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Description Terminators of the Salamander chapter, Terminators are Space Marine Veterans who have earned the right to wear Tactical Dreadnought Armour, better known as Terminator Armour, and serve as their Chapter's greatest infantry assets, each essentially serving as a walking tank. Tactical Dreadnought Armor combines the technological developments of power armour with the sealed environmental suits designed for starship crews that work in highly unstable or corrosive environments such as inside the high pressure casings of plasma reactor shields. It can even withstand the colossal impact of high speed orbital micro debris. Terminators are always members of the elite 1st Company of a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter. All suits of Terminator Armour have built-in teleportation devices which allow them to deploy anywhere via deep strike, although more often they are deployed using Land Raiders.

Terminator suits are the pinnacle of armoured protection available to a Space Marine. Each is all but impervious to small arms fire and can even withstand the merciless onslaught of tank-busting Krak Missiles. Terminator Armour, created at the time of the Horus Heresy, is incredibly rare. Space Marines hold it a great honour to be permitted to wear such a suit in battle, and it is only to members of the Chapter's elite 1st Company that this honour is granted. Once trained in the use of Terminator Armour, a Space Marine is counted first among his brothers and is expected to conduct the most difficult of missions and to perform beyond even the lofty standards of the Adeptus Astartes. Boarding Tyranid-infested Space Hulks, launching teleport attacks, Titan assaults and combat actions in extremely hostile environments, such as deep space or volcanic marshland; these are the missions undertaken by Space Marine Terminators.
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Friotler7 [2021-01-20 11:11:55 +0000 UTC]

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Cr1zza [2012-10-10 10:38:20 +0000 UTC]

No offense intended, wish I could paint like this, but...Salamanders are descibed as having almost black skin color and red eyes...just a minor nitpick, but still.
Anyways, great work, keep it up.

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Dutchkat In reply to Cr1zza [2012-10-10 15:31:50 +0000 UTC]

Haha no problem, the reason I already stated with the other unit but I find the soot black skin and red eyes absolutely ridicules.
I paint them with a bit more realistic look than what they mention in the books, just my preference!

Thank you for your comment ^^

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Nimtai [2012-09-17 23:21:53 +0000 UTC]

God those highlights dude, I can't imagine how steady your hand has to be. Me, I can barely ink 3000x3000 pixel large sketches without shaking like a crack whore

You do such quality work Dutchy, these are lovely <3

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Dutchkat In reply to Nimtai [2012-09-18 15:38:20 +0000 UTC]

Too kind, too kind <3

I will do better next time, not to pleased with the results on these, there is always room for improvement.

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Caffeineghost [2012-09-17 23:02:15 +0000 UTC]

BALLIN ASS PAINTJOB!

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Dutchkat In reply to Caffeineghost [2012-09-18 15:37:04 +0000 UTC]

I see the ass part alright XD

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Vexild [2012-09-17 17:23:34 +0000 UTC]

Nice extreme-highlights

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baharoth [2012-09-17 13:32:46 +0000 UTC]

They look great! Yet still, and it is only my opinion, the highlight lines are far to thick. Try using thinner lines.

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CaelynTek In reply to baharoth [2012-09-17 15:10:31 +0000 UTC]

I actually kinda like the thick lines. I mean when they are that thick they aren't meant as a highlight really, but more like a design feature of the color scheme. And I like that look. The look kinda reminds me of art deco for some reason.

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Dutchkat In reply to CaelynTek [2012-09-17 18:07:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, yes they are part of my army's theme, have to admit they are a bit thicker than I had anticipated.
But since Termies are bigger than the average marine I didn't think it looked off.

Cheers again!

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chaotea [2012-09-17 12:12:08 +0000 UTC]

not bad, though the highlighting looks way to thick.

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