Warhammer 40k

[Rand M Arthur]

My painting skills are pretty rudimentary so take any tips with a grain of salt, but I also get shaky hand and find it's a lot more managable if both hands are touching. So I'll have my mini/part in my left hand and brush in the right with my pinky/ring fingers of my right hand touching somewhere on the left hand. For big parts like what I'm working on right now sometimes I have to just touch pinky tips together or even rest on the part itself. But the important part is "linking" the hands by keeping them in even minimal contact. I find it helps enormously.

@Striderxdj

To piggyback off this, another mistake people make is always trying to paint with the model stood on its base. If you can get a better angle by putting it upside-down, then blu-tac the base to a lamp, ect.

 

[Striderxdj]

This one turned out fantastic, even got the eyes pretty good.

 

[thoughtsone]

Just finished the fabius bile triology....great stuff! but they totally screw almost all the characters at the end, like the writing just...disappears. But tthats only the last 2 chapters of a 3 book series and the payoff with Fabius at the end is worth it.

Also finished the Farsight 2 book series. Holy crap, how he slowly comes around to realising the ethereals are using everyone....man truly great work!

 

[thoughtsone]

I'm on book 3 of the Horus Heresy, and I absolutely love it. Eisenhorn is next on my list, as I hear it's getting a tv series adaptation. What would you all suggest?


btw, what's the connection to Warhammer medieval style? Is there one?

If you are going for a new book, I HIGHLY rec lords of silence. Its great writing about some Nurgle lords and its much much more then just spikey space marines. Its really my favorite black library book by a long shot.

 

[GtehMVP]

If you are going for a new book, I HIGHLY rec lords of silence. Its great writing about some Nurgle lords and its much much more then just spikey space marines. Its really my favorite black library book by a long shot.

Thanks man, I'll add it to the list. Are they in audio format?

I bought 6 books on audible so far and downloaded some mega comp of the Heresy (250+ books/audio dramas) including Ciaphas Cain trilogy which I was also looking for

I heard the Forges of Mars books are awesome too, but I can't find them in audio format. I might just pick them up on paper back

At my shitty interim job, I can listen to my headphones/audiobooks. I've gone through about 30 of them since the pandemic started. They are great in the car or cleaning/in bed too.

I can't get over how much I love the lore in 40K, it's my new obsession. I love Universes like this that included us at some point. It's so crazy absurd/epic, but they totally own it and make it believable.

 

[thoughtsone]

Thanks man, I'll add it to the list. Are they in audio format?

I bought 6 books on audible so far and downloaded some mega comp of the Heresy (250+ books/audio dramas) including Ciaphas Cain trilogy which I was also looking for

I heard the Forges of Mars books are awesome too, but I can't find them in audio format. I might just pick them up on paper back

At my shitty interim job, I can listen to my headphones/audiobooks. I've gone through about 30 of them since the pandemic started. They are great in the car or cleaning/in bed too.

I can't get over how much I love the lore in 40K, it's my new obsession. I love Universes like this that included us at some point. It's so crazy absurd/epic, but they totally own it and make it believable.

Yep they are in audio. I also rec the Fabius Bile triology
Primogenitor (2016)
Fabius Bile: Clonelord (2017)
Fabius Bile: Manflayer (2020)

Though the first 2 are WAY better then the 3rd one. The third one is kinda phoned in. Still good overall but not as good as the first 2 which are really, really good.

Also:
Farsight
Farsight: Crisis of Faith
Farsight: Empire of Lies

Man they are also great, show how fucked up the Tau society really is under everything, though not as bad as the rest of the societies in this world.

ORKS:
Brutal Kunnin

War for Armageddon: The Omnibus
Is pretty good but I like Grimaldus as a character good stuff.

The entire Gaunts Ghost series is amazing.

New stuff that advances the timeline from the 13th black crusade onward:
Shroud of Night
Dark Imperium
Cadia Stands
Watchers of the Throne
Devastation of Baal
(Eldar) Ghost Warrior
Sons of Hydra
Castellan
The Last Hunt
Cadian Honor
Ragnar Blackmane
Curse of the Wulfen
Pre I think but still decent Legacy of Russ
The Red Path
Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint
Dawn of Fire: Avenging Son
Indomitus
Darkness in the Blood
Isnt 13th crusade but a fun look at the new Necrons : The Infinite and The Divine
Mark of Faith
Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work
Knights Of Macragge
Apocalypse

 

[Deleted member 110072]

WH Fantasy was developed before 40k and a lot of early 40k was basically just the fantasy factions but IN SPACE! with a healthy dose of tropes ripped from popular culture. 40k developed into its own thing over time and its popularity eclipsed Fantasy. I believe that there are no explicit connections between the settings at this point.

Beyond the typical stuff that gets mentioned like Tolkien, Starwars, Heberts Dune, Aliens, etc I think a big factor back in the 80's was also various kinds of pulpy fanasty art that were around. 40K I think has alot of Judge Dread influence and Mobius whilst fantasy battle(and Chaos/Orcs in both) drew alot of the kind of punky hippy crusty scene of the 80's, Ian Miller's pencil drawings espeically were a massive part of the setting at the time.

