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Okay so i was thinking would space marines ever take off their armour, i dont think they would be able to stay inside it for a few centuries or so.
So does anyone know do SM ever take their armor off?

Read any marine book and they get out of their armour often to clean and repair it. They tend to walk around the chapter monastery in robes and also train in tunics. In all they spend quite a considerable amount of time in their armour.

Also a I believe if they stay in armour too long obvious it can chaff them and blister etc (not as though they care) but they can probably stay in a considerable amount of time.

I believe they do remove their armour. I think this thread discusses the topic:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/345731.page

hope it helps

In one of the HH short story books, in After De'Shea, the War Hounds are described as wearing Dress Uniforms. Yeah, Space Marines in USMC style uniforms, without the hat of course.

Daemonhammer wrote:Okay so i was thinking would space marines ever take off their armour, i dont think they would be able to stay inside it for a few centuries or so.
So does anyone know do SM ever take their armor off?

I see you play Blood Ravens If you read the BA Omnibus then you'll find the Blood Angels spend a lot of time out of armour, Dante and Mephiston even get caught in a fight without it - not as though they need any.

Daemonhammer wrote:Okay so i was thinking would space marines ever take off their armour, i dont think they would be able to stay inside it for a few centuries or so.
So does anyone know do SM ever take their armor off?

Like much of 40k, it probably depends on where you're looking. Many authors have different ideas on such details, and since GW is not enforcing conformity or consistency in such cases, it comes down to "do what you feel is right". People's perception of the grimdarkness of the 41st millennium does differ a lot, after all.

That said, I guess it's safe to assume that they would remove the armour at least for daily maintenance. Whether they sleep in it or not is up to you.

They do however always have a black carapace-like sheet on (or rather grafted to) their skin that have all the sockets and interface points necessary for the marine to interact with their power armour.

So while they remove their power armour often enough, they are never completely without armour.

TiB wrote:They do however always have a black carapace-like sheet on (or rather grafted to) their skin that have all the sockets and interface points necessary for the marine to interact with their power armour.

So while they remove their power armour often enough, they are never completely without armour.

Under their skin, actually. And it's not so much armor as it is a secondary nervous system necessary for interacting with their armor.

I remember it being mentioned somewhere that SM often wear scout armor when not expecting combat, since it's generally lighter and more comfortable.

TermiesInARaider wrote:I remember it being mentioned somewhere that SM often wear scout armor when not expecting combat, since it's generally lighter and more comfortable.

it would be great of someone could get a quote or a link

The black carapace is a SUBDERMAL implant (ie BELOW the skin.)
You can't see it normally* (as that would imply it is both below and above the skin at the same time - which would deny the subdermal - which has ALWAYS been part of its description - nature of it).

*Unless you are a two-bit-talentless-hack-BL-writer who has no idea about anatomy (well, most people couldn't tell you the difference between dermal and epidermal or subdermal - but good writers do research).

In the two SM novels I've read (I play them - well, did, anyway when I still played 40k - I don't need to read any more bolterporn than already included in the codex) they often had them in robes (light duty) so that it did not impede their training and went along with the other aspect of being a monastic knight. The ascetic thing.

phantommaster wrote:Read any marine book and they get out of their armour often to clean and repair it. They tend to walk around the chapter monastery in robes and also train in tunics. In all they spend quite a considerable amount of time in their armour.

Also a I believe if they stay in armour too long obvious it can chaff them and blister etc (not as though they care) but they can probably stay in a considerable amount of time.

Well they still wouldnt want it to blister, it ends up to a trip to the apothecary in tim that could be spent elsewere.
But Power armor kinda needs to be rehardged(hence POWER) armor and spending to much time in it is useless because by the time marines make it to assault it probably becomes a second skin.

Are you a broonie ^ .... creeeeepy just creeeeeeepy

AFAIK this is the only artwork of a non armoured Space Marine GW have ever released, from Bloodquest...

phantommaster wrote:Read any marine book and they get out of their armour often to clean and repair it. They tend to walk around the chapter monastery in robes and also train in tunics. In all they spend quite a considerable amount of time in their armour.

Also a I believe if they stay in armour too long obvious it can chaff them and blister etc (not as though they care) but they can probably stay in a considerable amount of time.

I'm pretty sure the Black Carapace would prevent things like chaffing.

For the OP, the majority of the BL novels i've read involving Space Marines do have them taking their armor off. It's usually a job reserved to a serf and some servitors, but a Marine is capable of doing it by himself in extreme situations.

This might help.

Those neck muscles. Wow, just wow.

Loyalist Marines regularly remove their armor.

CSM take off their armor as well, but many others become slowly fused to the suit through Daemonic gifts and sorcery and what not.

Latest Night Lords book has Marines taking off their tactical armor, putting on terminator armor, then changing back to their regular power armor.