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BT Honour Guard Wip


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So here is my WIP of Helbrecht's HG.  I choose to minic the paint scheme of Helbrecht with the gold artificer armour, black cape with red under cape also the black tabard with red inlay.  I'm doing the normal HW with red, white and black power packs and the head crest to be red. The champion was giving a thunder hammer with a white helmet crest and white and gold power pack. 

 

5 of 6 of the HG are still being painted 

 

The first image from left to right has a power maul, relic blade, chapter banner plus power sword, power axe and power sword.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HGmaul_relicSw.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HGchampF2.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HGchampB.jpg

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Nice! What kit are you using as the cape in the last picture? Been looking to get some for my Sword Brethren. (They're just not SB without capes! :D )

 

Gold with Black tabard looks really good, though I've been hesitant to use it on anything more than Marshals and Helbrecht...  Extending that to Honour guard isn't a bad idea though!  Well done!

Nice! What kit are you using as the cape in the last picture? Been looking to get some for my Sword Brethren. (They're just not SB without capes! biggrin.png )

Gold with Black tabard looks really good, though I've been hesitant to use it on anything more than Marshals and Helbrecht... Extending that to Honour guard isn't a bad idea though! Well done!

The capes are from Anvilindustry and I also use them on my Initiates but all red as a strong contrast and the cream/tan and red on my Sword Brethren.

The idea of the red capes came from the Dark Millennium artwork of the Assault Squad Initiate with the red cape, chainsword and power axe and I found anvilindustry at about the same time to give my unites an updated look.

As we were shoehorned into new SM codex there are some units I want to use that seem to fit the style of BT but we got very little new lore or artwork. I found the reference assets lacking and it look me about a week to make up my mind on how to paint Honor Guard. I personally think they need to stand out is someway and not just look like another Templar.

If I can make more progress I will post another update later today.

I actually debated doing the same brass armor on my honor guard as well, but overall decided against it as I felt it took away the special look that Helbrecht got as the High Marshal using that army. I wanted people to be able to find Helbrecht in the battlefield because of his gold armor, but having a blob of gold armored guys sorta would drown him out.

Oh well, to each their own, very nice looking models! your lightning is much better than mine.

I actually debated doing the same brass armor on my honor guard as well, but overall decided against it as I felt it took away the special look that Helbrecht got as the High Marshal using that army. I wanted people to be able to find Helbrecht in the battlefield because of his gold armor, but having a blob of gold armored guys sorta would drown him out.

 

Oh well, to each their own, very nice looking models! your lightning is much better than mine.

 

Ya I almost went white instead of the brass/gold armor look.  It would have been the same color layout but with the white armor style of my second EC in the picture below. 

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/BT_HQ_set.jpg

So here is the line up with everything done but the banner and when that one is done I will post it.  My paint jobs are not

to win a best painted but to have a slightly better than average table top quality army.  

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HG90plineup.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HGbacklineup.jpg

 

The next image is to see what Helbrecht and the alt white EC would look like in this group.  I need to update the traditional EC to look a little sharper and maybe buy a new Helbrecht and try to get a better paint job on him.

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/HGwHMnEC.jpg

 

 

The next two images are to compare what the HG and Crusaders look like next to each other.  Also remember that I have been playing long enough that I think I was assembly line painting my Crusaders and was going for good table top quality. 

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/Comparefront.jpg

 

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee473/Baleface/BT%20Army/compareback.jpg

 

Holy crap! That Emperor's Champion is beautiful! I dont think i have ever seen an EC all white like that. I may have to tak my extra EC and try that out on him. Great look!

You clearly haven't looked in the Hall of Champions. My no.2 is white, but not nearly as good as the one here haha, needing to improve my skills, greatly.

 

They all look great btw and they sit well together in that group pic. Kinda inspires me to start my own HG : D

 

Holy crap! That Emperor's Champion is beautiful! I dont think i have ever seen an EC all white like that. I may have to tak my extra EC and try that out on him. Great look!

You clearly haven't looked in the Hall of Champions. My no.2 is white, but not nearly as good as the one here haha, needing to improve my skills, greatly.

 

They all look great btw and they sit well together in that group pic. Kinda inspires me to start my own HG : D

 

Oooooo... Just checked them out! Very cool! Yeah I havent been on this site in a good year or so... Time to catch back up now.

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