Art Friday : AT-43 Concept Art & Wallpapers
My current interest in Rackham’s AT-43 miniatures wargame mainly stems from the fact that Karl Kopinski, one of my favourite Warhammer 40,000 artists, was commissioned for part of the artwork for the initial releases (Operation Damocles) of this game. The fact that one of the first digital artists that I encountered online, Alessia Zambonin, whose fantastic character art for Paolo Parente’s Dust game as well as AT-43, inspired me to start this site to plug interesting artwork and downloads on the .Net which I felt deserved wider recognition 
I wrote about AT-43’s wallpapers last March but since Rackham updated the site with new concept art for various units and additional wallpapers since the last time I visited the official AT-43 site, I thought it would be nice to give them a second mention 
My picks from the total of 18 available for download.
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The Red Blok.
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The Therians.
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The U.N.A.
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The U.N.A vs the Therians.
My own impressions of the three factions in AT-43:
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U.N.A - Think Warhammer 40,000’s Imperial Guard with more funds for heavier body armor. I think it was a great idea to rope in Karl Kopinski for the U.N.A artwork with his convincing portrayal of those resolute (foolhardy 
) yet fragile human guardsmen of the Imperial Guard
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Therians - Sinewy, spiky and sinister machines hellbent on assimilating all other worlds. If I’m not wrong, the initials on the second piece (Storm Golem) belong to Adrian Smith, my #1 favourite Warhammer 40,000 artist with an extraordinary talent for illustrating twisted and horrific characters like the Chaos Space Marines.
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Red Blok - Russians in space. Their Soldaty even brought their RPGs into space The Spetsnatz Kolossus on the bottom reminds me of some of Keith Thompson’s fabulous mecha designs.
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Karmans - Angry gorillas in spacesuits. Cover art for the upcoming Operation : Frostbite campaign set first announced in Cry Havoc #75, Rackham’s email newsletter.
Download the wallpapers or marvel at the character designs for the three factions at the concept art gallery.
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Karl Kopinski - Warhammer 40,000 Illustrator
More Karl Kopinski artwork in free Codex Catachans PDF
Adrian Smith - Warhammer 40,000 Illustrator
Kai (Ukitakumuki) - Illustrator
Keith Thompson - Mecha Illustrator
Rezolution : Dark Tomorrow Artwork - Aberrant Games
Very nice and quite reminiscent of Warzone. Especially the human factions that is…
You know Gnome, Paolo Parente initially worked on AT-43. Check the Chronicles from the Warzone issue 1 you posted a while back, you’ll see that Paolo’s in the credits there too, which probably explains the similiarities in the art direction
Aha! That explains it! You’re so absolutely wise in the ways of artwork my friend…
Nah, I’m still exploring the wonderful work of computer and non-computer game art - it’s a beautiful world out there