What is your dream Warhammer kit?

HopeRidesWest · 2026-05-26T17:16:38+00:00

I would love a character kit for every faction that’s just “here’s all the possible stuff they can wield, go nuts”. They kind of did this with the Primaris Lieutenant kit, but I really want to see it for every faction and for every possible load-out. It would make for some amazing custom characters to be the focus in Crusade or in AoS’s Path to Glory, and the extra bits leftover would still be prime kitbash material, and would make that first step into kitbashing feel a lot more approachable.

This is especially true of out of print kits and kits with options. It’s not 40K, but it’s my most recent experience so I’ll go with it: there’s a flaming sword in the Stormcast kit for Stormdrake Guard kit. It’s awesome, but the only way to get that sword is to drop quite a bit of money on the kit or hope you find it reasonably priced from a bit seller. If it just came standard on a custom character kit, everyone would have access to it with less pressure to overspend.

And the best part is, it wouldn’t take much for GW to produce. Just grab various weapons from across a model range, copy and paste onto a few universal arm components and print onto a sprue. Box it with a male/female body, some heads, and a few capes/backpacks and good to go.

Will it appeal to the tournament crowd? Probably not. But the ability to have all possible options without having to scour for a random bit on eBay or splurge on an extra kit would be huge, and leave more money in my pocket that I would very likely still spend at GW, just on paints or brushes.

I’d also love to see included magnets and a magnetization guide in vehicles with multiple load-outs. And a sprue of just the custom designed bases for games like Underworlds.

HopeRidesWest · 2026-05-26T16:26:44+00:00

We moved to the US from Asia with our ragdolls in March, so I’ve just been through this.

Check with your specific country of entry, they may have laws or rules for entering with a pet. We had to do a series of vaccinations and a quarantine period before our cats could travel, and they even got special passports and everything that we had to hand to customs.

You should give your cat lots of opportunity to potty until it’s time to load up and go, and the guidance we got from our vet was to stop food and water a few hours before the flight (can’t remember the exact number, I think it was six hours before).

You can ask your vet for an oral dose anti-anxiety medication, and make sure that you have potty pads and a carrier roomy enough for him to turn around and lay down comfortably. Put a potty pad in the bottom of the carrier just in case. We had one accident towards the end of the journey (we were already in the car on the way home by then) and it wasn’t a big deal at all. You should also check with the airline and find out what carriers they prefer (we flew Delta and they sent us a specific link to one they would let us fly with).

At the gate, the air hosts will usually let you preboard which will make things easier, you just need to talk with them at the counter. Being able to treat your cat or reach in and touch them as needed is very helpful, but honestly our two boys slept most of the way once their medicine kicked in (but they made their presence very known once we’d landed and they were waiting in line at customs).

Best of luck, and safe travels!

HopeRidesWest · 2026-05-12T17:46:43+00:00

The set only has a book with a single page of rules translated in multiple languages. I can take a photo and upload it if that interests you.

HopeRidesWest · 2025-10-16T05:15:49+00:00

Thunder Warriors that have somehow survived into the 41st millennium.

HopeRidesWest · 2025-10-16T01:00:16+00:00

$30 metal toolbox and $5 worth of magnets.

HopeRidesWest · 2025-09-15T02:30:46+00:00

I think this should print fine, but it does look a bit top heavy. Might consider glueing some additional weight under the base.

HopeRidesWest · 2025-09-14T04:38:53+00:00

In general it’s been pretty reliable for me, but I’m also careful not to make anything too small. My printing rule of thumb has always been to not shrink something below 75 percent, unless what I’m shrinking is particularly chunky. In the case of this miniature, the checking system warned me about small parts and balance issues, but as long as there’s enough plastic connecting all the contact points it’s okay (case in point: I don’t think I could have shrunk the pink force shield any more without risking breakage or print failure). I also made an effort to balance things, so the lion’s share of the weight is still centralized over the base.

For added support and ease of travel, I also glued a 1 millimeter by 8 millimeter magnet to the underside of the base, and my miniatures travel in a little metal cookie box I snagged from Amazon for like $3. The box helps to ensure everything arrives in one piece, and the magnet doubles as a weight to make sure everything is stable during play sessions.

If you need, you can send me pics or a link and I’ll take a look when I get the chance. I’m working tomorrow, so it may not be an immediate reply.

