I tried to make the coomunity meme with users i like but dont get talked about too much

Fun fact: andrew tate is a grand master of chess, which doesnt really make it appear as a genious factory

Nice to meet you hugelol_user alpharius. I am alpharious too

I legit didnt knew this about the minotaurs

But jokes aside, here is some inside-baseball about most "good miniature painters".

A lot of "engagement-type miniature painting medias" (think of your redit or instagram painters) work a lot with specific techniques to make their miniatures look better. Good examples are using high end cameras to photograph their miniatures, using specific backgrounds, making photos of "chocolate angles of their miniatures" etc. Also, most of them either paint easy and recognisable miniatures (space marine intercessors or the miniature gw is hyping up at the moment), eye catchers (big miniatures like the primarchs, dreadnoughs etc) or miniatures with big freehand areas like aeldari bikes or knights (other inside baseball; most freehand producers who do knight shoulders often do not even paint the entire knight, only the shoulders).

Another noteable thing is that painting high-end miniatures takes a lot of time. The guy who won the golden daemn 2025 diorama once stated, that he worked 2 years on tne same project. Some channels who paint "commercially" (your instagram psinters) even recycle photos of old models to increase their output.

3rd point is that a lot of normal painters get sorted out a lot. They dont get as much likes on instagram or redit to really go viral and die out in fresh. Only the "professional good ones" really get attention. Good example is if you google for: "my fist space marines" you do not get the results of people who just start the hobby but instead of professional paonters who in some cases are either blatantly lying or use the technicallity of "i painted a lot but never a space marine"

Last, a lot of viral painters use "short attention type" of painting styles. Its creating videos of painting steps that feel "meditating to watch". Good examples are using watery white to fill up gaps or painting in slapchop

Medial miniature painting is a lot like modelling where the models might be prettier than you but they use some tricks to further increase their attractiveness

Actually, this is one of the big reasons why i started the nonthly hobby posting. It is to give some transparency behind the painting process and to really show what "real hobbying" looks like

40k (the present setting) really has only one big crusade with a primarch involved - the indomitus crusade, whose main goal was to reclaim and set up defence on world lost due to the 13th black crusade (and xenos races) untill it got galted by the necron mass awakening. So more of an offensive move than a reaction to a big treat. Abbadons fleet was really weakened at this point due to the crusade reaching its goal and it splintering up (note that by nature, chaos is bound to infighting and self destruction).

The only other times where big crusades where made with primarchs leading them was during the great scouring right after the heresy as some type of "clean up the remaining mess" campaigns. Altough we dont know too much about this time, we know that the imperium had some great victories during this time, eg guillimans victory over the alpha legion on esquanor or the lion reclaiming caliban. (Note that the iron cage also was part of the scouring which cannot really be considered a major win).

Aside from primarch lead crusades, there are genrally 3 different types of crusades. First are expansional crusades (eg the macharian crusade or the ophilius offensive from rogue trader). Those crusade are normally well founded and feature big offensive capabilites, good supply management and a lot of troops and are logn planed. Second are defensive crusade as reaction to a threat (most famous might be the war of the beast or the leviathan crusade from 10edition tabletop). As those crusades are by nature reactive, they are more rag-tag and hastly put together. Third are penetance crusade which are undertaken by space marine legions who dishonored themself. They go to war with their entire forces, including their non transhuman forces.

Also the average human in the imperium protably interacts with primarchs on a religious base trough statues, reliefs or mythology. They dont know them as "primarchs, the emperors generlas" but know that they are related to him and are mughty warriors

Being part of a crzsade fleet protably a good thing for your average guardsmen. Not only because its a historical and religious mega event but also because a cursade is planed trough - supply lines working, being reinforced not just by the astartes but also by other elites (eg thr sororitas or the karskins)

But if you fight alongside an entire chapter, youre seriously ***ed, especially since astartes chapter never ever operate as an entire group.

Nice greg posting

Much like the honda cmx 500, im also a rebell