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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Current Fluff for my White Templars
I'm putting the fluff in as a comment (and hoping that will work) because it is so long a post. I am also aware of a few typos, one glaring chronological issue, and the fact that GW has now stated that ALL Dark Angel followers are looking for Cypher, not just the Dark Angels and the Second Founding bunch. Not sure how to solve that, other than to say that I am also looking for Cypher without adopting the Dark Angel force organization.
Thanksgiving Update
This will probably be the first of like 3 posts this morning - I've been saving up. For the others check out my other Space Marine blog.
I've been painting my White Templars up and, as any 40K hobbiest will tell you, it's slow going. Right now I have one HQ painted. I also have one tactical squad almost painted. In this case, "almost" means half of them still need their bases flocked for which I need some more PVC glue. Then I have to seal and then I need to go in with my gloss to make their armor and only their armor shiny. Once I have them completely done, I will try to take a squad pic and post it. While they are curing, I have begun painting up five terminators and one librarian in terminator armor.
However, being the person I am, I have come up with a new idea. More accurately, I came up with a color scheme and wanted to put it on something. It looked best on Chaos Space Marines, so on Chaos Space Marines it will go. Which means I am going to start another army. These guy will be the subject of another post, because having been inspired by a color scheme, I might have improvements on it. And while I was sort of plotting out that Army, I came up with another idea for a different army.... and it would be cool to give Blood Angels a try again as well. At which point, I began to regret my decision to dedicate a blog to each of my existing armies.
So, here is my plan, I am going to phase out my other 40K blogs (not like I made many entries), probably by the close of 2010, and make Sanctum Alborum Militum Templi my primary 40K blog that talks about all my various ideas, armies, etc. If you are following me, please take note.
As far as my "Salamanders", I just can't seem to get by the fact that they do not have a regulation GW Salamander paint scheme. They almost look more like Disciples of Caliban (but I don't want to adopt the Dark Angel army organization and they have all those heavy flamers and meltas). So instead, I think they will be a Salamander or Storm Giant successor named the Storm Dragons.
My Space Marine Armies are going to have to be themed. I think my White Templars will be drop pod based and/or fast attack (but not White Scars). They won't have much by the way of terminators or tanks, at least to start with. They will need some scouts though. They may expand to be more balanced later.
The Storm Dragons will be all about meltas, flamers, terminators, and tanks, both heavy hitting and close ranged. They won't be having many bikes or land speeders (which per Salamander fluff in a White Dwarf back at the beginning of Armageddon, is Salamandery). They are and will remain for a long time, my largest force.
Then I have some extra guys who might go back to being Blood Angels but I also might make them Emperor's Spears. If I do that I have two Baal Predators that I need to do something with though.
On the Chaos side, I'll have the Wicked Company who used to be the Emperor's Huntsmen chapter before they went renegade. At this point, they are going to be kind of steampunky looking and accordingly concentrating more on the steampunk looking Space Marine side of things and less on the mutations and daemons. They are the current apple of my eye because they are the newest project and they sort of came to me almost fully formed. They will probably be slightly assault oriented, but I don't want to go whole hog, largely because so many of the steampunk looking guys are shooty (Havocs anyone?). That probably means they will be a balanced force as much as possible.
I also have a Sisters of Battle Army that isn't going anywhere, and old Dark Eldar army that isn't going anywhere, and a Tau army I may pick up again because I love the Tau sans the Kroot (which I refuse to field).
I suspect I'm going to be spending a lot of Thanksgiving weekend painting because I promised myself I was not going to start in on the Chaos Marines until I can field a legal force of fully painted White Templars. At this point, I am roughly a tactical squad short of that, and I would like to at least be able to field some terminators, a dreadnought, a thunderfire cannon, and something assaulty. I also need like three drop pods.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving!
I've been painting my White Templars up and, as any 40K hobbiest will tell you, it's slow going. Right now I have one HQ painted. I also have one tactical squad almost painted. In this case, "almost" means half of them still need their bases flocked for which I need some more PVC glue. Then I have to seal and then I need to go in with my gloss to make their armor and only their armor shiny. Once I have them completely done, I will try to take a squad pic and post it. While they are curing, I have begun painting up five terminators and one librarian in terminator armor.
However, being the person I am, I have come up with a new idea. More accurately, I came up with a color scheme and wanted to put it on something. It looked best on Chaos Space Marines, so on Chaos Space Marines it will go. Which means I am going to start another army. These guy will be the subject of another post, because having been inspired by a color scheme, I might have improvements on it. And while I was sort of plotting out that Army, I came up with another idea for a different army.... and it would be cool to give Blood Angels a try again as well. At which point, I began to regret my decision to dedicate a blog to each of my existing armies.
