I've recently had the itch to paint some Black Templars. I don't know if it's the Gathering Storm stuff, the desire to paint a different scheme, or just because I hate the psychic phase so much, but I started working on some of these guys. I did up a few test models, namely a pair of Sword Brethren, an Initiate, and their Marshall, Siegward:









Next, I've got a stack of 10 Initiates and Helbrecht on the painting table, and plenty to go. The idea behind this army is to get as many of the bits and kits I've had lying around forever and put them to use in a coherent army. Of course I ended up buying a few Tactical squads and Black Templar accessory sprues, but hey, I had to start somewhere, didn't I?

I finally got around to painting the 30th anniversary Marine, and I did him up in the old Field Police colors:

Nice. Love the field police. Need to make one myself to stick in a command squad.

Purge the heretic!

Those are some lovely Templars!

I want to start a Templar army now...

I see you've taken the same steps to highlight as I did, but it looks like you've had more practice than me!

 Asmodai_00 wrote:
I see you've taken the same steps to highlight as I did, but it looks like you've had more practice than me!

It's all practice and cleanup! I've found that going back and tidying up highlights is what really takes models up a level.

They look really good, especially the guy with the caution line down his snout.

... I know that's pretty much the exactly wrong terms for that but i mean it looks really nice.

Templars have always had a certain appeal to me, and these guys are looking great!

EDC

 amazingturtles wrote:
They look really good, especially the guy with the caution line down his snout.

... I know that's pretty much the exactly wrong terms for that but i mean it looks really nice.

Helmet Stripe is the term you are looking for.

Kids these days...

 Nevelon wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
They look really good, especially the guy with the caution line down his snout.

... I know that's pretty much the exactly wrong terms for that but i mean it looks really nice.

Helmet Stripe is the term you are looking for.

Kids these days...

No,no, its a caution line. It means "My face is not a step."

Really well done, SRM The anniversary model really does steal the show.

Helmet stripe! Ok, that works.

But... i might still call it snout tape. I am sorry.

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Asmodai_00 wrote:
I see you've taken the same steps to highlight as I did, but it looks like you've had more practice than me!

It's all practice and cleanup! I've found that going back and tidying up highlights is what really takes models up a level.

This is exactly what I found too. It's still a lot of work though! This is what makes me happy I picked the army where every model is hilariously expensive points wise.

Outstanding work, SRM!
It'll be a shame to have to slaughter these pitifully misguided false Astartes....

Heck yea! SRM's starting a force of templars, looking forward to seeing more

 amazingturtles wrote:
Helmet stripe! Ok, that works.

But... i might still call it snout tape. I am sorry.

You do you, man

 STG wrote:
Heck yea! SRM's starting a force of templars, looking forward to seeing more

Thanks! They're slowly but surely growing; I've got about 50 Marines worth of bits and pieces here to put together a force at the moment...

 tinfoil wrote:
Outstanding work, SRM!
It'll be a shame to have to slaughter these pitifully misguided false Astartes....

Yeah, but they'll be denying all your Tzeentchy trickery every turn!

It took what felt like forever, but I've painted up my first Crusader squad:

Do you do any airbrush highlighting, or is that the lightning from the photo?

Awesome I always Love Templars.

 Asmodai_00 wrote:
Do you do any airbrush highlighting, or is that the lightning from the photo?

Purely lighting in the photo.

Those Crusaders are gorgeous! Real great work

Any chance of getting these guy on the table to purge some heretics? You working up to a full army, or just a few squads for fun?

Looking great either way.

 War Kitten wrote:
Those Crusaders are gorgeous! Real great work

Thanks!

 Nevelon wrote:
Any chance of getting these guy on the table to purge some heretics? You working up to a full army, or just a few squads for fun?

Looking great either way.

