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That Chris Guy said:
Absolutely shocked the Store Anniversary models aren't regular boring Space Marines of some kind. It's nice to see GW take a risk every now and again.

I like what they've been doing with Tyranids, but I'm going full tilt into The Old World when the Greenskins get a box so can't get preoccupied with it.
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I mostly want a new box of Skavens.
 
Is it unwise to post army pictures here? I’d imagine there’s something of a risk of being identified since most people have fairly custom models and such.

I fell out of 40k for a while for a lot of reasons including a game store employee I knew fairly well getting trooned out, but I’m back in now. Do any of you guys have advice for staying motivated to paint? I can get tired of it sometimes but I’m playing a horde army and need to get a lot of models done if I ever want to actually play the game.
 
I listened to a Podcast about The End and The Death part 2. Sadly my theory that Sang goes traitor and double teams with Horus didn't happen.

That really leaves the switcheroo theory. Though I really doubt it will be proved correct.
 
Great General Ri Shin said:
Is it unwise to post army pictures here? I’d imagine there’s something of a risk of being identified since most people have fairly custom models and such.

I fell out of 40k for a while for a lot of reasons including a game store employee I knew fairly well getting trooned out, but I’m back in now. Do any of you guys have advice for staying motivated to paint? I can get tired of it sometimes but I’m playing a horde army and need to get a lot of models done if I ever want to actually play the game.
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If you post models elsewhere, best not to post here. You never know how zealous some people can be when it comes to identifying Kiwifarmers.

For painting, get Contrast/Speedpaints. They are a basecoat and shade paint in one. Prime a shade of white to grey (depending on if you want warm or cold color). Also, don’t worry about being 100% detailed. Nobody is going to know you didn’t highlight a Guardsman’s holster at a glance.
 
Great General Ri Shin said:
Is it unwise to post army pictures here? I’d imagine there’s something of a risk of being identified since most people have fairly custom models and such.
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It depends. Is there any pictures of your army out there tied to your real identity? Do you ever take your army to public events where strangers would see it? Is your army unique enough to identify? When in doubt, don't do it.

When I do post pictures here, they're 1 offs, on a uniform white background, cropped, and reduced in size. This is the only place I ever post anything Warhammer related, and I don't play games outside of my direct friend group.
 
ForTheHoard said:
It depends. Is there any pictures of your army out there tied to your real identity? Do you ever take your army to public events where strangers would see it? Is your army unique enough to identify? When in doubt, don't do it.

When I do post pictures here, they're 1 offs, on a uniform white background, cropped, and reduced in size. This is the only place I ever post anything Warhammer related, and I don't play games outside of my direct friend group.
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I do want to do tournaments at my FLGS someday, and my army is somewhat unique, though not absolutely so. Oh well. If you search up “feudal guard” you can see prettier armies than mine and get the idea anyways. Thanks for your advice, OPSEC always.
 
My 40k pile of shame wasn't nearly big enough so I decided to get the Tomb King inaugural box for The Old World.

On one hand, SETTRA RULES!

Oh the other, WhyAmILikeThis?.jpg
 
I'm buying the Necrosphynx, the Duke on royal pegasus and the foot knights, aside from that I'm not super enthused about ToW. Currently building and painting Epic stuff (all twitterfags please follow me here, no transexuals please https://twitter.com/Iron_Tenth )

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Great General Ri Shin said:
Is it unwise to post army pictures here? I’d imagine there’s something of a risk of being identified since most people have fairly custom models and such.

I fell out of 40k for a while for a lot of reasons including a game store employee I knew fairly well getting trooned out, but I’m back in now. Do any of you guys have advice for staying motivated to paint? I can get tired of it sometimes but I’m playing a horde army and need to get a lot of models done if I ever want to actually play the game.
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Like @Imperial Citizen said don’t post pics here you’ve posted elsewhere. If anyone does recognise your models, don’t panic just deny all knowledge and say you found a paint scheme online you liked and copied it verbatim. The chances of anybody putting them together is rather small so I wouldn’t worry too much.
 
