But, amazingly, you don’t have to be a gene-seed modified superman to wear it – the suit only weighs about 35 lbs. With help, it took about 30 minutes just to put on. Once complete, Chang donned his creation. He said it was lots of small parts, but still amounted to “a few days of continuous printing.” His efforts resulted in a Space Marine suit with a greater range of motion than others you commonly see at fan conventions and W40K tournaments. Jeremy Chang's Primaris armor introduction via Instagram.Ĭhang designed most of the suit out of foam, but needed a more precise material for things “like the bearings, hinges, magnetic interfaces, mounting surfaces, greebles, etc.” Using 3D modeling softwares Solidworks and Blender, Chang designed the pieces he needed and sent the files over to a 3D printer. So he happened to work on spacesuit simulators, which included designing functional, albeit simplified, test suits astronauts might wear while on an extended mission on Mars (which just happens to be the place the Primaris and their armor were created in W40K incidence?) In the lab, “trying to find novel technologies like the bearing system” meant expanding knowledge of mankind’s ability to function and survive in extra-terrestrial environments – at home he used that knowledge “for the Emperor!” RELATED: Warhammer 40,000 Rule Changes From 8th Edition to 9th EditionĬhang interned with NASA while working on his Masters in Engineering.
When Primaris debuted, Chang went to work forging a suit of his own.
“I'm probably one of the few people who likes Primaris marines more, partly because the models are true-scale, but I just like the design overall more,” said Chang. Surprisingly some die-hard gamers objected to the change. They call these newer models “Primaris” marines.
While the previous 25-year-old design served them very well - the Space Marine models were, by far, W40K’s best selling range - GW tooled new molds for larger “true scale” miniatures that would look more like the hulking 9-foot tall scions of holy wrath depicted in the game's lore. When GW decided to evolve W40K to it’s 8th Edition, they decided to upgrade the Space Marine models as well.
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