I got one of those small Walmart pools and I'm spending a considerable amount of time in it. Trying to decide on building a floating paint station or something like a tray to mount on the side. Also considering a floating battle table.
Used a conversion kit from Ikarus Pattern
When creating trophies or mini-dioramas, do you prefer to keep a certain faction as the archenemy of your army or just put whatever looks cool on the base?
My little guy here's not allowed on r/eldar cause the mods thought it was a meme. After seeing the sprue marine's thought I'd give this a go - wanted to share!
Wanted a silly space marine with a skeleton on the shield, is this guy exclusive or is he still available?
New art by me: Da lads out for a spin in their new trakk! It's great to see this old classic get the upgrade it deserves in the new Armageddon box. Though for a proper garbage can skorcha you'll need to get da cutters out. More art like this at www.instagram.com/andrewmeijers
I am getting the head I want from a friend in a few days. I used an armageddon intercessor and various spare bits I had.
Howdy folks! It’s always fun to get a group photo of your minis. These are the last 3 salamanders that I’ve fully completed grouped together (you may have seen the individual posts in the last month or two). While the basing for the army isn’t strictly salamander themed, I enjoy the cohesive ‘fighting in ruins’ style for them. Let me know what you think!
I tried to make the new Eradicators look more like Long Fangs. They still need a lot of work paint wise, but they are playable now! 🤟
Video if interested: https://youtu.be/5XgF9cQve3I
Zoats! Psychic ambassadors/spies of the early Hive Fleets, either engineered or enslaved (or enslaved and retro-engineered) to undermine and assess the galaxy ahead of the Tyranid arrival.
Functionally independent of the Hive Mind, we can assume they acted as a 'symbiotic' species for the Tyranids, like pilot fish for sharks (or the Silver Surfer for Galactus), up until the Hive Fleets determined the relationship had outlasted its benefits, and began reacting to absorb their biomass... a fate which at least some Zoats escaped, such as the Forerunner and Archivist, who both made their way to the Blackstone Fortress.
A symbiotic, semi-independent species that serves the Tyranids until being consumed... sounds familiar?
I think Zoats would fit perfectly into the Genestealer Cults, having learned to 'hack' each Broodmind's psychic IFF to recognise them as friendly heralds of the Star Children. Some of them might act as wandering 'mercenaries', passing through and using the Cult as a safe haven before moving on once their goals are achieved. Others might try to outright usurp effective control of a Cult, positioning themselves as long-term 'advisors' to the parasitised Patriarch.
I wouldn't want them to be a major chunk of the faction, but Zoats could add a new visual angle to the GSC roster, expanding them beyond "space miners", "xenomorph mutants", and "Illuminati cultists". They'd also potentially open up more outlandish alien technology, contributed or adapted from Imperial tech by Zoat technologists.
Got into Tyranids with a groups of buddies in 9th edition. They started with Guard, Admech, and Grey Knighrs respectively. The Psychic phase was my favorite, I loved terrorizing my friends with my squad of 6 zoanthropes and a Neurothrope dealing a bunch of mortal wounds. I remember being excited to buy the hive tyrant variants and the broodlord because that was more psychic powers I had access to. Fights with the Grey Knights was a lot of fun because they were ALL psykers and had access to those powers. They felt like a very unique army. Some armies not having access to psykers and psychic powers helped establish army identity and made psykers feel like truly unique forces on the battlefield. When the psychic phase was phased out in 10th (pun intended), both Tyranids and Grey Knights felt like they lost a lot of their identity. My buddy even sold his grey knights, saying that without the psychic powers they just felt like elite space marines (he also collected regular space marines at that point). Having a unit be a psyker doesn’t really mean anything more than a keyword on some weapons nowadays, and maybe a datasheets ability if you’re lucky. I doubt it’ll ever happen, but I fervently hope that one day my favorite phase of the game will find its way back to me and my Zoanthropes will smite once more
First time trying free hand exile markings