My Warhammer Thread

[Commodore]

I know Warhammer isn't too popular around these parts, but it's my hobby and I like sharing it so I'm making a thread dedicated to showing off my progress painting my army (and helping my daughter paint hers).

I suppose to broaden the appeal of the thread a bit there can be some discussion about other tabletop wargames or miniature painting in general, but I'd like to keep it focused on Warhammer. I'm more into 40k, but those who are into Warhammer Fantasy or Age of Sigmar are welcome here too.

Anyway, here's the latest model I completed. It's a Valhallan Ice Warriors sergeant with a power sword and hand flamer (a pistol sized flamethrower). I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, but I chalk that up to the fact that I went a few months without painting and the model was one of the old pewter ones. I find plastic and resin models much easier to work with and my paint jobs tend to look better on them.

 

[Kyriakos]

Nice
I never was into figure painting - actually I sucked at it, ruined all my models.
I did have a friend, in elementary school, who was very good at it.

 

[Commodore]

Yeah there are some people that are insanely good at it. I follow some of them on Instagram and the things they can do with painting are amazing. Kinda makes me angry though when they show a model that I would consider a masterpiece if I painted it and they say some crap like "just threw this together real quick, not my best work".

 

[Commodore]

I've been working on the rest of the infantry squad as well. I'm trying out batch/assembly line painting where you paint one aspect of a bunch of similar models and by the time you are done with the last one, you'll be ready to start the process all over again with the next aspect. Right now I just painted their coats and hats grey as the first step.

I think the grey is turning out a lot better so far than the green and white camo pattern on the sergeant.

 

[Gorbles]

"old" pewter isn't doing the Valhallan enough justice! That's a classic (hand) flamer. That's like calling my secondhand Skaven "old" (they're from the 90s, haha).

Liking it. Fallen out of Warhammer over the past decade, just don't have the time (or the money to spend on paints - unless the lids have gotten better, they don't last the few months I started spending between painting sessions). That said I have a box in this room (due to the house move) so I might get some pictures up at some point. Happy to leave it to the Ice Warriors for now

 

[EgonSpengler]

My first encounter with Warhammer 40k was the old Space Hulk boardgame. In the context of the 40k universe, it was just a small slice: Space Marines in "Terminator" armor board an abandoned spacecraft to fight their way through hordes of "Genestealers" because, for whatever reason, they don't just want to blow it up. The Terminators have the equivalent of submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers, hand grenades, mechanized and energized melee weapons; the Genestealers have numbers and a gleeful disregard for suffering casualties.

Later, I played Space Marine, tabletop battles with a larger scale than regular 40k. I liked the Space Marines. I like their concentration on small units of elite infantry, with a variety of armor and weapons types. I love the Dreadnoughts. iirc, Dreadnoughts are actually cyborgs - a senior Marine, horribly wounded, near death, is entombed within the behemoth (iirc, the center segment of the machine is actually called The Sarcophagus). Like The Winter Soldier in the MCU, Dreadnoughts are kept in stasis until they're needed on the battlefield. There's no way they're not completely insane. They have kind of a squat, boxy shape, with broad "shoulders" and stubby legs. They kind of remind me of ED-209 from Robocop, but bigger.

 

[Lexicus]

I was always pretty terrible at painting the models lol, maybe I'll get some of them out eventually

 

[Commodore]

"old" pewter isn't doing the Valhallan enough justice! That's a classic (hand) flamer. That's like calling my secondhand Skaven "old" (they're from the 90s, haha).

Liking it. Fallen out of Warhammer over the past decade, just don't have the time (or the money to spend on paints - unless the lids have gotten better, they don't last the few months I started spending between painting sessions). That said I have a box in this room (due to the house move) so I might get some pictures up at some point. Happy to leave it to the Ice Warriors for now

Thanks. I always regretted not getting all the old Imperial Guard models before GW discontinued them about four or five years ago. Now they only have Cadians, Catachan and Death Korps of Krieg if you want to pay Forgeworld's super high prices. But GW brought back the old guard models for a limited time and I was able to get some Valhallans before they took them away again. I missed out on the Vostroyans and Tallarn Desert Raiders though.

I don't use GW's paints. They are too expensive and they are acrylic, which isn't as durable over long periods of time, meaning you'll have to repaint your minis every so often (which may be intentional on GW's part). I use an enamel paint that's like $2 a pot and has served me well so far.

I never got any models for Warhammer Fantasy, but if I had, I probably would have collected Skaven. I like their whole look and lore. Plus, ratling guns and doomwheels for the win.

But if you can dig up those models, I'd like to see them, especially if it's those Skaven you mentioned.

irc, Dreadnoughts are actually cyborgs - a senior Marine, horribly wounded, near death, is entombed within the behemoth (iirc, the center segment of the machine is actually called The Sarcophagus

You are correct. "Even in death I serve". In the lore, the Space Wolves have the oldest "living" dreadnought, Bjorn the Felhanded. He fought in the Horus Heresy which makes him over 10,000 years old.

