40K Charted: Unit Spotlight – Space Marine Centurions
April 4, 2016 by warzan
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Good show, I love the Centurion rules and role they played but until I saw the following article I couldn’t put my finger on why I didn’t like the models. The conversion that follows is fantastic and easily the way to go to fix their shortcomings
http://masteroftheforge.com/centurion-tutorial/
Those look great! Is that your blog?
@Caladors unfortunately not, mine is http://minigiantsgiantblog.co.uk/ if you are interested
@minigiant very nice work on your blog 🙂
@nakchak Thank you very much, it has no followers on Tumblr so not sure how much is seen but I like it
Those do look fantastic thanks for sharing
That’s exactly what Centurions should look like.
thats a brilliant conversion! love the extra attention to detail. It goes a long way. The mechanicum ones are cool too!
That guy is a genius love his true scale tutorials, and his mephiston has to be seen to be belived!
Perhaps more outstandingly he has managed to resculpt Commander Dante to look decent (i have hated his sculpt since it was released!)
Wow thanks for sharing that, those look badass! I know it’s a contentious point but I’d probably keep the groin plates if it were me, I just think that it would balance the model better visually, especially as lengthening the leg alleviates a lot of the reasons the groin plates looked out of place to begin with. Just my opinion tho!
They do look much better with the legs sorted out. But I still don’t like how this armour has been shoehorned into the space marines gear. It has no precedence or place either. I can only think they wanted to do a Hulkbuster style model and did it with the marines, where like an armoured Tony Stark gets into his even bigger suit of armour. It’s a stupid idea, effing stupid, really dumb, stupid, dumb, dumb, looks crap, dumb, twats, dumb. I think it’s dumb. lol. The whole idea of wearing terminator armour is to be armed like a tank,… Read more »
Ahhh noo…
Sorry, Graviton Guns were in during 2nd edition, I used to equip my Techmarine with one to take down my uncles chaos dreadnoughts heehee 🙂
Power Extreme!
Just picture the marines stretching out like people in the Escaflowne robots: https://youtu.be/YK38WzlNvfk?t=2m2s
The Escaflowne reference is one that I had not thought of. I was more inclined to think of the Landmates from the Appleseed anime and manga. http://appleseed.wikia.com/wiki/Landmates
Thumbs up to both of you for managing to fit in an anime reference within a 40k discussion without people pouncing on you 😀
To be honest I pictured it more like ‘living’ dreadnought amour, the marine is just not ‘entombed’. But mech style seems cool too.
I´ve just bought my Imperial Defence Line, just to showcase my Astra militarum minis and almost bought the Bunker because it´beautiful and don´t have many buildings.
Now I´m going to get it next time I visit my local store. I think the rules for the gateway are fun,and depending the scenario and for that points I you put in some firepower it would be a nice stronghold.
Thanks for the video guys.
These things come from an STC for a power lifter, basically. So imagine an up armoured version of that power loader in Alien after the Mechanicum got to them. The STCs are still a HUGE part of Imperium fluff. They find them all over the place, bring them back to a Forge World and then suddenly start building and modifying things. So these suits existed prior to the Heresy (as power loaders), but the STC was lost and re-discovered in M36 where they slapped the armour on them and gave them to the Marines (and not keep them for themselves)..
I have no issue with centurions existing, as a concept. However the actual models are crap; they are ill proportioned and far too chunky; in short they look like My First Space Marines, not suitable for children under 3 years of age. They could have been so much better.
If you wear a jacket, then wear a jacket on top of that it looks silly, but you will probably be warm. Same goes for these guys. It’s a LOT of armour. Just looking at the helmet-less heads tells you just how much there is. This is armour on top of armour, that’s the idea of them. Things tend to get chunky when you wear that much armour. Not exactly sure what else they could have been. It’s all personal choice if people like the aesthetic of them, but to call them ‘My First Space Marine’ because they look how… Read more »
My issue with them is twofold, i play as blood angels so cant have them without allying with a lesser chapter 😉 Secondly and probably more importantly i feel the design was ruined by recycling so much of the rank and file space marine into the sculpt, you can look at the sprues and see literally where the designer put the stilts on the legs, all it really needed was a selection of marine heads and everything else freshly sculpted. Whilst it needed to look like a marine mech suit, it didnt need to look like a space marine babushka… Read more »
Grav Weapons were in the original Rogue Trader book
with 3 attacks on the charge, the assault centurions are greay smash just about anything to pieces. I like to use them because they are different. A lot of people just use the devastators with grav, which is great but when u show up with the assault version people are unsure of what to do. I generally use 5 in a crusader with either a librarian or a chaplain.
The Emperor likes them 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcYrTCGKyrU
I’m still unsure… even being brought up with cartoons like the Centurions – is it just the toddler proportions?
I think the original backstory for terminators was safe-suits for reactors…. and their first sculpts were not inspiring – not until the Space Hulk designs
correct they were based on a spacesuit for hazardous conditions like engines.
sound like they play like classic terminators?
im unsure if this has been said above but the marines are in there normal power armour with the siege armour over top as they drive the armour like those big dudes from Matrix 3.
you should be able to see it from the back of the model