So, here is my plan, I am going to phase out my other 40K blogs (not like I made many entries), probably by the close of 2010, and make Sanctum Alborum Militum Templi my primary 40K blog that talks about all my various ideas, armies, etc. If you are following me, please take note.
As far as my "Salamanders", I just can't seem to get by the fact that they do not have a regulation GW Salamander paint scheme. They almost look more like Disciples of Caliban (but I don't want to adopt the Dark Angel army organization and they have all those heavy flamers and meltas). So instead, I think they will be a Salamander or Storm Giant successor named the Storm Dragons.
My Space Marine Armies are going to have to be themed. I think my White Templars will be drop pod based and/or fast attack (but not White Scars). They won't have much by the way of terminators or tanks, at least to start with. They will need some scouts though. They may expand to be more balanced later.
The Storm Dragons will be all about meltas, flamers, terminators, and tanks, both heavy hitting and close ranged. They won't be having many bikes or land speeders (which per Salamander fluff in a White Dwarf back at the beginning of Armageddon, is Salamandery). They are and will remain for a long time, my largest force.
Then I have some extra guys who might go back to being Blood Angels but I also might make them Emperor's Spears. If I do that I have two Baal Predators that I need to do something with though.
On the Chaos side, I'll have the Wicked Company who used to be the Emperor's Huntsmen chapter before they went renegade. At this point, they are going to be kind of steampunky looking and accordingly concentrating more on the steampunk looking Space Marine side of things and less on the mutations and daemons. They are the current apple of my eye because they are the newest project and they sort of came to me almost fully formed. They will probably be slightly assault oriented, but I don't want to go whole hog, largely because so many of the steampunk looking guys are shooty (Havocs anyone?). That probably means they will be a balanced force as much as possible.
I also have a Sisters of Battle Army that isn't going anywhere, and old Dark Eldar army that isn't going anywhere, and a Tau army I may pick up again because I love the Tau sans the Kroot (which I refuse to field).
I suspect I'm going to be spending a lot of Thanksgiving weekend painting because I promised myself I was not going to start in on the Chaos Marines until I can field a legal force of fully painted White Templars. At this point, I am roughly a tactical squad short of that, and I would like to at least be able to field some terminators, a dreadnought, a thunderfire cannon, and something assaulty. I also need like three drop pods.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Still Alive
If my blogs are right, I put up my paint stuff right before Thanksgiving 2008 because we needed the table space. This last weekend, with Thanksgiving at my Mother-in-Law's house, I got them out and began painting again. White Templars, 1st Squad, 3rd Company, are nearing completion.
I realized and am having to relearn some things. First, I am realizing that I am two years older. The details are harder to see and my back starts hurting sooner. I'm re-realizing that white is hard to paint with: hard to highlight, hard to make look smooth, and hard to cover with when I "oops" with another color.
My paints had two years of drying in them. The black was plugged and when it let loose it spattered a lot EVERYWHERE. I spent about two hours painting as much stuff black as I could before the spill dried out.
I re-read the fluff I wrote for the white Templars and re-visited my markings and insignia decisions. Part of this was refreshing my memory. Part was, having decided they are descended from the Angels of Absolution, I wanted to start using a bit more dark green in my cloaks and robes and things. I know the Angels are basically a bone colored army, but bone on white looks dumb. I also am a big fan of consistency. My Space Marines are an Army and should look like and reflect the regimented troops they are. What I mean is this: If I am trimming the pauldrons of my veterans in black, then the Terminators and Dreadnoughts also should have solid black shoulders.
Being myself, I spent over a day thinking, planning, and sorting before I even lifted a brush. I have started numerous 40K armies and never finished painting a single one. When I first started, I played Blood Angels, mostly because no one else at my store did and they had red paint in a can. Consequently, I have two Baal Predators I never use. I began wanting to field a more "normal" Space Marine army because the BA started to feel kind of one-dimensional i.e. you assaulted. I opted to start a Storm Lord army and learned in the process just how hard it is to paint red and white side by side. Then GW published their version of Storm Lords who suddenly had yellow helmets. Mine had black faces, thighs and upper arms kind of like the White Panthers. I thought about going forward with mine and saying it was company tradition, but then they became part of the White Scar geneseed and I'm not a big fan of bikes - you pay almost twice as much for a model that dies just as easily. About then Armageddon came out and I discovered the Salamanders. My Salamanders are green and black (black face masks, thighs, and upper shoulders. They probably represent my largest single contingent of Space Marines - six tackle trays, about half of which are painted and the rest are primered black. With the latest Edition of 40K, I decided to start a new Space Marine Army, probably more drop pod based, eventually coming to call it the White Templars. I liked the "Stormtrooper" look and the insignia of the White Templars. The are my current babies. And I also have small forces of Tau and Dark Elder.
