Pictures/descriptions of human sized power armour?

[Dragonlover]

So I'm running a game of Black Crusade and my wife's character is a mortal in power armour. Trouble is, the only human sized stuff I can think of is on Sisters of Battle/Sisters of Silence and is thus a very specific style. I'd like to have more examples generally for myself as well, it's not out of the question that the space hulk they're stuck on will have a suit or two tucked away in some dusty and unexplored corner...

 

Artwork, conversions, actual models I've forgotten about and text descriptions from novels all gratefully received.

 

Dragonlover

[Marshal Loss]

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1389/55/1389558997351.jpg

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/8/86/Tyrus.jpg

 

Only examples that spring to mind for me are Inquisitors in power armour

Edited September 12, 2017 by Marshal Loss

[Toomanyprojects]

Dont forget Inquisitior Greyfax 

Edited September 12, 2017 by Toomanyprojects

[Commander Dawnstar]

Here are a few different examples of some varying designs for human power armour, some official and some not. You could also consider drawing on Fallout's take on power armour, as some have to good effect, if you want something a bit more on the bulky side.

[Sandlemad]

Googling "inquisitor power armour" should give you an idea of the range of idiosyncratic suits available to or adopted by inquisitors. It's not 'off the shelf' stuff so expect a lot of variation both in GW art and fan art/conversions. Some of the conversions are based on astartes plate but most of the better ones go to the effort of removing the most obviously 'space marine' features, i.e. the pauldrons, backpack and distinctive helms. Inquisitor Drogon could be a starting example but Inquisitor Vail in the Ciaphas Cain books discusses her ancient suit and how it still smells of its previous owners.

 

The Rogue Trader RPG had a power armour as a rare option, it'll definitely have some descriptions of what it's like and how you'd find it.

 

Techpriests have been known to wear power armour but it's really only enginseers (or enginseers serving with the guard, at least) that look 'human' in it. Certainly there are a lot more enginseers in the imperium than inquisitors, makes it more likely you'd find a suit on a space hulk.  It could work for your scenario - the limbs look more or less like segmented plate - but at least part of the 3+ save probably comes from having a cybernetic body. Might need some surgery or bionics to get full use out of it.

 

Necromunda spyrers, maybe? They don't wear conventional power armour but it's possible some high-end archaeotech stuff would look similar. It shows the range of possibilities when you're not tied to the standard astartes armour typology.

[Toomanyprojects]

May even be worth looking into using skitarii or genestealer cult bits to make up a few human looking bits of power armour with an industrial flavour

Edited September 12, 2017 by Toomanyprojects

[Xenith]

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

[Arkangilos]

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

Nope, it's Ignatus pattern power armour. Dark Heresy has stuff about it.

Edited September 12, 2017 by Arkangilos

[bluntblade]

Templar has a women - a general of some sort - in pretty cool power armour, but no pics

[Tyberos the Red Wake]

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

 

Both of those models are sold by GW as "Inquisitor in Power Armor". The female one even looks like SoB power armor.

[Servant of Dante]

Yeah the WH Inquisitors were in PA afaik. They're just made to look super eccentric :D Edited September 12, 2017 by Servant of Dante

[Adeptus]

'power armour' is a very wide umbrella term. What sort of style is your wife really wanting to use?

[Dragonlover]

She doesn't know, which is why I worded the OP the way I did. Thanks for the examples btw everyone!

 

Dragonlover

[Xenith]

 

 

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

Both of those models are sold by GW as "Inquisitor in Power Armor". The female one even looks like SoB power armor.

Maybe now, but when it was released I'm 95% sure that inquisitor was labelled as in carapace. Do they still have the option for carapace?

[Adeptus]

They do. In fact, they no longer have the option for power armour!

[Tyberos the Red Wake]

 

 

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

Both of those models are sold by GW as "Inquisitor in Power Armor". The female one even looks like SoB power armor.

Maybe now, but when it was released I'm 95% sure that inquisitor was labelled as in carapace. Do they still have the option for carapace?

 

 

That would actually explain a lot. A cool piece of trivia.

[Servant of Dante]

Was the type of armour even specified? I've always just seen them labeled as "Witch hunters"

[Closet Skeleton]

Of the ones Marshall posted, only coteaz and Tyrus are in power armour. The guy with bare arms is in carapace, and so is the lady I think. The chainmail under the plate gives it away.

 

Chaos space marines and even some of their terminators use bits of chainmail, so that's no signifier. Normal astartes power armour uses rubber under armour but there's no logical reason why that couldn't be swapped out for something else.

 

 

Was the type of armour even specified? I've always just seen them labeled as "Witch hunters"

 

They were just witch hunters

http://www.solegends.com/citcat2006us/c2006usp0142-02.htm

 

Then renamed as Inquisitors after the Grey knight codex.

 

http://www.solegends.com/citcat2010/c2010p0460-02.htm

 

Daemon hunters didn't have their armour specified either

 

http://www.solegends.com/citcat2010/c2010p0264-02.htm

 

I remember seeing 'inquisitor in power armour' on the web store at some point but it came way after the models were released.

Edited September 13, 2017 by Closet Skeleton

[Calyptra]

In the early years of Rogue Trader there were a bunch of human mercenary/pirate/adventurer models produced, some of which are wearing power armor (including some early Inquisitors). You can see a few of them here, though not clearly.

 

http://www.solegends.com/citrt2/rt7mercenaries/index.htm

 

There are a few oldhammer blogs out there where you should be able to find decent pictures. If all else fails, I have a bunch of these models and can dig them out and take pics of them for you.

[Maatith]

"Fire Caste" also gives us Thundersuits; specifically mentioned as a type of power armour, Thundersuits appear to be an almost steampunk style of power armour; lots of pistons and clattering plates. They all appear to have clear visors bulky enough to allow the pilot to have a cigar behind the visor, and all appear to have a heavy stubber built into one arm. The largest pattern is too bulky to allow the pilot to sit down in it but boasts a rock drill in addition to its heavy stubber, whilst the lighter pattern appears to 'only' have great difficult sitting down.

[D3L]

the cover of The Carrion Throne has a lovely render of a human in non-astartes power armour, next to a Custodes for scale