I'm here to say I think making Gazkull increasingly large is dumb. Its like GW have a reached a point now where they have to design a hero character and their default position is just MAEK BIGGE.

I saw a video where a guy said he hoped he would be the size of a redemptor dread. What!?

I realise what im about to say is making me a proper twatty old hipster hobby prick but this is 2nd Ed. Gazhzhzhkull:


This is his current model:


The current model looks like oscar the grouch going through his edgy teen phase while taking an overdose of growth hormones. IMO OBVS. Making it bigger will not help it imho if it's just going to be big trash can energy.

The old mini even though he is smol (well, normal sized) has waaaay more character imho, even with his static old pose and those mongol horde vibes that orks sometimes had back then. I would love to see new Gazza be a normal sized orc, but with some interesting orky attite and with a modern sculpt and posing to convey his ferocity and cunning instead of just GRRR HULK SMASHHHHH

click here for how to do a big ork lad properly

There's lore up for the Lumineth Realm-lords on the Warhammer Community

There are some interesting bits in it

warhammer-community.com/2020/01/27/the-lumineth-lowdown-part-1gw-homepage-post-2/

Looking good! Nice saturated blue on the Ultramarines there.

I'm in the same boat on my current guy, I just need to do some final twiddly bits and then base him up buuuur somehow I've managed to not do abby painting this weekend, grr!

It's not shame, but I don't want to sound like generic old person "Everything was better in my day". Because as much as I hold love for my old metal carnifex, dat boy was £20 in mid 90s money and his arms were so heavy if you looked at them funny they were gonna drop like needles off a xmas tree.

I struggle with working out if the things I don't like about "modern GW" aren't just nostalgic bs. When I first saw 8th edition being played I was like, where are all templates and scatter dice, what is this!? But then I remembered how long/how many games my friends ever finished vs how easy it is to just play a game in a reasonable amount of time and how much variety the new D6 for everything and mission objectives actually allows in how units fight and how things are scored. Command points are amazing for example, imho.

My biggest gripes are that to my eye, current GW if anything, and only talking 40k as I don't keep up really with AoS, is that Space Marine focus has not only continued, it's got even worse over the years and now the company is in some ultra marvel cinematic universe of buy all these different books you fuckers because we're putting lore and rules for bits and pieces of armies all over the place and it all feels very calculated to try and get everyone to buy everything by combining bits and pieces for different factions into the same books. I'm also not a huge fan of the increasing "tacticool" look to a lot of things. That is an entirely personal thing though and as I said, it's hard to separate my nostalgia for things, particularly the tyranids, who I really don't like the homogenous Geiger makeover they all received during their refresh, for example.

For every gripe though there is something good, I think the sisters are mostly amazing, not a fan of the new rhino and exorcist models, but I didn't much care for the old exorcist either. The Tau have really grown on me though, I left just as they were coming in and to me at the time they reeked a bit of "Hey that manga is getting more popular here in the late 90's, lets do a manga style sci fi army" my inner edgy teenager was having none of it, despite loving every second of shitty anime the scifi channel was showing on friday nights, NOT GRIMDARK DO NOT WANT, etc. I was a bit meh on them when I came back to hobby town, but then i saw the riptides and the stormsuge (oh my squatting beauty, one day i will buy you just to paint, mwah!) and I had to admit, I'd been wrong the whole time, they are amazing.

I think my favourite line of new models though is the Genestealer Cult, I think GW did an almost perfect job in capturing the essence of the army in how the models look, the mining trucks, the dirt bikes and buggies, that kind of retro 70s sci fi looking uniforms, its like these guys jumped straight out of something like Ghosts on Mars (even though that film is nothing to do with anything like w genestealer cult), GW really nailed that going into an abandoned outpost only to be ambushed by the missing civilians vibe.

Edit: Fuck I really want to buy some Genestealer Cult lads now.

I'm going to go full old man mode and disappoint you greatly, I really, really don't like some of the new AoS. Stormcast look like GW said, "hey space marine players aren't playing AoS, we need to fix that".

I dunno wtf happened to the dwarves, why are there steampunk sky dwarves and the slayers but they seem to be different armies? There are no "normal" dwarves? RIP bugmans brewers!?

Orcs in full plate are not the look for me, I much preferred the old barbaric look.

Gobbos agree gloriously unscathed to some extent and their new squigs and lads are great. New beastmen are gud as well. Some of th he new bone dads and the elves also great.

I agree with you that based on the discord chatter AoS seems much better balanced, I guess since im not playing (at the mo) that I'm just sort of standing by like a prick, heckling from the sidelines.

I dare not look at the start collecting GS Cult box, I still have ALLLLLL my CSM box and my Box Machina minis to paint! A PILE OF SHAME! IN MY HOUSE! NEVER DID I EVER IMAGINE IT WOULD BE GW THAT WOULD CAUSE SUCH A THING *WEEPING SOFTLY*

We've been using the Shadespire minis for Songs of Blades and Heroes

Temps you're bang on with what you said up there, hence my apology for sounding like a right old wanker! My AoS takes, terrible as they are are pretty much solely informed by my gut reactions to the miniatures I've seen so far and as you've pointed out contain a heavy dose of Cedric Diggory's Dad.

The quality of the new minis is arguably a step above anything that came before, even the ones I'm not keen on and you make a very valid point re the setting, it's completely different, these units don't even exist in the warhammer fantasy universe at this point, they're their own thing in their own universe.

I doubt I will ever pick it up unfortunately as the rate at which I paint itll be years before I get through all the CSM stuff I wanna have a go at painting as it is, but as I say, I know my takes are pretty whack on AoS hence the knowing, preemptive apology.

Eyyyyyy, just look at that sexy grass too. I purposely chose models with ground on them for you

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Eyyyyyy, just look at that sexy grass too. I purposely chose models with ground on them for you

You know me so well

More Dreadball. I've done Schnorkel the Avenger (His blurb is ace. He's a bumbling idiot but the fans love him so he generates extra cheers whenever he does owt), a ref, a ball, a score marker and a zombie cheerleader because how the fuck do people do FUCKING EYES *sob*







I think I'll try and sort her eyes out. Somehow.

WIP on some angry Scotsmen atm:

Roujin wrote:

Upside down slotta bases during painting, I'm intrigued...is that because you are doing their actual bases separately and these are convenient handles for painting?

This is exactly it - once I'm done painting I'll take them out and flip the bases over , cut out the bit for the tab to go in and then do the basing.

Not super strong, but it's the super flared lower legs, barrel shaped torso and the spherical shape surrounding his helmet that does it imo.

I believe there are ultimate mad lads out there in the hobbyverse who have actually painted up their marines in buzz lightyear colours.

One of the lads at our club is proper into Nepoleonic wargames, and had recently built a Napoleonic 40k army. It actually looks pretty awesome. I'll try and find pics.