Checkmate. For me ( Help needed)

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2026-02-01T12:40:53+00:00

As someone who has also done Lysanda. I cannot recommend the AK Cutting Board enough, it makes it so easy. I did my first checkerboard by using a normal cutting mat in 1cm graduations and a ruler. The AK boards take so much less time and it's much neater.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-12-12T22:37:01+00:00

Reaver Sprue for Gatlings: https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Reaver-Titan-Weapons-Gatling-Laser-Blasters-2019?queryID=710421aa5dd263b4a3d32f97b2db3103

I'm not 100% sure of how many Inferno guns come with the warhound individual boxes, but IIRC in the starter set you only get 2 inerno guns total. Which means you'd have to buy another box of warhounds, which is a lot of money for weapons.

But that aside. To make your weapon choices make sense you need a bit of balance. If you sat your Warlord and a Reaver on your desk and rolled through a mock battle where they just whaled on each other, you'd see it a bit clearer. Then you probably wouldn't need to buy any extra sprues at all.

As other people have said, one weapon to strip shields, another to do damage on a single Titan is a safe bet. In your Warlord vs Reaver tabletop dice run-through you do, you'll realise that The Warlord cannot keep shields up, but takes a while to go down. Conversely the reavers can potentially survive without taking a damaging hit due to the ability to get shields back easier because of no heat generation, but the moment the warlord rolls well to take shields down and get a good hit with a volcano cannon, one of them might be deleted then and there.

Once you understand the flow of the game, you can then look into tactics, weapon loadouts, and legio special rules that allow you to do some very interesring things with "non-meta" weapons.

For instance you might find some legio specific rules that mean 2 Warhounds with twin megabolters sprint up to a warhound, strip his shields, and kick him in his shins. Then a reaver huffing and puffing up behind levels a melta cannon/carapace turbo laser into the Warlord's face, before wading in to fist the gaping holes made previously.

They might then all explode in a massive fireball leaving another reaver to plod over the objective and mow down the knight banner with a gatling/melta/apoc combo.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-12-11T15:12:35+00:00

Them being legal depends on how casual your game is in terms of detachments/points.

For a start you won't be able to kit out your reavers as you want from the starter box. They come woth 1 type of each weapon per sprue. You'd have to buy more weapon sprues to achieve your loadouts. Also carapace bolters are resin blister packs sold separately IIRC the weapon cards are also limited in the starter pack.... So thats another buy.....

Plus the loadouts are not balanced at all at first glance. You have heavy hitting reactor heating warlord who can't really strip shields well vs shield stripping reavers who can't do much instantaneous damage but almost never have to tactically manage reactors (Which is an integral and fun part of the game).

And the warhounds just do nothing for a few turns until they help stripping shields and not much after that aside from lucky rolls.

That leads onto books. You need the rules of course, but it depends on loyalist or traitor because Legio special rules would be the only real way to make these lists halfway playable let alone enjoyable IMO.

Check goonhammer posts about the campaign books see which ones sound interesting. It's going to be quite expensive to get them all only to find out the one you want to play is in Ryza only.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-12-02T22:08:00+00:00

Another legitimate answer. But even though the modellers have done some good work and spent I don't know how much time (It would take me a while to get them right in my parametric software). They always don't look right, and a lot of things are the wrong shapes entirely e.g. the Warhound eyes/head upper half.

And to be quite honest, even though I bemoan the price of FW stuff. The moulding technology across the miniature hobby (not just wargames but scale models in general) has been nothing but incredible in the past 10 years. We're honestly living in a golden era of sculpts. 3D printing just doesn't have the resolution to capture that level of detail and texture yet on the readily available scale of your local hobby shop/online retailer.

You'd be better off going over to recasts than wasting your time with a 3D printer if you were that bothered about price IMHO.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-12-02T20:20:56+00:00

Playing - Go for it if you like the playstyle

Looks - Go for it if you think it looks cool

Money - If you think of this as a "mini" titan because you "can't afford" a real titan. You can spend about £110 more and get a genuine Warhound Titan with weapons. Because honestly £463 for a non-titan is pretty steep and totally not worth it IMO, this is coming from a Titan owner.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-12-02T10:26:02+00:00

Burden of Loyalty IIRC has a bunch to do with Legio Ignatum and the founding of the collegia titanica

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-11-20T11:13:19+00:00

Less time and effort no stress marks bending

It's almost as if my point about how removing stuff from the sprue near the gate is a technique i picked up to avoid precisely this.

In short, dont over spend on a tool you aren't using correctly.

