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What's your problem mate?

Some really great new Twitter Accounts that are posting a lot of the retro GW artwork. Check out PlanetOldhammer, Cool Old Gaming Art and The Crown of Command podcast amongst others. A couple of snippets from there

Classic Ork by Paul Bonner


1990s Imperial Guardsman, by Jes Goodwin


This one is a special one for me it was the first WD I saw in a newsagent when I was a kid. It had that much an impact, I still remember it
WD 110 cover 1989, by the sadly departed Wayne England

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Yes, still love that old art, and some of those WS covers are classics!

https://www.rpg.net/pictures/show-pic.phtml?picid=7655#

The first one I ever bought, however, was issue 100, and I was blown away - So much content, I absorbed it all, and my birthday list immediately changed

   
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 Pacific wrote:
What's your problem mate?

The 5 year gap between posts

See that stuff above? Completely true. All of it, every single word. Stands to reason. 
   
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 DalekCheese wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
What's your problem mate?

The 5 year gap between posts


Sorry Dalekcheese that was needlessly aggressive/defensive of me

Yes, still love that old art, and some of those WS covers are classics!

https://www.rpg.net/pictures/show-pic.phtml?picid=7655#


That was a great one.. I think the cover of the Ultramarines boardgame as well, sadly I never got to play it (don't know how much there was to it, other than an opportunity to the use the RTB01 boxset marines).

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 Pacific wrote:
 DalekCheese wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
What's your problem mate?

The 5 year gap between posts


Sorry Dalekcheese that was needlessly aggressive/defensive of me


S’fine

See that stuff above? Completely true. All of it, every single word. Stands to reason. 
   
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Does it mean that the new art everybody was complaining about had become the old art and therefore great?

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 DalekCheese wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
What's your problem mate?

The 5 year gap between posts


Why is your post dated 2187?????

KBK 
   
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If I want to look at old school Jes Goodwin art, I just pull "the gothic and the eldritch" off the bookshelf.

As for the rest. "John" Blanche posts on social media and so do a few others.

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

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This image from the original Space Marine rulebook has always stayed with me. Together with the short story next to ti it really nailed the desperation of the HH war in one page.


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Very cool - I can't remember seeing that one.

That original HH story - was it Bill King or Alan Merrett? I have read differing accounts (I may be confused Bill King as I know he did the great story in the Space Hulk: Deathwing book).

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One of my favourites was one that I only ever saw in one of the miniatures catalogues.

It was by either Kev Adams or Adrian Smith and depicted a Blood Axe Ork Nob and an Imperial Commander having a discussion whilst their combined troops launched an attack in the background.



Unless that was posted on the previous page in one of Pacific's 'work blocked for me' images.

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I follow Adrian Smith on Instagram and his stuff he puts up is always terrific. I always loved his old artwork for the CSM codex, all of the mutations looked truly disgusting!

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Kayback wrote:
 DalekCheese wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
What's your problem mate?

The 5 year gap between posts


Why is your post dated 2187?????


I don’t know, but I’ve seen the glitch before. Presumably some kind of Y2K dating problem

See that stuff above? Completely true. All of it, every single word. Stands to reason. 
   
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alphaecho wrote:

One of my favourites was one that I only ever saw in one of the miniatures catalogues.

It was by either Kev Adams or Adrian Smith and depicted a Blood Axe Ork Nob and an Imperial Commander having a discussion whilst their combined troops launched an attack in the background.

Unless that was posted on the previous page in one of Pacific's 'work blocked for me' images.


It was indeed, bottom of the last page

While Heroquest looks like it might be making a comeback, here are a couple of those:

Advanced Heroquest by John Sibbick


I might be biased but I think probably one of the best pieces of box art ever made, original Heroquest by Les Edwards


And not Heroquest, but definitely of a similar theme (White Dwarf 107 cover also by Les Edwards)


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 Pacific wrote:

Advanced Heroquest by John Sibbick



Always drawn tot he orc in this image. He clearly loves his job.

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 Pacific wrote:
alphaecho wrote:

One of my favourites was one that I only ever saw in one of the miniatures catalogues.

It was by either Kev Adams or Adrian Smith and depicted a Blood Axe Ork Nob and an Imperial Commander having a discussion whilst their combined troops launched an attack in the background.

Unless that was posted on the previous page in one of Pacific's 'work blocked for me' images.


It was indeed, bottom of the last page


Lovely art work, all the better for not being colour.

In the same way, although I enjoy both depictions of the Emperor vs Horus, my favourite is the simpler yet more powerful (to me) original piece.



   
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 .Mikes. wrote:

Always drawn tot he orc in this image. He clearly loves his job.


