Skins @ Hive World Terra

Two more quick skins

Supplying the demand for a couple of other requests, I've now released to more skins that were requested on Relic Forums.

Both skins are for the Imperial Guard, with the Assassin skin being a minor modification to Havoc's original team colourable assassin. The White Badged Guardsmen is a minor clarification of the original skin that makes the Cadia badge look more like a skull and less like a blob, while also fixing it as white.

Although both skins were done on request as quick one-offs, I hope other people like them too.

By IBBoard on 11th June 2006, 19:40

Three quick new skins

Following a raft of recent suggestions in the Relic Forums Texture Replacement and Request Thread, and with my university degree finally over, I've taken a few of the requests up and made a few new skins with minor changes.

Created and uploaded so far are the Coloured Wire Wraithlord, Modified Team Colourable Berserkers and the Chaos Lord with colourable skull. Check out the download pages for more details of what each request entailed.

By IBBoard on 11th June 2006, 15:51

World War Two inspired camouflage

After releasing the Digital Camo for Guardsmen, Soliel-Rouge has now gone all the way and made a complete Camouflaged Tanks and Troops based on World War Two camouflage.

The quality of the camo is great, and it's good to see someone making an entire themed pack, so thanks to Soleil-Rouge for all of the time he spent on it.

By IBBoard on 7th June 2006, 08:28

Pre-Heresy army schemes

Briarus has just released two new pre-Horus Heresy army schemes (containing all you need: badges, banners and teamcolours). The two packs are designed to represent loyalist Alpha Legion and Word Bearer Space Marines.

Thanks to Briarus for his fourth and fifth in a continuing flow of contributions.

By IBBoard on 6th June 2006, 19:04

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