#custom forgeworld

[ashroomy]

Big text dump about my mushroom skitarii oc Mycel-81!

Heads up, this contains basic disregard for the lore and is primarily fuelled by my need to somehow make this wholesome.

So, This is Mycel-81

As an early example of the shroomitarii, mycel was a weak example. With limbs that were only slightly stronger than flesh and no fighting prowess. He was unsuitable for the front lines. Not to mention his inability to be influenced by any tech priests apart from mild emotion control. Whilst the option of ensuring obedience remained paramount, the tech priests later learned they simply lacked the appropriate resources to realise this. Not wanting to throw away their already limited source of infantry. Mycel was relegated to the back lines and served as clean-up and repair for battles or lost soldiers who may find their way into the world. With the shoddy technology, most shroomitarii could feel emotions more freely, leading to issues on and off the battlefield. It was left to Mycel to handle these issues as well. In the simplest terms. He is an emotional support skitarii with a prowess in comforting and repairing. (What can I say I love a bit of wholesome unrealistic 40k)

Uses a blade and arc maul interchangeably during combat if completely necessary. Due to him collecting scraps and bodies of soldiers, he was gifted a servo skull, capable of scouting and gunning down some foes. More likely to accidentally hit his servo skull than an actual enemy. Has held guns but has no clue how to aim.

With the free emotions, Mycel is able to form a personality of his own. To an extent. He helps keep the peace and encourages strong morale amongst troops. he has seen limited amounts of war but what he has seen unsettles him. He makes it his mission to ensure peace, at least on this forge world anyway. Unbeknownst to him. He has no impact whatsoever.

On a routine patrol, Mycel finds a severely injured soldier, wounded and afraid, Mycel takes him in and slowly nurses him back to health. He does not quite understand the complex fears the soldier has and can only glean snippets of his past through extracting memories. (none of the tech priests are sure how they got this to work but decided to not question it) Nonetheless he aims to offer solace to the soldier and slowly but surely help him adjust to his new life. A very long process. Hoping to help him, he turns him into a vanguard, eventually they become fond of each other after the initial recovery. He does not have a name. But as he's a soldier (maybe skitarii?) who's landed here in a bad state, he will probably have a non shroomy name.

The lads

[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

[a-notorious-blt]

Finished up my custom tech priest the other day. Say <LOCAL-CUSTOMARY-GREETING> to Hephaeston Vosk, Arch-Acquisitor of Explorator Flotilla Fenestrati-XCVIII.

He used to be a Technoarchaeologist (his old model is bottom left in the army shot) back in our first crusades, but his boss leveraged all the data and relics they uncovered during the Damarel crusade to secure a cushy position on a growing forgeworld, and Vosk has stepped up to take his place. I think the power may have gone to his head (or rather, his funny hat. Imagine the processing power he's got hidden up there).

[machinespirited]

The Forgemaster of Sanctum Novis does not like to leave her post. That was explained to me by one of the lower priests upon my arrival to this heretek-filled forgeworld. I must remind myself over and over that my purpose here is to affirm their ongoing loyalty to the Imperium, and their adherence to the spirit, if not the exact teachings, of the Omnissiah.

Her chambers are above the primary forge, and as I approach I feel eyes follow me. Optical sensors have been wired throughout the facility, as is custom, but there is an intelligence behind them that tells me it is not servitors operating the surveillance network.

I do not like what I find in her chambers. It is only the fact she responds to my presence that tells me what I see is not a corpse. The Forgemaster has taken her role so seriously as to have become one with the Machine God early. I doubt she's even mobile with the level of wiring that I can see securing her form to the ceiling.

She greets me by name and apoligizes for not attending my arrival in person. She explains she has indeed been watching me as I examined the facility. Her duties, she explains, demand the majority of her attention. She claims to lead by example, and has dedicated herself to the Forges so utterly as to be inseparable from them save for in an emergency.

When I point out she is an extremist, and she has deviated from the adherence of scripture demanding the retention of the human form, she only laughs and compares her form and philosophy to that of Belisarius Cawl.

She is certainly a priest of Sanctum Novis. Nowhere else have I seen such hubristic radicals who still claim loyalty to the Imperium. She is certainly a heretek and Xenarite, but Forgemaster Verthandi-1 is, as far as I am able to tell, loyal to the Omnissiah.

- Excerpt from Dominus Magos Caprella of Mars' notes following his inspection of the Grand Forge of Sanctum Novis.

