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More textures from MadMaffMan
I've just added the second of MadMaffMan's new textures. Again based on Hangar-8's popular "Golden Eagles" set, the MadMaffMan Heroes pack converts the Space Marine characters to match MadMaffMan's own Space Marine army.
Watch out for some MadMaffMan Vehicles coming soon!
Also updated today are Hangar-8's recent works. Hangar-8 has updated his Team Colourable Berserkers to be more generic and with more detail. This has been reflected in the download page, and screenshots have also been added to the Force Commander Variant and Chaplain.
Two new textures and some good news about the site
Firstly, the good news about the site. Following the recent downtime, connectivity problems and other issues that the site has been suffering from, we have now been migrated to our host's new data center. This move was always planned, but wasn't expected so soon. This should hopefully give us a improvement in stability and performance. As it is, everyone should now be accessing the new location. If the forums are closed or you can't submit a file, then you're still seeing the old site.
Next, and probably more importantly to most, the new skins. The first has been delayed slightly while I checked that it was an official submission. Prepare to kill the Emperor's Enemies with the Space Hulk Mod's very own Terminator Skin.
Also added are MadMaffMan's Space Marines. His first skin release, submitted not long after starting to learn how to use Photoshop, recolour the Space Marines to use the same areas as his own chapter.
There are still a couple of files waiting in the queue, but these will be added just as soon as I receive various confirmations!
Recent Downtime
Apologies to everyone who has had problems accessing the site recently. Unfortunately it has been due to issues beyond my control.
Today, the hard disk on one of my host's name servers died. This meant that the majority of requests for the website failed because one name server was unavailable and the other was overloaded with all the requests that would have been split to the other one.
The disk has now been replaced, and everything is now working again. The disk is also the suspected cause of previous downtimes over the past week or so. Hopefully, now that the disk has been replaced, the server should be able to function properly until the host's migration to the new and improved data center.
Again, I am sorry for the inaccessibility, but it was beyond my control and was due to a major hardware failure.
Iron Hands and Tanith join the fray
In the past couple of days there have been several submissions, all of which I will get round to adding soon.
First of the approved and listed submissions was havoc[night]'s Iron Hands Iron Farther skin for the Force Commander. Added today was a great Tanith and Gaunt's Ghost set of badges and banners from ArchimedesUK. This covers both pre- and post-lost regiments for the Imperial Guard.
Thanks to both of them for their submissions, and thanks to the others who have submitted files. The other files will hopefully be added by the end of tomorrow.
Winter Assault Desktop Wallpapers
Now available in a new download section are eightenn (yes, 18!) new wallpapers taken from the Winter Assault loading screens. Thanks to Skullcap for taking the time to capture each of these desktops and make this unofficial pack for the community.
The desktops are available as individual downloads in the new Miscellaneous Downloads area, or as one large Unofficial Winter Assault Desktop pack.
Two new textures from havoc[night]
Havoc[night] is comparatively new on the skinning scene, but already we are seeing some great textures from him. Newly released today and last night are the Iron Hands Space Marines, which add the look of bionics to your normal Space Marines, and Team Colourable Fire Dragons, which complement Sandwichwarrior's original Team Colourable Aspect Warrior skins very nicely for Winter Assault.
Hopefully we will see even more from havoc[night] in the future!
Feral Orks
Following some requests for more Ork skins instead of the almost-regular releases of various Space Marine textures, I added a Feral Ork texture to the website last night. The Feral Ork pattern removes the armour of the Boyz and Nobz and gives them a plainer appearance. More details and screenshots are available on the download page.
Mass Hangar-8 update
Following some new releases from Hangar-8, I've update the list with a few of his other patterns that I hadn't yet included.
Hangar-8 now has 15 contributions on the site, including a full reskin of the Space Marines with fixed colour eagle symbols!
The latest contributions are the Golden Eagle Chaplain, in-keeping with the Codex colour schemes, a Force Commander variant with a glowing blue Power Sword and some Team Colourable Chaos Beserkers, for those moments when you want Legion coloured frothing loons!
Note: both variations of the Golden Eagle Space Marine skins are regarded as v1.1. They both include the same improvements over the original version of the pattern, but the '1.4 style' version also alters the pattern to using the newer style of texture. v1.0 of the pattern has also been removed, on Hangar-8's request, so that only the latest versions are available.
Xen's textures now available
Some of you may know Xen, but you'd have to have been on the Relic Forums for quite a while. Way back in 2004, when the game was first released, Xen was one of the most prolific and major skinners on the Relic forums. After having been brought back into the fold by the release of Winter Assault, we now have permission to host his files!
We currently host all seven useful skins (the Raptor fix has been ignored because I think Relic have now fixed the issue themselves) and are looking forward to seeing what Xen can do with the new expansion pack.
So, what are you waiting for? Check out Xen's Dawn of War texture replacements!
50th Space Marine download added!
I've just added a new texture from Hands of Fate (the creator of the very original Drop Pods with Badge texture). This time it was a more conventional skin, but still going very much for the canon look.
The new Librarian with Badge adds a chapter badge as well as making him team colourable in a 3rd/4th Edition style - mainly Chapter colours, but retaining a blue arm as indication of his post.
So, download and enjoy our 50th Space Marine texture file! And don't forget that you can submit your own textures, badges, banners, tutorials or anything else that is Dawn of War related but not a full mod!
