If you look close enough you'll see that
the heavyweapons marine figure for E40K is
a "BEAKIE" ( with an old, much cooler, rocket
launcher ).
/ Totto
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, A. Allen McCarley wrote:
> > Sauron1 writes;Andrew;
> >
> > Sorry about that "OLD GUARD" term.
> >
> > "BEAKIES" were what the Orks called the SM when they first met them in
> > SM1 from the 80's and is how they refer to them now.
> >
> > sauron1_at_...
>
>
> Just to give you a visual, the original space-marine helmets had a long,
> distended faceplate that looked very much like a beak. Thus, the Orkish
> nickname. You can probably find some pictures of these olde "beaky"
> marines if you flip through some old GW painting guides.
>
> Fortunately, the look of SM power armor has improved over the years. :)
>
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