#Oldhammer

[ladymirdan]

I have always been on the fence about Female Space Marines, and that is mostly because I'm not happy with my own assigned gender (and the fact I like submissive men and dominant women and space marines are extremely sub almost all of them, fight me about it)

But like, seeing the outrage over female Custodes. I'm urging, no begging, GW to release them.

I want every crying, “lore expert” who never read a single book, but just binged some loretuber who read straight off a wiki that never held canon info in the first place, (man im heavily dyslexic and I have no spare time to speak off, but even I at least get the audiobooks), I want these dudes to just burn their armies in rage. (and leave the hobby, dont forgett that very important part)

“Dont make Warhammer political”, get the fuck out of here. 40k was created by a bunch of nerds so angry at Margaret Thatcher they created a satire so heavily influenced by Monthy Python that I'm convinced John Cleese got paid off in cool minis to keep him from suing them.

Warhammer didnt go woke, it was always made by the left. We look at the older stuff and forget that it was created in a different(worse) time, and they have consistently tried to do better.

Look at old Forum posts about Graham McNeill. “Wäääh, why is he always writing about women, communist cuck McNeill” (not those exact words but general sentiment)

Like, I give McNeill so much shit today for how all women he writes about face horrible fates (but to be fair, what men doesn't have a terrible fate too). But I have even forgotten that some of this stuff is about 25 years old.

Seeing Warhammers official page block people who acts out in the comments about this, seeing them double down on the fact thar Custodes can have any gender. Seeing authors of the franchise, new and old back all of this. Im feeling Vindicated.

Gods, I wish this is the last straw for the alt-rights too stupid to realise they are being satirized.

And in the famous words of Games Workshop:

#40k #warhammer 40k #warhammer #space marines #female space marines #oldhammer #lore experts don't really exist and you shouldn't listen to them of they claim they are #that is including me #warhammer was never a balanced game it was always about the narrative #the narrative YOU choose

[warhammergoldenera]

GORS! Beastmen unit for Old World

#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammer fantasy #warhammer the old world #the old world #chaos #grimdark #beastmen #gors #beasts of chaos #miniatures #conversion #miniature #kit bashing #my minis #painting

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Azrakh the Annihilator by Mark Gibbons

#Warhammer #40k #Chaos #Chaos Space Marine #Traitor Space Marine #Heretic #Heresy #World Eaters #Azrakh the Annihilator #Mark Gibbons #Sci-Fi #Games Workshop #Oldhammer

[oldschoolfrp]

Bryan Ansell has passed away at age 68 (11 October 1955 -- 30th December 2023).

Bryan Ansell founded Citadel Miniatures in 1978 in partnership with Games Workshop, and co-wrote the original 1983 Warhammer Fantasy Battles first edition rules with Richard Halliwell and Rick Priestley. He became managing director of Games Workshop in the mid-1980s, and was primary owner of GW until selling his shares in 1991. He also founded Wargames Foundry / Foundry Miniatures, which continues to produce many older Citadel figures among many other ranges.

(Top: Bryan Ansell from Warhammer Armies, 1988; Bottom: Bryan Ansell (Left) with artist Tony Ackland at the 2017 Bring Out Your Lead oldhammer event at Wargames Foundry)

#Bryan Ansell #gaming history #oldhammer #Warhammer #Citadel Miniatures #Games Workshop #Wargames Foundry #Foundry Miniatures #GW #wargaming #in memoriam #RIP

[renegade-chaos-druid]

The Website change and destruction of the FW site really drove this home...

#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammer 40k #humor #simpsons

[domjordanillustration]

rogue trader

#rogue trader #inquisitor #40k #oldhammer #scifi #digital art

[gameoftravel]

The Great Spine Dragon (1987) finished last week

#oldhammer #warhammer #dragon #miniatures #hobby #games workshop #old school miniatures #warhammer fantasy #warhammer fantasy battle

[alphamecha-mkii]

Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan by Jes Goodwin

#Warhammer #40k #Imperium #Imperium of Man #Titan #Warmaster Class #Heavy Battle Titan #Concept Art #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Jes Goodwin #Oldhammer #Games Workshop

[eloiduarte]

90's Calgar from 3rd Ed. Codex Space Marines is great. He just needs some Duke Nukem sunglasses for the full 90's cheese.

#warhammer 40000 #40k #space marines #ultramarines #oldhammer

[dungeonsandmonsterminis]

#miniatures #paintingminiatures #tabletopgames #oldhammer #beastmen

[tagedeszorns]

Work in Progress: Blanchitsu-Sister of Silence

Some Warhammer-nostalgia:

John Blanche is one of the 2D and miniature artists who has had the most lasting impact on the Warhammer aesthetic. Everyone has seen at least one of his paintings (and if not: he's the creator of the famous SoB hairstyle!) and what we now take for granted in fandom as "Grimdark" was largely built by him (whether as artist or art director).

He's been on my radar since the late nineties - his influence on comic artists like Jamie Hewlitt was a big thing for teenage-me.

Over at Mastodon, there are regular miniature painting challenges called #FediPaint in a loose, more or less monthly rhythm. And this time the theme is "Blanchitsu" - in the style of John Blanche (yes, that's a fixed term).

I'm not good enough to participate with my miniatures yet (although the Beastmen would lend themselves very well to this), so I've decided to contribute a tribute to Blanche's 2D work.

So here's a Sister of Silence - or at least the first sketch. It's my style, of course, but I'm trying to incorporate as many classic Blanchitsu elements as possible. And I'm curious to see if I can at least hint at Blanche's extremely iconic colouring!

It's going to be an exciting work.

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #Grimdark #Oldhammer #Sister of Silence #Blanchitsu #John Blanche #Work in Progress

[ladymirdan]

Im kind of mad that the old Aeldari artwork goes so fucking hard and what we got now is just polished conventionally attractive ladies.

I want this:

This is the sexiest shit I've seen in ages. I get why Roboute has a secret Aeldari boyfriend.

#40k #warhammer 40k #warhammer #rouge trader #oldhammer #aeldari #eldar 40k #warhammer 40k art

[warhammergoldenera]

Definitely going to be adding sieges back to the 41st Millennium

#warhammer 40k #warhammer #oldhammer #grimdark #Siege #Warhammer siege

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Tomb Guardians by John Blanche

#Warhammer #Warhammer Fantasy #WHFB #Tomb Guardians #Fantasy #Art #John Blanche #Oldhammer #Games Workshop

[oldschoolfrp]

The Little Sisters of Purification, space marine chapter from Roger Hamlin's scenario "Sunstroke" in Challenge #36, "GDW's Magazine of Futuristic Gaming," 1988, illustrated by Tim Bradstreet.

Early White Dwarf had run many articles about Traveller; here GDW returns the favor in their own magazine that was a successor to The Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society. This "refereed Warhammer: 40,000 scenario for a small unit of Space Marines and opponents" is just one example of the highly imaginative directions players were taking 40K in the Rogue Trader days. This one has a lot of backstory and suggested modeling to run it as written -- 15 space marines from a new chapter, 20 Jokaeros (one of whom actually is a vampire in disguise), and an ancient Slann base on an asteroid protected by forcefields inside a sun.

#Rogue Trader #40K #Oldhammer #Tim Bradstreet #Little Sisters of Purification #space marines #female space marines #sci fi #GDW #Challenge magazine #Roger Hamlin #Warhammer 40K #Warhammer 40000 #beaky marines #1980s

[renegade-chaos-druid]

Rogue Trader Space Marines

#warhammer 40k #Warhammer 40k rogue Trader #Oldhammer #Art