Reinhards Primaris Crusade

[Marshal Reinhard]

Small update. Haven't had too much hobby time, but I've mostly completed the new emperor's champion, started sometime before knightfall. Next will be the marshal from the lunch box, then I will finally move onto something which I can enter into Knightfall

[Khornestar]

Oooh that black sword is really nice! As is the rest of him, but it stands out.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Well, to my delight, my BT order actually came in before the onset of the weekend lull.

Time to get cracking.

[SWORD BROTHER RYAN]

That's quite a bit... Have fun!

[Marshal Reinhard]

Well time sure flies. Didn't think it'd been this long but It's pretty much been half a year since I updated... I've not exactly been idle either during this time so there's a bunch of stuff to go through. Thanks to Brother Christopher for making me realize I've been procrastinating at updating this thread (though he didn't adress me specifically)

So, incoming silly amount of photos below...

Let's start with something basic, a blade guard lieutenant model that isn't available all the time, i forget what the conditions were. Gave him one of the new blade guard helmets from the SB kit:

This is actually the imperial hachette unique captain I tossed random bits on:

Judging by the tabard he's still WIP here.

Lunch box Marshal

Sword brethren. LOVE the kits. HATE gluing the capes.

Another shot of them, a bit easier to see each individually. What's more there's a castellan added in there for fun

This blurry mess is just a shot of the main time sink. I'm updating basically all of these models. Primarily through new helmets, but also chained weapons, and eventually Templar bling like purity seals and relics. Basically I got a lot to go through

A before and after the Templar makeover. Also the first model with a pyreblaster

Another before and after, though I think by now I've also altered his hbp arm as well

Some random post makeover models, hell blaster sergeants on the left got some of the cool SB helmets with targeter bits on them

Ditto

And again

Even some blade guard got some headswaps

And the blade guard marshal

Suddenly Helbrecht. Gave his goons some skitarri cowled heads so to better invoke the artwork, though i couldn't not use the cool new helmet. Think his paintwork needs to be gone over extensively at some later point, but I'm not short on things needing doing

Grimaldus. Really dirty early WIP, but I'm not sure I got him photographed further along

More Sword brethren.

You might just spot a few older bare heads that have been repurposed to go here...

Swordbrethren need a lot of capes:

So how many sword brethren do I have? This gives a rough idea

But I found out after taking it I'd missed a couple, and I got 1 more still on sprue.

Lastly the neophytes:

Quite like the models, but leg pose variety just isn't enough for all of them with just 2. You can clearly see the repitition through these 8, and I'm thinking about having more than twice as many than this.

Anyway, if you looked through that entire avalanche, thank you.

The Emperor Protects.

Edited May 24, 2022 by Reinhard

[The Pounder]

Woah Reinhard! These look absolutely amazing.

 

The lining of the capes is really well executed.

 

A joy to behold!

[Brother Christopher]

Oh, boy. You most certainly have not been procrastinating. What an army to behold. I admire your resolve when it comes to edge highlighting - the style has a great old-school aesthetic and I can only imagine how demanding it can be to paint so many troops in such a uniform fashion. Thanks for sharing these amazing Templars; I'm also glad that the post in my thread inspired you to update yours!

 

The hooded servitors work very well - a nice callback to the 4th Edition Codex art - I think they work better than the original heads.

 

Quite like the models, but leg pose variety just isn't enough for all of them with just 2. You can clearly see the repitition through these 8, and I'm thinking about having more than twice as many than this.

 

That's my main problem with the BT release - the models are very cool, the updated aesthetic is okay, plus the dedicated BT kits add a bit of the much needed variety to regular Intercessors in terms of armour and weapons ornamentation; however, variety of bodies/leg poses is a disgrace.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the models.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Trying to get a hang of the new system. Had gotten very used to the old one.

This basically focuses on the crusaders, the big blurry mess in the middle of my last post.

Fewer images than the last update, many many more models per image.

The Autobolter Crusaders.

 

Bolt pistol and Chainsword Crusaders. +2 ABR Crusaders i missed in the last photo.

Powerfists

Pyreblasters.

Clearly a myriad of things left to do. a lot to tidy up.. particularly on the pyreblasters' weapons, missed arms etc. But it's less of an insurmountable mountain now in terms of things left to do.

When everythings tidied up and ready, I'll make proper squad photos, the crusade overlook in the first post of the thread is woefully out of date.

Thanks for looking

Edited July 8, 2022 by Reinhard

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Again, excellent work on Dorn's sons, Sigismund's disciples.

[The Pounder]

Looking great! 
 

I really like your yellow guns. Gives them a little something extra.

[Gederas]

Lovely models, definitely using them as reference for my own in regards to kitbashes and minor tweaks of bits heraldry

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

These are quite inspiring… thanks for sharing !!

