40k art thread

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tfw mont'au devils and daddy issues make you borderline khornate

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I like ones which remind you that despite all of the high fantasy grimdark going on that there are some real people in this universe.

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>>52631278
This one got me pretty good

>>52631475
I never realized that the artist there, didn't just reference another picture, but likely traced it, as the back of that shuriken catapult has a lot more in common with a kalashnikov than a shuriken catapult.

>>52632066
what other picture is he tracing?

>>52632066
Do you have the original?

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>>52632066
I always thought that >>52631475 looked like a fairly realistic skirmish when compared with the more typical 40k depictions of battles like pic related

>>52632935
that fire warrior is looking totally the wrong way
i've heard that tau have poor eyesight, but you'd think he'd see the guardsman who is literally stood there right at his feet

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a classic

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>>52633115
THE classic

>>52631225
little baby ork axe

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>>52635558

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>>52631250
I still can't believe there as a goddamn Tau videogame.

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I fucking love all those banners.

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>>52637190
But not enough to attach the right image.

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>>52637218
It's a shame that this supplement is probably lost to time.

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>>52637025

But anon, there is for the PS2

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>>52637283

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Art by Roman Tishenin, dude has an artstation thingy.

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More dakka?

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>>52637321

>>52637190
That's awesome. Anyone has more old school grimdark?

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>>52632963
It's been posted on /tg/, but I couldn't manipulate google or 4plebs well enough to find it. But there's a picture of two Syrians fighters in the exact same pose as the two Eldar on the right. The Eldar whose Catapults look like AKs

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>>52637453
>>52632951
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>>52632066
I found it today browsing /wg/>>6892721
Talk about coincedence

>>52631323
>i bet you're wondering how i got here...

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>>52631475
This is probably one of my favorite pieces from 40k at all. Really good definition and a good realistic interpretation of a skirmish.

Pic related is probably my top favorite from 40k. It shows a more respectful level of cooperation between the Guard and Astartes; it's also a bit more golden-age to me where the Astartes were a bit more like people it was easy to connect to instead of walking parodies of their Chapter stereotypes.

It's a lot dirtier than modern 40k art, but it's not nearly as gritty, if that makes sense. It feels like it could have actually been some veteran's recollection of the event instead of an over-designed propaganda piece.

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>>52637476
I'll try cross-referencing it once more>>6892721
It's a bit of a shame that there aren't that many pictures of 40k in more reasonable combat
I guess that wouldn't be the 40k way

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>>52631225
Something about the simultaneous fluidity and solidity of their stances turns my crank.

>>52631225
>for not being totally heartless.
Loudly and publicly denouncing a near-infinitely powerful branch of government pretty much never ends well in a feudal totalitarian system. Not sure what the Lions expected to happen.

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>>52637283
Old school ork art is the best.

>>52637957
Ugh I want these instead of the lame ass Tyrannic War Veterans we got. The Flesh Hook purity seal is just too sexy...

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>>52631225
This Picture

Why:

First noise marine artwork I ever saw. As a young boy he just looked amazing and it's just stuck throughout the years.

On one hand hes cheesy like old GW stuff, on the other he has a bit of a timeless feel to him.

>>52639290
Never seen this before, it's cool AF.

>>52639385
I've always loved this picture for the rhizome tactics. It shows Marines and other forces in the 40k grimderp world not just relying on the good ol grimdark trope of two long lines of opposing forces duking it out from about five metres away.

This is more befitting an elite force. Think you have cover? Nope. Think you have concealment? Straight through the wall. Think you have the entrances covered? Every wall, floor and roof is an entrance you forgot to account for.

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Does this count?

>>52631225
Sweet power pack vents...

Hang on, is that a tacticool bolter? The exterminatus makes sense now

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>>52637430
You want old school grimdark? You get old school grimdark!

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>>52640627

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>>52640650
Here's some of the oldest grimdark I got!

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>>52640691

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>>52640743

>>52631588
>implying tomas wouldnt be a proud ultramarine
its like youve never watched the show. edward on the other hand...

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>>52639575
what chapter would he be in?

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>>52640815
Not as old but still pretty damn grimdark

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>>52631225

I like this one because I'm sure they would have played WH with me in JHS

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>>52637476
well done, detective

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>>52639588
plus it looks like he's ejecting his magazine at the orks

'out of rounds, fuck it'

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I like this one because there's so much going on in it. I vaguely remember having seen it in the apocalypse rulebook but it had lots of little numbers to show you where key events were happening in the battle.

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This is nice but i feel the faceplate is a bit far down the body

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>>52641919
realised what it was reminding me of

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When the updated land raider first came out it blew my fucking mind. This art, and that one cutout schematic they put on the double sided poster are probably top two.

Still have my old beater I put together at the launch. Hinged door still works, too.

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This image is just quintessential 40k to me. It sums up all you need to know about the setting.

>>52642743
That's sweet, man. Do you have a picture of it?

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>>52640787
The Raptors

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>>52643071

>>52643527
aren't those the dickmarines from fire warrior >>52631250

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>>52643514
>very subtle bird motifs
>casual wouldn't even recognize them as raven guard
Please take note, Space Yiffs.

>>52643575
Yes

>>52643588
just looked at the picture again - report to your nearest arbites station for suspected psyker abilities based on your supernatural powers of perception

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mongol rough riders would be dope

i like it when you see the heritages of totally different worlds together in some other far flung place

it's like when you see images from the first/second world war of guys in turbans wearing british uniforms and carrying lee enfields, or the german ss division from croatia who wear fezzes knowing what they're alongside. gives you a greater sense of scale.

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>>52641947
I think this will explain that.