The concept for this army is largely to just clear out the bits and kits I've got lying around that I've never put to good use. That means they'll be getting an assault squad, at least two more tactical/Crusader squads, some Sword Brethren (vanguard veterans - I've got both the Sword Brethren models and metal GW veterans), the command tank set from Warhammer World, and a few characters. Once I get through some of that stuff I'll look into giving them a Stormraven, and I'd really like to give them a Dreadnought based on the Forgeworld one or the old BT Dreadnought conversion that's in the old Codex: Armageddon.

The painting is smooth and crisp, liking this a lot.

Awesome loving those Templars.

EDC

Phenomenal work on your Templars brother!

Great work with the painting so far. Very clean and consistent. The bases also turned out quite nice. I haven't seen very many Black Templars with a winter theme.

The Turnip Master wrote:
Great work with the painting so far. Very clean and consistent. The bases also turned out quite nice. I haven't seen very many Black Templars with a winter theme.

Thanks! I've been basing most of my armies that way for a while now, as it's quick to do, looks good enough for my tastes, and lets me ally them all together when I want to.

Looking good Brother SRM.

Cheers,

CB

Finished the first 5 Sword Brethren for my Templars. My lights totally blew out these guys though, gonna figure something out differently for the next set of photos.









As a bonus, I was trying to figure out how I'd paint my jump packs separate from my Assault Marines, as they really get in the way. A drill, some PVA glue, thumbtacks and MDF cutoffs later, and we've got a solution!

A squad of them is awesome. Definitely an important unit in the army I think, or even use as "Sergeants". Well done!

Painted up some Neophytes for my Black Templars. The transfers fethed up a little bit but I'm real happy with their helmets:







And the whole squad:

Finished up an assault squad for my Black Templars a few days ago and only just got around to taking pictures:

Watch out, traitors and heretics, the Black Templars are comin to town:

Good to see a big old blob of Assault Marines and Tacticals, and there's a bit of Templar goodness on each one of them. They're really good, great work!

I like how the guns that aren't bog standard bolters are yellow instead of red. That's a cool and easy way to make them stand out on the tabletop.

Lovely work. Really digging the yellow melta weapons, and brilliant and practical ideas.

The depth and contrast between the white and black also looks top.

EDC

I agree with Warboss, love how the melta's are yellow

Great job making them all look just a little bit unique/different from each other. Graet work spreading out the bits!

Thanks guys! The yellow weapons idea comes from the old John Blanche Black Templars piece on the front of the 3rd ed rulebook, which has always been one of my favorite pieces. I also don't want to go too over the top on Templar bits for each dude, so I've tried to keep it tasteful.

These guys look great! The black is really nice and the white is crisp. Are you ever going to give them some wheels? Can't burn witches and purge heretics across the galaxy without a pimpin' ride.

I actually just got a Rhino in today for them! I'm working on a Terminator Chaplain next, but that'll probably be next. And trust me, I've got no shortage of armor lined up for these boys...

I just finished up the entirely too busy but still lovable Terminator Chaplain model today:

Ohh is that a conversion? Looks pretty sweet. Though, Black Templar Chaplains must have the easiest job in the Imperium. "Warriors of the Imperium...! Continue on with exactly what you are doing".

Nope! It's just the stock plastic Terminator Chaplain you can get at store openings. I've got the Terminator Captain from one as well, although he's still in his blister.

My real question with Chaplains is who are they scaring? That skull mask isn't scaring anybody except for a rebel Guardsman or maybe a Grot, who frankly shouldn't be a problem for a Space Marine anyway.

Tendinitis sucks, but I'm finally bouncing back enough that I can paint - here's some Assault Terminators for my Templars:

These are some great looking Black Templars, and as you say, tidy highlights can take a model very far. That Sergeant model with the Power Axe takes me way back.

One piece of 'personal opinion' offered as 'constructive criticism'? I don't like the chapter markings on the Scout helmets - for seem reason its completely breaks the immersion of looking at these and makes me 'BT's recruiting Mexican Wrestling Stars now?'.

