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Today I bought a crisis battle suit, just for fun. I have always thought they looked cool, and I finally went and got one. As soon as I opened the box, I fell I love with it. It was fun to build, looks fun to paint (I've only base coated), and although I don't play tau, the jump and shoot tactics sound cool. What is your most enjoyable model you ever built, painted and use?

For me its my Chaos Terminators great kit and well they put their loyalist counterparts to shame

So far, I'd say it's my leman russes that I've made recently.

They painted up super fast, and were super easy, thanks to my newfound understanding of washes, and best of all, with just a little bit of weathering and detail work, they look fantastic.

Plus, I've liked how they've played on the field so far. There's something just so brutally uncompromising about lascannon/multimelta vanquishers. Four shots that are pretty much guaranteed to destroy whatever they hit. All the way dead.

My Vulkan He'Stan. He's a scratchbuild, and I love the way he looks. I get some weird looks sometimes, but he's my favorite, nevertheless.

Great thread!

Dreadknight 1st and foremost. Love to convert him as needed and the large surfaces make it easier to paint.

Maulerfiend is fun to put together, but even more fun to paint.

Armageddon-pattern Basilisk. Beautiful interior detail, and it's always fun when you get to model the vehicle crew. Second place (and soon to be first, once I build the next one with all of the skills I've learned since my first) goes to the Minotaur. Again, awesome interior and crew, and mine has the honor of shooting down a Manta.

My Basilisk:

The CSM plastic lord/sorceror kit. I have built and painted 8 of them for now. Such a beautiful kit to build, convert, kitbash and paint.
The Forge World Legion MkIII armor set was superb. I have currently 20 of these dudes waiting to get painted.
I have enjoyed everything from FW. Super detailed, easy to build, high quality. Perfect!

My assault terminator squad with attached HQ in their personal ride:

If I knew how to post pics I would but my favorite was Mordrakes Ghost Knights. I used skull heads and clear tooth picks instead of legs w/ cotton at the bottom for ghostly mist. People have offered me $100.00 for my 7 Ghost Knights.


I do really like those Blood angels w/ the custom turret land raider.

Deathwing Knight they are just fun all around.

My Warhound Titan. It took the better part of my Thanks giving vacation and Christmas vacation, including both weekly hobby days for every week between to complete. It took all of my modeling and painting skills and pushed me as a hobbyist. I won't do another any time soon, but now that I'm done with it, I'm glad I had this experience.

 Peregrine wrote:
Armageddon-pattern Basilisk. Beautiful interior detail, and it's always fun when you get to model the vehicle crew. Second place (and soon to be first, once I build the next one with all of the skills I've learned since my first) goes to the Minotaur. Again, awesome interior and crew, and mine has the honor of shooting down a Manta.

My Basilisk:

I ADORE those basilisks. Would it count as WYSIWYG closed crew compartment though?

I personally love building guardsmen. With a little creativity you can get some cool poses. I don't enjoy painting them that much, for me my Vendettas/Valkyries were the most fun to paint.

Humm that's a tie

Death Company were a lot of fun!! They look awesome after completion as well.

The Warhammer Giant's newest sculpt would be #2 for me!!

 kronk wrote:
My Warhound Titan. It took the better part of my Thanks giving vacation and Christmas vacation, including both weekly hobby days for every week between to complete. It took all of my modeling and painting skills and pushed me as a hobbyist. I won't do another any time soon, but now that I'm done with it, I'm glad I had this experience.

Dude that is Pure Awesome.

I don't have a pic of it, but I love my Tau Hammerhead with Railgun.

Combined this kit:


With this one:


To make some Plasmavets. I love working with Resin, and FW outdid themself with this upgrade kit. It has so much character and detail, I was blown away.
I'm not much of a painter, more of a gamer, but after assembling these guys, I painted them up right away.

Always a joy to field my one painted squad.

Back when I had them with my 1st SM army, CC termies and their LRC

My war hound Titan for me as we'll..a couple of months of solid work but it was very worth it

I also enjoy land raiders

I've enjoyed the DC he most, so many parts and great detail on their armor and weapons. Easy to build and fun to paint.

Building: Grenadiers and kitbashed Watchmaster/CCO, loved gearing up my soldiers.

Painting: Engineers

Using: Hades Drill (using a centaur model)

My Ork Dakkajets. I have two and loved building and painting them and love playing them.

I would say probably my Bloodletters. I'm more proud of my Daemon Prince, but I think I had more fun painting the lesser Daemons

I think the Carnifex kit is my favorite. Its a lot of fun to put together. A lot of customization options.

My favourite conversion, probably my Vargaard Obyron (the guy in the middle on the top row)



although all the Crypteks were great fun to build too.

Either that, or my Inquisitorial Vendetta, which was also a lot of fun to paint with the disruptive pattern black camo.

Hmm. The most I've had building is Rhino-hulled things. They're just so easy to put together. Not fun to paint though, damned uneven plastics on vehicles. Using? Eh, well, of the Rhino-hulled things, Vindicator.

But the most fun painting was probably the DV Chaplain, so far, he turned out pretty nicely, as well. He's been pretty fun to use too, since he's done fairly well on the table. Although come to think of it my custom Marshal probably ties him.

Im rather proud of Grimaldus and his Cenobytes. They were the last set of models Ive done and I threw all my new techniques and experience into them. Quite happy with how they turned out, and I admire them all the time.




I REALLY liked working on my Stormtalon. I actually like the model, I picked it up the day it was released, and was probably the first person to post up a Talon with a BT paint scheme. Trying to top it with my Raven now.

I like putting together tanks.

I actually enjoy painting vanilla tactical marines.

Favorite to build was the trygon prime
Favorite to paint and field is Typhus the awesome

Ork Stompa.

Awesome model to put together, with no problems and lots of choices. I also magnetized the head, so that when (or rather, IF) my opponent finally blows it up, they can remove the head in triumph!

Fun to paint (and still adding more paint--as I change up plain scratched panels into looted armor from opponents).

Totally awesome to field. The guns are insane. I use the Kustom Stompa rules with grot repairs, which drive people nuts. Plus, people always forget it is a transport! Hahahahahaha!

The stompa is everything I like about GW Orks (funny, customizable, tons of gubbins, loads of personality, and rules that focus on 'theme'), turned up to 11.

I've had a lot of fun converting up my chaos champions recently. My berserker champion with his rack-o-skulls has been doing phenomenally. He fell for the first time yesterday.... Also my new biker champion surfing his bike into battle is great fun. And even though in hindsight putting zhufor on a higher base makes him taller than a daemon prince... well... zhufor has been awesome to paint. fantastic model.