Skins @ Hive World Terra

Dark Angels successor chapters arrive

Briarus has now released a set of badges, banners and .teamcolours for three of the Dark Angels successor chapters found in the 4th edition Dark Angels codex.

His Dark Angel Successor Chapters pack contains full schemes for the Consecrators, Guardians of the Covenant and the Disciples of Caliban.

By IBBoard on 25th February 2007, 15:34

Hangar-8's WH40K: Badges and Banners is MIA

The following is a message I just posted in the Hive World Terra Forum:

"Hangar-8 has just recently announced that his site is current down due to accidental deletion of the folder on the server.

"The return date of the site is not certain, and it may not even return. I've already offered any help I can as Hangar-8's work is certainly something that shouldn't be lost.

"Until I get the skins re-hosted locally (for those I have copies of), all of Hangar-8's skin downloads will not work."

Hopefully Hangar-8 will manage to get something sorted with his website. If it looks like there isn't going to be a quick fix then I'll try to get all of his skins that I have copies of mirrored directly on Skins@HWT.

By IBBoard on 22nd February 2007, 20:04

Aralez releases Ultramarines badges and banners

A pack of three Ultramarine badges and banners from Aralez, which also contains a Dark Angels and Imperial Guard badge and banner set, has now been approved as a download. The badges and banners are not strict representations of existing banners or iconography, but they are still based on the fluff and sit well with existing iconography.

By IBBoard on 22nd February 2007, 19:58

Modular win conditions released

While making the Halved Marine Mod for Dark Crusade (progress reports available in a HWT Forums thread) I investigated Finaldeath's Modularised win conditions.

The new win conditions make it much easier to combine race mods by making the win conditions generic and making them load race-specific files. Unfortunately the latest release had an error in them that caused SCAR errors if win conditions weren't loaded in the correct combinations. The only community patch separated everything out in to win condition specific files, which wasn't the optimal choice.

This set of modularised win condition files provides a working set of generic win conditions, a template file for new races and a readme so that people can use a common generalised set of win conditions to make multi-race mods simpler to create.

By IBBoard on 17th February 2007, 15:31

Templar Brothers army scheme released

Sgt.Roadkill has created and released another custom chapter scheme - the Templar Brothers. Much like the Black Templars they are a crusading chapter, although their orange and blue livery may appeal more to those who don't like the dark colours of the Black Templars.

By IBBoard on 8th February 2007, 22:05

MEGAzogg specularity packs removed

Following an announcement on the Relic News forums and a personal email from MEGAzogg, I have now removed his specularity packs from the website.

It's a shame to lose the packs, and there were more that I still intended to mirror at some point, but MEGAzogg has good reason to remove his skins. Stolen work is never something people want to endure, and I hope this can be resolved, or at least prove a point to stop it happening too many more times in the future.

MEGAzogg's other downloads (items other than specularity packs) are still available on his authors page.

By IBBoard on 6th February 2007, 19:43

Coloured topknot Orks added

Towards the end of the weekend Alpha Omega submitted a Orks with team coloured topknots texture pack. As well as changing topknot colour it also makes the Ork eyes a more fluffy red rather than team colourable. It may only be a small change, but I'm sure it will be an important change for some people.

By IBBoard on 6th February 2007, 19:28

Angels Belligerent released

There has been a little delay since they first showed up with a temporary link to a FileFactory.com download, but vol_907's Angels Belligerent texture pack for the DoWXP Mod has now been added to the Mod Skins category.

The skin makes very few changes to normal skirmishes, but does replace the campaign texture one of the team colour disabled skirmish textures.

By IBBoard on 4th February 2007, 16:32

Weekend update - Pattern Switcher and Grey Knights

Following a few days of real life that stopped me doing much with the website, I have now managed to get an update in.

JuggernautRM's Team Colourable Grey Knights are now available for download. Chknslvdrvr made a similar set a while ago, but as always there will be some personal differences between the two that some people will prefer over the other.

Also updated is the Pattern Switcher. Following a comment on v2.1, it turned out that the config screen wasn't adding slashes to the end of folders when they were specified using the "Browse" buttons. This has now been fixed and Pattern Switcher v2.1.1 now correctly sets paths without you having to click in to the box and back out again.

By IBBoard on 3rd February 2007, 14:37

Four army schemes from Sgt.Roadkill

Sgt.Roadkill has now updated three of his army schemes (packs including badges, banners and .teamcolours for a single Chapter/Legion/Craftworld/Clan etc) for the Black Panthers, Blood Dragons and Phoenix Legion.

Sgt.Roadkill has also moved in to official Games Workshop chapters and released a new Marines Errant army scheme.

By IBBoard on 29th January 2007, 19:53