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Philip
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Hearing feedback is very important to me in developing my ideas. Much of my designs are inspired, and crafted, by chatting to fans on forums before snowballing into a full concept you'll find here. I would like to thank all those who have contributed critiques and participated in discussions over the years, and I would especially like to thank all those who commented on this specific topic. If you would like join in you are most welcome!
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Subject: Old Ones
I think you are giving the old ones too much credit. In face of them everything else becomes meaningless, even the chaos gods and the emperor. Make the old gods more powerful, let the Artilects merge with the man on the holy toilet, but don’t let everything become the experiment of one aloof force. Sure they can be vastly powerful, but they should remain a mortal race like they used to be. Oh, and please, don’t force a connection between the Necrons and the Iron Men, just because they are both made of a bit slap.
Subject: Chapters, extra bits and Tuberdours
First of all a thank you for some wonderful space marine chapters im think of modelling my next space marine army on the blood eagles
secondly i just want to know how u got some of the more unique stuff for ur marines for example the fur capes and the greek style adomen for the aqua marines
p.s loved your wfrp career as well my char is a Tuberdour just last seesion he almost got killed by a big un ina premature spawning
Subject: Dark Age/ the Emperor/ Old Ones
Hey Phil
I really love your site and have had hours of interest reading your various backgrounds. I especially like the Dark Age of Technology one.
I would really love it if you did something on the Emperor, uniting the various fluff and mysteries surrounding him and putting your own unique ‘philverse’ spin on it. Also some ideas re: extragalactic travel, civilisations and lost Old Ones would fit in nicely with your Dark Age of Tech background.
Please keep adding stuff? This site is one of my favourites and you are a terrific storyteller/artist.
Cheers
Dom
Hi Dom, and don’t worry, I’ll always keep adding to this site! Even when I’m not posting I’m thinking up new ideas and concept in the background, researching new stories on advances in science and figuring out how to shoe horn back into 40K.
There is some information about the Emperor and how I see him on this Blog: Sole Survivor, and some more over on my webbie: Of Ghods and Primarchs
I wrote a little bit about the Old ones in my Warhammer Fantasy background regarding The Fonn (Amazons). To my mind it is much the same for 40K, yet I do not go into it that much in the 40K concepts page. I wish to hold back on this info and regard it more as the details of the ‘mythology’. I figure the Emperor does know all about the stuff mentioned under the Fonn background (as there is a reference to the ‘web way’ and the whole artificial Imperial Gate on Terra). However it will not be spelled out in the 40K section.
Subject: Artbooks
Hi
I was wondering about your art work. My husband has started reading your books and really likes them. I really don’t know much about them to be honest. He gives me the run down on what happens as he finishes them. He is deployed right now. He is a blackhawk pilot for the Army. See I want to send him a box for xmas and he was say’n how much he liked the art work and I was hope’n that you could let me know if you have any books of your art? I know that your the guy cause he told about the book False Gods. The title kinda stuck in my head. I hope that its ok that I used this place to ask you. I was reading some of the post and these people are really serious about your work. That one person wanted to know about how the space marines pissed and pooped!!! WOW! My husband told me about the space marines too. So I’m really nervous about leave’n this but I don’t know how else to get a hold of you. Sorry if this is the wrong way. Or maybe you could sign one of your favorites I will pay you for it. sorry and thank you
Hi Jamie,
Yeah, what are these fans like eh? Crazy! Gotta love that creativity through
I know it can be pretty intimidating wander into a fanboi zone, so kudos for bravery. Though I think you’ll find we’re a friendly lot.
As for art, or more specifically 40K art, there is: The Art of Warhammer 40,000. It’s a collection of all the best of 40K art, it’s heavy and cost £30. It doesn’t include my cover of False Gods within (as that was done later) and if that is what he likes the poster of False Gods is still available for £8.
I hope that helps, and if you have any further questions you can direct them to my email (as found here). If you would like me to remove your post due to you feeling uncomfortable; ask and it shall be done.
Best wishes,
Philip
PS: He has a tough job, wish him luck.
Subject: Adeptus Mechanicus and “Data Sanctuaries”
Hey, Phil… Our concepts seem to broadly match on the Adeptus Mechanicus – perhaps with the exception of the fundamental importance of “implants” as you define them with regards to knowledge – so I wondered if you had checked out the game “Shadowrun” (4e).
