"How's your faith now, Templar?"
"Why don't you come a little closer... and I'll show you?"
(Thomas Marshall, Templar Knight, Redeemed)
Inspired by Ridley Scott's awesome Crusade movie "Kingdom of Heaven", Grimladus and his Templars from the Aaron Dembski-Bowden exceptional novel "Helsreach", and most recently by the warrior Templar Thomas Marshall from the fantastically brutal film "Ironclad", here begins anew my true scale Marines project:
Some notes of no interest:
(1):
As it has been more than a year since I updated the original blog, I have tacked this into the old Blood Raven's thread and intend now to keep my Loyalist projects (whatever they may be) in this blog - so BOREDOM WARNING: you may have seen some of the next few pics/posts before, but I will have new stuff soon... promise...
(2):
I make no claim to originality in the true scaling, the methods seen hence forth are copied from and and inspired by the following:
- Migsula's three forms of Alpharius and his =I=munda BLOGs, specifically his modelling but his painting is also truly awesome!
- Synapse's amazing true-scale pre-Heresy World Eaters, and
- Apologist's just as equally wow pre-Heresy Ultramarine Praetors of Calth
(3):
- Seriously, who actually knew that Middle Age sappers set fire to pigs in tunnels to bring down castle walls???
- (Watch Ironclad!)
And so, the true-scale sculpting/kit-bashing story as it stands (this work was done approx 2 years ago):
Group shot:
T1 and T2:
T1 close up:
T1 - back armour complete - moving onto arms and weapons next!
T2 close up:
- he had foot surgery to realign the front boot
T2 -
GS on torso - quicker job than T1, thanks to clay shapers and practice!
Some leg surgery:
And some new torso work - the Assault Marine chest/back construct on the right is my 'old' method, which requires a lot of
GS sculpting to get a smooth, even curvature.
The 'new' method utilises Terminator chest fronts to try and keep chest details like the Aquila, and (hopefully) requires less
GS sculpting.
sliding doors!!!
