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I'm working on an ork army right now and still learning to paint so have several different paint schemes.

Want to play as GK but they have like 2 squads and Crowe isn't sold separately yet, Custodes are better and have their own vehicles. However, I'm a huge wolf fan so you'd think I'd go with Russ and co. but personality-wise I'm Dorn with a splash of G-man.

How do I decide?

Thinking of making my own chapter too. ADHD is not my friend.

When you work it out - let the rest of us know



Honestly I think there's a few things to help you

1) It can be helpful to write out a plan for how you are going to build your army(ies). This might be army lists you aim for; a buying list; a general concept. Whatever it is this is just putting your thoughts onto paper and giving yourself some targets and objectives. This can be a big help in guiding your hobby attention and avoiding drifting where you jump form the newest thing to the newest thing but never finish any one project.

And let me note there's nothing wrong with that so long as you are happy, however sometimes its good to have some structure.

2) Sometimes I find that its helpful to go to the GW website and open up a new browser tab for every single model in an arm that interests me. Then go through each tab and really look at each model - closing any that don't interest me. Sometimes you realise that you like an army as a single force in lore and story, but you don't really want to actually own most of the models. Or you find you love it all; or just a few; or one or two or however much.

Basically this is really purely a visual test.

3) Events/games/clubs - accepting that corona is still an issue - this can help reinforce your plan if you are involved with a group. Again this swings back to the idea of an objective and target. If you're active in gaming chances are that will help focus your army attention and buying choices.

Nice dog, thinking of getting an Alaskan Malamute.

I have a 3D printer which makes things worse.

NorthernXY wrote:
Nice dog, thinking of getting an Alaskan Malamute.

I have a 3D printer which makes things worse.

All that I've heard is that Malamutes are much bigger in body than a husky (and they can already be pretty strong); but tend to be more amenable to normal dog training. Perhaps having a touch less of the wilful nature that huskies famously have. All of them are really affectionate dogs and heck another bonus is they are generally healthy breeds - it was one reason we wound up with a husky after our first passed. So many other breeds have been bred poorly over the last decades and have a long list of associated health problems.




A 3D printer though seals your doom. STL collecting is even easier than model collecting!

Stick to one army until its entirely painted! Buy the old crowe - he's super cheap if I recall ($15-20~)

I have adhd but if you checklist and stay medicated you'll be fine! just cruise through a squad at a time until the army is finished to you can hit events and play at your shop often.

Then expand with small kill teams / wolves/ whatever.

 Overread wrote:

NorthernXY wrote:
Nice dog, thinking of getting an Alaskan Malamute.

I have a 3D printer which makes things worse.

All that I've heard is that Malamutes are much bigger in body than a husky (and they can already be pretty strong); but tend to be more amenable to normal dog training. Perhaps having a touch less of the wilful nature that huskies famously have. All of them are really affectionate dogs and heck another bonus is they are generally healthy breeds - it was one reason we wound up with a husky after our first passed. So many other breeds have been bred poorly over the last decades and have a long list of associated health problems.




A 3D printer though seals your doom. STL collecting is even easier than model collecting!

Malamutes I'm looking at get over 60 kg.


Someone on Discord said they had 50 GB of files as if it twere impressive. I laughed, I have more than that in my titan folder.

One thing is to look into good harnesses/collars. One thing we noticed is that your standard dog collar doesn't really work on huskies (and malamutes) cause the neck fur gets so thick that a regular collar is either always too lose to hold (esp if they work out how to go backwards) or would be far too tight for health.

Harnesses have a load of different designs though many are not reverse safe and it seems to be somewhere where its worth looking around. We've tended to end up with the collars that tighten when pulled to a limit point (not choke collars)





And yeah 50GB can be just two or three of the bigger monthly patreons worth of models. I certainly didn't think when I got into it that I'd need a few Terrabytes of harddrive space (got a 4TB so I'd have at least some headroom).

Also do check the link in my signature for more ideas

 Stevefamine wrote:
Stick to one army until its entirely painted! Buy the old crowe - he's super cheap if I recall ($15-20~)

I have adhd but if you checklist and stay medicated you'll be fine! just cruise through a squad at a time until the army is finished to you can hit events and play at your shop often.

Then expand with small kill teams / wolves/ whatever.

I've realized Orks can be the longest to paint because each one is an individual and dresses differently depending on what they can find. No uniforms for them.

There's a ship in your link I want to put large rockets in the back. They're already on a ship, so they're safe, you know because you can breathe on ships.

I like to just pick like 3 pretty dull colors, a khaki-ish, one klan color, and like a browny/black, then kind rotate which part of the boy outfit gets painted that color. So one will have a khaki shirt, one khaki pants, and one khaki belts. It speeds up the process a lot. Might have to monkey with the colors you choose if you go for bad moons instead of blood axes or somethin.

Find it weird I never see country colors of old. I wanted to make a Prussian army but realized it'd look exactly like Raven Guard and/or Black Templars.

For those who don't faction hop to chase the current hotness:
helps to pick an army you WANT to model, paint, and will be proud of even if they aren't meta.

Some armies have higher model counts, some lower. I play guard. Whatever the meta there's usually something you can make out of their wide range of units (Issues from playing an 8th edition codex in 9th edition ignored here), but it's a lot of models to collect and paint to fully realize that flexibility.

