Warhammer 40,000 – Crusade Progress

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Warhammer 40,000 – Crusade Progress

Warhammer 40,000 – Crusade is by far my favorite way to play Warhammer 40,000 Ninth Edition. Rather than focusing on building a hyper competitive list that can maximize the score in a fixed set of missions, you focus on starting with a relatively small force and focus on growing it through gameplay. Many of the abilities that you would typically spend command points or actual points to upgrade units and characters each game are instead a fixed purchase that can be gained via Requisition Points which are earned by playing games.

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How To Paint Thousand Sons - Quickly

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Warhammer 40,000 – Thousand Sons are a notoriously hard to paint army, this is my technique for getting them to tabletop quality quickly.

Aeronautical Imperialis - New Forces Join The Fight

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Warhammer - 40,000 – Tiny planes seem to be a better way to show off how battles for the air happen in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Recent updates really limit what you can bring in a standard 40k game, so if you’re a big fan of air combat then checking out Aeronautical Imperialis is the game you were looking for.

This batch adds some Raven Guard Space Marine, Aeldari planes and a few Ork Boma’s.

To paint these planes I start with a few layers of grey dry brushing to get the shading right. I then follow that up with some contrast paint to add the colors. By pre-painting the shading the contrast accentuates and flows over to make a nice looking paint job with very little extra effort. Once that’s dry I use some traditional paint to pick out the details.

Necrons Unearthed

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Warhammer 40,000 – This batch of models are a few Necron characters along with a few MDF Terrain pieces. The painting is pretty basic tabletop quality.

Tyranids - Rising Stars?

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Warhammer 40,000 – Tyranids might be on the rise again with the Genestealer Cults getting a new release. These Gaunts were painted to match an existing force.

A pretty basic paint job bone, light green with a wash to shade an tie the colors together.

Tome Keepers - Part Two

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Warhammer 40,000 – This is the last part of the Tome Keepers custom space marine chapter I recently painted up.

I’m a big fan of the Heavy Intercessor models, they’re bulky and carry some pretty impressive firepower.

Tome Keepers - Custom Chapter

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Warhammer 40,000 – Creating your own space marine chapters is one of the more rewarding experiences you can have as a Warhammer player. The background “fluff” for Space Marines leaves a ton of room for you to create your own story, and that story can make the games you play with friends more meaningful than just kicking the crap out of each other of moving pieces around a board to get the high score.

Anytime someone asks me about getting a space marine force painted I always suggest creating your own chapter or unique scheme. In doing so you open up the possibility to use any of the plethora of rulesets, special characters and source material that Games Workshop creates for their poster boys.

This chapter is based off the Tome Keepers chapter with a few tweaks to the scheme so there isn’t any confusion on the table. Their owner has an existing Black Templar force that is nearly complete and as such wanted to incorporate the First Born keeping a black scheme with the Primaris Marines decked out in a bone color. Once I started painting the force that idea changed a bit and the force may be primaris only at some point.

With this first batch done he has a big enough selection to start a crusade force and grow it. Next up I’ll have some additional Primaris Marines and a small Imperial Knight contingent to give him options as the crusade continues.

Blackstone Fortress - Another Set Fully Painted

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Warhammer 40,000 – Blackstone Fortress is a cool looking game. Having still not had a chance to play my own set I can only comment on how cool the game looks. One day I’m hoping to play through it as well as get my own set painted but right now there are too many other games that are grabbing my attention.

These models are some of the most characterful models Games Workshop has made combined with the expansions and previous Kill Team box set you really get a feel for what a Rogue Trader and Crew look like. A weird cross between a pirate and cyperpunk with a little gothic thrown in is how I describe the Rogue Traders.

The villains of the set are also quite unique Traitor Guard, Beastmen, Cultists, Chaos Marines, and some random gribblies make a force that your heroes will have to face in their quest for the secrets of the Blackstone Fortress.

Deathwing and Death Korp - Notice a Trend?

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Warhammer 40,000 – Sometimes I feel the names in Warhammer are a bit one dimensional, especially when you get a variety of armies that have similar names for example there’s Deathguard, Deathwing, Death Korp, Deathwatch and I’m sure there’s a bunch more.

In this batch I painted up a few Relic Terminators in the bone Deathwing scheme as well as several sets of the new plastic Death Korp of Krieg infantry models from the new edition of Kill Team. While I really like the new models, I don’t care for the revised game.

