Iannick's Red Templars Wrap-up

 Well here it is, the end of the line! And another OWAC project completed from yours truly. Woo!

It was a fun ride, although a very different ride for me. Painting 40K, something I hadn't done since the early 90s when I was listening to to Guns N' Roses and drinking copious amount of Mountain Dew, was a completely new experience. 

What did I learn? Well a few things :

1. I'll admit I cannot understand how people can paint huge armies of Space Marines. I was pretty burnt out by the end of it. So monochromatic! 

2. Remind me to never do a project that involves massive amount of edge highlighting

Still, I'm super happy with this force, I'm going to use it for sure (I'm coming for your purple false marines Blue). It was clearly an "out of my comfort zone" project, and I like to push myself here and there, so success!

The completed force. Yep, all infantry. No shortcuts, pretty proud of that fact.

My original list looked like this :

- Lieutenant Commander Martin (Major Hero) : 94 pts

- Lieutenant (Minor Hero) : 50 pts

- Chaplain (Champion) : 19 pts

- Librarian (Epistolary) : 50 pts

- 2 Techmarines : 34 pts

- 2 Medics (Champion) : 68 pts

- 3x Tactical squads : 750 pts

- 1x Terminator squad : 450 pts

- Terminator Captain (Hero) : 150 pts

- Contemptor Dreadnought : 201 pts

- Conqueror Robot : 160 pts

So, what did I painted?

The Terminator squad and hero

First Squad

2nd Squad

3rd Squad

The Medics

The Techmarines

Standard bearer and Captain

The Librarian

The Chaplain 

So the final list looks like this :

- Lieutenant Commander Martin (Major Hero) : 94 pts

- Lieutenant (Minor Hero) : 50 pts

- Chaplain (Champion) : 19 pts

- Librarian (Epistolary) : 50 pts

- 2 Techmarines : 34 pts

- 2 Medics (Champion) : 68 pts

- 3x Tactical squads : 750 pts

- 1x Terminator squad : 450 pts

- Terminator Captain (Hero) : 150 pts

- Contemptor Dreadnought : 201 pts

- Conqueror Robot : 160 pts

- Terrain !

So basically I managed to paint almost everything I wanted, minus the robot and Dread. I'll probably have to paint these two one day to round out my force. But still, pretty happy with my focus.

And here's a few extra pics of the boys in action amongst the ruins of Fortuna III :

And the mandatory Warhammer Armies pose pic

So, next year? Nothing concrete yet, but in all probability, I expect to be back in the Old World. I missed the units.

And so this conclude this edition of the OWAC, our fourth and without a doubt our best, both in terms of numbers of participants and quality of armies and entries. It was spectacular (and also very demanding from yours tuly, I probably reached my participants limits!) Congratulation to all participants who managed to finish the challenge, let's do it again next year!