What have you guys found to be the best way to organize bits for you.

I use to have it by component, gun, two handed gun, head, shoulder pads, yknow stuff like that. But I find myself always circling back to random bins full of random bits. My collection has grown extensively these past few months due to eBay and birthday purchases and it has gotten severely out of hand. I have a great many bins that can be used for sorting so space isn’t an issue, simply the organizational system itself.

Sticky Tack holding him together for now as I want to record a video for YouTube talking about my creation process of homebrews in general.

But this is Enoch, Chief Apostle of The First Company of Astral Glaives (name is subject to change).

I realized I try to incorporate everything I like about space marines in one chapter, my first finalized homebrew The Umbral Claws, adept Xenos hunters and artifact keepers serving as ONE of the chamber militants of the Ordo Chronos. In my head canon the Ordo Chronos acts much like The SCP foundation of the Inquistion.

I kept trying to incorporate everything I want in a space marine chapter in my Umbral Claws, just to name a few:
Knight Aesthetic
Bespoke Weaponry
A bit of Chaos or Xenos flare since they serve the Inquistion and it gives me a cop out for cool kitbashes.
Rugged Black Shield vibes
Augmetics
First born vibes and heresy equipment.

However my Umbral Claws have evolved and taken on an identity of their own as they’ve continued to develop in my mind, so I decided to put everything that didn’t fit in with their eventual Space Wolf aesthetic into a new chapter entirely. The second chamber militant of the Ordo Chronos: the Astral Glaives. They are inspired by Dark Fantasy knights, trying to go for a dark souls aesthetic. While the Umbral Claws are the Ordo’s answer to Xenos Threats, the Astral Glaives serve as their answer to Chaos Threats. The Umbral Claws will fill my want of kitbashing cool Xenos weapons, while my Astral Glaives can fill my kitbashing cool chaos weapons. My Pirates (Eastern Fringe Raiding Company) get both so it works out 😂.

This association allows me to do everything I enjoy when kitbashing my Umbral Claws, while also exploring a new design philosophy and process. It also allows me to use a lot of dark angels miniatures I’ve had for awhile and a lot of bits I don’t think fit my Umbral Claws like swords and more ornate decor. With both chapters serving the Ordo i can also use the minis interchangeably in games, so for example if I need Blade Guard Vets for a list, but I only have my head takers for my “space wolves” I can just use my inner circle companions from my “dark angels” to compensate.

I’m thinking of painting them a bright but dirty silver, with blue as their supporting color. Totally not setting them up to be similar to the Astral Claws I have no idea what you’re talking about.

My Cavemen and Pirates must now deal with the Knights joining the fray. I’m gonna have to think of another niche when I make a truly chaotic warband instead of just renegades 😂.

Printed this guy for dialing in my settings on my Bambuu, his claws came out a bit wonky so I tried to trim them, trimmed too much, cut off the gloves, broke his leg in the process, and decided to just scorched earth it.

Is it weird that I think he’s pretty well proportioned? Like I think this really works Especially with the Devastator armored legs.

Kind of tempting to do a whole force like this 😂
I did take the time to kitbash him to fit into my homebrew chapter so maybe he’ll be a cool oath of moment token or something

Here is my Rogue Trader owned knight!
Help me pick a head in the comments!

3D printed leg extenders added and then coated with sprue goo to make glueing easy and eliminate layer lines!

The knight barebones right now compared to what I want it to be at the end. The goal is for it to look very opulent yet rugged, like a successful pirate captain kind of vibe to fit the Rogue Trader. She’s already a gorgeous knight, he’s gonna treat her like a captain treats his ship.

I’m thinking I may check eBay for big Xenos guns or melee weapons to replace one of his with, that feels very rogue trader to me. I want him to be absolutely adorned in trophies and treasure.

Planning on running them as allied Canis Rex or just a paladin for my space marine chapter, but theyll probably just end up being the start to an imperial knights army 😂.

The pilot is in the pictures as well, he was thrown together real quick and he’s beautiful, instantly one of my favorite kitbashes I’ve ever done. I want his knight to bring his same level of beauty.

Behemot the Shattertusk, Chapter Master of the Umbral Claws.

Stand in for Logan Grimnar

He himself was done, but I had to wait for the new Ogor kits to pop up in my LGS

The base is a conglomerate of bases from Armageddon, Styrene, and even Hurons stepping stone!