[doolallymagpie]

1:6 Explorator-Subdomina Kyberna Z7 Drexeth now only needs a set of mechadendrites and a way to attach them, and then she’s ready to grab some archaeotech in the name of Forgeworld Argotha

[loyalist-14th-legion]

Sorry for being silent for some time I caught a cold that put me out of commission for much longer than expected

I had ordered the 30k Death Guard water transfers some time ago and they were finally shipped. Otherwise I bought all of the units/models I wanted for my first two thousand point list. I have some real progress stuff incoming there’s just a bit of a hiatus.

In the meantime I’ve opened my self up for questions if anyone would like to ask about the project until I can get the formal posts up.

[sparoshadows]

My two Hierodules are finally done.

[pv-miniatures]

Some weathering and tidying up left to do, but grenadiers are done. Some of the converting is not on point, but as a test, they work. I might take a bash at 3D sculpting custom parts for the regular Krieg kit to make a squad in future, then print them, obviously. #k #warhammer #deathkorpsofkrieg #astramilitarum #paintingwarhammer #imperialguard #gamesworkshop #deathkorps #warhammercommunity #wh #forgeworld #dkok #painting #wargaming #killteam #miniaturepainting #krieg #paintingforgeworld #grimdark #spacemarines #warhammerpainting #imperiumofman #kmemes #wargames #imperium #miniatures #tabletop #art #warhammermemes #orks (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgrLIm7tZoK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lockhartandlych]

the custom color options in mechanicus >>>

oh boy, time to suddenly make a custom forgeworld with a rich history out of goddamn nowhere!

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

The Lament

The last thing the Vex ever heard — the grinding wails of a vicious Banshee.

Type: Sword

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: Banshee’s Wail - Hold melee to rev the blade. Increases damage, shield bypass, and adds shield-piercing to all attacks. Gain stacks when dealing damage with revved attacks. Additional stacks increase the damage and damage resistance of heavy attacks.

Trait: Revved Consumption - Damaging a combatant heals the wielder.

Ornaments: Lethe's Mercy, Internal Combustion, The Logic, The Knight's Elegy

Origin & Description: So, um...hmm. How to start this.

Season exotics that haven't dropped yet but which aren't a secret can be previewed in the in-game Collections tab. That's helpful for me because I can note down a weapon's pull quote, perk name, exact perk text, etc. for its Compendium entry. So although Lament didn't become available till a few weeks into Season 12, it did show up in Collections on day one, and I checked it out to start its entry.

"Weird perk name," I thought as I read. "And weird that they capitalized 'banshee' in the pull quote. In a different context I'd think they were specifically referring to…" Then I read its lore tab.

If there's anything Guardians often need, it's guns. If there's anything Guardians often need fixed, it's more guns. That's why one of the most important NPCs in the Tower is Banshee-44, Tower Gunsmith. He's your one-stop-shop for repairs, upgrades, and catalysts for your weapons no matter how strange. If it goes "bang" (or "zap," "kaCHANK", "thoomp," "click," "pchAOW," "schiiing", "shhhzzooom", "pewpewpew," etc.) then Banshee knows how to handle it. And not much about anything else, because after 43 resets (at least 20 more than Exos are supposed to go through) his memory is swiss cheese on all non-firearm subjects. He was particularly friendly with Cayde-6, with whom he used to do things like go cliffdiving on Io or hunt fugitives in the Reef - y'know, friend stuff - and his temperamental memory gets especially sad every time he forgets and asks where Cayde is.

We've talked about Clovis Bray Corporation, aka Braytech, in multiple previous entries. It was founded by a man named Clovis Bray (or "Clovis Bray I" as he liked to call himself). Among the many technological achievements of CB Corp, Clovis Bray claims the creation of the Exos and the building of the Deep Stone Crypt where they were born. All Exos began there as humans whose minds were transplanted to an android body. What CB Corp didn't advertise was how much the Exo research was driven by Clovis Bray's terror of his own mortality. Having prolonged his lifespan to the point where his "body" was a loose sack of lab-grown organs and artificial blood, Clovis now sought a way to move his mind into a synthetic body and was willing to do whatever he had to to get it - including killing his own son, but it takes an entire other entry to list all the shitty things Clovis Bray has done. The shitty thing pertinent to this entry is: to build his Exos, Clovis tore open a portal to a Vex forgeworld, which obviously resulted in a goddamn Vex invasion because that's what happened when a literal Hive Prince did the exact same thing. At least Clovis himself had to deal with the consequences of this one, since he got infected by a terrifying Vex concept/construct that forced him to ditch his fatally-compromised human body ahead of schedule. He made two copies of his uploaded self: one to become an AI controlling the Deep Stone Crypt, and one to wake up as an Exo, past memory reset, in the combat-geared body of his custom-built top-of-the-line robotic assistant.

