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Hi Dakka,

this is my very first Black Templar.
I have the idea to start a 1000 points bt army.
What do you think?What can i do better?Pls comment.

Nice painting. Will you be posting more?

Yes,at the weekend i will paint a captain with energy claw.
Dont have enough time it was just a try last evening,

Your highlights are a little thick in some places, like under the knee - other than that this looks really nice though. Did you use a gloss primer? It looks rather glossy. That may present some problems as paint doesn't always like to adhere to gloss. If that's the look you're going for it looks nice though.

Also, invest in a small hand drill so you can drill your barrels. It'll make the model look even better than it already does.

I think you have used all the right colors on your model. Now it should be just a matter of refining your techniques (working on the highlights, eyes, shoulder pads). Nice work

How did you do the highlights, they look very very well done.

my only sudgestion for improvement would be to go to a stationary store and buy the finest marker / drawing / architects pen thingy you can find and use that for the writing on the shoulder pad.

I like it, I myself have a single black templar I did for fun a while back. The free hand isn't too bad on the shoulder but a decal would have been better. Nice highlighting/hardlining though, and the base also looks great.

I’m starting a Black Templar army this winter, always nice to see someone else’s work to give me inspiration and ideas.
Good job, can’t wait to see more.

hi guys,
thank you for comment!I used the army painter primer its very glossy.
The next ones will be primed with the gw primer.

Very nice work for your first one, and good choice on Black Templars.

As far as advice goes, well this is how I paint my Templar seal. Its pretty easy once you get the hang of it and its faster than putting a transfer on.
Excuse the pics over-glorification. Its from an article I made about painting BT's a few years ago.

@ LOS- thanks for that seal chart, that helps tons, i am putting my BT army together right now, and was dreading putting the transfers on, this looks a whole lot better!! 50pts assembled, only 2500 more pts to go!

well done.

Next time we really don't need 18 (eighteen!!!) pictures of the very same model over and over and over again.....and then one more.

hey guys,

thank you some much for your comments!!!
Very helpfull, best choice to add 18 pics;-)
I give the seal chart a try at the weekend.

Never thought of doing insignias in steps lol...