Warhammer 40k

[Foltest]

Sigamarxism are the biggest faggots in 40k fandom ( calling them fans in the loosest terms)

 

[Cats]

Holy shit. I just saw the Coconut Crab Tyranid paintjob, and now I want to paint some fuckin BUGZ

How beautiful is this?!




It could even be done in neon colors for a super poisonous look. Those are the color schemes I always like to see on nids...one where they look toxic, like poison dart tree frogs.

 

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Holy shit. I just saw the Coconut Crab Tyranid paintjob, and now I want to paint some fuckin BUGZ

How beautiful is this?!

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It could even be done in neon colors for a super poisonous look. Those are the color schemes I always like to see on nids...one where they look toxic, like poison dart tree frogs.

Yeah, the guy who did those did youtube tutorials and a few of them were technolcolor nightmare ones IIRC.

 

[Cats]

That's awesome. I love the Tyranid models, but they are kind of on the lower end spectrum of what I enjoy painting usually just because of how simplistic and tedious they are (easy base, easier shading, extremely tedious linework on chitin) but I could get used to doing dots.

My favorite things to paint are Great Unclean Ones, Terminators, and Knights. I am working on a Chaos Terminator Lord and Abbadon+Helmet conversion right now, but need to grab somenew primer bcause the Terminator Lord is a bit chalky. Shame, but I am finagling it to look passable. You probably know even better than me just how nigh impossible it is to paint minis with chalky primer tho. It's not ideal but he will at least look tabletop ready. The Abbadon I am working very hard on after he is finished and then I gotta decide what Death Guard to paint next. I think I wanna paint one of their cool tanks.

Here are the two 3D print models I ordered as an experiment to test these two etsy printers:

The Chaos Terminator was to see if these resin prints actually arrive THIS detailed, because frankly this image looks too good to be true and I am expecting it to be a lot more gummy looking in person


and then I also just grabbed a simple, neat+clean looking "walking tank" dreadnought proxy or w/e. I think it's 90mm tall.

 

[FedPostalService]

even if Thatcher and Reagan rose from the dead and led the conservatives to a new golden age where women stayed at home

You’re going to be shocked when you see a picture of Margaret Thatcher.

Also, a lot of the anti-discrimination legislation was passed by her or later conservatives governments. It’s why it’s mostly sensible.

The left seem to take the credit for it which is weird.

God help us once Labour wants equal rights in the work place for paedophiles.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

You’re going to be shocked when you see a picture of Margaret Thatcher.

Also, a lot of the anti-discrimination legislation was passed by her or later conservatives governments. It’s why it’s mostly sensible.

The left seem to take the credit for it which is weird.

Of course they take credit for it. It's all about them being the ''right side of history'', don't you know?

God help us once Labour wants equal rights in the work place for paedophiles.

I am not surprised at all.

 

[Male Idiot]

Let the grifters go after GW. I'll be giving them lots of updoots and comments, even if they don't know if warhammer is a food, a movie, or a game.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

The problem is, Marxism is never fun. No one likes being lectured at by detached academics on how they should live their lives. Especially when said academics live a comfortable life, while most people are trying to make ends meet and the real poor people live in ghettos where they can't afford to even get into hobbies like 40K. So these Sigmarxists come off as detached morons, trying to put Marxism into a hobby where the average consumer hails from a wealthy capitalist class that can afford to spend thousands of dollars on plastic soldiers that people have to paint and assemble.

