Back in September 1993 the grim dark future looked brighter, or at least the 40k version was anyway. Issue 165 of White Dwarf (part cover above, "Doom Of The Eldar" by Dave Gallagher) was excitedly gearing up for the new BOXED version of Warhammer 40,000 (version 2 for you kids out there!) with a long interview with Rick Priestly. The colourful painting style in vogue in the Fantasy world was still carrying over to the 40k world as well, as the photo below of the painted model Tyranid from the cover shows (also from Issue 165)

Not that I want to give too much away, but my preparation of the second Songs Of Blades campaign has seen me delving into the darker tomes of fantasy literature for inspiration, so I thought as a change I'd display some non White Dwarf artwork.

The lovely little forest scene is from the old Warhammer reference tome "Realm Of Chaos - The Lost And The Damned" (published in 1990) and shows some followers and creatures of Tzeentch cavorting through the thickets. Unfortunately I can't see who created this piece so, as usual, if anyone can provide some insight in this missing fact I'd be most appreciative.

As ever Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

Not in honour of White Dwarf itself but more of MacSver's victorious Dwarven force in our new "Songs Of Blades and Heroes" Campaign. This month I've picked out the front cover of WD #90 celebrating 10 years of the magazine (June 1987). "The White Dwarf" (funnily enough) was done by John Sibbick. I can only really describe it as classic.

Although this claustrophobic action packed beauty was in White Dwarf #193, I'm actually cheating a bit.

Some artistic styles and images are synonymous with certain products. As soon as you look at this piece you think of a certain trio of games: Heroquest, Advanced Heroquest and Warhammer quest.


This is from the Warhammer Quest Rulebook. Unfortunately I can't find who actually created this piece. It would seem to be one of John Blanche, Wayne England, Dave Gallagher or Mark Gibbons (I think Geoff Taylor only did the cover art?) If anyone can clear this up it would be greatly appreciated.

As ever Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

In a desperate attempt to get back on track with posting I'm going to resort back to White Dwarf artwork. Not that this is really such a bad thing. Check out this beauty.



We have here an untitled piece that made up the back cover of White Dwarf #136 (April 1991) expertly created by Michael Perry. As ever, any other information is very welcome.

Today's delve into White Dwarf's archive comes from White Dwarf #88 (April 1987). The artwork here was supporting an adventure for Gw's Judge Dredd RPG entitled "A Night in the Death of Sector 255" (a sequel and play on a previously printed adventure "A Day in the Life of Sector 255" in WD#83) .

This picture also gives me the great pleasure of cross referencing with another favourite publication: the British Comic 2000AD. The artist here, Brett Ewins has illustrated many stories in 2000AD such as Judge Dredd, and Rogue Trooper, but his style, in my mind at least, will always be linked with the fantastic Bad Company series.

As ever Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

All the way from the back cover of White Dwarf #121 (January 1990) comes this excellent picture of 40k Orcs by David Gallagher. This was actually a full wrap-round cover, but with part of the picture on the spine it's not been scanned and hence joined with the the front cover part. Note the old Orc Dreadnought in the background.

EDIT: After kelvingreen's comment below I had a quick google for the "'ere We go", and found the front cover, which nicely shows the other half of the picture:

As ever Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

This week's White Dwarf artwork comes from Issue #110 (February 1989). After a couple of 40k examples, I thought it best to try and address the balance with a fantasy piece by Paul Bonner. The picture is from a piece for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay describing a vicious Green skin band of raiders called Morglum's Marauders. It captures the mayhem of the cut-throats mercilessly swarming the wagon perfectly.


As ever Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

Having trouble co-ordinating time, camera and hobby thoughts at the moment so apologies for the lack of posts. But as I'm trying to finish off some Space Marines I may as well continue my White Dwarf art series with a 40k-ish theme.



This picture is a piece from WD 135 for a series of extra missions for Space Hulk (with expansions). The name next to the picture is the artist (I presume) - Tony Hough. The Termies don't seem to be standard, as far as my, granted, untrained eye can see. Librarians at the back? But what's the script with helmet on the front Terminator. A nice picture all the same though.

Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

EDIT: The great Blogger crash of 2011 has wiped out the comments to this post, but I'd like to thank Tristan (of GWpertinent fame) for IDing the Terminators in the picture. The two at the back are Grey Knights (as they have halberds) and the one in the front is an old Inquisitor Terminator (bottom left of the linked page). Cheers, mate.

I was having a leaf through some of the old White Dwarfs I have about and something struck me. There was a time in the late 80s/early 90s that the magazine was more professional in look but before all pictures were just photo's of their wares. There are some lovely and interesting pieces of artwork that no-one now ever sees. So , pending a C&D notice, I am going to try and periodically put up some of these for your viewing pleasure. Copyright obviously stays with the original owner (be it Games Workshop or the artist) and I hope that any interested parties will take these posts in the admiring showcase spirit that is intended.

(Click on the picture to get a nice big view)

First picture here harks back to WD issue 113 (May 1989) and is of a Scrunt force. I've scanned in the accompanying explanatory text at the bottom, as I am too lazy to type it all out and any OCR I try on it is rubbish!