A detailed action figure of Jaghatai Khan stands on the right, adorned in ornate armor with intricate gold detailing, holding a sword. To the left, a Tactical Marine in Mk III power armor is posed with a firearm, featuring a skull motif and a red backpack. Both figures are set against a simple background, showcasing their impressive craftsmanship and articulation.
Drawing of a dragon fursona in T'au armor from Warhammer 40K, standing at attention and staring directly at the viewer in a crowd of other T'au soldiers that are out of focus in the frame
Finally got around to painting Ursula today. Having female models and an older woman as a hero model of the Imperial Guard was honestly the thing that made me feel actually keen to restart my Guard army after immigrating and leaving all my old models back in Australia. #wh40k
Lord of the Night is another Night Lords book where the horror and tragedy dont really set in until the end. Thats what really makes the Night Lord books slap, this dude crashed on a planet, accidently decided to incite religious fundamentalists into class war claiming the emperor sent him. He rationalizes the Night Lords to the many humans he befriends. He wins his crusade with them and recovers a present his dad gave him. It all goes bad after that. #warhammer#WH40K#AmReadingbookstodon group
I enjoyed the Gaunt's Ghost books a bunch. Sometimes it feels like he is just having delusions of grandeur while running a penal regiment, sometimes he is leading pilgrims on a Hajj, its about the Sabbat crusade so its totally outward focus on Imperium v Chaos and you get a sense of what its like to be a camp follower for the Guard. The characters are for the most part charming. S/O to Mkoll, Rawne & Zweil. #wh40k#warhammer#amReadingbookstodon group
🇵🇱[PL]: Kiedy po obejrzeniu zwiastuna „Astartes” nie mogłem przestać myśleć o tych niesamowitych czarno-żółtych pancerzach Scythes of the Emperor, natychmiast chciałem malować, ale okazało się, że nie mam żółtej farby. Jednak przecież hobby to improwizacja! Chwyciłem za pomarańcz i… efekt przerósł moje oczekiwania.
Czerń i pomarańcz świetnie się uzupełniają, a całość nabrała własnego charakteru.
To chyba moja najbardziej dopracowana figurka – każdy detal dopieszczony, a malowanie sprawiło mi masę frajdy.
Jak Wam się podoba taki nietypowy wariant Scythesów? Może też czasem eksperymentujecie z kolorami?
🇺🇸[ENG]: After watching the “Astartes” trailer, I couldn’t get those amazing black-and-yellow Scythes of the Emperor armor schemes out of my head… only to realize I didn’t have any yellow paint. But that’s what the hobby is all about—improvisation! I grabbed some orange instead, and the result exceeded my expectations.
Black and orange work together perfectly, giving the whole model its own unique character.
I think this is my most polished miniature so far—every detail refined, and painting it was pure fun.
What do you think about this unusual Scythes variant? Do you ever experiment with color schemes too?
Pomalowana figurka Space Marine w barwach pomarańczowo-czarnych, widok z boku. Dobrze widoczny jest naramiennik z pomarańczowym symbolem oraz piła miecz z licznymi detalami. Figurka stoi na okrągłej podstawce, sfotografowana na tle ogrodu i domów.
The Gaunt's Ghosts book is okay, its pretty good even. The core problem with it is that he keeps halfway reminding me of another commisar who, sure, takes himself a little less seriously and functionally Cain only really succeeds by being an Imperial Saint with a Blank sidekick so its very different from Gaunt's style of Lead By Example, follow the rules, be kind.
Which is fine, but its still close enough to prompt a comparison to Caiphas Cain and its not a comparison that anyone should invite
I think that probably a third of Cain's books open with the words "I've made a huge mistake."
And, the contrast really has me respecting him more than before but, thats crazy because I loved those books. My #WH40k#amReading list went 1. Infinite and Divine 2. All of the Caiphas Cain books 3. Scars
And it was a good entry angle for me. I went on to enjoy the Heresy and Big Dakka and when I looked at "I am burning through a book every 39 hours, badass." But I wouldnt have got into it w/o Cain.
I have some frustrations with the writing style, but Warriors of Ultramar just kinda slaps as a book. Half of it is about training PDF soldiers. The ganger plotline is great. It ends in the most Ultramarines fashion possible (someobe being a tattletale). #Warhammer#WH40K#AmReading#40kbookstodon group
Theres a spectrum of #grimdark40k in the novels that range wildly. Sometimes its a silly Commisar Cain book where to make it grimdark you have to realize that the narrative is presented by his widow. Sometimes its The Damnation of Pythos and it has just mega depressing vibes and because the promise of progress has been restored in Dawn of Fire it can be hard for them to handle that, but, with #Genefather I felt like it failed really hard at that. #wh40klore
Rofl, In most #wh40k books everyone is scared of the navigators and dont hang out with them but to the Night Lords a navigators sanctum is the spot to chill and the legion serfs are just all there talking about "she's so relatable and cool." Is the most "to the Joker Crazytown is Normaltown" thing I have seen yet from this setting. Ave Dominus Nox I guess.
Having read the Heresy books, the Rise of the Beast's Search for Vulkan is pretty funny. In the Heresy it took like 4 books for the Salamanders to find him and they were looking hard. In the war of the Beast its like one Imperial Fist and he just finds out where Vulkan is and goes there and asks for a hand. #warhammer#wh40k#amReadingbookstodon group
If you read Assasinorum: Kingmaker and The Iron Kingdom back to back you end up thinking everyone in Iron Kingdom is so much less competent than they are meant to appear in the literal idiot comedy of Iron Kingdom. #warhammer40k#wH40k
I haven't posted on here for a little while, so here are the miniatures I've painted over the last couple of weeks, all for the same client.
I'm painting an old classic 80s Elf character for a new client's D&D campaign next 🙂
First PvP game with the new rules and the new team. Ran the Tempestus Aquilon against my friend's Heirotek Circle in the Global Event scenerio.
Dropping in on turns two and three was a pretty slick mechanic. Gave a lot of board control from the sheer unknown is who would show up where.
The Necrons felt right with the resurrecting and living metal making so I had to kill and kill and kill them again.
The Deathmark vs Aquilon Marksman sniper match was super cinematic: Deathmark took out the Grenadier in one shot before he even got to activate, then the Marksman dropped right onto the tallest tower and dropped the Deathmark through the window. Then a helpful Reanimator scuttled up and brought the Deathmark immediately back into the game.
I felt dominant coming out of turn two, but I over extended trying to clear out a resurrected Immortal and lost my Gunner and Precursor, when I should have had them play to the objective instead. Game ended in a tie. Not bad for a first outing and hopefully a sign things are at least roughly balanced.