A Bitter Harvest: Fred Reed’s Old School Howling Griffons Space Marines Army

Fred Reed’s Howling Griffon Space Marines on the back cover of White Dwarf 176

Everyone of a certain vintage knows of this legendary army. The iconic full army shot from the back cover of White Dwarf 179 is the stuff of legend. An (at that time) obscure chapter in a quartered (!) scheme featuring 2 of the (at that time with the paints as they were then) hardest to paint colours, across a full company of space marines…it was mind blowing.

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Storm the Trenches: Old School White Scars Space Marines – Dylan Martin – Wayne Bell – and… Paul Sawyer (a.k.a. “Fat Bloke”)

Golden Demon (Australia) 1998 40K Squad Gold – White Scars veterans by Dylan Martin

Some old school White Scars space marines for your viewing pleasure.

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Eldar vs Space Marines, 2nd ed 40K battle (new rules re combat resolution)

Last night my Alaitoc Warp Hunters took on Jason’s Dark Angels in a bloody battle. I remembered to take a few photos this time and I wrote up a brief report of the battle (but this is not a comprehensive battle report). We also used our own house rules for combat resolution for the first time.

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