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When my Deadzone shipment arrives sometime in december, my space marines are going to start looking... well... short. The enforcers that will be in it are liable to be head and shoulders taller than standard squatty marines due to their truer scaling (they're actually taller than their non super-soldier compatriots, unlike SM and guardsmen). Seeing what Alairos did with his chaos berserkers, and after reading through Veteran Sergeants 31mm space marine blog, I though I'd give this "Tall Scale" thing a try, with the overall goal of making my marines taller. I'm not quite the modeler either of those guys are, so I'm not trying for as dynamic (and awesome) of a pose, height and intimidation factor are my main goals.


So, I started with a pre-existing tech marine conversion, above


And did this to him.


And he looks like this compared to various other models (the corporation ranger is pretty much exactly as tall as a guardsman)

So, obviously, there is a lot of work left. He has gaps that need filled, and he needs a claw or grabber on his right mechandrite/mecha-tendril or whatever we're calling those these days.

But what do you guys think so far? Am I headed in the right direction? I'm biased, and I can't 100% tell if he looks like he's walking (albeit slowly), or if he should be stepping on something with that back foot. I need to get a better shot of him from the front, somehow I failed to take or didn't upload one, and its too late to go back after it tonight (probably come back tomorrow).

The plasma pistol is SW, I know, but I think the thing on top could be interpreted as a lion and therefore be kosher for his otherwise DA theme. The left tendril attachment is meant as a flamer barrel, and is one of the censers or incense thingies the DA kits come with. I added microbead studs to the legs to spruce him up a bit.

Comments and criticism are welcome! Let me know what you think, whether you like it, or think I should try to do better. Any ideas for a nice pincher/claw for the other servo tendril?

P.S. the pictures are reasonably large, so if you can't see something click it and zoom in, I just didn't want to blow up people's screens with full-sized images

Ahem, there's that. Took awhile to get around to it and all that. Still no good ideas for a claw/manipulator to represent the servo arm.

Thanks for looking, perhaps we'll see you in P&M showcase eventually, almost eager to paint the red on this fellow.

sorry i just now got around to seeing this...especially as i have been wondering how i am going to scratch-build/customize TMs of my own.

i think he looks awesome. for the mechadendrite/ doctor octopus arm that still needs something on the end: something like fingers (a la Doc Ock)...maybe make them out of plasticard. or get a little alligator clip (roach clip?) and see what you can do there. with the axe, he doesn't really need another CCW, but you could try a chainsword and see how that looks. or some strange ball of energy. or some big tech/sensor (based on an old auspex, maybe?)

I've been away from my marines for a bit, but I think the claw will be the first thing I do when I get back on that project.

I still need to fix up the waistline and smooth out the other plasticard with liquid greenstuff.