Checkout this amazing pencil art of what a Space Marine looks like stuffed safely inside Tactical Dreadnought or Terminator Armor!
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Hello!
I had some time to draw something else than commissions(didn’t have access to my computer) so I thought I’d sketch something for fun.
So I made this! A cross-section showing the internals of a Warhammer 40K Terminator armour. I have some points on this piece- first, on the general design of the Terminator armour: no human, even a superhuman would be able to move effectively in something that looks like the terminator armour as seen in most 40K artwork(at least the ones I’ve seen). The helmet would be unable to turn in its place, you couldn’t possible tilt your torso to either side because the breastplate would catch your waist armour with similar problems on the shoulders not to mention to excessive scaling of the armour plates on the calves in relation to those on the thighs. If you’re willing to believe that the space marine will fill most of the suit, his legs would look really quite odd. Having taken these things into consideration, I changed some of the details , made a few workarounds to make some design choices look the part as in other 40K art and scale of some of the armour pieces to make the suit somewhat believable, like you could move in it.
That said, the space marine inside this armour doesn’t have a normal human physique as can be seen, but a superhuman one so it was a bit easier to imagine how this piece might work. Some notable anatomical differences visible here to a normal human include(but are not limited to): massive size at around 2.5 metres in height with equally heavy muscle build, very thick legs to support the weight of the torso and the black carapace connection points around the body.
The Terminator Armour is a power armour, with a generator and warp-unit(visible behind the Marine’s head here) set in a backpack- unit integrated into the backplate, and a human-machine interface link- the mentioned black carapace- which connects the suit and its wearer. I imagine the main attachement points to that being on and around the spinal column, but there are various points seen in the picture on the side of the arm, chest area, thighs. The suit has inside it a support structure which links to the armour plates and some internal reinforcement(as seen around the waist and knee with the hydraulic-looking attachements) to enhance the strenght and movement capabilities of the wearer. The outermost layer of the suit are the heavy and very thick adamantium armour plates, laminated in several places with other synthetic materials and flexible, soft armour as seen on the mid-torso area. Around the joint areas there are also an interweaving light adamantium plates for additional protection. Below this outer layer there is some cushioning and flexible armour filler in places, and below that a self-sealing, pressurised bodyglove that enables the wearer to operate even in the vacuum of outer space.
Some other features of the suit include a target aqcuisition system and helmet integrated vision enchancement system with a datalink, and of course a waste management system which will store and dispose any urine, faeces or other unwanted contaminants during long expeditions inside a space hulk. The Marine pictured is from the Imperial Fists chapter and is equipped with a close-combat weapon set: a Thunderhammer and a Storm Shield with its internal force field generator also pictured.
The dead Guardsman is there for scaling purposes just to give an idea of how large a Marine in Terminator Armour actually is, not to bash the Guard for dying so much.
Anyway, I hope you like it. I’ll go back to working on comics and commissions now…
Original A2(2 x A3), 0.3mm mechanical pencil.
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