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Pretty much the title, how can you paint the cannons in black and what is the technique to achieve the forged iron finish of the body?

Obviously, it’s only in hindsight, once things have already gone downhill, that you realize when the golden age actually was.

​Personally, I think AoS lore was at its absolute peak, and at its most exciting and engaging, shortly after the launch of 2nd Edition with the Forbidden Power expansion.

​The fact that Sigmar's Stormvaults, locking away the most powerful artifacts and entities, were suddenly being uncovered, and that not even Sigmar knew where they were because of the Penumbral Engines, made the whole thing super interesting. Katakros himself was sealed inside one of those vaults.

​Plus, pairing the narrative with a great box set that included a campaign book, a terrain piece, and universal Endless Spells was a really solid formula.

​Unfortunately, back then AoS was still dealing with the post-Warhammer Fantasy backlash and was written off by a lot of people. Honestly, if 2nd Edition's lore came out today, I'm convinced it would win over a lot of people and reconcile them with AoS lore.

Thought I'd post this somewhere

So picture this:

**A warband of chaos daemon worshipping marauders is celebrating their most recent raid and treasures with one particularly scummy marauder harassing a blinded sigmarite priestess prisoner**

**However before things get worse for the priestess, there is a sudden clanging of metal just outside the light of the campfire**

**The marauders look to the source and once more the clanging is heard**

**The source of said clanging is a a dwarf fyreslayer warrior banging his dual wielded weapons, the clangs sparking a bright volcanic orange as his skin-embedded metal runes glow brighter and brighter with each clang, ditto with his eyes that glow brighter and brighter**

**A slaughter is to arrive as this lone fyreslayer glares at the dishonorable marauders though quite a few of them smile back maliciously at the prospect of glory from killing such a powerful warrior**

Hi everyone!

I’m working on the base for my Sons of Behemat Mancrusher, and I want to add a tree to make it look like he’s stomping through a forest or woodland.

I’m trying to decide what type of tree would look best next to a giant of his size. Would a dead, twisted tree, a fantasy-style tree, or a broken tree with exposed roots look best?

I’m open to any suggestions, and if anyone has pictures of their Sons of Behemat bases with trees or woodland scenery, I’d love to see them for inspiration!

Thanks! 😊

“Now there are two of them!” Vorhdarai and vampire lord are in the works, their rides are to hard to render:)

I regularly play AoS with a friend who is getting a little extra movement out of almost everything he does. Usually it's around 0.5-.75", sometimes more. I try to keep things friendly, but it's getting to kinda annoy me.

When he measures movement, he holds his tape measure about 10" above the table and more or less eyeballs where the model should end up. When I occasionally check the distance with the tape measure on the table, he's often moved about 1"–1.5" farther than he should have. If I point it out, he'll insist he already measured it and tell me not to be so difficult.

I've tried showing him how I measure. Put the tape measure on the table with the end touching the model's base, put a fingernail down at the distance you're moving (fingernail facing the model), and move the base right up to that point so you literally can't go further than the move distance. He won't do it this way because he says putting his finger down like that hurts his arm. Instead, he puts his finger down facing the opposite direction, slides the model off the front of his finger, and then often nudges it another quarter inch forward after placing it.

He'll also move a model during a pile-in, place it, move another model, and then decide he wants to redo the first model's movement. But when he puts that first model back, it isn't actually in its original position. He'll say something like, "Okay, this model was here, so now I'm going to pile in over here." The problem is that the model seems to have gained a little extra distance from being repositioned, which then allows him to get additional models into combat that otherwise wouldn't have made it within their 3" pile-in.

He also plays Soulblight Gravelords with a bunch of skeletons on movement trays. After charging into combat, then in combat phase he'll sometimes ask me how many skeletons I think should be able to pile in and fight, without actually moving or measuring them. I don't want to make that call for him because i'd rather him pilot his own army. So I tell him he should make the moves. This happens like everytime, I feel a little insane writing this tbh. He'll then shuffle his movement trays around, decide they're getting in the way, remove the trays entirely, and put the skeletons back down roughly where he thinks they were. Except now, yet again, they're often in slightly different positions that work out better for him. Then he starts doing his pile-ins from those new positions.

i try to show him reasonable ways to measure and tell him that maybe the trays are not actually speeding up the game and making is slower, but it only seems to make he want to do it his way even more and tell my way isn't as good as I think it it is. He takes anything I say as like an attack or if I bring it up in the group warhammer text chat he says I'm weaponizing things against him.

I'm not trying to make our friendly games super competitive. I don't care if someone accidentally moves a model a little too far once in a while. But when it's happening throughout the game, especially with charges and pile-ins where an extra inch can make a big difference, it gets annoying.

So I guess do people have a really mellow attitude when their opponent is measuring? I'm in the wrong for wanting him to move the right distance and .5" over is within reason? Do you all let this kind of stuff slide? What do I do?

I hoped to see Gholems in plastic flesh.

Top 3 lists for Trash Panda 2. Won by Helsmiths with Cities in 2nd and Khorne in 3rd.

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CC welcome , it s the first unit of the army i paint, it was a test for the paint scheme.

So I understand the Corebooks are pretty packed with lore about the whole setting.
Would it be worth it to seek out all 4 of the corebooks just for the lore?
The older ones can be bought for pretty cheap so that wouldn't be a problem.
But is it actually worth it to dive into the lore? i.E if I read the lore from Edition 1 Lorebook will the 2nd or 3rd edition just repeat a lot of that? or is there still enough "unique" information in each that it would be worth it?

So I tried foam for the first time to give him this bit tactical rock to stand on and also so the model would be at an angle to showiff the work I did (and am still going to do) under the wing.

I primed the base (see last pic) with chaos black, then mechanicus standard but the paint didnt adhere to the foam wery well... it created this pockmarked effect that still kinda works for a rock but how can I avoid this in the future? A clear coat first? Any suggestions would be apreciated, thank you!