Warhammer (40k)

Gigachad

Anyone here play warhammer or 40k? I don't play but I paint the models. I have the necron combat patrol box and an extra box of warriors. I'll get some pictures up eventually.

Algol

I play, Gigachad. I started playing in middle school with 3rd Edition, and right now I play 4th edition with my friends. I’m trying to get them into Battlefleet Gothic and Epic: Armageddon as well so we can play a big range of battles. I play Imperial Guard, and I’m working on smaller Chaos and Space Marine armies now.

GANDALF

got in to AoS for a bit last year but I am so picky about models being painted correctly I didn't make time for it and stopped. That said the new models for AoS are outstanding. I used to have WF army of about 3,000 points ages ago...

Algol Imperial guard is based they would be the army I would play if I ever played 40K

Algol

What WF army did you have, GANDALF?

And I'd love to see some of those Necrons you're working on, Gigachad.

Here are some of my guardsmen. The officer is a Fullborer miniatures artillery office and my normal guardsmen are Warzone plastic Imperials. Warzone was a 90s competitor to 40k.

Gigachad

Algol And I'd love to see some of those Necrons you're working on, Gigachad.

Algol And I'd love to see some of those Necrons you're working on

The tomb blades are done outside of a few touch ups on 1. The necron warriors are done but I couldn't get a good shot with any detail with all of them. I havnt started on the deathmarks/immortals. My brother borrowed my super glue and dried it out and I'm lazy. The night scythe is the current project. I out magnets on the guns so I could switch it out

GamerObscura

I own about 3 incomplete armies at the moment, Thousand Sons, Orks and Sisters of Battle.

I really need to paint more lol

Does anyone else feel like the rules in 9th ed change too often? It seems like every time I play there’s something new to keep track of.

Algol

GamerObscura "Does anyone else feel like the rules in 9th ed change too often? It seems like every time I play there’s something new to keep track of."

I hate that about the newer editions. I play 4th edition with my friends so I can avoid that fucking nonsense. It's just too transparently competitive-focused and consumerist: change for the sake of selling more books with just endless rebalancing of the changes to achieve some impossible level of parity. The game's best point is the models and background. If you're playing Warhammer out of some need to compete you're an alien lifeform to me.

Gigachad Very cool necrons! I'm impressed with the magnet work, too.

As for books, I read a bunch back in high school but not many were memorable. I liked Ciaphas Caine (he's just Flashman in 40k, but there's nothing wrong with that), the Imperial Guard novel 15 Hours, and in 2020 I read the Eisenhorn trilogy which was quite good.

Gigachad

Have you guys read any of the books? I've done all the ciaphus cain, nercrons, that one genestealer cult audiobook and just finished the first gaunts ghosts today. Commander farsight is next. Any recommendations? How are the mechanicus books?

Gigachad

Algol Very cool necrons! I'm impressed with the magnet work, too.

Thank you. They're my first and I was nervous about posting them. Your guys photos look much better. I was unsure how to do the color scheme. Penny warriors. Desert tomb blades.

Algol

Gigachad

I think it's hard to go wrong with Necrons if you stick to the general idea of metal bodies and glowing Gauss weaponry. I think it only becomes risky when you try to paint their bodies like they are composites/ceramics, because that's just harder to do well.

Big Tender

Patience and practice are all it takes--provided you don't have some essential tremor, epilepsy, so some other muscle or nerve disorder. And everyone's first models look bad. I have some of the first Plague Marines I ever painted, back in the early 2000s, still in their original awful form so I can see how far I've progressed. Don't be afraid to start out and be bad!

Big Tender

I want to get into painting some space marines but my painting is terrible.

Marekk

If any of you are interested myself and a few other guys are working on a fan edition of Warhammer 40K which is a combination of the best parts of all of 40K aswell as adding some original factions from both the lore and our imaginations (or other series)
Here's our 1d4chan page if you want to give it a read and if you have any suggest fire away
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000_41st_Millennium_Edition

Algol

Marekk

This is interesting, thanks for sharing it!

I'LL REVIEW ANYTHING

Let's see some of those Slaanesh minis. That sucks not having anyone to play. I lucked out in that I have high school friends to play with. I cannot stand 99% of the people you encounter in gaming stores.

Also, I finished up some converted Battlefleet Gothic Oak ships: two Kill Kroozers and one Terror Ship. I used Droplet Commander Resitance ships to make these. There is some minor conversion work to "orkify" these, and then I also relied on the rusty paint job to emphasize make them read as Ork.

I'LL REVIEW ANYTHING

I play Slaanesh. I love the game, but live in a rural area and don't have any fun people to play with. All the people who play around here are extremely obnoxious people.

I'LL REVIEW ANYTHING

Algol here's the only pics I've got
https://ibb.co/G7cRsXR
https://ibb.co/pwJQP9D

Algol

I'LL REVIEW ANYTHING
Yes! I love that chaos space marine plastic set! Very cool Emperor's Children. Thanks for sharing.