Why Black Templars are the Coolest Space Marines in Warhammer 40k

[@FRSHGOST]

"What do you get when you combine a swat team, a priest, and a judge?" Black Templars 😂

[@theodorleberle]

*priest

[@FRSHGOST]

@@theodorleberle auto correct 😵‍💫

[@batteredwarrior]

​​@FRSHGOST I wish autocorrect wasn't ever invented. It is now the go-to excuse when people misspell something, rather than just saying "my bad". Autocorrect doesn't autocorrect words to misspelled words; just the wrong words. If the word is misspelled it's user error (either a lack of knowledge or a typo).

[@Annatar3019]

Eh, I'd say that combination is a bit more Dark Angels.

[@paulofreire7520]

From a Black Templar fan over here, that’s a great battle force and lovely painted, my man. And that Chaplain is definitely one of the best kitbashes I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot. Keep purging for the Emperaaahh 👍🏻

[@njbolt90]

0:30 the head nod reading then White Dwarf is so relatable

[@janne4518]

5/5 acting

[@TheSonshade]

Still going back to read stories.

[@Bapa_nada]

That scene with arriving crusader army from kingdom of heaven always gives me goosebumps

[@Hi_I_am_Ed]

Came here just to agree with your title. Also "PURGING WITH MY KIIIIIIN"

[@paulofreire7520]

From a Black Templar fan over here, that’s a great battle force and lovely painted. That Chaplain, is one of the best kitbashes I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot. Keep purging in the name of the Emperahhh 👍🏻

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

Jay from Eons of Battle's ears have certainly perked from this.

[@Captainthefurry]

I literally just watched his army breakdown.

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

@@Captainthefurry we need these two to join forces.

[@Captainthefurry]

@@RaVirrTheTrader I agree

[@cmem7604]

his army looks 1 million times better tho

[@tamkin007]

Considering I became a Dark Angels fan back in the 90s I agree Black looks cool

[@johanenerskog2348]

Same here and I still haven’t forgiven GW for the color change 😠😂

[@pixelfille3130]

I mean at the same time the old colour scheme got retconned in the current 40k into the fallen and for the absolute og dark angels colour scheme theres the consecrators that still have the red line on their helmets

[@LoftOfTheUniverse]

Dark angels will always be cream black and red

[@Whispers-of-the-Warp]

Absolutely, the Black Templars do have a striking aesthetic! Their black armor, adorned with white and gold details, really stands out on the battlefield and conveys their relentless zeal and commitment to the Emperor.

[@Bluecho4]

I paint Fallen Dark Angels, so I know this feeling well. I like the combination of black, white, and red so much, I need to restrain myself from using that scheme on all my armies.

[@mikeisernie]

The "emotional damage" bit hit home.... I do custom figures and my wife does not care really...but one day she was looking at a display shelf and pointed to one figure and said "Oh I like that one." It was the one on the shelf that I didn't do myself.

[@McVilla1N]

Sounds like your luck is like mine😂😂

[@akimbofresh8109]

So how did she handle the divorce brother?

[@Nathanm7977]

Eric I can only go by what the video show. So with saying that, I think your painting of your chaplain was just as good as the one you bought. I know that I am missing fine details that are lost on camera, but what I see is amazing. Your eye and knowledge of colors and sharing that with everyone helps even a new painter. If I was a player, it would be a honor to field a army painted by you. Great work all around.

[@fredrikjohansson2743]

Love how amazing the Tartarus armour looks with the Indomitus helmets/arms/shoulders at 0:01, you truly get my type of SM kitbashing.

[@shilohhollandjr4189]

I love blind and undying commitment to a cause, and love your content bro!

[@Kataki1987]

That terminator chaplin might be the best paint job Ive seen from you. Looks great!

[@230903shorty]

This combination of one of my favourite content creators with Army Painter paints is fantastic. I only recently started the transition from Citadel paints to Army Painter, so seeing what their colours/technicals actually look like on models is soooooo useful! Great video and brilliant models, cheers!

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

6:22 It’s actually the Knights Hospitaller that the colour scheme is based on.

[@rexrules8895]

No offense, but how do you know that? The Teutons fit the bill of cruel, slaughtering crusaders a bit better, especially in the Baltic crusades.

[@Sonof_DRN2004]

@@rexrules8895 Google the Knights Hospitaller colour scheme and the Maltese Cross. I think you’ll find Malta is no where near the Baltics lmao. Also the Teutonic Knights use an either a simple cross or the what became the iron cross which is a bit different the Maltese cross adorned by the black Templars. I know for a fact imperial fists were inspired by the Teutonic Knights.

[@alexneal9534]

That terminator is awesome, conversion and paintjob, kudos.