Like I said, my personal opinion, feel free to completely ignore me

See now, that makes me want to do them even more! Space Luchadores is a concept that needs to be explored now.

Stylistically, I drew from the Black Templars art for them, which has a lot of crosses painted over helmets. I'm going to be doing something similar on my Primaris Marines. Different strokes, but glad you're enjoying the thread!

"Space Luchadores" - Rock on, good sir

These guys are crisp. Great lines. Very solid painting.

I painted some more Black Templars, still trying to figure out a good photo setup at my new place:

Black Templars armor? Nice. Looks pretty good! Got to imagine half the driver's job is stopping the guys inside from breaking down the doors and running out the hatches to hit the nearest living thing with their chainswords too early. The Emperor's Champion is pretty good too. Are you going to do a Land Raider for these guys? Getting a Land Raider Crusade seems almost too obvious for the Templars.

I have a set of the Warhammer World command tanks, and I was figuring I'd use those for this army. The Crusader is too iconic not to include, but one shoebox tank at a time

Excellent work on the Emperor's Champ and Rhino.

I've always like the BT, so it pleases me to see some awesome looking BTs.

EDC

Thanks! I've realized while working on them that they're a real fan favorite chapter - the response from folks has been super positive and I'm happy to see other folks are enjoying the models as much as I am.

Fantastic work on those Templars Brother SRM. They will look super on the table for your next game.

Exalted several of your posts!

Cheers,

CB

Got this big stompy dude ready for a tourney this weekend, and he did great! Here's my Venerable Dreadnought:

The Ven Dread is my favorite kit, nice work on it!

Thanks! I was batch painting some Terminators along with it, so those may be next. Otherwise, I need some more Troops to fill out the bigger FOCs for more command points, and some tanks to keep my guys safe. Has anyone had any success with Templars in 8th yet?

Finally got some pictures taken of these jerks:

And this big jerk, the Puer Malus AKA Bad Boy:

Needs more Dakka.

Nice looking stuff!

Lovely Templars there, the LR is especially badass!

Excellent work Brother SRM, love the subtle dust effect.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks guys!

Now's time for this big, hard to photograph jerk:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/bTzNhbc.jpg[/timg]









Here's Duncan checking my army out while I look hella bald

Awesome. I feel you ought to slap a big "Duncan Approved" watermark across your pics now!

Seriously, though, the Stormraven is excellent.

Raven looks good. It’s always fun trying to get pictures of oddly shaped big things.

Nice to see your army getting the attention it deserves.

I can’t recommend hats enough. As we get older the options are either headgear, or to shave the rest off, get some service studs implanted and yell all the time.

 Nevelon wrote:

I can’t recommend hats enough. As we get older the options are either headgear, or to shave the rest off, get some service studs implanted and yell all the time.

I think we all know the answer:



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I like doing weird batch painting groupings. This time around I did a squad of 3 scout bikers and the old Captain Draco model from 3rd ed, who will be serving as a lieutenant.
Fast Attack choices are universally kind of a pain to paint:








This guy was real fun though:

Painted up a Land Speeder, the newer kit kinda sucks but sucks a lot less than the old one from the 90s.

Great work! Love the Land Raider and the converted scout bikers. Are those old chaos knights helms?

Those are the Warriors of Chaos helmets with the horns shaved off. I'm planning on doing a tutorial for them soon!

Don't take it so hard, BrotherSRM. Lots of successful people are bald. Like Indrick Boreale or Lord Carron.

I really like the weathering on the Land Speeder. And the Commander guy is looking ace!

Nice stuff. To bad bikes squads can’t mix like crusader squads, that would be a lot of fun.

Of the 4 land speeders I’ve assembled, I’ve yet to build the “new” one. The last one I built wasn’t that bad, but at the time I was building it I has significantly more time in the hobby then the first 2 (which were built in 3rd)

You have a critical mass of these guys to hit the table? Quite the force shaping up.

