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Imperial Citizen said:
This is what is great about playing as the Word Bearers. I can use my 40k models without needing to buy a whole new army!
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I remember the blowback when the HH Word Bearer praetor was unveiled and he was just a 40k CSM, his vox grill was even slanted like a CSM helmet and not like a Sarum-pattern helmet or a mark v helmet.
 
Humble Architect said:
My EC were an investment, carefully planned to get me into three game systems with only one army, KT, 40k and HH.
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That was my plan for Custodes. HH and 40k would be a decent balance and I love the lore… until Femstodes. Need to look at that KT HH adaption someone put together more.
 
Übertroon said:
So I just got caught up on some drama where a lot of warhsmmer subreddits made a blanket ban on an artist after this artwork became popular
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According to moderators it's because the beastman abhuman has derogatory words carved into her, the implication she was being used as a sex slave with tally marks, and the artist draws loli and guro art
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The latter seems to be less important than the former considering I've never before seen mentioning an artist become bannable before for distasteful porn

The artist in question is apparently on twitter with the account name Mossa
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Sorry to bring up a dead topic but I'm really tired of seeing this idiot's work spammed in every fucking Warhammer group, I hope this idiot's downfall is soon for all the reach he has I'm surprised no one talks about his art pedololi
 
Mr Clark said:
Got some Sisters of Silence paint questions I cant seem to find the answers to elsewhere

1. Cloak and hair colour scheme? Ive seen a lot of purple cloaks and black hair, but also red on both. Thoughts?
2. Aleya, what the fuck do you do with all the black? Black chest, cloak and hair but all different highlights?
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1. They're your dudes anti-psyker bolter bitches, pick whichever color scheme you like. In-universe they might represent the cadre or order the Sisters belong to, but as long as you like the way they look, that's what counts.

2. Pretty much. A lot of painters I follow use different shades of greys, blues, whites, and even purples to differentiate between different black surfaces and textures. Hair is shinier than cloth and does weird things when light hits it, so I've seen painters use lighter greys, blues, and even purples to give it that glossy sheen and add depth and tone. Here's Duncan Rhodes demonstrating a quick and dirty method on an SoS model:

Leather tends to just be shades of grey built up carefully from medium to light hues to get that shine you see on leather coats and the like. Here's another video of someone using drybrushing and weathering for black cloth and leather:

Black armor also tends to be blue-greys and light greys with especially sharp highlights to represent the way light strikes off the edges. This guy has a good recipe for that:
 
Second Missing Primarch said:
1. They're your dudes anti-psyker bolter bitches, pick whichever color scheme you like. In-universe they might represent the cadre or order the Sisters belong to, but as long as you like the way they look, that's what counts.

2. Pretty much. A lot of painters I follow use different shades of greys, blues, whites, and even purples to differentiate between different black surfaces and textures. Hair is shinier than cloth and does weird things when light hits it, so I've seen painters use lighter greys, blues, and even purples to give it that glossy sheen and add depth and tone. Here's Duncan Rhodes demonstrating a quick and dirty method on an SoS model: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BwXQoNzMh74
Leather tends to just be shades of grey built up carefully from medium to light hues to get that shine you see on leather coats and the like. Here's another video of someone using drybrushing and weathering for black cloth and leather: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TfRdlVBYO3k
Black armor also tends to be blue-greys and light greys with especially sharp highlights to represent the way light strikes off the edges. This guy has a good recipe for that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WrJy2Ya9-Ug
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I went deep diving for a long time and didnt see these videos so i must have been looking wrong, super helpful, I really appreciate it.

Im 99% going a bronze and purple look at this stage similar to box art, seems kinda wasteful to make them gold and red like the Custodes
 
Damn my post got a lot of replies, great to see there's a fairly active horus heresy community here. If any 40k players haven't tried it it's essentially 7th edition 40k but you have reactions you can use every phase, it makes the game more dynamic and I like it. Using HH models for all 3 main systems is pretty smart too.

Spilled Spaghett said:
I have a passing interest in Horus Heresy but I don't even own a 2000pt 40k army yet. Buying into another system isn't really on the table for me, especially when it takes months for me to build up any motivation to paint. It sounds like a fun alternative to 40k. I typically enjoy playing Xenos more, but I can see myself playing Salamanders.
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Give it a shot if you get the chance, salamanders aren't meta by any means but they're a ton of fun to play.