"Just happy to be here, boss!"

For hero quest art this one was always one of my favorites



Nice action, the ledge seems so perilous and the gargoyle crumbling out of the wall... just a lot of fun.

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alphaecho wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
alphaecho wrote:

One of my favourites was one that I only ever saw in one of the miniatures catalogues.

It was by either Kev Adams or Adrian Smith and depicted a Blood Axe Ork Nob and an Imperial Commander having a discussion whilst their combined troops launched an attack in the background.

Unless that was posted on the previous page in one of Pacific's 'work blocked for me' images.


It was indeed, bottom of the last page

Lovely art work, all the better for not being colour.
In the same way, although I enjoy both depictions of the Emperor vs Horus, my favourite is the simpler yet more powerful (to me) original piece.


Me too, I really like the original. I hadn't realised that both this and the later version were both by Adrian Smith,although the later colour version is much more grand (almost seemed to me like something that would be a fresco or painted on the ceiling in a cathedral) and of course the game universe/miniatures had moved on a lot when the second one was done.

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There is a nice charm in most of the old art for me. I think my golden era of as around the turn of the millennium, where the universe was established and the artists were really pushing it with great work in colou and b/w. The modern digital stuff lacks a lot of character I think, plus when they get details wrong or proportions etc it just looks odd, where's with the older stuff you can forgive it because of its more pulp style.

I do like the 'remembrancer' pencil sketches of the heresy characters though. Some of those are great.

Heresy World Eaters/Emperors Children

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As a kid I walked into the tabletop store and saw some 40k comics, I opened them up and it was mindblowing, the artstyle was realistic, dark and the characters looked awesome, grizzled men and women who really looked like they lived and breath in a different reality. It was believable, and those comics that showed me the world of 40k in it's realistically drawn style that doesn't pander at all was for a kid something amazing.

Now I bought a book on black library and I saw something called "warhammer adventure" and it was basically Dora the Explorer style but in 40k with kids being main characters but also not being kids. I don't understand who this new stuff is supposed to impress? Kids don't want to watch other kids roleplay as adults, they want to see adults doing cool gak, it's a reason why the old action/drama/adventure cartoons focused on adults fighting good vs evil whereas shows with kids were comedy based.

The new art is pandering and patronizing and it doesn't work, also the bright pastel coloring makes it just look like just another marvel comic. Nah man, gimme the good old stuff that blew my mind as a kid, that were stuff that the entire school was talking about back in the day, stuff that expanded our imaginations, not pander to us.
   
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 chromedog wrote:

(As in the USA are incapable of doing SF farce. US Red Dwarf bombed - the UK was legendary. US SF is all deadly serious nowadays. Bring back the Quark era.).


Nowadays, sure. But I'll be damned if we didn't love Spaceballs, Ice Pirates, Buckaroo Banzai, etc.

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Yes I wonder that too Jularbo.

Completely anecdotal, but I tried to loan a couple of recent White Dwarf mags to my partner's nephews (who are just about senior school age). No interest at all. Don't get me wrong the current miniatures, art and overall style is incredibly well realised - but the fundamentals of the universe have changed. You had that seminal art on the cover of Rogue Trader, those small marines fighting and dying desperately looks of pain on their faces, to Roboute Gulliman coming back to life and resplendent in his glory, in the space of that 30 years.

I think you are right - I wonder if there is enough not to differentiate from the likes of Marvel superheroes and the like. It's not just 40k; the drab and somewhat low-fantasy of WHFB replaced by the supermen of AoS and Sigmarites.

I know you can make a really strong argument for things having to evolve and to become more mainstream (and there is such a benefit to not having GW stores that are gloomy caves with a few guys with long hair sat in the corner listening to metal) but it does make you think that it has lost it's soul (or point of differentiation to other media at least) along the way.

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 Pacific wrote:
Yes I wonder that too Jularbo.

Completely anecdotal, but I tried to loan a couple of recent White Dwarf mags to my partner's nephews (who are just about senior school age). No interest at all. Don't get me wrong the current miniatures, art and overall style is incredibly well realised - but the fundamentals of the universe have changed. You had that seminal art on the cover of Rogue Trader, those small marines fighting and dying desperately looks of pain on their faces, to Roboute Gulliman coming back to life and resplendent in his glory, in the space of that 30 years.

I think you are right - I wonder if there is enough not to differentiate from the likes of Marvel superheroes and the like. It's not just 40k; the drab and somewhat low-fantasy of WHFB replaced by the supermen of AoS and Sigmarites.

I know you can make a really strong argument for things having to evolve and to become more mainstream (and there is such a benefit to not having GW stores that are gloomy caves with a few guys with long hair sat in the corner listening to metal) but it does make you think that it has lost it's soul (or point of differentiation to other media at least) along the way.


