Welcome to my Showcase: Black Templars Assault Intercessor post. It’s been a long journey since starting this squad and someone had to pay the ultimate price to see this through to completion. Read on to find out.
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This unit of Assault Intercessors started 5 months ago with issue 3 of Imperium Magazine. On the cover was a sprue of three Easy-to-Build Space Marines. I thought this was the perfect start to my Black Templar Army. I was wrong.
Three models is about the worst number you can give for a 10 man squad. It didn’t get much better in Imperium issue 13 when they gave us 5 Assault Intercessors. What am I suppose to do with 8? Another 3 gives me 11. Another 5 totals 13. I’m sure I’m the only person this bothers but I was determined to get exactly to 10 so I didn’t have odd numbers of troops lying about.
The first thing I did was rummage in my bitz box and it did not let me down. I had some spare arms from my Dark Angels Assault Intercessors. I also found a spare Intercessor body that Stahly had given me. Perfect. I treated this model to a helmet from one of the new Black Templar sets that games Workshop had kindly sent me.
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The last Marine to bring me to 10, I was stuck on. I couldn’t find anymore bodies in my spare bits. I did find spare arms and shoulder pads on the new Black Templar Crusader sprue though so that was great. I was really in the zone and didn’t want to order bits on eBay so I did something drastic.
I think this is a reverse #marchformacragge, maybe I’ll call this story in 4 parts the #massacreatmacragge. #warmongers #warhammercommunity #blacktemplars pic.twitter.com/SUUG0erweR
— Garfy (@Garfytwit) February 16, 2022
That’s right! I stripped one of my Ultramarine models. I think we can all agree he looks so much better now. If you’re interested I used Isopropyl Alcohol and a toothbrush to get the paint off. Only took 5 minutes.
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After this whole debacle, I’ve realised there is a benefit to this rag tag bunch of models. Every pose is different! The 3 Easy-to-Build marines have unique poses to the 5 starter set Assault Intercessors and my last 2 bitz box creations use the older Intercessor bodies.
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It might have taken 5 months and some sacrificial work Khorne would have been proud of, but I got there in the end and I think they look cool. I guess I’d better work on the Crusader Squad soon.
Great paintjob! How did you paint the black armour?
Garfy did a tutorial for his Black Templar 🙂
https://taleofpainters.com/2021/10/tutorial-how-to-paint-black-templars-crusader-squads/