#converting warhammer

[zilentis]

Transcendence can be quite lonely, the only thing like yourself in your own universe, waiting Eons for the next being to achieve what you have done.

This is a super wacky and insane kitbash, I had been watching the Dungeon in Delicious anime and I really liked the Mad Mage’s design and usage of his spell book, my friend was gonna kitbash something related to him as well so I thought I’d dig into one of my Frostgrave boxes for a book and give a go at it. For the painting I wanted to explicitly avoid all rules; no skin tones, things like leather or armour not to be painted as leather or armour, and to atleast incorporate silly spirals as a college mate of mine loves them. How I painted it kinda reminds me of that anciently cursed Ring point-and-click game.

[ocherednoe-dno]

thinking so much about 40k worldbuilding has lead me to the point where an Ark Mechanicus Living Saint is a reasonable and justifiable proposition

[taryn40k]

"My dear, I see that you are struggling. Allow me to bear the Word of Slaanesh to you.

Competency is not the sole property of the Prince. Khorne favores bettering one's performance and physical form, Tzeentch values ambition and cunning as well as general power. Slaanesh seeks perfection, but not as an end goal. As a new high. Perfection is impossible to obtain, and so it is the perfet goal, that will never disappoint Them. They can go beyond, and beyond again, without ever getting nearly enough. Love, dedication, hatred, fury, disgust, ecstasy... Even disappointment. All of it, all of those emotions serve She-Who-Thirsts -as long as they are felt in excess. If it shocks or disturbs, if it changes your life and changes your mind forever, if it intrigues you and lives in your head, if you want more... Then you are worshipping Them! Good food, yes ; but there needs to be a lot of it. Only for you. Love, certainly ; as long as it is all for you, only for you, and that it never stops. Pain, and the catharsis of it, bringing you higher and higher until your mind blanks... Slaanesh's path is one of desire. Desire for anything, all-consuming, the only thing you can think about, and with this obsession comes clarity of focus and peace of mind, and sweet indulgence. In the face of something so magnificent, what is consent? It is never about them, unless it is about you. You may decide to extend Their love to anyone you value, this road is far from a lonely one, and Their gifts are for sharing at your own will. Serving Them means embracing one's self, one's dreams and darkest desires, one's macabre curiosity. And letting go of decency and of the values of society is a difficult road, my sweet, I understand that. Do take your time on it, this discomfort too fuels Them after all, since it shakes you. As far as Their power goes... Why would you care, if a few souls elude Them? Let the Clown play, in its own way it is a being of the Warp as well, and we do not step between the Gods as they interract. Victories and defeats both have their own delicious taste, in both cases Slaanesh wins : The exhilaration of victory, or the burning sting of defeat are but two different meals for Them. You lament that more aspects of life should fuel Them, but my sweet, it already does! There is no losing with Slaanesh, unless the stimulation is underwhelming... But then, does it not become your sacred duty to raise the bar? Please, also keep in mind that as wonderful as They are, there is a reason for Them to not have swallowed the whole Warp : They are not as... primordial as Their three brothers. One does not defeat the raw instinct for survival and dominance, and a fanged mouth dripping with blood. One does not crush nature's creativity and subterfuges. And certainly, one does not best the cycle of death and rebirth so easily. Every living being experiences sensations, but only the intelligent races can produce this want that goes beyond survival's need. And the Eldar, in their immense edonism, were gracious enough to feed Them into creation before us. Their own failings have nothing to do with Slaanesh Themselves. Devotion to the Powers is not like the blind faith the Imperium has in the Corpse-Emperor : Embrace it all, the good and the bad, and decide of what YOU want out of it. Who is going to police you, if you decide that consent has to be a part of your Worship? Having really enthusiastic partners is just as nice, after all, regardless of the activity~!"

[ask-heldrake-chan]

@rowscara doodles just never miss: BEHOLD! THE GIANT GREMLIN! Murderous and weirdly adorable!

[proffbon]

Putting these four in the room and watching what happens

[doctas-blog-of-stuff]

Hi! Its been a while since the last time I finished painting something:

But for this one I had a really good reason:it's a birthday present from one of my friends :D,to which now I'm in eternal debt.

But any case,RED ONES GO FASTA

[skrapbox]

Time for more little plastic soldiers.

Kitbashed a plaguecaster for my new army.

[definitelynotalpharius]

Y'know what's great about the Sternguard veterans?

They're literally regular intecessors with a lot of bitsswaps and taobards.