I feel ya man yeah you are right about it losing it's soul. I'm doing a Dark Heresy campaign , the youngest members are 20 year olds and they are in it because of the old stuff, I mean compare Dow 1&2 to 3. Also completely anecdotal too but my younger brother didn't give a gak about heroes 6 or 7 but when he played heroes 2 and 3 he got hooked for life so I think the mainstream argument is a marketing graduate's pipedream, it will not end well for GW, but ofc they will blame the old men in their gloomy caves still clinging to the good stuff while listening to metal

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Possibly my favorite box art of any game is the 2nd edition Space Marine box. I vividly remember seeing it in a store window in the Summer of 1991. It seized my imagination in a way no other art ever had. It was epic and grand without being overly busy. It's what got me into the hobby. If there was ever a piece of original art I wanted to own it would be that. I may have to look into finding a high quality print.
   
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 Cannibal wrote:
Possibly my favorite box art of any game is the 2nd edition Space Marine box. I vividly remember seeing it in a store window in the Summer of 1991. It seized my imagination in a way no other art ever had. It was epic and grand without being overly busy. It's what got me into the hobby. If there was ever a piece of original art I wanted to own it would be that. I may have to look into finding a high quality print.


I've been looking for a while to try and find a high-res version of that art too. I would love a copy of it or like you say a print.

If anyone has a link or a copy of a file, I would be extremely grateful!

It was the same for me, Epic 2nd edition was my first 'proper' wargame. Remember looking at Rogue Trader and all the supplements on the shelf in a local model shop. The sales person in the shop saw me looking and then said, at that point 40k is a bit of a muddle, but have you seen this new game? And then reached for the Space Marine boxset. Was immediately captivated by it - just such an awesome piece of artwork or really did capture what Epic was about.

* There are some higher-res links at the start of this thread but most of them have that damned Photobucket bandwidth watermark over them. I will get everything I can from there and then re-host it.

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Is that the 'Scarface' picture?
It's very realistic, and though not that much like other box art of the time, an excellent picture in its own right.

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Ah that was the 1st edition Space Marine (yes Dark Angels with the 'scarface' similarity) - that box was the Marine vs. Marine set that started the Horus Heresy storyline.

2nd edition was the ultramarines with the big Reaver titan in the background. Had Marines, Eldar and Orks in that set.

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Jularbo wrote:
Now I bought a book on black library and I saw something called "warhammer adventure" and it was basically Dora the Explorer style but in 40k with kids being main characters but also not being kids. I don't understand who this new stuff is supposed to impress? Kids don't want to watch other kids roleplay as adults, they want to see adults doing cool gak, it's a reason why the old action/drama/adventure cartoons focused on adults fighting good vs evil whereas shows with kids were comedy based.

Yup, and that's why the biggest, most popular releases aimed at kids in the last 20 years, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, My Little Pony, Gravity Falls, Twilight, Eragon, Golden Compass, Train Your Dragon, etc, etc, were full of adults doing macho stuff. Oh, wait, no, they were starring kids and teenagers. Maybe you should realize you're not the centre of the universe and your tastes might not be universal pinnacle?

But maybe that's just the rotten west. Let's see what was most popular in Japan - Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, Psyren, Carole & Tuesday, Bookworm, Abyss, etc, etc, etc, also somehow don't follow the adult best nonsense and funnily enough most popular series are about kids and teenagers. I wonder why when this market is far more cutthroat than western one and you can't fake/buy manga popularity and it has to be genuinely outdoing all competition in serialized press before getting chance of animation or even standalone release?

Even the really dark, violent series that could teach Warhammer a thing or two about grimdark like say Goblin Slayer, Claymore, Berserk, Fate, Overlord, etc, etc, funnily enough don't do the adult gak either. Late teens or at worst characters that barely entered 20s. Aka, someone relatable to kids. But I guess the whole planet must be wrong, eh?

Funnily enough, the real reason why cartoons used to contain only adults was because back then, they were toy ads - and executives believed macho garbage they could relate to sells better. You have been brainwashed by commercials meddled by old dudes who didn't know any better so hard they warped your worldview, and when market sent these to dustbin once competition by stuff that kids really wanted to read killed them, you found yourself doing the first part of the meme that ends up in someone saying "OK BOOMER". Which is good summation what today's young think of "cool gak" as seen by "adults"
   
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I think they should have put all the new Primaris/Cawl background and Gulliman coming back in to Warhammer Adventure, it would have been a better fit

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Why? 40k has always been a cartoony mess, they fit just fine in the kid's GW game
   
 
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