I keep seeing it more and more in 11th, but to my knowledge, other than it allowing 1 DP detachments to be taken, Im unsure why its seemingly at the top of winning lists. So why now? What changed?
Its especially confusing as it was my favorite detachment pre-codex in 10th.
Painting Blood and Plunder models are good fun but the models are a *hair* too small for my generic GW paint handles to be able to hold.
Does anyone have any recommendations for other paint handles or solutions? Ideally, it would also need to be able to be used between multiple models for army painting capabilities.
**"You have to follow Da Codex!"**
**"You have to follow Da Codex!"**
I bought this little guy off of Ebay years ago. This model was disgustingly overprimed (and still is, technically) and in poor physical condition, so I chose it as my first attempt at painting Tau. This piece is inspired by the older Tau faction art from the early 2000s.
Make an 11th Edition Hazardous roll (roll of 1 or 2), take wounds, place disembarking models, then roll Deadly Demise iirc. Where we got shadow buffed by Fly and Rotate changes, this noticeably shadow nerfs us.
Now I just gotta wait for the actual Lyran decals to come in!
My family moved to a new address a couple of months ago and this is the first item Ive bought off of Ebay since then. I thought it would have sent to my CURRENT address as I had updated it, but it defaulted to my PREVIOUS address.
This flew under my radar, unfortunately, until I noticed it was returned from my PREVIOUS address' residents back to the seller address. Noticing that it went to the wrong address and was successfully returned, I contacted the seller and offered to pay for shipping again.
They agreed and asked for a picture of the new shipping label to be sent over message. However, for example, I am not familiar with the package's sizes and weight. Additionally, I am not sure how to go about this. How should I do this?
Im having a hard time picking what colors to paint my Leviathan tyranids. Most people recognize Leviathan as being purple, however, official paint guides and 'eavy metal box arts often lean burgundy, but sometimes are purple or pink.
I sampled the dark, mid and highlights of several Tyranid box arts hoping to find some answer, but it seems most of them lean closer to burgundy. In Space Marine 2, most Leviathan Tyranids seem to be this color as well. The most recent (Leviathan) Tyranid refreshes and releases are burgundy leaning, however...
Older Leviathan models and box arts depicted their shells as purple, and not burgundy. Only some newer models are still mostly purple these days. Additionally, the majority (but not all!) official Leviathan codex art depicts them as purple.
I also painted one gaunt as (mostly community art) Leviathan purple one side and (mostly box art) Leviathan burgundy on the other, but this didnt help much either, to be honest. The official GW gaunt is burgundy, however it seems the majority of Leviathan Tyranid players actually lean closer to the purple appearance.
In an official GW interview with the painters, they said its because of the shell thickness (shells becoming pinker as it becomes thinner), however the examples given are fundamentally different colors than the explanation provided (i.e. most shells are closer to red and some shells are closer to blue) but the consistency is all over the place. The official answer is that GW is aware of the difference, but that they want Leviathan armies to look inconsistent on purpose to provide a more 'organic' feeling visually.
However... I am not happy with this. The visuals are too different, at least in my attempt, to try to host them in the same army for me to be okay with.
I know some will say 'just pick the color that you want' but I want a color that GW would actually confirm as being the most accurate, or at least the most likely to remain long term for Leviathan. It seems they're leaning closer to pink-red-burgundy with newer releases, but that might change over time.
Edit; Im getting a lot of comments overestimating how 'serious' Im taking this. The truth is, I just like analyzing the colors! Im aware its actually quite silly, but Ive not seen it talked about yet in the community. This is not a super-serious post, but sonething I would like to get the Hive Mind's feedback on regardless.
Edit 2: Its very possible GW will continue with the wine-colored burgundy for Leviathan for the foreseeable future, and this will become the new community 'default' over time. Thus splitting them into two main colors; Retro-Leviathan (purple) and Modern-Leviathan (burgundy). Kind of like what happened to Hive Fleet Hydra's blue black carapace shells variations with Hydra taking on a darker appearance in official capacity.