I really enjoy these old painting guides for being both straightforward and attainable to the target audience of kids just starting to paint. The guide gives a simple block painting guide that could be a foundation, and the final result squad is honestly painted as described. I get a bit annoyed when I see guides where the finished miniature obviously had way more work done on it than described.

I want to point out using metallic paint for the plasma gun coils. This is a good reuse of paints already on the model as a way to keep the number of paint colors down. Metallic plasma coils are rarer than glowing, but show up occasionally in old Codexes.

The following pages in the book describe beginning steps into using washes and finishing bases with flock or sand. A good way to ease painters from what's on this page to the next level of complexity.

Hey, i was wondering if anyone had a Forge world grav tank and could snap some pictures of the measurements for me. I'm looking at buying one on marketplace and the guy claims it's real but it looks rather large. About 8 inches long, which I think is too big. Any help is appreciated.

Link to part 2.

I got my first 500 points of 40k yesterday (emperor's children) and i've built most of the models but i really got into the hobby for painting. My hands are pretty shaky though which is annoying because i want to use a lot of different colors. Does anyone have any advice for having more stable or relaxed hands?

Many years ago I ran a couple of TTRPG mashups of Warhammer 40k and Dune. The emperor was much the same as 40k, the Sardaukar were marines, the Bene Gesserit were a plot manifested by Tzeentch, the Butlerian Jihad explained the lack of computers, etc., etc. It was - if I do say so myself - pretty awesome.

Now my kids are getting into role-playing and not interested in fantasy so I'm thinking about reviving my old mashup for them.

In the old days I used the 1st ed. Rogue Trader rules which seemed like the beginnings of an awesome TTRPG before Games Workshop committed fully to selling lead, then plastic, figures for skirmish wargames.

Is there a newer version of Warhammer 40k that is still TTRPG focussed, or should I dust off my old, loose-leaf copy of 1st ed. and work from that?

I haven’t been hitting 40k very hard this year, but I wanted to bring at least one new model to the narrative.

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Hi everybody :)

I'm not entirely new to wargaming, but I've never played WH40k before. So I have many questions about the game and some tooling around it. I'll start with universal questions in case answers may help some new players too and then I have a couple of questions about the faction I'd like to play. Thank you for reading it and I hope answering some questions :)

1. After a Combat Patrol "phase" what do I need to have to play a full Warhammer 40k game? Dices and measuring tape are obvious. But do I need to buy a codex? Do I need to buy a datasheet cards?
2. How to unlock information about datasheets and detachment rules in WH40k official app?
3. Are there any popular army builder apps or sites? Or we should stick to the official app?
4. When I need to specify units for Dedicated Transports? Should it be specified on an army roster list or it could be decided before the game? If it is former, how can I select it in the official app army builder?
5. The same question about attaching Characters to Bodyguard units?

Specific questions about Space Wolves:

6. New Codex has new Combat Patrol, but I can find this new Combat Patrol as a box to buy neither on the official warhammer.com site, nor on Amazon nor at my local stores. Do I need to buy units separately to play it as a Combat Patrol or it'll come out some time later (when?) or it was already sold out and I missed it completely?
7. Previous Combat Patrol has Battle Leader Thoryk in it. Can I pick him outside of Combat Patrol? If I can, than who is he: Lieutenant, Wolf Guard Battle Leader or someone else? I can find him neither in Legendary Proxies Table nor in Legends Field Manual.

Very excited. No miniatures, but it has all the deck pieces, doors, and tokens.