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I was wonering what to do for trench crusae terrain, and you've given me a lot of ideas and inspiration, thanks. Your stuff looks great!

 PaddyMick wrote:
I was wonering what to do for trench crusae terrain, and you've given me a lot of ideas and inspiration, thanks. Your stuff looks great!

If I had a single 'redo' I think I'd have split the hill piece into two pieces - made it so that the small hill can fit perfectly atop the big one and be removable using a magnet or four to hold it in place perhaps. That way it could be it's own thing elsewhere. The challenge with 'actual damaged terrain' is that there isn't enough flat space to mix them effectively without it looking weird.

Hi all, Double Post Time!

I have the day before Thanksgiving (here in the states) off of work, but tiny human daycare is open so today is a great day to get some work done! Here's the current status of the Black Templar Sword Brethren.



80% done I'd say. If I was really smashed for time, I'd finish their bases and call it a day. But I have the time, so I'll be adding another layer of grey-white, then red highlights, then the black highlights with incubi darkness. I've brought two minis up to white scar white level of shoulder pads, and honestly, it looks super chalky and I'm not very happy with it. So instead I'll probably stay with the Corax white level (which is the next step to do).



Cloaks! Not my method as I found it online (thanks youtube shorts). Method is straightforward and suprisingly easy to do (and shorter to do than layering up tons of layers with a brush like I normally do).

Sponge Method - Spray paint black, all over paint khorne red, carronburg crimson wash, sponge khorne red back up, then 50:50 mix Khorne red & Mephiston red, then just mephiston, then wazdakka red for final highlight. All using a sponge and going lighter each time. Use a fine tipped brush to get the smallest areas hidden by the backpack. To also be transparent, in the video they didn't even bother with the first two steps, starting from a dark red sponged on immediately after undercoating. Just make sure you're being a bit light with the sponge to avoid the bumps of too much paint, but I a loving the texture.

Now to focus on the Combi Weapon Lieutenant (who nearly made the Shorehammer list, but I decided to switch him to an Execrator at the last minute. I'm beating myself up over this a bit as I have four characters but only 'space' in my two big attack blobs for three of them, so likely the Emperor's Champion is going to be left out of a blob and just...hang out nearby).









No Cloak cause he's sneaky, and two close combat weapons because that's what the model comes with. Kitbashed from a Sword Brethren (which is an amazing kit for bits & character making if you're even moderately a kitbasher). Really particularly proud of the leather work on this guy as well. Still trying to figure out how to do the tabards differently than my normal style, so I figured the crosshatched would look okay. Not sure if I'll keep it or just paint over that.

8 painting nights till shorehammer (eek!)

Keep on building!

blockade23

Great work on the Bretonnians and the terrain. Good luck finishing that force for Shorehammer.

Cheers,

CB

Amazing work ! Truly inspiring keep it up !

Captain Brown wrote:blockade23

Great work on the Bretonnians and the terrain. Good luck finishing that force for Shorehammer.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks! Making some progress as you'll see - I even managed to get primer on the scouts so all the painted minis should be my own.

SarpedonofSotha wrote:Amazing work ! Truly inspiring keep it up !

Thanks! Here's some more mini pics as a thank you!

It's the yearly 'it is Thanksgiving in the USA and I'm not cooking anything so instead I'll post."

Pictures probably look a little bit repetitive, but other than basing and black highlights and maybe some metal work (the least of my concerns right now) I'm nearly done!

The whole crew. (7 Sword Brethren & 2 Characters)






Icon Bearer for the Sword Brethren - not that they have special rules, but this guy could always represent another character if needed and I love the banner/religous icon.

More Combi Weapon LT work in progress - He'll be my Castellan for my Shorehammer List


Finally Execrator progress - he's the closest to being done (and now has painted skin too even though it isn't in these pictures.)




That's it for today's progress & likely tomorrows as well. Next post will be the finished group shot and probably the whole army shot prior to shorehammer!

Happy Turkey Day for those of you celebrating, and if not, happy Thursday :-)

Robes are looking great on that Execrator - must have been all the practice on those cloaks.

Looking forward to seeing the whole army together!

Also love that your bitz box in the background matches the colours of the army very pleasing aesthetic.

Thanks for sharing!

Trench crusade board looks amazing! With 10 minis and I’m assuming a small sized board it would probably double up as a kill team board too.
Great work smashing out the Templars. I too love a bit of sponging, gives a lovely texture and more consistent than stippling can be

The weathered red and white on those marines is terrific!

So I promised some photos, and here I am to deliver! It's been a busy two weeks, but I managed to take some photos. Shorehammer is a Highlander Style Tournament, so only one of anything/everything! 1250 points.

My list...

Helbrect
Castellan
Execrator with Enhancement (the fights first one)
Emperor's Champion
5 Sword Brethren
5 Space Marine Scouts (Sniper & Missile Launcher)
5 Intercessors
10 Assault Intercessors
Land Raider Redeemer (w/ Multi Melta)
Repulsor (Just a regular one)

The usual suspects of photos.



Scout uniform close up (cause I'm pretty happy that I did it so well)




Land Raider



Okay so rough overview - Played Tau, Dark Eldar & Orks.

First game, hung tight with a Mont'ka (the all units get assault heavy weapons things) for about 3 turns. I've not played Tau in... two years maybe? It was close but my opponent definitely had more tools to deal with things than I had. I was not as aggressive off the bat as I should have been, so I lost one of my two tanks in my own backfield even though I had first turn. Ended up in a 88-43 defeat. Only photo is from turn 1 where I still had an army.


Game two - Dark Eldar. Didn't take tons of great photos here, but played a good friend from my own club! T12 is hard for the DE to take down, and both tanks survived on 1 HP way late into the game. 60-31 victory for the BTs.

Game Three - Orks! Another army I rarely play other than my friend's orks every shorehammer. Almost entirely close combat.

Here you see Helbrect getting ready to wipe out a big squad. Game swung back and forth over several turns, ending with just Snikrot and 8 gretch alive, plus (as usual for the stars of the entire tournament) the regular intercessors and the landraider. The raider took zero wounds all game, but my intercessors were down to just two models and the last ones left to hold down any objectives. A tight game, but a loss at 73-68.

So 1-2 for the tournament. I wish I had been able to pull out that last game, but as usual I met my goal of one win, had a blast, and even talked about running a trench crusade tournament next shorehammer perhaps. We'll have to see!

Also, here's a new photo - clearing out older minis that need to make the upgrade to Black Templars.

That red on the Landraider looks like it came out well and even.
That can't be easy on those large flat surfaces.

Thats a nice little army there! Great effort at the event.