Recently Disney lost control of Da Mouse; that got me thinking about Warhammer 40K.

40K should belong to the fans. If anything, because the fans actually give more of a shit about the 40K lore and setting than Games Workshop does. The fans are the ones making outreaches, trying to reach out to fans of other sci-fi like Star Wars, preserving and passing down the lore through countless videos, the fans have shown a care for the 40K lore that Games Workshop doesn't give a flying shit about.

The fans act like there's a 40K canon even though GW says otherwise, and that is extremely telling. The fans see 40K lore as this great library of lore that all counts and should be preserved, whereas GW sees it as nothing more than something to justify making overpriced plastic to sell to whales.

The fact that TTS and many fanmade 40K stuff far outpaces most of the media GW comes out with, sans the video games, goes to show that the fans care more about 40K than GW. Imagine the stories that can be told if 40K became part of the public domain. Imagine TTS as a comedy TV show with a budget similar to South Park and other animated comedy shows. Or imagine some rich chump pays Blurr studios, the people who made the Star Wars Old Republic CGI trailers, to make a 40K movie. The possibilities are endless, and the only reason why they're not is because GW would rather charge an arm and a leg for overpriced plastic that Bandai sells at a far lower price, and they're too conservative with the lore and wouldn't let it spread its wings.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Recently Disney lost control of Da Mouse; that got me thinking about Warhammer 40K.

40K should belong to the fans. If anything, because the fans actually give more of a shit about the 40K lore and setting than Games Workshop does. The fans are the ones making outreaches, trying to reach out to fans of other sci-fi like Star Wars, preserving and passing down the lore through countless videos, the fans have shown a care for the 40K lore that Games Workshop doesn't give a flying shit about.

The fans act like there's a 40K canon even though GW says otherwise, and that is extremely telling. The fans see 40K lore as this great library of lore that all counts and should be preserved, whereas GW sees it as nothing more than something to justify making overpriced plastic to sell to whales.

The fact that TTS and many fanmade 40K stuff far outpaces most of the media GW comes out with, sans the video games, goes to show that the fans care more about 40K than GW. Imagine the stories that can be told if 40K became part of the public domain. Imagine TTS as a comedy TV show with a budget similar to South Park and other animated comedy shows. Or imagine some rich chump pays Blurr studios, the people who made the Star Wars Old Republic CGI trailers, to make a 40K movie. The possibilities are endless, and the only reason why they're not is because GW would rather charge an arm and a leg for overpriced plastic that Bandai sells at a far lower price, and they're too conservative with the lore and wouldn't let it spread its wings.
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At the end of the day, GW is a company that sells extremely overpriced toys and books. I've never been in a store where the owner would flat out shame you for not buying something until I started playing 40k. They're also publicly owned. I'm sure there's plenty of people at GW that care deeply about the lore, but ultimately, curating the universe isn't their highest priority. Getting you to spend $200 on an injection molded, unpainted, unassembled toy car is.
 
That Chris Guy said:
Absolutely shocked the Store Anniversary models aren't regular boring Space Marines of some kind. It's nice to see GW take a risk every now and again.
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Agreed. The tau one was kinda funny looking but I’m glad they’re doing something different.
That Chris Guy said:
I like what they've been doing with Tyranids, but I'm going full tilt into The Old World when the Greenskins get a box so can't get preoccupied with it.
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I am interested in what they’ll do for orcs. I’m a big green skin fan and I still have my old orc army I didn’t rebase as well as a few thousand point armies in 40K and AoS as well. I’ve always wanted to play empire and I’ll spend more money than I should if they do end up releasing Cathay.
ForTheHoard said:
At the end of the day, GW is a company that sells extremely overpriced toys and books. I've never been in a store where the owner would flat out shame you for not buying something until I started playing 40k. They're also publicly owned. I'm sure there's plenty of people at GW that care deeply about the lore, but ultimately, curating the universe isn't their highest priority. Getting you to spend $200 on an injection molded, unpainted, unassembled toy car is.
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There are some really interesting video interviews that I’ve watched recently from former GW staff. They were always about the money and sales. If anything it seems to me that they preferred making things for Fantasy over 40K.

