Black Templars Army

[paulson games]

Finally have most of the assembly done on my templars army, thought I\'d post a few pics for feedback. Haven\'t used the site much so wasn\'t aware there was a forum, got some rude comments/emails for posting these on rated items. Oops.

These are a few of the character and HQ models.

Emperor\'s Champion:

HQ Champion:

 

[paulson games]

All of the standard marines and terminators are fitted in the tabards from the conversion sprue.

Just about everything is built, (been building slowly for about 4 months) although I\'m still toying with modifications and greenstuffing before I get to paint. While the list will vary depending on the game size, so far the arsenal of models consists of:

HQ
Chaplain
4 techmarines
15 sword brethern
75 initates (20 w bolters)
50 neophytes
15 assault marines
50 terminators (15 w close combat weapons)
3 dreadnoughts
3 landspeeders
2 landraider crusaders
1 landraider terminus
5 rhinos
3 predators
5 drop pods
thunderhawk

 

[starchaser1]

you need to get rid of those nasty mould lines before you paint them plus drill out the gun barrels they allways look much better with them drilled

 

[hestan101]

sorry about the comments you recieved, though i have to say i do think its a little pointless to post assembled minis fo voting purposes. however, i know that feeling when youv just assembled something really awesome, and you can practically see them with a golden demon paintjob, and it feels awesome. i love the champion, but as said obliterate the cursed mouldlines, and invest a pin drill, a bit picey but well worth it. and remeber to make a guide point with a knife whn drilling so u dont end with halved bolter barrels like me

 

[RuneBrush]

Originally posted by hestan101
remeber to make a guide point with a knife whn drilling so u dont end with halved bolter barrels like me

Another idea is to grip a pin or needle in your pin vice and make a pilot hole with that - I find its a lot more controllable

@Paulson. Very nicely done so far, enough theme details, but not so many that they seem over loaded

 

[paulson games]

Chaplain:

Cenobyte:

Standard

Teminators:

In Progress Chaplain

In progress terminator

The Big Daddy in progress

Finished drilling out weapon barrels, I\'m currently prepping models for paint, greenstuffing cracks and lots of scraping. The thunderhawk is waiting on magnets for the canopy and weapons, & will be adding etched brass and greenstuff templars icons. Tons of gap filling and filing still needing to be done on that model. Has been a nightmare to put together as several pieces were warped/miscast, definately don\'t recommend the model unless you are a very serious modeler.

The Chaplain I started last night, needs more work on the chains and I haven\'t begun highlighting the armor yet, but work on the robe is just about done. Will likely need dull coating when it\'s done, much more shiny in the pics than in person.

The Terminator I did a while ago as a test color pattern, not sure that I\'m happy with it. Didn\'t add much detail as it\'s a test piece. Not sure if I want to do armor highlights through careful drybrushing or by grey lining.


I also started on a squad of Initiates last night here\'s a couple in progess shots, I need to go back and remove the mould lines on the bolt pistols and drill them out. I wanted something to paint right then and there, but didn\'t want to clean as I\'d already spent 3 hrs drilling and scraping all the terminators. This should be the standard pattern for my initiates.

shot of all 3

 

[cleen X]

What technique did you use on the armour? Drybrush with some egde highlights on top? Sure does the job for gaming!! Could you post a reply with all the techniques and colors you used?

 

[bailaohu1]

looking good, I didnt remember your chaplain but thats looking pretty hot I have to admit. Also it looks like you primed the Thunderhawk since I left? White is never my first choice but it will certainly work.

-Leif

 

[paulson games]

The armor is based with chaos black, and then very lightly drybrushed with a 50/50 mx of fortress grey and chaos black then an even lighter/finer drybrushing of codex grey on the highest areas. The underlying fortess grey gives it slighty blue black tone which helps give the illusion of a black surface rather than just a dark silouette.

The edges look almost as though they were lined but is much smoother than what I can normally do with lining.

The sholder pads started with chaos black, and then built up with mechrite red foundation paint, follwed by red gore and khador red from P3.

