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So pretty simple question, i have a lot to learn from the basics to the more complex, i want to know which warhammer models are best for me to learn new skills on or atleast try express skills with. This may be models with certain simpler proportions or the opposite of more difficulties to help me learn and adapt. Some things i know i can do is i can do some good worn leather and i actually liked it, and my first attempt at both volumetric lighting and skin have been poor attempts. And id like to stay away from contrasts as it will be bit cheap for what im wanting to do with this hobby.

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So i apologise for coming here again after already asking about this before but i have more info this time and it has caused me some confusion. I checked the X account of the artist who made these amazing looking seraphon saurus and i was checking for anything that could help me find out more about how they did them. Eventually i found the first image in this post labeled 1, that post had the original attempt they made that from what i can tell had very little changes except for the black spine and less trollyslayer orange.

But speaking of this, they said that they had used specifically mephiston red as the base red and a mephiston incubi darkness 1 to 1 mix as a shade. I found that someone asked if they shaded the whole mini or only the recesses of which they said that they only shaded the recesses. But asside from that they said they then dry brushed with evil sunz scarlet and then another dry brush of trollslayer orange and i assume a edge highlight of orange which they didnt state. This all applies to the first image 1 and it seems mostly believable except the dru brush of scarlet and mephiston.

So to my issue that has me confused, the darkest of the red areas seem a lot darker than the layer of mephiston that i put on a test mini and after trying to drybrush with evil sunz scarlet, it is very hard to notice how it was drybrushed, i cant tell anywhere where i can visually see that it was scarlet being drybrushed but instead maybe glazed in some situations.

So the final thing is considering the spine scales on the final attempt, they look clearly contrast painted but im not too well versed. So this leads me unsure on if flesh tearers maybe was used, a mephiston base with flesh tearers contrast then the incubi darkness recess shade, with finally edge highlighting and selective glazing of evil sunz and then fine edge highlighting of trollslayer orange.

This is a lot i know but if someone can give me some insight it would be helpful

Edit: The artist is Amy snuggs on X, another edit now also is i just found another post and they used Carroburg crimson too, im just not sure where it is i cant quite tell the colour

Just looking for if anyone has examples of a good into channel to help me learn the game system aswell as a channel for battle reports. Very simple question so not much else to put, just trying to get into the game and i learn best by seeing,

So I'm getting the CIS starter set for Christmas and I wanted to see how people are painting them for inspiration to look back on in some months when I do my own. I'm mostly curious about the B1s honestly as they just look like a block of metallic paint but I imagine they can easily be done without it. Just wanting to collect some well painted examples from the community so I can decide for myself

So finishing up my seraphon spearhead with the carnosuar and i was curious. is it a wiser option to instead of doing the skin and all its contrasts, to first do all the other base colours first incase i make a mistake with them afterwards as contrast is a bit hard to fix.

So I'm on an old nostalgia trip after playing all the classic halo games and wanted to check out the original battle fronts games, I remember them so fondly when playing galactic conquest. Havnt tried the new games, don't know why but I didn't bother trying. So I'm here to ask for the difference in buying the original 2 games separate or them as the bundle with is roughly 12 ISH pound more.

I'd gladly try the new games too if they have stuff like galactic conquest too but I don't know much about the new two.

So looking for a "taster" of the factions, and looked at the starter sets but a lot of them are quite large, although a very good deal. Especially when the first i looked at was the seperatist alliance one which was incredibly heavy on single colour bodies in the B1s unfortunately. I saw some smaller sets of only 2 to 4 models that also seemed like a decent introduction like the customisable command droids? wanted to know what other smaller scale kits there could be for each faction to figure out if i like them.

EDIT: By start i mean start collecting for hobbying, not for playing the tabletop.

so right now we have unsc marines odst and spartans, and then we also have the banished elites brutes grunts and jackals. But i was thinking since i really liked some of the old covenant themed elite armour types, could the covenant be a faction or is it something that is planned? and also what other factions can exist or will exist, maybe the flood but i feel as though it would be very difficult to implement in game. I am not too up to date with what mantic has said to the community so maybe this is all known information but i dont quite know.

What do you want Mantic to release for this game system, i mean this in terms of rules changes updates, new models or factions, or even just new game modes as i know that's partially something i would look to in the distant future.

Getting a feel of the community and what they think of this game and want and like about it with this kind of post. i come primarily as a halo lover of the original bungie trilogy, and also both halo wars, even to an extent i don't mind infinite. But i have also in recent years took up modelling and painting primarily from the fact my dad and uncle used to do warhammer, so i eventually have picked it up too. Still new to it kind of and very bad in some aspects especially when it comes to the modelling part which i was kind of happy to see flashpoint didn't have much of it.

What i want going forward may be not what others want because i come from RTS games and also warhammer games. I'm a huge fan of the big battles of warhammer and RTS games when the armies collide and have small strategic actions to win leading me to hope for someday a bigger game format than the current 200 to 250 points, even if it is never the true focus. And other than that i would love more factions, i am a fan of the banished and their aesthetic but there is nothing as good to me as the aesthetic of the general covenant. I love banished hunters, look a bit scrappy and fitting for what they are, but there is just something so good and iconic about the smooth structures and armours of the covenant races. That and being who i am, zerg player, tyranid player, scrin player, the flood would be an amazing addition to me although i wouldn't even imagine the design difficulty of trying to implement it.

