[im-a-pinecone]

A brief disclaimer about my blog and the things I post.

None of this is my whole story; there are nuances and life experiences, spanning over four decades involved. A lot of context left out for the sake of brevity and my privacy online.

I'm not over-sharing my trauma to strangers; I think that's fair. Don't you?

So before you exercise your rites as a keyboard warrior, take a breath, chill out, and understand none of anything I say is a personal attack on you and yours specifically.

But if you can't let it go, that's ok. Just block me. No, seriously, it's all good. Block me!

If you post a comment complaining about me or something I ranted about, I will not engage with you - even if your comment annoyed me.

I'm too older millennial to care about internet arguments, "winning" them or otherwise.

I'll just block you.

Protecting my peace is more important to me than random strangers on the internet; especially those who want a fight.

Do us both a favor and block me if you don't like me.

...

So... yeah.

/Shrugs

[im-a-pinecone]

The 40k points update just dropped.

Getting a points discount on your list feels like when the teacher glances at your test paper, mid exam, and announces to the class "everyone, make sure you read the questions thoroughly".

[deadgenerations]

nothing makes Nolan seem more like a hack than watching inception and paprika back to back.

[im-a-pinecone]

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

It's nice seeing GW bring back old special characters, first the run hearder, then the biker boy, now Badmoons big boy

[im-a-pinecone]

Isn't it great when random bits fit together.

Tinkering with my Goliath Rockgrinder Truck for my Genestealers; always kinda irked me that some non-descript shapes under a tonneau cover, sculpted into the truck's flatbed is supposed to be the vehicles cache of Demolition Charges...

Yeah nah, I didn't like that; so I changed it.

It was awesome to see the Demo Charges from the Acolyte Hybrid kit, fit four to a box, inside the ammo crates from the Field Ordance Battery kit.

[im-a-pinecone]

You know what would be nice; if GW gave out the codes for 10th edition codexes for free.

Since 11th edition is rolling out, you can use the 40k app to list build, but you don't get the actual datacards for the units unless you have the 10th edition codex and have entered in the code.

Considering 10th edition codexes are going to be superceded by the 11th edition codex when it comes out, I don't think I want to spend over 100 dollareedoos on them.

The only 10th edition codex I bought was the Tyranid one. So I have that unlocked in the app. I sold the actual book years ago - lord knows it wasn't worth keeping; hardly any lore in those pages at all.

And Chaos Daemons are still using their index they got at the start of 10th, so that's two.

Don't have Genestealers.

Don't have Imperial Guard.

Don't have 200 bucks to spend on two books that will need to be replaced - potentially before the year is out, for all I know.

10th edition codexes should be heavily discounted at the very least. Like, knock 70% off that price tag.

The books will be obsolete soon enough; and they still have the gall to try and sell them at full price.

[theycallmebrick]

*tsk* Gotta hate it when you chip a nail.

[windyvalleyzone]

Yall are cowards for deleting this caption.

[im-a-pinecone]

Since I'm keyed into my Genestealer Cult and set on having Catachan Brood Brothers, I'm glad to discover I had enough old, decrepit relic Catachan Infantry bits to build a squad of 10.

Just gotta find a second Flamer and scrounge up some heads from my leftover Neophyte Hybrid bits and I'll be set!

I saved 60 bucks on models I will replace THE SECOND a modern Catachan Infantry kit is previewed.

Small victories,! Yay!

[im-a-pinecone]

It's bad enough that this Cadian Kill Team stole the role of a potential Catachan Kill Team, but now they're up for pre-order next week, but The Red Terror (which shared a release box with them) is nowhere to be seen.

Between the Kasrkin and the Brood Brothers kits, Cadians are well covered on the Kill Team front. Not to mention the huge range refresh they got not too long ago.

And now Cadians get ANOTHER kit.

Meanwhile, Catachan has been stuck with this since 3rd edition; I used to have a Catachan Guard Army with these models when I was like, 17 years old... I'm 44 now!

Get a load at how poorly the lasgun bit lines up with the weapon's stock; this screenshot is from the GW webstore. You can look it up yourself. Not even the professionals can assemble this kit without issues.

The Lasguns come separate to the arms, and whole; you have to cut off the Lasgun's stock and pistol-grip so that it can be replaced by the stock/pistol-grip sculpted on the arm/hand. With no indentations sculpted into the flakk jacket on the torso to accommodate the Lasgun, you're hard pressed to get it to line up straight.

That's how it was done back in the late 90's/early 2000's; we just had to raw-dog it and modify the kit, right out of the box to make it work.

And if you want Catachans, you still do; at a cost of 60 bucks for the privilege.

Look! They're so embarrassed by this old kit, that the model they show in the thumbnail on the app is from the Command Squad (which came out a few years later).

Good luck building a Guard Infantry squad using the Catachan Command Squad kit lol.

A Kill Team set where a squad of Guardsmen go up against a big Tyranid gribley would have been the perfect opportunity to release a Catachan Devils Kill Team/Catachan Jungle Fighters Infantry Squad, duel kit.

And they BOTCHED it.

[pixiescout]

“I’ll keep wishing for a world where you’ll be happy”

[soylent-robot]

nothing can stop DAKKA BOSS (proceeds to evaporate in a cloud of failed hazardous checks)

[morksmeanestmek]

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[should-be-sleeping]

[moociao-after-dark]

As one person under my post on Twitter said : " There's a reason they're called "Orks" "

[pocketaimee]

[im-a-pinecone]

Shout out to the real winners of the 40k Armageddon reveal... The Squigs!

Short for "Squiggly Beasts", the term Squig is a catch-all phrase for the multitude of Orky sub-species that emerge from the same fungal spores as Gretchin and Orks.

Squigs come in many shapes and sizes; but all of them are somehow useful to an Ork. From Hair-Squigs worn like living toupees, to Oil-Squigs that secrete fluids for lubricating machinery, to face eating Gnasher-Squigs that make for good Squig eating contests (swallow the Gnasher-Squig whole without it biting your face off).

None of these Squigs look particularly useful; but then again, who's to say what is useful to an Ork... other than another Ork.

Still, its good to see some extra Squigs kicking around new Ork sculpts just being there.

[im-a-pinecone]

We got us another one!

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And these are the other two kitbashes I would love to do, if I could get the Catachan models.

[im-a-pinecone]

It worked very well.

SGT "Ripper" Jackson's traitor-degenerate xenos cousin... PTE "Det-Cord Katie" Jackson, Hero of the Many-Handed Emperor, Döner be His name, for we are His Kebab.

Just need something for her to rest left leg on - suggestions welcome :3