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TFW you're halfway through converting and painting a miniature when its rules are removed from the game . Oh well, now it's a tech priest proxy. It has parts from 5 minis, bonus points to anyone who can guess them.
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 I could never make something like this lmao, but I can't help but admire it.
Also I’m going to attempt a custom paint job on the pink bootleg Gundam. Wish me luck.
Here it is next to the Aerial I did before it. Might try to do panel lining, but I’m also going to start on another one soon.
How does it play? Do the armies feel sufficiently different? Any other comments/tips for someone who has only played 40k?
EDIT: Here's what I initially thought... Hobbies would be anything hobby related, like videos on 3D printing, figurine painting, gundam kits, electronics, etc., while DIY would be for actual projects. So things like home remodel/repair and anything self-designed and self built. Does that seem correct?
marketable slop, oh well  A blue LED behind the green lenses actually gives a more interesting effect than a green LED, sincs it seems these lenses fluoresce subtly under the blue light. I still have to paint, weather, finish the wiring, etc. which knowing me will take me a few weeks/decades . Usually, I'd just attach this to a base and run all the wires along the base arm to hide them. Only recently I found out about powering the LEDs wirelessly, which sounds way cooler...
This zoomed, in it's pretty easy to tell that all the fabric needs more blending, but this was a nice break from the rest of my army's usual white and grey-blue color scheme. Sadly some of her fingers on the right hand snapped off in transit and I was never able to reattach them. Even so, I'm generally proud of this one. Base is transparent crackle paint over a blue basecoat, then drybrushed with grey->white grey->white to get an icy look. RIP Astropaths ever being used in 10th, Nightshroud was too funny against Custodes. Mini is Astro Witch, by Victoria Miniatures. 
Technically it was done a while ago, but now there's a comm for it! The hull gun on the front is magnetized and can be swapped out for a laser, and the sides are magnetized as well so I can put sponsons on if I ever get around to having some 3d printed. The turret-hull connection is just a giant circular hole so it pops off real easy and I have taken to blu-tacking it in place for transport/games. The actual name for the model is "Mars Alpha Leman Russ Incinerator", and I run it as an Executioner in 40k. Behold, the warm glowing warming glow of the turret gun (which I'm still not really happy with even after like 10 revisions):  The last thing space fascists see before being run over: 
It's so posable and can actually support its own weight unlike my more booj models