40k on a desert planet - oldhammer chaos beasts

[Daeothar]

Great paintjobs, and your photoshop skills are nothing to scoff at either!

I really like the idea of creating a world to serve as background fluff for a multitude of forces you assemble.

Back when the Bolter and Chainsword forum was my regular haunt, I started doing the same. I wrote fluff for an out of the way Agri world, recently cut off from the rest of the Imperium by warp storms, called Vorten's Gem. 

An Imperial Navy convoy, with its contingent of remnants of several Guard regiments was trapped there, so they settled on-planet. There was a saint's shrine in the ruins of it's only large city, guarded by a small Sisters order, an Arbites precinct, Eldar scouts were secretly searching the planet for a lost relic, a Genestealer Cult was slowly plotting to convert the dwindling human population and Dark Eldar irregularly raided the system . Also there was a Necron tomb on the moon of one of the gas giants in the system, and an Adeptus Mechanicus listening post on another. There might even have been something chaotic to be found elsewhere in the system.

This enabled me to give all of my (fledling) armies to have a background of my own making.

I just like world building I suppose. The entire idea of creating your own background world though, was published in White Dwarf back when Fat Bloke was still running the show. Now if only I could remember the issue number (because like heck I'm going to read thorugh hundreds of issues just to find this one little article... )

Please keep up your work; it's very inspirational. I abandoned 40K many years ago, but the setting has always held an attraction. And with the now available new Shadow Wars rule book, I can see myself revisiting this long forgotten project and revive it. If only because of the great example you've set!

[3 fingers]

You missed out the orks daeothar 
That's what I liked about the rogue trader /early edition 40k the background fluff.

[Steam Flunky]

Back when the Bolter and Chainsword forum was my regular haunt, I started doing the same. I wrote fluff for an out of the way Agri world, recently cut off from the rest of the Imperium by warp storms, called Vorten's Gem.  

An Imperial Navy convoy, with its contingent of remnants of several Guard regiments was trapped there, so they settled on-planet. There was a saint's shrine in the ruins of it's only large city, guarded by a small Sisters order, an Arbites precinct, Eldar scouts were secretly searching the planet for a lost relic, a Genestealer Cult was slowly plotting to convert the dwindling human population and Dark Eldar irregularly raided the system . Also there was a Necron tomb on the moon of one of the gas giants in the system, and an Adeptus Mechanicus listening post on another. There might even have been something chaotic to be found elsewhere in the system.

This enabled me to give all of my (fledling) armies to have a background of my own making.

I just like world building I suppose. The entire idea of creating your own background world though, was published in White Dwarf back when Fat Bloke was still running the show. Now if only I could remember the issue number (because like heck I'm going to read thorugh hundreds of issues just to find this one little article... )

Just the same as i am doing. Great fun isn't it.
World building started for me after i bought Dungeons and Dragons in 1978. At that time there were very few modules and as i had very little money i could not afford them anyway, so i spent most my time creating worlds with loads of maps and background.

I have also used the "cut off from the rest of the Imperium by warp storms" trick for planet Torq XLII to keep things smaller and in control.

[Steam Flunky]

Rippers!
Eldar and kroot are not the only dangers on Torq XLII for the squats. Packs of rippers can strip a man to the bone within a miniute.

Old 40k squat miniatures.
Effects done with Photoshop Elements 11.

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[Ragsta]

Lovely atmospheric photos.
Hahaha are those 10mm dinosaurs? Magister Militum? I use some as 'giant lizards' myself.

I spotted those converted crests on your Eldar shuriken guardians - so cool! I really liked those models, even though they were just plug ins

Keep up the great work.

Ragsta

[chickenbane]

This is bloody brilliant! It has given me plenty of inspiration too! Thanks very much!

[Steam Flunky]

Thanks a lot.

Lovely atmospheric photos.
Hahaha are those 10mm dinosaurs? Magister Militum? I use some as 'giant lizards' myself.

Hi Ragsta, as far as i can remember they 28mm miniatures from HLBS - http://www.hlbs.co.uk/product.php?id=767

[Steam Flunky]

Firefight
A kroot MG in the middle of a firefight on Torq XLII.

[von Lucky]

Very nice use of the effects to frame the image you've created.

[number1section1]

Awesome painting and photos. I always preferred the kroot to the Tau, loving the kroot machinegun perfectly fits the kroot technology level 

[Steam Flunky]

A squat mole mortar battery in action during the Battle of Trader Town on the mining planet Torq XLII.
 
I still love these old squat models from GW (well, at least the regular Imperial Guard types - not the bikers)
Effects done with Photoshop Elements 11.

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[AWu]

Glorious... You should do Osprey styled booklet about the campaign with those photos :>

[Steam Flunky]

Glorious... You should do Osprey styled booklet about the campaign with those photos :>

Thanks. I dont expect that to happen but it is fun to think about!

[Elbows]

Yeah, this stuff is gold.

[Wachaza]

Lovely models and atmospheric photography. Looks like it's out of a Forge World book.