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2012/07/11 08:22:44
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
Don't get the whole dressing up/cosplay thing myself, but if it floats your boat...
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2012/07/11 08:41:22
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
I've never loved SM more than I do after watching that video.
To see them in proper scale is beautiful, and gives a greater depth to imagining them in action. We're gonna need bigger Rhinos.
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2012/07/11 09:02:46
Subject: Re:Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
Some friends and I are going to be at Comic Con for the full 4 days, we will be sure to get some pictures of this! Talk about badass, you have to admire the dedication that these guys had when they built the suits!
2012/07/11 09:03:40
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
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2012/07/11 09:49:18
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
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2012/07/11 12:26:57
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
kronk wrote:They aren't properly scaled. Space Marines are 12' tall.
However, these costumes, despite their inaccuracy, are wicked cool. Great job, guys. I'd say awesome job, but you're 5' too short...
Also, where are the mold lines on the shoulder pads and helmets? Why didn't they use Devlin mud on the gold on the chest piece?
Space Marines are in fact 8-9 feet. While there are many variations of this (Chapter Masters for example, or terminator armour), the average space marine is roughly 7 feet tall. The Armour adds an extra 1 to 2 feet. For a nice (unofficial) way of how this might work, I address you to check out: http://www.philipsibbering.com/wh40k/10-01-marine-morphology.shtml .
The picture shown in the OP is a legit canon picture of a space marine (the black and white drawing showing his height).
2012/07/11 13:38:08
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
Yeah, nobody has ever seriously written of 12' tall marines, I have no idea where that figure comes from, and if you really believe that to be the case you seriously need to read more fluff, because at 12' they would be about 5' too tall. I suspect kronk may have been being sarcastic/trolling, but Im not really sure....
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2012/07/11 14:01:16
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
chaos0xomega wrote:Yeah, nobody has ever seriously written of 12' tall marines, I have no idea where that figure comes from, and if you really believe that to be the case you seriously need to read more fluff, because at 12' they would be about 5' too tall. I suspect kronk may have been being sarcastic/trolling, but Im not really sure....
He's doing that in a few threads now, hoping to reignite an old "Dakka meme", just report and ignore.
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2012/07/11 15:01:51
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
I'm jealous of my friend at Comic Con...I wonder how much it would cost to buy a suit from these guys? A Black Templar suit, complete with hanging chains around the weapons would definitely require a pants change for me...
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2012/07/11 20:44:22
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
I wish the video had shown at least a little bit of the completely costumed character walking around. I'd like to see what they look like in motion, rather than just standing there and turning slightly.
2012/07/12 13:57:18
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
Sigh, if only we brits had an equivalent over here...
Oh yeah, Games Day. Forgot about that.
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2012/07/12 14:09:52
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2012/07/12 14:20:24
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
yah, one BL book said this space marine was so tall he had to have some unrecoverable terminator armour retrofitted to be his power armour (dunno if I used retrofitted right lol!)
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2012/07/12 15:08:31
Subject: Comic-Con, Here We Come! Make a Life-Size Warhammer Space Marine Suit
Here's hoping I get a glimpse this weekend (living 20 minutes away from the convention center does have some advantages)
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