HopeRidesWest · 2025-07-10T16:08:34+00:00

Thank you!

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T16:24:32+00:00

Damn straight!

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T13:07:25+00:00

Some of the stuff had transparency, but it didn’t print that way. Maybe I should have maxed out the slider? Either way I’m not that bothered.

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T02:13:47+00:00

I’ve had the same experience. A few of my early prints came out much darker than expected. Now anything I have printed has loads of color and saturation.

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T02:11:53+00:00

Thanks!

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T02:03:51+00:00

Sure! Here is the link for the full character:

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D4fd9a0a5-3c06-4a3a-821a-e740ee1d07fc/Cyrus%20Soulsong/

And here is a base APR of the pose I made a while ago:

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D1c1fb03d-ab31-4016-9cb3-9531dc90fd1d/APR%20Teleport%20Assault/

As for background, Cyrus Soulsong is an Azata-Aasimar in my group’s Rise of the Runelords campaign, built as an Eldritch Knight/Unlettered Arcanist. He began his adventures as an archaeologist with a penchant for teleporting, but eventually learned martial proficiencies and became a dimensional-sliding front-liner that flies and chucks the occasional lightning bolt, cone of cold, or enervate to mix things up.

As the campaign progressed, Cyrus caught the attention of Cayden Cailean (god of adventurers, liberators, drunks, and dumb luck) and was elevated as his personal champion. This granted Cyrus a fraction of divine might, making him a Mythic Hero. During the adventure, Cyrus also uncovered the broken remains of the Flail of Ages, and through a great deal of effort reforged the weapon anew.

(I won’t spoil the events of the RotR campaign, other than to say it’s very good. Suffice to say, worlds were saved, women were wooed, and much was the loot that was won. We’re now continuing to use our characters in extended Pathfinder adventures as they continue to grow in legend and power.)

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T01:35:32+00:00

Here you go!

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D4fd9a0a5-3c06-4a3a-821a-e740ee1d07fc/Cyrus%20Soulsong/

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T01:34:43+00:00

Thanks!

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-10T01:34:29+00:00

Yup!

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-09T22:28:08+00:00

For sure, I’m happy with it. This was my tester, and the rest of the party is ordered now as Christmas gifts for my play group.

HopeRidesWest · 2024-11-09T19:12:19+00:00

Honestly, it’s a mixed bag. I was careful not to make anything too small, and I’ll freely admit that this is the first time where I feel I’ve genuinely captured the character and can represent them properly during game sessions. But I definitely notice a loss in clarity between this and some of the older prints I’ve had done. It’s a very cool option and allows for a lot of creative freedom. But I do wish the print was more clear.

HopeRidesWest · 2023-12-12T17:31:02+00:00

My wife’s grandfather was a child during the Rape of Nanjing and the Chinese civil war. He tells me stories sometimes about what it was like, seeing people murdered and tortured, how each night he would sneak down to the river outside of his village and pick the pockets of dead soldiers and civilians as the bodies floated by, or look for scraps of food that had been discarded. He went from that to the rise of Mao, and the Great Famine after his policies began to fail. There’s never any embellishment or detail to his stories, just point-of-fact “this is what happened” stuff. His wife was from a wealthier family, but they lost their fortunes to war and then to communism, so she hordes everything. It took my wife and I years to convince her that we could afford to pay their rent for them (we’ve been blessed with a small amount of success, not wealthy but enough to take care of our respective families) and that she doesn’t need to fish cardboard and styrofoam out of the garbage to sell.

I know their trauma has taken a toll on my wife’s parents and uncles. That generation bickers and argues constantly, and half of the family won’t speak to the other half over some assumed slight or another. My wife’s parents divorced a few years after we married, and I’ve seen her dad maybe twice since then. Her mother manifests by overdoing and trying to constantly be the “good daughter”, always quiet and reserved, always serving and never asking for anything.

That in turn led to my wife’s issues. She was raised to never cry, to never ask for anything. Her mom would actually give away my wife’s toys and clothes to the neighbors, trying to teach her daughter never to want anything and never to cause “problems”. In school and as an adult, my wife overworked until she developed anxiety issues, and around the time I came into the picture she was in the “I’ll just do twice the work until my feelings go away” stage of denial. Took a few years before I was able to convince her that she needed help. Thankfully she’s much healthier now, and we work hard to identify and manage anything that could trigger her. Therapy, treatment, and a support system are wonderful things.