[@KENFINITY_3K]

Love this! Your color analysis and examples of color used by various brands was brief but flawless! And amazing artistry! You got a subscriber here! 😁

[@EyeXombie]

I've been thinking about grabbing the black Templar Combat Patrol for my first BT buy

[@LordMuzhy]

I just found your channel and man I love how you blend the painting aspect of the hobby with the lore!

[@tiberiumnp8030]

Been waiting to see that kitbaspowerhead piece on your channel! I wonder how many Furioso dreadnought kits have been sold for just that one bit 😂

[@dippshow]

I'm 2 months into building up a Black Templar army, they're such a great time to paint/kit bash. Your army is looking fantastic Eric!

[@Whispers-of-the-Warp]

That sounds like an exciting project! The Black Templars are such a fun chapter to build and paint, especially with their unique aesthetic and rich lore. Their knightly theme allows for a lot of creativity in kitbashing and customizing your models. The Sword Brethren, in particular, offer a lot of options for weaponry and personalization, making them a great choice for showcasing your painting skills. Plus, their background as elite veterans adds a nice narrative layer to your army. What units are you most excited to work on, or do you have any specific themes in mind for your army?

[@LEvpic161]

2 uploads in 10 days. You're spoiling us Eric!

[@williamamely7038]

That's one gorgeous kit bash. No doubt your paint scheme will do it justice.

[@CraftandQuest]

I’ve really enjoying all the videos you’ve been putting out lately. It’s a big inspiration to me!

[@BarokaiRein]

12:00 This is precisely how literally everyone reads any interesting magazine. Eric isn't acting, he's just there.

[@thomaswilliams5005]

Thanks for the painting tips. Love that tank. The silver chips really sell it.

[@ManglingMinis]

I'd love to know what your friend used for the rivets on the conversion. They work so well!!

[@McVilla1N]

Dude i couldn't subscribe any faster. You my friend are my new favorite Warhammer channel

[@crimsonknight7011]

This is good for me doing Horus Heresy Dark Angels. Love your models alot

[@Svedsken]

Great video Eric! I like the style of your templars. My templar fascination is inspired in particular by your fondness of them.

[@CasualSlayer]

NO PITY! NO REMORSE!

[@threenurglingspretending]

FOR THE EMPEROR

[@LoganGrimmnar]

NO FEAR!

[@euansmith3699]

No Worries 🤘

[@catcadev]

NO FEAR!

[@frej7422]

NO FEAR!

[@malcolmfitzgerald6801]

Your original video on the templars is what finally made me want to collect them and I'm even sticking to just warm colors to stay true to the old style.

[@duckinator2951]

3:40 *Laughs in Night Lords*

[@warhound8496]

Honestly, really feel like the goth or secretive elements you like in black templars could be found in Dark angels. So for you, (or black templars players) what was the difference that made you go for them instead of DA ?

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

They have black armour, not green! I have some dark angels too they are cool too. Especially heresy DA with their black armour

[@warhound8496]

@@EricsHobbyWorkshop fair enough! I was thinking of the ravenwing with the black armour but it's indeed true that all black templars are black, to the opposite of only the ravenwing

[@sgtmac110]

Faith and fury, brother. For Sigismund! For the Eternal Crusade!

[@rousselalexandre1653]

woaaaa grtz , is very nice paint , the lava axe is epic good , middle simple and efficace , great JOB

[@MrDuckyart]

Absolutely love Templars. My OC Chapter Donut Steel was a count-as Templars and I adored the upgrade kit they release for that brief window back in the mid-2000s.

[@jonbauml225]

I've been a subscriber since the early days and it blow my mind how far you've come. Did you ever think you'd be a part of the army painter team?

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Great paint jobs I love the matte black look they have!

[@nataliep6385]

Hey, did you see a new Heroes of Might and Magic 3 board game just came out? It comes with all the creature miniatures from the game - and you have to paint them yourself just like with Warhammer!

[@drhapi5308]

You could try that silver sponge on the terminators and other vehicles too

[@king_aeron]

Personally, I'm more of a 'For those we cherish, we die in glory.' type of guy.

[@otterblau5253]

My People!

[@sgtmac110]

That kitbashed chaplain is amazing. I’ve been wanting a BT jump pack chaplain and this is making me feel bad I haven’t done it yet lol

[@brucehemming9749]

Great video I had started 40 k with my own chapter ‘Nighthawks’ way way back with Rogue Trader and rtb01 space marines but when Third edition dropped with he black templars well I was hooked …. I have a few land raiders both godhammer and crusader patterns as well as a couple of kit bashes and forgeworld land raiders but I do have a few different squads of marines as well …. Love the channel keep the videos coming would love to see more of your Black Templars army … thanks for sharing 🍻👍

[@cwj138]

Your black templars look awesome, like straight out of Helsreach. Buddy painted 30k Angron for me because I could not get it to look worthwhile, it is my favourite and best painted model by far and I love it, sometimes I bring it out just to look at for a while then put it back on the shelf. It's aspirational for me I guess. Probably one of the many reasons why he has a golden demon pin and I don't.

