- Ironclad -

[Lamby]

"How's your faith now, Templar?"
"Why don't you come a little closer... and I'll show you?"
(Thomas Marshall, Knight Templar, Redeemed)


Inspired by the blood-crazed 'evil' Templars from Ridley Scott's awesome Crusade movie "Kingdom of Heaven", the devout Knight Templar Arn from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kni...sades_trilogy), Grimladus and his Templars from the Aaron Dembski-Bowden novel "Helsreach", and most recently by the warrior Templar Thomas Marshall from the fantastically brutal film "Ironclad", here begins anew my true scale Marines blog:



Some notes of no interest:
(1):
I make no claim to originality in the true scaling, the methods seen hence forth are copied from and and inspired by the following:
- Migsula's three forms of Alpharius and his =I=munda BLOGs, specifically his modelling but his painting is also truly awesome!
- Synapse's amazing true-scale pre-Heresy World Eaters, and
- Apologist's just as equally wow pre-Heresy Ultramarine Praetors of Calth

(2):
- Seriously, who actually knew that Middle Age sappers set fire to pigs in tunnels to bring down castle walls???
- (Watch Ironclad!)




And so, the true-scale sculpting/kit-bashing story so far (this work was done approx 1 year ago):
Group shot:



T1 and T2:



T1 close up:

T1 - back armour complete - moving onto arms and weapons next!



T2 close up:
- he had foot surgery to realign the front boot

T2 - GS on torso - quicker job than T1, thanks to clay shapers and practice!

[Hadriel Caine]

These look like they're off to a great start. Nice sources of inspiration too. Although I think you mean Synapse not Doghouse. Doghouse's truescale marines are nice but I don't think he ever had a whole army.

[Lamby]

Hadriel Caine - Thanks
And you're correct - Synapse built the pre-Heresy World Eaters, not Doghouse - my mistake (apologies where required!) and corrected above

[AtmanAbecedarian]

'Kingdom of Heavan" eh? One of your characters needs a sword painted like it is fresh off the kiln. Orlando Bloom may be a wuss, but that scene where he takes that dude out with the white hot sword was pretty epic. Just my two cents.
They look good so far. Looking forward to this

[Petay1985]

Just to be picky, the second half of the quote from the movie Ironclad is;
"Why don't you come a little closer... and i'll show you"

nice work so far fella, looking forward to seeing this develop.

[Lamby]

Atman - Thanks as always!

Petay1985 - Thanks - and yep, another misquote, now corrected... by watching the trailer again!

[Lamby]

Some leg surgery:

[Lamby]

And some new torso work - the Assault Marine chest/back construct on the right is my 'old' method, which requires a lot of GS sculpting to get a smooth, even curvature.
The 'new' method utilises Terminator chest fronts to try and keep chest details like the Aquila, and (hopefully) requires less GS sculpting.

[Mega Nutz]

Looks a promising start, eager for more!!

[Petay1985]

nice progress fella, the time you are taking to work up the details and perfect the scale will pay off i'm sure. as 'Mega Nutz' says; eager for more!!

[DapperAnarchist]

My word... they're terminators with spacers in the legs? They must be enormous! Excellent...

[baphomael]

My word... they're terminators with spacers in the legs? They must be enormous! Excellent...

Because art scale just isnt big enough

[Lamby]

Mega Nutz, Petay1985, DapperAnarchist, baphomael - Thanks for dropping by!

More notes of indeterminable interest:
~ Chapter-wise they will probably be Black Templars - possibly 'lost' Crusaders returning to the main Chapter (after many years) - or they might be a 3rd Founding Chapter, maybe the Iron Templars or something like that...
~ Visually I'm leaning toward Knights rather than Marines - post-Heresy era, with chainmail and big swords, but with bolters of course!
~ Color-wise they will probably be Black Templars - I will attempt to blend a deep red to black using zenithal effects... and authentic battle damage!
~ Currently I'm planning on building 5 Knights, an Emperor's Champion and a Chaplain, and a complicated diorama base - I think building a playable army would send me off to Arkham Asylum!!!


Torso WIP continues:



And a new set of legs for the Chaplain:

[Angelos Locke]

Look good and the sculpting in very good. keep up the good work.

[Neckutter]

nice legs on the chaplain. cant wait to see it finished. also looking forward to seeing the crozius

[Lamby]

Look good and the sculpting in very good. keep up the good work.

- Thanks!

nice legs on the chaplain. cant wait to see it finished. also looking forward to seeing the crozius

- Thanks! - the crozius will be along in a while...

Meanwhile, the fourth 'standard' torso is complete, and the Chaplain's Aquilla torso has been widened - a stupidly complicated process which unfortunately resulted in the destruction of the Champion's torso, so the 'modified' Assault Marine torso is the Champion's new torso, incorporating my old method but attempting to maintain the curve over the abdomen:

And the diced up Knight's legs have been repositioned, so I now have 5 completed sets of biggerised legs:

[Gearhart]

Fantastic stuff why halter are you going to paint these

[Lamby]

Fantastic stuff why halter are you going to paint these

Gearhart - Thanks!
- I surmise that some form of chaotic predictive text has turned "what color" into "why halter"...
- In answer to that question: probably Black Templar colors, with a hint of red in the highlighting of the black (mmm), probably dirty white/bleached bone tabards with red or black (undecided) Templar crosses, and or course white shoulder armour

[Gearhart]

Lmao you guessed right, damn itouch LOL but you colors sound like a beautiful choice! I've been a fan of Templars from the very begining and I have a feeling you sir will do them some serous justice! You should also do a true scale emperors champion but I'm sure you planned to

[Gearhart]

Also Im curious if your true scaling an entire army or just a few marines?