- The army was entirely brush painted as there was little use for an airbrush.
- They were all primed Chaos Black.
- I used Vallejo Black (a very matt finish) for the armour plates and Vallejo Glossy Black for the piping/muscle fibres. It's a good way to add different tones of black to all black Marines.
- To represent that they're a vanguard force with a crusading fetish I added targeted wash layers of Vallejo Hull Red to the recesses.
- The shoulder pads were painted with Vallejo Deck Tan. I then used watered down Scale 75 Cokum Copper and push it towards the recesses over several layers, wiping away in the center with a damp brush to leave some of the deck tan in the middle of the pad.
- I then did some fairly fast and loose edge highlighting with Vallejo Sky Grey
- Metal areas such as grenades, weapons, antenna etc were painted with Vallejo Metal Colour Steel and washed with Nuln Oil, before washing with Hull Red. Some parts were then drybrushed with Necron Compound.
- Camo Cloaks were done very simply with a base of Vallejo Luftwaffe Uniform, glazed with Dark Grey and then layered back up with the Uniform base. I then glazed Hull Red towards the bottom of the cloaks.
- Lenses and targeters etc were painted a flat red and then layered with fluorescent red/orange - same with the green screens.
- The minis were then brush varnished with a Matt varnish (again Vallejo).

I love the Black Templars but GW proper shafted them with no releases or even so much as a Primaris upgrade kit.
The decals took forever to apply as they were so old, I can't help but feel I should practice a stylised freehand, it could save time and add a bit more to minis in the future.