That is absolutely amazing especially if you've been collecting space marines for over a year. Coz I've got so many spare bits from first born kits, and phobos kits, and gravis kits, and other various kits of space marines that I can just slap on some intecessors then model some taobards from green stuff.

Alternatively, if you're new to the hobby, you can always ask around your hobby store if someone can give you some hand-me-down SM bits to make Sternguard. Taobards are literally among the easiest green stuff sculpting you can do, so barrier to entry is minimal.

[aethersflames]

it's from Echoes of Eternity, part of the Horus Heresy series. excerpt here:

Skitarii didn’t celebrate birthdays. Magna-Delta-8V8 was no exception to this, though her Macroclade, the series of platoons and structured hierarchies that defined not only her military position but also her entire social existence had a tradition of honoring the anniversaries of a soldier's first combat. Due to the constant casualties and replenishment in a Macroclade deployed to a theatre of conflict, it meant that these acknowledgements were frequent minor things. The exact axiom translated poorly from skit-code into any variant of gothic, but the meaning was more or less “Every day is someone's anniversary”. The custom usually involves the exchange of gifts, often repeatedly regifted within a regiment, since Skitarii were permitted so few possessions of their own. Today was Magna-Delta-8V8’s combat anniversary. Only hers, out of those that remained, because so few of them were left. It didn’t matter that the avatar of the Omnissiah himself was at work in the fortress behind her. It didn’t matter that the horde on the horizon outnumbered and outgunned them an incalculable number of times over. These would have been considerations, of course, on any other day, and she would have stood and fought according to the binaric dictat of duty. Today, though, these concerns were irrelevant, there was no chance she would run on her battle anniversary. Temptations had teased even her strip-mined brain of course, she was partially human and wholly mortal, but what sealed the decision in sacred steel was when three of her surviving cladekin came to her in the minutes before the ninth's speech. They bore gifts. Benevola-919-55 had given her a pebble from the slopes of Olympus Mons, the highest mountain on mother Mars. Jurispruda-Garnet-12 had given her a translator data slug, to replace the one she lost herself months before. Kane-Gamma-A67 had given her a fistful of lose ammunition in lieu of any personal effects. He had nothing else to give. Magna-Delta-8V8 felt the weight of these gifts, these precious and talismanic gestures in the folds of her cloak as she listened to the Ninth Primarch speak, and when the ninth asked the last question, she was ready with her answer. She couldn’t vocalise it, at least not in gothic, but her defiant shriek of skit-code was much of a muchness.

Did I already tell y’all that skitarii canonically give eachother birthday rocks?

Like this is a thing that happened in an actual black library book.

They don’t have much but they still want to celebrate eachother’s activation days so they give eachother cool rocks or extra ammo. Like wtf that’s so cute aaaaaaa

[agentleem]

I know this is because this is how he’s always been designed, but I do not like ascended horus’s design compared to regular Horus I still think the design is neat, but it is pretty disappointing that the only differences in his design after becoming what’s essentially an avatar of all 4 chaos gods at the same time—essentially becoming a god of his own during the last few moments of the sieges of terra—is that he’s bigger and has a belt full of disembodied heads and skulls.

[zilentis]

Forgot to put this on my Tumblr, a repaint of one of my oldest miniatures from when I got in the hobby around lockdown.

Even at the time I felt I had painted it terribly compared to some of my other ‘bashes, she’s for a Palanite Gang run by an old Imperial officer and had Guard kitbashes—thought it’d be a great idea to give them a commissar, she uses her robo dog to both boost morale and to keep her subordinates from running.

[cer-rata]

And now, for something completely unhinged...

YEP.

MMMHM!

(Thanks to @pepedraws on Twitter for this sick, siiick piece. His queue is still open and he's super easy to work with, his other illustrations styles are so cool as well)

Text version of that bio and theoretical abilities (help) under the cut.

Star Sapphire (Conrad Bishop)

Bio

"After losing his first love and being thrust into a universe of conflict that he could have never imagined, Conrad Bishop channels his devotion into protection for his allies--and doom for his enemies--as a Star Sapphire and Paladin of the Court of Zamaron."

Abilities

The idea behind his kit is to reflect his duality by making him a stance switcher that jumps between being a dive/anti-dive brawler and a pocket healer. He's all about constantly reevaluating where he needs to be and what fire needs to be put out.