Aside from the actual game part, i want those old covenant style designed models if it could ever happen, a good elite ultra model for me would be so cool or even a councillor model. And the new reinforcements boxes answered something i wanted prior, really wanted to be killing grunts and jackals or even marines depending on what you are playing at the time, just adding a bit more depth and reality to these firefights.

So i'm just asking what kinds of things do you guys want to see from this game whether it is in the near future like hunters or small vehicles which i can imagine. Or in the distant future like larger vehicles and much larger battle or new factions. I would like to hear your opinions.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk i hope you all have a good day.

This is kind of a question, i played the halo games as a kid and especially had an affinity for halo 3 back in the split screen co op days, and also halo reach for its multiplayer. i am not the child i was back then enjoying games randomly but not understanding them, but i also had a big affinity for warhammer. This is largely due to my dad and uncle painting them when i was younger and me seeing them and still having some of those relics hanging around, but recently while waiting for a warhammer game to release i thought id play all the old halo games i missed so much, played all the major halo games including reach on heroic which was a challenge but a fun one. This brings me to my most favourite halo games from a child, Halo wars and Halo wars 2. So that is maybe why i am into warhammer building and painting my armies, my love for old school rts games and being a strategic commander.

Bringing my point for the post forward, i stumbled upon this halo flashpoint, still not really knowing what it is just now and saw that they are adding grunts and jackals soon which i am so happy about. i want to know kind of how old this game is, how often its getting updates and new models. When it comes to tabletop wargames im very much currently more a painter than a player, but i would still like to know how the gameplay is if many people are playing it.

So i asked in the 40k reddit because i was curious about how to play the game in a narrative way to really feel the game to game story happening and unfolding so im also curious of the same thing in aos, is there any official rules or guides or books similar to that of the 40k crusade kind stuff that helps you make your own narrative campaigns over several games.

Asked in the 40k reddit yesterday about narrative campaigns and someone linked me towards crusade, wanted to know what i can do narratively with crusade or if its even still a thing in 11th edition or if it was abandoned and theres some sort of alternative that everyone uses. Any help is most wanted thank you.

Dont know if this is the right reddit for it, wasnt sure if it should have been the warhammer 40k reddit or just this one but ill put it here since i think dawn of war 4 related stuff is allowed. I was looking at the rosters that factions have and its a decent amount but at the same time feels really small and really lacking, not sure if its just me but it feels like there is just a fraction of what some factions have included like the necrons. Having a triarch stalker but no triarch infantry, Or orks who have so many vehicles available on the table top from damage dealing vehicles to the iconic trukks and i see almost nothing.

Dunno if there is plans for dlc to add more or something but for now it looks kinda low in terms of the number of variations of troops you can have.

So been looking at all the factions i like in warhammer (its a bit list) and i wanted to ask what kind of models people like, whether its because of the rules or because of the looks or maybe even just the lore. I personally really like the Myphitic Blight Hauler, I dont know why but it looks cute and not super disgusting, maybe its the one small red eye. Always see one in a store in my town and always have to say no to picking him up. So what do you guys like and please tell me why you do.

So just wanted to know if the weapons or head options are tied to the rules in any way since I really like the more lizard looking head over the crocodile one and honestly I'm impartial to either weapon so mostly worried about the heads

Wanted to know what kind of list variety exists currently, i can give examples of what i was able to build for tyranids and how so i wanted to know what can happen with CSM as a whole and see what focuses or sub focuses exist. For tyranids i can make something like all harvester models + norn assimilators, a full warrior spam list with synaptic and warrior bioform, a full monster lists with crusher stampede and norn detatchement, a full vanguard list with lictor focus using the two lictor detatchments. Hopefully those examples helps you know what i mean by variety but yeah just something to add variety from game to game.

Just a quick question, when putting the drum together it had an indent in the bottom which was kind of ugly and showing the crack in it a lot, didnt know if what i did was bad but i just put a tiny bit of plastic glue on it, just enough to make a flat surface out of glue so that it will instead become a flat bottom.

So first of all i love the saurus warriors looks but i have one huge gripe, i hate putting together the warrior kit, it might just be me being bad at assembly as thats very viable, but both times ive tried to theres huge gaps inbetween the spines on the back from the two torso halves. This time since its not just the mini of the month now i tried to put glue there to cover the gap then made a mistake of trying to get the glue i accidently got on the main spike on his back off by rubbing it off but it had already started melting to the mini so ive spent so long carving the look of the spike back onto him lmao.

Dunno if its only me but ive had major issues building their torso

I dont know anything about the actual playing of the game yet but i wanted to know if theres a difference between spear and club? or if its just a pure aesthetic choice.

I was just checking in the 40k discord about if the horde mode gamemode made by poorhammer was updated to 11th and it made me think that many factions in age of sigmar would be really interesting in a similar format with many factions being able to be played as a horde and many being able to be played as otherwise. Was just wondering if anyone knows if there has been any attempts at making the horde mode format work for age of sigmar?