Space Marine exhibition; Deathwing Terminators

Throughout the year Warhammer World runs a series of exhibitions, which showcase the various armies and game systems that make up the Games Workshop hobby. These exhibitions are changed periodically and the John Blanche exhibit has just been replaced by an exhibition focusing on the most iconic of all of our miniatures, a Space Marine showcase. It occurred to me that not everyone gets the chance to see these exhibitions and the pieces of hobby lore they showcase, though if you can get down to Warhammer World then it really is well worth a look, so I thought I'd post a couple of choice bits here on the blog. Each exhibition runs for a number of weeks, so hopefully I'll get a chance to re-visit it and post some more pictures for you in the near future.

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  Each exhibition is set-up slightly different, but there are always a number of dedicated cabinets full of miniatures from the Citadel vaults, and a number of art boards featuring seminal pieces of artwork and concept sketches that relate to the army or game system featured in the exhibit.

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  This was the first set of metal Space Marine Terminators or 'Marines in Tactical Dreadnought Armour' as they were known then, and was released in 1989. Click on the image for a look at a unit of these painted in the colours of the Deathwing by the 'Eavy Metal team.

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  These two Space Marine miniatures are actually pre-Space Marine Space Marines. The first ever metal Space Marines, they were produced in the early eighties for use in roleplaying games, before Warhammer 40,000 was actually developed as a tabletop wargame in 1987.

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  These days almost all of our plastic miniatures begin life as a three-up (there's an explanation of three-ups in this blog). This Epic Whirlwind was one of our first ever three-ups and is actually larger than a standard Space Marine Rhino.

On the subject of Space Marines, I spotted this Deathwing army on Ian Huxley's desk:

Ian painted this army over the course of a month. He began by using the Spray Gun to basecoat all of his models with Khemri Brown and then highlighted them with Dheneb Stone. This was the first army Ian painted primarily using Foundation Paints and he was 'impressed by how quickly I got them ready for the tabletop'. He plans to go back over the army at some point, adding some shading with Washes and perhaps some more highlights.

Ian converted this Belial model to lead his Deathwing, using the Marneus Calgar miniature as a foundation. He swapped Marneus' upper body for a plastic Space Marine Terminator's and added a head from the Dark Angels frame. He filed off any visible Ultramarine symbols and added shoulder pads, again from the Dark Angels frame. The wings on the model's back are from a Kislev horse archer.

As he knew his Deathwing army would be a relatively small force in terms of number of models, Ian wanted to make sure each Space Marine was an individual, which seems only fitting for members of the elite Deathwing. To achieve this Ian used heads from various plastic kits including the Space Wolves Pack set and the Chaos Marauder Horsemen kit.

And a quick reminder if live in the US: you only have until midnight tonight to take advantage of our Express Shipping option and have your order delivered in time for Christmas. So if you're going to struggle to get down to a Hobby Centre before Christmas then today is definitely the day to finish off your Christmas shopping.