Just some friendly Adeptus. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
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| group shot came out a bit shadowy. appropriate. |
I got into Warhammer in the late 90s. Like many of us from that era, I spent a percentage of my limited resources poring over
White Dwarf each month. Many of those images and articles are burned into my memory, taking up space that I could otherwise use to learn Russian or Korean, develop project management skills, or figure out how to join gaming groups in my thirties.
Probably worth it, to be fair.
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White Dwarf #224, August 1998, p.53.
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One of the images that I always vaguely remembered was Ed Spettigue's (mostly) Tallarn Imperial Guard army from
White Dwarf #224. He'd gone with a striking white-and-bone scheme, including on his Sisters of Battle, assassins, and the Mordian Iron Guard he used for heavy weapons. It was
cool as hell.
When it came to painting the handful of metal assassins I'd somehow acquired, I was stuck on a painting scheme. I also wasn't sure if I wanted to base them to match my
Mantis Warriors, or the industrial setting of the Death Guard, or maybe do some generic basing - maybe even do something weird, like spaceship tiles or something. I then remembered Spettigue's Tallarn, and some thing clicked into place.
While my collection of White Dwarfs was apparently stolen from my father's garage a few years ago, that's not as much of a problem in the age of the internet as you might think, and I was able to dig up a copy. I took a slightly different approach, but am still pleased to have a pack of assassins that aren't the usual black-on-black.
