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Hello yall!

Recently been on a nostalgia dive/pining for my younger years.

I recall that GW stores used to have a pamphlet or something of the sort where it was a series of small boxed pictures of various space marine chapter color schemes all on one or two pages.

I remember I was too young to properly read any BL books or even codexs and I used to lovingly gawk at the various pictures and fill in histories or make guesses as to what the various chapters were about based on the schemes and names.

Does anybody have pictures or scans or anything about this?

The one that comes to mind is a 2 page section in the 3rd edition Space Marine codex. Not long after I think there was a folding poster, but that was drawings rather than photos iirc. I can snap some pics of the 3rd ed codex later.

That would be great, thank you!

I remember that it was RL pictures for sure. A profile style close up of a single marine (all with goblin green bases of course) with various chapters. There seemed to be a lot of these pictures arranged in a grid or square and it had a lot of obscure chapters like Nova Marines and Howling Griffons.

I think they had them stacked on the front counter of the store and gave them away with purchases or to anybody who asked. The colors of the page themselves in your usual retro 40k style with bold colors and thick border lines etc.

Could be either one of these.

The 2nd edition era one was titled "Games and Miniatures" (it's the Dutch version in the attached pic) and had the marine page on the back.

The 3rd edition era one is one of many such booklets titled "World of Hobby Games", which were often included in boxed games.

I think it may have been the 3rd edition one because I recall it was not monopose marines. Thank you so much! Mystery solved!

That second edition booklet was my introduction to 40k. Great memories, wish I still had it.

Oh yeah!! I was going to post reference, then got drowned by life. Sorry about that! Here's the 3rd Ed codex bits:




That Revilers scheme got me to paint my army in a nice sharp gray for 3rd and 4th editon.