Warhammer 40K 10e: Karen Draws, the Pheonix Lord

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sharkmafia: Aug 20, 2018

Tangy Zizzle posted:

I only magnetize the sponsons on my tanks, I've gone and bought like 5 varieties of turrets from kromlech so I always have 2-3 of each type at any point. Magnetizing the little guys seems insane to me, just for value of my time etc

yeah, i've magnetized the turret options on the skorpius disintegrator and the onager dunecrawler in admech and that's it

it would be fairly easy to magnetize the hand weapons on the kastelans but i haven't bothered so far because the guns are laughably bad compared to just punching things

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# ? May 3, 2024 07:29

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xtothez posted:

The most likely new release would be Warriors and/or Shrikes for Kill Team.

We're also due for an update to Apocalypse next summer, as that has arrived consistently with new kits every six years. There's a slim chance that something large was kept back from the main Tyranid update for that, such as a titanic scale monster or new carnifex kit. I'm also hoping for new Tankbustas

I think if you take the remaining Ork resin and oldest Ork plastics, you can whip up a killer starter box for the middle of 10th or start of 11th. Burnaz in a Trukk, Tankbustas, Warbikers, and some sort of base infantry (a second go at new Boyz without a bunch forced to hold shootas?) all lead by a Weirdboy.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 19:44

Funzo: Dec 6, 2002

I built a unit of Eldar Wraithblades and magnetized every option so I could turn them in to whatever I wanted. I will not be doing that again.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 20:12

Triple-Kan: Dec 29, 2008

Ashcans posted:

So as mentioned above, during this period GW as not producing many miniatures, and all of them were basically one-off metal figures - there was very little in the way of variations and kits to make squads from. Rather than a box of marines, you would be buying a blister pack (plastic clamshell) that had 3-5 random figures:

The first thing that caught my eye is that the top two, maybe three rows is all actors from the 60's Batman TV show. Also I'm seeing Christopher Reeves and Richard Basehart. Are those the original names?

# ? Apr 19, 2024 20:19

The Demilich: Apr 9, 2020; The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.

Funzo posted:

I built a unit of Eldar Wraithblades and magnetized every option so I could turn them in to whatever I wanted. I will not be doing that again.

I did this to my 5 Custodes and I also won't be bothering with that ever again.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 20:54

Robert Facepalmer: Jan 10, 2019

Triple-Kan posted:

The first thing that caught my eye is that the top two, maybe three rows is all actors from the 60's Batman TV show. Also I'm seeing Christopher Reeves and Richard Basehart. Are those the original names?

Original names and you are probably right. They have straight up said that they named figs off of all kinds of pop culture. Like there are Imperial Army dudes named after the members of Rush. I'm guessing Cap'n Crabb is supposed to be Buster Crabbe.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 22:15

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

I'm magnetising a pair of LI scaled Kratos tanks, and I'm kind of regretting it. But then I also hosed up and glued on the turret plugs incorrectly the first time so now I have to do a bunch of stuff to undo it.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 22:17

The Deleter: May 22, 2010

I'm in the middle of magnetising an Enforcer commander without a pin vice for my drill bits and my fingers hate me but I've done it and also I'll never bother again either

E: like its a fun and cool project to do but when everything is at the whim of whatever unpaid GW intern is doing the new edition then you might as well do whatever guns you think are sickest

# ? Apr 19, 2024 22:26

Warmachine: Jan 30, 2012

Ashcans posted:

So as mentioned above, during this period GW as not producing many miniatures, and all of them were basically one-off metal figures - there was very little in the way of variations and kits to make squads from. Rather than a box of marines, you would be buying a blister pack (plastic clamshell) that had 3-5 random figures:

The 'female marines' were part of an 'Adventurers' set of basically a bunch of weird people. It's interesting because you can see the genesis of some existing ideas, and others that died on the vine. For example, we lost Not Indiana Jones and Halfling Chef, but kept Tech Priest and Cyborg:

Early GW realized that people were selecting away from the female models; this meant that when they made their first kits, they made them all male in the style of the best-selling figures:

This basically defined the direction of the range for a long time, until they eventually reopened the idea and reimagined the female warriors as Sisters of Battle.

