Oh no, not the Ultramarines again!

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**aka_tizz**

So, my holidays are over, and i have to go through the ordeal of finding a job again as i quit the last one to get 2 free months. Totally worth it, though.

However, during my sightseeings in Portugal, i came across this picture. It translates as "Homage to the people of this town who died defending Ultramar". You can imagine my face upon seeing it. So i looked it up and, apparently, the Portuguese Colonial war is also known as Guerra do Ultramar (the Ultramar War). Oh well, it seems the Ultramarines ARE everywhere after all *sigh*...

Anyway, it's good to be back Dakka.

**mattyrm**

Welcome back!

And you can never get enough ultramarine

**aka_tizz**

10x...It's good to be back!

Unfortunately it took me a 2000km flight and a trip to the other side of Europe to realize that...oh well, i guess i should've known better than to believe i can get away from the smurfs...*bows head before the might of the blues*

**Vargtass**

What the...

**Arctik_Firangi**

Welcome back!

**Waaagh_Gonads**

This looks like a job for Canadian oil refining and marketing company!

**Vargtass**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:This looks like a job for Canadian oil refining and marketing company!

Emperor's Goodness, it even has a golden eagle on it!

**hcordes**

this thread is fantastic, as not only do i play Ultramarines but i love it when silly things like this pop up and its an instant inside joke with us gaming nerd lmao!!

I am sure this is photoshopped some how.. but it still made me giggle.

and here's the "rhino"

**SagesStone**

To the Smurf boat!

We can use the Smurf card to pay for it.

**Orlanth**

Have those been UltraShopped?

**KingCracker**

Orlanth wrote:Have those been UltraShopped?

I think your ULTRA right

**SagesStone**

Only shoped image in this thread is the Pokemon one

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Because Ultramarine is a GW copyrighted word it is amazing that it should pop up in other contexts.

Re OP
Is a reference to overseas war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War
As you probably already knew

**hcordes**

n0t_u wrote:Only shoped image in this thread is the Pokemon one

its true, that is the only one, type in UltraMar into your google search and you get all that gas station stuff lol

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

**Frazzled**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Because Ultramarine is a GW copyrighted word it is amazing that it should pop up in other contexts.

Re OP
Is a reference to overseas war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War
As you probably already knew

Yes but Ultramar was copyrighted before GW was in existence. Plus it belongs to Valero, which spends more money on toilet paper in the employee restrooms than GW makes. Plus, they have lots of lawyers and know how to wage legal wars for real.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

lol

Ultramarine is as we all know, a type of blue paint.
True ultramarine is made from lapis lazuli (the blue rocks) which was used by the Egyptians for small statues, jewelry and the blue in King Tut's sarcophagus.

Was traditionaly the blue used in Mediaeval paintings to make the paint for the Virgin's robe and more expensive than gold used.

Oh and guess where it comes from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli

**Ediin**

**aka_tizz**

@Chibi Bodge-Battle:

Yes, i had heard about the Colonial War a little while talking to Portuguese natives, but i had never heard the "Guerra do Ultramar" name, everyone was calling it "A guerra colonial", so i read the article on Wikipedia. It's there where i got the info from, before posting the thread.

@Ediin: The postage is photoshopped, i actually googled it. Cheater!

However, to all of you who have posted here, nice info! I didn't half the stuff about that. Keep it coming. 10X!

**Albatross**

I occasionally go shopping at the Dark Angels' fortress monastery:

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

No Albie
The Rock is a pub in an area of Brum where I was born.
Could never get to the bar for these cowin' big dudes in green PA .

**hcordes**

no idea where this came from... if its photoshoped or not.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Might not be
there was a thread were that Rhino was up for sale iirc
Converted M113 I guess

**hcordes**

How about Micheal "Rogal" Dorn?!?!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
...stretching?

**NukleusX**

hcordes wrote:no idea where this came from... if its photoshoped or not.

There is video of that somewhere, I recall seeing it back in the day. I think the guy who built it did it for a school project (or maybe just for fun). Had a small diesel in it IIRC and it actually functioned/drove.

That said, the car in picture was indeed crushed by a Rhino.

**filbert**

It was built or at least financed by THQ in support of the original Dawn of War game, I believe.

**Commander Endova**

Yes, yes it was Filbert

http://www.thq-games.com/uk/features/show/6258

**Tyyr**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Might not be
there was a thread were that Rhino was up for sale iirc
Converted M113 I guess

You don't have to convert an M113 into a Rhino, it already is one.

**Destrado**

Hey Tizz, out of curiosity, where did you take that picture?

**Albatross**

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