AI-Clovis aka Big Head Boy (long story) (not actually that long, he lives in a big head) came online with all of his original memories and quickly took/resumed control of the Crypt and the desperate defense against the Vex, by which I mean "initiated a plan to bait the Vex away from Europa and let them murder all of humanity while he kept making Exos." Clovis-1, on the other hand, woke up without any memory of his previous self (a wipe done to help Exos adjust to their new forms), met his granddaughter, saw the awful shit his AI counterpart had planned, and responded with, "Piss off, old man." Turns out if you boot up a new instance of your own "basic emotional form" and immediately expose it to a bunch of awful crimes you yourself have committed, it might decide to give you the finger and go off with your granddaughter Elsie to fix those awful crimes. Thus: into the Vex meat(?) grinder they go!

Clovis as usual didn't fuck around when it came to his own wellbeing, and thus Clovis-1's Exo frame had been built for incredible survivability and combat proficiency. He in turn put those abilities to use at the vanguard of their Vex counter-offensive; those abilities, and his brand new big-ass chainsawsword. Before uploading himself Clovis asked, "What weapon could ever be badass enough for my indestructible new robot self?" and it turns out the answer was a goddamn sword with a chainsaw edge and a little rocket thruster at the tip (yup, that's a rocket) to add devastating angular momentum to its downswing. As concept designer Tyler Bartley said of The Lament, "Definitely channeled my love for 40K into this one."

So the Vex are the Vex, but a chainsawsword is a goddamn chainsawsword, and though it took many deaths and resets the Europan Exos finally reclaimed the Glassway, pushed the Vex back through the gate, and closed it down. Exo-Clovis, now Clovis-43 thanks to 42 deaths and/or informational compromises from the Vex, shattered his blade dealing the final blow to the Vex Hydra that anchored the portal. He and Elsie then got the rest of the surviving Exos offworld (where they may have linked up with Rasputin?) and deactivated AI-Clovis to seal up the Deep Stone Crypt. Then Clovis-43 had to make a hard call: to wipe his own memory of the affair to both protect the Crypt and end the original Clovis once and for all. So, much as he hated to leave Elsie, he asked her to reset him. But before she did he asked for one modification to help him break completely from his former self and start a new life: to replace the hardcoded name inherited from his human self with the one he'd earned in battle from the Exos he fought alongside: Banshee.

Yup. Banshee-44 began as Clovis Bray. Those 43 resets weren't carelessness or weird experiments, they were because he was leading the fight to rectify his own self's crimes and incidentally chainsaw absolute hordes of Vex into scrap. His glitchy memory isn't just from time and resets, it's because he deliberately excised memories and information he wanted to leave behind. And his incredible gift with machinery stems from the same genius that created the Exos in the first place because Banshee-44 is Clovis Bray. BANSHEE IS CLOVIS BRAY.

There's no reason this can't be true. But there were also no previous indications that it might be. Banshee's been an NPC in Destiny since day one. He's always there in the background fixing your stuff, giving you new stuff, trading for upgrade modules and components and whatever's the currency du jour. Similarly Clovis Bray Corporation has been in Destiny's lore from the beginning, mostly as a source of cool Golden Age ruins for Guardians to loot and/or defend. Clovis Bray himself was, until the Beyond Light expansion, a distant and largely undefined character. Linking the two is...there's no reason it can't be true. In fact it explains how dang good Banshee is with salvaged Golden Age weapons tech like Sleeper Simulant's original DVALIN core. But there were no hints about this. No foreshadowing. Just boom, hey, this guy you chill with in the Tower every day? He's the amnesiac android version of one of the worst & most powerful humans of the Golden Age. Yeah. Banshee. That guy. Only the detail of Banshee's forehead keeps me from thinking Bungie's writers pulled this completely out of their asses. It's subtle, but if you look at Banshee's head, he has a split-circle emblem molded over his brow (a detail present as far back as Destiny 1). It's the same split circle as the perk symbol on No Time To Explain, the one that appears on the gear of both Elsie and Ana Bray; in other words, it's a distant symbol of the Bray family.

