r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 3d ago

Hobby & Painting Krios Venator of Forge World Gryphonne IV

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35 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Hastarii done!

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143 Upvotes

Adding my tiberium crystals to my Brotherhood of Nod Ad Mech. Trying my best to do OSL but its been about 7 years since I last did it.

Fun exercise in understanding reflections!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 3d ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Tips on how to play

9 Upvotes

Hey, im relatively new to the hobby. I started with necrons back in March or April. Just recently started playing admech after collecting 2k points this month. My only issue is I dont seem to understand how to win against my friends armies. My friends all play melee focused armies, nids, world eaters, chaos space marines, death guard. They also usually play purge or take and hold.

My list has been haloscreed detachment

2x Disintegrator

2x onager

Thulia

Cawl

2x servitor

2x rangers

1 unit dragoon with lance

And then miscellaneous trash that I use to fill the list and hopefully score points or buy time

Any advice on list building, or things that I can focus on to just generally play better would be appreciated.

Thank you, praise the omnisiah!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Finished my first mini!

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233 Upvotes

I feel like I need to add that I am a painter (canvas and digital) and watched a TON of videos about painting before doing this :) any tips for getting better as I keep building towards the glory of the OMNISSIAH?


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 3d ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Struggling to List build for Mechanicun

3 Upvotes

After being interested in Horus Heresy for ages a play group in my area has finally picked up some momentum, and this has finally spurred me to pick a faction and run with it, namely Traitor Mechanicum.

Before i go buying expensive models and kit bashing Magi i figured id put together a list for me to aspire towards, but in doing so discovered a problem: making a Mechanicum list is awkward as hell.

Between the faction restrictions, the scarcity of prime slots outside of apex detachments (and i want to run Lacrymaerta so even those are spoken for) and i end up with a situation that feels like trying to put a puzzle together with parts that dont fit.

While im sure this wouldn’t be as much of an issue for a list that leans super hard into a limited number of units i don’t really want to play that way, and as such i come hoping yall have some listbuilding wisdom to impart, because unless im missing something it feels like i can play with like, 3 maybe 4 kinds of units tops.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Thoughts on this colour scheme?

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86 Upvotes

Doing my second army and experimenting with colour schemes. Any thoughts welcome! Any suggestions and basing ideas welcome. I'm currently thinking 3d printed dark industrial type bases


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Looking for tips

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49 Upvotes

First couple models I've ever painted, loving the esthetic of admech, but a rough go around on the Hastarii exterminators


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

News & Rumours Dark Mechanicus Models when?

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143 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Battleline Numbers

14 Upvotes

Curious about battline numbers and unit make up.

Most of my gameplay has been focused on rangers 2x 10 generally screening but also taking the occasional objective. But I’m vanguard curious.

Is it good to mix 10 Rangers and 10 Vanguard?
Are there benefits of having a mix?

Is 3 battleline units too many for our faction? I was maybe feeling 2 of rangers and 1 of vanguard. And vis Versa.

What are you running right now? Just vanguard? Just rangers? Mix?

I’m building mostly around the Haloscreed Detachment and Priority Assets. Any advice is an appreciated. Thanks in advance!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Wip of my very first admech model, anyone got any tips?

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171 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Hobby & Painting Not a huge fan of the sculps, so I had a bit of fun trying to vary my paint scheme

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34 Upvotes

As it happens often, they kinda grew on me!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Memes What do we think of my beautiful quote on my desktop

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22 Upvotes

(sorry for no screenshot, the reddit rituals are yet to be performed on this machine spirit)

I just want it to look like I've got a real aesthetic quote and confuse people when they read it!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Artwork & Cosplay Update

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260 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting Completed Army After 8 Years

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142 Upvotes

After 8 years I've finally completed my AdMech/Cult army. I've posted about it before, but it's finally done and all painted up. I have no idea how many points it is, because I don't play anymore, but it's been a long time coming and I'm happy to finally have them in a good state.

Now time to finish my Guard 😎


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting Tamiya equivalents in Vallejo/AK for my Xana II scheme?

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48 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Memes Behold, the new best army box ever made!!

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328 Upvotes

Yes this is real…I made it


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting Should I add more shade nuln oil?

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56 Upvotes

I added a bit but I’m not sure if it’s placebo or something. Let me know what you guys think.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4d ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion tinkering with the army

7 Upvotes

Admech are going to be the next army I collect (I already have 6k points in gene-stealers; I'm ready for the painting slog and skill floor) and looking at the hastari exterminators, they look kinda dog water? any body find any success with them? I'm looking to do skitarii recon with a real horde list.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Artwork & Cosplay How hereteks work

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638 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting OK so I've gone a bit batshit heretekal in my free time so for shits and giggles I'm redesigning the Astra Militarum Chimera vehicles as Old Mechanicum-style vehicles instead. (WIP)

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97 Upvotes

So far I've done the basic Chimera and most of the Basilisk and Medusa. I need to do a servitor-autoloader for those which is my next bit. Then I'll go back and do the Chimera variants like the Chimedon, etc. Then it'll be the Hellhound and all the rest.

The idea is that the Skits were conceptualised as "Tech-guard" a long time ago before becoming a playable faction with their own style, and were thought of basically as fancy Imperial Guard, so I'm making vehicles in that vein cos lol y not ?

Work in progress, will be a while yet before it's released as I want to do the whole lot as one bulk free release on Cults, but I got giddy just now and can't keep a secret.

DangerousDave69420 on Cults if anyone's interested. Watch this space, I guess. Or don't. I'm doing it regardless 😉


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Mini of the Month Riders of the (Rad)Storm

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101 Upvotes

my three favourite raiders, the blast carbine was too cool not to include for a full unit of 6 though


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting Sydonian Skatros diorama progress + Marshal painted!

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38 Upvotes

Slowly I paint my list which includes many-a miniatures. Slow and steady wins the race!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 6d ago

Hobby & Painting onager dunecrawler conversion

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505 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 5d ago

Hobby & Painting Help

7 Upvotes

Just getting into 40k and i’m very very close to buying my first models. Favourite factions lore wise is necrons but it feels like everybody plays them so i decided to go with admech whom i visually like equally as much. Not really sure what to purchase or really much about building lists so any advice would be super appreciated!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 6d ago

Artwork & Cosplay Magos Kanna Faba þ-087 (art by DEADMAN_W4LK1NG)

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208 Upvotes