If we go with our (mutual, IIRC) idea of the obfuscation of technology behind Imperium aesthetics, with the “data sanctuaries” and the information from “Mechanicum” (e.g. noosphere)… Well, much fun can be had with the idea of Personal Access Networks (PAN), Augmented Reality (AR), and so on.
Truly “technomancy…”
Really must get back to starting that thread over on Anargo!
Regards,
Kage
Thanks Kage I’ll check it out. I agree out respective ‘verses’ are very similar in may ways, and much of what you have put forward to justify 40K has been very helpful to me. I really like the idea of, ‘Augmented Reality’, or as least the concept the name suggests given the context. Having the Ad-Mec running about using their implants as ’servers’ in a wi-fi linked mesh network sounds like a lot of fun. It really is like a Wireless ad hoc network or more specifically a MANET
Subject: ezine
Hi, Philip, ever since seeing your artwork on “Grey Knights” I’ve liked your artwork! So much that I was wondering whether you would contribute any of the pieces you are free to do so for an ezine – Sorry if this is a little presumptuous just posting this, but I’d appreciate it if you could. If you could either e-mail me back, or post a reply to this I’d be extremely grateful
Your work on Deathwatch and Grey Knights in particular was spectacular – are there any plans for the Sisters of Battle to be Represented?
Cheers, Vaz.
Thanks Vaz, I appreciate you popping by to comment.
As for art; any GW stuff is under copyright and used with permission. I do not have the authority to licence their IP.
There are no plans for a Sister of Battle picture at the moment.
Philip
No problem – credit given where it’s due
I know the pains (well, from my Point of View, Copyright Protection is paramount for a business) of the IP. I’ll look forward to more of your work
Cheers – Vaz
Subject: Grey Knights and 3D Modelling
Hi Philip,
I found your site while searching for ideas of how to make my own 3d Space Marine, I must say I loved your site particularly the Warrior coven wireframe image (though i still cant figure out how you made those Shoulder Pads) and the Grey Knights cover was also an incredibly detailed image.
Wayne
I glad you like my wireframes. 3D is a lot of fun! As for the shoulder pad it’s a simple quarter sphere with one edge extruded, then all the faces extruded (so it has some thickness). To get the trim you can then select all the ‘thickness’ side faces and pull them out, and then select the outer faces of this fresh extrusion to pull up the trim. Nice and easy.
Do you have any links to your 3d work?
At the moment no, i have a weird thing with 3d modelling where unless it’s absolutely right i tend to delete it and start again. I should really be building a portfolio though.
Thank you for the help with the shoulder pads thats really appreciated.
You’re welcome.
If you do put together a portfolio, please send me a link!
Id be very happy to!
I have to start learning blender now i have no access to 3ds Max, but if i ever make a model im happy enough with not to delete and start again ill certainly let you know
Thanks mate
I too hope to have a play about with Blender!
Subject: Old Ones
I think that you are giving the Old Ones too much power in GW lore they were material beings with warp mastery and in your lore they are in short gods.
The material beings in GW lore are the Slann (or they were back in Rogue trader days). Nowadays they seem to be called the Old Ones, though this is not always the case, and sometimes they are seen as the servants of the Old Ones. In my ‘Philverse’ version of 40K I played up this angle and made the Slann and the Old Ones separate. This allows for the current confusion over who and what these ancient beings were, and neatly explains the fall of the Slann (disconnect from the Old One influence). As such, I figure the ‘Slann’ are the material avatars of the Old Ones (’god on earth’).
I know that in earlier and later editions there is a different description of Old ones and Slann. My thought on Old Ones was that they were material beings with warp mastery and that Slann were their servants who created Kroks(Orks), Eldar and many other races.
Subject: Traitor Marines
So I chanced upon a picture of yours on Dakka which brought me here and I thought your space marine chapters were just awesome, but I had a question; have you ever thought about drawing marine chapters that went traitor to join different xenos factions? Examples being Space Marine chapters joining the Tau on their path to the greater good or the Eldar in their quest to save the universe. I personally would love to see what you could do to blend the Marines with the xenos.