So fast-forward to Beyond Light and the raid on the Deep Stone Crypt, during which we had to partially reactivate it in order to stop the Kell Eramis from using it to create her own eliksni Exo. Unfortunately when we woke up the Crypt we woke up Big Head Boy too, and that had the knock-on effect of messing with Banshee. Sometime around when Big Head came back online it seems Banshee got hit with a wave of scrambled memories. Next time you hit the Tower he calls you over and describes the weirdness, asking you to help him sort it out. And we do, because we love Banshee, and eventually retrieve both an explanation and the shards of the sword Clovis-43 broke over the carapace of Belmon, Transcendent Mind. Banshee thanks you for your help and reforges the blade, then passes it along to you, saying his fighting days are over and anyway he needs to sit down for a moment and process all this. And because it's Banshee we pat him gently on the shoulder, say "take all the time you need," and wait till we've rounded the corner before screaming in joy and sprinting to our ship to hurtle off and try out our glorious new chainsawsword.

When Big Head Boy found out about Banshee, he said some really goddamn creepy stuff that made it sound like he was going to try to possess Banshee and make him do weird shit, which makes me want to stand in front of his big stupid head and pointedly rev this sword. If he's such a genius he ought to be smart enough to realize that if he so much as texts our beloved absent-minded Gunsmith millions of Guardians will tear him apart. Probably using the weapons that Gunsmith built. Possibly using Lament with the Lethe's Mercy ornament that changes its purple silicon-wafer color scheme to gold and adds the five-bullet Gunsmith insignia (or, if you're in a less-violent mood, the Internal Combustion ornament that makes it the blade from Transistor) (or, if you're in a more violent mood, The Logic ornament that turns it into a Hive Knight sword). Definitely using Lament's revved-up 10-stroke combo move that slices, dices, and ends in a final glorious cleaving rocket-propelled downstroke that will put paid to anything short of a raid boss. Don't worry, Banshee. We got you.

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

[ Ace of Spades | Ager's Scepter | Anarchy | Arbalest | Bad Juju | Bastion | Black Talon | Borealis | Cerberus+1 | The Chaperone | Cloudstrike | Coldheart | Collective Obligation | The Colony | Crimson | Cryosthesia 77K | DARCI | Dead Man's Tale | Deathbringer | Dead Messenger | Devil's Ruin | Divinity | Duality | Edge of Action/Concurrence/Intent | Eriana’s Vow | Eyes of Tomorrow | Fighting Lion | The Fourth Horseman | Forerunner | Gjallarhorn | Grand Overture | Graviton Lance | Hard Light | Hawkmoon | Heartshadow | Heir Apparent | The Huckleberry | Izanagi’s Burden | The Jade Rabbit | Jötunn | The Lament | The Last Word | Legend of Acrius | Leviathan’s Breath | Lord of Wolves | Lorentz Driver | Lumina | Malfeasance | Merciless | MIDA Multi-Tool | Le Monarque | Monte Carlo | No Time to Explain | One Thousand Voices | Osteo Striga | Outbreak Perfected | Parasite | Polaris Lance | Prometheus Lens | The Prospector | Queenbreaker | Rat King | Riskrunner | Ruinous Effigy | Salvation's Grip | Skyburner’s Oath | Sleeper Simulant | Sturm | Sunshot | SUROS Regime | Sweet Business | Symmetry | Tarrabah | Telesto | Thorn | Thunderlord | Ticuu's Divination | Tommy's Matchbook | Tractor Cannon | Traveler's Chosen | Trespasser | Trinity Ghoul | Truth | Two-Tailed Fox | Vex Mythoclast | Vigilance Wing | The Wardcliff Coil | Wavesplitter | Whisper of the Worm | Wish-Ender | Witherhoard | Worldline Zero | Xenophage ]

[derelictpixies-creatorium]

Started building the snaggas! I've been saving some heads from forgeworld and @hardcore_miniatures especially for these guys. Absolutely loving these models so far, but need to decide on a clan... deathskulls? Snakebite? Or custom? · · · #warhammer40k #warhammer #40k #paintingwarhammer #conversion #gamesworkshop #warhammer40000 #warhammerpainting #miniatures #wargaming #conversions #40kconversions #wh40k #forgeworld #grimdark #grimedark #derelictpixie #krull40k #orks #waaagh #beastsnaggas https://www.instagram.com/p/CR16BgdH745/?utm_medium=tumblr

[machinespirited]

Unhinged admech bloger with interesting custom forgeworld

Im not that unhinged am I <- put my hand on the cash register at goodwill when it wasnt working today and thought at it real hard.

