one of my favorite parts of the warhammer hobby is collecting i like having a lot of
something very specific i get to acquire a lot of really specialized information and
it feels like i am the keeper of secrets of this one specific thing some people collect
retro models some people collect all of one type of model and i collect chaplin models
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and today i want to talk about my chaplains
i have a few maybe a few more than a few the story of my chaplains begins with
this model a jump chaplin i bought this as my first hq for the black templar i was in the
process of converting all of my black templar crusaders into assault marines and i wanted a
jump chaplain to give me a good melee boost and this model is what opened the floodgates
i immediately dived into doing as much research as i could on every chaplain model games workshop
has ever created and i discovered they have made a lot so i want to go through all of the chaplains
that i have done all the chaplains that are sitting in my pile of shame and maybe at the end
do a little bit of wish listing so to start things off the jump chaplain the first chaplain i painted
when i had finished this guy it was the best model i had ever painted in my life and the very next
day a stray nerf bullet knocked him over and broke them so i had to glue them all back together but
he was my first chaplain and he is one of my all-time favorites the next one i did was
the terminator chaplin this model is super dope i started to really get into converting these guys
this guy has a bunch of extra tassels he's got a little skull he's got a couple little skull
friends all over and this model has also broken and i had to glue them back together good old
resin miniatures i love him so and his little uh his little on his little skull helmet i did some
object source lighting on his eyes and i posted this model online and people said that he was
very like kawaii anime blush and i absolutely loved it and so i made it i made the i made the
osl stronger to to make that more apparent the next chaplain model i did must have been this guy
a retro this uh i believe is a second or third edition terminator chaplain
i think i got this original in blister and so that's how i managed to acquire
the correct um backpack with the banner and i made the banner out of 10 and it was very very
hard to do and i really really like them and i think i actually have the best one of this model
these guys they're pretty dopey looking and their details are very very very soft and i
think i did a very good job of making him uh as good as he could possibly be terminators
oh who was next who was next who was next it must have been this guy i painted this on camera
there's a very good video of me painting this model in its entirety this is another second or
third edition space marine chaplain model and it is absolutely lovely painted in the black templar
color scheme i started to really kind of figure out what i like to do with my chaplains like on
his corrosius handle it has stripes of purple and pink and that is something that i tried to carry
through with all of my chaplains but this guy's great check out the video and uh yeah he's really
really cool and i used a second edition space marine arm and i attached to that sprue was this
knife and so i attached the knife into the ground just to make him a little bit more of the era
after him uh it must have been the the biker chaplains the first one i painted was this the
primaris uh the primaris on bike this model is one of the coolest face remain models that exists it
is so awesome it is so epic it painted up so nice and i remember painting this up on stream this is
one of the very first things i did on stream and i remember i actually built this model on stream and
it taught me that i can't build models on stream because it's too hard to put together models
and interact with the chats it's much easier to interact and paint but i super super love how this
miniature turned out and of course knowing that i now had a chaplain collection exploding in front
of me i needed more and so then came the like fourth like third through fifth edition chaplain
on bike this is a metal model on a plastic bike i did a little bit of fun converting mostly just
some extra purity seals and some etched brass to make it a little bit more black templar z
i think i did a really good job on his bald head and the little wire running from his brain to
somewhere and i super super love it and i love his cute cute little tassel oh it's absolutely
adorable i just love the idea of this guy charging into battle and that little thing goes
super super fast i absolutely love it
and then to fill to finish off my chaplains on bikes this i i think i called it my rogue trader
chaplain which is a little bit wrong because this is actually a kit bashing of a few different kits
together it is the body of the chaplain on jet bike the third edition space marine bike and i
don't quite know where these legs came from but i'm guessing probably somewhere in third edition
and but it makes for a really really good looking ensemble and i got to do some really fun stuff
on the front of this bike it's got kind of a judge dread thing going on i really really dig
how this model came together and in my opinion this looks better than the rogue trader chaplain
on uh bike which you guys might see in just a little bit but moving on to more minis it must
have been this no no it was this guy it was this guy i remember now the 30k chaplain just a cool