I’m sure the game is better with the revised rules and weird symbol based movement, but for me it feels to similar to other skirmish games that do a better job like Marvel: Crisis Protocol. The appeal of the previous edition of Kill Team was how close to 40k it was while being a different scale with a little more customization. It really felt like the in-between step between 40K and Necromunda. Honestly the new edition is probably fine and will catch up, but I have all the books for the old system (including the one that came out months before the rerelease, another sore point) so I can just build forces using that and enjoy it when I want to play a skirmish game in the Grim Dark.

First and Only - Gaunt's Ghosts

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Warhammer 40,000 – Gaunt’s Ghosts hold a spot near and dear to many people’s hearts so when they came out in plastic I assumed I’d be seeing them on my table. These were really fun to paint up and the camo was way less complicated than I assumed it would be. By using contrast paint over the green base it was pretty simple to add the patterns.

Grey Knights

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Warhammer 40,000 – Grey Knights recently got a little boast with a new model.

MDF Terrain

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Terrain – I really like the terrain from TT Combat while it’s not as detailed as the stuff I got from Knights of Dice it is significantly more affordable.

Nobody Expects the Imperial Inquisition

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Warhammer 40,000 – Imperial Agents have been in a weird place for several editions now. Initially introduced as part of the Gray Knights and Sisters of Battle books back in 3rd Edition they’ve since been pulled out and shoehorned into some odd places. You’re once again able to include them in a Imperial force with minimal effort.

This latest batch includes a few Witchhunters, the Throne of Judgement, Jokero and some Daemon-hosts.

Nurgle Plague Frogs

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Warhammer 40,000 - As of late I’ve been getting more and more 3D printed models on my table many of which have been unique sculpts rather than recreations of existing models. It’s exciting to see creative ways to “scratch-build” models. However with new technologies come new hurdles, for example, these models painted up really nicely, but after i took photos and packed them up for delivery I ran into a major issue.

When moving the box I had these models packed up in I noticed the bottom of the box was wet. Odd, I thought not seeing anything else in the area that could have caused to box to get wet. So I opened it up to investigate and saw everything was covered in a grayish slime. Confused I removed the models and noticed several seem to have exploded, bursting open.

After posting some photos of the mess on some other groups I learned that this is common with resin printing it something is printed “hollow” without holes. The resin inside doesn’t drain or cure so it can swell and cause the models to “burst” open.

I now have them sitting in the sun to see if I can get the mess to cure and potentially fix the models by adding more gore.

Raptors - Ready to Roll

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Warhammer 40,000 – Big Green Stompy Robots are ready to roll. With tournaments coming back I’m seeing quite a few clients prepping their lists for what they think will be the new ninth edition meta.

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Raptors Morph Into Great Whites?

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Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve been painting parts of the Space Marine army for a client for quite some time. He recently decided to pick up some iconography from Pop Goes the Monkey to finish off the green marines. I’m a big fan of how the white shark looks on the army green pad. I’m not sure what he’s going to call his chapter but they look great. Tournaments are being scheduled again so he’s sent over models that he needs for his GT list, this is the first batch.

A Different Custodes Look

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Warhammer 40,000 – Purple and gold just look good together, I was very happy that this Adeptus Custodes project uses a different color scheme than the traditional gold, red and black. I’m just getting back to a regular 40K rotation so I’m not sure what the sudden interest in Custodes is all about but this force is so nice looking that I’m tempted to look at building a similar force. (Probably won’t but who knows)

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Custodes Dominate the Meta?

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Warhammer 40,000 – I’m not sure this headline is entirely accurate, but it seems like it could be the case given the number of Custodes projects I’m seeing has increased significantly.

This project is all resin from Forgeworld, painted in the traditional color scheme.

Iron Hands Successor Chapter - More Marines

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Warhammer 40,000 – This Iron Hands Successor Chapter just keeps growing. Just when I think I’ve painted the last of it my client finds a few more marines that he needs done to match. Which is great since I love this color scheme and it’s relatively simple to keep unified over the course of several batches.

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Space Wolves - Snowy Savages

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Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve painted several Space Wolf forces over the years, each one of them follows a similar color scheme and style to this latest project. One of the nice things about well established chapters is the depth of lore and the fully realized look of the army. Once you figure out how you’re going to cary out the look it’s pretty straight forward.

I always start with a slate grey color as my base, it’s a lighter cool grey color that I then apply a heavy wash over using Nightshade. You can get a similar look by applying the Contrast Space Wolves grey, but I tend to stick with tried and true techniques I’ve used before. The yellow is Iyanden Darksun which when you’re painting yellow is a lifesaver, a quick wash of Cassandra yellow really bring out the color. To paint the pelts I combined Contrast colors with traditional techniques.