[doolallymagpie]

really wish I had time lately to work on Lotara’s officer coat and Fred’s fancy cloak, but between the impending move, having a lot more hours at work, and nano…I also wish I’d just made them earlier

still, most of the way there, and they do look good

[nightscalestudio]

All miniature painting studios be careful, this man is a swindler.

fahad1964@gmail.com https://www.reddit.com/user/Whip_It64 https://www.instagram.com/torontofq

This "client" from Canada initially knocked on our Instagram. From the very beginning he behaved rudely, and demanded that he be given the maximum possible discount. He also demanded that we buy for him pirated products, for which the third world countries, including Ukraine, are so infamous. We fundamentally do not use pirated products, never under any circumstances, except for those cases when the client buys his own miniatures and sends them to us for work. All our artists are modelers themselves and they know very well that quality is above all. All resin miniatures we paint are original Finecast and Forgeworld. And so we refused the "client". After that, the "client" moved to an account in Reddit, and changed tactics. He wrote with respect and even came up with a tearful story about his son, who wanted our Carcharodons for his birthday. We did not suspect that this was the same person, as this time he agreed to the original miniatures and behaved carefully. After the painter finished work with his order, he paid for it through the PayPal. We sent the package and did not bode well. As it turned out, in connection with the Covid19 pandemic, Canada closed the tracking of parcels in its country, at least for Ukraine it is. The fraudster knew about this, and decided to take advantage of the fact that the parcel is tracked only to the Canadian customs. After that, he canceled the transfer and received both the money back and the parcel with the miniatures. Unfortunately, the administration of Paypal did not want to contact us at all, despite the checks provided. As a result, two artists of our studio suffered (one artist who painted miniatures, and the second one who provided bits from Forgeworld) and a PayPal intermediary with whom we work, since, unfortunately, there is no PayPal in Ukraine. The amount that may not be so significant for a resident of Canada is a serious blow for a resident of Ukraine. We may have to refuse shipping to Canada due to such scammers.

[sparoshadows]

Finished painting up my Barbed Hierodule. My Hive fleet Nidhogg is getting some heavy hitters

[oldschoolgaming]

Happy New Year 2020 Part 1 of 2 - Crafting!

As I’ve said before on my blog once I’ve done something twice I consider it a tradition so here, for the third year, is my ‘traditional’ round up for tabletop RPG shenanigans for 2019!  Here are links to 2019 and 2018′s posts as comparison, though last year you’ll note I didn’t set any goal or resolutions!

Painting and Modelling

I started 2019 with regular painting streams on twitch on a Sunday morning but once again I fell out of love with the platform in the summer.  Looking back at my painting output this year I completed some really fun projects for tabletop and for display.

Not strictly gaming related but I’ve had this 3D Printed Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet kicking around unfinished for nearly two years so it was great to finally wrap it up and wear it on Halloween!

Also in the Sci Fi prop department ‘Farscape’ one of my favourite TV shows turned 20 years old in 2019 and whilst I watched the whole show again I printed and painted some fun stuff to display in my hobby room.

I also finished some long overdue gaming minis

The Games Workshop Forgeworld ‘Dread Maw’ which was a generous gift in 2018 finally finished, in Purple Worm or DCC Purple Planet ‘Orm’ guise!

A 3D printed Giant that had been waiting in the long queue. Speaking of 3D printing this year I also started trading on Etsy, printing and painting miniatures and models from a store front there with the aim to make a small profit to offset my gaming hobby.

I finished another ongoing project to paint seven of Oathsworn Miniatures ‘Heroines in Sensible Shoes’ to represent the classic old school D&D (or DCCRPG) classes.

Here’s a model I’m particularly proud of, a Reaper miniatures Halfling, painted to represent my friend Becky’s Halfling Druid character.

Another 3D printed model, this time a custom Owlbear from Fat Dragon Games I printed 40+ of these models to celebrate the second ‘Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff’ convention (more on that later!)

I also printed and painted another batch of Fat Dragon tiles, this time from the ‘Cavern’ set.

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As well as adding the rather epic ‘GM Screen Of Doom’ for my setup at home.

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