little model i picked up from ebay and it turned out really good sometimes there's minis that just
work they just kind of the posing the sculpting it all just really looks nice and this is one
of those models the cape turned out phenomenally the gun the pistol turned out phenomenally level
plasma pistol and so i've tried to include as many plasma pistols as i could i think his crozies
is one of my favorites it's probably the most practical looking just a really really nice mini
then i had a video where i put together this model which is a chaplain on jet bike a rogue
trader chaplain on jet bike and this actually uses the correct parts but i have converted it to be
a chapter ancient it's now on a 40 millimeter base it has a custom banner made out of green
stuff his crozies is actually the topper of the banner i really really like that little thing
i am pretty darn happy with this dust cloud and i think this model will make a really good i could
run this as a primaris chaplain because of the 40 millimeter base i could run this as a chapter
ancient primary chapter ancient i could run this a lot of different ways and i think it would be
really really fun to see a rogue trader model get table time pretty sure i painted this guy no
maybe it was the jew disier which i used to call the judicar because i like those hard consonants
but no it's the judiciar because i read an audio book and they said it many many times but another
model i think that just kind of works out this guy has a fairly simple paint job in his armor
but i truly tried to do a really good job on the leather i actually tried oils on the leather and
i think it turned out really really nice so this guy is super cool uh it's interesting how he fits
into the lore of chaplin's he's like a proto chaplain he's a marine who's a little bit more
badass and zealous than your average marine and so they made him make him a judiciar and then if
he proves himself as a judiciar he is then taken into the ranks of the chaplains but it's really
really cool many and then on stream i painted the best model i have ever painted the black templar
2020 limited edition chaplain in terminator armor and this model is super super dope it is the same
as the old chaplain and terminator armor limited edition mini but they kind of fixed it a little
it feels a little bit more in keeping with the proportions and the design philosophies of 40k
and i love this model it is definitely the best thing i have ever painted the cloak is amazing
this model was like a 30 hour model it really took some time but i really really like how it turned
out but after spending so much time on this i think the next 200 projects are all gonna have to
be short and sweet because this guy really really took it out of me and then a few more stream
pieces i believe i painted all three of these at the same time on stream it is the og chaplin
this was what people thought of as a chaplain forever it's been available through many many
editions and just recently left the games workshop web store but it is the old tiny microscopic resin
chaplain i love him i love his big ol skull shoulder pad and i think he looks great
then the an interesting chaplain the chaplain with power fist and crosius and i don't i can't imagine
that that is an as a a combination many people take because is it really i mean you're giving
up a chance to use a gun like a pissed a plasma pistol or a bolt pistol so that you can have two
close combat weapons but you can't use too close kama weapons you have to pick one or the other but
it does make for a really really cool pose and a really cool chaplain and i gave him some custom
some custom pieces out of the black templar upgrade box and to help black templarism up
one thing that is kind of interesting with the chaplains is chaplains are black they wear black
armor specifically for their role as chaplains but in most armies that means that departing from the
normal color scheme but for black tumblers it just means i continue the black armor right into them
but uh chaplin with crosius and power fist and then lastly the new and in my opinion improved
primaris chaplin i think this guy is absolutely dope this is the indomatus model and he has so
many wonderful things like his crosius his heavy bolt pistol and this backpack i've actually bought
several of this model off of ebay when he was nice and cheap so that i could use some of those bits
on others of my models but i super duper like this guy uh i like that his helm he's missing
his helmets because sometimes skull helmets get a little boring when you've done like 14 of them
but i really really like him and that means that i have 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
finished based painted chaplains i think that that is a good solid number and i plan to add on it
add to it in the very near future this is my little pile of waiting in the wings
ready to be painted and put together in based chaplains let's go oldest first
because they're probably the most fun this is the real rogue trader chaplain on bike
the bike boy does the bike look like a big pile of mush the rider also kind of looks like a big
pile of mush he has the saddest little banner i have ever seen which is topped with a bat
because the sculptor just was feeling bats that day i don't know uh his butt barely fits
in the seat the wheels are ridiculous and for sure one day i'll have to do this but
boy is it going to take some work to salvage the sculpt work of this rogue trader era bike