The point of the previous paragraph is simply that my stock of Space Marines stuff while extensive, is also very mismatched. For example, I have 4 dreadnoughts. 1 is green and black and finished. One is half red and half white and mostly finished. One is primered black. One is primered white. I have three Land Speeders. The Typhoon is half red and half white and finished. One is green and black and un-assembled. One is black primered and un-assembled. I have two assembled rhinos, one black and green and one that is half red and half white. The same is true for bikes, Predators, and the Marines themselves. It makes things very difficult when organizing. I've scavanged 80% or so of the old Blood Angels but the things that are left mostly cannot be scavanged like the Baal Predators or assault marines who are cast with BA markings. Red and white also took a heavy hit. Mostly now I've got White Templars and Salamanders (Or Salamander successors). I plan to keep both. Sallies tend to be solid and oriented towards heavy firepower. I'm thinking the Templars will be either a drop pod army, an assaulty army, or a shooty army. Lack of focus is my Achilles heel.
Also after much discussion on sites like Bolter and Chain Sword, I decided my White Templars are not descended from the Black Templars or Dorn. Nor are they Ultramarine stock. They are from the Angels of Absolution and thus descended from the Dark Angels. However, as a later founding, they are, at least at this point, a Codex Chapter. I hope GW doesn't decide to write them up now.
My Sallies (or Salamander descendants of an unknown name) are going to continue to keep the majority of the heavy stock. They will be mechanized, tank heavy, and melta happy. Hammers and salamander skin cloaks.
So isn't it odd that at this point, the stuff that would not require drastic alterations in order to become part of the White Templars are three rhinos, two thundercannon, two dreadnoughts, and maybe ten bikes? What a world.
I realized and am having to relearn some things. First, I am realizing that I am two years older. The details are harder to see and my back starts hurting sooner. I'm re-realizing that white is hard to paint with: hard to highlight, hard to make look smooth, and hard to cover with when I "oops" with another color.
My paints had two years of drying in them. The black was plugged and when it let loose it spattered a lot EVERYWHERE. I spent about two hours painting as much stuff black as I could before the spill dried out.
I re-read the fluff I wrote for the white Templars and re-visited my markings and insignia decisions. Part of this was refreshing my memory. Part was, having decided they are descended from the Angels of Absolution, I wanted to start using a bit more dark green in my cloaks and robes and things. I know the Angels are basically a bone colored army, but bone on white looks dumb. I also am a big fan of consistency. My Space Marines are an Army and should look like and reflect the regimented troops they are. What I mean is this: If I am trimming the pauldrons of my veterans in black, then the Terminators and Dreadnoughts also should have solid black shoulders.
Being myself, I spent over a day thinking, planning, and sorting before I even lifted a brush. I have started numerous 40K armies and never finished painting a single one. When I first started, I played Blood Angels, mostly because no one else at my store did and they had red paint in a can. Consequently, I have two Baal Predators I never use. I began wanting to field a more "normal" Space Marine army because the BA started to feel kind of one-dimensional i.e. you assaulted. I opted to start a Storm Lord army and learned in the process just how hard it is to paint red and white side by side. Then GW published their version of Storm Lords who suddenly had yellow helmets. Mine had black faces, thighs and upper arms kind of like the White Panthers. I thought about going forward with mine and saying it was company tradition, but then they became part of the White Scar geneseed and I'm not a big fan of bikes - you pay almost twice as much for a model that dies just as easily. About then Armageddon came out and I discovered the Salamanders. My Salamanders are green and black (black face masks, thighs, and upper shoulders. They probably represent my largest single contingent of Space Marines - six tackle trays, about half of which are painted and the rest are primered black. With the latest Edition of 40K, I decided to start a new Space Marine Army, probably more drop pod based, eventually coming to call it the White Templars. I liked the "Stormtrooper" look and the insignia of the White Templars. The are my current babies. And I also have small forces of Tau and Dark Elder.
