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"Uphold the honor of the Emperor"






















"Sons of Dorn, to Battle!"

























"The galaxy belongs to the Emperor, all who oppose his will must die."























"The world is at last is free of corruption and the taint of heresy at last. We thank the Emperor for our glory".



























"Without sacrifice there can be no victory."


Here's my WIP Marshal with twin lightning claws. He'll be getting more bling, ofcourse.






















The Crusade continues.....



So I'm up to 60 individual Templars so far. Virtually all will be getting so additional GS work: leather belts, parchments, purity seals, pouches etc. Oh, and lots and lost of modeling chain. Here's some progress shots.
























Still to come:





Neophytes:

These I decided to use Chaos warrior arms, normal space marine torso, and lower legs.

Dreadnoughts:

I have two forge world dreads and a GW venerable dread on order.


Assault Marines:

Converting these up to all running and landing poses.


Terminators:

These will be maybe 2-3 mm taller that the "normal" marines. but much wider with more detailed and obvious servos and cabling.









More Later!

Absolutely awesome! How did you make them? What parts did you use? A tutorial would be amazing!

This has got to be one of the most AWSOME things i ever seen in true scale space mariens!


I like this alot but maybe for your Marshal maybe have lots of chains wraped around him gives it a nice efect

Mother fether. The group shots look amazing!

Tutorialzzz!!!! We neeeeeeedzzzz tutorialzzzz!!!!!!

Friggin' epic!

Hey Sersi I love your threads! But I'm wondering, what size beads did you use for the rivets on the marine's legs?

Plokoone:


Huh? The first post of the thread has the beads I'm using, their sizes, and the website to buy them from, with...with pics....

Anyway, there 0.6 mm glass micro-beads.


Munch Munch!:


Indeed, as Templars should be.


ShadowAngel159:


What do you want to know?


The Dreadnote:


Just wait a bit, I have such wonderful things to show you.


bigmek35:


Oh their will be chains a plenty.


vodo40k:


The legs are terminator legs, that have been cut and repositioned as needed the legs were then filled out with Aves putty, and sanded smooth. The torsos are Terminator chest pieces with normal marine back pieces. I use a space between the two parts and then bulked them out with more aves putty. Most other parts are bits ordered the: Space Marine, Black Templar, Dark Angels, WFB - Empire, WFB - Vampire Counts - Grave Guard, and WFB - Warriors of Chaos - Marauder, and Warrior spures.

Wow... I'm gob smacked fantastic work. Each model is greatly individual, and the detail and over all look of them is fething amazing !

Great stuff Looking forward to seeing those Terminators.

this work always amazes me! great job!

lol these guys are just ridiculous, I spy a mould line on the first ones backpack, although thats really so minor compared with the awesomeness of the rest of the figs. Im awestruck, keep this up and you will really have somthing special here.

Simply awesome, these models kick ass :O

sersi i am in utter awe of your abilities as a maker. do you ever paint anything?

Up dates we need updates!

Here here, i back that

i do too!

How about using the Empire Greatswords as a basis for Neophyte conversions? They seem armoured enough and their plastics in Full Plate.

Okay, started painting the first 5 tester models.


Sorry for the pics being so dark I think need to recharge the batteries on my camera flash or something.








Who-hoo...sucking in progress!


Tips, pointers, etc? Oh yeah recipe suggestions would be much appreciated. Would it be easier to highlight the armor before fully assembling the model? The head, arms, back pack, and gear make it really hard. I've already decided I'm never brush painting shoulder pads white again. I'll be making liberal use of my airbrush from here on out.




























Oh yeah I've have the dreads pretty much assembled so pics on those soon.


More Later!

Wow they're looking great!

I think the kind of edging highlighting that you're going for doesn't do the models you've built justice. It's very unforgiving, and unless your sculpting is near perfect it's going to show up flaws much more than it needs to.

I would go with a much lower contrast, directional highlight. You should treat these guys almost like you would paint a tank, you've beautifully expressed their bulk and weight through your modelling, now you want to follow through on that with your painting.
Weathering is going to be very important. Look at what someone like Migsula does that creates depth and visual weight without high contrast highlighting. Look at military modellers.

