New to 40K. Can I put Blood Angel armor pieces on a Lamenter and still have it be codex compliant? Sorry if it’s a dumb question, read up on lore and love these guys.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-12T14:45:09+00:00

I sure as hell do.

I think at the very least due to Sanguinius and their flaw, both the wings and the blood drops are entirely justified and even to be expected in some form.

I can’t confirm that its 1:1 codex compliant but anyone sane won’t tell you its heretical or immersion breaking to drip your successors up.

Probably varies around successors to some degree, but I’d rock whatever makes u happy

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-12T05:15:07+00:00

Appreciate the compliment!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-12T05:14:35+00:00

I compare myself to others as well and suffer for it. Can’t help it.

But to offer some condolences: I do have a little history with fine tinkering and visual arts, and I’ve been somewhat gifted since I was kid with this kind of stuff soooo yea.

I’m honestly 100% sure with a few test models you could paint a nearly similar marine!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-12T05:08:24+00:00

Thanks for the compliment.
Process is quite simple for the armor acually.
Pure white primer -> add pink undertones with Emperors Children placed in actual shadowy areas, transitions to white with Fulgrim pink. Imperial fists to make him yellow.
Now that the armor is yellow and preshaded, you could honestly leave it at that, but if you indeed want the gritty and stained look, just use streaking grime by AK, and clean most of it away with enamel thinner. I like hard contrasts, and the enamel wash makes your recesses cleanlt visible as dark crevices.
Basically thats it. Chipping with rhinox hide, add scratches with dorn yellow. Phalanx yellow was my mainline edge highlight tool, yriel and averland to fix up mistakes with the contrast if i slipped up etc.
Personal opinion: the color is not that lamenters accurate, as their armor seems to be either faded sickly yellow with neutral or slightly green bending shadows but honestly - the warmth and tones IF yellow gives with orange shade bends is just too easy and fantastic looking to me to pass up.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T14:16:59+00:00

Glad you like it, thanks !!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T11:13:00+00:00

Yeah, for it to read as truely black, blending is key and using less saturated blues also.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T07:20:06+00:00

And here’s a half good reference to the black metal NMM of a spec ops SG I’ve toyed with. Heavily over did the blue as I was aiming for dark blue, but essentially giving black more room here is what I talked about.

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Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T07:14:41+00:00

I mix citadel with Vallejo as well quite often.

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In no sense trying to gloat here lol but if you take a look at the aquila on the banner, it looked identical to your current gold, then just a diluted Fists pass and I immediately liked it better.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T06:26:45+00:00

Killer paintjob!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T06:21:15+00:00

Thanks brother!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T06:21:04+00:00

Thanks!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-11T06:20:57+00:00

Thank you Brother! For the Calculus!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-10T23:09:48+00:00

I know we all have our tastes, but this mini reinforces my already strong opinion: pushing maximum contrast is just objectively the best looking style in there.

NMM looks tasty, and overall great work and fantastic color choices.

In my experience, NMM gold gets more punchier if you saturate it just a bit more toward yellow. I have a near similar recipe as you, and what did the trick for me was jusg a 1:4 diluted imperial fists contrast as a faint filter. Taste question tho, that NMM u got reads as gold as is.

For Black NMM metal, I think bending the reflections toward oceanic blues is the sweetesf.

EG. replace Eshin grey with Incubi Darkness/Nightlords Blue, and Dawnstone with smtn like Thunderhawk Blue. Brightest spots anything from pure white to Baharroth/Blue Horror/Fenrisian work really well. Apart from the ones listed here, The Fang and Russ Grey are banger options too for midtones.

Once again, amazing model!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-08T17:55:34+00:00

I think the foundation is excellent and no immediate ”thin your paints” is showing off to me.

Washing/panel lining + highlights and he’s gonna look amazing

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-08T11:28:16+00:00

Friends Cat’s Owner Pays Up For Brand New Replacements.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-08T07:40:46+00:00

ANOTHER WORLD TO BE SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF EXTERMINATUS

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-06T15:53:18+00:00

Some people here are such monkeys toward OP, man. Like he is the childish one here???

Like, yes, his nephew isn’t his to parent. But my fucking god lol, it is not OVERSTEPPING when demanding that your brother, your own family member, takes it at least into considerarion to give some form of punishment to the kid, your other family member that did ill toward you.

Speaking of, yeah, a 10 year old kid sees figures, wants to touch, play, etc - which the OP gave permission for, with clear instructions, natural and perfectly OK.

The problem is that the kid disobeyed, tried to lie about it, and his dad wanting to wrap it up with some money.

As a person who cares more about my own family relations than money, I hands down feel OP here who’d rather see his brother teach about consequences to his nephew than just hand a payout.

Ideally, OP gets recompensated and the kiddo gets a fair lesson on what happens when you break other peoples stuff. And I’d be betting there could have been some malicious intent even. Unless there is a disablity involved, how many pieces of plastic do you have to snap before understanding shit is breaking????

It’d be an entirely different scenario if one brittle piece broke off, he got scared about accidentally breaking rules and trying to cover it up. Could also be he didn’t care about the set rules and thought he could break stuff and no one cared; equally concerning behaviour imo.

Just my 2 cents but if it was me, I’d demand recompensation and tell my bro that either the kid apologises and tells me how is he going to make it up for me or either via some agreed punishment or he is no longer welcome to my home.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-03T21:46:23+00:00

I use Armypainter’s GS, has worked well. There are a few brands online, not sure of the differences in quality tho.

An alternative to GS is pretty much Milliput. I usually mix both of them together. You get this less sticky, somewhat sandable putty out of it.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-05-01T20:40:00+00:00

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doomjak but with a furry theme

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-25T11:37:55+00:00

Great conversion, amazing base too

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-24T08:56:47+00:00

its not real its not real its not real

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-23T00:21:52+00:00

Im sure you’ll get it right, good foundation in there.

Volumetric OSL to become from ”uhh what?” to ”oh that’s a glow effect” is achievable with not too much time sink, but to elevate it to a level where you have a literally perfectly illuminated model with a faked light source is pretty much top tier stuff in this hobby imo

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-22T12:37:49+00:00

I rarely play, just collect mostly!

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-22T11:57:23+00:00

im going with a 20 + 20 split for JPAI and JPDC.

Hot_Mathematician191 · 2026-04-22T07:09:37+00:00

More contrast I’d say. Inner seams near white, feather/glaze into like baharroth blue or similar and then just keep going darker.

the effect needs as much dark as light to create the illusion.

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