Well, they have a different set of artists, but I think you are being harsh nevertheless. I do think the modern edition books capture the right mood. Of course, people can judge your examples for themselves but they are selected pieces - there is a lot of art in the books, as you might expect and it wouldn’t all be the same.It's not just the colour. To me there was a clear style in the early Warhammer Art that really captured the griminess of the setting. I don't actually see much of that in the 1e cover. It's not that you couldn't do the same thing in colour. I feel that the Symbaroum art is along the right lines but a little too romantic perhaps. The 4e Warhammer art is just, I don't know too colourful, too bright,
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It's just lacks mood. It could easily be D&D.
This is somewhat better:
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It at least looks like Warhammer, but it's a bit too soft, a bit too realistic, a lot of the earlier art was spikier, a bit more exagerrated, and the black and white style helped to catch that stylised exagerrated aspect of it.
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