Are you going to be using real metallics or NMM? I would suggest real metallics, and if so those should be at least basecoated in before you start highlighting the black.

Are you painting white directly on the black basecoat? If so, there's no need to, you should be starting with a much lower value (darker) basecoat. Even if you almost entirely cover that with your "highlight" it will mean fewer than 1,000 coats of thin white.

I'd try to paint each guy in as disassembled a state as possible without going insane. Again, you don't _want_ to highlight every edge IMO, so that shouldn't be a concern, but you do want to have access to detailed areas. I'd think about trying some freehand in certain areas. Detailed sections of texture can really add to the illusion of size.

You put the work in at the modelling stage, don't fall back on your safe painting methods at this stage. These models deserve more and will really shine if you can put as much time in at this point as you did in building them.

YAY IT WORKED!!!!!!!!

Can you please tell me how you did the cloak on your commander? I can't ever seem to get them right, and I figure I need to differentiate my HQ units somehow.

Oh, and for the record, whenever I'm trying to convert my truescalies, I think of your topic, and wonder what else I can rip off from you.

I tend to paint black armour like this:

- spray black
- basecoat 50:50 chaos black:adeptus battlegrey
- edge highlight adeptus battlegrey
- wash badab

It gives a nice black look without being too harsh, heres a link if you want a pic http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/299340.page . Just something to consider!

That being said, they look pretty good atm.

i agree very strongly with plastictrees.


cant wait to see dreds!

that's an awful lot of fantastic truescale templars. I'm looking forwards to seeing them all painted up.

grrr

ScOttfree:

Wow...the universes greatest escape-artist here in my thread. Love the name by the way. Thanks, I'm really trying here painting miniature is a fairly new experience for me.


grrrfranky


You guys may have to shame me into keeping up with this blog. I have 70+ initiates built now and I have to tell you that is an absolutely heart breaking amount of grey plastic and resin.


Sageheart:


The dreads should be done this weekend.


Vitruvian XVII


I like that I did use those colors, but I did not wash the model afterward. I try it and see how it looks. Thanks!

Fafnir


Its super simple really, but I'll need take take some pictures. Give me a day or so.


bigmek35:


Grin!


plastictrees:


Thanks for the advice.


1. I've never really like the look of NMM honestly, so real metallics for these guys.

2. Do you suggest dry brushing the model instead or highlighting? I'm not sue what you meant by painting them like a tank.

3. On the shoulder pads: I primed everything black first and then base coated the in space wolf grey. Wouldn't it be easier just to prime them white and go from their instead?

4. On the highlights I'd been advised to highlight all the hard edges. But now that I look at them again I don't really like the effect, it looks really fake. Would it be possible to just paint the armor black and give it a coat of future. The gloss being contrasted by areas of bare metal, chip and scrapes. Kinda like the armor on these "Great Swords". I love how they have black lacquered armor, bare metal and, black leather; all on the same mini. Something like this is what I want really.





5. I'm not sure what you meant by textured areas?

I'll break out my fine scale modeler mags and look them over for applicable techniques.

For the case of highlighting the black, try and blend a bit into the highlights, and use a more subdued highlight colour than plain white. The contrast is too much otherwise.

And priming the shoulder plates white (separatly of course!) will save you from wanting to cut your eyes out.

Will you do truescale vehicles?
I've really only got to hear about true scale since joining dakka...and its cool.

I like.

Black is easy enough to paint once you know how. My favourite method is to basecoat the entire model with a 6:1 Black to grey/greyish blue mix. Layer the armour with a 5:1 of the previous mix, with the layers gathering where light would catch the most on the model. Begin to highlight the uppermost edges with a 4:1 mix, and gradually add more and more grey/greyish blue to the mix as you build up the highlights, getting steadily thinner with each highlight. Once you have reached a pure grey highlight stage, you can add more extreme highlights on the very edges of the model with a paler grey.

Oooh...got a new bits order into today. I love these new space wolf heads! Sure the mohawks and braids have got to go, but the beards are so awesome. I don't unsually like helmetless Space Marines but these are so nice, I simply have to use them. They look great with Actual Scale bodies by the way. When Black Templar finally get their update I hope we get a similar box set. I also got 5 space marine bikes to biggerise!


Updates soon!