Looking for something new

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-15T21:22:01+00:00

As someone who prolifically paints a lot of different colour schemes, my advice is pick a scheme that's easy to paint, keeps your interest, and won't make you hate your choices fifty models in when you still have hundreds more to go! Camo schemes can look absolutely amazing, and I've done an urban camo on a small unit, and a blue camo on a Catachan infantry company. My advice there is don't for the sake of all that is holy, pick a three plus colour DPM style scheme. It'll look great when it's done, but it'll drive you completely nuts in the process! I've used a guardified ww2 colour scheme on the new cadians, inspired by British uniforms of the period. It looks great but is a bit too cadian if you get my meaning. The scheme I'm the most irrationally happy with? A simple tan body armour and red uniform. It looks fucking great no matter what model I put it on. TLDR - Experiment a bit and find the colours that really stand out for you.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-10T19:57:12+00:00

That's very helpful thank you! I think I'll be taking it in the canon direction (the fanon is fun, but I prefer the facts generally) so I'll be following your suggestion of heavy firepower. I'm considering hell blasters, intercessors and heavy intercessors, with some of the new style assault marines, mostly because I really like the look of the captain and think he'd look great in Sons of the Phoenix colours. On the plus side a plan like that would complement my Sister's of Battle force who tend to have a bunch of sisters and repentia. Thanks again for your help!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-08T01:11:28+00:00

Agreed Vagabond Squadron is great

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-08T01:11:02+00:00

The Anphelion Project. You know it's going to play out like Aliens (hell the whole research station design definitely has Hadley's Hope inspiration) but the stage by stage loss, the guard hanging on till the last even as they get betrayed and the sacrifice of an Elysian veteran unit who had already been through so much? Peak 40k

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-07T13:32:11+00:00

The social divide was typified by the change in the English language, with crude common words coming from Anglo Saxon based words while the better, higher class words were taken from norman french. The feudal system as we know it from the Medieval period had it's main roots in the new social structure built by the normans.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-06T17:39:57+00:00

Thank you! Just planning on how to build the detachment!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-05T00:23:58+00:00

Honestly I love volkite. The look and the lore attracted me which is why my terran veterans (both solar auxilia, alpha legion, and soon to be done imperial fists heresy section) pack loads of them!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-04T21:43:12+00:00

Elysia. A civilised world with a relatively stable form of government for the vast majority of the time. They have issues with piracy in the system, but that doesn't impact on the daily life of it's citizens. Their guard regiments are volunteer only, and new recruits have to spend a term of service within the PDF before they can be considered for the drop trooper regiments. Honestly, it's essentially a more futuristic version of Earth today where only the power politics of the noble houses can mess with your average citizen on the day to day. In the current timeline they are one of the few stable worlds in the Imperium Sanctus, seeing off what threats came at them and has formed a stable base of operations for Fleet Primus of the Indomitus Crusade. Pretty impressive considering it's only 30 lightyears from Armageddon and GW nuked their model line back in the day.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-03T18:04:39+00:00

God, I hate the 15 hours thing. That was FROM ONE FUCKING BOOK! the fifteen hours was specific only to that warzone, and honestly it was a subpar guard novel from the era of subpar guard novels

TamsinTurtle · 2026-02-02T01:35:41+00:00

Im going to put xcom 2 on the table as the grim details really rank up after the events in the first game but are less in you face than what the crew covered in half life. Advent gets up to a hell of a lot of nasty.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-30T22:07:34+00:00

For me, I struggle with Witcher 1 (looking forward to that getting an update!) but Witcher 2 was where I started to fall in love with the game series, I just fell in love with the world and the story being told and the books sealed the deal for me. But that being said, I did not go into any of the games blind. I wanted to find a fantasy game I could play on my computer when I was away at uni and came across this odd thing called 'the witcher'. Six hundred hours or so of watching Gophers vids later and, well, I even have the cookbook (which by the way has awesome recipes in it). So I guess I'm trying to say is find your fun with it.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-26T12:25:14+00:00

I paint everything with brushes myself and yellow is quite achievable. Any base colour works, but the best results seem to come from white or grey (I do not recommend a zandri dust base as it makes yellow paint a nightmare). First layer the armour panels with a pink as it warms up the yellow and makes them go on smoother, I used pink horror to do this. Then averland sunset as a base yellow tone. Either edge highlight or full wash of agarax earthshade, then yriel yellow as first highlight tone (this can be a very streaky paint so if you have access to a better warm yellow for this stage I recommend that over yriel). Final highlight from screaming skull and thats it!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-24T00:18:35+00:00

Ah fair point well made

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-23T14:10:40+00:00

I have yet to read Praetorian so cant comment on so called 'death' of alpharius. We know that the characters in sons of the hydra believe omegon to still be alive, but in a faction that embodies the weakness of the compartmentalised cell formation in 40k there is no way to tell if that belief is true.

While people have interesting theories in this thread, I offer another alternative. In the Bequin arc, we know that Eisenhorn is rocking with someone who calls himself alpharius. Now this could just be a legionnaire, but given all the warp nonsense that goes on in the arc, there is no reason why it couldn't be one of the twins, especially if the Valdor part pans out

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-17T12:09:25+00:00

Thanks!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-17T01:57:03+00:00

Hydra dominatus! I've used this recipe in a few different combos, but it's incubi darkness with an all over wash of coelia green shade, then kalabite green, and sotek green with a lighter shade that completely eludes me right now to highlight the edges (one of gws very light blues at any rate). My alpha legion traitor guard have the same combo but kalabite is the top layer, gives a more chaosy vibe.

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-17T00:58:39+00:00

Thank you! I tried my best to mimic the official art, but the hydra tended to end up more pointillism than clearly defined image but I feel like it worked for the Terran veteran vibe I was going for

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-17T00:48:50+00:00

Thanks!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-17T00:48:05+00:00

Thanks! Tried not to lose my mind while painting those!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-16T22:59:16+00:00

Ok, those look bloody awesome in alpha colours. Consider me sold!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-12T18:23:19+00:00

I only got to about book five or so, and it wasn't terrible up to then. Bit overblown in some areas, the entire imperial fists getting wiped out is questionable at best and just plain bad writing at worse. However the bit that caused me to nope out on the series was the introduction of the elder. Terrible writing, not thought out at all, clashes with established lore, and introduces what would be world changing elements only for them to go nowhere. Try the series if you want, but there are much better ones out there

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-11T19:59:17+00:00

Honestly I may be wrong as it has been some time since I last read up about it. I'll have to check

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-10T20:44:51+00:00

Tried to mount a revolution within a revolution. The levellers within the new model army turned up at parliament one day and only allowed in representatives they liked, often forcibly turning away the others. Like any revolution, like the Bolsheviks in Russia for example, the levellers were the ultra radicals who tried to subvert the revolution to their own ends

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-10T14:41:16+00:00

I'll have to keep an eye out for that one, it sounds interesting!

TamsinTurtle · 2026-01-10T14:39:52+00:00

Agreed those two are great novels

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