Body is an AoS Knight Relictor. Sword and backpack are from the Black Templars upgrade sprue. Riever helmet.

I had to carve off all the lightning bolts with a knife to make it look less Stormcast.

More pics in comments.

Pretty happy with how they turned out, couple little bits left but they're 99% there!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20031456

Only the base is a GW product. Everything else, including the lascannon barrel is scratch made.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20031352

This is a pretty rough FDM print I got my hands on second-hand, and I decided to paint up and see if I could make it tabletop worthy.

I'd like to try reading some fiction in the 40k universe and was wondering if anyone has some recommendations. There's a lot of books to decide between so I'm a bit lost. There's also the humble book bundle going on right and it looks like it might be a good deal, but I'm not familiar with any of the authors. Any recommendations would be appreciated!

Edit: following the advice in the responses, I got the humble bundle and am starting out with spear of the emperor. Thanks for all the advice! Definitely want to give eisenhorn a read sometime if I can find an epub at a good price.

Blood Angels Assault Marine Thanks to the shift to Primaris I now have an unprecedented number of potential test minis to try different ways of painting! This is a pretty basic slap chop, but with some push on the highlights afterwards. Really quick work, but ended up with a ton more contrast and interest than I got just using contrast/shade/highlight method. #Warhammer #WarhamerCommunity #Warhammer40K #PaintingMinis #Miniatures #MiniPainting #MiniaturePainting #SpaceMarine #AdeptusAstartes #BloodAngels @warhammer40k@lemmy.world

Finally, I finished two minis:
The Blessed Blades of the Dark Commune!

Not happy with everything of course, but at least a bit of progress on the many WIP projects.

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Ghostkeel

I painted this one earlier in the year but never posted it anywhere. Inspired to grab a picture now by @Nimbostratigorus@mastodon.social great version!

https://mastodon.social/@Nimbostratigorus/113137541853402768

Don't ask to see inside, however. I got distracted and never finished painting the pilot.

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So I've heard some descriptions of the 40,000 lore from a podcast I watch, and it sounds incredible, but there's an awful lot of options to start from, with people recommending many different book series and youtube summaries. Is there a simpler approach, like just going into one standalone book to ground yourself before a bigger series? Or from a game to a tie-in book of some kind? Many thanks.

Death Company Smash Captain

Almost time to start the new Death Company! Did this Blood Angels Smash Captain up in my Death Company style.

With all the gold trim on black armor it did start to look like he might see Horus in the mirror.

Still working out the kinks on my photography setup though. Not sure what is going on with the focus here. I want to learn to do that better, but I'm not sure I want a whole other hobby.

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@warhammer40k@lemmy.world

Oh, great, so 3 of my 4 Kill teams will only be properly supported for one more year:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/06/kill-team-managing-the-range-of-kill-teams-in-the-new-edition/

Why does game-workshop have to games-workshop everything that people like 😠

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Painting my space wizard was a fun little distraction, but genestealers don't paint themselves.

I've got my infantry base coated so it's time to give them a good wash.

And I've got a little squat that Chris at Ontos Games gave me at BOYL for when I'm sick of batch painting cultists.