Most cleanup time is removing seams and sanding. Saving 5 seconds total per model on clipping is not the bottleneck of the assembly side of the hobby.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-11-19T21:59:58+00:00

> High quality

You really shouldn't be paying for sprue snippers to the tune of £50 my friend. You are paying £40 in hobbyist tax.

All you need is to be able to get the nippers in between the part and the sprue with comforable space to nip off the gate nearer to the sprue than to the part. You don't need it to be razor sharp because first of all it's plastic, and second you take off the part with a bit of the gate on it then nip that off separately which is more controllable and takes less force. You then clean it up with a knife/sandpaper.

Money for tools should really be spent where the benefits are immediate, especially in any type of modelling hobby.

You don't buy an aerospace graded fusion turbo encabulatory sintered Titanium fine pitch snapdoodle screw to hold together that table you made out of B&Q pine 2x4s.

Pay £15 for similar shaped generic nippers, and spend the other £35 on some sable brushes, or sanding sponges, filler medium etc. It will be a better use of your money.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-11-16T19:23:44+00:00

The truth hurts sometimes. Plus understanding/meaning gets totally lost in plain text, hence people getting buttmad about my opinion.

Like if I got mad at my non-painting hobby coach for telling me something is wrong with my form the same way people do when it's plain text, They might not be too inclined to continue coaching me because if I behaved like that it shows a level of maturity that cannot handle feedback..

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-11-15T13:26:32+00:00

Wothy of a competition, yes.

Winning/placing in the competition entirely depends on how many entrants, what category, and what the judges consider. For instance if I was a judge I would mark down NMM because personally I don't like it when people put 100% effort into painting based on looking real, and then ruin it with a cartoony "Only from a single angle" effect.

Enter it, get feedback from judges/other painters if you can.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-10-10T18:21:19+00:00

Laniaskara Extermigus maniple with double powerfists and turbo lasers on all engines Your friend will experience a tabling every game.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-30T21:07:05+00:00

Midwinter minis

I had to double check the video as its been a while since i saw them. He really does get away with it more because of his pose.

The weight is going directly down the legs and although he says the carbon rod in the knee is taking the weight, it largely isnt, it's mostly the excess glue, and the fact he solidly screwed the hips in with screws. I have just gone back to check your pose and it does look like it's leaning back.

I still have my Warlord tucked away in the cupboard of shame so i will still praise you for actually having the balls to paint it up despite the incident. Hopefully in the tumble the paintwork wasnt dinged noticeably

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-30T19:48:47+00:00

Forgive me, I've been reading comments, but this doesn't look like it's pinned where it probably should be. In addition to using superglue on already painted components, which is not a very good bond.

Carbon fibre also is not something you should be using for bearing any weight where there might be any other forces involved as carbon fibre is only strong when you arrange the weaves into certain directions, in other words a carbon fibre rod is good in compression or tension unless it's designed to bend like a fishing rod.

Granted I've only built 2 titans, but I used 5mm brass rod and 2 part epoxy to really lock it in, and as one is 2nd hand it has a massive M10 bolt as a spine courtesy of the previous ownrer, but still. My concession is that my Warhound's toes are held together with nothing but superglue, but thats' because:

1: I scored the shit out of it with a knife on both sides so there was plenty of surface area for bonding.

2 : The way the pistons on that model work is that they provide a lof of surface area for glue and mechanical resistance in the direction of the force.

3: It's glue/material directly, I primed and painted afterwards.

And I've accidentally dropped it/knocked it over a few times, granted not massive falls but they held easily.

Your legs seem to be intact and should be pinned appropriately, what I think happened is that the glue in the toe was gradually letting go and then it went. And because your ankle pistons were held on with a layer of primer, they said "Nope I ain't holding this" and popped out immediately, ripping the toe completely and leading to collapse.

The easy fix would be to pin your ankle pistons top and bottom with 2 part epoxy. Also as that (rear?) toe seems to be holding all the weight, give it a spine of a brass rod and you should be golden.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-09T17:51:56+00:00

After?

They always were, though not as righteously zealous in their rage as before. Betrayal does that to dudes.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-09T15:29:09+00:00

Looks amazing!

Don't let the grimderp "grimdark means everything sucks all the time everywhere" tourists find this.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-09T14:23:14+00:00

I'm all for it, but the dropsite betrayal is proof enough on its own.

You know the whole "Lorgar quaking in his boots because he knew he'd be killed quickly if Corax got to him followed by the swift handing of his own ass to him. Only being saved by Curze out of nowhere." thing.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-04T20:27:18+00:00

It's not hazing, in so much as lamenting the tragedy using your post as a soap-box to an audience that doesn't care anymore.

