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Black Templar Crusader
This one turned out to be a bit of a suprise project for me. It originaly started as a super quick test mini. I wanted to try a quicker, simpler paint scheme, that would look more or less like the Eavy Metal painted troopers. So simple but crisp and clean looking figure, with less highlight stages, little or no weathering, and no special effects. And I did that, finishing it in a single day. But then, as I was preping to varnish it, I couldn't help but add a few details here, a bit of weathering there, some little freehand, some clean up and corrections, some other stuff. And well, here we are :) Quite happy with this one, especially since it was unexpected. My only regret is that if I knew, I was going to spend more work on him, then I would have waited a few days to score some BT-specific bits, such as the torso with the tabard, and arms with weapons chained to the wrists. I also spend more work on the base. Adding a series of stone steps/slate rock that I carved from plaster, as well as a skull. Unfortunately I botched it a bit, by giving it one wash stage too many, which kind of ruined the paintjob on the stones, and gave the base a little less defined "chestnut ink drowned" look. And by that time the marine was allready glued to it, so repainting it was too risiky. But it's not bad, and a decent start I think. Working on replicating realistic, or Eavy Metal'ish, eye catching terrain is something I wish to explore firther, on my future minis.
Posted: 8 Dec 2014
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