the crusade my black templar my pride and joy
their number is legion 10 000 points 222 miniatures and i love them all
except these guys
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle these two models the land speeders are my least
favorite models in my collection and there's two reasons for this a good reason and a bad reason
the good reason is i just don't like them very much i don't think they look good
the bad reason is a lore reason why why why do space marines drive their own vehicles it's such
a waste space marines are built for combat they're pureless warriors they wear basically impenetrable
armor why would they waste their time flying their own stuff it'd be like if tony stark suited up
he put on his iron man armor and then he got in a car and drove it it's a complete waste of the suit
and you know what you know what maybe i'm being unfair maybe i should consult the lore
early land speeder designs were relatively unarmored power armor better protect the
delicate control units without which land speeders are merely a large chunk of welded
metal swiftly approaching terminal velocity terminal velocity so 120 miles an hour
it takes a space marine to pilot a land speeder at the top speed of a honda civic but jay space
marine vehicles are incredibly sophisticated no human could ever pilot them in the book soul
hunter the first book in the night lords trilogy a human being pilots a thunder hawk gunship
it's fine there's barely as many space marines as there are planets in the imperium but sure
we'll waste two flying a lance it's really for the rule of kulu you don't want not space brains
in your space brain army but whatever let's get back to reason number one why i don't much care
for these things the look of it i don't really like the landspeeder's looks and i think games
workshop agrees with me and i have proof this is the forge world reimagining of the original pewter
landspeeder proteus and the problem with this model is it looks like two
buddies hanging out on the couch there's no armor to speak of and it looks pretty ridiculous
games workshops seem to understand this problem with their next iteration of the land speeder
this chunky piece of lead actually those helmets of the space planes are wearing
are kind of interesting in that they come back later but this still looks pretty ridiculous with
the space marine's rubbing shoulder pads in this tiny tiny little airspeeder after that we have our
first plastic land speeder that we all know and i guess love the classic landspeeder and this model
is probably the least offensive it kinda looks like a shoe but like a slightly tactical shoe and
weirdly on gameshop's web store this is not the three sprue land speeder that comes in the
box this is the easy to build land speeder that came with the 3rd edition warhammer starter box
so i don't know how they messed that one up but well probably because they look identical
next up we have the legion javelin with cyclone missile launchers but jay that's a different model
hush this is a landspeeder and it's a slightly cooler looking land speeder to the ones before
it looks a little bit more like a slipper than a shoe and in this paint scheme on the
forged web store it looks exactly like a batman vehicle like with the black and the red trim
it is totally batman this looks a little bit better the space marines still look a little
ridiculous absolutely popping out of this design but it's better-ish although i won't i don't
want to spend 113 dollars for better-ish and the latest and supposedly greatest the storm speeder
hail strike this model is massive and it is a box it is not very aerodynamic in my opinion i don't
particularly like the look of it but at least it is big enough that the two space marine pilots
actually don't look completely ridiculous sitting in it what does look completely ridiculous is the
third gunner peeking his hat out the top like diglett from pokemon i'm not much of a fan so
that was every single storm speeder games workshop has ever made and the reason i know that they also
don't like the design is every one of them is different if they're all just small tweaks of
one another then that would mean that they like the design and that they're just refining it
but they're not every three to five years they are completely revamping it trying something new
and a for effort but i don't think they've nailed it yet so i want to take these models and add to
them to make them into a model i enjoy and to do that i'm going to make the bases more interesting
i'm going to add plenty of grim dark stuff and i'm going to finally finish the paint job
i assembled these guys probably like boy seven or eight years ago and i've lost
all of the magnetized options except for the ones that were attached
to the models of course so i need to go through my bit spin and see if i can find those missing parts
i have a lot of bits and honestly this is kind of ridiculous having all of these little jewelry
cases to hold them all perfectly separately individually i have a big ambitions to maybe take
all of these things and put them in little ziploc drug baggies that way i could fit them in one
small tote box but there is something nice about these cases but i do only look in them
about once or twice a year i went through all my bins and ended up finding a lot of the parts maybe
my organization skills are not as terrible as i thought okay so it turns out i'm in a pretty good
spot i was able to find most of the missing parts the only thing i wasn't able to find was another
heavy bolter and actually i don't think this is the heavy bolter the kit came with i think this
