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**Makarov**

Wardragoon wrote:
Makarov wrote:Back on topic

LOOK AT THIS fething GUARDSMAN.
He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.
His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon is slightly more powerful than a flashlight, and Horus' power claw is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.
He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.
Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing, and holding the fething line.

....Suddenly I want to start getting more Imperial Guard, this is what the Imperial guard is about, and the horrors they see compared to what others would.

You've earned an exalt my good sir.

But they have sadly changed the fluff. So that it was some random adeptus custodes that ran into the room last minute, and got killed as soon as he entered the room.

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DeffDred wrote:
Kaldor wrote:
DeffDred wrote:40k owes it's image to the sci-fi/fantasy community as a whole. Things like Judge Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, ect.

No, the boring generic sci-fi tropes are not where 40K draws its inspiration.

You give Blanches scribbles way to much credit.

Not at all. Where do you think the imagery for your Avatar came from? Jes Goodwin came up with some armour. Real original. Who came up with the idea of skull-faced warriors, covered in parchment and wielding a weaponised 'crozius'?

Sigh...

Dune provided: Starships powered via a genetically specific form of human that uses their mind and mutation to travel through space.

Dune also provided: A galaxy spanning empire, planetary governors, and an in-depth multi-planetary culture (without portraying Valleo style artwork characters).

Dune also started: A form of putting "in story" history before each chapter... a writting form GW and countless others copy to this day.

Starship Troopers provided: Giant bug monsters that attack in swarms, POWER ARMOUR, and mechs.

Aliens provided: Genestealers, 3rd editon Hive Tyrant (no greater example of a rip off in all of 40k).

Starcraft provided: The current form of Tyranid.

I, Robot provided: The iron men and humanities fear of AI in the 40k universe.

J. R. R. Tolkeen crated what you think of as Elves, Dwarves and Orcs. Orcs were his brain child. Thus Tolkeen provided: Eldar, Dark Eldar, Squats and Orks.

That's just a few thing off the top of my head and I'm sure there are countless forums with countless threads on these subjects.

Oh yeah and my avatar... So you think John Blanche crated Death Masks and prayer papers?

Don't forget that Aliens created Spaces Marines with the United States Colonial Marines.

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**DeffDred**

Makarov wrote:Don't forget that Aliens created Spaces Marines with the United States Colonial Marines.

Okay, now that's trolling.

Also this pic is one of my favorites:

**TheAvengingKnee**

**Makarov**

DeffDred wrote:
Makarov wrote:Don't forget that Aliens created Spaces Marines with the United States Colonial Marines.

Okay, now that's trolling.

Where were there Marines in space before this? In Starship troopers they were Army. I honestly cannot think of any form of "Marines in space" before Aliens.

**DeffDred**

Makarov wrote:
DeffDred wrote:
Makarov wrote:Don't forget that Aliens created Spaces Marines with the United States Colonial Marines.

Okay, now that's trolling.

Where were there Marines in space before this? In Starship troopers they were Army. I honestly cannot think of any form of "Marines in space" before Aliens.

Oh I see what you mean. I don't know? I never thought of that.

Speaking of trolling...

This is my favorite picture of a Tau:

And Ork:

**Crimson**

Everything is influenced by something. Creating new is combining existing things in manner that creates something unique.

As an artist, I really admire Blanche's ability to conjure really compelling, bizarre characters. Some might not like his technique, but I really like his style. Reminds me of such great renaissance artists as Grünewald, Bruegel and Bosch. It is obvious that Blanche has been influenced them, and as him they were masters in portraying hellish and bizarre things.

**DeffDred**

I agree. Enough of this foolish bickering!

Let us return to posting cool pictures!!!

**Pacific**

blood guard26 wrote:What do you mean "better than the current blood angels codex" the 2nd and3rd maybe but current, nooooooo...

Are my rose-tinted spectacles really that thick?

I think the old Space Marine cover art absolutely stomps the new BA codex:

Don't get me wrong, its a hundred times better than I could do. But.. I don't know, something just seems 'wrong' about the angles and positioning of the people in the painting. It's almost like it was a candid shot of a bunch of blood angels, if you can imagine that, rather than a framed and carefully positioned drawing. I agree it's definitely better than some of the 3rd/4th edition codex artwork (the space marine/blood angel/dark eldar covers in particular), but then there was a general drop in quality when GW stopped using freelancers and started employing in-house artists, even as the overall image of the 40k universe began to become more conducive. I would argue that technically a lot of the artwork is still tailing behind some of the stuff that was produced by the 'big names' at the time, in the early 90's; Les Edwards, people like that.