The point of the previous paragraph is simply that my stock of Space Marines stuff while extensive, is also very mismatched. For example, I have 4 dreadnoughts. 1 is green and black and finished. One is half red and half white and mostly finished. One is primered black. One is primered white. I have three Land Speeders. The Typhoon is half red and half white and finished. One is green and black and un-assembled. One is black primered and un-assembled. I have two assembled rhinos, one black and green and one that is half red and half white. The same is true for bikes, Predators, and the Marines themselves. It makes things very difficult when organizing. I've scavanged 80% or so of the old Blood Angels but the things that are left mostly cannot be scavanged like the Baal Predators or assault marines who are cast with BA markings. Red and white also took a heavy hit. Mostly now I've got White Templars and Salamanders (Or Salamander successors). I plan to keep both. Sallies tend to be solid and oriented towards heavy firepower. I'm thinking the Templars will be either a drop pod army, an assaulty army, or a shooty army. Lack of focus is my Achilles heel.
Also after much discussion on sites like Bolter and Chain Sword, I decided my White Templars are not descended from the Black Templars or Dorn. Nor are they Ultramarine stock. They are from the Angels of Absolution and thus descended from the Dark Angels. However, as a later founding, they are, at least at this point, a Codex Chapter. I hope GW doesn't decide to write them up now.
My Sallies (or Salamander descendants of an unknown name) are going to continue to keep the majority of the heavy stock. They will be mechanized, tank heavy, and melta happy. Hammers and salamander skin cloaks.
So isn't it odd that at this point, the stuff that would not require drastic alterations in order to become part of the White Templars are three rhinos, two thundercannon, two dreadnoughts, and maybe ten bikes? What a world.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
What I'm doing these days.
For the last month I've spent most of my free time car shopping, either researching on the computer or test driving everything from a Buick Lucerne to a Toyota RAV4 to a Honda Civic Hybrid. It would be easier if I knew what *kind of car* I wanted. Oh well.
Anyway, it occurred to me while looking at MINI Coopers, which seem to encourage you to personalize them with paint jobs, that it already comes in a color similar to Dark Angel Green. You could put the winged sword on one door, a squad number on the other door, a tactical arrow on the roof, maybe a purity seal painted on the back, and presto it would look an awful lot like a Space Marine transport.
I'd prefer to make it a Salamander transport, of course, but it just doesn't come in the right green. The Salamander chapter symbol would look great on it and you could certainly incorporate the flames which are common enough in other tricked out cars.
They don't have a pure white or you could do White Templars, but they do have Blood Red. No good Ultramarine Blue though. I had a good chuckle over this.
I really need to dig out the basement table and get back to painting....
Anyway, it occurred to me while looking at MINI Coopers, which seem to encourage you to personalize them with paint jobs, that it already comes in a color similar to Dark Angel Green. You could put the winged sword on one door, a squad number on the other door, a tactical arrow on the roof, maybe a purity seal painted on the back, and presto it would look an awful lot like a Space Marine transport.
I'd prefer to make it a Salamander transport, of course, but it just doesn't come in the right green. The Salamander chapter symbol would look great on it and you could certainly incorporate the flames which are common enough in other tricked out cars.
They don't have a pure white or you could do White Templars, but they do have Blood Red. No good Ultramarine Blue though. I had a good chuckle over this.
I really need to dig out the basement table and get back to painting....
Friday, January 23, 2009
Christmas
We will, hopefully, get the last of the Christmas stuff back in the closet this weekend, at which point my wife allows me to "get out my toys" again. (We use the same table to painting as we do for wrapping and sorting Christmas things.) So, if I remember how to hold a paint brush again, I can get back to it.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Bikes
I've got some bikes I'm trying to allocate. They began life as Storm Lord bikes so they are half red and half white. They either need to become White Templar bikes or bikes for my Salamander successors, the Emerald Lancers or whatever their name is this week.
It's easiest to paint them black and then green; not to worried about red bleeding through that. But Sallies aren't supposed to use bikes much.
:-/
It's easiest to paint them black and then green; not to worried about red bleeding through that. But Sallies aren't supposed to use bikes much.
:-/
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
New 40K Blog
I made a new 40K Space Marine Blog for my other SM army. If you'd like to peruse, click here. Currently, I'm asking for opinions on painting there too.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Two other ways to do the Termies
More paint schemes for you all to comment on.
Veteran Terminator - Orange Power Fist
Veteran Terminator - Orange on Shoulder
Or I could do both.
