'Brother Moebius' is my entry for Games Workshop's Design a Space Marine Chapter Contest It was held in the Fall of '04 in conjunction with the release of the new Space Marine Codex. The contest was rather straight forward, paint up a legal tac marine of your chapter and fill out an attached form. The form included space for the chapter traits as well as a brief history of the chapter.

I decided to try and tell a story with the model, as there was only so much space on the form to give the judges a sense of their background (and, what judge wants to read reams of it, anyway?) I decided that Moebius would be rescuing the helmet from a fallen brother, much like an Apothecary rescuing some geneseed,

 

 
To help reinforce the idea of the chapter always being on crusade, I made sure to extensively weather the armor, and even include some makeshift field repairs (on the lower right leg). I also made sure to add various pouches and details to make his stick out more as an individual. It's now very tempting to make each marine in the force have this much attention to detail, though it will take forever to finish the army.