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"Burn. Burn the ship. Burn the pathetic weaklings with it, alive."


So this is it, my next "grande" project - a true scale Adeptus Astartes. Actually I'm talking about making a bunch of them, three renegade Red Corsair Astartes to be exact. With power hooks, eye-patches and fiery red armours... Yarrr!

The idea of making a true scale Space Marine has been lurking in my mind ever since I finished the first Horus Heresy book. It was Migsula's fantastic Alpha Legionnaire that gave me the spark to start this project. I'm quite sure that my Astartes will have a lot in common with them, what comes to the shape, size and the overall feeling of them (or at least that's where I am aiming to), after all, they have inspired me a lot ever since I first ran into them.

So once again I grabbed a pencil and started sketching...



My main goal was to try to render the hulking embodiment of the Astartes the way I see it. Their armours are very bulky, worn and scattered with trophies and ancient liturgies. Their heads are like small pins, pinnacles that over-emphasizes the magnificent frame of the Astartes. The massive fur coat of the first Astartes rims the figure, making the warrior look like a barbarian of the far future, something that I've always thought that the Astartes fundamentally were.

The second one is a brutal renegade with very stiff and proud pose. The off-chopped heads, wide chaotic blade, ancient pistol and long, dark hair give a nice regressive, barbaric impact. Some of you might recognize where the sword has been taken from.

The third one is pretty generic Chaos Space Marine with all the spikes, trophy skulls and grotesque helmet, but there's still a twist or two to find...

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It took me nearly one month to finish the first of the true scale Corsairs. This one is Ragal Gair, Champion of the Fleet, the harvester of skulls, rendered in to the miniature form with the help of the first of my illustrations. The hulking armour, seasoned and stained by the time and blood, gleams in deep red. Moist, freshly picked trophy skulls, pierced by the thorns of the shoulder guard, make a macabre altar of victory, drawing fat hungry flies to feast. The grotesquelly shaped power hook, in place of an arm lost long ago in a fierce boarding fight, whispers quiet hissing sounds when it moves in the will of its master...


+ Ragal Gair, Champion of the Fleet, Red Corsairs +

More angles, WIP-shots and thoughts can be found in Spiky Rat Pack blog...

Those drawings are fantastic and have really piqued my interest to see what the final models look like, and true-scale is really icing on the cake.
The finished Corsair looks awesome and once he gets some mates the squad will look fantastic.
Can't wait for more

Always been a great fan of your work, keep it up.

I'm subscribed.

thats a month of work well spent. The miniature looks fantastic. Favorite part has to be the hook hand, really gives the marine a menacing and sadistic character. briliant work.

I am in awe of your dedication to your project and the amazing execution. I'll be stickin' around

Great stuff!

Thanks fellas!

This is just but one of the many projects I'm doing atm so don't wait updates anytime soon. Dedication means a lot of hours to chew... Or maybe I'll surprise not only you but myself too

Anyways, there'll be two more Corsairs as the illus suggest, but I'm also planning on making a small companion for Gair, a louse, spineless helmet carrier who's carrying this massive chaotic helmet of Gair on his back...

Very nice, izeColt! Those drawings are very nostalgic... I remember the older illustrations for WHQ and original WH40K. (possibly WFB too, but wasn't too deep into that).

I'm looking forward to this - TS Space Marines + your style of artwork... damn you... damn you and your vision-to-model execution...

-Remi

Nice drawings! They almost have a rogue trader-esque feel to them.

Hi everybody! It's been a long time since I last time logged in Dakka and posted anything in here. Much has happened during the gap. I've even been able to push this Red Corsair project forward. Here’s a shot of the new members of the crew. It's starting to feel like a small army project that is slowly growing. I’ve expanded the lot with three new characters, Brother Cristos Savacius (Dread Knight conversion, large oval base), Brother Elia Ygon (50mm base) and a Skull Probe (25mm base) mounted with a plasma pistol.



More info and pics: http://ironsleet.com/2015/04/05/red-corsairs-invitational/

Hope you like them!

Fantastic work, right through from concept to finished model!

Thanks Paradigm