You'd think these people would wise up. They tried to put Marxism into Gaming Media, it didn't work. They tried to shove it into movies, it didn't work. Comic writers like Alan Moore tried to paint the right as crazy murderous nutjobs like Rorschach, Rorschach became a hero to comic book audiences. Hell, Warhammer 40K's lore was an attempt to put Marxist themes of religion being stupid and traditionalists being dumb into mainstream sci-fi, and people fell in love with the stupid religious and traditional faction instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1VpUED9bSI

heat xenos love the emperor love me guide

Cadian stands simple as​

you can't successfully parody a satirize someone when you literally don't understand what they actually believe to begin with

 

[That Chris Guy]

Nah, humans in 40k always have hilariously pyrrhic victories (including marines) and internal politics. While tyrannids don't even have characters to follow. Even Genestealer Cults are bland since they don't have any interesting disorder in them

To be fair, you don't really want them to have sweeping victories all the time, otherwise your fiction goes the way of Stargate, Mass Effect or Halo where humans end up ruling all they survey and all the alien races are relegated to inferior training dummies, and it's all downhill from there.

The status quo has to be more-or-less preserved besides some occasional planetary musical chairs, since the premise is eternal war and conflict.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Let the grifters go after GW. I'll be giving them lots of updoots and comments, even if they don't know if warhammer is a food, a movie, or a game.

Then they'll look stupid when the next box set sells out and scalpers start selling it on Ebay for 2-3 times the original selling price.

To be fair, you don't really want them to have sweeping victories all the time, otherwise your fiction goes the way of Stargate, Mass Effect or Halo where humans end up ruling all they survey and all the alien races are relegated to inferior training dummies, and it's all downhill from there.

The status quo has to be more-or-less preserved besides some occasional planetary musical chairs, since the premise is eternal war and conflict.

Not so sure about Halo. All the humans do there is lose and be saved by miraculous instances. 40K is less darker considering the Imperium always has plot armor and will always stand strong. Meanwhile, a Covenant scout fleet appears on the human homeworld in Halo, and they break through the much-vaunted orbital defense grid like a child prancing over a picket fence that's shorter than his legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1VpUED9bSI

heat xenos love the emperor love me guide

Cadian stands simple as​

you can't successfully parody a satirize someone when you literally don't understand what they actually believe to begin with

That is the truth. I mean, the way the Imperial Cult satirizes Christianity is fucking hilarious. Instead of making people go ''Christians bad'', they accidentally created a church whose warrior nuns have a lot of love from the fans.

They failed at satire harder than Alan Moore did with Watchmen and Rorschach.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

To be fair, you don't really want them to have sweeping victories all the time, otherwise your fiction goes the way of Stargate, Mass Effect or Halo where humans end up ruling all they survey and all the alien races are relegated to inferior training dummies, and it's all downhill from there.

The status quo has to be more-or-less preserved besides some occasional planetary musical chairs, since the premise is eternal war and conflict.

Having sweeping victories occasionally will be nice though. With humans at least the mass casualty rate is justifiable, with SM it gets silly how every 2-3 books a chapter gets nearly annihilated only to be full force next book series.

 

[p1138]

Then they'll look stupid when the next box set sells out and scalpers start selling it on Ebay for 2-3 times the original selling price.

Funny you mention that, I hadn't bothered to look...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=warhammer+auric+champions&_sacat=0&_sop=16

$600 for "painted commission" and we all know that means it's gonna look like shit.
$400 shipped from the UK. $360 shipped within the US. 350, 300, 275. But you know, that's just the listings. lets see what has actually sold.

$600 for a poorly painted set. $340 shipped from the UK. multiple listings sold for $250. And if I check for the ork box, multiple sales over $250. We do of course have to remember there's an upper limit on possible price for these since once it hits the point of just buying the shit separately, it makes no sense.

So somehow, during a "boycott", the current limited time battleforce boxes have been selling on ebay for over 150% of MSRP in a couple of instances, and usually still significantly over MSRP in others.

 

[augment]

Holy shit. I just saw the Coconut Crab Tyranid paintjob, and now I want to paint some fuckin BUGZ

How beautiful is this?!

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It could even be done in neon colors for a super poisonous look. Those are the color schemes I always like to see on nids...one where they look toxic, like poison dart tree frogs.

I've seen these in person. The key seems to be handling that dark to midtone fade with the airbrush and lightly speckling those spots from a "crowded" pattern to a scatter, They look gorgeous but you're gonna need to put in the time.

