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After the Emperor’s formation of the Imperium, the Mechanicum agreed to join the Great Crusade, not as a subject but as an ally – the Mechanicum would retain sovereignty over its Forge Worlds, in return for supplying the Imperium’s engines of war.

While the Emperor was fighting the Unification Wars on Terra, the Tech-priests were sitting pretty on Mars, organised as the Mechanicum – an entirely separate empire. In the lore, the Adeptus Mechanicus are an interesting piece of the Imperial puzzle. It’s a good time to worship the Void Dragon Omnissiah.

As we approach the end of 8th edition, Engine War has just been released, and the Tech-priests have seen a flurry of model support – the Tech-priest Manipulus, the Skitarii Dunerider and Disintegrator, and then a whole set of new kits released alongside their Psychic Awakening book. A decision driven more by marketing and what would be manageable to release in the then-weekly White Dwarf (yes, really), but it did the job of getting Ad Mech back into the game. They then more or less disappeared from the game, with a few scattered markers – a Cult Mechanicus symbol here, a metal Tech-priest Enginseer there – until 7th edition saw them re-released in the slightly weird format of two separate codexes, Skitarii and the Cult Mechanicus. The Adeptus Mechanicus have a long history in 40k, having appeared all the way back in Rogue Trader.

With the release of Engine War, we’re taking a look at the cybernetic warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus and how to paint them, with several methods and schemes. In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them.

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