And you are correct in that a lot of them do go insane and it gets worse the longer they are in dreadnought form. Bjorn, for example, doesn't even realize where or when he is most of the time and in combat believes he is back in the Horus Heresy fighting against the traitor marines. It really is a horrible existence for them.

I was always pretty terrible at painting the models lol, maybe I'll get some of them out eventually

We're all our own worst critics. Hopefully we get to see your work.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I never got into WH40k tabletop (just too big of an investment in every way for me haha), but I enjoy the video games and the universe. I am just about to start reading my second Imperial Guard omnibus.

Everything in it is so bombastic and over the top...I kind of love it, just pure escapism. Plus I find the entire concept of the Warhammer version of Orks to be hilarious.

 

[Zardnaar]

Better at painting than I am. I read the WH40k wiki.

Played Space Crusade in the 90s.

 

[bernie14]

Nice! I used to love painting models and miniatures but haven't in years.

This guy has a great channel for miniature painting

https://www.youtube.com/c/Miniac

 

[Ajidica]

I never got into Fantasy or 40K, but I still have my collection of Historical models at parents house (at least, I think they are at parents house). I had a vague Norman/Byzantine/Frankish army, all I could really decide on was that I loved heavy cavalry and my interests changed almost year-to-year back in middle school when I was painting them. Stopped painting them when my playgroup fell apart. I wasn't bad at painting them, but was slightly hampered by the fact one person in my playgroup was a professional artist (specializing in historical painting) so his figures looked outstanding, better than the ones that appear in the source books even!

I played some of the Warhammer 40K Dark Heresy RPG. I like some of the Warhammer 40K setting, Genocidal Catholic Space Nazis flying Gothic Cathedrals through the void is always fun; but I really dislike the Space Marines and their ilk. Warhammer 40K to me was all about poor, squishy little humans holding their own against all the horrors of the Immaterium. Not juiced up jocks exiled from underwhelming 80s power metal album covers.

 

[Bugfatty300]

How adorable. I bought me the exact model of hand flamer at the International Waters Gun Show, 15 miles south east of Belize City. Send it home to be tossed in the safe.

 

[Kyriakos]

Model painting is difficult and requires some talent...
I was always the lazy type of gamer, preferring to buy toys which were ready to use.

 

[Commodore]

Nice! I used to love painting models and miniatures but haven't in years.

This guy has a great channel for miniature painting

https://www.youtube.com/c/Miniac

Yeah I watch Miniac a lot and try to learn from him. He seems a little douchy at times, but the man knows his stuff and has talent.

but I really dislike the Space Marines and their ilk. Warhammer 40K to me was all about poor, squishy little humans holding their own against all the horrors of the Immaterium. Not juiced up jocks exiled from underwhelming 80s power metal album covers

That's why I exclusively play Imperial Guard. They are the true heroes of the Imperium. I mean, it's easy to "know no fear" when you are given genetic enhancements and all the best weapons and armor the Imperium can offer. But the poor, bloody guardsman is just given a crappy lasgun, cardboard armor and is expected to face down literal daemons and alien horrors. And not only do those guardsmen do this, but they actually win a significant number of times.

 

[Commodore]

Oh and just to tide you guys over until I make some more progress on the Valhallans here's a Pink Horror of Tzeentch that my daughter painted:

Pretty good job for a heretic.

 

[Gorbles]

Ahh, good, Chaos. My 40k fix

 

[Commodore]

Ahh, good, Chaos. My 40k fix

Any particular Chaos God or are you a follower of Chaos Undivided? If I were to have a Chaos army, I'd probably go with Nurgle. His models are cool and in the lore he is the only Chaos God that genuinely cares for those who worship him despite being the god of disease and decay.

 

[Gorbles]

Any particular Chaos God or are you a follower of Chaos Undivided? If I were to have a Chaos army, I'd probably go with Nurgle. His models are cool and in the lore he is the only Chaos God that genuinely cares for those who worship him despite being the god of disease and decay.

A mix. I had a small Khornate army that I restructured to be a proper cult warband (way back in 3.5ed) and a larger Iron Warriors army (Undivided, but no daemons apart from Obliterators as per the theme).

I liked the red and brass theming of Berserkers, and the whole "siege army" appealed to me for Iron Warriors. I don't know why I went with Chaos other than "spiky bits cool", though I was about 10, so that tracks.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Warhammer 40k would make a good setting for an RPG, either tabletop or PC. It's got decades of developed lore and artwork; it has myriad factions and sub-factions that can be adversaries, competitors, or allies of convenience; various types of locations; a wide variety of equipment for players to use; and it's built for nonstop violence, which is really the only type of character interaction that RPG design has truly nailed, imo, so the game design wouldn't need to be innovative, just solid, and the basic narrative would be easy for players to grasp.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a 40k total conversion mod for X-COM 2. I liked Dawn of War, but for some reason DoW2 didn't grab me like X-COM 2 did. I'm not sure why. I never played DoW3.