Can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
Hurry up with the release of the full line GW!
You could just start with a killteam, it's what I'm doing right now. When Sisters launch tho I'll be going bananas with purchases.
I didn't notice this was spotlighted. Was going to recommend people watch the Astartes series but I see that was already posted. So I'll recommend some books to introduce people to the lore.
The Gaunts Ghosts series really eases you into things pretty well but if you want to know about different chapters of Space Marines I'd read the space marine battles books. If your interested about the events that essentially create the status quo in the 41st millennium as well as a titans worth of backstory I'd start reading the Horus Heresy books.
Or do what I'd did and read a few hundred wiki articles before buying an Imperial Guard omnibus. Slowly becoming obsessed with collecting black library books and expanding my collection until i have no space in my bookshelf.
Thank the Emperor for the Community Spotlight, because otherwise I would have never found this thread.
Quick question, years ago, GW had the 54mm Inquisitor Figures. Do they still have them or maybe something similar?
I have to say, 40k is the best fantasy universe EVER.
Half the fun for me is assembling the minis however I want. It's mostly why I loathe the snap together, monopose models, despite them usually having fancy bases.I'd probably buy a lot more Warhammer figs to paint if I didn't have to fuck with glue.
I hate gluing figs together, especially limbs.
Half the fun for me is assembling the minis however I want. It's mostly why I loathe the snap together, monopose models, despite them usually having fancy bases.
Tamiya plastic cementI'm just not neat with glue at all, so I usually end up getting it smeared and gooped up along and near the joints. Either I put too little glue on for it to bond, or enough for a good bond but it's squeezing/leaking out the joint.
Good watch for anyone just peeking in and curious about some 40k media:
First let me say this is one of the best, if not the best , fan art I've ever seen. From what I understand one person put this together. But I could be wrong.
However, while it has a lot of the elements from the WH40k universe it doesn't feel like it. Everything's all lit up and clean. Where's the gothic, almost mid evil environments? WH40K is basically the dark ages. But far in the future, and in outer space. To me the artist doesn't capture it.
Having said that I look forward to seeing the next installment. 🙂
I'm mainly referring to part 1. Look at the first episode as the Astartes walk down the hallway. All lit up, modern, and clean. But in the book, graphic novels, and other CGI movies I've seen and read the interior hallway of a ship is dark with light coming mainly from candle light. I mean, most of the ships in WH40K are flying cathedrals.The sequences take part in the interior of ships. If you look at part 2, the exterior of the ship being boarded definitely fits 40k, and if you look in the background during the shootout you can see the trademark gothic arches on the interior of the ship. The detail is there. It's not super in your face or anything, but it's there.
I'm mainly referring to part 1. Look at the first episode as the Astartes walk down the hallway. All lit up, modern, and clean. But in the book, graphic novels, and other CGI movies I've seen and read the interior hallway of a ship is dark with light coming mainly from candle light. I mean, most of the ships in WH40K are flying cathedrals.
Also, who are they fighting exactly? Are those suppose to psykers in part 4? I hate to keep using the word "clean". But they literally look like Mr. Clean. 😂 I guess I'm used to seeing a psyker a little more corrupt looking.
Good watch for anyone just peeking in and curious about some 40k media:
I wasn't able to discern any chapter marking so as it stands they seem to be an original chapter.By the by, is this a particular chapter? Or did the artist use a generic group of SMs?
Nice. 😈
Nice. 😈
Edit: Question: I read on YT it's just one person putting this together. Is that true? I understand you can make a CGI still pic from scratch. But don't you need people in body suits, covered with something, to give points of reference for movement?
Do you guys paint your figs in pieces and then glue them together or try to paint fully assembled?
I do the latter, but it makes for such messy paint work on inward-facing limbs and bottoms of figs that I'm considering trying the former.
Do you guys paint your figs in pieces and then glue them together or try to paint fully assembled?
I do the latter, but it makes for such messy paint work on inward-facing limbs and bottoms of figs that I'm considering trying the former.
I usually do them fully assembled but I'm probably going to start leaving the backpacks off my space marines. Its a nightmare to paint shoulder pads or apply transfers when they're getting in the way.
People who paint directly onto the sprue terrify me.
Space wolves have lots of different shoulder pads, paint em differently and they could be 10 different chapters.Trying to find pauldron sets of different chapters is a nightmare for a Deathwatch army
So far 90% of my army are Ultramarines, Fists or Blackshields
Oh except for my Apothecary who is Alpha Legion but ssshhhh
Oh yeah the Wolves.Space wolves have lots of different shoulder pads, paint em differently and they could be 10 different chapters.
Doesn't a box of Deathwatch Veterans come with a load of sholder pads on the sprue?Trying to find pauldron sets of different chapters is a nightmare for a Deathwatch army
So far 90% of my army are Ultramarines, Fists or Blackshields
Oh except for my Apothecary who is Alpha Legion but ssshhhh
It does but I'm being a scumbag and making my Deathwatch Primaris.Doesn't a box of Deathwatch Veterans come with a load of sholder pads on the sprue?
You' could also look at Shapeways for some, I recommend POP Goes the MONKEY's stuff: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/popbits?section=--+Deathwatch+Sets&s=0
You know first born Marines shoulder pads are the same size as primarisIt does but I'm being a scumbag and making my Deathwatch Primaris.
Only non Primaris is one Venerable Dreadnought and the Watch Commander
Though I think if I take a Venerable Dreadnought I can also take a Leviathan Dread as well, so the Watch Commander might go
You know first born Marines shoulder pads are the same size as primaris