Also a random resin Necron I had lying around.

I was wondering if anyone knew of places that updated and resized these old guys.

I love these knights and want a whole knight house of them, but I need them the right size so I’m really hoping you guys can drop some suggestions!

Just got a Ps1, I got it mostly for titans and knights, maybe some terrain. But I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff on this sub and I’m wondering if there is anything anyone recommends before I finish setup and begin printing things.

I’d like to print helmets and bits if possible, but I don’t know if a thing like that is possible on the Ps1, your welcome to prove me wrong in the comments as long as you share your settings 😂

I got the Centurion kit before it goes away for ever, I want to kitbash them with some Saturnine Terminators to make a cool and unique unit for my custom chapter, akin to inner circle companions or sanguinary guards.
I plan on it being essentially extremely heavy terminators, possibly focusing on melee combat rather than big shooty guys, my homebrew chapter deals with a lot of large Xenos/Demon beasts often so it would make sense they’d still have a very heavy unit capable of withstanding those situations.
I did kitbash some saturnine into centurions already, but now with both kits I think I’ll be able to make something really cool.

Very well then.

My upsized Casterferrum attempt V3 WIP
I recent came into possession of a saturnine box for my birthday thanks to my wonderful girlfriend.
Then it came partially damaged.
So I received another from GW.

So I’m using some of the pieces from the damaged box to make cooler stuff rather than the normal models. I made a cool chapter master and now I need a dreadnought!

I built the painted dread about a year ago and never even got to use him in game. He’s still my favorite model I’ve ever painted, the first and oldest of my custom chapter, but now he needs an upgrade so he’s getting the premium treatment.

I hate the redemptor legs, they just look wrong and don’t match what I love about dreadnoughts. Also WHY ARE THE Sarcophagi HIGHER THAN THE BIG SHOULDERS THATS LIKE THEIR WHOLE SILHOUETTE! AND THEYRE SO ROUND!
Anyway.
Saturnine legs feel perfect with how wide they are to fit a Casterferrum, leviathan felt too small to me. Also the side panels of the dreadnought slot upwards perfectly with a little trimming.

I just wanted an excuse to show off my favorite kitbashes I’ve done!
Hope you guys do the same!

Having trouble picking an army of mine to kitbash a kill team out of, and in the spirit of this being my first attempt at making YouTube content I want to know what you guys think. So I’m gonna give a little bit of lore and aesthetic notes on each

My Pirates: The Eastern Fringe Raiding Company
For this kill team I plan on using de-plagued deathguard and Corsair raiders to kitbash them.
They’d be painted like the blue chaos lord, but I was too proud to not include their original look (which I’m still debating whether to use or not even though it’s essentially fancy black legion)
They are at their core sunken marines, I picture them a lot like Davy Jones and his crew with less mutations. I want them to look like they been under water for centuries.
They have a lot of classic pirate tropes, hook hands, peg legs, and exotic animal pets galore.
For Wolf Scouts they will have a kitbashed xenos creature with them.

My Cavemen: The Umbral Claws
The Lapdogs of the Ordo Chronos, and a forgetful chapter. Painted with their deeds on their armor and adorned in the exotic furs of mega fauna of their homeworld these monster hunters are adept with blunt weaponry, and tinkering with their guns in hopes of creating a chapter relic that they will be remembered by. The curse of their founding carries an Amnestic property, causing most people to forget their existence or at the very least be unsure of it.
These guys are a combination of black Templars and space wolves, with a primal aesthetic and seraphon bits sprinkled in.
The wolf scouts animal would be one of the sabertooth tigers from the new ogor mawtribes kits.

My Alpha Legion
I actually don’t have a whole force of these guys, nor plan to sadly. While I love the alpha legion I already have one chaos army in progress. I painted these guys in a classic scheme and then tried to update it to the modern day.
The killteam will be classic chaos marines, using Horus heresy models, old legionnaires kit, and new legionnaires kit to achieve a very 2-4th edition feel to the kill team.
I think it’d be really fun to try and kitbash the drones for the Tau team, I know nothing of the rules for it but I think it’d be interesting to kitbash the alpha legion as a Xenos team rather than marines.
And of course the sneaky Phobos team has to be an option.

