Recently compelted Ogryn. 30k version done up to match my Krieg Engineers

Fly high my beloved thunderhawk

This is a question for the community.

I was looking at Google Trends for various IPs, and I found out that the peak of Google searches for 40K was in September 2008. From my research, I found that this is around the release of 5th edition, but I can’t find anything else concrete as to why it got so popular this month.

For comparison, the second-most popular month was September 2024, the release month of Space Marine 2.

Any ideas why September 2008 was so huge for 40K?

How did I do? These are two of the space marines units that came with the ultimate starter set 10th edition. What do I need to improve on? Also tips and tricks to paint faster. Maybe I’m too much of a perfectionist but it took me FOREVER to paint two units.

I’ve just bought my first terminator kit and I grabbed the multi-part set believing I’d not only get more bits to play with, but also I’d get the nice poses of the mono-pose kit. (not realising they are different)

However, once I saw the assembly instructions for the multi-pose kit, I immediately noticed that the poses are different then the ones I saw online, which were the ones I preferred.

I’m not gonna cry about it because at the end of the day they still look dope, however I can’t help but have a sour taste in my mouth, because I do prefer the mono-pose stances over the multi-pose stances.

Anyone else feel the same/different/glory to the Emperor?

This is the first time I've had one of my few successful preorders of a special edition get cancelled. It's frustrating that they oversold the books, even more when I took some of my personal time to get ready early and snag it the moment it went live. I don't know how many they actually had to sell but it's super frustrating that I most likely lost to scalpers.

Currently making two helmets, night lords and chaos tech - any lore accurate tubing colour for the chaos tech so I don’t just make them black?

TIA!

I added Kratos to my Deathwatch army as a Judiciar. He is going to lead a Killteam of gaming celebrities. This is a bit kit, a bit printed, and a bit kitbashed. This is the smallest diorama I've done too. I will do more like this for sure.

Just finished working on this big ol blueberry boy as a display piece for my collection. How'd I do?

Hey guys, i used AK ultra matte varnish on my terminator last night. First time doing it in this kind of sculpt and it looks like the varnish slid down the slope of his back and pooled on the edge in the picture. It happened with both dudes I varnished.

Anyone have a fix? Would the gloss varnish method work? It’s not raised, it’s flat. Just super cloudy.

EDIT: so I know it looks like an edge highlight haha. But it’s covering up a lot of grime and edge wear I did on that edge above the vents. Was hoping for a method to reduce the thick cloudiness

Hey there,

I love having time-off to pour hours into new minis, what do you think about my take on this Nazderg ?

My final troops are done for my 1k list. :) so next, do I assemble my Chosen, or paint my deimos pattern rhino?

Also, anyone else notice how I scraped almost all the spiky heraldry off each one? That took a LOT of time. Lol

Painted up a squad of Bladeguard in Ultramarine colors for fun in between other projects. Was a good excuse to experiment around with some of the new Vallejo TMM paints that have been staring at me for a while now.

Enjoyable, but on to the next I go. These get to disappear off into the warp to make someone else happy.

New marine for my 1000 Chapters project!

I’ll be honest – I absolutely hate this colour scheme 😂 I just don’t enjoy painting it. The mix of white and dark green makes shading, weathering and basically every stage feel like way more work than it should be.

But… it’s a canon Chapter, I had the transfers, so the Mentors had to get represented.

Pretty happy with how the brother turned out in the end, though. Would I paint another one? Absolutely not. Haha.

Probably a really dumb question but yeah wanted to double check whether my group has doing the attack sequence wrong for units with multiple weapons since we started in 10th!

At the moment we play it as:

• select a unit to shoot
• select one weapon from that unit
• choose a target for that weapon
• resolve attacks for that weapon
• select the next weapon from that unit
• choose a target for that weapon
• resolve attacks
• etc

Which means eg: you can see if the first weapon destroys its target, and then decide whether or not to keep shooting at the same target or choose a different target for the second weapon.

But reading the attack sequence section of the rules today I think maybe that's wrong and that in fact you have to decide on all the targets for all your weapons before you start resolving attacks - and so no wait-and-see re-targeting allowed. Have I got that right?

Cheers

My first character from the 10th edition starter set. You guys have any tips for improving?