Made by Rahul Kohli grain war hammer Well known, from his model making journey to championship Henry Cavill Love Hammer 40,000 series Even before Amazon actually goes and announces the damn thing. Now, he’s got his own taste of The bleak future of the forty-first millennium…and he’s really making his way in his own style.
Games Workshop and Auroch Digital announced today that Kohli will voice the protagonist in their upcoming retro-style FPS Warhammer 40,000 Boltgunswho follows alone space submarineMalum Caedo, an Ultramarine veteran as he battles the forces of Chaos. The gameplay and the aesthetic itself is a mixture of earthquake And death PC shooters from the ’90s, with modern sensibilities – the perfect kind of pairing for a ridiculously hyper-violent hyper war hammer It has always been trafficked.
“I feel incredibly lucky to be a part of the Warhammer universe,” said Kohli. Warhammer community. “I recently became a fan and picked up my own class (Ultramarines, because I’m fond of box art). Over the past year or so, I’ve found the community to be very welcoming, and it’s only accelerated my love of the hobby. To have voiced Ultramarine in a first-person shooter? I mean, It kind of peaked. It definitely feels like the perfect project.”
Except it’s not actually the perfect project — Kohli did it on his own, revealing alongside the announcement that he’s actually put his modeling skills to the test by making his very own mini avatar of Caedo to go along with the news he’s joining the group. 40 thousand being. Kohli’s modified Sternguard Veteran minifigure includes swap parts like the beak-nose helmet and new weapons, a pose ripped straight from the Boltgun’s cover art, and even custom-drawn heraldry like Caedo’s name written on one of his shoulder pads.
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I think the gauntlet with a fist has now been thrown into Henry Cavill’s corner to draw and build a model Whatever character he will play On Amazon in the near future then? Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun On May 23rd for PC, Xbox Series X and S, and Playstation 5.
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