Warhammer 40k

I didn't mean to time this one for Orktober, but maybe it's just a happy little accident. He's an obscure Forge World mini from 2007 or so. I've recently been watching Masters of the Air and it made me want to dig him out of my backlog. No idea what I might field him as, but he's a fun sculpt.

There's a couple of more photos here: https://imgur.com/a/cmmgacE

There's a press release about the mini here, if you want to know more: https://ifelix.net/forgeworld-newsletter-171

This crew of Ork-wannabes are my Diggamob. They currently don't have names, apart from the test model - Zagatha (back left). I mostly don't like the old Digga range, but there's a few exceptions, so I went with those.

I've no idea when I'll get around to fielding them in Gorkamorka, but hopefully at some point. I deliberately opted for no heavy weapons on the vehicles to field more bodies. Diggas have access to archeotek and can get some very fancy bits of kit - but to find them and wield them effectively numbers are required.

These are a combination of GW's original minis from 1998 and Red Nebular's Primal Raider range: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Red%20Nebular

I mainly painted them using contrast/speed paints, but I didn't have the requisite paints when I did the test model, so the skin ended up being done the traditional way. I regret it, but it was too late to do anything about. I'm not overly fond of how they turned out, but hey, done is the best feature.

There's a few more pics here: https://imgur.com/a/07Mzj17

Also, just to pre-empt it, no, the faction aren't called "digganobs". They're called "diggas", you memelords.

Blood Angels Death Company Pt2

Five more Death Company Marines! I may go back and paint in some flesh, but I thought it looked fun in this Nosferatu style so I just did the fangs and a drop of color on the eyes.

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Blood Angels Death Company

First five Dear Company Marines ready! My head canon is that these Blood Angels consider being in the grips of the Black Rage to be worthy of equal respect to being an honored Veteran so the pauldrons are painted in the same scheme I used for my Sternguard.

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Body is an AoS Knight Relictor. Sword and backpack are from the Black Templars upgrade sprue. Riever helmet.

I had to carve off all the lightning bolts with a knife to make it look less Stormcast.

More pics in comments.

Pretty happy with how they turned out, couple little bits left but they're 99% there!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20031456

Only the base is a GW product. Everything else, including the lascannon barrel is scratch made.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20031352

This is a pretty rough FDM print I got my hands on second-hand, and I decided to paint up and see if I could make it tabletop worthy.

I'd like to try reading some fiction in the 40k universe and was wondering if anyone has some recommendations. There's a lot of books to decide between so I'm a bit lost. There's also the humble book bundle going on right and it looks like it might be a good deal, but I'm not familiar with any of the authors. Any recommendations would be appreciated!

Edit: following the advice in the responses, I got the humble bundle and am starting out with spear of the emperor. Thanks for all the advice! Definitely want to give eisenhorn a read sometime if I can find an epub at a good price.

Blood Angels Assault Marine Thanks to the shift to Primaris I now have an unprecedented number of potential test minis to try different ways of painting! This is a pretty basic slap chop, but with some push on the highlights afterwards. Really quick work, but ended up with a ton more contrast and interest than I got just using contrast/shade/highlight method. #Warhammer #WarhamerCommunity #Warhammer40K #PaintingMinis #Miniatures #MiniPainting #MiniaturePainting #SpaceMarine #AdeptusAstartes #BloodAngels @[email protected]

Finally, I finished two minis:
The Blessed Blades of the Dark Commune!

Not happy with everything of course, but at least a bit of progress on the many WIP projects.

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Ghostkeel

I painted this one earlier in the year but never posted it anywhere. Inspired to grab a picture now by @[email protected] 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.