News
UberPainter Mod released for Winter Assault
Following hot on the heels of last night's UberPainter Mod release comes a new version - the UberPainter WA Mod, a separate mod that you can run alongside the original to give you all of the UberPainter Army Painter functionality in Winter Assault as well!
The Winter Assault version of UberPainter also features an improved ordering of unit previews, thanks to feedback from Kresjah. Although I had some logic behind the original ordering, I think the new ordering makes more sense.
UberPainter Mod released
Newly created and uploaded is the "UberPainter Mod". Similar to the existing Army Painter mods, but with extra features, the UberPainter is perfect for people who want to see all of the units and buildings or use the whole range of Games Workshop paints.
The UberPainter is aimed mainly at Skinners, but is also a useful mod for anyone making new colour schemes who wants to see what it looks like on all of the units and buildings.
Grey Lions badges and banner
Following a previous release to Hangar-8's Badges and Banner site (now closed to submissions) BattleTank has now released another custom-chapter set. The initial version of the Grey Lions Space Marines set is now available for download.
Two more banners from Tagger
Following very swiftly on from his first badge and banner sets, Tagger has now submitted two more - one heretical Chaos and the other semi-heretical.
Firstly is the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines. The badge and banner aren't taken from any canon sources, but they look great and fit perfectly.
Secondly is the Soul Drinkers Space Marines. Not entirely heretical, but not a loyalist chapter either, the Soul Drinkers have a nicely rendered chalice on their badge and banner.
Thanks to Tagger for his continued submissions, and I hope you all enjoy them.
New badges, banners and textures
Following very closely on the heels of his original Fire Dragons submissions, Jace has now submitted an updated non-Team Colourable Fire Dragons texture. This texture adds minor improvements, changing the dull grey to a more silvery white.
Also in the new submissions are two new badge and banner makers.
Tagger has submitted his first file - a Red Corsairs badge and banner set based on an article in White Dwarf about the heretic chapter.
Aralez has also joined the community with his first submission - Detailed Eldar Badges to replace those boring silhouette badges.
Thanks to all of the contributors, and hopefully we'll be seeing more from all of them soon!
Additional colours in Army Painter
Dawn of War has been released for almost 16 months now, and still people are finding new things that can be modified in the game!
Scorpia recently posted a brief tutorial on the Relic News forums about adding new preset colours to the Army Painter. This tutorial is now available as the article "How to add new preset colours to the Army Painter" and the information within it will hopefully soon be used to make an improved Army Painter mod.
New skin from Havoc
Once again Havoc has released a new Space Marine skin with more detailing and decoration on the armour. Not content with releasing the Iron Hands Space Marines and associated characters, he has now released a Veteran Reborn skins.
Despite a few minor inconsistencies in the fluff description of the skin, this great new skin adds extra detailing to shoulders and legs, reworks the chest plate and adds some interesting glow effects - work that any artificer would be proud of.
New artist, new texture
Skins@HWT has just received and added a new texture from yet another new artist!
Following on from Sandwichwarrior's original Aspect Warrior textures, that showed the Aspect Warriors in their true colours, Jace has released non-teamcolourable Fire Dragons. These textures complete the set for those people running Winter Assault and use the normal orange and grey style of the campaign Fire Dragons.
Good news for the New Year
Two new downloads have been added to the site over the Christmas and New Year period.
Firstly, Crystalking52's Miscellaneous Imperial Guard Schemes. Crystalking has requested a few skins with minor modifications before now, and has now provided a download for others to enjoy.
More recently, MadMaffMan has returned from his leave of absence with the Leman Russ texture that he had previously been working on. The new look without camo is great for those armies that want a tank with impact, instead of camouflage.
Finally, a simple 'Declined Downloads' section has been added to the Downloads area. This lists all of the downloads that have been submitted to the system, but which were rejected for some reason or another. Most often, this will be because of some copyright breech or similar.
If you have any ideas on how to improve any part of this site, then please Contact Us. In the mean time, check out the new downloads and enjoy the New Year!
'Pending Downloads' section added
A quick addition has just been hacked into the Downloads section of Skins@HWT. This shows the current list of pending downloads, along with a reason as to why they are pending.
The reason that this was added is that from the 13th of December until the New Year, I won't have access to my computer and so I won't be able to approve downloads. This list allows you to see what goodies/skins/contributions have built up over that period.
Also, the Downloads section has now gained it's own 'Quick Links' section in the side panel. Instead of being at the top of each page, they are now organised with the other navigation on the left hand side. Hopefully this will prove useful for people, just as the restructuring of the Main Menu seems to have proved useful.
Merry Christmas everyone!