 

[Male Idiot]

Boycotts won't work, as GW is being fed from the endless money bag of (((Larry Fink))) and (((Amazon))). What they need is abandoning the franchise and no longer consuming goyslop propaganda.

Because that way it will be just propaganda that goes out into the ether, not damaging any white, and Fink's money will be wasted, while my money goes to China, away from (((Uncle Sam)))'s grubby long nosed hands!

 

[That Chris Guy]

Not so sure about Halo. All the humans do there is lose and be saved by miraculous instances. 40K is less darker considering the Imperium always has plot armor and will always stand strong. Meanwhile, a Covenant scout fleet appears on the human homeworld in Halo, and they break through the much-vaunted orbital defense grid like a child prancing over a picket fence that's shorter than his legs.

I was referring to post-Bungie era. Haven't kept up on Infinite, but I think they basically had to do a timeskip to say that humans fought a bunch of Brutes and were losing. Prior to that, you had them cranking out Spartans like mad, occupying Halos, putting down Covenant remnants, etc. It didn't feel like they were threatened much anymore.

Still, I didn't mind that sequence in Halo 2. The Covenant were meant to be superior in space warfare, so it would stand to reason that they could just plough on through the remains of the platform they just blew up.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I was referring to post-Bungie era. Haven't kept up on Infinite, but I think they basically had to do a timeskip to say that humans fought a bunch of Brutes and were losing. Prior to that, you had them cranking out Spartans like mad, occupying Halos, putting down Covenant remnants, etc. It didn't feel like they were threatened much anymore.

Still, I didn't mind that sequence in Halo 2. The Covenant were meant to be superior in space warfare, so it would stand to reason that they could just plough on through the remains of the platform they just blew up.

Depending on the author either the cabinet or table field commanders or their great field commanders even the Halo wiki and all of the books contradict each other.
But it seems like the authors of most of the Halo novels never really care about what's going on in the games and just like good stories independent of the games and there was actually a Side Story in one of the books of the K5 novels where there was a forerunner AI that survived the firing of the Halo aways that was trying to screw with the UNSC that would have made a much better bad guy than anything else or even they could have went with evil doctor Halsey or the renewed cabinet Nope they went with the most ******** option.
Halo unlike warhammer 40K wasn't killed by wokeness it was killed by terrible writing and not figuring out what to do with the story after Halo 4

 

[Van Darkholme]

Any Imperial Knight fans/painters/whatever on here? I might paint an Asterius in the near future.
The thing is almost toddler size,

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Having sweeping victories occasionally will be nice though. With humans at least the mass casualty rate is justifiable, with SM it gets silly how every 2-3 books a chapter gets nearly annihilated only to be full force next book series.

I suppose you can explain it with Primaris Marine reinforcements. The Imperium kidnaps biologically-fit males from some hive world dump where they used to be factory workers, brainwashes them and gives them Primaris Geneseeds for chapters that are getting nearly annihilated, then they send out these replacements to replenish nearly-decimated chapters in between the novels.

I was referring to post-Bungie era. Haven't kept up on Infinite, but I think they basically had to do a timeskip to say that humans fought a bunch of Brutes and were losing. Prior to that, you had them cranking out Spartans like mad, occupying Halos, putting down Covenant remnants, etc. It didn't feel like they were threatened much anymore.

They were basically the new superpowers from Halo 4 onwards, which makes them losing to a bunch of glorified mercenary apes completely unbelievable.

Still, I didn't mind that sequence in Halo 2. The Covenant were meant to be superior in space warfare, so it would stand to reason that they could just plough on through the remains of the platform they just blew up.

The funny thing was that Sgt. Johnson stated the platforms can put a round clear through a Covenant capital ship, yet there's only 15 ships and not one of them is destroyed by the ODPs.