[@nocturnowl_0100]

Interesting choice using a Raven Guard in the thumbnail ;)

[@Xatxitor]

So many MkVII helmets. So cool Just figured he used a Lion L. Johnson for the terminator chaplain. I taught primarks were bigger

[@NicPTheMeme]

I think that might actually be Belial but melle check Edit: yes it is Belial. The scabbard is in the same place (right hip, facing upwards) the Lion doesn't have the scabbard

[@footrot17]

His name was once Lionel gonson

[@VladTheImaplerX]

@Eric’s Hobby Workshop The Maltese Cross in the black templars heraldry, is not the Teutonic order’s cross. Rather, it’s the cross of the Knights Hospitaller as their patroness is Our Lady of Philermos, at the Fileremos Monastery in Rhodes, since the cross is associated with her, as it appears in her Icon.

[@VladTheImaplerX]

That being said. Love the Black Templars, absolutely the best Astartes chapter, and I really enjoyed the video. Excellent video sir. God bless.

[@jimini_crikit322]

Just started collecting Space Marines and chose the Black Templar - super keen for this!

[@8bitflea]

I just got into Warhammer and the first thing I gravitated to at the store was the black Templars.

[@triplea657aaa]

0:42 wow, that glow is so real! It really looks like his weapon is fresh from the forge.

[@benjaminjack867]

Fantastic looking army, seeing that land raider crusader brings back memories!

[@cyclomorrison3620]

Great work! Thanks for the many painting tips! What glue do you use to stick the magnets on the bases? I often find that the magnets are stronger than the glue I use and stay on the metal surface rather than on the base.

[@Oasis_Oracle]

That segue at 4:17 was clean as hell.

[@A_man68]

absolutely love ur content keep it up

[@Amorim40k]

I have been waiting for this.

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

6:41 That is a common misconception a tabad worn by knights stops at the waist a scapula worn by priest and nuns continues to the ground... Hiince why you see Paldins were it is fanstasy as while it's less practical it's more sacrid... Still great video and I actually do have your greatest fear as something that happens far to often with me and yes it sucks each time.

[@paulhille7006]

PUSHPINS IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA!!!

[@phoenix-kingz]

The black templars are the definition of grimdark aesthetics it’s hard to make them not metal as hell

[@LemanRussVanquisher]

You summed up why I love the Templars really well, they just fit what a Space Marine is supposed to be so well. So much so in fact it's weird they aren't a first founding chapter.

[@s4mm1tch3ll8]

I remember starting with necrons, saw a black templar army and the art on a codex and never looked at anything else ever again😂😂😂

[@aaronhelm5800]

These guys are my favorite. 🤘

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

When painting black vehicles I use one of two methods, depending on what effect I'm after. The first is I drybrush the entire model with a dark grey lLike Adeptus Battlegrey) over a black undercoat before doing directional edge highlighting with a mid-tone grey (like Codex Grey) The second is doing straight directional edge highlighting directly over a black undercoat. Definitely a little more time-consuming, but it works for me. (Especially since I don't have an airbrush.)

[@archellothewolf2083]

Black Templars and Dark Angels are my favorite chapters purely based on aesthetic. Robes with the power armor just look so cool. Love the Angels more typically but Templars have a MUCH better color scheme.

[@connortremeer657]

Eric my dude, please do more vampire counts content 🙏

[@Toombs71]

Since your templars stole their look from 30k dark angels, I'll stole your tutorial about painting a tank for my spartan and protheus for my first legion. Great video as usual. Keep it up. I really enjoy your take on every aspect of this hobby

[@JGburneraccount]

Raven guards: They stole our whole flow...bar for bar

[@abaddon7558]

a little comment on the black colour in Chanel and other fashion brand, it's due to WW1 aftermatch, where so many people were mourning their deads, during the conflict and the "spanish" flew brought by US expedition corps that almost everyone was wearing black, and Channel was tiered of that so she decided to make it fashionable (at least the legend say so) Black is also the colour of austerity (still related to space crusader monks). There is books talking about how we perciev colour and they often are inherited or influenced by issues to get those colours in ancient time, like yellow and green being colours that were turning , but ofc today with modern technologie and society evolution most have evolved.

[@Michael_MW]

I have always been a Black Templar player. You do the chapter honor, brother!

[@ThomasTheLukeEngine]

I’d love an army showcase video of your whole Black Templars army.