I'll take some photos of my army soon.
 
My mediocre painting progress on my Aquilons, trying to do a G.I.Joe thing where each one has their own color scheme
 

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HTTP Error 404 said:
The only Battleforce that's sold out is the Dark Angels one. That's surprising to me, but at the same time, $240 isn't near the discount I was expecting. Or maybe I just lucked out and loaded the page right as it was opening up?

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AoS has the better sculpts, it seems they consistantly put their A-Teams on it, while they send others to do shitty upscales of models that looked better when they were still made of metal. The BAfags didn't deserve what they got, plain and simple.

Even with better, more creative models, AoS has ran into consitent issues with not selling box sets well. 3rd edition's starter box got shit on for weeks because it sat on shelves, and I heard the same happened with 2nd edition's starter box. I could totally see Geedubs producing less AoS Christmas boxes, as it would just be a loss of profit in the end.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
The only Battleforce that's sold out is the Dark Angels one. That's surprising to me, but at the same time, $240 isn't near the discount I was expecting. Or maybe I just lucked out and loaded the page right as it was opening up?

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The Dark Angels set being sold out doesn't surprise me since it will include the upgrade sprue for the Terminators. Although the fact knights are still available shocks me somewhat since I've never seen those kits in the wild.
 
I do kinda want the knights but if I wanted to print 4 Arimgers and a Questoris it would be trivial to do so. I already have the STLs to do it, it's just an absolute shitload of time to do so, I think the Questoris itself is like 5 full plates of a big printer like the Saturn.

Necrons, meh. Sisters are kinda interesting but two Rhinos in it kinda ruins it, since "Rhinos are free ™️" T'au are always interesting (except their lore) but the fact that there are less minis in the Tau Battleforce than the KNIGHT battleforce is amazing.

If these were all $199 I'd have already bought at least one of them. $240 just makes a person flinch, ya know?
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
The Dark Angels set being sold out doesn't surprise me since it will include the upgrade sprue for the Terminators. Although the fact knights are still available shocks me somewhat since I've never seen those kits in the wild.
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The knights box this year is kinda shit. The questoris kit is the original 2014 version, and not the 2018 version that came in the 2022 christmas battleforce(chainbreaker lance I think it was called?). Basically, you can only build the paladin and errant(I think that's the two?) and it doesn't come with their carapace mounted weapons that were added later on so you're missing 4/5(depending on how you count canis rex since it's just a named preceptor) options from the kit. GW had to issue a correction on the warcom article when they posted it this year specifying that and immediately soured damn near everyone on it making it one of the worst kits because now you've got to go and source a bunch of shit elsewhere for it which drives the discount way down(3d printing, 3rd party bits, ebay, etc).
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
The Dark Angels set being sold out doesn't surprise me since it will include the upgrade sprue for the Terminators. Although the fact knights are still available shocks me somewhat since I've never seen those kits in the wild.
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Also, according to the internet, Dark Angels are meta right now, along with SM scouts.

Edward Caesar Sallow said:
AoS has the better sculpts, it seems they consistantly put their A-Teams on it, while they send others to do shitty upscales of models that looked better when they were still made of metal. The BAfags didn't deserve what they got, plain and simple.

Even with better, more creative models, AoS has ran into consitent issues with not selling box sets well. 3rd edition's starter box got shit on for weeks because it sat on shelves, and I heard the same happened with 2nd edition's starter box. I could totally see Geedubs producing less AoS Christmas boxes, as it would just be a loss of profit in the end.
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I could be wrong, but my understanding was that once the sculpts/box/etc are made, the actual plastic is almost as cheap as free. So I don't know how much of a loss they're taking on those sets. Though their scalper-centric fomo/power creep sales method doesn't seem to working for AOS? I understand for FLGS it's different because stock sitting on the shelf not selling is bad for business.

I hear WH YouTubers mention all the time about how those boxes are a great deal, and how they're getting sold off super cheap. I've never seen this myself. Even searching "[Boxset] half" only brings up only a few ebay results, and even those are not a great deal.
 
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