u/Beginning-Swan8131

I recently started getting into warhammer 40K and while I was in my LGS I noticed the Old World minis. They had a display case filled with painted minis and I just loved the way they looked. I've heard of Sigmar but it wasn't the right flavor of fantasy for me, but Old World was perfect. So I started looking online to research this game, but there's not a whole lot to look at, the lore videos were like 10 years old, I watched battle reports but the rules are so hard to learn through osmosis.

I'm definitely going to buy some minis just to paint and maybe set up some battle scenes. But this is more of a question on if I want to spend money on the books, and starter armies for me and a friend.

So I guess sell me on this game, what do you live about Old World, what do you not like about it? Also maybe I'm just misinformed but the game seems kind of dated, are they still updating the game and producing minis?

I was thinking of building genestealer cult army, I think their lore is awesome, I love the vibe of people corrupted by these eldritch aliens. I haven't bought the codex I was trying to find out as much about unit options for online as I could, but I found one problem. There's no big monsters??? I was hoping to find some scary big monsters but abominates seem to be the biggest ones and they seem to only be space marine sized.

I run with a pretty casual play group so they're fine with me bringing Tyranids to my army to replace the role of most of the vehicles (probably wouldn't bring tiny guys like hormagaunts). I want to make sure this wouldn't create anything unfair or be way underpowered. I don't have either of their codex's yet so I don't really know the army rules or detachment rules. What is the best way to add big Tyranids to a genestealer army in a way that actually feels like they're working together.

My partner and I are just getting into 40k. She wants to do Chaos Daemons and for the Nurgle daemons she wants to do more purples rather than greens. We're new to model painting so innovating a new color scheme has been hard. We've looked online but have only found really bright, almost neon, purple Nurgle models, not the more dull sickly bruised and necrosis color scheme we're looking for.

Does anyone have recommendations for colors we can use (specific names would help, its hard to tell what the paint will look like based off pictures and I'm color blind) or pictures of their own bruised minis.

Would using the slaanesh color pallet work?

I'm getting into 40k and just got my Admech codex and I'm putting together a wishlist for my first army, but how do I find a comprehensive list of balance changes? I'm looking online and can find a post here and there but nothing that's just "here's everything different from the codex."

I just want to make a print out to tuck in my book because I don't like scrolling through a laptop for a tabletop and the vibes are just better imo when it's on paper.