Real Scale Crimson Fists Space Marines

The veteran WH40K player will already know what is this all about, but let me make a brief introduction for the rest. In the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Imperium of Mankind counts with the best of the best troops ever, the Space Marines. They are genetically modified humans able of almost anything imaginable and, according to the background, they are real giants amongst the rest of mankind, towering warriors with their distinctive bulky armour.

However, the actual minis do not show that, and the Space Marines are just as tall as any normal human (and their rules don't show them as the killing machines they are!). I've been trying to solve that for many years, inspired by true genius sculptors all over internet.

Alongside the resident contributor of this blog, KeyanSark (man, I should post a label with your name!), we faced (another) absurdly fun project some time ago: We would build up a five men Squad of giant Marines in order to play them with those 'movie marines' rules that were released some years ago (in which the Marines were indestructible and acted as movie characters. We will talk about that another day...). I would sculpt and he would paint.

The idea was to have a Sergeant, a Champion, a heavy weapons man and two regular marines. This was what we got. These are the sculpts:

 

Terminator legs with green stuff

And some hairstyle

 

Hairstyling everywhere

 

 The Sergeant breast plate should be totally heroic:

 

Roman-style, with horses and a face, almost 'Gladiator' movie

 

E-pic

 

 

So should look the Champion:

 

I'm cool and I know it

Then wait to see me painted

 Regular chainswords looked ridiculous in these beasts' hands, so I used two chainswords for the Sarge's weapon:

 

 

I also sculpted the Crimson Fist icon:

For now it's the Green Fist Chapter

 

The 'regular' Space Marines were as bulky as the characters:

 

I had to do some extra work on that arm later

I still have to learn lots of things about green stuff

Extra large backpack

 I've learned later on that the backpack thing is not necessary, as regular ones work nice. Another leason learned.

It happened otherwise with the missile launcher. The normal one looked petty when held by a realscale marine, so I added a plastic piece to make it look 'normal'.

 

It's from some kind of ballpen, if I recall it right

He's looking at an internet ad: 'enlarge your missile launcher'

 

This was my first take on this other guy

Left the can opener at the fortress monastery

I wasn't sure of wht to do with the head

I finally chose the first option

 
Now you are asking: 'how do they look next to a 'normal' marine? Do they look as big as you pretended?' Well, I'll let you judge:

 

No steroids, just a balanced diet.

 
And the group photo:

The Magnificent Five

Did you like them? Then wait to see what did Keyan achieve:

 

  We made up a name and a full story for each one of them, making real heroes of them with their own background, but I'll talk about it another day, this entry is becoming too long now...

For the moment let them be just as they are:

 

The Heroes

 

I promise you will see them in action soon, quite soon...

Hope you like them!