I have 40K models and I want to show off their awesomeness!

[BorisBC]

I'm getting stuck in for my first tourneys in the coming weeks. Moving back to Canberra has seen me depart my usual group, and I got the need for some games. I checked out the store (Good Games in Canberra) and they looked all clean and about my age, if not older. Well the FoW guys did!

[Da Chucky]

I was actually recently in an tournament. 8000pts a side Apocalypse, no composition rules. Basically a licence to go crazy and bring what ever you have. Hence the two Thunderhawks that I build earlier in the thread (reminds me that I have to upload some pictures now that they're fully built and mostly painted).

Was good fun. Versed one team with heaps (21!) of Valkyeries, Vendettas, Vultures and Lightings. Highlight would have to be first turn of the first round someone (not me) managed to blow up an Emperor Titan. With scarabs. I'm not kidding. Second would be virtually tabling our opponent in the last round in 2 turns (on turn 4, long story).

In the end we came 4th overall by a single point. Would have gotten third too if we were half an inch closer in the third game too.

[BorisBC]

Highlight would have to be first turn of the first round someone (not me) managed to blow up an Emperor Titan. With scarabs. I'm not kidding.

I knew those little **** were deadly!!! lol

[Da Chucky]

Highlight would have to be first turn of the first round someone (not me) managed to blow up an Emperor Titan. With scarabs. I'm not kidding.

I knew those little **** were deadly!!! lol

It's one of the rules they got in the new codex. For every hit (just hit) against vehicles in close-combat, you roll a dice. For every 4+, you reduce the armour on that facing by one. If it goes below 1, then it blows up. Instantly. And then it went nuclear...

[Falkognac]

Wow, just found this thread and i'm amazed at how good some people here are at painting.

I haven't collected for at least a couple of years, (when i first started they had just phased out the Catachan codex which was i think in about 2004, and then stopped collecting maybe a year or two later) i collected what i thought was a decently sized imperial guard army (about 60 guardsmen and a tank) but then i started to get into daemonhunters as they were able to be fielded at the same time if i counted my army as a daemonhunter army. So i got some Grey Knight Terminators.

Now, as i have just finished year 12, I am thinking that now may be a good time to get back into the hobby, the only problem is that one of my friends a while ago wanted me to get into warhammer fantasy, whilst another still collects 40k.
The one who is into warhammer fantasy decided to buy me a box of Bretonnian Knights (as in a previous conversation i had mentioned that if i was to collect Fantasy models then i would indeed get Bretonnians).
The majority of those bretonnian knights remain yet unpainted...

So now i am stuck wondering which models to collect and also if i have the skills and tools to paint them with any decency at all, as my previous attempts were to put it simply, rubbish. I know that i would need to buy myself a decent set of brushes and also some paints and then pick up some painting skills so that my models can hopefully look as good as some of the ones that i have seen here, and in other places.

tl;dr: Year 12 has finished and I am thinking about getting back into Warhammer

[Lance P King]

They've got personalities now and other such nonsense. Before that, it was just "relentless space robots" and now it's "wacky egyptian space robots". Which is, you know, cool.

Hmmm, will reserve judgement until I've sussed out the Codex but your initial assessment as wacky does seem disturbingly close to the mark! Then again, having painted my crons in a 60's retro sci-fi theme, who am I to complain...

Bit torn on the new flayers, love the look of the models, but the skull collections give them a much saner vibe. I always felt that their skin wearing gave them a sort of tragic appeal, as if they were trying to recreate their lost mortality, skull collections on the other hand, its a little bit serial killer for my taste.

I could've done without the Egyptian headgear, but nothing a little modding won't address.

[revengous]

They've got personalities now and other such nonsense. Before that, it was just "relentless space robots" and now it's "wacky egyptian space robots". Which is, you know, cool.

Hmmm, will reserve judgement until I've sussed out the Codex but your initial assessment as wacky does seem disturbingly close to the mark! Then again, having painted my crons in a 60's retro sci-fi theme, who am I to complain...

Bit torn on the new flayers, love the look of the models, but the skull collections give them a much saner vibe. I always felt that their skin wearing gave them a sort of tragic appeal, as if they were trying to recreate their lost mortality, skull collections on the other hand, its a little bit serial killer for my taste.