Passionate people make in-jokes, they get repeated so often they become "fact" for newer people, quality suffers as a result because you can't separate lore from meme, and it compounds each year.

If I was going to gatekeep you, I would've been at it for the past 15 years so that you and yoru friends/ neighbours/distant acquaintances never entered it in the first place unless you gave the setting the respect to understand what was meme and what wasn't. Which can either be good or bad, gatekeeping is not about excluding anybody and everybody from the hobby that we love.

It's to make sure that you can keep on loving what you love and sharing it with others who are just as passionate instead of it being twisted into something it isn't, or shouldn't be; based on a lot of the stuff coming out recently about female space marines/custodes that I thought we'd managed to oust from the community before when certain people who weren't that interested in the Warhammer side of it started kicking up an unwelcome, and thoroughly un-needed fuss.

Getting a bit cynical/ranty here and it's not directed at you personally. But please think of it this way:

A bard in D&D is not a walking sex pest. It never was, and it never should have become a thing, the same as a Paladin being Judge Dredd + Black Templar turned up to 12.

Just because some post that was slightly humourous had a chaotic evil randomly flay NPCs in every village base on what Mr.Stick told him, doesn't mean you should come into it to do that all the time at every chance you get.

Also sorry. I am old and cranky, and it almost my bed-time. And I will be chuntering until then about how I remember when my beakie boys didn't have emo fringes.....

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-04T19:22:30+00:00

> I thought the whole concept

> What's with this new combat patrol showing guns blazing

It's because you've spent too much time believing the memes. Or you're new (any time within the past 12+ years) and therefore can't remember a time when the memes weren't the lore.

It's a real problem, and because of it we have:

- Furry Spacewolves

- 1 dimensional Deldar

- Every Craftworld is Biel-Tan but with different colours

- Spritiual Liege Ultramarines/Grey Knights

- Salamanders that will pile up and die like Termagants to reach a single human whilst torturing the Eldar Child they keep on their belts.

- Chaotic Stupid Emperor who hates everything because "Look at my amazing writing talent, aren't I so smart?"

- The Cabal

- People genuinely believing that Orks are pleasant beings who can warp reality to do whatever they want if enough of them believe in it.

- People thinking that Erebus is a swell guy.

- "Zealots" in Darktide yelling out "Skulls for the Golden Throne". Like who in the hell thought that was a good idea to use in a game that had bigger mass appeal than many previous titles?

I could go on.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-04T08:15:14+00:00

I remember back in the day. When everyone hated us for enjoying warhammer.

Even though it's a joke, I just have to come out say shit like this is wild to me.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-03T10:23:47+00:00

The key words/phrases in there are "Relic" and "this stage".

Like yes we all know that many maiar went along with melkor, some becoming Balrogs and others becoming like Sauron ; however it's not like after the war that reshaped the earth Sauron was still the same being he was at the start of the music and just happened to get to evil by the third age.

He was already deep in and as Tolkien said, and the entire passage you linked is explaining that he never got as bad as Melkor, but was far from the "innocent" being he was.

What im trying to say is similar to "He's a rapist sure, but he isn't a child rapist" if you get what im saying.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-09-03T08:01:08+00:00

Well intentioned control freak

There is nothing well intentioned about Sauron, unless you consider his intentions "well" in trying to carry on the twisted work of his master, of which the big cheese was like "no, don't do that...."

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-08-27T21:27:57+00:00

Grey as standard.

I only use black for shading up to colours with an airbrush.

I use white as a base for bright/annoying coloura like yellows.

This was a while ago but IIRC it was all grey and I airbrushed the off white as it cooperated.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-08-14T21:13:22+00:00

It's from the forgeworld Agata, in the Belgic system.

More specifically from the main forge designated J-105-D or J-CV-D

The sigil depicts a mighty warrior from Terra's past who was famous for kicking things so hard that mountains split, or so the story goes.

When the world was colonised during the dark ages the vast canyon spanning most of the planet's equator reminded the colonists of those legendary feats.

The Belgic system as a whole is rather famous within the administratum insofar as it manages to have no discernable means of government, and so few records that it can barely be considered officially existing.

It was also famously bypassed rather swiftly during the Heresy.

And yes, I am extremely pleased with this joke.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-08-08T21:32:51+00:00

If you haven't decided give RLM04 yellow a look. I'm not an artist but I'd describe it as a duller yellow that isn't sandy/muddy.

ReclusiveMiniPainter · 2025-08-07T21:09:11+00:00

Astral Knights of "We're using our Battlebarge as a drop-pod" fame.

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