then i have two more rogue trader era chaplains one that i'm very satisfied with the old
uh weird skinny boy chaplin with plasma pistol as i said i love plasma and i try to get as many as
i can and so this one has a significant shot of seeing table time because of that plasma pistol
other than that though i don't think he looks particularly great the crosius looks like a
dalek from doctor who and uh i don't know how i'm gonna get a backpack recessed in between
his giant bowling ball shoulder pads and then lastly i actually did a little bit of
modeling on this guy this is another rogue trader chaplin sculpted a little bit better i don't know
the exact timeline when all these miniatures came out but i know it is a rogue trader eric chaplin
with chainsaw with and a bolt pistol and it is the cutest widow bolt pistol and the
cutest widow chainsaw you've ever seen this guy at least he's like got a decent pose going on
and his banner actually exists i've added a couple of extra purity seals to help templars them up
and i have them standing on a nice scenic base but those are my three remaining
rogue trader era chaplains and now moving on to some more second through like fourth
edition chaplains this guy is really really fun just holding his crosius up to the sky
he's neat i think there's probably a reason i haven't gotten around to him yet but he will get
done and he'll look glorious plenty of nice pink purple stripes on that big long acrosius staff
this one i found on ebay and i actually didn't quite know what i was buying but this is the
ultramarine's unique chaplain and i forget the name of him right now but what really drew me to
to this guy was this chaos power fist this is a oh gee plastic chaos power fist and i think it looks
sick in his hand i really really dug it so i found i've glued it on properly i found in my bit spin
a metal black templar shoulder pad which i think is just the perfect touch to tie it
all together and this guy i really really like i think he's gonna end up really really cool
and this guy just good old-fashioned third edition black templar chaplin well one thing i found was
his shoulder pads were pretty tiny and so i actually took a normal shoulder pad and i
cut off the rim so that it was much more closer in size and then i glued on a plasma gun because i do
like plasma guns and i think i wasn't feeling this model as much so i did a lot of work i
gave it some tasks some long tassels out of tin i gave it a plasma pistol i gave it
a custom shoulder pad and now i feel like it's going to look good next to the other chaplains
then we have the other plastic ultramarines chaplin chaplin cassius probably because it
has his name written on his shoulder pad for me so that i can remember this guy is pretty
badass he came in death watch overkill with the other uh squad of super badass space marines and
he looks good he's a little weenie by today's standards but he'll get the job done and i
think i will paint him up especially since he's death watch and the death watch often join up
with other forces but he looks really really nice he's a good old modern model
and lastly kind of a weird pick i don't quite know why i bought this i wasn't planning on expanding
this into every chaplain ever made because i don't necessarily feel like i need blood angels chapters
chaplains but i guess i felt like i needed a dark angels chaplain this is the
special edition dark angels interrogator chaplin
from dark vengeance uh this didn't come in the original dark vengeance but i think it came in
the reprinting of dark vengeance and i think i just like the model a lot it's pretty badass and
uh i think i'll get around to it one day although it will need a good stripping because holy moly
is this some chalky chunky white paint on him uh not great but kind of a cool model and maybe i
will go after some of the chapter specific chaplains that i really like the look of
but those are all of the chaplain models i own some of the chaplains i think i need are i need
the original primaries chaplain that came out i know it doesn't have a very 40k look it has much
more of like a video game shooter look to it but i still like it and i want it in the army in terms
of some of the older stuff there's one chaplain i'm missing it's the chaplain that has the big
giant like um scroll hanging down his entire front and then dragging in his feet and then he just
got a nice meaty claw on a fat crosius so i'll probably track him down in metal one of these days
other than that though the only thing i'm really missing is a whole bunch of rogue trader chaplains
which i don't feel like i need because there's about 10 and they all look real bad so i think
i'm very happy with the three i have and i don't feel like i need to track down the other ones
and acquire them maybe one day so i can say i own every chaplain model ever made but ah probably not
but though these are all of my chaplains i love them and i feel like this is the one thing i
allow myself to collect because there's a lot of things i think are really really cool but if
i keep it to just chaplains it limits me which is good because i shouldn't collect everything
i should just collect one thing so i don't own every single chaplain model but that does not
mean that this is a failure not even a little bit it just means that the hunt is still on and
for me that is where the fun is the satisfaction is not in crossing the finish line but it is in
the searching finding buying building converting painting and then admiring when it is on the shelf
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