The Idris Crusade

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Apothecary, Techmarine, and Terminators.

[painting.for.my.sanity]

The last Templars I'll be painting until our new releases are all done.

 

[Brother Christopher]

As always, great stuff. I really like your style of painting blacks.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

AWESOME works.

[Smoke Frog]

Glorious! I wouldn't have thought a black skull helmet would have worked so well on a chaplain until I saw your beautiful rendition of that model. 

 

I also enjoyed the blood-soaked marine with power and chainsword. What kit did his mustachioed head bit come from?

[SvenIronhand]

Nice.

[painting.for.my.sanity]

Thanks everyone, glad you're enjoying looking at them :)

 

I also enjoyed the blood-soaked marine with power and chainsword. What kit did his mustachioed head bit come from?

I think it comes in the BGV box.

[SvenIronhand]

My apologies for being so laconic and taciturn in my previous reply; yesterday was a pretty crappy day to be using the Internet. I really like your Black Templars. I feel that most Black Templar players, by virtue of their faction being the "most knightly", have a fairly good grasp on the ideal forms of the Astartes. I'm talking about the warrior-monk aesthetic. My Greymanes hew somewhat close to that aesthetic, but I don't want to go too hard into the crosses and robes, because that'd overlap. 

Your conversions are super inspiring. Stuff like the lances on the Outriders and the converted Ridge Runner are all great. 

Edited July 22, 2021 by SvenIronhand

[Urkh]

I like the paintjob on the face on the second guy. The guy cleaning his sword made me go, "omg, he's cleaning his sword!" My one complaint on that model is that I miss the part of Maltese cross that would be under his eyes.

 

Also, I went back at older posts, and on your April 14th post, the fourth marine in on the bottom picture, I like how the folds in his tabard on his chest look almost like a Maltese cross.

[painting.for.my.sanity]

My apologies for being so laconic and taciturn in my previous reply; yesterday was a pretty crappy day to be using the Internet. I really like your Black Templars. I feel that most Black Templar players, by virtue of their faction being the "most knightly", have a fairly good grasp on the ideal forms of the Astartes. I'm talking about the warrior-monk aesthetic. My Greymanes hew somewhat close to that aesthetic, but I don't want to go too hard into the crosses and robes, because that'd overlap. 

 

Your conversions are super inspiring. Stuff like the lances on the Outriders and the converted Ridge Runner are all great. 

 

Don't worry about that at all - there's lots of unusual stressors on people at the moment depending on where you are in the world. Thank you for your comments :)

[Brother Carpenter]

Very nice templars. Youve inspired me to drift towards the more grimdark painting style.

I totally like the guy cleaning his sword. Where did the cleaning arm come from?

[painting.for.my.sanity]

Very nice templars. Youve inspired me to drift towards the more grimdark painting style.

I totally like the guy cleaning his sword. Where did the cleaning arm come from?

Thanks :)

 

It comes in the multipose Bladeguard kit

[painting.for.my.sanity]

A little update given all the excitement around the new Black Templars releases - I'm absolutely over the moon at the amount of different things we'll be getting - well beyond what I was expecting we'd get, and hopefully setting the standard for other unusual Chapter releases in coming years. Imagine robed Unforgiven Veterans or beautiful dynamic Sanguinary Guard done as well as our new sculpts.

 

Firstly, the Crusade has a new name (The Idris Crusade) and some more background.

 

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Inquisitor Lady Helena Darrock is an Amalathian in the service of the Ordo Hereticus. Darrock was dispatched to the Idris system to investigate rumours of an iconoclast cult. Initial contact with forces of the Archenemy were intermittent and minor, belying the vast conspiracy present in the subsector. In actuality, a number of planetary governors, PDF commanders, senior magi and the like had become tainted, consorting with the Ruinous Powers and working to achieve massive daemonic manifestations across the subsector - arguably a case better suited to colleagues in the Ordo Malleus. Realising the risk posed, and that her warband would only be able to delay but not prevent the incursions, Darrock summoned nearby Imperial forces.

 

Her request for aid was first answered by the nearby Cantabrigian Preceptory of the Order of the Iron Veil, a mere week's warp jump away. Whilst fanatical in their devotion to Him On Terra, the Adepta Sororitas forces were overwhelmed by the sheer number of chaos cultists and (as the initial phases of the campaign wore on) minor daemons of Khorne. Pleas for assistance were sent out again and again, many astropaths burning themselves out in the desperate effort to penetrate the roiling currents of the warp, they having been swept into a great tumult by cultist activity. The full might of the Imperium arrived in the form of the Black Templars, and the awesome God-Machines of the Legio Defensor.

 

A small force of the Harakoni 27th Drop Regiment (informally the Warhawks), so long seconded to Inquisitor Darrock to be functionally her private army, operated in the Idris sector in the early stages of the campaign. During their deployment to Idris the 27th, in addition to their standard kit, carried Ordo Hereticus-issue equipment such as braziers of holy flame, purity seals, assault shields, and additional special weapons. These elite airborne troopers hail from the hive world of Harakon, and prefer the use of Tempestus Scion-like shock assault squads rather than the massed line infantry of more conventional Astra Militarum regiments. Such a regimental doctrine makes them ideal for operations alongside the Inquisition.

