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The muzzle interior and the bottom of the mag well got painted black with a narrow brush
The gems got a coat of gloss black primer to try and fill any remaining grooves. Then, the recessed details got a coat of Administratum Grey to accentuate them, along with the join between the grip part and the main body.
After drybrushing with white to add edge highlights, everything that wasn't going to be white got a couple of coats of black with a paintbrush.
And that's how I created the Warhammer 40k/Star Wars Sequel trilogy crossover weapon no on asked for! (joking)
The gems got a basecoat of metallic red with a brush, before I remembered that blu tac can be used to mask weird shapes for airbrushing
After removing the masking, the gem mountings were tidied up with a brush before painting them gold (still using a brush)
The big gold areas were painted with an airbrush, then given some drybrush highlighting with the masking still in place.
The trigger and energy connector were painted gold with a brush, and the remaining black details got a drybrush highlight
The ammo core was nice and simple - drybrushed white highlights on the base and the actual core painted black.
And the painting is complete! On to sealing and weathering.
Since this is an Eldar weapon, I didn't want to do too much weathering - just some brown wash to lighten up the grooves on the handgrip and accentuate the detail on the top piece
A final coat of satin varnish, and it's ready for photographing.
All finished! If you want one of your own, the .STL files are available HERE for $5USD
How would my "he who hunts monsters" alternate heresy go?
loyalists: Guilliman, Ferrus Manus, Sanguinius, Mortarion, Dorn, Corax, Magnus, Angron, Khan
Traitors: Horus, Vulkan, Lorgar, Fulgrim, Curze, Perturabo, Leman, and the Arch-traitor Lion 🙂
α/Ω: Alpha legion is still the fricking alpha legion.
How alternate heresy 2 came to be: skipping all the 1s that are on the "same" side as in canon. Vulkan got tricked into Nurgle's garden, Leman got so mad and furry that he fell to Khorn, and the monsters on Lion's home world had more of an æffect on him allowing chaos the seep through the cracks. as for Loyalists, the emperor helped Morty kill the necromancer, Magnus was less rant-y while Russ was more angy, and Angron wasn't attacked by the Eldar but was instead semi-raised by them (With an army of eldar and gladiators, angron overthrew the high-riders and smashed all their totally not khorne stuff).
I should mention there was a climactic showdown between Leman and Angron, think their cannon fight in reverse, but the red angel absolutely scares the wolf piss out of the khornate vikings.
Lucius: like in canon
bjorn the fell handed: Khorn
Tu'Shan: Nurgle... this hurt me to type
"Cypher": leads the 'angels purified' chapter of loyalist marines
Maloghurst: Tzeenche
Azrael: undivided
My personal insight of Warhammer 40k, my objections, likes, and an alternative perspective to the objections to the franchise and why, and hopefully an alternative solution.
Kinda what to do of “My Reimagined Warhammer 40k” thread which is not so much as an AU but a prototype of my 40k inspired concept with the inspirations as placeholders
Basically “What if there was clear good and evil in 40k and it was more like Space Tolkien with bits of the Ransom Trilogy and Christian Theology?”
40k Eldar: NOOOOO! YOU CANT INTERMINGLE WITH HUMANS! THATS ZOOPHILIA!
Middle-Earth Elves: Lol humans are sexy.
My Take on Warhammer 40k Or A Potential Original Work inspired by 40k
Part 1: Setting up the Game Board
DISCLAIMER:What you are about to read is a radically different take on Warhammer 40k which will most likely be its own thing, so I ask do not take it seriously a Warhammer AU fanfic,for that case consider this a concept made out of boredom and faith, but should you take it seriously, see it rather a prototype of an original work with its influences as placeholders.
Plus this contains Christian theology ala Tolkien and Lewis in terms of world building. Its not complete and not perfect so pardon me if I don't touch on things like the Orks or The Old Ones.
Thank you for Reading.
While overall I'm not that into Warhammer 40k, there are things among it I do like such as space elves, space gods, space church, space demons, blocky armored human super soldiers. So I kinda want to do my take on the Warhammer 40k universe which will be its own thing(which I have notes on). Most of my inspiration comes from Tolkien's Lengendarium and CS Lewis' Ransom Trilogy/Space Trilogy(which terminology from both works will be borrowed) combined with the theology of my Catholic faith.
