The Hobby That Dare's Not Speak Its Name Aka Wargaming

I finished my 1000 point army the day before GW made it 930 pts 😭

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Yep, very cool!

Good excuse to paint more!

Thanks folks.

Looking great but that's so annoying! Hopefully can find a character or something to fill that slot.

Built the hormagaunt model of the month, as did the kids. Pretty happy with how mine turned out - nice to paint something that's not power armour!

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Yeah. But Powa Armour. 😎

Very nice. They never had the free model when I pop in.

Can you explain your method, or point me to a video?
It looks great and I've been teaching my son a bit, but that's beyond my skill level!

for stippling models, tearing a bit of washing up sponge off and sticking it in a paintbrush head protector is the key

you'll want to prime your model

then select a base colour (the GW workshop is great and will tell you paint triads for their models, you dont have to use gw paint ofc, but they give you the shades you should aim for)

you want to wet the sponge and dab it till it's moist, but not dripping water or pooling on a piece of paper/ card

dip it in your base colour (i am assuming the paint is thinned or on a wet palette, if not thin it a little so it doesn't texture) and then sponge all over the model body , 2 thin coats always best

next repeat this step with the mid colour, but aim only for the center of panels/ where the light would be, you can shine a torch above to work out where those areas are, it doesn't matter about being messy, it all adds to the effect

then take your lightest colour and hit only the top of the model, the brightest edges, but have fun with it, if you think it looks cool, it looks cool

then you want to paint the weapons and metal in a dark grey metalic, all over, good coverage

then you want to pick out any lenses, eyes, screens etc, in a pale sand colour with a brush, precision matters here, but only to as much as you care

then you'll pick out any puches or leather in a mid brown with a brush, same rule of precision

then you'll want to take something like a dark brown wash or a dark grey wash paint, agrax earthshade or nulnoil for example, and pick out all the recesses and soft armour , paint a couple of coats in the deepest recesses and joints, you can also pick out panel linings if you want to break up some areas

paint nuln oil over the guns, ensuring to wipe away any pooling on flat surfaces with a wet clean brush, but let it pool in the sunken bits

adds some dark brown wash over the leather, it can pool, it adds patina, again, be as precise as you care about

then you want to reeeeaaallly thin down some red paint, till it's transluscent, and apply this over the pale sand bits and apply with the same rules as the glazes, it will look better when it dries but you might need 2 coats

then you have it! some stippled models!

for bases, break up some cork mats/ tiles/ and place them on

glue the model down

add some texture paint, really it doesn't matter how messy it is it all blends in

paint in a sand colour

add an agrax earthshade wash

dry brush with the sand colour, again who cares if you get it on the model it's patina

add a gamer grass bush

you're done!

if you want to do it in the style of terminators it's the same steps but you'll have to edge highlight, i hate edge highlighting i found out after painting those models, but it does look cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aht2upEfu1U

this video is good for that.

Thanks, that's so cool of you to write all that out.

any time, thank you for the chance to talk about it! hope to see your version of it!

am starting on my new project while im sick, first test model done

currently half way through a dreadnought in the same scheme

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Nice! Is this an existing chapter or a homebrew one?

couple things I painted recently. Rat ogre, and a necromantic horror blood bowl team I did a speedpaint lighting effect on so I could get the team built and painted in a week for a tournament yesterday, pictured on a matching pitch. Was a fun day, 10th out of 30, 2-1-1 record. Would have been 3-1-0 but a dwarf team managed to do exactly what they needed and got some fortunate dice in order to equalise on the final turn.

Great work on the Rat Ogre. I've got the necromantic horror team too at about the same level of painted, fuck building those scarecrow guys

Thanks, and yeah the necro are very "did you not think about practicality when you designed this?".

Thank you! That rat ogre looks amazing with the osl!

The chapter is a home brew!

I just finished the dreadnought for a “don’t talk to me or my son again” look

Some lore on the chapter below:

The siege haunters are a chapter of space marines who are aligned to the imperium but serve only their own goals.

