Warhammer 40k

[Tism the Return]

>he uses death company with no jump packs.

Not on my life. It's too much of an investment to run DC without jump packs, you need an impulsor to deliver your guys and there's better ways to shit millions of chainsword attacks if you ever needed them.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Full Black Templar preview

 

[Imperialist #348]

Alert!! Alert!! We have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model! I repeat we have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model!

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And the rest of the new models for the Black Templars.

Very nice indeed.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

I will absolutely buy that Castellan model just for his bitchin' pauldrons. And I might get the upgrade frame to pimp my dudes, even though I don't play BT. Those are fucking sweet.

 

[Love Machine]

This is probably the sign where they are taking a break from generic space marine releases and going back to do the specialist stuff. Sadly it seems blood angels and space wolves will probably be the last to get the love. But maybe it is a sign for guys like the iron hands and white scars to get some stuff. Though I remember hearing somewhere that a lost of the chapter supplements will be the last of codexs to come out.

 

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Alert!! Alert!! We have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model! I repeat we have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model!

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And the rest of the new models for the Black Templars.

But what scale is it? Is he original Firstborn scale or the new TruScale Firstborn sized?

 

[Love Machine]

But what scale is it? Is he original Firstborn scale or the new TruScale Firstborn sized?

obviously he is in the new scale firstborn

Post some fucking WIPs boys.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Alert!! Alert!! We have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model! I repeat we have confirmed reports of a new firstborn model!

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And the rest of the new models for the Black Templars.

First Native American mini from GW. That should shut up all of the white people. Just look at that red skin.

 

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Fiddling around with Impcat in lieu of putting some resin in the 3d printer and printing a test custodes to paint.

It occurs to me that the Custodes lore is very explicit that they painted their armor black in shame after the events of the Siege of Terra, and thus a glorious golden banana boy isn't quite right.

So this is my take on black Custodes, although impcat is FAR brighter than the results would be on plastic. Black primer then German Grey by Vallejo armor, with Doombull Brown Leather, Khorne Red topknot, Morghast Bone pauldrons, and Iron Warriors metallic for the metal bits including the filigree. Nuln Oil on EVERYTHING (except the pauldrons, they get Seraphim Sepia), no layers, no highlights -- just base coat on top of the primer then shades. Gems will be painted as standard -- Stormhost Silver then a gem technical paint, probably green. The blades will probably be given a iridescent shifter paint (blue to purple maybe), either over black or over metallic (which gives a very subtle and odd effect, where the shifter paint only is visible on the "horizon" of the blade).

Probably give the faceplate some other color to break it up -- probably more iron warriors, I'm thinking.

 

[Love Machine]

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Fiddling around with Impcat in lieu of putting some resin in the 3d printer and printing a test custodes to paint.

It occurs to me that the Custodes lore is very explicit that they painted their armor black in shame after the events of the Siege of Terra, and thus a glorious golden banana boy isn't quite right.

So this is my take on black Custodes, although impcat is FAR brighter than the results would be on plastic. Black primer then German Grey by Vallejo armor, with Doombull Brown Leather, Khorne Red topknot, Morghast Bone pauldrons, and Iron Warriors metallic for the metal bits including the filigree. Nuln Oil on EVERYTHING (except the pauldrons, they get Seraphim Sepia), no layers, no highlights -- just base coat on top of the primer then shades. Gems will be painted as standard -- Stormhost Silver then a gem technical paint, probably green. The blades will probably be given a iridescent shifter paint (blue to purple maybe), either over black or over metallic (which gives a very subtle and odd effect, where the shifter paint only is visible on the "horizon" of the blade).

Probably give the faceplate some other color to break it up -- probably more iron warriors, I'm thinking.

Custodes lore is that a lot of shield hosts are still gold. They doned black cloaks as penance for the emperor's death in ceremony not change the color of armor. The black shield custodes are shadow keepers. The Hetaeron Guard have been known to have their armor burned black from standing in the throne room for so long, that might be confusing you. Ofc if you're gonna become one of us, you can always make your own shieldhost.

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Fiddling around with Impcat in lieu of putting some resin in the 3d printer and printing a test custodes to paint.

It occurs to me that the Custodes lore is very explicit that they painted their armor black in shame after the events of the Siege of Terra, and thus a glorious golden banana boy isn't quite right.

