Inquistional Conclave 2021 - Complete!

Tharok Radron, Ordo Malleus 

Inquisitors Radron and Ryloth lead their retinues through an imperial outpost that has suffered some nature of extradimensional attack.

Inquisitional Conclave Weeks 3-4

 Tharok Radron, Ordo Malleus

THings are moving along well on my entry for the Inquisitional Conclave.  My inquisitor has a name and I have settled on the classic 2nd edition Hand Flamer as his pistol weapon of choice.  What better weapon for cleansing with fire the many enemies of the Emperor?  Be sure to check out all the fun over at the main site for the challenge, the excellent Neverness Hobby Chronicles.

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #129

 

As much as I love some of the earlier issues that were my first WD purchases, this issue is still my favorite WD of all time.  I think this was the 4th or 5th one I picked up back in 1990 when I was first getting into the hobby.  Loads of important WH40K lore content including History of Space Marine Armor by Rick Priestly which still stands as my favorite piece of the lore GW has ever created.  It also featured the highly detailed painting guide for Mk VII armor that still forms the basis of the schemes I use on my Dark Angels today.  There were also updated vehicle rules, the first descriptions of artificer armor, the first beta rules for overwatch, intricately detailed Painboy rules for orks,  and, in a move that has the most bearing on the current era: this was the legendary issue where space marine Toughness went from 3 to 4!  It's hard to believe all this content was in one humble issue and that's why as much as I enjoy many other issues, this one still takes the crown for me.  Thanks for reading and stay safe out there.

Imperium of Man Banners!

 Banner Pages Debut Entry 

I've got to find a way to include that crazy ass early Ravenwing banner in my Dark Angels army somewhere...

 

My recent foray into the Inquisitional Conclave led to me discovering I had an untapped resource on my bookshelf that may be helpful for the hobby community at large.  For many years I have owned an incomplete copy of the Rogue Trader Chapter Approved which was fun for the lore contained in the pages that were complete, but I had always seen it as a disappointment overall because all of the nascent Imperial army lists that should have been in there were missing due to GW's infamous problems with bindings falling apart on their early sourcebooks.  While scanning in some pages as part of my ongoing Codex Titanicus entries I decided to take another flip through that book to see if there was anything worth scanning since thanks to the aforementioned binding issues there were many loose pages ripe for scanning within.  Much to my delight I found that not only was the full color catalogue at the back complete, the bottom of every page contained at least five or six banners for the factions that existed in the early Rogue Trader era.  I was especially excited to find an Inquisitors banner that was perfect for my conclave entry but the wealth of banners went on for pages and I know from my own internet searches that sometimes finding reliable quality scans of these old resources can be difficult.