I could've done without the Egyptian headgear, but nothing a little modding won't address.

not liking the new theme, unrelenting robots carving a path of destruction across the galaxy, now some fancy pancy egyptions, so not cool.

[Brunius]

Necro all the threads!

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What do you guys think of the painting on the wings?

[Tim Colwill]

I think it's good! You going to do the rest of the model up like that?

If I had a suggestion, maybe take a wash and try and wash in the lines with a darker green (Thraka Green it used to be, don't know what it is now) or maybe even a black? Really bring out those panels.

[Artful-dodgeR]

Am I insane?

I used to collect/paint Eldar back in... ****... 2002. I was never interested in the actual gameplay portion though, just the models. Nowdays I'm heavily into the lore/reading/PC gaming behind the whole 40k thing and LOVING it. So much in fact that I'd like to get into the proper stuff, with IG as my flavour of choice (used to be Captain Americ... I mean Space Marines) what is the best way to get into it?

Also, whats the best gear/methods to paint?

Sites/resources welcome

[Ashigaru]

I'll wade in Used to have a crapload of stuff which is now all in storage in QLD. Moved to Vic 3 years ago and haven't touched warhammer since!

Some of the stuff I was working on for my Eldar army:



















Eldar Exodite Dragon Riders



Wood Elves





Empire Engineer



Game board I made about 8 years ago, now residing with a gaming club in Brissy.



Anyway I'll stop spamming images now

[Tim Colwill]

Hey, that stuff's looking really good man! Love the Fire Prism cannon in particular, and the Swooping Hawk exarch. The board is also top notch

Little update from me, forgive the image spam!

I've just finished turning this (from like... FIVE YEARS AGO, slackest player ever)...



Into this...









The story goes - based on a true in-game event, in fact - that a Defiler shot and killed an entire squad of boyz over four turns, only for the Nob (the last surviving member) to run up on the last turn of the game, hit the Defiler with one lucky power klaw hit, and have it detonate, killing him instantly.

Naturally, the klan's Big Mek not only took the Defiler parts and used them to build a Deff Dread, but took the remaining Nob parts and... wired them into the Deff Dread. Waste not want not, right?

Unfortunately the process left the Nob a little bit insane, and so the Big Mek has to ride along in a special canopy on top, controlling and shouting at the Deff Dread underneath with his Mekky Brain-wotsit-Thing In His Head.

His name is "Clankers". He has four dreadnought CCW's. He dies on turn 2 of every game to sustained, and terrified, enemy fire.

Hey, here's some Deffkoptas! Forgive the slight layer of dust, they don't fit in a case :/







Particularly proud of the bases on these.

I've also done up some Nobz using the new Nobz kit, courtesy of Jess as a birthday present. They're all equipped with power klaws in-game, but I spread the cybork body bits around as much as possible so that buying cybork bodies isn't too farcical with regards to WYSIWYG.







I've also finished the base on my stompa - which ended up coming from my wedding cake! So there you go, happy coincidences abound. Here's some finished shots of the guy, magnetised arms and base and all.








Finally, back when I was working at Games Workshop (before the "Incident"), I was asked to put together a model to enter in the Staff competition at Golden Daemon. Everybody had to do it, although we later discovered that we in fact didn't, and our manager was just retarded. So this guy got put together but never painted.

A month or two ago I decided to polish him off. His name is Toblok, and he's a... fairly close representation of Jess's Warhammer Online character by the same name (an Orc choppa). I'm pretty happy with this guy.






Anyway! That's me done for an image dump. Coming up soon, pics of my looted wagon (two basilisk cannons strapped to the top of a land raider) and my "killa kanz" - WFB trolls with big choppas and gun arms (they actually look really good, I'm itching to paint them).

[Ashigaru]

I do love the story behind the Deff Dredd Nice work!

[Yurtles]

It makes me sad when talented people like Tim put things up like that. Because I know I'll never have anything so awesome

[Tim Colwill]

Thanks guys!

I've been painting for about fifteen years Yurtles, and I'm still learning. It's pretty easy to get good results these days especially with washes! I can give out some tips I guess if you like?