The Silent Sword Crusade - Resolve & Purpose

[TheOneTrueZon]

I've been tabarding! After watching some tutorials by the FB user Dawn Crusade - I commissioned him to do tabards for my Primaris HQ. Here's two of them:

 

 

As an art teacher told me once (back in the day when we used books in class) - "there's looking at art on page in a book, and then there's going to a museum and seeing the real thing". I've learned that a good reference makes all the difference. Here's some of my Primaris Intercessors with tabards sculpted by myself, that are in the beginning phases of painting:

 

 

And here's some that are sculpted and based but unassembled. At one point early on I didn't realize that most of the chest would be obscured by the Bolter so I stopped trying to work out the chest area too much. KISS method prevails. 

 

 

And after some practice - I've done about 15 Primaris with tabards so far, I have this Primaris Sword Brethren mocked up and ready for ETL, some extra bits on here courtesy of Rogue Crusader / Red Dog Minis:

 

 

Link to the Dawn Crusade FB page, tutorials are in his video page.

[The Spanish Inquisitor]

Great tabards, now they are real Black Templars !

How hard was it to sculpt them ? I might try myself on my intercessors but my sculpting skills are not very good. 

 

The sword brethren with extra bits is excellent too. 

[TheOneTrueZon]

Great tabards, now they are real Black Templars !

How hard was it to sculpt them ? I might try myself on my intercessors but my sculpting skills are not very good. 

 

The sword brethren with extra bits is excellent too. 

 

Thank you! I highly suggest you try your own, it's like a gateway to a whole other world of possibilities if you give it some time and practice. It's probably not has hard as you think but there's definitely a learning curve and the right tools make an incredible amount of difference. There's a lot of the things that will certainly help any tabard crafting using green / brown stuff, like letting the material cure out for about an hour before working on it - that way it shapes more like fabric, you have to push it around a bit more. If you work with it without curing first the epoxy will respond much differently. I also use silicone shaped sculpting tools, such as these (https://bit.ly/2HKLfga) - the triangle shaped head is the one I use 90% of the time. It's perfect for making valleys and folds. Always a good idea to find something that serves as a test mini and do some practice runs before you get to the main event. The tutorial on the Dawn Crusade page is really good, but there's a multitude of others out there.

[TheOneTrueZon]

Saw these and thought these might make nice Neophyte / Reiver proxies (with some head swaps):

 

 

 

Also extra points that the heads are based on "The Expendables" characters, and that cyber dog! My Marshall needs a familiar:

 

Edited April 25, 2018 by TheOneTrueZon

[TheOneTrueZon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-lzvxwBrw&index=3&list=PLHcrtN7AVzus1ARl6yHOe2ymAS-19uFow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dosjetka]

Wow. That is a stunning piece of work.

[Apocalypton]

It looks amazing!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Wow. That is a stunning piece of work.

I second that.

[Honda]

What  a beautiful beast it is. Bravo!

[Marshal Wolfhart]

If i were nitpicky i'd ask why the vision slits radiate light. Then again, i'm not the nitpicky kind - or so i'd like to think :P - and i seriously need to go wash some drool off myself. Wonderful work!

[TheOneTrueZon]

If i were nitpicky i'd ask why the vision slits radiate light. Then again, i'm not the nitpicky kind - or so i'd like to think - and i seriously need to go wash some drool off myself. Wonderful work!

 

Zeal is the answer.

[TheOneTrueZon]

Thank you everyone! It's a particular kind of pride to be chosen for the badge of the artificer. Templar Victa!

Edited August 6, 2018 by TheOneTrueZon

[TheOneTrueZon]

++WIP++

 

On the bench last night...

 

 

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Your Primaris Emperor's Champion is well done. Your Sigismund (counts as an Old School Emperor's Champion?) looks AWESOME.

[TheOneTrueZon]

Thank you Bjorn! Yes that will be my new EC of choice for 40k games, perhaps even as a captain for Kill Team.

[Marshal Vespasian]

I LOVE the Sigismund model.

 

Well worth the money and an outstandig paintjob

[TheOneTrueZon]

Sooooooo.. I started a thing...

 

[Marshal Reinhard]

Tell me about your thing...

[Honda]

Well, for one thing it has the crabs.

[BitsHammer]

Well, for one thing it has the crabs.

I think they make a cream for that. Might burn a little though.

[TheOneTrueZon]

I love you guys.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Why is that... tower... shaped that way? Is it the remains of a building that was subjected to an artillery barrage or orbital bombardment? Or did Chaos raise the tower so, relying on Warpcraft to keep the structure standing?

[Marshal Vespasian]

Are you starting a diorama? The tower looks vaguely orkish or like something you can access during play because Walls have been left off

[Brother Carpenter]

I also noticed a defiler trotting at the base.

You 've fallen!

[Marshal Reinhard]

It could be that his thing is for being violently purged though.