New Black Templars as Dark Angels

[TempestBlade]

Anyone else looking at the new Black Templars and thinking them would make some great veterans or more knightly characters? I might need to be searching eBay when they come out.

[Medjugorje]

funny to see that kind of thread in the other direction.  This is a thing we will always share^^

[Tokugawa]

DA already get great aesthetics support from FW products, which BT don't.

 

Personally I think new BT bits won't help your "kinghty" looking models look more "knighty". But they would be cheaper and easier to assemble than FW stuff.

[USNCenturion]

Yeah I already have a bunch of bits picked out from the teaser; I mostly looked at the preview with an eye towards my unforgiven.

 

The Templar crosses will be problematic on some of the pieces, but the lanterns and such are gonna be great. Several of the helmets are no brainers.

[WrathOfTheLion]

funny to see that kind of thread in the other direction. This is a thing we will always share^^

It'll go back the other way again in two or three years time when they get back to us, probably after they do BA :)

 

As for the topic, not too certain with what I've seen thus far. I think Grimaldus might be the one to look at, he might make a quite cool Interrogator-Chaplain.

Edited September 20, 2021 by WrathOfTheLion

[Bryan Blaire]

I was wondering if there would be anything new for the Dark Angels’ line or new stuff that is from the Black Templars that would coax me back to doing more Unforgiven as Primaris (since the story there doesn’t fit with my Stoneburners) - unfortunately GW didn’t provide much that gives that knightly vibe that I would have been looking for with those models.  Only the Marshal actually has a knightly surcoat that would provide anything knightly to the Dark Angels, everyone else is wearing aprons like the Bladeguard models do - nothing knightly about looking like a Starbucks employee or country farrier.

 

The DA Lieutenant is exactly how I’d want the knightly aesthetic to be communicated via models - but with a helm, instead of the bare head with hood.

[Gamiel]

I can see a real use of the heads with bowl cuts, fitting with the DA's knightley theme. And I would say most of the bodies can be used without much modifications, beside changing shoulder pads.

 

 

everyone else is wearing aprons like the Bladeguard models do - nothing knightly about looking like a Starbucks employee or country farrier.

So, fitting with the DA's secret society theme then, after all many RL secret societies have apprones as a part of their order clothing.

[Bryan Blaire]

So, fitting with the DA's secret society theme then, after all many RL secret societies have apprones as a part of their order clothing.

That’s cool if that’s the theme you want to emphasize - go for it!

 

Not the theme I was commenting on at all.

[phandaal]

I can see a real use of the heads with bowl cuts, fitting with the DA's knightley theme. And I would say most of the bodies can be used without much modifications, beside changing shoulder pads.

 

 

Never really saw Dark Angels as bowl cut guys. In their OG art they had glorious golden Duke Nukem buzz cuts, and in modern art they're either bald or they have a high-and-tight.