So this is my take on black Custodes, although impcat is FAR brighter than the results would be on plastic. Black primer then German Grey by Vallejo armor, with Doombull Brown Leather, Khorne Red topknot, Morghast Bone pauldrons, and Iron Warriors metallic for the metal bits including the filigree. Nuln Oil on EVERYTHING (except the pauldrons, they get Seraphim Sepia), no layers, no highlights -- just base coat on top of the primer then shades. Gems will be painted as standard -- Stormhost Silver then a gem technical paint, probably green. The blades will probably be given a iridescent shifter paint (blue to purple maybe), either over black or over metallic (which gives a very subtle and odd effect, where the shifter paint only is visible on the "horizon" of the blade).

Probably give the faceplate some other color to break it up -- probably more iron warriors, I'm thinking.

Here is a legio custodes vault warder. Which was the predecessor to the modern day adeptus custodes shadow keepers.

 

[Alter Ego]

This is probably the sign where they are taking a break from generic space marine releases and going back to do the specialist stuff. Sadly it seems blood angels and space wolves will probably be the last to get the love. But maybe it is a sign for guys like the iron hands and white scars to get some stuff. Though I remember hearing somewhere that a lost of the chapter supplements will be the last of codexs to come out.

As much as I like the "secondary" First Founding chapters, I doubt it. It's not like Black Templars are just emerging as an expanded Space Marine faction with completely new stuff. Rather, they're just getting a Primaris-ified refresh of the stuff they already had for over fifteen years. I suspect the Space Marine Codex Supplements from late 8th Ed. will continue to be used through all of 9th, new books only being prompted by whenever GW desires to update the rules on the loads of Ultramarine characters, namely Guilliman. Then everyone will maybe get one more character, less likely a brand new squad.

I'm sure that another loyalist primarch will return in time, but it'll probably be either Lion or Russ to promote their respective "primary" First Founding chapters.

 

[Snekposter]

I'm sure that another loyalist primarch will return in time, but it'll probably be either Lion or Russ to promote their respective "primary" First Founding chapters.

I'm vainly holding out hope they bring back Vulkan if Ghazghkull turns out to be the Beast Reborn. Dude comes back from the dead with zero awareness of the past thousands of years and the insanity the galaxy has become and just... does what Vulkan does best and starts applying hammer to face of whoever fucks with the common man. Could lead to some interesting events where he comes into conflict, possibly literally, with the forces of the Ecclesiarchy. SoB (because of course its the SoB given GW have a snuff fetish for them) burn some people who were just caught up in things because the Emperor will know his own, they get blacked smacked by his gigantic meat stick beat stick, BT show up after the call for help goes out because a gigantic scale-covered mutant is just their thing, shit bricks and try to explain to him just why burning everyone is necessary because not even they are stupid enough to fuck with a Primarch. Bonus points if its the Marines Malevolent instead of SoB, Vulkan assumes from the name and their actions they're traitors, and they all get turned into chunky gibs because fuck those assholes in particular.

 

[Caddchef]

I'd prefer GW to scale back special characters and concentrate on improving the core game and giving more flavour and kits to major factions.

Of course they seem to be doing the exact opposite lately by taking away unit options while pushing aura bubbled named characters in a none-stop rollercoaster ride to Herohammer (because it worked so well for fantasy).

 

[Imperial Citizen]

First Native American mini from GW. That should shut up all of the white people. Just look at that red skin.
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Is that supposed to be red skin or more of a brown skin? I’ve been trying to do some American Indian skin by mixing red and brown and wash brown, just don’t know where to go next.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Is that supposed to be red skin or more of a brown skin? I’ve been trying to do some American Indian skin by mixing red and brown and wash brown, just don’t know where to go next.

Scale75 has a contrast paint that looks great for a skin tone for caucasians so maybe try that with a little of their endurance brown which looks good for leather. They're both in their Instant colour range.

INSTANT COLORS RANGE - Scale75 Between history and legend

scale75.com

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

First Native American mini from GW. That should shut up all of the white people. Just look at that red skin.
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So we have a native Americans black Templar but no Native American dark angels despite it clearly showing in rogue trader and the models themselves that’s what they are based on.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

So we have a native Americans black Templar but no Native American dark angels despite it clearly showing in rogue trader and the models themselves that’s what they are based on.