Passive: Rebel Heart

All crowd control effects are 50% less effective against Star Sapphire

M1: Heartbreaker (War Stance)

Bludgeon enemies with a warhammer. Every strike grants healing to nearby allies.

M1: Burning Love (Love Stance)

Fire bursts of burning light. Enemies hit take damage over time, allies hit gain healing over time.

Q (Ultimate): Breath of Life (Love Stance)

Instantly heal all allies for 50% of their max health. Excess healing converts to overshields.

Q (Ultimate): Hardest of Hearts (War Stance)

Instantly explode with despair, knocking enemies back, dealing damage, and preventing them from healing for a time.

Shift: Not While I'm Around (Love Stance)

Teleport to an ally, granting rapidly decaying shields and dealing damage in an area. Switch to War Stance.

Shift: The Sweet Escape (War Stance)

Teleport to an ally, granting a burst of healing and movement speed, and increasing their healing received for a few seconds. Switch to love stance.

E: Heartlines (Love Stance)

Tether to an ally and provide consistent healing over time.

E: Lovestruck (War Stance)

Swing Heartbreaker in a wide arc, gaining shielding for every enemy hit.

F: Crushcrushcrush (War Stance)

Slam the ground, dealing damage and grounding enemies in an area

F: Pure Feeling (Love Stance)

Send a burst of healing to an ally linked by a Heartline. Cleanses them of crowd control effects.

M2: Painkiller (War Stance)

Instantly heal all damage received in the past few seconds.

M2: Heart Attack (Love Stance)

Select an enemy to mark for a few seconds. A percentage of damage received while marked is inflicted again when the mark ends.

Yes they're all song titles, what of it--

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Team-up Abilities:

(He forms a trinity of roles with Damian as a duelist and Jon as a vanguard, and is the anchor)

Ride or Die (Star Sapphire, Ifrit and Superboy):

If Star Sapphire is tethered to either, the other heals for the same amount if within range.

Flames of Devotion (Star Sapphire and Ifrit):

When Ifrit uses his Torchblade, Star Sapphire empowers it with his love, increasing the damage and range, and also causing each strike to heal nearby allies as if it were Heartbreaker.

[xargon]

Hello Warhammer tumblr, I converted and painted a Lord Kakophonist from the special Noise Marine, I hope you like it as much as I do!

[gremlinmodetweeker]

König is Naturally Nerd!König

A lot of people suggest nerd!König (which is essentially regular König in my books) would be into DnD, or Star Wars, or Lego, but I disagree.

Normal and Nerd!König are obsessed with miniature armies. He has little models of airplanes and tanks that he puts on display in his room. He only has two World War models (and even then it's WW1), and those are the planes that Baron von Richthofen flew. Otherwise, he collects medieval minis and paints them.

He creates whole dioramas of them, and they're surprisingly good. He has the money to sink into his hobby, and it fills his time when he's not at work. He fidgets a lot, but he's gotten good at doing fine detail work. They're not award winning, but they're really quite good.

In addition, he's a major reader. If you want to know more about what König reads, check out this post here. If you don't want to read it, the gist of it is that König loves reading and reads all the time. He's probably the type to sniff and say the book was better than the movie. He's right, but he doesn't need to be so snobby about it.

Through the military, he has an extensive knife and gun collection. He can use all of them, sure, but he really doesn't need that many. He used to have only one room dedicated to them, but he's since had to move twice and torn down a wall most recently to make a big enough room for everything. He kinda sucks that way. He really takes up a lot of space.

However, Nerd!König didn't end up joining the military. He instead went into nuclear engineering and earned an excellent living to fund his expensive hobbies. He also ended up having more time to devote to his crafts, which led to...

More under the cut.

Nerd!König is a Snob

König is a pathfinder 2e type of guy. He's that pedantic. He'll have the rule books memorized, and he has links to download the pdfs ready at the flick of a wrist. He's ready to convert you. Your DnD supplies will be absorbed into his Pathfinder 2E.

A big reason he's into Pathfinder 2E is because he was introduced at a young age and so collected the supplies, but when he heard about the Wizards of the Coast scandals he decided he'd use that as his reasoning. He gets up on a soapbox about it whenever he can. He really, really hates Wizards of the Coast. It's a firey rage that burns within.

He also likes Warhammer. He's a disgusting Warhammer lover. He plays a ridiculous Adeptus Mechanicus army that he's painted himself. It's surprisingly good painting, too. Having painted Adeptus Mech before, I'm telling you it's really hard. He makes it looks easy with craft paint and crazy glue. He's disgustingly good at it. I hate him for it. How dare he be so good. He is genuinely a fantastic painter. That said, we saw what happened with the last Austrian painter, so maybe it's a good thing he stuck to painting minis.