Honestly I'm a bit surprised Hollywood still hasnt come calling with the franchise obsession, that original Space Marine book from back in the day seems like a pretty easy plot outline.

 

[Kung Fu Flid]

Does seem like Reynolds had writer's fatigue with the last Bile book but it was a great trilogy over all.

 

[chance mccoy]

I bought it a long time ago, but I just started reading The Emperor’s Gift

love ADB

 

[thoughtsone]

Does seem like Reynolds had writer's fatigue with the last Bile book but it was a great trilogy over all.

yah he just kinda fall off a cliff for a few chapters. Like what happened to skalagrim and khorag. Everyone loves Khorag he even says it in the book and....silence about the deathwatch terminator at the very end. And Skalagrim helped him so much in the other two books, to be written off with no fanfare was lame. But he kinda did that to skalagrim at the end of the 2nd book as well, he was all poised for a showdown with fabius and then....just doesnt bother.

 

[thoughtsone]

Beyond the typical stuff that gets mentioned like Tolkien, Starwars, Heberts Dune, Aliens, etc I think a big factor back in the 80's was also various kinds of pulpy fanasty art that were around. 40K I think has alot of Judge Dread influence and Mobius whilst fantasy battle(and Chaos/Orcs in both) drew alot of the kind of punky hippy crusty scene of the 80's, Ian Miller's pencil drawings espeically were a massive part of the setting at the time.

Honestly I'm a bit surprised Hollywood still hasnt come calling with the franchise obsession, that original Space Marine book from back in the day seems like a pretty easy plot outline.

Could even do a Space Hulk movie pretty easy just make it like Aliens.

 

[GtehMVP]

Could even do a Space Hulk movie pretty easy just make it like Aliens.

Yeah, they could keep it isolated to tiny elements of the universe, then introduce something epic at the end. Hell, I would just have regular humans wake up on the ship from stasis and not know where they are, keeping the audience in the dark too. Everyone just thinks they are in some Cathedral complex. At the end bring in some Space Marines for a brief cameo/action sequence and pull the camera back to reveal the Space Hulk; everyone on board who survived whatever horror they fought gets sucked back into the Warp.

I'm reading Eisenhorn now. I think their X-files-ish approach to it will make for a compelling series for fans, and newcomers alike.

If Eisenhorn is done right, just imagine what else could be done. With so many streaming services hungry for content, it's the perfect time for Warhammer 40k to get wide exposure.

 

[thoughtsone]

YHell, I would just have regular humans wake up on the ship from stasis and not know where they are, keeping the audience in the dark too. Everyone just thinks they are in some Cathedral complex. At the end bring in some Space Marines for a brief cameo/action sequence and pull the camera back to reveal the Space Hulk; everyone on board who survived whatever horror they fought gets sucked back into the Warp.

I like it have, the Inquisition show up at the very very end to kill the whole crew for warp exposure.

 

[JBSchroeds]

When doing the second foot I decided to take progress pictures of each step.

Spoiler

Primed


Shaded. This one's subtle but definitely makes a difference. Notice how the shadows look much more pronounced? It's the same lighting in both pictures. I took the primed picture, airbrushed the shade, and took this picture right after it dried.


Bronze


Silver


Washed (x2). Pretty major change, huh?


Gloss (x2). For protection.


Satin.

 

[chance mccoy]

I’d love to see a real attempt at a 40k movie, but I fear there would be female space marines today.

 

[chance mccoy]

I’d love to see a real attempt at a 40k movie, but I fear there would be female space marines today.

Probably the only way we get one is a female inquisitor film

 

[M4rk]

Sisters of Battle would be in a different movie.

 

[Halge]

I’d love to see a real attempt at a 40k movie, but I fear there would be female space marines today.

Meh. Wouldn't really be that big a deal imo, if not for the fact that it complicates certain current factions. Like, the sisters of battle's thing is they're exclusively women. if women start figuring more prominently among various other factions, particularly the elite factions like the adeptus astartes, then that makes the sob a little weird in context. (It was always sort of implied the sob were introduced to the setting to make up for the space marines being exclusively male). And what are they going to do to fix that? Put men in the sob? Not only would that be supremely awkward, it also robs the sob of their schtick.

Just looking at the adeptus astartes in isolation, I never really got why they made them not only all-male, but explicitly so. Felt a bit needlessly limiting. As long as they dont do something cringe like an all-female chapter I'm good with the idea.

 

[JBSchroeds]

Just looking at the adeptus astartes in isolation, I never really got why they made them not only all-male, but explicitly so. Felt a bit needlessly limiting. As long as they dont do something cringe like an all-female chapter I'm good with the idea.

They should have done it like Super Mutants in Fallout. Doesn't matter what you are when you start the process, you come out a hulked-out roid-machine. The process is so totally transformational that it leaves you sterile and asexual.

 

[Ballsaque]

Which 40k books are worth reading biys