White Templar Test Model

[Frater Ictis]

Hello B&C,

 

After years in the Imperial Guard, I am just starting to put my toes in the water with Space Marines. I've been working on a test figure painted as a White Templar (apparently NOT a BT successor chapter). The model is a starter set Marine with his Dk Angels insignia filed off carefully, so there's not quite as much detail on the figure as a marine from a tactical squad box.

 

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o174/mzungu82/ffd69e8c-c092-4c64-b6f1-95855ad09614_zps4b803b9e.jpg

 

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o174/mzungu82/fbd140cd-cb09-4724-8f5f-ef9274405e4f_zps67822b25.jpg

 

I am somewhat uncertain about the basing; i had pictured it giving a bit more contrast to the white. I may redo the concrete dust as more of a Stormvermin Fur rather than codex grey & black.

 

C&C welcome

 

(n.b. - being new here I'm not totally certain this is posted in the correct section, If misplaced, feel free to move me)

 

Edited to correct canon.

[Firepower]

The White Templars are not BT successors.  BT have no known successors.

 

That nitpick aside, the model isn't half bad.  The freehand on the knee is well executed, though with a pic blown up to this size lots of stuff like that is gonna look sloppy and rough.

 

The shoulders are...weird.  It looks like there's a film over his right one (viewer left).  The shoulder insignia seems a bit crude, but you could rectify a lot of that by just cleaning up the edges.

 

Bonus points just for doing a white color scheme, by the by.  That's always brutal.

 

You're right about the base.  I would avoid gray scale, seeing as the model itself is gray scale.  If you are gonna go urban, include a lot of rusty stuff to add some color- not in perfectly cut squares, though.

 

Oh, and welcome to the B&C!

[Frater Ictis]

Thanks for the critique!

 

My apologies on the lore. The shoulders are definitely problematic. I believe the "film" you are seeing is actually my somewhat sloppy black-lining coming back to haunt me when blown up. I will have to get my hands on a non-starter-set marine model so I can attempt the same on a smooth paldron. 

Likewise lots of small spots are suddenly and inexorably visible that will need some more touch-up.

 

On the base, the rusty squares were intended to be brick, but since that isn't actually coming across, I can try to move to more of an industrial ruin, using broken bits of gears &c.

[Captain Semper]

Let me also welcome you to B&C!

I like the really dark eye lenses and I think you've done a decent job on the free hand chapter badge. Maybe the black areas could do with a bit of highlighting but, as Firepower said, kudos on you being brave enough to tackle white. As a final point, I'd say the area around the "ears" looks a bit untidy...

Look forward for more.