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That is fair.  Personally I'm a little split on how weapons should be configured.   On one hand, I've been playing Ravenwing for so long that I had to learn how to deal with my whatever my opponent brought with a very limited unit and weapon selection.   On the other hand I like weapons to have a preferred target where they are most effective.  We had this in previous editions, if I tried to just run Multi-meltas and Typhoon ML on my RW list I would get punished by the Ork player.  Same issue if I just ran Assault Cannons and Heavy Bolters.   On top of that I think that there should be more parity between weapon options for units.  More willingness to reconsider the stats and rules of weaker weapons, and not just points changes for the superior option.  This one is trickier... at least for me to figure out.  We have lots of stats to choose from, do we always need to start with Strength, Damage and AP.  What about number of shots, or access to special rules, or flexibility on when critical hits or wounds  occur.   I think GW over corrected with armor.  I'm not sure that armor needs both really hard to wound and lots of health, AOS gets by with just lots of wounds.  But this feeds back into the current unwillingness to reconsider weapon stats leaving us with a few weapons that damage vehicles comically easy and other options that are pale reflections of their former glory.

Highly interesting. As concern laity apropos the tech-cult I had always had a more narrow vision of it, as in Farrer's passing mention of lay tech-men. Understood as non-Cult technicians and such, nothing advanced nor pursuing scientific study, but implied to receive some rudimentary tech-schooling or at least scrutiny for purity from Cult Mechanicus personnel on top of hereditary, parochial knowledge. The salt of the earth that keeps so much of Imperial industry and technology rolling and functioning. To see laity including actual research scientists is an interesting concept for the Adeptus Mechanicus. Neat take!     Ah, noted. This is also further reason to not discard the Rogue Trader (1987) artwork with Mechanicus folks in lab coats swinging incense. Clearly, there is a place for Mechanicus personnel of a tame and domestic appearance compared to the gloriously exotic mechadendrite feast usually going on. Laity being one possible, and sound, explanation.   Good comparison to that part of Mechanicum.     Haha, really? That's the kind of thing one would expect excentric nobles and curious Rogue Traders to dabble in, not Magi of the Omnissiah's blessed Mechanicus. A recent Black Library publication was of that kind, written by a Rogue Trader that was often obviously misinformed.   Speaking of which, i will have to dig up the project work that I and two friends worked at during the end of school shortly after our discussions about Eldar on Warseer. Because science fiction animal taxonomies of that kind (but in graphite drawings, just like most of my work nowadays) is precisely what that project is all about. Exploring the fauna of the world of Gorkhan. We have pondered turning it into a piece of 40k work and add more species to it, but so far other projects have got in the way over the past two decades. Maybe I'll get around to it properly later this year and next. About time. I promise to show you for the sake of curiosity when I scan the drawings, and if we decide to convert it into 40k duty I'll be sure to post it on B&C and elsewhere loud and clear. Otherwise we might aim to round if off as its own little stand-alone thing in a poorly defined setting and finally try to get it published in book format as was the original plan all along. We'll see.     Intriguing!     Roger that, I look forward to devour the book!     That is a neat novelty in official publications. As to the lack of scientific advancement, it is possible that rediscoveries by laity and gifted/freethinking Tech-Priests has aided the Imperium in treading water by every now and then resetting some little part of the slowly eroding human knowledge base through actual discovery and innovation.     Indeed a mystery cult. And very good point about high-ranking Tech-Priests of the Can't-icus spectrum being leading persecutors of actual bright sparks of science and invention. That would make perfect sense, given the overall background, and add an element of tragedy by having the seeds of future renaissance hunted, suppressed and quashed time and again by fanatical dogmatists. Excellent inspiration for stories as well. Thank you.

They didn’t come alone…there’s a new UM chaplain as well  

Transfers. The one on the sides are from the Primaris Upgrade sheet and the others from the FW Horus Hersey Decal sheet. 

are thiose transfer or did you freehand them?

Thank you.    I think I will just magnetise between the hellhammer cannon and the baneblade cannon tbh, I don't think I have the patience to magnetise all the configurations