More Black Templars!

I few months ago I confessed to starting some new units for my Black Templars army (which is still back in Australia) just to get the brushes moving again.

https://tasmancave.blogspot.com/2025/10/back-on-brushes-crusader-squad.html

I've now finished a second (melee equipped) crusader squad, who are ready for action.

I stayed with the fresher, brighter look for this look, and yellow weapon casings help a lot with that. Its been fun to experiment with the "magma" style effects on the power weapons too.

These 20 wrathful lads are led by the cool new Execrator (read Chaplain) figure.  

When playing Black Templars, you can never field enough Chaplains to chat Litanies of Hate and inspire Righteous Fury in the Brothers. I went with the master crafted power sword just because it looked cool, but he can take a hand flamer or master crafted bolt pistol instead.

Pretty cool model - tempted to get another and make him with different weapons

I spent a bit of time on him, keeping his colours muted to help make the sword pop, and then doing some different OSL effects where the sword glow reflects off his armour. Learned lots.

Just for fun, I entered him into local Honolulu painting competition "Iron Brush". No prizes but did make the top 10, which was nice. It was fun to really focus on quality output and new techniques.

https://other-realms.com/iron-brush-2025

Thats it for now, but expect more Templar love during the upcoming painting challenge

Until next time, Suffer not the Witch, Mutant or Heretic to live!

Hobby Notes

Undercoat Coat - Pro-Cryl Brown Black

Base Coat - thinned Abaddon Black, Corax Black, then heavy drybrush with Dawnstone

Silver: Iron Warriors, Nuln Oil, 

Golds: Belthazar Gold, Agrax Shade, Retributor Gold

Red: Mephiston Red, Thinned Reikland Flesh shade, 50/50 Mephiston / Evil Suns Scarlet

Leather: Vallejo, 

Basing (as per all my other Black Templars)

Martian Ironcrust Technical texture paint

Doombull brown

Tuskgor fur

Reikland Fleshwash shade

Drybrush Tusgor fur and Karak stone

Black Undercoat then Abaddon Black base coat