd be happy. Oh if anyone sees me wearing my B&C T-shirt with Captain Idaho on it, come say hi! I'm a big fella but don't worry, I'm also pleasant enough in real life!

Instructions for replicating the hats seen here, sculpted for a friend's Astro-Ungarian Imperial Army force in Warhammer 40'000.

https://youtu.be/Aliorc4IUIw Hey everyone, this one is probably a bit dated now but hopefully it will still be helpful.

Warhammer is a lot of things to a lot of people, both good and bad, both as a hobby and an IP. I think Warhammer is THE GREATEST HOBBY folks, like, the best ever. There is no other hobby like Warhammer (aside from I guess every other mini-wargames) and here is why. Warhammer fosters a community in a way that few other hobbies do. Warhammer requires active participation and gratification deferral. It is collaborative both as a game and as a method of storytelling. It fosters fellowship, empathy, and fair competition. It is artistic, and on some level we are all in it to be creative as much as we are to play games. Warhammer as an IP probably isn't my favorite (Dune, Starship Troopers, the Lovecraft mythos, and the Hyborian Age are probably better), but it is certainly my favorite IP that was created by more then one person. I think Warhammer finds a great balance between grimdark and idealism. It is both a dystopian setting and a heroic one and the Space Marine is simultaneously an heroic and tragic figure. There is a lot more substance to be found in the setting then you might initially think, especially since it was set up as a bit of a joke to justify unending war as the premise for a board game. It's not just toy soldiers.

On Inspiration and Historical Reference: What is Warhammer 40'000? 40k is a smörgåsbord of a setting, where all manner of concepts rub shoulders: From emotionless killer robots, barbarian hordes and space bugs, to fallen empires, technologically advanced upstarts, religious fanatics and cruel pirates. 40k is rich aesthetically, and sports a vast written background which is meant to give players a universe in which they can dream big and craft their own nooks and corners, whether it be by creating their own Marine Chapters, Hive Fleets or Craftworlds complete with named characters and backstories. The setting of 40k has been crafted lovingly by many hands and minds, some more learned and skilled than others. Poorer writers tend to end up with an impression of "Waaagh! The Emperor!" or "Look at the glorious heroes in their big pauldrons!", yet good writers never fail to display the deep flaws of humanity in the dark future. A great deal of ambiguity has been consciously injected into the setting, where the Emperor of Man can be viewed both as a divine saviour and a ruthless, bloodthirsty, powermongering mass murderer and tyrant. One of the very best aspects of 40k has always been that the evil empire is its protagonist, and much of the setting is seen through its propaganda lense: This is leaps and bounds ahead of the more childishly black and white worldbuilding in Star Wars, for instance (certainly a great setting in its own right when it is done well). In Star Wars, we would never be shown benevolent sides of the Galactic Empire; and neither would the dark side of the Force ever be a fundamentally integral part of what it means to be alive, rather than just a corruption on the pure light side. By contrast to Star Wars: In 40k, the Imperium is ridiculously oppressive and cruel, and its rotten stagnation may have doomed mankind, yet from another perspective it is also the sole remaining strong shield of humanity - incidentally brought about by the Great Crusade crushing all less extreme alternatives (an indication that the original vision for the setting has not been lost by later writers). Likewise in 40k, the daemonic Chaos gods are spawned by emotions which are inseparable from what it means to be alive. Above all, 40k is a bonkers fun take on the most depraved aspects of human history, all exaggerated to such ludicrous heights that 40k has always achieved being its own parody. This is why religious wars, gladiator battles, human sacrifice, slavery, pogroms, G.U.L.A.G. labour camps, the Inquisition, horrible slum conditions, fascism, Stalinist purges, genocides, brutal repression, starvation, crazed sects, gang warfare, plagues and witch hunts all feature so heavily in the material. It's a setting we love to visit for fun and dark humour, but not a place we'd ever want to live in. It's all harmless fiction, and a great sweep of imaginary worldbuilding. Enjoy the ride! Cheers!

Two seasons of the Warhammer 40,000 free webcomic Spannerz have concluded so far. Here is an image salvage of the fun little thing, for the benefit of future backup and of the Warhammer community at large. Backup folders: Imgur Album Google Drive Folder Season I Season II (#15 is missing)