I have been collecting Warhammer 40K for a while and like any modler, i have many factions with in my collection.
I love the fact that you can paint your armys however you want, theres a worls of colour at your fingertips (well paintbrush if your being technical). As well as custom paint jobs, conversions are always fun to have a go at. But what really annoys me are those 40 year olds who think they know everything just because they are older and have a major go at you because your paint scheme "isnt in the codex". You know what you guys can do, go fuck yourselves.
Any way back to modeling, the factions i have are: Orks, Tau, Imperial Guard, Space Marines and the Inquisition. As you can see, i do like the human factions.
Orks are great with their brawn over brains mentality, this is awsome in close combat but sucks when your shooting because they just cant aim. I love the rule that any tank from a faction can be converted to your faction, Orks are probobly the best faction to do this with because the salvage everything anyway. I mean i once saw a Hive Tyrant with an Ork rider, sooo epic.
Tau, comunist blue people with awsome fire power. The power of thier guns does rule and all their tech like the battle suits and tanks are always welcome. But i think there is a down side, the amount of relience on drones. I mean these things piss me off, such as the sniper drones which are 4 drones straped with a sniper rifle each and controled by one guy. quite annoying.
Imperial Gaurd are just spectacular. With a wide range of men, machines and weapons who cant like them. But their front line infantry are rather weak which is a disadvantage on the battle field resulting for the need of large numbers of troops. As well as this i love painting the tanks, with all the battle scars and the paint the crews have put on is really fun.
Space Marines are just in a leauge of their own. The tech thats avaliable for them is astonishing, also the fact that only one is needed to man a heavy bolter rather than 2 like the imps have to is a nice factor. They have alot of machinery which is pretty sweet to paint. But all Space Marine units all look the same, like the rhinos, it takes a lot to make them look individualistic and thats what i like to do. Give each an indivdual take on a paint scheme so each is special.
The Inquisution ar just crazy so are quite fun ti weild on the feild of battle. i mean theres something special in charging a unit of crazy space nuns into a pack of traitor gaurd with out a regard for the consequences. Also the Grey Knights are awsome specially with their spears. But i do love the assasins. Its an experience when you put a Guard unit against an assasin and see how much damage they can don before they get killed.
That was some of the awsome stuf that goes on in general, i shall post some pics of some of the stuff ive been working on recently. So feel free to comment.
Much apreciated
Glowstick