is an imperial guard heavy bolter but i did find a 30k heavy bolter that i can swap in pretty easily
now in the bit spin i was taking a look at these storm bolters and these are some pretty weak storm
boulders but i did find these chonkers and i think i'm going to use these instead these are
from a stormraven gunship and they are much bigger and more impressive did i just say storm bolters
i meant to say assault cannons am i even a real warhammer fan i kit bashed these using the
ammunition boxes from the space marine devastators kits and some shields to hide the attached pegs
from the gray nights box after i managed to get the shields unstuck for my fingers that is
and of course gotta have drilled gun barrels and now for the first time in a very long time
these miniatures are complete that is a good step one i think those big old cell cannons
look a lot more ferocious than the little itty bitty ones that were on there before
now on to the base and i actually built these using really long machine screws to hold them
up and i can actually reference an old eob video to see exactly why i did this
now the first thing to note is that i am doing this to a base that i already had put together
now what happened here is i actually had the little games workshop flying stand break on me
so i'm doing this as a repair job now i took my drill bit and i drilled out a pilot hole
and then i took a bigger drill bit and i drilled my hole for the machine screw that i'll be using
then i apply a little super glue to hold it in place and i used another machine screw to help
me position it to precision the square nut exactly where i want it to be now the reason i wanted to
use a square nut is because when i'm screwing the flyer onto a stand i might apply a little
too much torque for it's a handle and if it was a round nut it might just rip right out but the
square nut will help it has a lot more um surface to help push against it to keep it from breaking
is that really what i sound like but anyway i still actually really like this method for flying
stands but i can do a little bit better today what i really like about this way this style flying
stand is it is directional if i put a magnet on there these guys would just sort of be free
spinning and there'd be no forwards and backwards but because that nut stops when it's locked in i
know that that is going to be forward and so that gives me the opportunity to pose this guy exactly
how i want it and i know that it'll always sit on the flying stand straight i cut off the top of my
stands keeping about a half inch of threads this was slow going with the world's dullest cutoff
wheel and my dremel tool then i cleaned off the old paint so i could start fresh i yanked out
the rest of the machine screw it's been a trooper for all these years but i don't need them anymore
i'm gonna be using some pine bark nuggets to give these guys some mountains to be flying next to
and this particular brand soil cover forest bark
anybody else read that this this particular brand is a little bit hard to find this stuff is used
for potting orchids it's kind of a specialty thing but if you can track down pine bark
nuggets i highly suggest getting a bag because it is super helpful for basing i found some nugs
that would make for good mountains and boulders i found one that was long and pointy so i cut it so
that i had a flat portion to glue down to the base and on the second one i layered a nug and
the other half of the nugget i just cut in half i vacuumed often this stuff is messy for flying
stand 2.0 i'm using some plastic tube it'll look a little nicer than the bare screws and
it was a perfect fit i just screwed on the old tops i held it up to my nugget mound so i knew
where and what angle to drill and then i made a hole this stuff is soft the drill flew through it
then i shoved it in there with a speeder attached so that it was in the appropriate direction
yep i am pretty happy with that now they actually look like they're flying
instead of just floating much more intimidating much more cool and i have to vacuum again
yes indeed they sure look nice tragedy strikes
ugh i was taking these guys off the bases and if i unscrew this i get about that far and
the under the under the ship sensor stock thingy can't make it past the wood chip ah
i was this close i was this close to the perfect flyer mounting system and it would work it would
work in any other situation but uh oops i guess this one is going to be permanently attached
that's that's fine they're not that big that'll work out that'll work out fine but
to make the wood chips look more like real mountains i took some milliput and shoved it
into all the gaps to fill it in and to make it look more like it was coming out of the ground
instead of just hot glued on top of it and to make the putty more realistic i took a wet toothbrush
and pressed it firmly into the goop to add texture after that i made a ring of wood glue around the
bottom of my clips and sprinkled on some pebbles and finished it off with fine grained sand
with the base all done it's now time to tackle the bodies and there's nothing that i super
want to do to change it it's fine so what i'm gonna be doing is adding a lot more purity seals
and unfortunately i used up all my purity seals on an imperial night so i gotta make some more to
make purity seals i took some tin and i cut off long strips about two millimeters wide
then i crinkled them up with my fingers then i crimped one end into a peg and then i drilled a
whole mini put some glue on my peg and stuck it in crimp drill stick crimp drill stick
