First Point of Aries: The Invitational

Thursday, 5 February 2015

The Invitational

In my imagination Iron Sleet is weather.

Numbing weather thundering across the burdened worlds of the 40K galaxy, mesmerising and all-encompassing. More than snow, rain and storm combined. Much more.

It is 40K weather in its rawest form.

A fitting image for the work that is emerging from the warp through the hands - and minds - of Kari, Mikko and Migs over at Iron Sleet, which is very fast becoming a beacon of creativity, artistry and inspiration in the Æther world of 40K.

Apart from Migs mindblowingly beautiful Vlka Fenryka, Fenrisian weather reincarnate, Mikkos excellent Brotherhood of Steal and Karis amazing Hounds of Valon, they have managed to gather together some of the most talented individuals in the hobby in a very short time.

Also, they have just announced the first Iron Sleet Invitational here!

Standing in my Cabinets of Wonders are three very early WIP's of my entries-to-be. If I manage to get them done in time for April 1st they will be in an amazingly good company, so for that alone...

2 comments:

migsula6 February 2015 at 15:48
No 'if' mate! Very very much looking forward to your WIPs and thanks for the kind writeup :)
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Kari Hernesniemi6 February 2015 at 16:44
This is going to be insane, I'm sure of it! Great to have you onboard mate!
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First Point of Aries is inspired by the title of an Echospace track. A hauntingly beautiful one of a kind.

Echospace - First Point of Aries

But also by the day I came into this world - many, many moons ago. The first spring day that year. The Vernal Equinox. When day and night on the Northern hemisphere were equally long. My first day was as long as my first night. Darkness and light.

Coincidentally this too was and still is the first day of Aries. Which somehow makes FPOA by Echospace a very good starting point for this blog and my personal endeavours into the imaginary worlds of Games Workshop.

Worlds that are weathered, beaten, ambient, dystopian and full of darkness and light. Worlds that are aesthetic in the more original sense of the word - as in sensuous.

As such I am immensely inspired by those creative minds and fellow puppeteers who are able to bring aesthetics understood not as beauty of form but rather sensuous quaility into their work. Huge inspirations being aesthete extraordinaires John Blanche, Mikael Silvanto (Migsula) and Jakob Rune Nielsen.