As grizzled a warrior as his Chapter has ever known,
High Chaplain Grimaldus is a beacon of Imperial faith.
His fortitude is such that many of his brothers believe him invincible.
His will is singular, his zeal coldly furious,
and his martial skill attested by the trail of broken foes
laid at his heels and his legendary stand at Helsreach.
Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
Happy Valentine's Day!
My goodness me, work is among the busiest it's ever been this week! I just calculated it and I've worked 57 hours this week! Crikey! It has left precious little time for life outside work, but things should be back to normal next week.
As I continue to work away on the Gallowdark Terrain (currently neck deep in the riveting task of filing down all of the wall connections), on the blog, we will turn our attentions back to where we left off before all the Christmas festivities kicked in; back to my Black Templars.
Today is the first post in a series regarding one of the most important figures for the Black Templars: Reclusiarch Grimaldus!
For those out of the loop, the Black Templars are a fanatical bunch. They love them some Chaplains to stir up the religious fervor and there are none so Chaplainy as the boss of Chaplains, Merek Grimaldus. If you are a Warhammer fan and have not yet read Helsreach...PLEASE do so! The whole book is about Grimaldus and co. being badass while holding out in a besieged city before totally taking it to the Orks. Spoiler alert: at the end, a whole damn cathedral falls on Grimaldus and he shrugs it off, and what's more, he gets his friends (more on them next week) to carry around the bits of the cathedral forevermore to remind everyone of Grimaldus' other moniker: The Hero of Helsreach.
Anyway, Grimaldus is super cool and super great in the game too. I've used him in every single army list over 750 points that I've played in 10th edition. As I said with the Sword Brethren, it's nice when the planets align and a model looks cool, has a great story associated with it, and is actually good in the game.
Now, enough waffling, let's get painting!
After the difficulty that I had with overspray on the tabbards of the Sword Brethren, I opted to paint Grimmy's tabbards first, so that I wouldn't get any overspray on areas that I'd already completed.
After a basecoat of Mephiston Red, I flooded the whole thing with Kimera's Violet.
The violet gave me a nice dark base to build up from.
And build up I did! First with magenta...
...and then with Kimera's The Red.
Once I got back up to red, I was really happy with the depth I'd achieved on the tabbard.
I touched up the few areas where the tabbard colours had oversprayed onto the black, and then I just started in on the armour exactly as I do for all of my other Templars. For a very detailed post of exactly how I do that, please hop over here.
I usually paint the candles on my Black Templars red, but Grimmy already had quite a bit of red on him, so I decided to paint them candle-coloured instead. Along with the streaming ribbons on his chest, the light-coloured candles create some nice parallel vertical lines running all the way up the model to break up all the black.
I originally wasn't too sure about his iconic angry-face mouth grille, but now I love it!
I painted the casing on his plasma pistol red, using somewhat similar colours as his robes (Mephiston Red, Fleshtearers Red, Evil Suns Scarlet, Yriel Yellow), but the texture differentiates these two materials.
I painted all of the metal areas with Vallejo Metal Colour's Dark Aluminum...
...and then differentiated areas of the metals: the bits that would remain silver were just given a wash of Nuln Oil, his pauldron, chest badges, hilt of the relic sword and the central cross of his Crozius were painted Sycorax Bronze and coated in Guilliman Flesh and the wings of the Crozius were just Snakebite Leather over the Dark Aluminum.
I then started in on the plasma glow, and as my airbrushing skills have improved, this Plasma Pistol glow probably took me about 5 minutes, and it turned out as one of my better ones.
A puff of white was followed by a puff of Aethermatic Blue.
I then darkened the outer corners of the plasma coils and lightened the innermost areas with a hairy brush.
Finally, I added a couple of decals to Grimaldus' 10th Edition Warhammer rulebook, and he was done!
Oh I'm so happy with how he turned out. He often finds himself (appropriately enough) leading a big Primaris Crusader squad the heat of battle, and now he can look good while doing so!
Thank you, as always, for tuning in to The Art of Caesura!
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