"Your Soul is Mine!" - Unforgiving Chaplain - Artel W - Part 1

Rejoice in Faith! Here comes 

the Unforgiving Chaplain - 

not for absolution, 

but for Punishment! 

- Artel W

Welcome back one and all! It's Friday, which means it's time for The Art of Caesura!

As you read this, I will currently be at Warhammer Fest! WooHOO!!! Despite the 4am start, I'm sure to be having an amazing time. The last time I was lucky enough to attend Warhammer fest, was for the launch of Contrast paints. It is still my most read blog post! I'll try to jump in with a sneaky extra post to tell you about the convention (the headliner being the release of 10th edition of Warhammer 40k), so keep your eyes glued right here, to The Art of Caesura!

Last week I painted my first white Space Marine, so this week let's re-balance things with one that's all black!

From the moment I saw this model I fell in love with it! It is basically an alternate sculpt Primaris Chaplain from Artel W. I MUCH prefer it to the current Games Workshop one (though I did like the one that came in the Indomitus Box). As a Black Templars player, we can never have enough chaplains!

I have gone through my process for painting Black Templars armour many times now on this very blog, but I shall reproduce it here (though I failed to photograph the first 4 stages):

1) From a Chaos Black spray, I touched up the main armour areas with Abaddon Black. I then coated the whole model in Stormshield (a satin varnish which helped with the next step).

2) I then glazed Doombull Brown and then Skrag Brown into the crevices to give the appearance of dust and breathe some warmth into the black armour. As mentioned, the Stormshield reduces the surface tension, allowing the browns to slide nicely into the crevices. 

3) With the brown glazed in, I drybrushed Abaddon Black onto the areas where the brown got a little out of control (the surfaces of the armour plates).  

4) Next came Stegadon Scale Green. This is a really fun step. I work really fast, hitting many of the upward-facing surfaces. Don't worry if it's looking a little cartoony at this stage. 

5) To pull things back towards neutral, I use Skavenblight Dinge next. With this step, I start to add in the scratches and dings in the armour which will be further accentuated later. 

6) After Skavenblight Dinge, I use quite a light neutral grey: Dawnstone - again only on smaller and smaller areas of the upward surfaces. 

7) Again, don't worry if it's getting a bit too grey at this stage, because for the next step I glazed on Abaddon Black to blend the layers together and bring the whole thing back towards black rather than grey or blue. 

8) The final highlight is with Grey Seer, and I reserve that for the sharpest edges that would catch light from above. 

Pauldrons:

I painted the skulls and bones the same way as I usually paint the off-white of my Black Templars pauldrons. Starting from Steel Legion Drab, I dabbed on diluted Rakarth Flesh, followed by a stippling of Grey Seer.

Red Elements:

To paint the red areas (cloak, candles, ribbons), I base them with Mephiston Red, give them an all over wash of undiluted Flesh Tearers Red and then added more and more Yriel Yellow to this mix to stipple on the battle damage and highlights. 

Eviction Notice:

To differentiate the parchment, I moved from Steel Legion Drab up through Ushabti Bone to Wraithbone. I gave some focused washes of Agrax to deepen the folds of the parchment.

Metals:

I painted all metal areas with Leadbelcher, and for the areas that would remain silver, I gave a recess shade of Nuln Oil and then worked it back up with Vallejo Game Colour Silver. For the brass areas, I simply painted Contrast Snakebite Leather over the Leadbelcher. For the copper, I painted on Screaming Bell and then Reikland Fleshshade. 

I did his base in my "new" style (for which last week's apothecary was my very first attempt). I think this basing scheme still needs minor iteration (I need a bit more cork bits to give some depth), and once I've clinched it, I will devote a post to this style of basing. 

I think that's pretty much it. 

I hope you enjoyed this look at the Unforgiving Chaplain! I'll see you next time on The Art of Caesura!

Playing: Blackstone Fortress

Listening: The Bloodhound Gang

Next Week:

New recruits...