Or, what about an orange head? If I redid the mouth grill in black, that might look kind of neat.
I think I like that last one best. Maybe still give the sgt an orange shoulder also.
Thoughts?
Veteran Terminator - Orange Power Fist
Veteran Terminator - Orange on Shoulder
Or I could do both.
Or, what about an orange head? If I redid the mouth grill in black, that might look kind of neat.
I think I like that last one best. Maybe still give the sgt an orange shoulder also.
Thoughts?
Chapter markings
This is a work in progress and if you see any glaring contradictions, let me know.
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Chapter symbol: TBD after a name is chosen. Generally the left shoulder denotes chapter and function. The right shoulder denotes company and rank The right knee denotes squad..
Armor pattern: The standard pattern is feet, thighs, joints, and face plates with green in all other locations.
Company markings:
Company symbol is on the right pauldron.
Squad markings: Squad type determined by the trim on the left pauldron. Gold for HQ, Green for Tactical, Blue for Fast Attack, & Yellow for Heavy Support.
Scouts are designated by their armor style as are Terminators. Sternguard veterans in standard power armor from veteran squads have orange armor where the rest of the chapter's is green and the pauldrons have green trim. I don't know if I will keep this for the Vanguard veterans or not. I may simply paint them as normal assault marines and reverse the helmet and face plate colors. I may give all sergents orange or silver trim on their right pauldrons depending if they are veterans. I may throw a blaze of orange on the Terminators as well.
Rank markings:
Margrave - Denoted by a surcoat, banner, and gold pauldrons w/ green trim.
Captains - Denoted by surcoat, banner, and silver pauldrons w/ gold trim.
Veteran Sergents -- Orange right paudron trim
Sergeants -- Silver right pauldron trim
Privates -- Green right pauldron trim
Banner markings: Each Company has a symbol which is denoted on it's company banner. All squad banners are patterned to designate the squad type and are in the color codes for that type of unit. All squad banners have the squad number as an Arabic number on them as well. Squad banners may have other squad specific deisgns. Independent characters may have their own personal standards with a design that is up to them.
Specialist markings:
Apocatharies have white armor where the rest of the chapter is black except the face plate.
Librarians have blue
Techmarines have dark red, but this may change because it looks Christmas-like with the green.
Chaplains have all black armor, skull face plates.
Champions -- Black armor with green pauldrons with gold trim, green surcoat, and a gold head laurel
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Chapter symbol: TBD after a name is chosen. Generally the left shoulder denotes chapter and function. The right shoulder denotes company and rank The right knee denotes squad..
Armor pattern: The standard pattern is feet, thighs, joints, and face plates with green in all other locations.
Company markings:
Company symbol is on the right pauldron.
Squad markings: Squad type determined by the trim on the left pauldron. Gold for HQ, Green for Tactical, Blue for Fast Attack, & Yellow for Heavy Support.
Scouts are designated by their armor style as are Terminators. Sternguard veterans in standard power armor from veteran squads have orange armor where the rest of the chapter's is green and the pauldrons have green trim. I don't know if I will keep this for the Vanguard veterans or not. I may simply paint them as normal assault marines and reverse the helmet and face plate colors. I may give all sergents orange or silver trim on their right pauldrons depending if they are veterans. I may throw a blaze of orange on the Terminators as well.
Rank markings:
Margrave - Denoted by a surcoat, banner, and gold pauldrons w/ green trim.
Captains - Denoted by surcoat, banner, and silver pauldrons w/ gold trim.
Veteran Sergents -- Orange right paudron trim
Sergeants -- Silver right pauldron trim
Privates -- Green right pauldron trim
Banner markings: Each Company has a symbol which is denoted on it's company banner. All squad banners are patterned to designate the squad type and are in the color codes for that type of unit. All squad banners have the squad number as an Arabic number on them as well. Squad banners may have other squad specific deisgns. Independent characters may have their own personal standards with a design that is up to them.
Specialist markings:
Apocatharies have white armor where the rest of the chapter is black except the face plate.
Librarians have blue
Techmarines have dark red, but this may change because it looks Christmas-like with the green.
Chaplains have all black armor, skull face plates.
Champions -- Black armor with green pauldrons with gold trim, green surcoat, and a gold head laurel
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Pictures
Thanks to Bolter and Chainsword, I have some pictures of my paint scheme for people to look at. Without further ado:
Tactical Marine
Terminator
Assault Marine
Veteran
Tactical Marine
Terminator
Assault Marine
Veteran
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