Blanche Templars

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Complete Warhammer 40k killteam consisting of seven Black Templars (four marines, one terminator, two servitors). Based on the fantastic WH40k 3rd edition box art by John Blanche. I tried to re-create some of the great characters that feature on the front of the rulebook and the battle box of 3rd edition, which was a big part of my youth. So this is a giant trip down memory lane! I used a combination of Primaris and classic marine parts to match the artwork while emphasizing the size difference between the servitors and the marines.

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Artwork side-by-sides

I made some side-by-side comparison images so that you can see the inspiration and the resulting Marine 🙂

Featured

These guys were featured in a couple of places!

First feature was in the Hangout and Hobby here (around 48:28)

Honorable mention in the July Painting Competition on the Warhammer Community Website

Moving Pictures

I made a quick tutorial on how to create the black armour using Contrast paints.

And another one on how to paint the orange scorched earth bases

Work in Progress

These images are posted in chronological order of the story, not the chronological order of the building progress! 🙂

Chop

Humble beginnings 1: Chop

Glue

Humble beginnings 2: Glue

There they are

The start of a team

Capt

Captain in Progress

Four

First Four nearly done

Mr Flagman

Johnny has a flag

Skulls

Captain is getting some shoulderpads

Building a bolter

Bolter in progress

Terminator

Terminator done

Copy

Copying the shoulder for the other shoulder

There he is

Mr front of the box!

The team

The build is nearly done!

This artwork

Found my old box! So many memories…

Mr Melta

A new challenger appears

First layers

First layers of paint. So bright!

BlancheArmour

Blanche Black armour

Terminator

Terminator nearly done

Mr Melta

Mr Melta nearly painted

Nearly done!

That’s much better!

2 Reacties

Adam op 30/05/2022 om 09:45

Very glad I found this as I’m a big fan of box and codex cover conversions and I’m also researching ways to paint black armour. Love your finished models, great job!
- Mikal van Leeuwen op 30/05/2022 om 14:30
  
  Hi there! Many thanks, and glad you like them. I guess you already found it, but on the page there’s a tutorial on how I painted that black. Good luck and enjoy painting! Cheers, Mikal