Barbarossa Kreuzzug - About the Project

 

 

A new home for my "Barbarossa Kreuzzug" Black Templars army project

After last year´s successes with my Black Templars Barbarossa Kreuzzug army project (like 2nd rank of the most popular "What´s new"-posts at the international GW-homepage/ GW-fanworld Army Project of the Year 2012 Award/...) it´s been getting quite silent around those black armoured lads for various reasons. Well, most of all, I was occupied with several other side projects as a Necron army, real life duties and so on...

In addition to that I expanded my work with the German independent tabletop wargaming magazine "Tabletop Insider". So, not publishing new works that are going to be shown in the magazine is a matter of fairness, of course. 

That doesn´t mean, I´ll never show again new works. Be sure I will, though a little bit later as people who already know me or my work are used to. For reasons of saving time, I am going to reduce the amount of material published via other forums e.g.

 

 

What you can expect here

This is the place for my Black Templars Army project. Here you will find the various tidbits that stirred me into the project e.g.

 

 

Why I started the Barbarossa Kreuzzug Army Project

Ever since my early days in wargaming as a young teenager I have been addicted to Space Marines. Especially the Black Templars Chapter with its strong iconography and outstanding fluff were my absolute favourite from the release of Codex Armaggeddon onwards. But back then all my painting efforts about Templars drove me into some kind of despair. But the grim Crusaders of the far future were always there and kept calling for me.

In August 2010, things changed! On a German forum I met a guy calling himself Dante77. OMG, he´s got an incredible skill and style of painting black power armour. I dropped him some lines, asking him to paint two Black Templars characters for me. And he agreed and suggested to have a painting session together. He really was willing to teach me his style. So in early 2011, we met for that session and became friends. 

I adjusted his approach to Black Templars to my style of painting and upto the end of 2011 I´ve been painting like a mad robot.

The Barbarossa Crusade was meant to be a rather small army, but well you know how it is, guys, I just couldn´t stop. What was planned as a small rapid strike force with a bunch of droppods ended (actually, it´s not ended yet :-) in a fullgrown force with a decent amount of tanks, pods, infantry and so on. 

AND STILL I AM HAPPY ABOUT EACH SINGLE MINIATURE OF IT...