"Building up the Charge" - Assault Intercessors - Part 1

"Building up the Charge" - Assault Intercessors - Part 1 - The Build

Assault Intercessors are amongst

the most widespread close-support units

in a Chapter's arsenal.

Firing their heavy bolt pistols as they close upon the foe,

they charge into the fray,

where they make short work of their enemies

with brutal swings of their chainswords.

- Games Workshop

Hello fellow Templars, welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

I hope you enjoyed last week's post - it was a long time coming: the grand finale of our Blackstone Fortress multi-year campaign.

This week sees my return to my fledgling Black Templars army (it feels weird to say that as I have a multiple-thousand point BT army from my youth, but this is version 2.0. My Primaris Black Templars army). Anyway, we last left off this force a few months ago when I had just finished a Sword Brother who's hair I sculpted! At the time I was really happy with how he, and Marshall Grymm before him had turned out, but I acknowledged that I would have to speed up my process if I wanted to ever get a full army painted.

My next additions to the force were Assault Intercessors. As I mentioned in my preparations for my first game, these are some of my favorite Primaris Space Marines. They are SO dynamic; multi-ton advanced space warriors thundering down upon you full tilt! I also really like how unadorned these miniature are. I wanted to differentiate them from my Primaris Crusader Squad and Sword Brethren (who are also armed with close combat weapons) by not adding loads of Black Templars jingle jangles to these guys. I wanted to keep them lean and mean.

I got half of my Assault Intercessors from my Shield Breaker Strike Force (which I believe are the same as the ones you would buy separately in the box) but the other half I hodgepodged together from various introductory magazines and an issue of Imperium Magazine that had 3 push-fit Assault Intercessors. Unfortunately, a few of them were branded as Ultramarines, but it didn't take much to remove the upside down omega symbol (as you can see above).

Once I finished building my 10 Assault Intercessors, I had caught the building bug! I went on to spend much of June building the majority of the rest of my Black Templars models!!

From this (now sizable) force I separated back out the Assault Intercessors that had originally started all this madness and decided to paint five of them at a time. For me, 5 is the perfect number for batch painting. Any more takes me too long to do all of one element across each model (the foundation of batch painting).

So we're well on our way now! Tune into The Art of Caesura next week.

Watching: reveals from the Nova Open

Next Week:

I want it painted black...

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