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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pyrovores, for when raw biomass gets old and the Hive Mind fancies a barbecue. #warhammercommunity #40k #tyranids #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Big red space dudes on big red space bikes.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

RIP to my Hammerfall Bunker and the Whirlwind I sometimes ran its top half as. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #40k #nerdlings

A Rhino with the top half of a Hammerfall Bunker on top, posing as a Whirlwind.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Looking at the, uh, 'previews' of the Ork codex and sadly the 'Careen' stratagem seems to have gone. A shame - I think in 10 games I only got the chance to actually use it once or twice, but when it did go off it was a lot of fun. #warhammercommunity #40k

The 'I'm about to end this man's whole career' meme altered to read 'careen' instead.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some test models for a Genestealer Cults scheme, intended to mesh with my existing Tyranid scheme. I'm considering going for more of a blue-green denim effect on their trousers. You know, make their jeans tealer. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trying something new this time with adding annotations and special effects to the images to hopefully make it a bit clearer what's going on.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Death Company marines. Just painting assault intercessors black seemed dull to me, so I added chains and Stormcast helms for added 'Man in the Iron Mask' vibes. #nerdlings #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #bloodangels

A squad of Blood Angels Death Company marines, customised with kitbashed heads and chains.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

First they out his name and now his location...?

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I realised that I forgot to post the full squad of these guys when they were done. Here they are! #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #bloodangels

A squad of Blood Angels Assault Intercessor space marines.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This marine is now done! He isn't going to win Golden Demon, but personally I'm happy with how he looks given the relatively small amount of time invested. I can easily bash out a squad to this standard in 2-3 evenings and not get bored doing it. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I then do a light and patchy drybrush of Kabalite Green followed by Gauss Blaster Green to bring out the base details, add a bit of green to subtly complement the red without going full christmas tree, and nod to the Goblin Green glory days. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Finally finally: the base. This army started out as a Boarding Actions force so I use spaceship/industrial bases for them. First I splosh on Akhelian Green contrast over the whole base, leaving some red showing through for interest. Then splotches of Fuegan Orange for rusty bits.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Final touches: silver (Vallejo Chainmail Silver) on the chainsword teeth and bolter barrel, etc. I then shade this, and any other areas I want to darken down a bit, with Drakenhof Nightshade. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Next layering up Wild Rider Red and then Fire Dragon Bright as final point highlights. Red is hard to highlight and it's best to keep these highlight areas very small because otherwise it can start to read as orange rather than the deep red we want. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Army Painter Pure Red (the paint, not the spray) to volumetric highlight upwards facing surfaces like the tops of the shoulder pads and edge highlight everywhere. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Back to it: Onto highlighting the red. I tend to save this until last-ish so I can also repair any overspill onto the red areas from the other colours at the same time. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Parchments get horizontal line highlights first in Rakarth Flesh then in white to give a crinkly texture. I also use the white to dot-highlight lenses, vials, jewels etc. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The (3rd company) blood-drop on the pauldron I freehand by first drawing a line in a medium grey, then fattening out the bottom, then layering up to white, trying to roughly match the tone of the rest of the pauldron. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For both the black and white areas I use the same colour progression of bluey-greys: The Fang, Russ Grey, Fenrisian Grey and then white (Schmincke PRIMAcryl Titanium White). I just cover a much smaller area and stop earlier on the black. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Finally, I use a very pale yellow (Dorn Yellow) for some point highlights on only the sharpest corners or highest points which would catch the light. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

With that in mind, I use a brighter yellow (Army Painter Daemonic Yellow) for my next layer, covering a smaller area of the surface/edges. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let's do the yellow bits first (though the principles are the same everywhere). We'll use Averland sunset again to do both volumetric and edge highlights, brightening the yellows up again after the wash dulled them down. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm going to be employing three kinds of highlighting; volumetric, edge and point. For volumetric we'll be painting the most upwards-facing parts of each surface, for edge we'll be painting the edges(!) and for point we'll be using little dots on the brightest bits. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think this is actually key advice for army painting! Choose the things you enjoy (or want to practice), put your time in there and figure out how to optimise everything else. You'll have a better time and the army will look better. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer

An edit of a Dr. Strangelove poster to now read 'Dr. Spend-more-time-on-stuff-you-love, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love army painting.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The shade is dry now, but I need to go get my son from nursery so I'll finish this thread off later. Everything from here on out is basically just highlighting, however.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Slap Druchii Violet over the whole model. This will give us our ambient occlusion shading, reinforce our purple undertones, make the yellows read a bit 'colder', knock some of the shine off the primer (when dry) and tie the whole model together. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

A space marine freshly covered in Druchii Violet

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Next we basecoat the other details - Vallejo Glorious Gold for bling, Rakarth Flesh for bone, skin and parchment and Averland Sunset for helmet and sword. Boring basecoating stage over! #nerdlings #warhamnercommunity #paintingwarhammer

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For the same reasons, the black bits I basecoat with a very dark purple. It's a bit hard to recommend a colour match since this is Leviathan Purple, but a pot I accidentally left open for a few hours, so it dried out and ended a bit darker than usual. Probably just using Corvus Black is fine too.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Anyway, back to Blood Angels. I'm using purple as a shadow colour because it will make the red 'pop' and look a lot brighter and more saturated than if we went straight from black to red. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings #colourtheory

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I use a similar 'cheat' for most of my armies with different colour combinations, for example my Tyranids use Red-Purple-Cyan and my Orks use Purple-Red-Yellow. Even if you don't use these colours directly you can use it to suggest mood and lighting conditions. #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So we've now got a nice gradient lighting effect that we'll use as our base for most of the model for basically zero effort, we're going to shade and highlight this a bit more and do details. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Aaand finally bright red (Army Painter Pure Red) directly from above. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Now dark red (Army Painter Dragon Red) from about 45° above the horizontal. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Next we'll spray a dark purple (Colour Forge Imperial Purple, in this case) from just above the horizontal - say 10° up. Don't go too heavy and leave some black showing in the recesses. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm very lazy and want to get the priming step to do as much work for me as possible. So we're going to do a multi-step coloured zenithal prime. We'll start by spraying black (any black will do - I'm using Army Painter matt black) from below. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Step 2: It's Prime time! I like to prime on what my partner calls 'goblin sticks' - dowels with blue-tack on the ends jammed through a cardboard box. It lets me rotate each model individually while keeping my hand (mostly) paint-free. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

Some space marines on sticks, ready for priming.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Step 1 is to build them. I don't hate Primaris but there are some aspects I don't like (the helmets, the weird kneepad rim, the lack of back banners). I've done some mild conversion work to 'fix' these but this is optional. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

An unpainted squad of Assault Intercessors, with some minor conversion work.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is going to be a 'live'(ish) thread so I'll post each step as I do it. I'm going to be painting an Blood Angels Assault Intercessor squad. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I've been asked how I paint my blood angels and so I thought I'd do a step-by-step guide (partly for my own benefit, so I can remember how to do it when I come back to this army in future). Here's some examples of where we're heading. #warhammercommunity #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings

A Blood Angels Jump Pack Assault Intercessor squad.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A kitbashed Chaos Spawn / Abomination for use in an Armageddon campaign we're just about to start. #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"...so I played the game with my wife, Milla Jovovich. From doing that I clearly understood that the most important part of the experience that I had to bring to the screen was my wife, Milla Jovovich."

A screenshot of an article in which director Paul W. S. Anderson expresses outrage that people would adapt videogames to film without playing them.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Some blood-sucking vampires of both space and regular varieties.

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Finally, some decent Sanguinary Guard models...

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Victory Pointless @victorypointless.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I've seen a few people posting skeletons today and I'm not sure if there's a reason behind it or if it's pure coincidence, but I'm going to leap wildly onto this bandwagon that may or may not exist. #nerdlings #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity

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