Cursed in death, when a member of their ship dies on the battlefield their soul does not go to a chaos demon or to rest in death immediately, but is sent to a suit of power armour aboard the chapters crusade ship. A form of pure psychic and warp energy, it possess the victims sentience and can only be freed by killing the person who slayed them in their mortal body. if the brother fails to do this their soul will be sent to the chaos gods, if they’re successful it will be returned to death and find a final peace. No one knows quite how this occurs, if it is a curse or a pact, exposure to the warp. what is known however, is the duty that these sprits feel obliged to fulfil to ensure their own eternal slumber.

The chapter itself does not receive orders from the imperium, for they do not understand or approve of their cult and heresy which creates this purgatory. They’re accepted however, due to their lethality and single mindedness in hunting chaos champions across the galaxy. Their existence hidden purposefully in bureaucracy less anyone discovers them and asks for their censure.

First discovered after a stranded inquisitor vessel, besieged by chaos warriors close to the eye of terra was in great peril. In the final hour, 3 lone astartes in corroded rust coloured armour, seemingly emanating a blue flame from their helmets and bodies, crashed through the hull to eliminate the threat. The surviving members of the inquisitors crew, including that of the the captain assigned to the mission unable to communicate with the haunted spirits, were coldly greeted by haunters neophytes. While much is lost or hidden about this meeting, what is known is this forgotten ship of imperial fists, are now something much different after basking in the glow of the eye of terra for millennia and that anyone and anything that steps foot on that ship is destined to face the same fate.

Tied only to their crusade ship, the the chapter launches their assaults from here, be it to a rival vessel or planet. Their fighting doctrine is that of gun lines and siege warfare, their armour functional and unadorned with regalia or the symbols of the imperium in case anyone discovers their existence. The armour is treated as if it is a member of the chapter, it is not to be disposed. It is repaired and upgraded with what they find marauding or winning from battles and unlucky rogue traders who happen to stumble into them. they’re unable to receive official provisions from the imperium of course, further than a gift of ultima founding equipment and primaris gene therapy as payment for their saviour of the inquisitors. Everything before and since is through their own acquisitions. Creating a scavenger mentality, reflected in the use of pockets, pouches and trunks which adorn their armour and vehicles. for there is no servators here, only the marines, their cultist neophytes and their haunted suits of power armour, waiting for a death in battle.

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They look great, very cool haunted ghost ship back story and I love the blue light peeking out of the holes in the armour. Kind of remind me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRLlxhvK4ic&t=178s&ab_channel=PeteTheWargamer

Subconscious influence?

A very conscious one!

Love his videos, especially that one! Gave me the confidence to start hacking and and drilling away

Also taps into my needs to paint everything brown, green or black ahaha

very cool! love creating my own lore behind armies and stuff, it's a great part of the hobby.

Entered 2 of the big UK blood bowl tournaments next year (UK Team Championship and NAF Championship). Now I have to actually try to git gud.

Can anyone recommend a basic/beginner airbrush that doesn't break the bank? Initially it'll just be be for priming and base colours. Spray cans are expensive and clog up wasting paint inside :(

Also are spray booths, respirators, extract fans etc all necessary for acrylics? Reading conflicting things online and all the associated paraphenalia would make it significantly more expensive. If I get properly into it then I can justify it but it makes the cost of entry significantly higher.

Amazing painting.

I’ve heard Kill Team is pretty good if you want to get back in, and is a lot cheaper to get into as you only need a small amount of minis. Same reason I play blood bowl (that and it harks back to when GW had a sense of humour).

It depends on how much space/cash you have to put to it but I've been using a cheap kit like this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voilamart-Airbrush-Compressor-Painting-Decoration/dp/B07DPG59Z8/ref=sr_1_4_sspa
for a while now and it's not perfect but I've painted 3 whole armies with it, priming, base coating, highlights, fades on power weapons, all kinds of stuff.

Acrylics are generally fine but don't breath it if you don't have to, I use a good mask and have the back door open about 2 meters away. I bought a spray booth thing but without extraction it's no better than just using half a cardboard box.

I’m playing at the BB tournament one in Nottingham on the 28th with @benjam you playing there?

I haven’t played at all this year… lol I’m going to lose every match 🙈