The other model they painted was clearly transgender if you look at how the eyes were painted.

 

[Alter Ego]

I'd prefer GW to scale back special characters and concentrate on improving the core game and giving more flavour and kits to major factions.

Of course they seem to be doing the exact opposite lately by taking away unit options while pushing aura bubbled named characters in a none-stop rollercoaster ride to Herohammer (because it worked so well for fantasy).

I've remarked before on the 40k game's apparent shift in emphasis from armies to heroes, which I believe the popularity of the primarch-featuring Horus Heresy novels was an influencing factor, but I do wish for that old focus again the same as you. Seems to me that there's a lot of incentive for GW to create more character models, though. I have to imagine that characters like, say, the Emperor's Champion as well as most HQ models in general have a greater price upcharge from their design plus manufacturing costs while big (daemon) primarchs and the like are guaranteed to be big sellers in turn.

While it's apparent that 40k is lighter than it has been before, I think it's worthwhile to consider how the else its genre has changed over time that might explain this shift in perception. For decades, 40k centered its focus on the clashing of armies in an endless war that seemed to be locked into a galactic status quo. Then the Horus Heresy novel series came along and became very popular as people craved learning as much as possible about the legendary Primarchs. With that success, I believe GW decided to shift emphasis from grinding armies to epic narratives with big heroes and villains, marked especially by the return of Primarchs to the 40k era and actual plot advancement with the turn from 7th to 8th Edition. While named Special Characters (as they were called back then) were always a thing in the tabletop game before, I don't remember them having nearly as much abundance and emphasis as named character models do now, and there's also now plenty of non-FW giant centerpiece models besides such as Imperial Knights. There also now always seem to be some sort of narrative campaign going on to tell the story of some conflict, the current one being Octarius. And then there's the new Dawn of Fire novel series about the Indomitus Crusade, which GW has stated their intention to have it be on the same scale as the Horus Heresy novel series, but in the 40k era.

 

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Custodes lore is that a lot of shield hosts are still gold. They doned black cloaks as penance for the emperor's death in ceremony not change the color of armor. The black shield custodes are shadow keepers. The Hetaeron Guard have been known to have their armor burned black from standing in the throne room for so long, that might be confusing you. Ofc if you're gonna become one of us, you can always make your own shieldhost.

I'll have to take a look, cause I thought they changed their armor color. There was some ancient art I saw but it was definitely taking place in front of the golden throne so it could have been Hetaerons at rest. And yeah I'll either go Generic Default Golden Rape Machines or my own Shieldhost. Them starting to give rules about the Shadowkeepers and the Solar Watch and the like is kinda blurring the lines between them just being fluffy and being chapter equivalents, though, and that's a bit annoying. Fortunately with things the way they are I don't think anyone cares if you just say "yeah I'm running these as Shadowkeepers." So it's not like "Yeah these Ultramarines? They're actually Blood Angels" and the resultant spergout that would elicit.

This is nice, though:

r/Warhammer30k - Legio Custodes - Warders of the Vaults of Rython

182 votes and 4 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

Something like that but the gold replaced with dark silver.

 

[Love Machine]

I'll have to take a look, cause I thought they changed their armor color. There was some ancient art I saw but it was definitely taking place in front of the golden throne so it could have been Hetaerons at rest. And yeah I'll either go Generic Default Golden Rape Machines or my own Shieldhost. Them starting to give rules about the Shadowkeepers and the Solar Watch and the like is kinda blurring the lines between them just being fluffy and being chapter equivalents, though, and that's a bit annoying. Fortunately with things the way they are I don't think anyone cares if you just say "yeah I'm running these as Shadowkeepers." So it's not like "Yeah these Ultramarines? They're actually Blood Angels" and the resultant spergout that would elicit.

This is nice, though:

r/Warhammer30k - Legio Custodes - Warders of the Vaults of Rython

182 votes and 4 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

Something like that but the gold replaced with dark silver.

Thankfully the stormhosts are treated the same as Grey Knight brotherhoods, and I doubt they change it with the new codex coming out in 2 months.
So far in the lore they only change the actual colors/ reset gems is to signify their shieldhost/company. Their robes symbolizing 500+ years of service, and I think the capes have a different meaning in some curcumstance but I can't remember.