Except it's not finished. I had to put down the brush for the past week due to illness, but I picked it back up tonight and finished the body and head. Now I move onto the arm weapons and I'm going to at least base them tonight. But I went with Thousand Sons colors as it's for that army in particular. Mind you I make some personal changes for personal tastes, but they're the overall colors minus yellow...which I can't figure out where to put it. I also tried making the skulls or spirits or whatever on the smokestacks look like they were made out of tallow candles while vomiting ghost light. I could've done better, but I was super tired when I painted them. There are a few mistakes that I'm not going to go over and fix cause I don't think they're super noticeable, but maybe. IDK. Maybe find a way to smush in that yellow somewhere if I'm feeling spicy.
Also, I use blue-white light in my painting "studio" and I can't get the color to come out perfectly with my iPhone's camera. It keeps throwing a blue heavy filter on it and I can only correct it so much.
Oooo I really like the subtle neon green glow on the skulls. Very nicely done. I have no idea how people paint these so nice.
I know almost nothing about Warhammer, which is the best faction?
If you play ork, you can play these lil guys who I think are your style
They're basically living balloons that explode when pierced
I want one as a pet
We all do :cri:
For me, that answer comes down to which faction's lore you like the most. I'm extremely fond of the lore of the Thousand Sons. They're Machiavellian in their pursuit of knowledge which (previously) they've claimed will help save humanity. But that generally comes with just laying waste to entire planets or similar things.
I'm not going to get into it, but I chose by getting a short description of each faction from my local Warhammer store. The Thousand Sons were described to me as "dudes that used to be dudes but are now dust in armor." I love them.
Purely subjective unfortunately. I play Drukhari, the dark elves, who are essentially a combination of the Hellraiser Cenobites mixed with pirates. They've got some questionable lore but I try to disregard the worst of it (the absurd amounts of SA references) and focus on the funny evil (the time the faction leader sent his biggest rival a birthday gift, which happened to be a condensed black hole that annihilated his rival the moment he opened the box)
https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1372670236817.pdf
The Torturer's Tale by Gav Thorpe
Also depends on the edition. 3rd. through 4th. it was Dark Eldar followed by Craftworld Eldar and Chaos. 5th. Edition it goes to Grey Knights. 6th. and 7th. was probably Imperial Knights. I didn't play anything after that, but IIRC 8th. it was Custodes.
Then you have your individually busted army lists from specific eras. Feral Orks is why they cut back on subfactions. Or the flyer/skimmer spam in 9th.