Hammerfist Company Banners!

How Much Beard Conditioner Do The Squat Homeworlds Consume Each Year?

 

This week's entry has the kind of banners I always imagined my squat forces carrying many years ago before I traded them away for Battletech games and sourcebooks.  I even still own two of the above pictured "Command Squad Squats" that are waiting to be traded away on a Oldhammer FB group one of these days.  As feel free to copy and print above picture for all your stunty banner needs.

Space Elf Banners

The More Things Change...

Along with an awesome picture of Rogue Trader era Zoats, This week's banner entry has some really cool early Eldar raider banners.  As Always it is interesting to how many elements of these designs made it into the eventual craftworlds and kabals that define the Aeldari we know today.  Those early Space Elf miniatures were coveted by my younger self but I could never find them on the pegs at my FLGS.  Please feel free to copy and print image above for any Eldar banner needs you may have.

Squat Banners!

 

Following on the heels of the early Eldar paint schemes from a few days ago, here's another page from the very first Chapter Approved featuring some beautiful old Squat models, Imperial Army Banners for Squat Units, and early Eldar Banners that look like they would fit right in with the pirate raiders from the Eldar Legion box set.  

More Space Ork Banners

 Notify The Commisar Immediately!

This weeks banner installment includes another suspicious proto-symbol under the guise of Space Ork Raider banners.  The "Victory Banner" on the far right looks very similar to one interpretation of the noble badge of the Tanith First and Only...

OG Space Ork Banners

In Honor Of Orktober We Humbly Present...

Those who are not celebrating Dreadtober or it's radio cousin Rocktober, may have their sites set on feting all things green this month whilst painting models for Orktober.  These original RT Orks always have had a special place in my heart from staring at so many pictures of them in 'Eavy Metal back in my early White Dwarf reading days.  I'm also enjoying seeing how many of the concepts in these early banners were repurposed for other factions later on.  In this week's feature above, I'm pretty sure that Ork Raider Vampire banner was repurposed for the World Eaters insignia.  Thanks for stopping by, hopefully next year I'll really coordinate my actions and paint an old school Ork Dreadnought for Dreadtober.

Imperium of Man Banners Part II

 

I think the Ordo Xenos needs to investigate the Kressalian mercenaries, that banner looks a lot like they worship the four armed emperor.

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.