[Marshal Mittens]

Great stuff! Do you have any group shots with it all laid out? It must be very impressive!

[Marshal Reinhard]

On 8/12/2022 at 4:47 PM, Marshall Mittens said:

Great stuff! Do you have any group shots with it all laid out? It must be very impressive!

I haven't actually. Don't have the space. I intend to take some steps towards being able to pull something off to that end, in perhaps a month's time?

Edited August 16, 2022 by Reinhard

[Chaplain Dak]

Thank you for telling me to have a look! It is a delight to behold your work. Looking forward to see what you will do next.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Almost 2 quarters since last update. Let's get cracking. First a couple of weird ones:

 

A collage of (most of) the bare faces of the crusade:

 

This is already out of date as there were quite a few ones I redid after seeing them up close like this. Also been experimenting more with different skin tones. Future updates will feature more of those as I nail it down better.

 

Next up. Tilt shields. There's a lot of them. Here's 70, which is still not all of them. 

Photoing my minis up close like this I was horrified to find I've been fighting a losing battle against the 5th chaos god: Dust. I see many hours dusting off minis in the future.

 

Veteran intercessors:

Strange choice of addition to a Templar crusade, perhaps. But these are in fact in large part my old Dark Imperium Intercessors, most of which kinda have to go with standard bolt rifles. Since Crusaders only use Auto bolt rifles, I decided I'd put these guys in their own easily identifiable squad. Lore wise I figure theymight in fact be some of the initial primaris reinforcements sent to the crusade, that impressed the marshals enough with their zeal (and ability to survive endless grueling campaigns) that they were finally awarded the right to wear the red and fight together in their own squad in their preffered way. That's about as progressive as you can get as a Templar.

 

Here's my veteran sergeants, in matching colours. Think Castor on the right is new.

Also, gotta dig the progressively larger base size 

 

Next up Castellans. But not any of the new BT ones, no, the older ones. My tendency to want everything, meant I got most of the older ones. Compared to the new one you can make out of the Swordbrethren kit, they all felt a little left behind. Here they've been given a make over with some templary bits, swords, shoulder pads and such. Their poses meant that only Amulius in the center could really take a cape.

Biggest challange were actually the original DI Auto bolt rifle lieutenant and the 500th store celebration one, but since I had quite a few of the new auto plasmas from the several sword brethren kits I had gotten it felt like a shame not to use them. The rules also means they can have swords at the same time, so both of them are sporting sheathed chainswords. Feel they fit in a lot more now.

 

Speaking of castellans, when I first saw this guy I knew I had to eventually convert him into one.

The sculpted Inquisition I on his leg meant it only felt natural to make him into a returning Death Watch veteran. Added some witchseeker bolts to hammer it in.

 

Anyone remember these two? Saw some interesting conversions of the guy on the left in particular so I figured I'd give them a second chance, continuing the theme of

"returning death watch veteran", as the phobos armor otherwise makes them a bit too tacticool compared to the rest of the crusade.

 

From thin to THICC

Decided to convert a couple of .. well. I guess they're Gravis castellans. If anyone recalls back before the great BT refresh. 9th had just launched. We finally had assault intercessors. Chainswords were back in style. Then we got an unexpected gravis expansion. Heavy intercessors, Eradicators. Many of us thought "Ok, how about some Heavy assault interecessors". Well at least I did. Armed with heavy eviscerators. I still want that, and this I guess is a small outlet for that. Where'd I get the weapons? Well the new Gravis captain came with some.

 

Which brings me to:

Pretty standard fare. Finally found a permanet home for that Blade guard ancients helm from the Indomitus box (as I removed the cowl, as with the orginal Gravis captain. They remind too much of a librarian hood)

 

Blade guard helmets on gravis armor? Might be on to something here:

Yeah, definately.

 

Another 3 sword brethren:

The reason why the two on the flanks look so weird is because they're actually Calgar's mooks. Was actually the deciding factor for me getting that kit, way waaay before the idea of turning him into a Gravis Chaplain came along.

 

Grimaldus & retinue sort of done

Redoing him in part because they were involved in a brutal accident, snapping of his crozius for a second time. He's one my favourite characters so I've given him a fresh arm and will take my time getting him right.

 

Ancients:

Why replace the cool skeleton on the blade guard ancient in the center? Well he was unfortunately part in the same accident as Grimaldus. Lucky that the new ancient kit came with 2 banners... Work in progress

 

Of course, my drive to always get one of everything meant that I of course got that "Primaris Company champion"

Unsure if we can even field him? But with the sword swap I gave him he works fine as an alternate Emperor's champion. I already got several anyway.

 

Of course, speaking of the Emperor's champion, I must have gotten Bayard's revenge, right?

