Indomitus - Close to Perfection

[Gederas]

It's kind of like how soldiers wear their flak over their utility uniform. I know it's a bit apples to oranges, but the concept is the same. Hard over soft can make sense. "Tabards are meant to go over the armor," well, it IS over the armor from the abdomen down. Securing it with a removable chest plate shouldn't seem that strange. It's weirder to have billowing and flimsy cloth flapping around over ceramite power armor like the BT and DA do.

Not that strange. Even with the Dark Angels comment. They're based on Monastic Knights. And the robes are evocative of both monastic robes and Knightly surcoats:

 

So the Bladeguard make sense because of the whole thing with Marines being "Monastic Knights in Space"

[Sky Potato]

Here’s the thing though - are Astartes “Monastic Knights in space”?

 

Some chapters certainly are. I’d argue that the majority are not. There are some similarities, granted, but less DA and BT, the majority really aren’t.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Virtually all chapters have chaplains, they're headquartered in Fortress-monasteries, they have reclusiams full of chapter relics etc etc

 

The monastic monk/knight theme runs through virtually all chapters.

[Sky Potato]

Virtually all chapters have chaplains, they're headquartered in Fortress-monasteries, they have reclusiams full of chapter relics etc etc

 

And therein ends the similarities for the vast majority.

[WrathOfTheLion]

The monastic and knight theme is intended to run through all chapters, as even Jes Goodwin says in his interviews about the Primaris range. The DA and BT take that further, but it is not unique to them.

[Doghouse]

Virtually all chapters have chaplains, they're headquartered in Fortress-monasteries, they have reclusiams full of chapter relics etc etc

 

The monastic monk/knight theme runs through virtually all chapters.

I could be wrong but the one thing I do like about this set is that it implies there are other types of Chaplain. It seems like the bones/ribs on the lower edge are the theme of the Reclusiam.

[Arkhanist]

Eh, I'm modelling artistic yet blood thirsty space vampires riding around in floating space pickup trucks that have a habit of naming every fricking thing 'blood-something'. They think the ideal chestplate has nipples, and already like to hang cloth banners off their groins, so the bladeguard fit right in as-is.

 

I mean, this is an ordinary tactical squad just hanging out. With their groin banners.

 

Edited August 8, 2020 by Arkhanist

[Fajita Fan]

With all the people I see reposing or modifying the Judiciar we should have a competition to see who can fix that model the best. 

[Vermintide]

With all the people I see reposing or modifying the Judiciar we should have a competition to see who can fix that model the best. 

 

I have my entry right here.

 

 

Sanguiciar.

[Fajita Fan]

Ha! Good name and a big improvement.

[Klod]

Indomitus models give me hope that there will be Primaris Terminators one day.

[Fajita Fan]

At this rate they’ll be dreadnought-sized on 60mm bases :D

[battle captain corpus]

Okay...I think we’ve veered far enough for now from the topic.

 

- Crozius flares into life -

 

Crunch

 

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