Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Top work, and great shot in the cabinet! I recently picked up the brush after a few months (inspired by SM2). Just finished the base coat on carapace, claws and skin on 20 hormagaunts. It’s…a slog, doing hordes! Once I’ve finished these I need some basic tyranid warriors then some fun stuff like raverners and Mawlocs etc.

Chaos dwarfs next week though! Day 1 buy. Does the resin stuff (Bull centaurs) go through third parties at release now? Never used to.

I think you can order it for delivery to a store or from a store like the old mail order days.

Also Tottenham Court Road has a load of the FW stuff on the peg. Though almost entirely Special Marines.

They're clearly two different arms though, one straight, one bent at the elbow. They've modelled one of those arms, then not included it in the sprue design. That's a proper cock up to whoever signed off on machining that sprue design.

www.reddit.com/r/TheAstraMilitarum/s/vRMW8Buz0t

The sprue is apparently here. I can’t tell. There’s also the possibility I guess that the picture is reversed. Is this being discussed anywhere else? Nobody has mentioned it on this post.

Edit: it’s early. Didn’t spot these were also up at GW.

OK I’m convinced. Hmmm. Disappointing.

I think ‘scummy’ is wrong though, for the simple reason of never attributing malice when incompetence likely explains it better.

Edit: discussed here too:

www.goonhammer.com/kill-team-2024-model-review-tempestus-aquilons/

Maybe it’s time to do that blue stuff recasting we discussed a while ago. Pfffft.

Is the Gunfighter an optional unit? I guess there may be some kind of balance thing involved as it looks like you can only take a power sword (presumably better than the chain sword) if you take the las pistol?

Ash mentioned it on GMG and just said to use an arm that is pointing on the commander guy if you want to use the power sword.

My recent spate of Warhammering (Space Marine 2, Rogue Trader, Total Warhammer 3, Chaos Gate) has got me wanting to paint again and get off the fucking PC!

Looking for some advice as I'm going around in circles, bear in mind the last time I painted was when the first Space Hulk boardgame came out and I was ruining Blood Angel Terminators.

Figured I'd chuck about £100 at John Warhammer and see how it goes. The dream is Warboss Orks and some of the more interesting ork models but in the meantime I need something to learn on.

Got my eye on the WH40K Paints and Tools set but wondered what else I need these days. I seem to remember spray paint for a base being involved and a bit of dry brushing.

Also eyeing up the Kommados kill team but I think a squad of something a bit more repeatable that would go with the colours in the paints and tools set. (no Tyrranids).

magicpanda For Orks I probably wouldn't bother with the starter paint set. It's designed to go with the base game, so colours for Nids and Ultramarines.

For minis: rule of cool it. Or yknow just some basic boyz to get started.
Tools:
- couple paint brushes, you can generally get by with a big one and a little one to start with.
- Clippers for plastic sprues, DO NOT buy the GW one because it's a fucking rip off.
- mould line removers are a scam, just get a normal hobby knife. If you care.

Paints:
- Base paint (can get a spray can but a pot of paint and a big brush will do the trick)
- These days there's Contrast/Speed paints which can basically do the first recess wash, base coat and a bit of highlighting on its own. For GW natural look you go with Wraithbone (cream/off white) or Grey Seer (grey for a more high contrast clean look)
- Couple of brighter highlight ones for detail

When starting out I'd only highlight some things. For Orks I'd highlight the skin so a couple shades of green. But I'd probably go Ah fuck it on trying to highlight some fiddly detail things or even the guns (just paint em metal coloured and be done).

Never buy the same paint colour from GW that's got an edge-highlight/base/dry versions of the same thing. It's just different levels of adding water and not worth paying for.

Tools and paints I'd shop around.
Warlord has Army Painter, Vallejo paints are good and I'm fond of my new Duncan Rhodes ones. GW paints are good but a lot of the tools they sell are basically over priced. I often just get paint brushes from an art shop as they're cheaper and they're just fucking paint brushes.

EDIT:
Also only ever do it to a level you're comfortable with. If you can't be fucked trying to dot pupils in eyes, just paint them all red and claim its a stylistic choice or all your orks ate some weird mushrooms. I tend to just put helmets on most my 40K models to avoid the whole problem.

I meant looking at the sprue there's like 4 hot shot laspistols. 3 left hand and 1 right hand. If you don't use all 3 just snip it and replace the right hand bolt-pistol one?

Yep, that's definitely the way forward, I agree. And, as established hobbyists, we always find a way around these things anyway.

But I suppose my main gripe is that I know 7 people with zero modelling experience who've jumped on this Kill Team release thanks to Space Marine 2, and I'm sure many more will be jumping in, and they're going to be very confused by the omission of a single right hand.

magicpanda

I’d buy one box of Ork Boyz which should leave you about 70 quid for other stuff.

I’d then buy:

Sprue clippers, a knife, and other bits. I posted a link to a cheap ‘Gundam modelling kit’ from Amazon a while back. That’s good and will get you all this in one box.

One of those green modelling mats. Essential.

Poly cement type glue. I use a Revell one with a needle applicator.

An Army Painter wet pallette (you can make your own but it’s good and not too expensive). This will make your paint go further.

Some mid tier brushes in various sizes (Citadel are OK, Army Painter are OK).

Some drybrushes or make up brushes.

Brush soap for all of the above. My favourite is the drunken gloop stuff with the unicorn on front.

Lighting lighting lighting. You want LED lights in the cool white spectrum of about 5-6K. I can’t stress enough how important this is. They generally come with a clip or vice type fitting and are generally USB powered. It’s very, very hard to make out details and get a true idea of colour without this stuff for me. I have two, one strip light on an articulated arm and one that is a ring around a magnifying glass. I’d get the latter at this point and invest in more if necessary/you get more serious/into it.

Watching tutorials to find a level or technique you want to attain is half of it. Don’t believe that everything you see on social media is attainable to the average person. But if you ever drew as a kid or built mechano or something you probably have some sort of transferable skill for this.

Also

WAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!

I would say some of these things are stage 2 buy them if you like it but you could put it off to see if you like it first.

Cutting matt, I still just use old copies of Private Eye I have laying around.
Wet Pallette is handy but I can't even be fucked using mine all the time and often just use a bit of tiling that I scrape off.
Dry brushes only once you need em. Not sure anything in the Ork boyz kit needs drybrushing? 
Brush soap you can get away with fairy liquid (I managed it for decades)

Lighting it dead handy but you can also get by doing it next to a window during daylight (which we will run out of soon, but if you're mostly going to do this early afternoon at the weekend just sit by a window).