You can probably write a lot about why that particular set of circumstances happened; 1985-1988 was a very different time both culturally and in the hobby than today. GW was a much smaller company and basically threw any number of things at the wall and went with what stuck without a lot of intention or analysis.

This is really cool stuff. I'd never seen these models before.

Imagine if Lorgar had followed his dream of being a pilot instead of getting wrapped up in all that Chaos poo poo. :allears:

# ? Apr 19, 2024 22:51

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Warmachine posted:

This is really cool stuff. I'd never seen these models before.

Imagine if Lorgar had followed his dream of being a pilot instead of getting wrapped up in all that Chaos poo poo.

The galaxy's largest pilot accidentally commits space 9/11

# ? Apr 19, 2024 23:08

ro5s: Dec 27, 2012; A happy little mouse!

Improbable Lobster posted:

The galaxy's largest pilot accidentally commits space 9/11

That requires some competence, Lorgar would be space John McCain

# ? Apr 19, 2024 23:11

Nazzadan: Jun 22, 2016

700 pound neophyte Erebus: Lift me up higher daddy!

Lorgar: I can't my arms hurt from uh, fuckin' space Vietnam... prison.

# ? Apr 19, 2024 23:23

Bottom Liner: Feb 15, 2006; a specific vein of lasagna

Is there a thread for buying/selling WH stuff? I have a handful of boxes for 30k, Grey Knights, and Imp Knights I'm ready to let go of. I made a thread in SA Mart already:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4058957

# ? Apr 20, 2024 00:46

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

3 Action Economist posted:

Battle Nuns are definitely known for their makeup

Eej posted:

Which is silly, of course, because in all the official art they are wearing most of that

But it turns out that it does kind of match the 9th edition cover.

Which is around the time all these new miniatures came out from the looks of it?

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Miniatures_(Sisters_of_Battle)

Well, the next codex is a few months/weeks away, will be interesting to see what cover they go with in this context.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 05:56

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

And so forth. But it doesn't really matter if they want tactical eyeshadow what's the big deal, they already draw Fleur de Lis on their faces and sisters of Our Martyred Lady ritually dye their hair white.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 06:14

Nazzadan: Jun 22, 2016

Took an extended hobby break due to the release of Tekken 8 but sat down and made myself paint up this Master of Executions to get back in the saddle. Not my best work but happy with it as a de-rusting

# ? Apr 20, 2024 06:27

Guildencrantz: May 1, 2012; Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It's in no way strange that sororitas wear makeup. All imperial power-armor wearers go into battle over-decorated and over-stylized, there's nothing practical about any of it, so they absolutely would.

The real question is why space marines don't wear makeup and dye their hair. They're more elite, they should look the part!

# ? Apr 20, 2024 06:46

Al-Saqr: Nov 11, 2007; One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Guildencrantz posted:

The real question is why space marines don't wear makeup and dye their hair. They're more elite, they should look the part!

I have bad news regarding the last marine chapter who went a little too fancy

# ? Apr 20, 2024 07:12

The Demilich: Apr 9, 2020; The First Rites of Men Were Mortuary, the First Altars Tombs.

The Emperor's Finest got a little finer is all.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 07:18

RagnarokZ: May 14, 2004; Emperor of the Internet

The Deleter posted:

I'm in the middle of magnetising an Enforcer commander without a pin vice for my drill bits and my fingers hate me but I've done it and also I'll never bother again either

E: like its a fun and cool project to do but when everything is at the whim of whatever unpaid GW intern is doing the new edition then you might as well do whatever guns you think are sickest

I've magnetized my entire* Imperial Knight army and it wasn't that bad, until I drilled into a piece of recycled plastic, then it was bad, the random change in density was just enough to throw me off, good times.

*One of the Armigers isn't, it was used and cheap.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 09:42

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Eej posted:

And so forth.

I think you're kind of missing my point. This is what games workshop decided they look like at the time and that's why the cover and studio painted models look the way they do. At least that's what I'm guessing just by looking at the things.

Guildencrantz posted:

The real question is why space marines don't wear makeup and dye their hair. They're more elite, they should look the part!

They grow fancy beards and scars, just a different aesthetic.

Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Apr 20, 2024

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Guildencrantz posted:

It's in no way strange that sororitas wear makeup. All imperial power-armor wearers go into battle over-decorated and over-stylized, there's nothing practical about any of it, so they absolutely would.

The real question is why space marines don't wear makeup and dye their hair. They're more elite, they should look the part!

Have you considered playing Raven Guard?

# ? Apr 20, 2024 13:13

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

On the other hand Cadians clearly enforce grooming standards on everyone.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 13:18

Paragon8: Feb 19, 2007

Guildencrantz posted:

It's in no way strange that sororitas wear makeup. All imperial power-armor wearers go into battle over-decorated and over-stylized, there's nothing practical about any of it, so they absolutely would.

The real question is why space marines don't wear makeup and dye their hair. They're more elite, they should look the part!

I think there's a lot of rogue trader art with space marines looking more like punks with dyed hair. I know I paint some of my dudes with neon mohawks

# ? Apr 20, 2024 13:27

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Lostconfused posted:

I think you're kind of missing my point. This is what games workshop decided they look like at the time and that's why the cover and studio painted models look the way they do. At least that's what I'm guessing just by looking at the things.

All the art I posted is from around the same time they got their refresh for 8th edition. The first artwork even got a limited time model release in 9th. The studio painted models look like that because they don't bother to put makeup on them, that's all.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 15:06

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Ok fair, I didn't look through all of their official art. Maybe I just don't like the 9th edition cover :shrug:

# ? Apr 20, 2024 15:10

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

Oh jeez, the rogal dork kit has so many fiddly little parts so it takes forever to finish, way longer than a leman russ. And to make it worse it looks better without them too.

Free equipment options were a mistake, headlamps and no sponsons make for a much cleaner design than all the free meltas strapped on top.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 15:52

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

Honestly naked tanks look wrong, they need some stowage. Maybe not US military amount, but at least a couple of backpacks and a tarp on the turret/hull.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 15:56

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

*pictured us military amount*

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:05

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

Which is why I said some. :v:

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:14

Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

What are the grates for?

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:36

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

It's slat armor for protection against RPGs. RPGs are designed to focus the explosive blast of the grenade to a tiny point to maximize penetration power and the slats catch the projectile away from the armour so the focus point is away from the vehicle and the explosive blast spreads out relatively harmlessly against the actual vehicle itself.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:40

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

It's an RPG cage, it makes incoming rounds detonate away from the vehicle itself. I think the reason why they're grates is to prevent spalling to be created, but not 100% sure about that.

efb

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:41

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

They're grates because it's lighter than just a slab of metal and the spacing can make incoming projectiles impact at suboptimal angles which further disrupts the shaped charge effect or even break the fuse. It's also not a completely RPG proof system but it's cheaper than the alternatives.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:48

Warmachine: Jan 30, 2012

It's a fence to keep the GI's in.

I've also seen similar rigging on vehicles used in Ukraine to spoil top-attack munitions and drones. Protection schemes for vehicles are kinda neat.

# ? Apr 20, 2024 16:58

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

Eej posted:

They're grates because it's lighter than just a slab of metal

The russian turtle tanks beg to differ. :v:

# ? Apr 20, 2024 17:25

Lostconfused: Oct 1, 2008

I think I finally managed to finish assembling the models for a 2000 point list for my first army.

Only took like 5 months.

Now all I need to do is paint them :suicide:

# ? Apr 20, 2024 19:44

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Nazzadan posted:

700 pound neophyte Erebus: Lift me up higher daddy!

Lorgar: I can't my arms hurt from uh, fuckin' space Vietnam... prison.

lol

# ? Apr 20, 2024 20:43

Cooked Auto: Aug 4, 2007; If you will not serve in combat, you will serve on the firing line!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/21/sunday-preview-the-tau-empire-needs-you/

Next week's pre-orders is all about ~~Tau~~ Kroot. With both of the army box models and the rest of them becoming available.

And then there's also a codex.
And a combat patrol.

But those aren't as important as the kroot releases.

Oh and then there's some Made to ~~Orker~~ Order Orks too.

Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Apr 21, 2024

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Al-Saqr: Nov 11, 2007; One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Oh my god they brought back classic kommandos? Crazy

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