Well, here's hoping you have enjoyed this little artistic stroll through some of Tim's collection. Imagine having this hanging on YOUR wall? You'd put bars on your windows, wouldn't you? Not a Warhammer piece but utterly breathtaking. Was it published, if so, where?Īn evocative piece by Ian McCraig (who also painted the FF book, the Forest of Doom) the artist who designed the Games Workshop logo - a fact that is not very well known.Īn un-used John Blanche cover for Sabbat's second album, Dreamweaver, featuring the faces of Tony Ackland and Bob Naismith apparently. Rather Warhammer Armies is it not? Again, I am not sure if I have seen this one elsewhere. This one was used on the front cover of White Dwarf 108 and for Adeptus Titanicus main rule book. Was it ever published? Beautiful isn't it? It always seemed to me that these pieces were part of some far larger work of art. I am not sure if I have seen this one before. OUTSTANDING!Ī second piece, again involving Space Marines with additional help from some early ork boyz, by Wayne England. Can you see them? Andy Craig can also recall being given this painting by John Blanche when he was painting Necromunda miniatures.
Tim pointed out that his, Sean Masterson's (former WD scribe, Editor and contributor to Dark Future) and Sid's (ex 'Eavy Metal) faces appear on this somewhere. Was it ever published? I wonder if it was commissioned for the original version of Confrontation (which of course, started out life as the 40k RPG, before morphing into a WD published skirmish game and then being published (in a very different form) as Necromunda ) but I cannot be sure. This was a painting I don't think I have seen before. Classic.Ī Necromunda battle scene, also by Blanche. Apparently, Tim's face was going to appear on the head of the slain alien lying on the floor in the foreground, but this did not happen due to time restraints. Fantastic!Īhh, the Imperial Army, also by Blanche, which was used as an internal illustration in White Dwarf and as the box art for the first set of plastic Imperial Guard. A wonderful piece that oozes character and takes us back to a simpler time when a skeleton was just that, and needed no rusty armour or shredded cloth to impress. This, of course, graced the packaging of the Skeleton Horde, the WHFRP supplement, The Restless Dead, as well as being used as an internal illustration. Next up, the Legion of the Damned by John Blanche.
#The new fighting fantasy books cover art is crap license#
The painting harkens back to the day when there was a little more artistic license to interpreting the Astartes.
I can remember studying this cover with great interest upon that issue's release and this particular painting has remained one of my favourites ever since. This painting, in crayon and ink if memory serves, graced the front cover of White Dwarf 110 and introduced Wayne's work to GW fandom.