Warhammer 40,000

I was thinking that the Chaos Space Marines had unique marines to represent each the Big Four. How about they provide their blessings in the form of unique infantry to the Lost & the Damned.

Maybe in the form of this:

• Mirror Guardsman are the damned guardsman of the Prince of Excess himself. Their flesh turned into silvery mirrors that when viewed reflect upon the viewers dark, debased desires that will cause the viewer to lose their soul if they fear what they see in their mirror-like flesh.

• Blood-Brass Vengeful Ones , Khorne's chosen of the Lost & the Damned that are anointed in Blood-Brass that carries the souls of their fallen comrades in the Long War. Comrades with their fellow anointed ones, that if one of their own dies they become filled with murderous rage and advance to avenge their lost brothers & sisters with same force that was used to kill their comrades thanks to the Blood-Brass.

• Blight Guardsman are the apple of Nurgle's eye in the Lost & the Damned. 13 plagues dwell in their bodies which they cheerfully spread with their mere presence & with their death.

• Manchurian Candidates, Tzeentch's agents to undermine his enemies. They are within the very souls of the enemy's troops, they are on outside, the perfect comrade & soldier to their mark. That is until the word is given in which they transform their hosts (if their souls are too weak) in to twisted mutated abominations with the strengths or weaknesses of their hosts.

Yay for fragile components. Nearly snapped one of the rear pylons on my Farseer's jetbike in half trying to clean it up.

Aaand the Fire Prism's hull was warped. =/

That is pretty creative. It wouldnt be out of character for the Ruinous Powers to experiment like that with their disposable grunts.

"I WANT MY GUYS TO BE AXES MADE OF BLOOD!"

Snap, Crackle, Pop! "Sweet Emperor, we're sorry, take us back! Save us from Khrone's creative favor!"

edited 3rd Sep '16 7:34:48 AM by Rotpar

Seems like you're not having very much luck today.

Though making still-living "meat weapons" out of people sounds a bit more like Slaanesh's (or Tzeentch's) thing.

edited 3rd Sep '16 8:13:53 AM by nervmeister

The warping problem wasn't anything a little bit of superglue and a lot of brute force couldn't fix.

I also rediscovered my hatred for hand-painting stripes◊ on things, but that's neither here nor there.

That's good then. I must say though that, as someone who has been painting a mob of Gretchin since yesterday, I am impressed at how quick you have pained those.

I paint quick and dirty. I'm not going for Golden Demon level stuff here.

In this case it was just "give everything two coats of Evil Sunz Scarlet or White Scar then do the detailing".

I know GW recommends Wild Rider Red for Saim-Hann stuff but the pot of the stuff I have looks too orange to me.

Gold stuff is given a coat of Averland Sunset first, then topcoated with an old bottle of Shining Gold.

edited 3rd Sep '16 9:22:55 AM by Deadbeatloser22

Cool. I generally go for "looks reasonably good from three to four feet away" standard myself but it still takes me a while to paint anything. I think my record is two Tactical marines in a relatively simple scheme in five hours.

Either way I wouldn't really class myself as a speed painter.

Clearly for the last bike in the set I should time the process.

edited 3rd Sep '16 9:46:59 AM by Deadbeatloser22

Which apparently comes out to about an hour to build and paint a single jetbike and rider without transfers.

But yeah.◊

Looks good.

I put a crude entry for Khorne Daemonkin on the Forces of Chaos page...needs some beef.

Yeah my current Guard scheme is a camo pattern over the helmet, armor, uniform, and pouches. All the same. Inspired by my time in the US Army (where armor, helm, and pouches were all the same pattern) and not only is it pretty cohesive, it's so much less time consuming to paint 90% of the Guardsmen the same.

How are these as options for the pic for the Khorne Daemonkin? 1◊, 2◊, 3◊

As the Codex cover 3 would probably be best but 1 is good as well.

[1] Here's an example of my Guard color scheme. Sorry about the fuzziness, my phone camera sucks lol.

That looks good...I bet it looks even better at tabletop level.

I picked up the Deathwatch codex and the Kill Team box set today. Haven't looked at the codex yet, but the Kill Team set is pretty cool. The rules look nice (a helluva lot better than the old version), having the small print version of the regular rule book will be very handy, and the instruction booklets for the kits are really nice...you get full color assembly instructions and the Space Marine booklet has color paint schemes for the C:SM chapters and Crimson Fists, along with bolters and flamers. You don't get paint schemes for the Tau but you do get a transfer sheet.

Also, I had a chat with the FLGS employee who's really into 40K and from his take, the Eldar fluff regarding Death Masque isn't quite as bleak as it seems. Basically, everything's really up in the air...Ynnead might be gone, or he might still pop up later, and the Infinity Circuits are essentially on hold.

edited 4th Sep '16 4:58:58 PM by Willbyr

Will: thanks. Yeah from a distance it looks great, and it's easy as fuck to pant.

@Deadbeatloser 22's Eldar: They look good. The red and black also goes with the Vividred Operation wallpaper on your computer

@Mark Von Lewis's Guard: I don't generally like camo schemes but that is pretty good.

In other news, there will be new Blood Angel stuff for pre-order this week including: a supplement, a Death Company Collection, an Orbital Intervention Collection, Blood Angel specific Assault & Devastator Marines and a new Terminator Captain, among other things.

edited 5th Sep '16 11:04:17 AM by SebastianGray

EDIT: NVM

edited 5th Sep '16 11:16:08 PM by SantosLHalper

Last Saturday, I ran a Deathwatch game that I had to come up with on a moment's notice. The plot is that the Kill-Team is sent to a Hive City that's infested with Genestealers. Their job is to fight their way to the Arbites station and hold it until they're relieved by the Guard. The team consists of a Black Shield Tactical Marine formerly of the Astral Claws, a Minotaurs Assault Marine, an Imperial Fists Tactical Marine and a Blood Angels Apothecary.

Went pretty well, considering that I had a couple hours to plan the game. Though they went straight through the Hybrid horde of 30.

My greatest moment of trolling one of my players was putting a Black Shield in Heresy-pattern power armor in the same group as a Dark Angels Space Marine.