crimp drill stick this became my mantra as i did this 10 times to each speeder
the black templar are very pious and like to have a lot of purity seals to remind everybody else
that they are the mostest purest and the mostest faithful space marines in the whole imperium
well i broke my favorite drill bit but i got 10 purity seals on them which fills them up
pretty nicely so victory i wanted to add a fun little thing to the center bar and
so i dug up some skeleton warriors out of my bitz bin and clipped off a head body and butt
i scraped off the old paint and plastic glued this fellow right where i wanted them
a crucified heretic this skeleton is going to be attached with big nasty nails to do this i
use sewing straight pins i inserted into drill holes the same size the pins and just like that
the model got even grimmer and darker well the building is done and now i'm in the awkward phase
where i have to paint the model but i can't get any paint on the stuff that's already painted so
tin foil
tin foil is a great tool for painting i wrap these puffers up like my leftovers from olive garden
and just like my authentic italian dinners they're safe from paint splatter and speaking
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you guys think maybe i'll just leave them like that it's kind of a fun look i base coated the
clips with a dark brown then i sprayed earth brown from above and finished it off with a generous dry
brushing of gray my standard templar basing scheme i want a little bit more contrast in
the base so i'm going to spray on a little bit of burnt umber ink it's not part of my black templar
basing scheme but you know what i'm an adult and i don't need to ask my parents permission
this ink helps separate and define sections of the mountains and i really liked it
it made me even crazier and i sprayed just a little bit of black ink to add even more
variety to the base and i did a dry brushing of white to bring out some of the details
and then i unveiled my air speeders right i like those bases i like that boulder
that's a nice boulder now i have to brush on prime everything i just added and then paint it
and while i'm doing that here are some fun facts about the land speeders land speeders
were initially powered by gravitic reaction jets which allowed it to fly through the air like an
attack helicopter but later when the metal skids were added to the figures these were explained
as repulsion plates which skim a planet's gravitational field and the forward momentum
is provided by a set of after burning ram jets all space marines are trained how to pilot land
speeders which makes me wonder if there's a land speed or pilot school with a bunch of beaten-up
speeders with student driver stickers on them the different types of landspeeders are named after
natural events tornado typhoon tempest and storm and the newest primaries version which lazily
just reuses the word storm missing out on the obvious choice the landspeeder tropical storm
although you might think that the landspeeder is named for what it does speeding across the land
it's actually named after arkham land the man who rediscovered the stc standard template construct
for anti-gravity devices land speeders are very difficult to manufacture requiring anti-gravity
devices and plasma devices for some reason the traitor legions of the chaos-based marines don't
have them and speaking of folks who don't have them the imperial guard used to have
slower worse versions of the astarte's landspeeders but this was later dropped
with the explanation that the machines are too expensive and difficult to maintain
and that is five facts about land speeders that you can use to impress your friends at parties
you know these minis are an example of something i've learned in my hobby career it's a sixth strat
if there's a detail or thing i don't like i try harder on it to turn it into my favorite thing
this works really well with painting what used to happen is if i didn't like how a gun turned
out but everything else was pretty good i would just ignore it but then that would bring down
the whole project just a little bit but now if i don't like how a detail looks i focus on it and i
try to turn it into my favorite part of the model and that's what i've done here on a model scale
i can't say that these are my number one faves but i do like them a lot more now it used to be
when i walked past the templar shelf i kind of mentally photoshopped these landspeeders out of
the picture but now i'm happy to have them and i'm finding a trend with my fast attack units a
red and yellow striping it's on my suppressors and now my landspeeders i think i'll make this a thing
and do this design to designate my fast attack units i think using the bigger accel cannons is
my favorite new addition it just gives this unit so much more presence you need these vehicles to
transport the guns because they're as big as space marines and we'll just ignore that it's the exact
same weapon as the dinky old things with the same damage profile and that crucified heretic really
screams black templar it really lets everybody who sees these speeders coming know what the templar
are all about they're not the forgiving bunch and that's what makes this hobby so great it's all
what you make it if something is not working for you you can add to it repaint it repaint it again
tear it off and add something else to it you never have to settle it's your models and your
army and now i have some old models that i never really looked at i didn't really like them but now
my gaze linger on these minis from time to time thanks for watching