vern said:
Im starting to think the reason why GW hasn't gone full woke is because of sheer incompetence. Lord knows there are actors pushing for it within the company, but every time they start to make progress towards their goal, some idiot from another department unintentionally fucks things up and their back at square 1.
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@ForTheHoard
At the end of the day, GW is a company that sells extremely overpriced toys and books. I've never been in a store where the owner would flat out shame you for not buying something until I started playing 40k. They're also publicly owned. I'm sure there's plenty of people at GW that care deeply about the lore, but ultimately, curating the universe isn't their highest priority. Getting you to spend $200 on an injection molded, unpainted, unassembled toy car is.
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That is the point of it all. Games Workshop doesn't give a flying shit about the lore; it's all one big fat excuse to sell miniatures. If they could sell more minis by making the Emperor a brown transsexual Mexican woman, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by making the Space Marines into women, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by changing the 40K story so that the Imperium is a progressive, tolerant, happy-fun-place that serves as a beacon of coexistence and joy, they'd do it. 40K lore matters less to GW than Star Wars lore matters to Disney. Disney tried and failed to create a new centralized lore for Star Wars. GW never even tried, and their position is that there is no 40K canon, even though the fans think otherwise.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
@ForTheHoard

That is the point of it all. Games Workshop doesn't give a flying shit about the lore; it's all one big fat excuse to sell miniatures. If they could sell more minis by making the Emperor a brown transsexual Mexican woman, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by making the Space Marines into women, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by changing the 40K story so that the Imperium is a progressive, tolerant, happy-fun-place that serves as a beacon of coexistence and joy, they'd do it. 40K lore matters less to GW than Star Wars lore matters to Disney. Disney tried and failed to create a new centralized lore for Star Wars. GW never even tried, and their position is that there is no 40K canon, even though the fans think otherwise.
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They've taken the business model of 1980's-1990's children's television and adapted it for a bunch of single, childless male nerds in their 30s with expendable income.

The only major difference is 3D printing wasn't available when I was little, which will ultimately be the death of this business model.
 
ForTheHoard said:
They've taken the business model of 1980's-1990's children's television and adapted it for a bunch of single, childless male nerds in their 30s with expendable income.
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So basically, it's capeshit for wargamers. Something made originally for kids, repackaged and sold with a grimdark taste for old farts with expendable cash.

ForTheHoard said:
The only major difference is 3D printing wasn't available when I was little, which will ultimately be the death of this business model.
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Hopefully it will. Most fans seem to be willing to keep buying official merch instead, which keeps GW afloat despite all the fan hate. Fan protests against GW's greed might as well be spitballs at this point.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
Imagine TTS as a comedy TV show with a budget similar to South Park and other animated comedy shows
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Sounds like the most cringe shit ever made.
ForTheHoard said:
They've taken the business model of 1980's-1990's children's television and adapted it for a bunch of single, childless male nerds in their 30s with expendable income.
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Because people with families surely cannot buy this stuff
LORD IMPERATOR said:
If they could sell more minis by making the Emperor a brown transsexual Mexican woman, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by making the Space Marines into women, they'd do it. If they could sell more minis by changing the 40K story so that the Imperium is a progressive, tolerant, happy-fun-place that serves as a beacon of coexistence and joy, they'd do it
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They already tried doing Female Space Marines in the 80s, the idea didnt pan out and was scrapped. Also, is there a time or day when you arent whining about typical woke shit? Like, is that even possible for your miserable ass?
 
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