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My death korps

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Second part

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>>52642983
Sure do.

It's a champ.

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>>52644124
you got some really sweet ww1 vibes from these shots

you take many pictures like this? and are these guys part of a diorama or have you just got the angles right?

>>52644146
Duuuuude, nice. I especially like the old Ultramarines red on the weapons thing you've got going there. How old is this boy now?

>>52644236
Fifteen, or maybe sixteen years old? I forget when the kit came out, but it was a long time ago.

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>>52644303
Hot damn, you've been in the game a long time. Maybe even since before GW was total balls. I only started in '05, and it's been an on-off relationship the whole time. Got any tales? What kind of stuff do you have these days?

Continuing the spirit of the thread with some filthy xenos artwork. I really liked the Vior'lan colour scheme when I first saw it in cities of death in this picture >>52641817, but I can't say I'm overly happy that GW seems to have ditched the idea they used to hold and still pretend to hold that Tau change their colour schemes for camouflage purposes. Now, instead of switching to 'Sa'cean' colours for cityfighting, they behave more like space marines by just having whatever gearish colours they feel like displaying wherever they go, even if it makes them easy to spot wearing bright orange in environments of sheer black rocks. It's still a pretty picture, though.

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>>52642669
>that Guardsman looking at the camera

>>52636336
wasn't there a bigger version of this that shows the steps? Probably my favorite 40k art ever.

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>>52644431
kek

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>>52644477
sick dubs

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>>52631225
I like art showing that the baddies are the ones really standing against incomprehensible odds.

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>>52644467
sorry man, i tried reverse image searching it but nothing turned up.

i did try looking for another image of a space marine getting armoured up, but i couldn't find the one i remembered. i found these two, though.

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>>52644537

>>52639385
Good art, lousy book.

>>52644575
>That total disregard for perspective

I dont get how this happened.

>>52644521
yesssss, i completely agree. can't say i can find many, though. i was reading the farsight codex and therein it talks about when the tau first really encountered the imperium. the tau had been making friends with the disenfranchised locals and annexing by way of friendship imperial worlds. the colossal war machine which is the imperium struck back with extreme violence, and almost totally fucked dal'yth. i think bits of fluff, visual or text which really show the intractable power of the imperium (especially seen from the enemy's perspective) is good shit.

>>52643575
What, nobody noticed that the Tau are the Covenant?

>>52644612
i'll have you know that's an imperitor class sentinel

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>>52644612
meh, just consider it truescale. the men are men, the ork is a nob and the sentinel is a sentinel.

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for the Blanche fans

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>>52644625
when i was playing halo 2 as like an 11-12 year old my headcannon for the master chief sections was that i was a space marine fighting the tau

contributin'

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>>52644645
I had no idea that Blanche had a sexy streak.

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>>52644477
Have a bigger one.

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>>52644668
He started off as a fetish artist

>tfw I can't find his pic of the red latex-clad culexus look-alike woman with chainblade skates and a ribbed pipe coming out of her ass

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>>52644671
thanks, man

humour in return

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>>52644695
>one of us

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>>52644419
>Got any tales?
Not that I can really think of off hand in the middle of the night. Most of the good ones would just be about the shenanigans my old bosses at GW would get into.

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>>52644711
I lied about the first thing I said.
Not the second though, he must've felt really thirsty when drawing some of these

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>>52644723
Ah fair, I didn't think about time differences. You in the US? If you feel like it, feel free to share shenanigan stories with us.

>>52644737
>dat slaaneshi dildo chin

you may not have realised you were telling the truth, but clearly there's some supporting evidence

>>52631250

Bruh this was like my fav game when I was 13. Had the book too.

tfw Sha'ui Kais is the Khornate xenos version of Shinji

>>52644745

Those Tau are dead

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>>52644221
So i made this display for a tournament and its essentially a trench so you actually cant see their bases , and with a little black and white filter it looks really sweet xD not gona lie

>>52640787
Considering all the shit he picks up and uses, probably Blood Ravens

>>52635830
>they're all visible
Who let untrained rookies into the stealth cadre?

>>52631357

MY HELMET HAS A CALCULATOR, FUCK YOOOOUUUUUUUUU!

>>52640757

They're silica animus. Purge Thomas, then yourself.

>>52631225
we wuz chapter masterz n shiet

>>52648476
In all likelihood, yeah, but those blastcannons pack a whallop at that range. S:D AP:1 Heavy 2

There will more than likely be some molten slag in place of marines before the fight is over.

Old art has it's own beauty, but looking at them makes me so glad we are getting new versions of art and miniatures.

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>>52637735
>You're space marines - just shut up and take it
Uh-huh.

>>52637254
I gots me a hardcopy - but I'm pretty sure i've seen a small pdf floatin' about....it's from an old Dragon magazine in tha grimdarkness of the 1980's.....and it is glorious!!
>spacemarines are so bad-ass that they film themselves dancing with genestealers for imperial propaganda

>>52635862
Love these re-paintings of ancient 2nd milenium artwork.

>>52637575
>That friendly fire
Didn't know necrons were added to Eternal Crusade

>>52639385
Is that an Eldar?
It's odd to see in art with alliances not both parts being equally represented

>>52637254
To prove how powerless the enemies of mankind are, they enter the deepest part of an enemy spacehulk or stronghold, just to throw down some sick shapes. Hilarious Space Hulk suppliment.

>>52640789
That's the real Emperor. Don't know who that golden git is they keep showing nowadays.

>>52644631
>Clowns on a beetle

>>52644745
Love those angry Tau helmets

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Brilliant drawing from the inside of the 1st edition rulebook. I used to love the old 'Eddy' dreadnoughts.

>>52652694
good spot