Iron Butchers Armoring
I am extremely happy to present to you this awesome piece by @art_bruray illustrating the armoring process of the Chaos Marine from the Iron Butchers:
The armoring chamber air was thick with the smell of smoke, oil, and the sweat of both humans and Astartes.
Tarraco has just finished attending the armoring process of Kerrah, the World Eater, which was now being presented with his weapons, oiled and ready, and was now welding together some plates of Iron Warrior Odross armor.
Unlikely what Tarraco imagined the armoring within a Chapter of Astartes loyal to the Emperor could be, this was not a ritualized and standardized process.
Despite their opposition to physical mutations, and so their few amounts of them, not two Marines were identical within the Iron Butchers Warband, and their equipment was similarly unique.
The armors could be new or old, whole or patched with parts of power armors of different patterns, and the body of the marine was even more unique.
Kerrah skin, as an example, was blessed by Khorne and turned into a callous hide as thick as grox’s skin that used to regenerate so fast that the power armor’s connections on his chest were covered in skin between the battles, this required the serfs…or slaves…to cut open the plugs each time with scalpels and drills, minding not damaging the port below.
Odross, on the other hand, has connection cables forever fused to his plugs, so the power armor needed to be connected to the cables, instead of directly to the body of the Marine.
His armour also needed to be welded in place at more than one point, as the different MK pattern didn’t fit properly and couldn’t be just simply put together.
Tarraco had to remember and replicate the exact process for each Marine he was in charge of and replicate it without any error.
The armoring servitors, forever imprisoned in the wall’s alcoves, were a grim reminder of the fate that awaited those who failed to attend to their duty flawlessly.
