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A True Scale Pre Heresy Female Space Marine. A World Eater to be exact, somewhat inspired by Kharn.She is female to troll Anti-Female Marine folk.
She looks like a Space Marine to troll Pro-Female Marine Folk.
In the business we call that a 'double whammy'.
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Love It. "Double Whammy" not just true in the funny sense. but it looks very much how a female in Marine armor would look like. well done.
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Agreed. While concept is good, it simply wouldn't work. All about genetics and apparently sexual dimorphism. Nothing can be changed there.Β
But we do have the badasses known asΒ Adepta Sororitas, or Sisters of battle for others. Besides... they have cooler armor than most Spoos Maroons anyways.
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Yay so IΒ΄m not the only one who makes female pre heresy marines. I make a troop for my pre heresy space wolves because I loved the idea of the one artist about the primarchs daughters and so I thought I make a troop that only consists of female marines.
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To be honest, I just made this model what it is to troll.
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couldnt the female just wear the regular male power armor?
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oh, thats her on the right. i think
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Yeah, she is the big girl. And you are right to a certain extent. Woman have a different skeletal structure, so they couldn't wear male power armour directly, but it would probably just be the upper body armour that needs changing.
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I like this picture because it compares a true scale marine to a 'normal' model.
Then you can definitely see that space marines are very imposing. Can just imagine how big terminator would be!
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Looks great!
Haha, every one gets trolled
Like too see it painted^^
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Well you know how much I hate the female marine idea. So i'm going to look at this as a male Marine who has feminine features and likes having long hair. Well done.
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I actually like the concept of female Space Marines, however, not in the way that you'd expect (just plain and simple females instead of males).
The way I see it happening, and how I plan to explain my army in the future (ie: never), is by compromising with the fact that by canon, females cannot become Marines.
Because this chapter has very very low numbers to recruit from, they pick some females who are found to be suitable subjects for extensive hormone therapy.
These women are basically filled to the brim with testosterone and the like, and then the induction begins.
Few female Marines survive through being a Scout, about to 1 per 5 males, and past that point they have a much better chance of survival, because they've basically been turned into men anyway.
The women often have cybernetic enhancement, to make up for naturally lower muscle mass, or complications with their drug therapy (loss of limbs, crippling deformities, cancer, blindness, things like that).
So, in effect, after they have been scouts, they are pretty damn close to men.
During the Scout phases they will be modeled normal size, and the women will usually have slightly longer hair and a visible chest bump, but will be largely the same.
Full female Marines will often have long hair, as that's practically their only way to hold on to the femininity, as their breasts will be greatly reduced and sometimes removed (to reduce issues of size and balance), and their figure will be virtually that of their male counterparts.
They will be much rarer in full Marines, 1 in 12 at most.
As you can see, this explanation basically side-steps the whole 'male genome' thing, by offering their femininity as a sacrifice.
Also the low numbers keep it believable, as well as cybernetic enhancements being an acceptable thing for all.
They aren't true Marines, but they're pretty close.
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I don't really care tbh. I never asked for Pro Fem-Marine folk to justify themselves to me. But since you posted...
Though, one thing to bear in mind; if Space Marines recruit from the toughest warriors on an entire planet (often of barbarians), the percentage of female recruits would be very tiny, and the ones that make it through would be as feminine as rum and steak. We are talking about a woman that is so strong that she could break most men on the entire planet apart with her bare hands. Imagine a woman that could do that. Just imagine it. She'd have almost non-existent breasts, she'd not be womanly at all, and with all that testosterone, she'd end up becoming even more of a monster. The resulting female 'marine' would be as manly as Chuck Norris. Speaking of βchest bumpsβ and βfemininityβ in regards to such warriors is totally redundant. It would be like speaking of sight in regards to a blind man.
