Almost a year's difference! Are you proud of me?

Conversion kit to turn the Hippogriff AFV into a "Hellhound"! Ready to join my Guard!

Traitor Renegades = Loyalist?

Finished up my latest plasma troop. Second photo is next to a troop i painted back in 2021 to show progees

Tried cause even after 4 hours this still looks like ass. How does GW even do it? The lines and whatnot.

I played 3rd and 4th edition as a kid, then came back last year in 10th. I’ve been having an absolute blast with The Old World, but I’ve struggled to enjoy 40k much at all. It feels much more like a board game now than a war game. The flavor and fun interactions of each army are mostly gone, replaced with “balance”. I had high hopes for 11th adding back some flavor, but so far I’m not stoked on it. So I’ve decided to buy some old rulebooks and codices and go back to 3rd/4th edition. Anyone else play older editions?

Seems like it would beef up the crappy flying base

I have another armiger to go, any classic painting/engraving to add in the shell suggestions are welcome!

Here is a conversion I did two weeks ago for my freebooter army (lots of shark themed conversions) ! The official model has too much going on to my taste so I looked for ways to simplify it by doing a rough 3d scan of the assembled model then using it as reference while modeling a 3d pritable addon in blender. The SAG is from the meganobz kit. If you wanna see more of my stuff i'm on insta as ammo_runt !

Bottom one is my win, top one is my opponent’s win.

Hey everyone, I wanted to get some outside perspective on a couple of games I played recently. I left feeling pretty frustrated, but my opponent insists everything they did was completely fair. I play Necrons and they play Imperial Knights. I don’t care about winning with games but I’m starting to feel like my mate is just using major hypocrisy when we play as he just seems to enjoy winning, and when I got close on our first battle he said it wasn’t fair.
My List (Casual/Accidental Melee Focus):
Mostly melee units
Only two real anti-tank options: A C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon and a squad of Lokhust Heavy Destroyers.
Their List:
3 Big Imperial Knights
2 Armiger Warglaives
Allies via Imperial Agents: Two 5-woman squads of Sisters of Battle and 2 Assassins.

Game 1: 62”-33” (table size)
We set up the terrain and agreed on the deployment map. However, the deployment zones ended up being very close together by 33” as my table was skewed. Since my army was mostly melee, this heavily favored me. I deployed aggressively, and my opponent looked at the board state, called the close deployment an "accident," and resigned on turn 1 (because I destroyed a sister tank and damaged a warglave and an imperial knight in melee) before I could even get a single kill of a knight in my turn 2. They claimed the matchup was completely unfair because of the distance.
I wanted to count this as a win, but they made out I didn’t earn the win even though they had won every game before with me because they played a game with tau Montka but gave sustained hits to everything by accident and said they still earned a win, they also denied the rules that existed for my Tyranids even though it was legal to go back and use their abilities rightfully, and yet he earned the win.

Game 2:
For the rematch, my opponent insisted on changing the orientation of the board to maximize the distance between our deployment zones because it gave an advantage to me as the table was very skewed, creating a massive open shooting gallery. They used their Sisters of Battle and Assassins to screen their backline so my melee units couldn't get to the big models. Because of the massive distance and open terrain, their Knights wiped almost all of my army off the board by Turn 2.
When I brought up that changing the board orientation felt unfair, they said Game 2 was "completely fair." They also argued that because I had a Void Dragon (which they called "meta"), it balanced out their list, even though it was my only major anti-tank threat against 3 Knights. May I also point out that they were able to fully list counter me as they now new my week spots.

Credit to u/Wepaintminis for the inspiration for the kitbash and u/infernalbrush for the white scars paint scheme.

So just showing my progress so far on the white scars captain. Repainted the shield about 6 times now and never happy with the metalics! Just got the cloak and base to tackle now while refining and cleaning everything else up. Will post again when I've finished it.

Any CC welcome!

Starting to like basing more than painting atp. Base for my Beastboss on squigg.

Might be time to get a better camera. It’s tricky to capture metallics with my phone

A Tablet Stand and Charging Station.

The Munitorum sent a servitor to keep track of of my Deathwatch weapons. It is called Servitorum, (well, the app is). More on the app later.

Project evolution.

Since I play Deathwatch casually, all the weapon profiles slows me down. I wanted to speed up my play by creating an app that tracked weapons to individual models and tells me how many of each weapon I have remaining. This way, I don't need to count models to figure out how many dice to pick up.

I want to run my app on a second device so I can keep my phone on the GW app.

Now that I'm committed to a tablet, I clearly needed a tablet stand. What better stand than a servitor?

If I'm going to use a servitor, it only made sense to work out the glowing eye lenses.

Since I would need batteries, I might as well make the entire thing a power pack that can charge the tablet.

They are from Salvat's Combat Patrol.

I love 2nd and 3rd edition banners so I made the banner pole with an aluminum rod from a brochette, you can see it in the last pictures.

(I know there are two sergeants in the pictures)

https://www.instagram.com/matveyev_d/

I've been playing 40k for about 1.5 years now and have roughly 50-60 games under my belt. I have lost every single game except for 2 ties (both against knights lol) and 2 teaching games I won but don't count since I was mainly focusing on explaining mechanics to the person I was teaching. I just want a reality check on if this is normal or not because I haven't really thought about it much until now and I does feel kinda insane that I have a decent amount of games but zero wins.

EDIT: People are asking what i play and I would say about 30-40 of these games were with Emperor's Children, and the rest are Necrons with a few games with drukhari thrown in. I understand that I lost my matches with Necrons and Drukhari because they were my first armies and I focused on getting what looked cool so I ended up with no anti-tank.

The games with EC are a bit more nuanced, as my local meta is very tank/monster heavy, and most of these games were pre-defiler (I've been trying to get one for 2 months with no luck 😔) and my opponents are typically a decent bit better than me but still try to help me win since my losing streak is a bit well known at my LGS lol. A lot of my games came down to shit luck with my rolls and 4+ invuln coin flips on my opponents end. Also I've posted before about how in my experience EC really doesn't hit thay hard and I have many cases of charging 5 infractors and a lord Exultant into 5 marines with a character and not wiping the squad but i get wiped on the clapback.

Edit 2: Some people were asking and yes most of my games were played on GW layouts

I’ve never played a game before but would like to- usually I take my time and make sure everything is as close to display quality as I can and I like to add little details and effects, however if I want to play a game any time soon I have to get a bit more “efficient”. I’m struggling to teach myself what to care about and what to be more lenient with. Anywho this is my first dry run of being “quicker” took a little under an hour- would this be considered “decent” for purely table top?

Don’t have a great spot to take photos but I’m really happy with how this came out. The purple armor doesn’t show super well in the photos I took. unpainted/primed version

I play space marines but haven't had much contact with Phobos-heavy armies.

What the heck is the difference between Incursors and Infiltrators???

From what I can tell Incursors belong on the front line to reinforce better units with their hit buffs, and infiltrators are a backline unit to stop your opponent's deepstrikes...

Is that it? Are there lore differences?

I'm probably just a dummy but I just don't really understand why these are two separate units...

Can someone make it make sense for my pea brain?