All these teams will probably be made one day, but my friend wants to play a big game of 40k and I was able to talk him down to a kill team since I’m no where near ready for a physical full 2000 point game, so I have to kitbash a kill team promptly. I was originally going to do angels of death since he has a box of Kasarkin, but he opted for kitbashing a salamanders angels of death and I don’t want to just be the same kill team fighting each other.

Da Boss of my FreeBootas, as well as a Pirate Lord in my CSM renegade Pirate warband. Hoping to make him a stand-in for Huron! Or possibly a demon bring if I can bulk him up a bit more.

Armed (literally) with “Da Meg”, his power claw fashioned from a Xenos space swimming creature that took his original arm.

And also The “Waghhlass”, a mystical ork sword that has some weird abilities including:
Taking control of allied vehicle weapon systems with a simple wave, following Snappa’s commands without the need of middlemen
Controlling vehicles he is on, again without need of middlemen man to act out his commands.
It’s almost as if the sword takes command of whatever machine spirit or waghhh energy lies within the vehicle.

The sword is his mark of office, Admiral of the The Dreadfleet and Lord Boatswain of The Eastern Fringe Raiding Company.

I’m very happy about the hat, it isn’t green stuff, it’s actually thin styrene plastic with my green sprue goo layered over it. I’ve discovered that doing this allowed me to essentially sculpt a realistic hat without even needing to touch putty, gonna make making FreeBootas much easier in the future.

Da Red Snappa
He’s gonna be painted red instead of green, which is why he gained notoriety in his lost clan of regularly green orks.
Mork, or perhaps possibly Gork, blessed him with being the Fastest, leading him to rising in his clan rather fast, everything he does is fast, even thinking, making him a rather smart ork compared to others, allowing him to both outsmart and out speed his adversaries in his rise to the top.

A young Edwakka Tatz had overthrown his old boss after they lost a battle involving the Necrons and Aeldari, and I mean so bad they had to leave. The boyz did not like this, that their boss declared defeat rather than coming back to fight another day, Edwakka hated it most, boarding the boss’s ship and killing him and his large aquatic pet. He lost an arm in the battle, which he then replaced with the beasts head.

This caught the Dredgelord’s eye when a newly christened band of FreeBootas entered the Charybdis Reach in search of a good scrap.

After a month of non stop fighting, Dredgelord Davnir took to the field himself, and was able to restrain Snappa, and they forged an agreement. Da Red Snappa’s forces were now under Davnirs command as well, and Snappa was given a station of command in the crew, as well as a relic cutlass.

Over time he slowly began to be affected by the warp, really it just gave him larger arms and enhanced strength. He does not purposefully or truly serve the Chaos Gods, but neither does Davnir, taking whatever gifts they can, and giving nothing back.

Just wondering what custom terrain you guys have made and what you’ve used to do it!

I received this box at a store sale for like 30 dollars because the box was crushed. The models were still pristine inside so no complaints here! This is my first 40k terrain piece so I’m unsure on how to tackle making it my own!

I fear I may have blundered by not pacing myself.
I’ve made a lot of really cool characters to replace named space wolves ones for eventual army lists but I’ve neglected to actually make any other cool whole units besides 5 terminators, some head takers, and my “outriders” / “Thunderwolf Calvary”.

My favorite thing is kitbashing characters so obviously it’s what happened first but I feel like I may have run out steam, like most of my cool named guys feel finished and I don’t really know where else to go from here. Maybe I’m just over thinking it but it just feels weird that I’ve made the “Chapter’s Greatest Heroes” without making the Chapter itself yknow?
Like I’ve already made the Chapter Master (Logan stand-in), a cool lone operative character(combi lieutenant) , master of the forge (arjac rockfist), my raptors (Thunderwolf), my head takers (not pictured here), some terminators and a generic captain. I feel like I’ve just hit a rut creatively on continuing them.

Pictured at the end is essentially the rest of the chapter, some half kitbashed, others not at all, I have so much more I can do but I feel like I’ve just hit a wall.

Anyone else feel like this? How did you over come it?

TLDR: help me pick a claw for him!

Da Boss of my FreeBootas, as well as a Pirate Lord in my CSM renegade Pirate warband. Hoping to make him a stand-in for Huron weapons wise, with a squig representing the hamadrya.