Yes, I in fact got no less than three. Saving most of them for a rainy day in the future....

 

... though I couldn't resist giving my blade guard marshal a new helm yet again. This time I think it will finally stick though.

And I think that's it.... this post just kept growing longer and longer as I remembered more and more things I had done.

 

Thanks for looking!

Edited December 7, 2022 by Marshal Reinhard
Grammar. The second bane of my existence. After dust.

[mytimeprez]

Truly inspiring and incredible work here brother. What you’ve done with the new kits is awesome and updating your collection is amazing. 
 

crusade on brother. 

[Brother Christopher]

Great stuff on the level of the whole of the army, as well as individual level of single miniatures. I spent quite a bit of time to take a close look at all the photos. Special thanks for the effort you put into the collages of faces and tilt shields.

 

As far as I can tell, you also have some quite rare and/or unique models. The choice of colours for the servitors' robes is very interesting.

[Marshal Reinhard]

38 minutes ago, mytimeprez said:

Truly inspiring and incredible work here brother. What you’ve done with the new kits is awesome and updating your collection is amazing. 
 

crusade on brother. 

3 minutes ago, Brother Christopher said:

Great stuff on the level of the whole of the army, as well as individual level of single miniatures. I spent quite a bit of time to take a close look at all the photos. Special thanks for the effort you put into the collages of faces and tilt shields.

 

As far as I can tell, you also have some quite rare and/or unique models. The choice of colours for the servitors' robes is very interesting.

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Took a bit effort in assembling the collages (even with specialized tools)

 

As far as the color choice for the robes on the servitors goes, I'm pretty sure I came across it while browsing instagram and decided to just pilfer the idea. Felt like an easy way of making them pop vs the underlying garment, and also different from the colours in use by the templars themselves. I do a mostly vanilla scheme on the whole, but with some specific quirks, like the all white chest eagles, the purple sword handles, etc. Guess green servitor robes might be added to the list. Am also gonna revisit Helbrecht in the not too distant future

[Sir Clausel]

Wow this is one hell of an update! Everything looks great! I especially like the gravis castellans. Id really love to see GW expand that more seening yours!

Love the collage of the tiltshields since im painting a few at the moment I just paints whatevers on my mind. But often finding it hard to come up with something new. 

Keep it up!

Btw i would looooove and army shot!

Edited December 7, 2022 by Sir Clausel

[Marshal Reinhard]

31 minutes ago, Sir Clausel said:

Wow this is one hell of an update! Everything looks great! I especially like the gravis castellans. Id really love to see GW expand that more seening yours!

Love the collage of the tiltshields since im painting a few at the moment I just paints whatevers on my mind. But often finding it hard to come up with something new. 

Keep it up!

Btw i would looooove and army shot!

Thanks. Army shot might come sooner than you think.

 

Biggest obstacle has been me wanting the army to be "complete" first... but the crusader squads needs more neophytes. Had been hoping GW would release some primaris scout squad so I could introduce some body variety as 2 poses is not enough for the 24 planned i have, even with a variety of arms available. Was hoping kill team would deliver, but doesn't seem like it, at least for the forseeable future.

 

Might just take the time to set them up for a group shot next time i got a day off. Since I actually have something of suitable space available for once..

[Urkh]

Wow... what an expansive update. The faces and the shields alone was enough to make me gawk. The rest is gravy. Really cool minis throughout!

[Gederas]

Very nice update Reinhard! This and the other very good BT threads are pushing me to actually get off my rear and (re)make mine...

[Marshal Reinhard]

On 8/12/2022 at 4:47 PM, Marshal Mittens said:

Great stuff! Do you have any group shots with it all laid out? It must be very impressive!

 

On 12/7/2022 at 9:11 PM, Sir Clausel said:

Btw i would looooove and army shot!

 

Ask and you shall (eventually) recieve!

 

Whole army: 

 

Left side bigger image:

 

Ditto, right:

 

HQ at the back:

Swordbrethren in the front: 

 

Left side focus shot:

 

Ditto right:

 

Rough head counts results in about:
50+ Crusaders
25 Swordbrethren
10 Heavy intercessors
10 Veteran intercessors
15 Hellblasters
6 Bladeguard
6 Aggressors
6 Inceptors
6 Eradicators
3 Surpressors
3 Outriders
7-8 marshals
~15 castellans
8ish Chaplains
4 Emperor's Champions
3 ancients
2 apothecaries
2 techmarines
1 Dreadnought
3 Repulsors
2 Impulsors

 

Still missing about 16 more neophytes, the presumed upcoming jump assault marines, new dread, bayard's revenge(s).

Next group shot will be difficulty as these already took up the entire small desk I laid them out on.