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice stuff. To bad bikes squads can’t mix like crusader squads, that would be a lot of fun.

Of the 4 land speeders I’ve assembled, I’ve yet to build the “new” one. The last one I built wasn’t that bad, but at the time I was building it I has significantly more time in the hobby then the first 2 (which were built in 3rd)

You have a critical mass of these guys to hit the table? Quite the force shaping up.

Oh man, that would be cool! Doing a second bike squad of Marines to roll nearby them would be sort of the same, but they couldn't quite keep pace with them. I last built the old Land Speeder in 4th edition, so maybe I have the hobby skills/emotional maturity to actually survive building one of those things now

And according to my roster sheet, I have 2739 points of these guys painted up now!

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Don't take it so hard, BrotherSRM. Lots of successful people are bald. Like Indrick Boreale or Lord Carron.

I really like the weathering on the Land Speeder. And the Commander guy is looking ace!

If Boreale can rock it, I can probably do alright. And thanks! The weathering is simple, and what I usually go for: Some real quick sponge chipping with Necron Compound, a drybrush of Steel Legion Drab, then a drybrush of Karak Stone.

I got this Contemptor by buying a dude a shot at NOVA and he gave me his:






I also magnetized it in case I ever want a multimelta for some reason:

Brother SRM,

Thanks for sharing some of your work. Great subtle painting.

Cheers,

CB

Well it isn't the worst way to get a Dreadnought. He looks great either way! Well done.

Finished up some Crusaders for my Templars; I kinda blew out the whites in my lighting though.

Brother SRM,

More great paint jobs.

Cheers,

CB

Finished painting up some more Templars and it made me realize two things:
1. I really don't like painting capes, and can never for the life of me get smooth transitions
2. My phone camera blows and everything not directly centered looks like it's smeared in vaseline

First is Marshall "Too Old For This gak" Löwe:





Next is a Devastator Squad, featuring grimdark baby:

The Devs look fantastic!

I converted up a Techmarine for these guys - I'm super happy with how he turned out!

All your stuff looks amazing!
Two questions:
How do you do the dirt on the vehicles?
The hoods on the Neophites, and the Cherub. how is that done?

Keep up the good work! Inspirational!

Awesome stuff! Where does that Techmarine’s pack come from? Or is it just an insane kitbash?

 Zubbiefish wrote:
All your stuff looks amazing!
Two questions:
How do you do the dirt on the vehicles?
The hoods on the Neophites, and the Cherub. how is that done?

Keep up the good work! Inspirational!

Thanks! The dirt is just a successive drybrush of Steel Legion Drab and Karak Stone, nothing complicated! I work it into the recesses more than I would with a normal drybrush.

The heads on the Neophytes and Cherub are from the Warriors of Chaos set from Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar - I took their helmets and shaved off the horns.

 kavika0311 wrote:
Awesome stuff! Where does that Techmarine’s pack come from? Or is it just an insane kitbash?

It's a combination of the heavy flamer backpack from the Sternguard kit, the servo arm from the Tactical Squad missile launcher, a hubcap from the old biker wheels sprue, and the loading lugs from an Admech Kataphron kit.

This guy has sat on my painting table for 3 months now, thought it was about time I actually finished him:

A miniature of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

"Alas, poor Yarrick - I knew him, Horatio..."

Very nice, especially how you've managed to maintain the Templar flavour even with a very different palette.

Thanks! He's basically what happened when I saw the Primaris Apothecary model, decided I didn't feel like ponying up $35 for him, and then went on a beer-fueled conversion spree

Not going to lie. at first glance i though that was the primarus apothecary and i though oh nice a hand conversion.

It's time for the big cheese himself, High Marshal Helbrecht! This guy was an absolute joy to paint and I hashed him out in an afternoon and an evening.





Also a Teleport Homer, because those are kinda useful now:

I finished painting 5 more Sword Brethren, giving me a nice squad of 10:








The family photo:

What a happy family. Nice work!

