Skins @ Hive World Terra

Hotlinking of thumbnails banned

Although I'd previously allowed people to 'hotlink' thumbnails (that is linking to an image from another page not on this site) so that people can use it as an illustration to link to the actual download, I have now had to prohibit hotlinks on all images. This is due in part to a user called Phantron on the Oxegen forums who has used a thumbnail as an avatar and caused it to be displayed over 1,500 times in the first five days of June alone! Triskel of the GW Italy forums has also been hotlinking images and clocked up 10,000 blocked views in May, while Dawn of War Pro were hotlinking my Relic logo (which has since been moved from its unprotected location).

Using images of other people's work as an avatar/signature images/site images without asking permission or crediting it is bad enough, but to do it on my bandwidth is just plain theft.

By IBBoard on 6th June 2006, 11:33

Golden Eagles 1.6 Force Commander and Banner

As a sneak peak of the v1.6 Golden Eagles set, Hangar-8 has released a v1.6 patch for the Force Commander and Banner textures.

The Golden Eagles are a popular texture set that make the Imperial Eagles on the Space Marines a fixed gold colour and also adds lots of detail that is lost in the existing textures. Thanks to Hangar-8 for continuing to update these great textures and for contributing his work to the community.

By IBBoard on 1st June 2006, 17:42

Skins@HWT's one hundred thousandth visitor!

At just before midday GMT today the Skins @ Hive World Terra website received its one hundred thousandth member since the installation of the hit counter on the 28th June 2005. Due to complexities in the way AOL works, any of their dialup customers have been excluded from the count and so the number is actually much higher, but it's good to know that the site is popular and will have received over 100,000 visitors within its first year!

By IBBoard on 1st June 2006, 15:57

Black Guard from Briarus

Following on from the Renegades and Twenty-eight Space Marine Chapters, Briarus has now submitted an army scheme (consisting of a badge, banner and teamcolour file) for the Black Guard Space Marines.

Thanks to Briarus for the continued contributions.

By IBBoard on 1st June 2006, 15:52

Updated Lamenters Mod

TelBoy has just recently sent me an update of his Lamenters Mod. The majority of the mod remains the same, and both Dawn of War and Winter Assault are still supported, but the Force Commander has been updated and the Terminators have been returned!

Thanks to Telboy for contributing his mod and letting us mirror it.

By IBBoard on 28th May 2006, 19:13

More new Tau colour schemes

Having originally submitted a pack of six Tau colour schemes, Caelien has now returned with an extended Tau colour scheme pack that includes eleven colour schemes and now uses my Tau badges pack.

Thanks to Caelien for the contribution. Hopefully fans of the Tau Mod will appreciate and enjoy it.

By IBBoard on 19th May 2006, 12:27

Three skins from Slash

Following on from the Bloodied Chaos Space Marines and the Team Colourable Bloodthirster Slash has now turned 'traitor' and released three skins for the Space Marines.

The Detailed Apothecary, Force Commander and Space Marines make some interesting changes to the textures, and the Space Marines in particular are an interesting re-work on the helmet texture.

Thanks to Slash for his contributions, and hopefully we'll see more from him again soon.

By IBBoard on 6th May 2006, 16:28

Twenty-Eight Space Marine badges and banners added

Briarus has recently submitted a set of Twenty-eight Space Marine badges and banners. The full list of chapters is contained on the download page.

By IBBoard on 4th May 2006, 20:21

Conquer the world in Dark Crusade

More information has been officially released about the Dawn of War: Dark Crusade expansion pack.

According to a press release reported on Yahoo! Finance the game will include a meta-map campaign where you take over a planet with any one of the seven races! From what they've said, think Risk or a normal Warhammer map-based campaign.

Also there to look forward to is bonuses for the territory areas you have in the campaign, and a new ecenomy model for the Necrons.

All in all, it sounds like a promising expansion pack. Now to wait and see what the new maps look like, since they are based on the planet of Kronus (or Kronos depending on which part of the press release you read), a planet that has not previously been mentioned in the 40K literature.

More information as it is released - probably in around a week or two after the e3 computer games expo.

By IBBoard on 1st May 2006, 16:37

Three new skins from IBBoard

I've been quiet for a while with my time being taken up by the Rollcall Army Builder application that I'm updating (see Hive World Terra and the forums for more details) and, more importantly, my Final Year Project for my Computing Science degree.

Following a pair of requests over at Relic Forums, I now have three new skins available:

• Tankbusta with Colourable Mask v1
• Tankbusta with Colourable Mask v1.1 - as above, but it combines it with the Coloured Goggles texture, since the Tankbustas and the Burna Boyz use the same texture
• Chaos Cultists with colourable tattoo v1.1 - now removes the trim stripe from the front of his robes that overlapped the scroll and could be seen through the badge.

These were just some quick and easy changes to give myself a break from my Final Year Project, but I hope everyone likes them.

By IBBoard on 25th April 2006, 17:33