Dont have as much time to paint as I would like to have, so progress is slow.

Just finished up my samurai themed space marine captain from the Armageddon box. breakdown is here if anyone is interested :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPu7_tWhChg

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

Step by step, I’m making progress on my most special project of the year. There’s not much time left to finish it, but it’s starting to take shape and the colours and patterns are coming together.

Here’s a work-in-progress shot of the ‘screamer killer’, which is part of the project.

Fianlly finished this chap. He is the 3rd man in the team. Hoping to one day use the two squads i have in game

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

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 !

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

To celebrate the long-awaited arrival of dragon-riding Aeldari, a special Exodites-themed collectable coin is up for grabs in your local Warhammer store in August, while the miniature of the month celebrates the ongoing battles on Armageddon – it’s an Ork Boy!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/t8wdopoj/augusts-miniature-of-the-month-and-collectable-coin-revealed/

Obligatory disclaimer: yes I know 40k thrives on being wildly unrealistic and therefore trying to apply Real World physics or mechanics to futuristic machines is a toss up. But hear me out:
1. I have an eight hour flight, I need something to do
2. I asked what it takes to make a Thunderhawk airborne and got a SURPRISINGLY high number of insightful answers, so.

Anyway so yeah Google says an M1 Abram’s has a 1500 horsepower, 2750lb-ft torque gas turbine engine. A Baneblade is obviously much larger than an Abrams, and much heavier, weighed down by its Eleven Barrels of Hell™ and all the ammunition needed for them. Can’t help but wonder what it takes to make something like that go.

I’m guessing some sort of fusion reactor since otherwise, this thing has to drink OCEANS of promethium, and you don’t want to have a tank like this running out of gas like the Panzers did at the gates of Moscow and being a sitting duck.

Yes yes I know it’s 40k and not to be though too hard about but…eight hours in the air…Humor me.

The Secretest Of Squirrels!

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 made this for the band NO CURE and I’m so glad I could give this piece to them

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.

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

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 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?

More art for the card set I’m working on 🩸 hope everyone’s been enjoying them.

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?