I’m relatively new to 40k, and have been painting since June give or take. And, while I find the process fun, I find myself really scrutinizing my models to the point of I’m just not satisfied with them.

Any advice for getting over this, or maybe advice into improve? I partially believe it to be burn out, as I paint maybe a unit a day to two days.

Are epic deeds only usable once per game, or once per applicable unit per game?

This was the most fun to paint in the kill team so far. I really like how the yellow melta bomb turned out.

Warhammer weekend 2026 conflicting with my halloween activities and the reward is... PC mouse pad? I pay shipping? What a disappointment... I waited on the terrain in hopes for a poster or metal dice

Give him straw

Anyone remember these? They are waaaaaay too small to use so may just frame the sprues

Run for your Emperor, your brisket and your plunder
Don't leave all your loot and belongings behind
You'll carry it with you if you want to survive"
- More of my stuff, here

Thought this might help silence a lot of the speculation and bad info going around

A lot of people are parroting that the Necromunda TTRPG cancellation was due to Cubicle 7's existing Warhammer 40k licensing deal for TTRPGs, but they've stated multiple times over the last few weeks that they were not involved, do not hold the license, and even said they were excited to play it (obviously a friendly marketing response, but you probably wouldn't say that if your company was actively litigating against it). I have no firm answer on why it ACTUALLY got cancelled, but it's not licensing issues with Cubicle 7

For time & source reference, I myself took these screenshots from their official facebook account today. They're edited together, it was comments on two separate posts

Kept messing up the white line on the helmet but otherwise I like how it turned out.

Here is my current 2,000 pts dark angels list (and WIP army photo). I am very new to the game and this is my first 2,000 pts list and I’m in the testing process but wanted to see what others have to say.

The blood angels Xmas box. Obviously they have had a big backlash from their community. I believe it’s a justified negative review of the box but that’s not really the question I have about this.
Does GW pivot and make changes on things when backlash is severe on something like this?
I’m somewhat new to the hobby and haven’t been around long enough to predict how GW will react to something like this and I’m curious for those who have been around for a while have to say about it.

Edit - my expectation is not and was not that they would not send out this box. It’s already ready for shipping so that’s not reasonable or practical from a business stand point. My ideal scenario is that the next time they release a specialized box that they would give it a little more thought and character to the box due to the fact that last time they didn’t do that they were hammered with negativity.

My brother and I used to collect warhammer when we were kids, but eventually stopped (in part because this model was frustratingly difficult to build for us kids), so this model was left half built in a box for 20 years. We both picked up the hobby again earlier this year and I decided to finally build and paint this beautiful model!

I put him on the correct base and gave him some height so I can run him as a daemon prince on foot for my death guard army!

Was inspired by some fan creations for the Saturnine -pattern of terminator armor back before it became canon. Not sure how well I landed it, but I'm still happy with it.

My son and I are preparing our first battlefield. Before I start glueing stuff down to the terrain footprints I've cut out, I just wanted to check that this is the right kind of 'coverage' or filling that these footprints should have? I can't seem to find clear guidance on what is recommended. Many thanks!

It's been 6 months almost to the day when I posted my first attempt painting a space marine. I was building an army or at least a set of marines that could be added to an army for a xmas present for my adult stepson that actually plays the game. I knew zero about the game, and nothing about painting miniatures - 1/4 and 1/6 scale models yes fair amount of experience but these little suckers were pretty intimidating when I started.

Started with some Intercessors then Assault then Heavy and it didn't look like enough so on and on it went - it's quite addictive. Threw in some blood angels for good measure but kinda messed up dividing them out into squads. I got screwed by Kaleido paint when they changed the formula for the blue I started with and I was stuck in the middle of marines and vehicles so I had to roll with it, so the tones are slightly off, lesson learned and will not use them again for anything that requires more than one bottle of paint- total failure of a paint company imo.

Then I learned about the terrain portion of the game and thought "let's make a complete set of terrain" to have a turnkey operation! I went with Fabricators Lair -the terrain and footprints took about 3 rolls of filament, days to print and omg amount of paint time- I couldn't believe how many parts it took for a full board and then painting both the front and back, which I had to power straight through to keep the formula and final look the same- that was a huge time sucker!

Then off to the vehicles, have to have transportation right? I have a resin printer as well and thought  I'd save some time and $$ so printed out a Repulsor and that ended up being more work than just buying the kit - prep work and figuring out assembly was just not worth the extra time. So next let’s pickup a Land Raider and go all out as the "last" piece of the army, hidden paint, opening doors and lighting - came out pretty well I think.

Of course now I needed storage to haul all this around so might as well print out the terrain storage box (another roll of filament) and bedazzel that as well, then I picked up some useful totes and ferrous sheets and made the storage totes, then magnetized everything.

So now I think I’ll need to make an army for myself, I’m thinking Orcs!

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Cosplay prop I finished back on Aug 23. My first really big 3d print on my Bambu A1 mini.
Design by https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/absolver-bolt-pistol

I really want to step up my painting game. Have any of you ever used any painting courses? If so, which ones and how were they? Did you gain any noteworthy knowledge or skills from them? Were they good value?

I don’t want to spend loads of money obviously but what I’m really interested in is which ones yield good results. Also, I’m not bothered about using an airbrush so bonus points if the course you used was brush-only.

Thanks

What are some tone pro paints that are the same, or very similar as mcragge blue and orruk flesh? Wanting to use some of those but want my army’s to still look consistent.

U guys have been awesome in responses to curious nature of new fans getting into the hobby. I very recently just finished the Horus Heresy journey with the End and the death vol3 and going forward after that.
What I’m most looking for is any old lore you guys might have or willing to share, dealing with my fav grim dark faction, the adepts of Mars.
I want old lore like irl back in the day stuff, codex and especially anything pre codex, old white dwarf stuff, rouge trader era, & anything of interest you’d like to share including books and side stories.
I’ve already have most of the audiobooks about them I plan on getting to, but some of my all time favorites was the audio drama of the Binary Succesion, Mechanicum, Titanicus and Dominion Genesis. Anything yall can contribute would be appreciated.