I left a thin black line where the edges of the armor color come together. Added dehab stone and then a mix of skull white and menoth highlight from P3 which is basically a pure white like skull but has a better pigment and coverage quality.

I had to touch up the black lining several time sduring the process but it comes out very clean.

I used a combination of flesh wash and brown ink on the tunics, but didn\'t wash the armor at all relying strictly on drybrushing to distingush the recesses.

The studs are straight mithril silver with a tiny dab of black ink painted around the base. The gold chains dwarf bronze highlighted with burnished gold and a tiny amount of brown ink painted over it.

The joints which aren\'t really visable in the pics are drybrushed with boltgun metal, which I applied before drybrushing the rest of the armor, that way I didn\'t get any silver over brushing on the armor. I carefully lined the joints with black ink, using it straight outof the pot instead of using it as a wash that way it has a slightly shiny reflective quality to it that looks like synthetic material or rubber. Then to brighten the ribbing I dryburshed a 50/50 mix of boltgun and mithril silver.

For drybrushing I have a fat round brush that has the bristles cut even so there\'s no points, after a whipe on a paper towel to remove most of the excess paint I test it against the skin of my hand and only when it leaves the faintest trace I can see or feel is it fine enough. It\'s a bit messy but it works for me. Whenever I try to guage the paint by eye alone I always mess it up.

After everything is done I go back and re-apply very fine lines of black ink at the joints and recesses in the armor if needed.

One thing I\'d highly recommend is the privateer press P3 wet pallette, that thing is amazing, I cannot stress how awesome it is for getting just the right paint consistancy and getting incredibly smooth paint without it getting watery.


Leif: the thunderhawk is still grey, the sun light made it look white somehow.

 

[paulson games]

I have a couple black reach dreadnoughts onhand so I decided to see what I could do to make a special character dread for the templars.

It doesn\'t look like much at the moment, my progress was a lot slower than what I wanted, but upsizing the model takes time and the replacing leg actuators with scratch parts is a royal pain. I increased the length of the legs but almost a 1/3 of an inch and when all is said and done he\'ll probably be standing about 3/4 of an inch taller than the standard dread, and will be quite a bit wider. I broke one of my core rules for my army and went out of range for the axe hand, but there weren\'t a lot of options using GW componants., oh well at least the rest of it will be stock.

Anyways here\'s the in progress work so far.

Body

Leg Actuator

Still not complete as I need to add a second set of round bits to the piston at the base of the ankle, and will be extending the shin\'s armored cowel.


Axe Arm

The axe hand is from privateer press\'s Drago warjack model (khador) It\'s simply an awesome sculpt and even has templarish chains built in, I was initally hesitant about using it but I\'m fairly happy with it now that the work is done. I will be converting the axe\'s shaft to look much closer to the templar axe that is on the conversion sprue.

I\'m still deciding what to do with the right arm, if I pick up a forge world close combat arm I can have him weilding 2 axes although that may look a bit odd. Alternately I can give him a large tower sheild, or go with a more standard weapon arm posisbly a twin linked assault cannon or heavy flamer. I\'ll have to bulk out the right arm slightly to maintain balance as the left arm is much longer than the normal dread arm.

 

[rolling thunder]

love your terminators, i had some of mine like that while still in the planning stage, tho im not black templar im just a spin off chapter

 

[bailaohu1]

By the way, I would suggest when adding your pictures not to add them in such a \'wide\' block (like you just did with your dreadnought conversion), it makes all your text expand and you have to scroll horizontally to read all the posts. Even with a widescreen its very annoying.

 

[paulson games]

Originally posted by rolling thunder
love your terminators, i had some of mine like that while still in the planning stage, tho im not black templar im just a spin off chapter

Glad you like it I know it\'s not the most original conversion out there but I think it really makes them stand out on the table. I\'ve also seen some good ones done for the dark angels using the same style but with the templars icon scraped off and replaced with DA bits.

Anyways while I\'ve seen quite a few on the web I haven\'t seen any locally so figured I\'d make my squads a bit more distinct vs the local field. Also the quantity kinda stands out, most of the ones I\'ve seen are just a squad or two, at present I have 8 squads built.