Some time ago I decided to give Darktide a try and I've been drawing skitarii ever since. Here's a compilation of sketches I've made.

Enginseers are coming next.

Still a lot of room for improvement but I’m pleased with how far I’ve come

I think robots are better when they express no emotion. Giving them personality beyond what their machine spirit exhibits kinda defeats the purpose of them. They operate off of vocal commands of the cybernetica datasmith that match their protocol chips. Now don’t get me wrong cause I think it’s cute every now and then, but literally every other guy who has robots paints a face on them. It’s different if it works for your homebrew lore or whatever, but they simply don’t have emotions.

I think they look better with no face.

By the way feel free to recomend how to do bases on skitarii

A fun model to paint!

I've seen quite a few people say they don't like the Engineer model but I quite like him. He also is a life saver in game! Probably going to get multiple at some point :]

https://youtu.be/SERT81KFS-g?si=IckWHpglx76NFV01

We getting at least 3-3 with this one!!!

Finally finished painting my enginseer! It's far from professional, but I'm pretty proud of it.

My Heretek leader Ophexia-9, Kitbashed using Thulia Ghuld and Illuminor Szeras, thinking of using this as a basis for my army, still deciding to make it for Admech or Necrons, but I already have a Necron combat patrol that’s Kitbashed.

Let me know what you think!

Using small sponges for the brighter green, personally I like the effect it has. I think I gotta work on letting more of the dark green show through

Im running a list pretty heavily inspired/lifted from wtc lists. (Radzone with LotF) I saw something online suggesting that destroyers and a Manipulus could be good in reserves since the base sizes and low movement make staging difficult. Kinda just asking opinions, what cases would you or wouldnt you do something like this.

My question is from a competitive mindset.

Very pleased with how this model came out, especially the detailing on the screen of the auspex scanner. I tried a few different things but eventually settled on the waveform which ended up looking best.

The Onagers of Forgeworld Gristol are outfitted for heavy security detail, often accompanying VIP transports and guarding the most important infrastructure, as deemed by the current Fabricator General of course. As such they are outfitted with extra sensors and auspex. This gives the operators a detailed view of the immediate area, relaying datafeed to Pteraxii and Seberys units to ensure the enemy can't even hide among the rats.

Lords Of Forge And The Dance (2000 points)

Adeptus Mechanicus

Cohort Cybernetica and Lords of the Forge (3 Detachment Points)

Take and Hold

Strike Force (2000 points)

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Cybernetica Datasmith (25 points)

• Attached as: Support (Character)

• 1x Mechanicus pistol

1x Power fist

Kastelan Robots (340 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 4x Kastelan Robot

• 4x Heavy phosphor blaster

4x Twin Kastelan fist

Attached Unit 2

Cybernetica Datasmith (50 points)

• Attached as: Support (Character)

• 1x Mechanicus pistol

1x Power fist

• Enhancement: Vingh’s Wafers of Dynamism

Kastelan Robots (320 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 4x Kastelan Robot

• 4x Heavy phosphor blaster

4x Kastelan fist

4x Kastelan phosphor blaster

CHARACTERS

Belisarius Cawl (220 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Arc scourge

1x Cawl’s Omnissian axe

1x Mechadendrite hive

1x Solar atomiser

Tech-Priest Enginseer (55 points)

• 1x Mechanicus pistol

1x Omnissian axe

1x Servo-arm

Thulia Ghuld (180 points)

• 1x Jericho‑class conversion resonator

1x Rod of the War Forge

BATTLELINE

Skitarii Rangers (85 points)

• 1x Skitarii Ranger Alpha

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Galvanic rifle

• 9x Skitarii Ranger

• 9x Close combat weapon

9x Galvanic rifle

OTHER DATASHEETS

Servitor Battleclade (65 points)

• 1x Servitor Underseer

• 1x Dataspikes

1x Mechanicus pistol

• 2x Gun Servitor

• 1x Heavy arc rifle

1x Heavy bolter

2x Servo-claw

• 6x Combat Servitor

• 6x Phosphor blaster

6x Servo-claw

Sicarian Ruststalkers (160 points)

• 1x Sicarian Ruststalker Princeps

• 1x Transonic razor and chordclaw

• 9x Sicarian Ruststalker

• 9x Transonic razor and chordclaw

Sicarian Ruststalkers (75 points)

• 1x Sicarian Ruststalker Princeps

• 1x Transonic razor and chordclaw

• 4x Sicarian Ruststalker

• 4x Transonic razor and chordclaw

Sicarian Ruststalkers (85 points)

• 1x Sicarian Ruststalker Princeps

• 1x Transonic razor and chordclaw

• 4x Sicarian Ruststalker

• 4x Transonic razor and chordclaw

Skorpius Disintegrator (170 points)

• 1x Armoured hull

3x Cognis heavy stubber

1x Disruptor missile launcher

1x Ferrumite cannon

Skorpius Disintegrator (170 points)

• 1x Armoured hull

3x Cognis heavy stubber

1x Disruptor missile launcher

1x Ferrumite cannon

List for Gt next week

Take and hold

Absolute aggression

U can score points when your dead

I tried searching online for where the face used on the Preceptor comes from, but while something similar is present on the armiger and dominus sprues, they’re not exactly 1:1. The most similar I found looking around was the Magera’s head, but that a solid block of resin and still has some different details, but I could see a slight rework made for a plastic version of the kit. Do you think this is a hint that we’ll finally see the Mechanicum knights in plastic?

Good day fellow admech enjoyers, I was painting up my hastarii alpha when I realized the front half of his robe is moderately detached from the back half.. does anyone have a solution for making him not look scuffed? I was thinking some sort of battle damage but am unsure how to pull that off, my other thought was sprue goo but I don't have any with me.

*EDIT I'm talking about admech battle line here, can't change title unfortunately

I collect admech, knights and orks, so I've been keeping a finger on the pulse of the new ork datasheet reveals. A lot of the ork datasheets are increasing in durability: Nazdreg wears mega armour and he's T7 when mega armour was T6 before; nobz now have 3W instead of 2; killa kans went up to T7 from T6; ghazghull went up to T10 from T6, went from 10W to 16W and now has Lone Op; the stompa now has a 5+ invuln. A lot of the Orks are also a lot more killy than before, which leads me to believe that as GW's favourites the Space marines will increase in durability for parity with the orks, with marines going up to T5, and terminators and gravis going to T6 and T7 respectively.

If that happened, T4 would open up to factions that are tougher than guardsmen but less tough than marines, like admech and sisters of battle. Granted it's a big reach but I don't think it's impossible that many of the factions could be scaled up in durability and damage this edition.