Mortals in Power Armor

[ElectricPaladin]

I don't have any Sisters of Battle or inquisitors handy. Can someone - preferrably with pics, but that's not necessary - give me an idea of how a human in power armor measures up to an Astartes in terms of size?

I ask because I'm going to make a custom inquisitor to count as Coteaz to use as the leader of an allied detachment of Inquisitors for my Exorcists. I want to know if I can use Space Marines bits, or if I need to get my hands on Sisters of Battle bits, or even buy a Coteaz and hack him up.

Thanks.

[Kirsten]

I don't have any hand, but they are certainly smaller than marines

[magickbk]

I don't have pics, but in terms of size, a Sister's power armor is actually smaller than Kasrkin Carapace armor. Historically, GW has made non-Astartes in Power Armor roughly the same size, but has made the armor look less refined by making it more angular and exposing more cabling, etc.

In the background, "power armor" refers to the functions of how the suit operates using a power plant in the backpack and fiber bundles to mimic the movements of the wearer, and couples that with ceramite plating, because that would be too heavy to wear otherwise. The size of the armor really becomes limited to the technology available when it was created, which is why in-game, power armor could be anything from MkI-VIII, Sisters, or other, and offer the same protection regardless of size.

[ElectricPaladin]

It seems like a better question, then, is how does Coteaz in particular (and other inquisitors in general) measure up against a Space Marine mini?

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

Found [URL="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6953325449_1918ce5ee8_n.jpg"]this pic[/URL], looks to be a similar height. The main difference between human and space marine armour seems to be that human leg armour doesn't flare out and their shoulder armour isn't ridiculously bulbous.

[Dlatrex]

Hmmm.. well, you can take these ratios for cannon or not, but they do have a nice example on The Lord Inquisitor's site



By the time you make it to 28mm however, scale tends to smoosh together.

[ElectricPaladin]

So, it looks like I have most of the bits I need to do this:

• Gabriel Seth's bacpack.
• Marine torso.
• Thunder hammer and bolt pistol bits.
• IG legs.
• Various heads.

Here's the plan:

1) Cut the top off Gabriel Seth's backpack.
2) Assemble marine torso.
3) file down the surface of IG legs, use greenstuff to add armor plates.
4) Attach torso to legs (hopefully it won't be too big...). Attach backpack with cloak.
5) Pick a head.
6) Add hammer and bolt pistol bits
7) Scrounge/create various inquisitorial details.

I'll post pics on my general WIP thread when I've got something to show.

[Kaika87]

Looking at the SoB and Coteaz, I can't help but think if some WFB armored legs might work.

[ElectricPaladin]

Looking at the SoB and Coteaz, I can't help but think if some WFB armored legs might work.

In my experience so far, 40k bits are just enough bigger this doesn't really work... but I'll have a look at it.

[dhf3]

Have you considered this guy?

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