Ghostkeel

I painted this one earlier in the year but never posted it anywhere. Inspired to grab a picture now by @Nimbostratigorus@mastodon.social great version!

https://mastodon.social/@Nimbostratigorus/113137541853402768

Don't ask to see inside, however. I got distracted and never finished painting the pilot.

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So I've heard some descriptions of the 40,000 lore from a podcast I watch, and it sounds incredible, but there's an awful lot of options to start from, with people recommending many different book series and youtube summaries. Is there a simpler approach, like just going into one standalone book to ground yourself before a bigger series? Or from a game to a tie-in book of some kind? Many thanks.

Death Company Smash Captain

Almost time to start the new Death Company! Did this Blood Angels Smash Captain up in my Death Company style.

With all the gold trim on black armor it did start to look like he might see Horus in the mirror.

Still working out the kinks on my photography setup though. Not sure what is going on with the focus here. I want to learn to do that better, but I'm not sure I want a whole other hobby.

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Oh, great, so 3 of my 4 Kill teams will only be properly supported for one more year:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/06/kill-team-managing-the-range-of-kill-teams-in-the-new-edition/

Why does game-workshop have to games-workshop everything that people like 😠

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Painting my space wizard was a fun little distraction, but genestealers don't paint themselves.

I've got my infantry base coated so it's time to give them a good wash.

And I've got a little squat that Chris at Ontos Games gave me at BOYL for when I'm sick of batch painting cultists.

WIP Wednesday

Several different states of progress on the desk at the moment. From broody Necromunda bros to a giant Death Company Dread. I really don't know how to resist doing Tycho's feet as open-toe power sandles. I'll figure out the lore reason later.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19359566 > I've collected enough for a 1K army, just need to get through and finish up the painting now. Slightly regretting choosing an army with so much trim as the first minis I'll paint, and even more so that I painted them in slightly ugly colours first and am now having to repaint the Rubricae... But I am excited to finally table them sometime in the future!

Blood Angels Jump pack Chaplain

Mostly experimenting with my new photography set up. Still some work to be wrapped up on the base, but otherwise I'll call him finished. Putting the slotted base on top of a modern 32mm base gives enough bulk that I think he's ready to hit the table in 10th edition after until years waiting on the shelf, unpainted.

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AdMech Color Test

I wanted to see if I could slap chop some white armor plating, so I grabbed a Makers Cult FDM print I have had laying around for a very long time. In this light the white plates and the silver gears look too similar, but I'm pleased with the white overall. The weathering was a blast, too!

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Blood Angels Death Company Color Test

Getting excited for new Death Company! Testing a scheme on a few random Marines that we laying around for just such an occasion.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18907146

> The FLGS has a lot of junky terrain, and I did my part by picking out a few pieces to paint. This was an already assembled Imperial Bastion that had some random primer on it. I decided to give it some color with cheap craft paints. > > > ! > !

Josh was kind enough to invite me on to discuss my first white dwarf, issue 169 with the cardboard battle bunker. So if you have 20 minutes to waste why not give it a watch.

I don't get into card games on my own, but I was invited to try out Space Hulk Death Angel.

It's a game that tries to translate the experience of Space Hulk into a more portable, and faster playing card game.

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The game is entirely co-op, which I very much appreciated. It is frustrating for somebody to pull out a competitive board or card game and expect you to have fun while they stomp you as you are just trying to pick up the rules. The co-op nature of the game makes jumping in much smoother. All players take control of a portion of the space marine terminators sent aboard the hulk, while the genestealers are procedurally controlled.

Marines are limited by various action cards which are specific to each marine pair and the same card can not be played back to back. Using the marines, the goal is to move through four sections of the hulk to reach a random final goal. In my game's case it was to set targeting coordinates and fire some kind of weapon. The more turns I spent fine tuning adjustments, the higher chance of final success, which I thought was interesting.

The combat was brutal and fast, which did feel like regular Space Hulk. Combat could take wild swings. Swarms of genestealers could spawn and bear down on a seemingly doomed marine, but then a chained blast of psychic powers or a flurry of lightning claw special attacks could cut them down. The marines could be making steady progress with the situation under control until an event card scrambles their facings and leaves their carefully planned sector control open to genestealers.

It was fun and quick. If you travel and can't pack up a whole game of Space Hulk it does partially fill the niche. !

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Big chunky boi. Has to be the heaviest plastic infantry model I have.

His multi piece cape sucks. You can’t see it in this pic but his right side is all messed up and I had to use miliput to fix it.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15491298

> > The Warhammer 40k film and TV series deal between Games Workshop and Amazon may fall apart this year, unless the two teams can “mutually” agree “creative guidelines” by December 2024. That’s according to new information revealed in Games Workshop’s annual financial report, published on Tuesday. > > > > Games Workshop granted “exclusive rights to Amazon in relation to films and television series set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe” in an agreement announced in December 2023. Celebrity champion of Warhammer 40k Henry Cavill is attached to the project, both as an executive producer, and prospective star. > > > > ... > > > >According to Games Workshop’s most recent annual report, it and Amazon Content Services LLC are spending the 12 months from December 2023 to December 2024 “working together” to “agree creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon”. The agreement between the firms “will only proceed if the creative guidelines are mutually agreed”. > > > > ... > > > > The report states: “Failure to protect our IP may erode our competitive advantage and/or undermine our reputation, which will negatively impact our financial performance”. This refers both to the risk from unlicensed use of GW’s properties, and to licensed use that distorts or diminishes the brand. > > > >The deal with Amazon also gives if the option “to license equivalent rights in the Warhammer Fantasy universe following the release of the initial Warhammer 40,000 production”.

It has been a while since this community has done a painting competition. I'd like to do another one, and get community input.

Right now, I am thinking of making it a single figure contest, no size rules, with submission and judging sometime in late September.

I've previously done trophies and small prizes, but since those are out of pocket costs for me, I've put myself in a corner with excessive shipping costs in the past, so I'm going to make the prize either much smaller or just make a digital record of the winner. I do want to encourage community participation and collaboration, and it is my hope that a painting competition can bring out some excitement that will create that among community members.

I'll leave this post up for a while, looking for interest levels and any suggestion for competition guidelines. More to come after.