Xenith

I'd honestly try to get comfortable with freehanding - hazard stripes are one of the simplest things to freehand, effectively being a line, or two lines depending on how thick you want them. After a little practice I could knock them out pretty fast on most surfaces! I've shown some examples below. Freehanding is nothing to be scared of

I'm also getting some paint on older models I've had for years. Fuegan is a WIP, the Dire Avenger (anf his unit) was completed earlier this year and awaiting pics, while I've decided to paint my scond unit of spiders as close to the original model art as possible, and I'm in the blocking out stage.

It seems like forever since I've painte some xenos, but it's time for an update! I've really fallen out of 40k since about 6 months into 10th - I didnt manage to get one of the short run mission packs, and I don't own the current pack so it's hard to feel motivated to play when you don't/cant own a set of the rules, and the game itself just seems overly complex. That, and maybe I've forgotten the reason to play is to have fun, not to win. My local club is running a double elimination tournament soon, and I think it would be fun to enter with little to no expectation. The only current armies I have rules for are nids and eldar, and my nids seem woefully off-meta, so Eldar it is! I've come up with a quick list, please let me know what you think of it in terms of competitiveness! List 1 125 - Asyurmen 80 - Autarch wayleaper, glaive, fusion gun 120 - Fuegan 120 - Lykhis 90 - 5 dark reapers 75 - 5 dire evengers 220 - 10 fire fragons, exarch dragon fusion gun (or is the firepike better?) 95 - 5 banshees, executioner 95 - 5 banshees - executioner 55 - 5 rangers 55 - 5 rangers 190 - 10 swooping hawks (seem nasty with the grenade pack ability) 45 - 1x warlock skyrunner (perfect action mon-keigh) 95 - 5 warp spiders - I've gone for exarchs ddeath spinner, but is the spinneret better? 95 - 5 warp spiders - same as above 85 - 5 scorpions - biting blade 130 - falcon - pulse laser, scatter laser 125 - wave serpent, twin lances 85 - war walker - twin lances 1980pts - I can swap the warlock to a vyper to get 2000 on the nose, or save it for an enhancement. What do you think?

It's hard to start something from the ground up. You need a leader to drive things forwards, ad once things get traction, they will naturally attract more people. I'd look to @apologist's threads and clubs, such as the War of the False Primarch to see how one can get a club or group off the ground. Generally you need a good narrative hook, and maybe not enough people were hooked by your idea.

Almost zero to substantiate this bit is be happy to see it realised!

Who cares. Interesting kit: most of my marines are bald and screaming, now they can have a bad haircut and are screaming. *if you think these look like women, you need to move to a city

Awesome stuff, I think I might have seen some of these on insta also? It's answered the question of what to do with my shadow spear and post 2019 csm. I turned some into thousand sons, but still have a good few on sprue. Maybe a small SoH detachment!

Colour me interested! But again, plain models, and primaris don't really interest me that much, the models would have to be something special... Otherwise I'll just paint up my second Ed marines

This is my philosophy, during the crusade, at least before FW started adding to the lore, the Astartes were more soldiers that would upgrade their gear as time went on. Power armour was not the rare commodity is is by the 41st millennium, and these soldiers would switch the old MK2 for new MK4 as it arrived in stock. We see that old pattern vehicles like the kratos were brought back into service during the heresy, is assume the old marks were dished out also. Personally, my alphas look right in mk 4/6, but I want a unit of tactical marines in each of the new plastic marks.

Blue looks right. Yellow always feels more appropriate for a unit with Chainswords.

What do you mean by grooves? I'm confused between that and mounting points. Do you mean cupolas, or the nubbins like on the 40k rhino and predator ?

They haven't priced me out completely, and most things with a 20% discount I will still buy, however clear red lines for me, in terms of things I will not buy are: £24 single miniatures unless special characters £14-18 single troop miniatures like death guard icon bearer or champion. Any unit at over £12 a model from forge world - suzerians, crimson paladins Lerneans, etc at £75 for 5 models are insanely priced. I aaaalmost once bought a set of angels tears at £58 for 5, and maybe if i liked the models more I would have, but they're ugly, and now out of scale. The kratos at £85 is too much. I did buy one at £75 with a 20% discount on top.

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18 new units for my Alpha Legion! Great to see them, overall I felt they were slightly worse than some of the previous versions, but from this conversation maybe slightly better? The Alpha Legion ones are now immune to being targeted for 1/4 turns instead of 1/6, which is a huge boost. The random combi weapon option is weird, I'm unsure if losing fury of the legion is worth it, but couple of volkites, grenades or flamers are probably decent in there MK2 assault squad!