 

The Cantabrigian Preceptory of the Order of The Iron Veil is lead by Canoness Cantabrigiensis Serafina Bonneville, a veteran of decades of conflict against witchcraft and heresy. Situated close to the Idris System, the preceptory was the first outside aid to respond to Inquisitor Darrock's plea for aid. A minor order descended from the Argent Shroud, the Iron Veil specialises in swift, merciless attacks with massed bolter, flamer and melta fire.

 

Whilst relations between the Black Templars and Inquisition have at times been strained, such was the scale of the Chaos incursion into the Idris System that any lingering animosities were cast aside, and the chapter deployed en masse to answer Inquisitor Darrock's plea for aid.

 

Three majority-Primaris Fighting Companies took to the field, plus High Marshal Helbrecht's Sword Brethren, itself rivalling a fighting company in size. Given the Black Templars' penchant for melee combat, equipment favouring longer-ranged or stealth engagements would generally be avoided. Minimal numbers of Phobos troops would be deployed, with those that were being limited to Witchfinder formations. Assault-pattern or unmodified bolt rifles would be favoured over Stalker-patterns. Sword Brothers leading squads would frequently carry power swords, power fists, and thunder hammers. Small numbers of Neophytes accompany the Crusade, integrated into some squads to continue their training.

 

Deficiencies in marine-portable long-range firepower would be compensated for by the Crusade's armoury; it maintains large numbers of Dreadnoughts, tanks (tracked and gravitic) and aircraft. Invictors would take on a role unique to the Templars, harking back to the knights errant of old Terran myth. Used as a steed by a particularly independent brother, they would rove the battlefield to smite the chapter's enemies with their power fist, or bathe them in the flames of their incendium cannon.

 

Ancient God-Engines of the Collegia Titanicus stride forth upon the battlefields of the Idris system, battling the greater daemons of Khorne now manifesting there. In the latter stages of the campaign, reinforcements arrived from Satyraes XII in the form of twelve engines of Legio Defensor "The Nova Guard". Legio Defensor's engines march to war bearing names in High Gothic denoting their devotion to the Imperial Creed. Their Low Gothic translations are as follows: Gloriosum est pro Imperator Mori, it is glorious to die for the Emperor; Defensor Fidei, defender of the faith; Martyris Gloriae, martyr's honour; Satyraes Resplendens, Satyraes resplendent; Maleficarum Malleo, hammer of witches; Pietate Insigni, remarkable devotion; Victoria Magna, great victory; Memento Mori, remember you shall die; Opsequium, compliance; Invictus, undefeated; Sacrosanctum, sacrosanct; and Inviolabilis, invulnerable.

 

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Secondly, expansion plans - I've got ten Vanguard Veterans, a jump Chaplain, two Castellans and the FW Imperial Fist Terminator Praetor on my desk right now, plus have scrounged three old Land Raiders (two Crusaders, one basic) that are various stages of stripping and repair. I am of course getting the launch box, and will be picking up Helbrecht, Grimaldus, a box or two of Sword Brethren and perhaps some more Eradicators also. I'll post an updated order of battle once more things have been painted and we've seen the exact unit loadout rules in the new Codex Supplement.

Edited October 18, 2021 by SufficientAnonymity

[painting.for.my.sanity]

More stuff - nothing from the new releases finished up quite yet, but parts of the launch box are on my painting table, part of the batch these models are from.

 

No such thing as too many Castellans, right?

 

I could not pass up on that beautiful FW IF Praetor...

 

...and he marks the completion of my Crusade's TDA contingent.

 

Oh, and I finished the first of three Land Raiders I'm going to add to the Crusade. The other two are, of course, Crusader-pattern

Edited October 25, 2021 by SufficientAnonymity

[Charlo]

Ungh, those are beautiful!

[Marshal Reinhard]

You're very consistent with your very unique style of Templar. 

 

This is a good thing. This thread, it is a good thing.

[rye0006]

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Where did you get that little multi melta turret from? That's great!

[painting.for.my.sanity]

Ungh, those are beautiful!

 

You're very consistent with your very unique style of Templar. 

 

This is a good thing. This thread, it is a good thing.

 

 

Where did you get that little multi melta turret from? That's great!

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments. The tiny turret is from the side of a Gladiator.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent works.

[Brother Kraskor]

Gorgeous Praetor. And so nice to see the TDA on parade, all excellent, lovely fusion of GK and DA parts making them uniquely BT!

[Marshal Mittens]

That Pretor is so awesome!

[painting.for.my.sanity]

Have you let Vanguard Veterans into your heart?

 

[Smoke Frog]

Amazing work.

 

Really like the banner for your bladeguard veteran/castellan, and that IF Praetor is really inspired and fantastic looking in BT colors! 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Well done. Are the Vanguard Vets equipped for anti-armor missions, e.g., killing enemy Knights and Titans?

[painting.for.my.sanity]

I realised I'd been neglecting posting to here recently - lots more angles, other models, closeups etc on Instagram, but here's a good bit of what I've painted in the last 18mths.