Sorry Teddy, I read your post too fast looking for new career options was what you wanted not fan-sites, but a lot of them have stats for Astartes and etc... All I can think of is the DH handbook, some home-brew will most likely come along at FF forum would be my best bet. Here are just some sights you have already probably seen, but I have a mild opinion about DH art that might aid you from going insane looking for anything that doesn't cost you 75 pounds and up. Some of these sites have decent art, but I would still save up for a scanner :)
Awesome inter-active starmap
http://www.joachim-adomeit.de/wh40k/spacemap/map.html
Lexicanum (good for background info and canon material
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page
Best fan-site in my opinion
http://www.darkreign40k.com/
Obscuro Hereticus (Donut of a fan-site, such sweet goodies your stomach will ache)
http://dh40k.wikidot.com/system:list-all-pages
Ordo Malleus
http://www.malleus.dk/Ordo/
Schola Progenium
http://www.scholaprogenium.com/
Phillup Sibering
http://www.philipsibbering.com/
Anargo Sector Project
http://anargo-sector.net/explore/
Purganum
http://purganum.com/
It is wiki but you can never get enough DH
http://darkheresy.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
So obvious I don’t why it is on this page but join the community it is a great forum
I go by Senior Cardinal Ignato, flakk goes by Captain flakk, I check it nightly (the fan-art on the forums is some of the best I have seen).
http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/
Illuminatus
http://z4.invisionfree.com/ill...s/index.php?act=site
Need to brush up on your latin, one of the best converters next to Nortre Dame’s College site, (most sight botch sayings, can only really translate one word at a time which with latin is a complete waste of time :)
http://www.translation-guide.c...English&to=Latin
As for art sites I have some pretty strong feelings about it, if you are looking for generic and random pictures search Google, “40k images”. There are many reasons it is so hard to find good GW art, your best bet is to buy as many back issues of White Dwarf and a scanner, because most of GW artists are so talented that fan-art that is good but this isn’t drawing X-Men or any line art, these are serious artist. So most fan artists cant work anywhere near the real thing, and isn’t that why we love GW, they are so expensive, but they are worth it.
Example someone says "orc" before I knew of GW, 50 different images came to mind, now when someone says “Ork”, a War-Boss surrounded by snotlings riding a derelict half track with a pain-boy hanging on the hood comes to mind, they define what most can’t do. Just look at the covers of DH’s books, (I have dreams where I am holding a new copy of the soon coming Rouge Trader). They just keep raising the bar with their art, especially since FF took over.
Second the fact that it is not typical comic book line art, these are serious artists that work in crayons (the real expensive kind), egg tempera, extremely thick canvas for better grip of oil paints and even John Blanche and others will make their own paints, because it is cheaper and better than anything you could buy. Third, DH an WHFP work with such a realistic style, almost Renaissance portrait work or commissioned work for Napoleon Bonaparte. These are seriously schooled artists that somehow can not only master the anatomy of humans, but Xenos too which seems impossible because their is no Gray’s anatomy of a Genestealer or Tyranid. If you search the artists names you will come up with some good stuff, but even search "fan-site" of so and so and you will probably find something not thumb-nailed or gloss protected.
Truly I have seen no site that can match the entire scope of work, so what I do is look up the actual artist, because they all have done more than just GW stuff and show a lot of different work besides GW because their talent level leads them to do all kinds of commissioned and personal work. The list is infinite, go to a comic book store and flip through credits to the artists then google them. I own a gallery and it drives me crazy how hard it find GW art, but that is why I love them too. The old saying “Why are the rich so often insane, because they can afford to be.”
Short list of my favorite artists, very short list...
John Blanche (The Master), Clint Langley (The new Blanche), Adrian Smith, Wayne England, Kev Walker, Neil Hodgson, Karl Kopinski, Geoff Taylor, Paul Bonner, Tony Hough, Stephen Tappin & Kevin Walker....this could go on for ten more pages, I hope it helped a bit Teddy, thanks again for the Forum everyone owes you deeply, and you deserve some kudos you did a great job pulling together a lot of Rpol members and it is growing into a great forum.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:48, Mon 23 Mar 2009.