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Brother Argos of The Bolter and Chainsword writes:

The Bolter and Chainsword is proud to announce the release of The Space Marine Painter V3.0 and the accompanying beta release of our Wargear module.

The Space Marine Painter in use

This tool is the first major step in the transformation of the B&C from a simple forum to our end goal of an integrated, all-encompassing Space Marine Resource Site. Coupled with the recent addition of Member Galleries, Blogs and The Librarium (our article management system) the Space Marine Painter will allow Marine players to create and share their vision of the 41st Millennium with tens of thousands of other members swiftly and simply.

Key Features of the Space Marine Painter 3.0 with Wargear 0.5

The Space Marine Painter allows the user to create high quality images of Astartes warriors from the Chapter of their choice, by using the Wargear module users can also add weapons, purity seals and various markings. These images are suitable for for visualising and inspiring new paint schemes or just for having a bit of fun with whilst also offering Space Marine players the ability to produce images similar in quality and variety to those in official GW publications for B&C threads, galleries, blogs or as part of articles in the B&C Librarium.

Supported features:

  • Mark VI, VII and VIII armour variants
  • 16.7 million colour pallette
  • The ability to individually colour more than 40 individual armour pieces
  • 'Quick Colour' feature to allow users to quickly paint an entire Marine
  • The ability to produce halved or quartered colour schemes
  • The ability to produce coloured or gridded backgrounds
  • 6 helmet variants, including striped and laurel bearing helmets
  • 6 chest plate options, including purity seals and optional winged Aquila or skull inlays
  • Purity seals and squad markings for shoulder pads
  • Squad markings for kneepads
  • Weapons including bolter, bolt pistol and chainsword
  • Grenades and ammo pouches
  • Step-by-step tutorial for using the Space Marine Painter
The finished output from Painter and Wargear

The Bolter & Chainsword is proud to offer this free tool to the internet-based Games Workshop community as part of its drive to create the ultimate one stop Space Marine Resource site. Please visit us regularly as we continue to update and expand the Painter, Wargear module, and other parts of the site such as the Librarium and Gallery.

For more information