#journey of a 40k newb

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I have been away for a awhile sense my last post mainly because I have been cutting my mini time and painting time short because life is sucks sometimes. But I do have some good news, for one I got the new Tau kroot box and have been working hard to build and paint them, also my spiraling workload is not just because the capitalist machine we all live in sucks but because I have been putting longer days at my job to find a trip to Gen Con. It will be my first big convention I have ever gone to and I have been warned it will be allot but I plan to try out allot of things and probably buy allot of minis so prepare for more pictures in August at the very least. Other then that I have opened up commissions for a person by person basis so I don’t get overwhelmed and still have fun painting other peoples things to earn more money, I’ll post more on that as well later so stay tuned

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damn ok if this is the case then my local games aren't that bad time wise. i always worry im taking too long with my turns but for the most part the time burning stuff is remembering rules or buffs units have and what i need to roll for wound rolls

How long is an average 40k game? Going off your experience with tabletop

4 or 5 hours, give or take.

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A very silly kitbash for genestealer cults cause I saw a few people building there own benedictus instead of buying another new character . Probably going to add more green stuff to add more brain but I’m worried it’ll be super back heavy

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Here are my Kroot war shaper and flesh shaper, in my headcanon the older or more mutations you have the darker the Kroot skin gets so I painted the Flesh Shaper like an old veteran that just refuses to retire. I am probably going to get a second War Shaper just to build the second loadout cause I almost could t choose they both looked cool.

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Not done with these guys yet but I’m always surprised with how little it takes to get something cool

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Trying to finish up my backlog bit by bit and here’s another piece that I have no use for in any of my armies. Anyone looking for a beast boss

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So many kroot , this pile took me like a month to build and paint but when you get hype over a release box full of more that’s coming out soon

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Also finally finished the big Nids that I kept from the leviathan box and I think I’ll probably sell them cause I have no use for them and my Nid playing friend has a different scheme

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Tonight’s progress on the stern vets, I love the sculpts so I got a second set from EBay from Germany and it was still cheaper then buying them here.

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Been taking a break from painting to play Baulder’s Gate 3 but I finished up the Sternguard Vets yesterday

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Nothing too notable on the Marine side today but I quickly did these little dudes up and I love how they came out. There is no way i can start a Nid army so help my sanity but I think you can soup them into GSC so I can still have some fun with the few models I have from the leviathan box that I didn’t sell

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Filling in my Grey Knights and they had become a fast favorite army of mine to play.

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This was a nice treat to paint up, all of like four paints needed ( not including white and black for shading) and it came out real sharp. Still do t k ow how I’m gonna base these loose Nids I have but I can figure that out later

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After my last game I played I knew I had to finish up this fairly simple kitbash of Kaldor Drago and now I have a version that won’t break or can be used as a deadly weapon

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Ok ok hear me out I know I said I was going to stick with my current armies after grey knights, but this single model gave me the spark for my shelved Emperor’s Spears idea and now I half the Marine half of the Leviathan box and here is the man himself. I knew I wanted to finish him first so bad and I love how this came out

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The little of the Nid half of the Leviathan box I kept are being used as a bit of a reward to myself to sprinkle in after I finish a chunk of things I need to paint, so with the Vets done I wanted to the Neurotyrant as my treat. The scheme is not complex but I love the neon green and I want to see where it’ll end up on the bugs without exposed brains , I still need to figure that out