Dr. Tortenkopf is making Terminators great again

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About the Project

I decided that the Space Hulk Tactics Hobby Challenge would be a great excuse to get away from edge highlighting my Death Guard and get to build something again. So here come some Terminators I have been meaning to work on for several years now. I will true-scale them. I will mod them to not be Death Wing anymore. And I will hopefully get started painting them as Howling Griffons.

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Testing the process and a small preview

Oct 17 2018

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I tested the process I had in mind on a single miniature, before I set to work on the other four.

Here are a few comparison shots after the process, in order to give you an idea of how the final product will look.

My scaled up test Terminator next to a Primaris Marine.

My scaled up test Terminator next to an identical Terminator.

The scaled up Terminator is not taller than the Primaris, but reaches up to the same eye level. I find it stunning how all of a sudden it becomes apparent just how massive the Terminator armor is supposed to be.

That impression is created by the length of the torso now matching the length of the legs.

Motivation and Introduction

Oct 12 2018

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Skill 6

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This introduction is going to be a bit Text heavy, please bear with me…

TLDR: Terminators look wimpy next to Primaris Marines. I will fix that.

I have always loved Terminators. I have loved their design from when I first saw them.

But I cannot say the same about the regular Space Marines Armor. Compared to the other human sculpts from the 40k universe they have always appeared stunted and awkward.

I have the luxury of coming to 40k and into the possession of a Space Marine army at a time, when the shift to the new Primaris sculpts has already happenes. In fact that is one of the reason I picked up the starter box. I just never liked the old, too short Marines.

The Primaris models are well proportioned and are exactly as tall as Space Marines are always described as being in the lore. The lore also talks about them being taller than the regular marines, but lets face it, actually the old models just were too small.

Now I have some old Space Marines and I will be true-scaling them at some point. But right now its going to be the Terminators turn. Because Terminators have a problem:

It turns out, that while a Terminators legs are alright, their torso is actually weirdly too short.

The Lord of Contagion is wearing Cataphracti Armor, which is supposed to be more bulky. But unless it has really high plateau soles, why should it make him taller?

Terminators are supposed to tower over other marines. The armor should make them appear taller and far more massive. But next to Primaris Marines, that just doesn’t work anymore.

Terminators are the emperors finest!

Terminators have taken worlds without firing a single shot by teleporting in and making governments submit in awe!

Terminators shouldn’t have to be looking up to anyone!

Lets do this!