And also; if the strongest woman on a planet is likely always trumped by a thousand stronger men, and the resulting female marine is weaker than a male marine; why bother in the first place? And if there are tons of woman on a planet compared to men, why don't the marines just look for another recruiting world? This is the issue most Pro-Fem Marine folk struggle to answer.
However, I will not deny that female warriors do not exist in Space Marine forces. The Space Wolves for example have Shield Maidens, bodyguards recruited from the strongest woman in all of Fenris in order to not waste potential warriors. And most Space Marine forces have their own forces of non-marine warriors looking after their ships and homeworlds. They are still human, but they'd likely still be very much like the woman I described earlier. Some Marine forces have their own version of the guard, such as the Ultramar PDF, where you might find woman that are more like woman, but these forces would act separately to the Chapters. In a Chaos Legion this would be different though.
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First off, I didn't expect you to care, I just wanted to say it
And you make some very good points.
I thought that candidates for Space Marine-hood were picked mainly for their genetic compatibility, not just because they're tough as nails. *shrug* Learn something new every day.
And if that's the case, then even fewer female Marines.
I didn't think of just changing recruiting worlds because I didn't think it was ever done.
I thought that Macragge was rebuilt, and the way the Blood Ravens in the DOW2 campaign talk about it, the loss of that world seems to be the end of the chapter; I didn't think that they would even try to rebuild a new recruiting world. I never looked into it.
I never expected that the women would be feminine, but there would be a difference in body shape of recruits, however slight.
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Space Marines do change recruiting worlds. They do it when a World stops providing recruits, through its destruction or problems with the populace. That or they reintroduce a population from another world, if they have serious attachment to their homeworld.
And when it comes to recruitments, yes, they are tough as nails. The strongest warriors of a planet go forth to start competing to be a Space Marine, and only the strongest of the strongest make it through, and from them the genetically compatible warriors go forth and become scouts, and the strongest of the strongest of the strongest or the originally selected become Space Marines. Space Marines are already super-elite from the moment they become a Brother Marine.
And the female body-shape would be noticeable out of armour when they are mere recruits, but afterwards not so much. Most of the feminine body shape would be stretched and warped out by the expanding skeleton and body structure of the Space Marine. In armour, they would likely only be noticeable by their smaller chest and shoulders, and the face, and if they were wearing pants, it would be the same deal out of armour. The model I did here adheres to this, and I also picked a bad female face sculpt for the head to represent the sunken eyes and 'stretched' facial features.
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Hmm, well then.
There must be some way to rationalise the attachment to their homeworld
Er.
Umm...
I got nothing
But yeah, that's how I would do the full brother Marines, there would be nothing to distinguish the men and women from symbology and their personal taste.
And I guess that Scout Armour is pretty heavy duty anyway, it doesn't look it on the models, but realistically that stuff's probably fucking heavy.
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I'm not sure. I mean flak armour is meant to be really, really light, and carapace armour is likely made from similar stuff.
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I think Carapace Armour and Scout Armour are different things, otherwise they'd probably be called the same thing.
Carapace armour is, from my understanding, basically just Flak Armour, but reinforced, and extended to cover all the weak spots.
Whereas Scout Armour appears to be basically cut-down Power Armour, it looks like its made up of heavy plates, rather than a material woven into a suit.
They've probably got Carapace Armour underneath that, like their pants and stuff, but with additional plating on top of that.
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On Scout Armour from Codex Dark Angels; 'It is made of overlapping plates of carapace armour which can easily stop a bullet while the fatigues are made of ballistic nylon which gives further protection without reducing the Scouts movement.'
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A quick consultation with Lexicanum solves the problem
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Obviously their would be 'equivalents' depending on the style of your IG army, but there we go, Carapace is plate mail
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Looks great to me. Nice blend of features to create something I'd call a credible femme Space Marine.
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Heh, hear the fans hiss and boo as the internet wages war. Are you going to paint the model?
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When sculpting is finished yes. However, I am sidetracked by the secret project.
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