I’m very happy about the hat, it isn’t green stuff, it’s actually thin styrene plastic with my green sprue goo layered over it. I’ve discovered that doing this allowed me to essentially sculpt a realistic hat without even needing to touch putty, gonna make making FreeBootas much easier in the future.

Da Red Snappa
He’s gonna be painted red instead of green, which is why he gained notoriety in his lost clan of regularly green orks.
Mork, or perhaps possibly Gork, blessed him with being the Fastest, leading him to rising in his clan rather fast, everything he does is fast, even thinking, making him a rather smart ork compared to others, allowing him to both outsmart and out speed his adversaries in his rise to the top.

This caught the Dredgelord’s eye when a newly christened band of FreeBootas entered the Charybdis Reach.

A young Edwakka Tatz had overthrown his old boss after they lost a battle involving the Necrons and Aeldari, and I mean so bad they had to leave. The boyz did not like this, that their boss declared defeat rather than coming back to fight another day, Edwakka hated it most, boarding the boss’s ship and killing him and his large aquatic pet. He lost an arm in the battle, which he then replaced with…

That’s where I don’t know what to do, I added some options at the end so I’d like to see what yall think!
I think I’m leaning towards the shark head, but i think I’m gonna have to cut it down a lot to make it properly fit with him.

Edwakka Tatz is meant to be Edward Teach but ork, I hope to also sculpt him a beard, special type of hair squig that likes chins maybe.

I’m trying to film myself doing kitbashing of a Killteam for my custom chapter, but everytime I’ve tried to sit down and record myself messing with models (has happened on many occasions) it ends up being hours upon hours of kitbashing and figuring out what looks good and what doesn’t.

They gotta make them ahead of time and then just put them together on camera right 😂? I can’t imagine they just parse through hours of footage.

Anyone have any tips for making this kind of content?

As the title says, I’m looking for more of these kind of arms/bionics, I know it’s a longshot since I’m pretty sure he’s meant to be a named character (or atleast was before age of sigmar) but I wanted to ask and see if anyone knew of similar bionics or even 3D prints someone made to match them?

I used one the main one to outfit my space marine chapter master, but I would love more to sprinkle through my force!

Behemot The Shattertusk
Lord Commander of the Umbral Claws
My cavemen space marines finally have their commander.

Taking any suggestions for finishing off his details.
I know i need a beltbuckle and some more fur for him to be done, but any other suggestions I’ll happily take!

My lieutenant with Combi-Weapon, Sakaar the Knife Tooth. Only a lieutenant with combiweapon for games, but in my lore he is a lone operative captain of the 7th company.

The Umbral Claws job is hunting anomalies, with a focus on time anomalies, in the 40k universe.
Afflicted with a gene curse of an Antimemetic aura, causing about 95% of people to forget their existence, making them the perfect tools of the ever mysterious Ordo Chronos.

Lord of Redaction must take up the job of ensuring the Umbral Claws remain redacted. This usually involves taking lone missions where they are: infiltrating inquisitorial outposts and Xenos ships, intercepting and destroying documents, even terminating targets if deemed necessary, which is their last resort and a rare occurrence.

Sakaar’s Equipment:

Normal bolt pistol: he uses a normal bolt pistol, reason being is its one of the only thing the chapter has a surplus of, and he is constantly losing his. Whether incompetence or warp shenanigans always leaving a trace of the Umbral claws causes this is unknown.

D-15:
An ancient bespoke pistol, possibly a disintegration pistol from the heresy, however it’s been heavily modified on its journey to the modern day. It now acts more like a plasma gun, being able to be overcharged at threat to the user. It has served as a, fairly useful, long range assassination tool. Firing a beam that atomically annihilates anything in its path for up to 40 feet, with the overcharge expanding this range to 200 feet if used properly. However it is not unusual for this to backfire

The Codex:
A relic of unknown origin, seemingly the perfect combination of Eldar and Imperial technology. Gives the user the prominent abilities of invisibility, minor teleportation without the use of the warp, and energy shields. Minor abilities range as this is meant to be essentially a highly sophisticated multi-tool. Also nicknamed the “Skeleton Key” for it seemingly being the reason The Master of Redaction can actually do his job. Whether a relic of the Dark Age of Technology, A Deathwatch tool, or even the remnants of another timeline, The Codex is one of the most valuable relics available to the Umbral Claws.