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"Honour or Death" - The Emperor's Champion - Part 2

Wreathed in golden light, 
these implacable warriors 
can shrug off countless wounds and, 
in return, strike down innumerable foes. 
Their holy wargear is held 
in the Reclusiam of the Black Templars, 
and should the Champion falter and fall, 
crusades are launched to recover these sacred armaments.



Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Last week we rung in the New Year with my painting process for The Emperor's Champion. This week we'll be looking at him in all his glory!

Before we do, just a quick note that next week is the blog's SEVENTH birthday! So be sure to join me back then!


After last week's post, I have been excited to show you the Champ in a light which better shows off the Black Sword. My (relatively) new lights that I paint under are brilliant for painting, but I have found that they really over-expose my work-in-progress pictures.


Anyway, I'm really really happy with how this model turned out. I'm quite proud of my slowly growing Black Templars army so far and it's nice to feel that I have done justice to a model that has sentimental value to me (see last week's post for my history with The Emperor's Champion). 


Rather than me blethering on, let's let the photos do the talking, but I will just add one more comment regarding the photography. Ever since my Sword Brother post, I have changed up the way I take my pictures. I now use a cold LED bulb and a warmer incandescent bulb coming in at a different angle, I then do a tiny bit of colour correction in the standard Windows photo program. I like the drama that this creates, but it does sometimes push colours towards the cooler half of the wheel. One casualty that I am noticing in these pictures are the reds. In real life they are more saturated than they appear here - drawing your eye in a line from his right side where the ribbon billows out from behind, across his chest and the red spot colour on his tilting shield, to his left hand and the same red used in the rosary beads. 

In absence of a professional photography set-up there will always be some give and take. 


The other critique I will make is that the base colour that I have been using for all of my Black Templars so far looks great in contrast with their black armour, but really mutes the tabards. I am seriously considering going back and re-basing all of my Templars so far - perhaps more towards the red-earth ground seen on some classic Templars. That's why I picked up the weathering power that I showed off in my New Years post. 


These gripes aside, I think this is a super cool model which was a absolute joy to paint.




Thank you, as always for joining me and I'll see you back next week for the blog's big birthday right here on The Art of Caesura!


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