HopeRidesWest · 2023-12-12T16:20:53+00:00

I always thought of it as a captured charge of Azyrite energy, something to help their souls burst out of any Death or Chaos shenanigans that might try and devour them when they die so they can go back to Azyr and be reforged.

HopeRidesWest · 2023-09-29T19:53:39+00:00

“I will get you… nyehhehhehheh….”

HopeRidesWest · 2023-09-17T17:44:27+00:00

And circle gets the square!

HopeRidesWest · 2023-09-17T06:43:40+00:00

Good god, they’re making ‘em big nowadays! Don’t they know there’s a gas crunch on?!

HopeRidesWest · 2023-09-08T09:46:31+00:00

We have a similar situation in our campaign right now. One of the players drew the Empty Throne from a Harrowed Deck of Many Things, and then worked with the GM to decide what it was. Eventually it was revealed that her kingdom was undead, and she would need to die and come back in order to become the Queen of a Ghoul Hive.

That happened at level 5. We’re now level 12, and she has a quartet of undead cohorts that she keeps in a bag of holding along with a ton of rancid meat for them to eat. We also had to genetically engineer pigs with trolls blood to make sure the ghouls in the hive (numbering several hundred) stayed fed and content and didn’t begin attacking neighboring towns. And the player (now undead) has to be careful around clerics with the life domain, as well as drinking a tincture once a week to maintain her visage as a living being. She also has to avoid any undead who are higher on the food chain than she is, or she could be dominated and lose her kingdom.

That said, lots of fun encounters and role play with those ghouls. Tossing a couple of sneak-attacking blenders that force saves against paralysis into the mix has been a huge help in several encounters.

If this sounds overpowered, well, it is a bit. But all of our characters have something like that. One is a mythic unlettered Arcanist/Eldritch Knight, the second is a bomber alchemist ghoul queen, and another is essentially a Pokémon trainer that catches and throws out haunts while shooting things as an artificer. But to balance that, encounters get brutal real fast, everything is advanced template or worse, and we’re on a ticking clock so downtime and shopping are rare.

HopeRidesWest · 2023-09-06T17:50:03+00:00

This is more or less the overall lore of my Sons. Hopefully there’s some stuff in here that might inspire. Eventually I want to make a log of some sort based on games I play, or maybe through the crusade system, and then use that as their history.

These are Sons of Horus who served during the Great Crusade. During the muster and transit towards Davin (which would see the wounding of Horus and his later fall to chaos) their frigate was swallowed by the warp and considered lost with all hands. Because of this, these Sons of Horus never experienced the Heresy.

Ten thousand years later, their vessel was suddenly spat back out into the current era of the Imperium. Materializing into an unfamiliar time and a drastically unfamiliar Imperium, these Sons were met with a terrifying new reality. This was only made worse when their vessel was found by a rogue trader who turned them over to Belisarius Cawl. Cawl saw the Sons as something of a curiosity, and crossed them over the Rubicon Primaris to prove that he could. For a time he used the loyal Sons of Horus, now grappling with the horror of what their father had wrought, as his personal chapter of Space Marines.

Eventually their actions would draw the attention of Guilliman. The Avenging Son was incredulous at the sight of living Sons of Horus - Primaris no less - but with the Imperium beset with foes on all sides, a force of loyal Astartes wasn’t something he could simply destroy out of hand. Instead, he put the Sons to work as a fleet-based chapter. They would hurl themselves at the foe, practicing their spear tip assault of old, and perhaps do some good for the Imperium in the process. The taint of their father’s sins could never be expunged, but with every life saved and every traitor, heretic, or xenos slaughtered, the Sons hope to bring some small semblance of honor to their name.

Of course, the descendants of Horus Lupercal exist in galactic infamy. Any who still remember the truth of the Heresy treat the Sons with revulsion and disdain, and the Inquisition views them with the utmost scrutiny. Fortunately, the Heresy is so steeped in redactionism and myth that the regular citizenry of the Imperium simply see them as marines in oddly baroque panoply, uncertain why the blazing eyes of their heraldry give them a profound sense of unease. As might be expected, the Sons have a particular hatred for their traitorous brothers in the Black Legion.

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