I didn’t plan on doing traitor Space Marines chapter. The closest I came to doing a traitor legion is the Inquisition suspicions of the Dragons be a branch of the Alpha Legion (which I think they may or may not be).
Blending in xenos technology?
That reminds of the Warrior Brood cover, which originally had Captain Octavius armed with an Eldar sword, but it was changed to a chainsword. I think I still have a picture of that sword somewhere.
If I ever do a list of traitor chapters it may be an idea to put in a xenos aligned chapter or two, perhaps one for each of the major powers, Eldar, Tau and Ork (?). Maybe even some Nid worshippers that ate some Nid flesh and absorbed the Nid link via the Omophagea? Any preference?
Subject: Proportions model sheets
Hi Philip,
I’m currently making a CG model of a space marine, and I was looking for a good anatomy reference to make a credible stuff to avoid incoherences and disproportions… Since there is many space marines illustrations, it’s difficult to get some proportions model sheets for a space marine…
Anyway I appreciate your incredible contribution to the warhammer world, I hope you will continue for a long time.
The only ‘proportions model sheets’ I can think of is the diagram BL gave me, which is the one by Jes Goodwin. That’s it. I tried to match my version of the marine anatomy to that official diagram and, as far as I know, mine is the only diagram of the marine proportions that (attempts) match Jes’ diagram.
You’re welcome to base your CG model on my diagrams if you think it will help?
Send me an email when you have something to show
Subject: DIY Chapters
Me again. Great work on those chapters some of them are truly grimdark. But in the grimdark there is always Slaneesh to lighten things up.
Thanks. Which reminds me that one day I want to create some chaos space marine chapters (even though The Dragons may, or may not be, an Alpha Legion cell – it would be nice to have a few truly fallen chaos chapters).
Subject: 1000 Chapter Project
Nice work on those 1000 chapters. I myself have created one DIY chapter the Emperor’s Wrath.The chapter is still WIP but you can find the info on DakkaDakka
One question. Why do you use word ghod instead of god?
It’s old fan speak…
If you would like it to appear in the 1,000 Chapter’s list, contact Dazzo over on Bolter and Chainsword. Here is the one collecting them all up. Once your Chapter is included in a later update, I can link to wherever you host your IA.
I have put my reply on 1000 chapters thread on Bolter and Chainsword.
Put it in the main thread discussing the project: 720 so far…
Is that the same Dazzo as Dazo from the Anargo forums?
Yep – the very same
Subject: Power fields. Iron Men.
Your monomolecular edged blades article has reminded me of that Eisenhorn power blade which didn’t have physical blade. I was wondering what can a power field do to some object if it passes trough it.
I have been looking on your version of Men of Iron and compared them with Men of Iron of Warhammer monthly comic and they look vastly different.
In my re-image the power-field interferes with chemical bonds, so that a material is ’softened’ under the influence of the field. As such there needs to be a physical impact or energy transfer in addition to the field for there to be an effect (arguably a person moving within a power-field could provide enough force, through their movements, to damage themselves). Without the secondary effect the power-field would have limited effect, and I suspect that power-fields used in weapons are not that powerful. All it all, striking with a power-sword would ‘feel’ like the target was much soften than it really is.
It’s a re-image, the Iron Men I posted on my site are my version. Having said that; I suspect that as they are machines, and not bound to a set form as we humans, they would come in many guises. The ones in the comic a merely a different form of Iron Man, but they are all ‘machine’, they are all sentient ‘Iron Men’.
In comic they looked like a true classic robots, not some machines that can turn to slime after they are severely damaged, but after all the iron men could be found in any form that was available in that time. Maybe those Iron Men locked in stasis field were some defensive models, they looked fairly human, some had extra limbs on back which ended in chainswords. I feel sorry for that arbitrator(or Magos) that was dead, but later his body was composed mostly of bionics, even his skull was changed and he’s going to remain there for “eternity”.
Subject: IG
Wow! I think you’ve done a really good thing by making a strong effort at tackling the background of such a vast universe. Good job! Honestly, I was most fascinated by the IG section. Something about the IG makes me shudder; normal people thrown into the most dire situations. 15 hours life expectancy?!? I have a habit of researching WW1 and WW2 because it’s insane some of the situations, those who fought, were put into. Once again, good job on these backgrounds!