Painting Challenge Event
Hidden Armies
'The practice of history is not unlike entomology. Neat and discrete, we capture marvellous things, pin them to the page, and call our labels fact.
Does their inert substance capture their flight? Their songs? I warrant not. Much is lost in the process of such cataloguing. Necessarily, of course, else one might fill a library with the wonder of a single creature; and we have so little time left. So little time.
All the more so for this hidden history. Much has been forgotten already; still more hidden – stories, armies, worlds entire. Lost and Forgotten
Before it is all lost, I would pin the facts to a history. After all, posed with the riddle of a False Primarch, I would have something we can call the truth.'
[//Prologue to the redacted text: The Golden Age of Imperium, a History – Prof. Cvin Liquis+]
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Painting Challenge Event V: Hidden Armies
It's time for another painting challenge.
Hidden Armies is themed around the many missing pieces of the War of the False Primarch. For every battle recorded here, for every character we have seen, there are a dozen languishing in obscurity.
What: This is your opportunity to fill in some of the blanks and explore the rich tapestry of the project. You are invited to paint between 1 and 5 models drawn from any stage and any faction of the War of the False Primarch. These can be anything from infantry to starships; Orthodox, Partisan or beyond; and can be gaming-ready or a display diorama.
How: To enter, all you need do is post your models on Instagram with the following tag #HiddenArmies
(Adding #Mournstarfall, #SomeThingsAreBestLeftForgotten and/or #WaroftheFalsePrimarch as well will make it easier for me to find, and are much appreciated!)
When: The challenge starts today (11/11/24); and runs until 21/12/24 (21st December, for clarity).
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[//Representatives of the Pentarchy of Blood+]
[//@lichs_lab+] |
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Notes and inspiration
This is a very broad brief, and I hope that flexibility means you get to really flex your imagination. There are lots of existing factions that have been explored through the various articles, and many more that have just been hinted at. Perhaps you'll tackle some of the more obscure
Inquisitors fighting on both sides; another
High Lord of Terra; some of the much-suppressed
Xenos in the region; or a sampling of the many thousands of
Imperial Guard and PDF forces in the region – and
beyond?
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A challenge within a challenge
If you'd like to double-down and prefer to work to a tighter brief, then I'd like to invite you to a challenge within a challenge: illustrating the Siege of the Myrean League Shieldworlds.
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[//Riverhead orders the Storm Tyrants to advance+]
[//@death_of_a_rubricist+] |
This is the culmination of events, with elements of every Chapter – Partisan and Pentarchy alike – involved to a great or lesser extent. In order to illustrate this, I need as many pictures as possible of opposing Astartes forces in combat, so you are invited to create a group or diorama of Partisan Astartes fighting Pentarchy Astartes – this could be single combat up to and includng whole armies fighting – there's no figure limit for this one. This sub-challenge otherwise uses all the same notes as above; and runs for the same time.
...And if you'd really like something even more specific, then please consider painting up some members of the following Chapters, whose redaction was clearly very efficient – they could all do with a few more pictures; particularly in combat!
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[//Umathron and Star Wardens+]
[//@natedungeon+] |
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'The War of the False Primarch was a dark and bloody episode of the Imperium's history, now largely lost to myth and purged from all records, that plunged the Segmentum Pacificus into anarchy from 780.M33 to 860.M33. The conflict was finally ended when the High Lords of Terra convened the Pentarchy of Blood and tasked five loyal Chapters to destroy eleven others that had been declared Traitoris Perdita for their actions during the war.'
[//Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition pg. 17+]
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