[@LouieLovesMinis]

beautiful work on the cape

[@atlas6538]

Its always great to see your BT

[@andreweppling2333]

The helsreach fan movie and audiobook were my intro into 40K! 2500 pts of Templars later and still going strong! (As well as 3k points of necrons… don’t purge me I just love ‘em)

[@markdoyle4391]

That was great, love me a bit of Blackie Tempys

[@swiftwelding3046]

heck yeah, man.. I just started my own Black Templars. Orks, Guard...kind of flirted with the idea of Blood Angels...now I've finally found the Space Marine chapter that speaks to me.

[@manelito1234]

I really like how they look in the desert board!

[@rogerhack3750]

Did you combine tartarus terminator pattern with indomitus pattern stuff? I like that idea.

[@odharrison23]

That’s right! A left at Albuquerque, is how you get there!! Thank you sir!!

[@NigeyWigey]

I will never not think that the Black Templars are eating the Imperial Fists lunch. It’s funny how a Fists successor has its own codex and has more unique characters and units than the Imperial Fists themselves. The Fists themselves are cool but their coolness is kind of hidden under a bushel, the Black Templars wear their coolness on their sleeve (and shoulder pads, and backpack and tabard). Great vid as usual Eric, clearly a lot of thought went into it. But you showed me a blood angel and now I’m hungry.

[@tangofivefivesix]

I definitely want to do Black Templars as my second army, my first and current is Thousand Sons! Definitely want to do some grimdarking, but still very new to this stuff!! If you know of anyone that has done grimdark Thousand Sons (specifically the Crimson Sons warband that I'm following the color scheme of) I would really appreciate a pointer!

[@LifeofSquidMann]

Knightlier, angrier Angry Space Knights that don't play by the rules. Simple as that.

[@ryanhall9583]

You’ve convinced me just like that to paint mine as black templars.

[@Grim-Crusader]

The Endless Crusade approves of this video, Brother

[@anselmoffrisia2930]

I love your videos. Thanks for sharing!

[@The_Watchful_Scribe]

I have 3 favorite space marine chapters 1. Black Templars, 2. Raven Guard, 3. Crimson fists and right behind that would be my 4th favorite the Iron Hands but we don’t need to talk about that for now

[@mikesminiatures921]

NO PITY! NO REMORSE! NO FEAR!

[@danieljvanrensburg]

Gotta love colour stonks

[@satire__]

Those terminators are Fire, I'm taking notes

[@Beaut_Beau]

Why Eric's Hobby Workshop is the Coolest Hobby Channel on KZbin

[@rowanirish]

I'm an Iron Hands collector. Black armour is cool. Like The Black Knight in A Knight's Tale. A friend of mine has Black Templars, so that put a stop to me picking them.

[@euansmith3699]

You could both have Black Templar armies, and then fight over the tiniest differences in dogma; such is the tradition of the Ecclesiarchy in our world.

[@rowanirish]

@@euansmith3699 I've easily 10K points worth of Iron Hands at this stage. We're well beyond that.

[@euansmith3699]

@@rowanirish 😆😆

[@cactus_judy3929]

did you highlight the black armor during the painting tutorial at all?

[@andrewcommers5215]

Chaplain Grimaldus??? Chaplain??? Have you not heard the tale of the hero of Helsreach? Just giving you a hard time haha. Love your videos!

[@Hedgebrush]

Great method for painting vehicles, noice

[@PlasmaPea04]

I always liked the Dark Angels and they are my favourite space marine chapter due to their knightly aesthethics. But it is always fun to see the painted knightly space marines no matter what chapter

[@nuke2099]

The problem I have with Black Templars is that I also like Salamanders and combining the two into a Salamander successor chapter just looks like Black Templars with Salamander icons. I think the main thing I like about the Templars is the red and yellow weapons with flames that goes with the black and white. It looks good to my eyes. The same coloured weapons with Salamander green just makes them come off as too festive. Salamanders, Blood Angels and Black Templars are my three favourite looks of Space Marines.

[@figureartout]

Love your Channel Eric keep up the Epic videos ❤❤

[@messergabel]

04:15 ❤️🙏🫡Swat + Priest + Judge = Black templars

[@Okanehira]

Will you make a full painting tutorial with all your colours? I wanted to follow but you didn't finish it.

[@JackSmith-qp9nh]

Is there a good way to find Army Painter equivalents for Citadel colors? An Army Painter color matcher?

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

I don’t think the range was designed to be colour matched

[@JackSmith-qp9nh]

@@EricsHobbyWorkshop Ah, that makes sense. Your army looks pretty cool.

[@thejaxter6993]

Hurray! New epic vid!

[@luis2864]

Loved the video man.