My BT Crusade, aka why didn't you start HH? (pic heavy)

[Marshal Reinhard]

Greetings all.

Started posting here a couple of years ago when I started my Black Templar crusade but I never actually made a thread on this sub forum for my painted minis, instead staying hidden within the templar sub forum. As my crusade's grown quite sizeable now I figured it'd be time to reach out to a little wider audience. This is technically my second army as I had an early 2nd edition Blood angels army which I then sold and went on a near 10 year long hiatus before coming back to the hobby.

As should be apparent I have quite a the fan-on for Forge World vehicles so the crusade has a rather atypical armory for a 40k-era force... Feel free to comment as I'm always looking for tips to improve. So without further ado:

The Camdorea Crusade

Crusade command - Castellan Hegesmund, Marshal Reinhard and The Emperors Champion Siegfried

Chaplains

Master of the Forge & Techmarines

Crusader Squad 1

Crusader Squad 2

Crusader Squad 3

Crusader Squad 4

Crusader Squad 5

Crusader Squad 6

Swordbrethren Terminator Squad 1

Swordbrethren Terminator Squad 2

Swordbrethren Terminator Squad 3

Swordbrethren Terminator Assault Squad

Crusader Assault Squad 1

Crusader Assault Squad 2

Contemptor Dreadnoughts

Mortis Contemptor and Deredeo Dreadnoughts

Fellglaive, counts as Fellblade

Sicaran Battle Tanks

Fire Raptor Gunship

Land Raider Achilles

Spartan Assault Tank 1

Spartan Assault Tank 2

There is only the Emperor, he is our shield and protector

Marshal Reinhard

[Marshal Reinhard]

Being a fan of big robots in general I also have an allied Knight detachment for my crusade, consisting of two knight from House Terryn, a Knight Errant and Knight Paladine

[Uprising]

I normally hate black templar, but these awesomely painted models make me somewhat like them.  You did an excellent job.  

[fivepointedstar]

Amazing

 

.... the envy grows within me now.

[The_Chaplain]

Reinhard, I've said it before, and I'm sure I will say it umpteenth more times- those are gorgeous, sexy templars. 

[Honda]

What a beautiful crusade. There is so much win there.

 

Have you had a chance to get your Glaive in battle yet?

[reckoning]

Im no longer a fan of the BT, but your crusade is incredible. NIcely done brother.

[Monstra Sumus]

Stunning mate, absolutely stunning. 

[Tyrannicide]

Words fail me.

 

Out-freaking-stounding. I can't believe how much awesome I'm seeing. :tu:

[Marshal Reinhard]

Thanks for the comments guys~

[Armond]

They look great!  Well done!

[Koriel]

A truly spectacular army. I love how you've taken iconic models from other chapters/ legions and made them your own. The master of the forge and the emperors champion are by far my favourite models in your awesome collection.

[Konnavaer]

Got to echo whats already been said matey and congratulate you on an awesome looking crusade, in particular the contemptor dreads and their basing are absolutely top drawer, well done :)

[battle captain corpus]

Cracking work!

What I really like is the inclusion of more ornate minis as crusade squad sgts etc. Really makes each unit unique!

 

BCC

[Blissful Brushes]

Wow...

 

That's awesome mate, 150 minis by my count? + dreads and vehicles. That...that justifies an army shot please ;)

[disease]

Seriously awe inspiring stuff

[Chaeron]

I'm out of likes, but this stuff is great!

[Marshal Reinhard]

Again thanks for the comments

Blissful Brushes: Seeing as it is fairly sizeable as Crusades go, it comes with a fair logistics problem to take a complete army shot.

I do have one older, extremely blurry one, which is missing the latest entries, like the sicarans and the knights:

Horrible image quality, so I'm planning on another once the the current projects are done, but it gives an idea.

Also here's a groupshot of all the terminators and the contemptors:

[BattleBrotherJohn]

That is one might Crusade.

[Marshal Reinhard]

The latest addition to the Crusade and my third ETLIII vow is a Fire Raptor

[Marshal Reinhard]

Dirty snapshot of my latest addition

Will take a better photo of it and my following vow once ETL finishes

[deathspectersgt7]

Nice looking Crusade.

[mytimeprez]

Absolutely awe inspiring work brother. I must ask where did the heads on your neophytes come from? I hope one day to be able to match your talent. Crusade on!

[Marshal Reinhard]

And here's the final ETL vow in their humble glory

mytimeprez: here and there. most are from warhammer fantasy, especially got a few copies of Bretonnian knight heads in there

[Marshal Reinhard]

With ETL done I took a new army shot containing pretty much everything, including the latest ETL vows. With these additions, the crusade now breaks past 9000 points in total when supported by the Knights. Click the image or else the aspect ratio is all kinds of wonky.

As I've worked on updating pretty much my entire infantry base, I'll update with more pictures of the individual squads in the near future.