Warhammer 40,000

Say, Sanguinius is mentioned in Characters.Warhammer 40000 Imperial Founders' "Primarchs in general" section as a subverted example of Fangs Are Evil. Since when did he have (persumably vampire-like) fangs? I never read anything about this before now.

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I did some searching and I am still unsure, found nothing except a joke about fangs on them on 1d4chan, which is not a very reliable site.

No mention of fangs at all with regards to Blood Angels, and Sanguinius in particular. Besides, despite the association of the chapter with vampiric traits, actual visible canines are more of a Space Wolf thing.

Very well, I'll have the tropes about thier fangs removed until further notice.

IIRC a recent BA model had visible fangs.

Finally got around to adding some more pictures of my models on my DA page.

• XV-109 Battlesuit
• Eldrad and Guardians
• Phoenix Lords and some random DAVUs
• Succubus and Haemonculus
• Rogue Trader and Retinue

edited 23rd May '15 8:36:35 AM by Nomic

That's some real Dakka my friend, good job!

Nice work!

Here's the three unhelmeted Marines I finished (except for varnishing) tonight. I asked on the 40K group on FB, but I'll ask here too - for the eyes, I used Model Color Carmine Red with a tiny dot of Squig Orange in the center, then used Bloodletter glaze. Do you think they're good as is, or should I put the Squig Orange back?

Considering how small the eyes on the model are, I don't think I would bother. Mostly because I just know I'd accidentally mess up the paint job by putting int oo much orange or getting it on the skin...

@Nomic: Those models look good, I especially like the Riptide.

I would agree with in not thinking pupils are necessary. I personally don't do pupils for my red-eyed orks.

So the teaser is up for Adeptus Astartes. Space Marine update is go.

Cool; they're varnished and ready to go.

I thought I'd completely botched my Assault Terminators...used Game Color's Moot Green equivalent for the edge highlighting and they didn't blend after I glazed them at all. Fortunately, a drybrush of 50/50 Warpstone Glow and Moot Green damped it down enough and put back in a highlight that the glaze had pretty much killed.

I'm really interested to see what the new Marines codex brings for formations and detachments.

edited 25th May '15 2:09:04 PM by Willbyr

Would you say that the Emperor of Mankind straddles the line between a very dark sort of Anti-Hero and a Knight Templar and/or Well-Intentioned Extremist kind of Anti-Villain?

In other, fanfic-related news:

• A fan wrote a story that can be summed as "What if the Tyranids were actually running away from one of the Lost Primachs, who was sent by the Emperor with his Legion to another galaxy during the Great Crusade, because the Emperor forsaw the Devourer's threat and decided to strike the abomination in its very lair?"

• Here is a story about a quite unconventional band of Chaos Marines, centered around a Tzeentchian Sorceror Marine who is probably the most sane and competent member of the Forces of Chaos, and is steadfastly irate at his patron Chaos God (who apparently finds this amusing enough to let him get away with his impiety).

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BTW, what do you suppose a Heretek of the Dark Mechanicus who swore himself to Slaanesh would be like? Tzeentchian Hereteks are the easiest to imagine, as the Lord of Change's purview fits nicely with the typical For Science! mentality that brooks no ethical or moral restraint, while Khorne and Nurgle are also understandable choices for fallen Techpriests who choose to focus on weapons and instruments of murder for the former, and the very processes of death and decay (and, by ironic proxy, life) as well as all sorts of diseases, parasites, and other physical corruption for the latter. But what does Slaanesh, the Chaos God of excess and hedonism, have to offer that would appeal to a Mad Scientist?

edited 25th May '15 5:31:48 PM by MarqFJA

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New space Marine Codex already? Damn, I really don't play enough...

@ Emprah question: I would say dark Anti-Hero and Knight Templar, yes.

@Slaanesh Heretek: Vibrators. Vibrators everywhere.

Ha ha. Now please address the question more seriously.

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...That was serious O.o

So I've been thinking about how you'd paint daemons to make them look weird and otherworldy, and one possibility that's occurred to me is marbling. You know, where you float swirled blotches of oil paint on water and then dip what you're painting? Then you could go in and paint details over this abstract pattern.

Just... would that be at all possible to do without destroying the details of the figure?

The now-dead Ciaphas Cain has to live up to his moniker of HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! once last time as he is forced to play a game of poker against all of the Ruinous Powers over who will get his soul, with the Emperor playing by his side.

... It was? But... But that sounds exactly like what I'd expect to hear from someone jokingly saying that Slaanesh is all about sex, sex, and nothing but sex! There is more to Slaanesh than carnal pleasures, you know.

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Alright then. A Heretek of Slaanesh would probably have vibrators, narcotics pumps, and sonic blasters made from instruments.

And great big subwoofers.

... That's all well and good, but it doesn't tell me anything about the Heretek's motivations.

A Khornate one was given a very good example in the Tome of Blood supplement to Black Crusade, where the techpriest in question, who was suffering to meet his arms production quotas due to delayed raw material resupplies (possibly due to under-the-table bribery from a rival techpriest), became "enlightened" to the "truth" that only through bloodshed and violence may one survive and achieve their goal, that only the strongest deserve to live (fun fact: his first act of Khornatism is to release a Khorne-"blessed" computer virus that caused a lot of machinery to go haywire and either explode outright or attack hapless workers, and consequentially killed a lot of people). And while not a direct example, The Lathe Worlds supplement for Dark Heresy showed us what a warrior techpriest may be like (it involves lots of bladed mecha-tentacles, IIRC); not a far step to assume that such techpriests are liable to becoming obsessed with slaughtering enemies for its own sake.

A Nurglesque techpriest, on the other hand, could be motivated by obsession with exploring the secrets of life, death, and putrefaction if more biologically inclined, or simply the process of entropy and physical decay in general if not so biology-focused.

And Tzeentch's portfolio includes those who seek knowledge of any kind (especially the forbidden, even outright sorcerous sort), as well as those who have great ambition (a pride-driven techpriest can desire to achieve a particular, lofty end with his quest for knowledge, rather than seek knowledge for its own sake, right?) or show a predilection for scheming (and we all know how the Adeptus/Dark Mechanicus are with political intrigue, no?). Obsession with change and evolution is also a viable route to Tzeentchianism for a techpriest.

Thus it ends with me getting stumped with Slaanesh. What motivations may drive a techpriest to give himself/herself over to the Lord of Pleasure and Pain that wouldn't end with him/her discarding their Mad Scientist role to become a pure self-indulging hedonist?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Maybe wanting flesh again after coming to the conclusion that replacing your entire body with machinery was a fucking stupid idea?

The desire to excel? I believe that's under Slaanesh's domain, to be the best techpriest.

Conception is sin Birth is pain Life is toil Death is inevitable

It would have to be something sensation-based...Slaanesh is primarily about hedonism and extremes of sensation. Maybe the techpriest becomes obsessed with refining sonic weapons?

Scuttlebutt I've heard is that the new codex is dropping at the end of the month, along with some new chapter-specific squad packs including a Salamanders Devastator squad, which will make me very happy.

edited 26th May '15 7:01:38 AM by Willbyr