In fact, I think the old 40k Compilation cover is better than the new one, this is a cropped version of that but you can spend ages looking at it and still seeing new things:

**blood guard26**

Personally, I think the old rt to 3rd edition armour looks crap.

**MandalorynOranj**

Makarov wrote:Back on topic

LOOK AT THIS fething GUARDSMAN.
He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.
His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon is slightly more powerful than a flashlight, and Horus' power claw is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.
He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.
Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing, and holding the fething line.

Wait, is that really supposed to be Ollanius Pius? I wasn't around in the game for all the old background but he was in Know No Fear

Spoiler:

and I've tried to find more info about him, but failed. Do you have any more info about him? Or John Grammaticus while we're at it.

EDIT: Woops never mind, that was Ollanius Perrsson. Never thought I'd have to differentiate between two different Ollaniuses haha.

**mynamelegend**

Well, since it's this thread again, I'd like to simply show the image that made me decide to play the game.

Specifically, what made me play the game is the sarge to the left. Here we have the largest warboss to ever live, leading the largest Waaagh ever, meganobs and nobs all charging toward his panicking gunline, shootas blazing.
And his response is "Chill out guys. This looks like a job for my bolt pistol!"

**Commander Jimbob**

I just remembered this image from the 5th edition rulebook, I love its depiction of Commorragh - the madness and incomprehensibility of it all. At least, that's how I interpret it.

**Just Dave**

One of my favourites of this thread so far:

**Fervor**

Didn't see this one while going through the thread, apologies if it has already been posted. One of my favourite pics.

**IHateNids**

Forgive the noobish question, but is that supposed to be Sanguinius?

**Fervor**

IHateNids wrote:Forgive the noobish question, but is that supposed to be Sanguinius?

I think so! The site I saw the pic on titled it "Sanguinius holding the Ultimate Gate on Terra."

**IHateNids**

Why did GW have someone that badass-looking killed off?

**DeffDred**

IHateNids wrote:Why did GW have someone that badass-looking killed off?

Because that's fan art. The original pic of Horus over Sangy was... terribad.

Sanguinius was always depicted as a small blonde guy with wings. Usually wearing a white robe.

That fan-pic of him is fan-tastic lol.

**Joshua Von Wolkestadt**

Spoiler:

That is Sanguinius, right?
Gosh, this fan-art looks utterly brilliant!
A converted model to replicate such a character would be astounding!

**ShatteredBlade**

Another good one.Lord Solar Macharius

**Joshua Von Wolkestadt**

Sorry ShatteredBlade. The picture isn't appearing.

**DOOMBREAD**

LunaHound wrote:
Both Nids and Zergs copied SST.

I'm sorry to bring us away from posting pics once more, but Zergs were influenced by Tyranids far more than by SST.

**thisisnotpancho**

No One has posted daemons yet? I'm surprised.

JUST LOOK AT THIS MADNESS. A TANK IS BEING SLICED IN HALF BY AN AXE. TELL ME YOU DON'T FIND THAT COOL AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE A LIAR.

LOOK AT THIS ALSO. THIS IS WHERE THE FAMOUS DAEMON PRINCE KA'BANDHA BROKE BOTH OF SANGUINIUS' LEGS IN A FIGHT. YES BECAUSE BADASS.

**Bobthehero**

And then Sanguinus handed the demon ass to itself.

Unless that not the fight where Sang broke K's spine on his knee?

**felixander**

Joshua Von Wolkestadt wrote:Sorry ShatteredBlade. The picture isn't appearing.

Yeah people keep posting from 1d4chan which doesn't work for a lot of us.

**IHateNids**

All this epic fan art makes me want to start Blood Angels...

Anyway, back to pictures

**KalashnikovMarine**

Slight necro for the art god!

Some more awesome sisters stuff

Possibly NSFW but some of my favorite 40k art ever now:

Spoiler:

**felixander**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:

Spoiler:

Ummmm.... it looks like she's reading an unopened book

**Slinky**

Nah, just looking at the back cover to see what it's about...

**felixander**

Clearly LeVar Burton would need to whoop up on the 40k universe. You can't judge a book by it's cover!