Nerd!König also loves to collect ancient weaponry. To make it worse, he actually practises with it and has become pretty decent with it. He's feared among the LARPing community because he's known to be a fearsome competitor. He'd be more well liked if he didn't accidentally break people's wooden shields so often. As it is, he's not fully blacklisted, but he's skating on thin ice. He'd be banned for sure if it weren't for the fact that the forest on his property is amazing for LARPing.

Finally, he's into Renaissance fairs. He goes and does public sword fighting, once again, LARPing. He'll also show off his weaponry collections, and will gladly go on hour long spiels to anyone unfortunate to ask about the history of an item on his table. He is on good terms with the blacksmiths, and he's always having to pay the local seamstress to fix his clothing back in the traditional style. He will also go up to the ferret keeper and play with their ferrets, and then beg you to get some. He just wants a cute little ferret. Can't he have a couple? No, not one! They need playmates. You need at least three.

Either way, Nerd!König is a big silly guy. He's a bit friendlier and gentler than regular König honestly. He also is super passionate about his hobbies. He's so excited to show you his hobbies, and he really wants you to enjoy them too.

Just so you know, all these hobbies are expensive. Very expensive. It's a good thing he's making so much money, because otherwise you'd go bankrupt overnight, because, "Games Workshop released a new edition of the walkers! I need them for my army!"

[lathez]

Shhhhh everyone be quiet I’m going to talk about my Isran headcanons…….. ty……

Culture

Rihad is his homeland, he emigrated to Skyrim to join the Vigilant.

He became a Forebear, and this strained his relationship with his mother, who was a Crown.

He does speak a little Yoku as a result of his upbringing.

Becoming a Vigilant and especially becoming a Dawnguard is frowned upon and punishable by excommunication in Hammerfell; interaction with the undead is highly regulated.

Appearance

He’s in his mid-50’s.

He has various tattoos, including a Forebear emblem, a sunburst, and Stendarr’s cup overflowing. He previously had a drawing of a smiling sun drawn by his daughter on his bicep, but it was too painful to look at, so he had it blacked out.

His hands are scarred to Oblivion and back from crossbow accidents - he’s missing 3 nails and the tip of his right ring finger.

He still wears his wedding ring.

He used to have long cornrows, but his wife did the braiding for him, and he couldn’t bear to have someone else do it, so he keeps his head shaved.

Sorine is pretty sure one of his eyes is glass - but she can’t figure out which one (it’s the left.)

Paranoia

He lost his wife, daughter, and unborn child to vampires. He blames vampires for the death and disappearance of his mother, but can’t prove it.

The assault on his wife and daughter was shockingly violent and reprehensible. He’s never spoken about what he saw.

He’s lost over a dozen friends to vampire attacks, many of them dying right in front of him.

He has complex PTSD, suffers catatonic episodes, and frequently hallucinates his family.

He mainly resorts to drinking to cope, though alcohol no longer has any real effect on him other than abating the hallucinations.

Relationships

Celann, Sorine, and Gunmar grew concerned about his stability after leaving the Vigilant. They couldn’t accept the increasingly violent torture methods he used on even non-offending society vampires. When confronted, he severed ties with all of them.

Gunmar and Durak also lost family to vampires. They’re his only real form of support, though they struggle to understand the depths of his psychosis, especially when it’s bad.

Despite being thousands of years older than him, Serana reminds him of his daughter, and she lets him have that, recognizing that it helps.

He had a complicated relationship with Florentius following his wife’s death; Florentius would reassure him that his family was at peace according to Arkay, and would eventually confess this was a lie to make him feel better.

Combat

As a Vigilant he was famed, earning the title “Coldharbour Reaper.”

The metal end of his warhammer is removable, converting it into wooden stake.

He’s a master restorationist

Basically he’s him to me, he’s the goat, I’m ride or die for him 🖤

[green-square-anon]

Warhammer au where Lorgar Aurelian converts to Atheism halfway through his crusade after witnessing the Warhammer equilivant of one of those news articles where someone claims to see a picture of Jesus in a dogs butthole or a French fry.

Would've probably stopped him mid crusade and maybe go "Damn maybe dad did have a point about gods not being real".

Emps should've just done that instead of Monarchia.