Khornestar’s Plog: Black Templars WIP

[Khornestar]

Feels good to see all the recent progress grouped together. Other than the castellan, whose sword I keep breaking off.  Magnetized bases, which I am super into these days. 

 

Edited March 7, 2022 by Khornestar

[Khornestar]

Wanted to get this thread started to log some work I'd done recently, and when the codex comes out hope to continue.

 

Word Bearers Dark Apostle:

 

 

 

 

Word Bearers Diabolist Sorcerer in Terminator Armor:

 

 

 

Edited March 13, 2022 by Khornestar

[The Pounder]

That’s a lot of Marines!

[Valkia the Bloody]

That sorcerer looks awesome.

Is that a conversion? If yes, which parts did you use?

Or is this a complete model?

[Khornestar]

Thank you! It’s the FW word bearers terminator praetor with some gal vorbak and possessed bits, tome from plastic terminator sorc kit. And lots of green stuff. I should have some pre primer pics somewhere.

[techsoldaten]

Outstanding work. Can't wait to see the finished product. 

 

Are you using metallics for undercoating, or will those colors be present on the finished model?

[Khornestar]

This is Vallejo black airbrush primer, looks shiny from the flash.

 

The plan is to do a quick white zenithal spray, then work with word bearers red most likely as the main basecoat color.

Edited March 8, 2022 by Khornestar

[Khornestar]

That’s a lot of Marines!

Black tide FTW. 2 redemptors and 2 impulsors are my only vehicles.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

I see you have Judicar… bad bad man !!

[Khornestar]

I see you have Judicar… bad bad man !!

Ready to take some heads and deliver the Emperor’s justice .

 

Also got the individual shot of Brother-Initiate Dikran after primer and vallejo black. I really like how he turned out. In particular the pattern repetition in the templar cros on his helm, left pauldron, and power fist:

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by Khornestar

[Khornestar]

Sprayed the warp talons with black because I want them to match the rest of the army yet to be painted. It was a sort of brick red basecoat, which still appears with the flash, but oh well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And one example of the wings from behind:

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by Khornestar

[techsoldaten]

This is Vallejo black airbrush primer, looks shiny from the flash.

 

The plan is to do a quick white zenithal spray, then work with word bearers red most likely as the main basecoat color.

 

ROFL. Quite a flash you have there. 

 

Looked more like Vallejo Metal Color.

[Khornestar]

For the only two splashes of something other than black in the army:

 

Primaris Techmarine:

 

 

 

Primaris Apothecary:

 

 

[Khornestar]

First highlight has been applied to the tray. Flash very much makes it look brighter/more intense:

 

Impulsor Accipiter:

 

 

Brother-Castellan Artin has been repaired and joined his brothers:

 

 

 

[Khornestar]

Built the Indomitus eradicators, one of them sans head as I'm also buying the full kit and it looks like there's an extra helm in that for him. Everyone gets a helmet, other than the neophytes, who have yet to fully prove themselves and ascend as initiates.

 

I want to decorate them with templars purity seals and such but waiting to build a few more things and distribute them evenly.

 

 

 

[Khornestar]

The puckering step: applying the brightest highlight with the airbrush. Always just goes okay, I think I need to refine my technique to get smoother results. Still, nothing some heavy battle weathering won't cover up.

 

I also got the shoulders on the neophytes. So bright.

 

 

[Urkh]

I've been using either ulthuan grey or corax white recently instead of white scar for my white armor plates, and only using scar as a highlight. It takes the brightness way down and feels more realistic than using the pure white.

[Khornestar]

You can’t tell looking at them, the white parts are first sprayed with a vallejo grey primer, then a blue/grey, then white. But this flash just washes everything out. Lighting in that room is not very good.

[Khornestar]

The big daddy arrived in the mail today, working on Marshal Tigranes:

 

[Khornestar]

Building some heavy intercessors now. For a modern kit, the mold lines are pretty :cuss extreme. Still, really cool kit.

 

Sword Brother Erek:

 

 

 

 

Gonna still add purity seals and such but I want to have the full unit (10) built before spreading them out.

Edited March 11, 2022 by Khornestar

[Khornestar]

Progress on the heavy intercessors:

 

 

 

 

 

[Khornestar]

More heavies:

 

Hard to get a good shot of this guy that makes him look as good as I think he looks in person. This one will be the junior officer to command a 5-man unit when not running the full brick led by Brother Erek:

 

 

Scary skull guy:

 

 

 

The reloader:

 

 

 

[Valkia the Bloody]

Great work at making them look more expressive and dynamic.

[Khornestar]

Great work at making them look more expressive and dynamic.

 

Thank you! I really wanted to avoid having doubles of any pose, and then just kinda went nuts. Had a blast putting them all together. Sprayed 'em black, which is always my favorite step:

 

 

 

 

 

And the pre-primer stage in case anyone cares for details:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Khornestar]

Got the airbrush highlights done on the heavy intercessors: