Ace Debonair

The shortest explanation I can give is "I'll use it as a special NPO and base a mission around killing it". In a bit more depth: I'll have a go at hashing out a profile based on other big nasty critters like the Nightbringer (whose rules they generously previewed a while back) or the big Necron constructs from Tomb World (whose names I've shamefully forgotten since the book isn't next to me right now) Then when my Nephews are playing Kill Team I can use the Ordnance Battery as a big nasty critter for them to kill, having been deviously captured and occupied by a Chaos Cult masquerading as my Guard regiment. I'll be able to do the same with the Sentinel, if The Emperor decrees me worthy of getting one.

Just as Planned; I got to the shop for 7am today and beat whoever bought the last lot to the punch. I also discovered the magazines don't go out until about 7:55am. Still, I'm now the happy owner of a Heavy Weapon Squad and the natural order has restored itself EDIT: My Field Ordnance (part 2) also arrived today. I didn't realise just how big the bases were, but they'll make excellent Kill Team Boss fights regardless!

Throwing out a big and hearty Thank You to whichever glorious and wonderful frater added the link to BuyMagsDirect on the first page; after all this time some dirty scalper got up early (before 8;00 am when I get there every week) and swept my local completely clean of the second part of the Imperial Guard Field Ordnance battery (there's normally 5~6 issues when I get there), leaving only American Car magazines in their wake. Luckily, I was able to order one from the aforementioned website - so I am no longer boiling with white-hot rage and have calmed to a mere simmering fury. You'd better believe next week's alarm is being set to 6:30 though

People, please, let's at least get the priorities right. The legs on the current Intercessors kit come in like four hundred pieces each. That can be pared down to one or two, without the needlessly detached shin pads and stuff, and that'll give plenty of sprue space for new Sergeant/Special/Other options before we cannibalise the visual customisation for the Bolt Rifles (which still have different rules for each in Kill Team, for what it's worth). ...Although if the Auto and Stalker Bolt Rifles become actual special weapons (less of them per squad but with bonuses or something) that might be pretty cool too.

Additionally, While Dark Eldar didn't get much stuff this edition, the Regular Eldar got a big refresh of a lot of their (coolest) units at the start of the year. I can totally see GW not wanting to drastically update both Eldar factions' units in the same edition for... some weird internal logic reason (that probably wouldn't make sense to us regular hobbyists). Or they're worried people would then riot over all the Eldar being released, which would need even more videos poking fun at it. Either way, Dark Eldar got Lady Malys this edition - Regular Eldar could well 'just' get their missing Phoenix Lord next edition, leaving 'release space*' for the Dark Eldar to get a sweeping overhaul of their Beasts, Court et al. In which case the only weird thing is taking the resin stuff off sale so far ahead of time - unless something's gone wrong with some of the moulds or something, but that's not likely to be something that gets announced. *Muscle memory had me typing 'realspace' for a minute there. Sort of appropriate, but not the word I wanted!

I may well be the only person that does so, but I picked the new Swooping Hawks kit. Yes, I know, it's not a big centrepiece character, but Swooping Hawks are what made me interested in the Eldar as a wee lad in the distant past, and we've finally got a kit that looks as dynamic as some of the old art, instead of being basically as 2d as possible like the old metals. So when I saw them, back when they were first released, for a moment I was a little kid again, looking at the cool flying laser elves and going "Wow!" No other kit's put that sort of smile on my face this year, so how could I pick anything else? (For completeness sake; my picks also included the new Grave Guard or whatever they're called these days, and the Tomb Kings Blood Bowl team. It's been a good year for the skelly boys - I hope one day the regular Tomb Kings infantry can get that sort of glow-up )

It's live for pre-order now brothers, may the Emperor bless your efforts to get it

UGH I want everything from this box. Those Deathwatch are destined to become a Kill Team of operatives from my various DIY Chapters, to make it easier for my nephews to identify which character does what since they'll be different colours. The necrons are destined to join my kinda-sorta-synthwave-palette Necrons whose dynasty name I really need to finally settle on, and the terrain doesn't simply appeal to me, it actively calls to me, a siren song across time and distance that demands I not only paint it but magnetize the whole lot somehow for even easier assembly and storage, to aid in making my as-yet-unnamed Necrons into the proper terrifying and cinematic threat to the galaxy (or at least the bit my nephews are defending) that they should be. This of course means there is a roughly 0.5% chance of me getting it before the box vanishes forever, but throne help me I'll have to at least try

Speaking from prior experience (and I just double checked to make sure) Bitzbox also have those bases for sale, but since it's a UK website that might wind up a more expensive fix with postage and whatnot. Still, as a last resort if nothing else, I humbly offer this knowledge. They also sell the 40mm one for the ripper swarms, if that's the one that's missing.

Today in the Hobby I finally bought and tested out some paint markers for doing chapter symbols and the like, instead of trying to do it with a brush. They're a lot easier to use, though I couldn't get any super-tiny-fine ones and had to settle for some 0.7 mm ones. They're still pretty good! Once I've got some more models painted up that actually need me to do symbols, I'll be ready to test them out. I also finally finished painting my Arbites kill team that I've been working on since April, so that's pretty good. No pictures yet though since my phone is a super potato camera from the dawn of technology, and I'll need to borrow a better one.

I mean, I 100% agree. It's no substitute for a properly painted mini. (Or even a badly painted 20+ year old model, to be honest) But it's fun* for me to see my marines, or at least approximations thereof, with what looks like a proper Warhammer 40k background, like you'd get in a White Dwarf magazine or other official publication. But yes, it's just a novelty - Though I could see it having some application for trialling different colour schemes on an unpainted model, perhaps. *Ace's definition and use of "fun" here is malleable and subject to change, fun not guaranteed for all readers, terms and conditions apply, etc etc

It's also applied parts of the Agrax Earthshade wash from the newer model to the older model (especially around the wrists and hands); definitely unifying them a bit more. All in all, it's not a bad result, but as Shinespider pointed out, the Unforgivable Tech Heresy AI sure does have a strong preference towards older official helmets.

Oh boy, that's pretty cool, although definitely heresy. I had a picture of my first ever Space Marine and my most recent (circa 2023), which I ran through the unholy machine, using the same prompt as our honoured brother N1SB: I'm saddened it got rid of the quartered-style kneepad, amused by the added trim on the dragonskin pauldron and somewhat pleased by how it's reasoned the outer armour on my old marine's legs must be like the ones on the MK X armour. It has a lot of trouble with any of my marines where I'd used a converted Chaos Warrior helmet instead of the standard Mk VII / MK X, giving them instead a thinner version of the standard helmet (still cool, but I don't want to flood the thread with examples) Mostly though I'm laughing at how it's kept all the dust on venerable brother first-ever-marine's base. (He's been cleaned up since, don't fret!)

By the throne, that's incredible Does he patrol the mean streets of Githam City?

I'm a simple man, I'd just like an alternate infantry unit for Thousand Sons, something where the designers can go really crazy showing super-mutated Thousand Sons marines, where Tzeentch's wildest mutations are on display. I now realise that I'm in essence just asking for Thousand Sons-specific Possessed marines. But darn it, we got super gross body horror cultists in baseline CSM, so surely we could get some Flesh Change shenanigans going on for the 1k sons. (Magnus trying to use newly-gleaned and/or ancient magic to get around the flesh change, only for it to backfire for obvious reasons, or something to that effect) Also, obviously, Rubric Dreadnoughts please, ideally available ALSO as Sorcerer Dreadnoughts via a dual kit. Rules? I'll leave all that to the experts, or at least to GW.