Painted up Chaplain Grimaldus and his hype men - some of my favorite sculpts I've ever gotten to paint:

Nice work, SRM - is that all the BT special characters finished now?

Very nice work.

 Dysartes wrote:
Nice work, SRM - is that all the BT special characters finished now?

Thanks! The only one left is the 3rd edition Emperor's Champion.

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Nice work, SRM - is that all the BT special characters finished now?

Thanks! The only one left is the 3rd edition Emperor's Champion.

Ah, the Ltd Ed "Gone Fishin'" Emperor's Champion?

 Dysartes wrote:

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Nice work, SRM - is that all the BT special characters finished now?

Thanks! The only one left is the 3rd edition Emperor's Champion.

Ah, the Ltd Ed "Gone Fishin'" Emperor's Champion?

Hah! Never heard that one before. But yeah, that guy. He's primed and on my painting table, along with a number of his buddies.

I always wanted to get that guy, switch the sword out for a fishing rod, and do a little diorama of the Emperor's Champion on his day off - maybe fishing for Rippers?

Damn, your army has come a long way. You've painted The Angry Bald Man Helbrecht plus Grimaldus too. Are you ever going to do an army shot?

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Damn, your army has come a long way. You've painted The Angry Bald Man Helbrecht plus Grimaldus too. Are you ever going to do an army shot?

Thanks! I'm up to 3800 points of painted stuff for them in just over a year, and have a little over 1k left to do. I'll do up an army shot soon enough - I never know when to do them since I always feel like I should wait til the army's "finished", but we all know that armies so seldom are.

I've always liked the Chaplain models, and saw this guy at my FLGS. After a quick weapon swap, I got some paint on him:





I wanted more Neophytes, but also the option to use more equipment in Scout squads if I ran them that way.

New phone, new camera, still messing with things.

Marshall Dietrich Donnerschlag:






Tartaros Terminators:

Well Done Brother! just fantastic! epic work with the marshall! The Terminators look Ace as well! Are those Pop goes the monkey bits?

 Master Azalle wrote:
Well Done Brother! just fantastic! epic work with the marshall! The Terminators look Ace as well! Are those Pop goes the monkey bits?

Thank you! They are indeed. I wish I did the acetone vapor finishing beforehand since there's some parts that don't look great up close, but they're generally a product I'd recommend.

I haven't tried that yet either, I use a lot of his products as well. Im nervous that it might eat a way too much at the prints

Your marshall looks fantastic! Love it. I also really like the way you do scout helmets. It reminds me of the picture of that templar marine who's slashing with a sword. Inspiring me to dabble in a templars force when I dont have the time or the money

Very nice army good painting and well themed!

Rogerio134134 wrote:
Very nice army good painting and well themed!

Thank you! I'm very excited to finish my regular Marines and move on to Primaris with this army.

 Brother SRM wrote:

Rogerio134134 wrote:
Very nice army good painting and well themed!

Thank you! I'm very excited to finish my regular Marines and move on to Primaris with this army.

What are you planning? Not a lot of the primaris stuff really struck me as fitting the BT “run forward and stab them in the face” battle tactics. Not that it won’t look cool, but thematically i wonder how BT players were working stuff in.

They all get as many attacks as a Crusader with a chainsword, but with better shooting to boot. I really just have Dark Imperium and a few of the new kits burning a hole in my backlog and I want to get to them!

What's acetone vapour finishing? Never heard of that one.

I think your Marshall may require a larger chainsword, Brother SRM.

Marxist artist wrote:
What's acetone vapour finishing? Never heard of that one.

I haven't tried it yet, but this is the tutorial I was hoping to use. Can't explain it super well, but it dissolves the lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2lm6FuaAWI

 Dysartes wrote:
I think your Marshall may require a larger chainsword, Brother SRM.

I'm sure I've got a spare from one of my knights somewhere...