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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!