When coming up with these sorts things, I always ask myself questions such as
"What do you want from this? Why from this? And what's the merits of this?"
Which then I turned to CS Lewis on how he came up with ideas such as Narnia which he asked himself a speculative question, so I did so myself;
"Supposed 40k had more clear lines of Good and Evil ala Lord of The Rings and existed in a Christian Theological setting and Man, Eldar, and Tau were the big good and the three were created by God in his image; what would all of this put together look like?"
So let's start with my take on The Warp
The Warp itself is a gigantic cosmic ley line between the Materium and what would be referred to in CS Lewis's Space Trilogy as "Deep Heaven" where the triune supreme deity of this universe, whom we will call for the sake of this AU Triad, wells with his heavenly legions.
Triad is known as one Deity in Three Persons;
The Emperor-Of-All-That-Is(Aka Eru Iluvatar, The Old One, or The Father)
The Celestial King(Aka Urendi Maleldil, The Young One, or The Son)
and The Breath of Life(Aka The Flame Imperishable, The Third One, or The Spirit)
In this theology, the Gods in Warhammer akin to Valar of Tolkien's Middle Earth or Oyéresu and lesser warp enties akin to Maiar or Eldila who are assigned to guide and watch over mortal species and planets, the most unique being the pantheon of Powers amongst the humans, Eldar, and Tau.
Now in this beginning, there was the War In The Heavens started by the 5th Chaos God, who's vaguely implied to be Satan/Lucifer, hell for the sake of what little 40k this resembles, lets dub him Malal/Malice
Who The Eldar know as Morgoth formerly Melkor
and The Tau know as The Bent One formerly The Shinning One
and his four elite subordinates
Slaanesh who we know as Asmodeus on our planet
Nurgle who we know as Beezlebub on our planet
Tzeentch or who we know as Leviathan
and Khorne who known to be some kind of malicious demon of wrath(haven't come up with who)
and all of them were driven back and confined to certain planets
Nurgle and Slaanesh and their repsective legions were confined to the home planet of of the Aeldari
Khorne and Tzeentch and their minions were bound T'au the planet
and Malal was bound to Terra with his legions with a far greater seal.
However the planets they were bound to were home of three species that were all of the "Imago Dei", The Aeldari, Tau, and Humans respectively, the humans being the youngest
So 5 "gods" plotted to corrupt these species and use them as a means to spread their influence throughout the Galaxy and beyond when they become able of space travel.
One by one these three races fell, Malal tempted the first parents of Man first, then Tzeentch and Khorne temped the first parents of Tau, and finally Slaanesh and Nurgle tempted the Aeldari.
But Triad has plans for these races and did not intend to leave the galaxy to suffer, these plans began with the redemption of these three species
But as the Fall started through Adam’s race, the redemption had to also begin through Adam’s race.
So for the sake of each world and each life, The Celestial King came to Terra and became a Son of Adam.
From there he carried out a great task that rippled across the cosmos, and not only redeemed the children of Adam and Eve, but made them fully warp and fully matter, just as The Celestial King became Fully God and Fully Man. Which I will go into detail in part 2 with The Emperor of Mankind, the human race and their role in this AU.
After this, the newly ascended King departed for the Aeldari and Tau planets where his mere arrival redeemed the two races.
With things set into motion, The Celestial King departed back to his father in The Heavens.
History of the three races transpired, and accumulated in the Age of Strife where The God-Chosen Monarchs arose to bring order to their respective races and come together to conquer and civilize the Galaxy.
Coming soon in Part 2: Man, Eldar, and T’au: Three species of One Image
In the grim dark future there is only war. War and exodites with chickens.
Corsair prince Liratirael and his employer, rogue trader Wilhelmina von Krauss.
Prepare for trouble, make it double.
New rogue trader game forced my hand and I had to draw my old corsair OC from tabletop. I have feelings for space elves again, sry people who followed me for dragon age
One russian friend told me once that he can't take eldar seriously because they all (including women) look like clones of professor Seleznyov from the old soviet cartoon "Alice and mystery of the third planet". I drew my aeldari oc as him and almost laughed my ass off while doing so :'D This is unironically spot on
My oc Liratirael and his different Paths (warrior, bonesinger, outcast). Yes, he is a male banshee. Also local rogue trader Wilhelmina "Billy" von Krauss. He would catch a bullet for her.
My corsair Liratirael without his armor