Depending on the author either the cabinet or table field commanders or their great field commanders even the Halo wiki and all of the books contradict each other.
But it seems like the authors of most of the Halo novels never really care about what's going on in the games and just like good stories independent of the games and there was actually a Side Story in one of the books of the K5 novels where there was a forerunner AI that survived the firing of the Halo aways that was trying to screw with the UNSC that would have made a much better bad guy than anything else or even they could have went with evil doctor Halsey or the renewed cabinet Nope they went with the most ******** option.
Halo unlike warhammer 40K wasn't killed by wokeness it was killed by terrible writing and not figuring out what to do with the story after Halo 4

Fuck that shit. Halo chronologically ended with Halo 3 for me. Halo 4 gets a pass for being half-decent, pretty good on its own, but to me, if it wasn't written by Bungie-era authors, it's fanfiction.

As for Warhammer, it was woke to begin with, especially since they took the empire that was supposed to stand for religion and human nationalism and turned them into complete dipshits who did everything wrong as opposed to what their creator would've wanted. Just because some conservatives used it as their outlet for larping as crusaders and nationalists doesn't mean these ''toys'' weren't owned by leftists in the first place. Rorschach was created by a left-winger who thought that right-wingers are lunatics, using Rorschach as an example of them, yet people fell in love with the character, especially right-wing comic fans who expressed approval for Rorschach's actions.

Funny you mention that, I hadn't bothered to look...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=warhammer+auric+champions&_sacat=0&_sop=16

$600 for "painted commission" and we all know that means it's gonna look like shit.
$400 shipped from the UK. $360 shipped within the US. 350, 300, 275. But you know, that's just the listings. lets see what has actually sold.

$600 for a poorly painted set. $340 shipped from the UK. multiple listings sold for $250. And if I check for the ork box, multiple sales over $250. We do of course have to remember there's an upper limit on possible price for these since once it hits the point of just buying the shit separately, it makes no sense.

So somehow, during a "boycott", the current limited time battleforce boxes have been selling on ebay for over 150% of MSRP in a couple of instances, and usually still significantly over MSRP in others.

Which means that this ''boycott'' is completely useless. The price of the merchandise is rising, which means GW will have a windfall profit for this fiscal year. GW won't get ''the message'' when their coffers are full and the suits are laughing their way to the bank, while scalpers make good money buying up the stuff first then selling it for a mint online.

Boycotts won't work, as GW is being fed from the endless money bag of (((Larry Fink))) and (((Amazon))). What they need is abandoning the franchise and no longer consuming goyslop propaganda.

Because that way it will be just propaganda that goes out into the ether, not damaging any white, and Fink's money will be wasted, while my money goes to China, away from (((Uncle Sam)))'s grubby long nosed hands!

Even if we remove Amazon and Larry Fink from the picture, the 40K customers can't stop buying and consooming, even if it's buying models from shady assholes online who sell it for markup prices. So this status quo won't change anytime soon.

 

[Male Idiot]

I don't know, I ordered when I did from hobby shops in Hungary as there are no GW stores in the country.

So I think I must have gotten them through some other channel than the USA, a devastator squad is 50 dollars, roughly by my drunken estimate.

Not that I'm buying it, but that's what a quick googling told me. I would want to finish my pile of shame as it is mostly outdated stuff that I can't even resell, so may as well paint it. What other paints offer GW's wide scale and good paints of citadel?

 

[CoolSixtyNiner]

Holy shit. I just saw the Coconut Crab Tyranid paintjob, and now I want to paint some fuckin BUGZ

How beautiful is this?!

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It could even be done in neon colors for a super poisonous look. Those are the color schemes I always like to see on nids...one where they look toxic, like poison dart tree frogs.

That is such a good looking mini. I've been a lore fag since I read the first HH book in highschool and I've read 100s of books and played most of the video games available but I'm colorblind so I've avoided buying minis or playing tabletop because of it.

I think i just have to bite the bullet and buy some starter mechanicus set once I buy my house. It might look weird but it'll be neat. Are there any colorblind painters here?