Look at which is your play style, hordes, elites, mixed, melee shooty, balanced, etc.

Pick guys you can make a great story out of.

Be realistic about the budget

 Overread wrote:

NorthernXY wrote:
Nice dog, thinking of getting an Alaskan Malamute.

I have a 3D printer which makes things worse.

A 3D printer though seals your doom. STL collecting is even easier than model collecting!

Ahaha ha... haaaa... FML in over 600GB of downloaded STL...

At first I thought it would just be the overly expensive models or the ones that need more variety like Guard. Then I remembered that this is GW I'm talking about vs resin printing...

NorthernXY wrote:
I'm working on an ork army right now and still learning to paint so have several different paint schemes.

Want to play as GK but they have like 2 squads and Crowe isn't sold separately yet, Custodes are better and have their own vehicles. However, I'm a huge wolf fan so you'd think I'd go with Russ and co. but personality-wise I'm Dorn with a splash of G-man.

How do I decide?

Thinking of making my own chapter too. ADHD is not my friend.

I'll make this easy for you: Space Wolves have puppers.

1) Write out the candidate factions in a numbered list.
2) Use an appropriately-sided die to decide.
3) If you hate the outcome, keep rolling. ;-]

RegularGuy wrote:For those who don't faction hop to chase the current hotness:
helps to pick an army you WANT to model, paint, and will be proud of even if they aren't meta.

Some armies have higher model counts, some lower. I play guard. Whatever the meta there's usually something you can make out of their wide range of units (Issues from playing an 8th edition codex in 9th edition ignored here), but it's a lot of models to collect and paint to fully realize that flexibility.

Look at which is your play style, hordes, elites, mixed, melee shooty, balanced, etc.

Pick guys you can make a great story out of.

Be realistic about the budget

I mostly just care about painting but would like to play a game someday. Would love to buy lots of Nurgle models but don't think I'll ever play them.

SergentSilver wrote:

 Overread wrote:

NorthernXY wrote:
Nice dog, thinking of getting an Alaskan Malamute.

I have a 3D printer which makes things worse.

A 3D printer though seals your doom. STL collecting is even easier than model collecting!

Ahaha ha... haaaa... FML in over 600GB of downloaded STL...

At first I thought it would just be the overly expensive models or the ones that need more variety like Guard. Then I remembered that this is GW I'm talking about vs resin printing...

FML?

safest bet is to choose one of these 3 broad factions(imperium, chaos, or eldari) as they can soup allies for future expansions. the left overs xenos factions are typically good for opposition to fight with your main faction.

you also can decide if your interest is more based on lore, tourney list or just models alone. I found GK/red scorpions(FW SM chapter) models really cool but once I read their lore it put me off on collecting them.

it is very normal for average player to have around 4 armies of various strength, and then there is terrain to battle on.

If you have ADHD get a good diet for ADHD and take all the supplements that may help. Zinc. Magnesium. B vitamins. Glycine. Collagen has tons of amino acids too. Lots of foods can trigger ADHD. A calm mind is a priceless thing.

Alternatively, don't pick an army. Play some Kill Team, so you can buy and paint some models for each faction that you really like.

You may find that you just love one faction's play style, or paint scheme, or lore, or whatever, and focus in on that--or not. You may discover that you like several factions, which is just fine. There's no law that says you have to have ONE HUGE ARMY. You can build several small armies if you like doing that.

NorthernXY wrote:

FML?

Ah, sorry. Old school short for "frag my life".


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Da Butcha wrote:
Alternatively, don't pick an army. Play some Kill Team, so you can buy and paint some models for each faction that you really like.

You may find that you just love one faction's play style, or paint scheme, or lore, or whatever, and focus in on that--or not. You may discover that you like several factions, which is just fine. There's no law that says you have to have ONE HUGE ARMY. You can build several small armies if you like doing that.

I actually support this in terms of finding something you like to paint only, as KT runs very differently than 40k and what you like to play in KT may not translate so well. In that respect, might as well give the AoS version a go as well, in case you find you really like painting models from the fantasy side.

NorthernXY wrote:
I'm working on an ork army right now and still learning to paint so have several different paint schemes.

Want to play as GK but they have like 2 squads and Crowe isn't sold separately yet, Custodes are better and have their own vehicles. However, I'm a huge wolf fan so you'd think I'd go with Russ and co. but personality-wise I'm Dorn with a splash of G-man.

How do I decide?

Thinking of making my own chapter too. ADHD is not my friend.

Well you just pick the best faction of all.
Dwarfs of course! obviously

No tyranid nor spawn of chaos could stand up and live against a mighty swing of dwarven steel!

Ah, sorry. Old school short for "frag my life".

This counts as old school? God I feel old now...

I second sampling Kill teams although it is definitely harder to find games for that game compared to the main game 40k.

If you really love everything just keep doing making small kill team until it clicks. If it doesn't click you jump in the big game as soon as the next indomitus style box comes out for the next edition and you can get into one of the included factions for cheap that way. If it doesn't matter, might as well do it on the cheap right?

Dirk wrote:

Ah, sorry. Old school short for "frag my life".

This counts as old school? God I feel old now...

Believe me, I know how you feel. Luckily, that was more in jest than anything.