Any feedback before I prime this Kahl character I made? I’m not too good at kitbashes this is something I threw together quickly

hello all! actually getting around to actually painting up my Kin i spent so much money commissioning art, tyranid bits and have hit a snag (not my laziness and procrastination this time). I am looking for a good paint(s) that may be able to get a similar if not exact colour to the fleshy tyranid bits you can see on the guns in the art here (like the fleshy part of the skull on his shoulder or around the orange light on the gun if it wasnt obvious).

at one point i restricted this question to just citadel paints but i am not a paint mixing master and i also know there are better paints out there so....help a fellow kin out cos my knowledge and skill is lacking

Finally finished them and was really pleased with how they turned out :)

Now I've gotta finish these Beserks... Man, they're soul-sucking to paint.

Just got started with votann. By far the most fun painting out of any of my armies (salamanders and necrons and a sister kill team) planing I making an army around the ironkin steeljacks cuz they look cool. Just got a hold of the maelstrom box.

Finished my Hearthguard. All units are powered by multiple 0402 LEDs with scratch built lenses. Quite happy with the colour scheme but as usual excuse the painting itself.

Not sure what to do next. Any ideas?

Hey folks! I just got into Warhammer a few weeks ago and have been working on building my Votann combat patrol and an extra set of Einhyr hearth guard I got as a foot-in-the-door kit. I’ve been really enjoying it so far and had a ton of fun modeling them and building around the theme I chose. I’ve now gotten to the point where I am starting to paint my models however. I’ve never seriously painted much outside of the occasional art project in high school and really don’t want to mess up the painting phase after putting so much care and quality into the modeling bit to make them unique.
I really want to paint my army’s armor primarily black with red on details like the joints and pauldrons. On top of that I’d love to paint the engravings many have on their armor gold so they really pop. Do any of you guys have any Votann specific or even just general advice on how I should go about painting these votann?

Hey guys do you have cool Uther Kitbashes? I think he’s a bit to basic for our big bad guy!

HOG RIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Duergar Berekh removing some pests from his hold

Today I picked up my first 40k units in a Hernkyn Yaegirs kill team. I’m one of those people that’s listened to lore videos, read books, and watched battle reports for years… but I’ve never taken the plunge.

With Gundam Assemble around the corner it finally got the juices flowing, and gave me a reason to take the dive into war games and mini painting, and I’m quickly falling in love with it.

My hope is to get some kill team under my belt just to feel things out… but from what I’ve gathered, this army feels like everything I’d love to be doing so my question is…

Where do I go from here? Assuming I love the game the way I think I will, what’s the shopping order look like? Would you recommend an escalation league or just build a 1-2k army and leap head first into the deep end?

I feel like there’s so much to learn and catch up on and any help and input would do wonders. Thanks in advance friends!

Fairly happy with how it turned out. Rock and Stone Kin.

I'm just getting started and having trouble grasping the yield points rule.

Does anybody have links to videos explaining or can explain.

On top of army rules, detachment rules it's a bit confusing

Long time listener first time caller.

Been working on my dorky dwarves for a little bit, still have a long way to go but leaning into the voxel aesthetic, basing bits coming soon tm.

Hello all I’m usually an emperors children/space wolves enjoyer but I got tired of space marines after a while so I decided to pick up the combat patrol with some hernkyn pioneers. Anyways, I just got done assembling the thunderkyn and I have to say IT IS THE WORST MODEL IVE EVER PUT TOGETHER I was fvcking hateful putting them together. Just had to say that, I’m looking forward to painting them all. I think I’m gonna go for a deurgar type of skin with the greater thurian league or ymyr congolomerate paint scheme.

Lore description:

Steinar Steinarsson is totally crazy even by Arkanyst standards, and there is a very solid reason for this...

Rudolph "Rudy" Steiner was a brilliant but unethical human scientist who used to work for arch-heretic Samuel Krüger. 200 years ago, when the fallen Inquisitor was defeated, Rudy was taken prisoner by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Steiner worked in the Tech-Priests' basements for a long time until he figured out how to escape.

Fleeing his pursuers, Rudy found himself on the Hold World of Hexon-Andvâri Fuel Concern. He made his way to their Ancestral Core, hacked the ancient supercomputer using a sophisticated techno-virus, and injected his genetic material into its database. Then he vanished without a trace.

Then, one fine day, an unusual Kin emerged from the Crucible. Not an adult in his prime, but an elderly man. He possessed an insatiable thirst for science - and for destruction. And though the other Kin were wary of Steinar, no one suspected what kind of "time bomb" was planted inside the Concern…

Feels weird that the whole “hazardously experimental gun” thing only goes one way. I want our mad scientist to turn enemies into meat bombs.

I've searched this sub and can't find anyone talking about this, but I feel like I must have missed it.

So with the 11th edition change to leadership, you now attach leader units to bodyguard units to form attached units during the muster army step, before splitting them into sagitaurs during the declare battle formations step. So far so normal.

An attached unit is treated as a single unit for all rules purposes. So when it comes time to split that hearthkyn warrior unit into two units with as equal number of models as possible, you'll be splitting the 15 model unit into a unit of 7 models and a unit of 8 models.

Obviously you split the bodyguard models up. But there's nothing saying you can't split the leader models up as well. They're all part of the same unit, after all.

I expected there to be a rule stating that the leader unit's models have to be kept together, but I've been looking through the Votann faction pack and the wahapedia rules glossary and I can't find anything.

So you can make an iron-master + steelkin assistant + e-cog + 4 hearthkyn into a unit of 7 models and pop them into a sagitaur (because the e-cog takes no space in transport), and the remaining 6 hearthkyn + 2 e-cogs become a second unit and you can pop them into a sagitaur too.

The 2 prodigal e-cogs will remain alive even if their iron-master father dies, because that iron-master model is no longer a part of their unit. But it gets fuckier.

When you split the hearthkyn warriors into 2 mini-units, they both retain the core "Luck Has, Need Keeps, Toil Earns" ability from their datasheet, because they're both still hearthkyn warrior units. If you split the brokhyr iron-master models into 2 units, they're both still brokhyr-iron master units and they're both still technically leading their respective hearthkyn warrior units, even if only one of them actually has the brokhyr iron-master model.

So both units get to Forgewrought Expertise repair a nearby vehicle.

This doesn't seem game breaking but also doesn't seem intentional? Am I missing anything or is there a common tournament ruling to forbid this for now?

GW dropped some rules updates today. Our faction got an FAQ clarification.

Q: Does an Arkanyst Evaluator’s Science Guild Support ability give that model Lone Operative if the only other unit within 3" is another Arkanyst Evaluator?

A: No

I wasnt able to get the full on white I wanted a Gandolph the white but the grey isnt bad either.