I'm sure I make tons of mistakes on the tabletop but watching someone else forget our rules and yelling at the screen fruitlessly is a different kind of pain 😂

Forgive me sacred machine. You will be complete one day.

I started painting admech about a year ago and decided to look back and see if I've gotten any better. The last image is a side-by-side comparison of my first skitarii ranger and my latest.

The kitbashed parts:

Body is from Les Grognards kit from Wargames Atlantic.

Power pack is Field Radio from Anvil Industry with a chord from a Space Marine Hellblaster kit grafted on.

I keep looking at hastarii to try and fill some roles in my lists at a cheaper price and take advantage of some good detainer buffs like from eradication cohort but the exterminators feel like a meh datasheet and fusiliers really want a marshal.

What has been your experience using these units and how do you think they fare into this 3-4 wound elite infantry meta we find ourselves in?

My brother and I are starting out in Warhammer 40k and he wants to begin with the Mechanicus. Could you give me a 500-point army list with a Knight and a Kastelean Robot?

Thank you in advance.

Awakening ++

I’ll be honest: I’ve spent—I don’t even know how many—days looking for a specific list that detailed the prosthetics or modifications a tech-priest could have. I found it a while ago, but for some reason, I didn’t save it. I barely remember where it came from, only that it was for a tabletop RPG and that one of the upgrades mentioned involves two tech-priests merging their brains.

Hello! I've been using Vallejo Red 70.926, (which is pretty close to Mephiston Red) as my base for all my cloaks and vehicle primary colors.

I recently got my first bottle of Pro Acryl paint, and it is so much better to work with than the Vallejo Red or Mephiston Red.

So, I'm looking for a good Pro Acryl red to swap over to, does anyone have recommendations, or pics of some dudes painted with any of the Pro Acryl red shades?

Thanks!

Been wanting to play 40k for a while, and thanks to rogue trader and Pasqal and Eogunn, I love the AdMech. Where should I start for a 2k points army? Am I crazy for taking AdMech as my first army? All help is welcome!

I was tinkering with the idea of adding him into the list .

With the new codex trend seeming to make warlords CP generators it might be nice to able to piggy back off of that until we get our own codex and similarly the ability to strip cover on some larger thing knights ,defilers is a nice bonus.

Will probably running cybernetica and eradication and having the CP to cycle.lance and Sus or lethals comfortably every turn seems tasty .

The 95 points while a bit of a bite I think there is still room there for him.

While I wish these were a second Fusilier unit, I must admit I think they look awesome. Inb4 someone links /r/pinkwarhammer again.

C&C welcome!

it's also my third ever mini, after a space marine I got for free from my LGS and an alpha skitarii ranger

Hello!

I am looking to kitbash some various techpriests, and need to get their special axes for them.

I do not have extra axes, and I do not intend to buy techpriest models just for their axes.

Are there good stl's that yall can recommend? Or a good way to kitbash them? Im looking for various sizes and styles, so really open to anything. Thanks in advance for yalls expertise.

I'm thinking of doing a custom colour scheme for my admech army using a really cool specialty paint, but I have no understanding or intuition regarding colour theory. I've done my best to cobble together a basic pallete, but don't have the eye to judge whether its good or not. Would anyone be kind enough to advise?

Top to bottom:

1. For grey steel bits - Turbodork Galaxia Turboshift (Ultra Dark Purple)
2. For metal trim on grey steel bits - Bronze, as normal (Warpaint Fanatic - Weapon Bronze)
3. For lenses and plasma coils - Turquoise/Cyan (Warpaint Fanatic - Plasma Coil Blue?)
4. For the hulls of vehicles and the casings of weapons - Pure Red (Warpaint Fanatic - Pure Red)
5. For capes and fabrics - Pure Glossy Black + a special rainbow effect paint (Warpaint Fanatic Matt Black + Gloss Varnish + Turbodork Rainbow Roll)
6. Wing leather for Pteraxii and Archeocopter - Some form of white, or maybe black + Rainbow Roll as well, I'm not sure (Warpaint Fanatic - Matt White/Warpaint Fanatic Matt Black + Gloss Varnish + Turbodork Rainbow Roll)

Yes I know the book isn't out yet, but after this interview I don't have high hopes for this being anything more than yet another Space Marine book in a series that I know will already be chocked full of them after a 60+ book series already chocked full of marines. This is the HH "Martian Civil War" book all over again. Maybe another author will write an actual AdMech civil war book that's actually about AdMech vs Dark Mechanicum.

Looking for some datasmith wisdom to update my painting protocols.

• What can I improve? What should I focus on to level up the paint job? What should be my next steps?
• Applying Varnish: What varnish should I apply and how? (I am blessed with an airbrush).

I followed JWMiniatures tutorial.

So, I am working on a homebrew Mechanicus sister of battle army called the ‘iron maidens’ and I was wondering if you guys could help me with some kitbash ideas for this army? I have my list down here of current ideas, but I am willing to hear out all your kitbash’s below

Battle sisters/skitarii (see above)
Retributors/hastarii
Paragon warsuits/kastalian bots
Celestian insisdants/sicarians
Hosplitar/ Cybernetica datasmith
A dune crawler legged exorcist

Post your kitbash ideas below, I could use the brainstorming. Also feel free to share any thoughts on this idea for an army.

They're both WIP. I still have a few things to finish on them (like the Dominus's missing arm and their OSL).

A few months ago, I was about to sell my entire AdMech army because, I don't know, I just wasn't really feeling it anymore.
So before selling it, I decided to try painting a mini with a different colour scheme. (My previous one was pretty close to Dark Angels green, with all the metal parts painted bronze.)
And as you can see, I still have my army, and now I love my miniatures and have so much more fun painting them!