The Chapter Standard
Intro
The success of FIREBASE has shown the 40k forum community that it's possible for a group of dedicated posters to put together an e-zine. But equally, with FIREBASE's demise, there's a vaccuum that many people are rushing to fill. The Chapter Standard has assembled a strong and dynamic team from across the 40k community to create an e-zine in which we can do a number of things.
Firstly - We hope to provide help and advice for people creating a DIY Chapter, whether loyalist and traitor. The 40k universe is full of pitfalls and minefields for the uninitiated, and we hope to try to offer some advice.
Also, we plan to highlight and explore the issues around some of the most controversial topics within the DIY community. The Lost Legions? Female Marines? We're looking to combat both at a later date, with objectivity, tact and intelligence. We hope to spark good-natured, constructive and useful debate and drive a core focus towards the rich and vibrant background that seperates and defines the 40k universe from other games.
We also plan to examine the background of completed DIY Chapters, just like the Index Astartes articles from Games Workshop. But we intend to go one step further with our featured Chapters, displaying galleries of their models and interviewing their creators in an attempt to look at some of the issues behind their creation; again, to inform and inspire the reader.
We hope to raise the standard for the 40k Web-zine, to show GW what we can do. We've got a dedicated art department that's working on creating a slick, professional and razor-sharp look that ought to rival (if not excel!) everything currently on the 40k forum scene. We've got an extensive, vital writing staff incredibly passionate about their chosen subjects. We hope to solicit work from the community for later issues, to really make this a community project in the truest of senses.
We hope to build up a strong rapport with the reader (that's you!), in order that we may specifically tailor the 'zine to your demands. You'll be invited to comment or contribute, and we'll endeavour to utilise everything we receive. With only a month to conceive, design and create our 'zine, we're treating it very much as an experiment to see how you guys respond. We've set up an email address specifically for people to contact us, and further details will be given soon.
We hope you enjoy the 'zine, released April 2007!
Download
- The Chapter Standard Issue #1 [5,8 MB;
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