Terminator Librarian Complete! Isaac Theodesius

Presenting Epistolary Prior Isaac Theodesius!

Only took twenty-five years.  The 1991 Citadel catalog lists him as "Librarian RTB/6".  My skills are finally worthy to give him a decent coat of paint.  Been really looking forward to finishing him -psyker powers, especially from Rogue Trader, were always really cool.

I paint in the old style, and also I wanted to have a combination of dramatic lighting effects and effects that made his armor look very ancient.  Thus, especially around the feet I didn't fill in all of the shades of color to leave things looking shadowy and also covered with sooty grime in the corners of the armor.  If you've ever visited old churches in Europe where they don't dust, I was going for the same thing.  The gothic style and veneration of battle artifacts would probably mean they also don't clean anything they don't have to.

As I had posted with an earlier preview while WIP, I took a heraldic quartering pattern that worked great.  I layered on the whites starting from a dark gray and slowly built up.  And like wise with the blue.

Layering on the gold and other bits was a lot of fun now that I've had a lot of experience from the prior tactical marines and lieutenant.

Oldhammer headhunter, shell-shocked, and MK III Marines

It has been a long time coming, but I finally finished some of my classics!  They will fill into my tactical marines and give me enough models to play around with configurations without being short.  Also they add a lot of character!  The Mk IIIs can also be used as veterans, since obviously their armor would definitely be relics from the Horus Heresy (and my hobby box)!

I have a catalog dated from 1991 that contains these:

Iron Armor (Space Marine Mark 3) 070270/10

Bolter 11 070106/10 (which I think should have been labeled as wounded 3 on page 8)

He also appears on my October 1992 White Dwarf back cover!

and Bolter and Face Mask 070106/11  (the Headhunter)

I couldn't find which book he was in, but I've seen this picture before.

Anyway, these models have been about half painted for at least 6 years and were a couple of the first faces that I've worked on.  Headhunter has 3 faces - the two dead ones were fun practice.  While they look weird up close, it works from tabeltop distance.  Also, my guess is that the heads would actually not look life like in that state, so it is probably somewhat accurate.  Its interesting that the example they went with a zombie blue face.

I'm happy with how 'shell-shocked' turned out.

Here's a few going through the final stages of highlights.  I wanted to keep them in the old style even though I felt I could have done some different things.

Regarding Chapter Approved 2019

Recently I analyzed some of the traffic visiting my blog and I realized that people are searching for the next edition of the Games Workshop rules update for Eighth Edition.  I apologize for the mix up, but I have no spoilers or information on the upcoming 2019 changes.

Here are some links to sites that might:
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/02/40k-whats-next-for-the-grimdark-in-2019.html
https://spikeybits.com/2018/12/gws-2019-rumors-release-roadmap-latest.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerCompetitive/

Regarding the name of the blog: I chose "Chapter Approved" because in the 40k fluff art from Rogue Trader it was stamped on everything to convey the approval of the chapter (presumably to the codex) and thus I wanted to make the connection to that and the work I am blogging about.

"Chapter Approved" also was a White Dwarf magazine column that in some ways did the same thing as my blog but at a bigger scope.  There they discussed a wide variety of 40k topics, including modeling, and originally it was fronted by the game "Overfiend" Andy Chambers.

According to the Lexicanum, they did publish a few editions of "Chapter Approved" rule book updates in the early 2000s (which I had not realized) way back for third edition.  When I came along they hadn't been doing this and so I went with my title.  Suddenly in Eighth they started up again, so again my apologies, but I'm not changing it.  Looking back, if I had used some sort of 'oldhammer' name I might have attracted the right audience, but at the same time, this blog is for me.

Hope you stay to look at some cool oldhammer Rogue Trader thru 3rd edition era stuff.

Astronomican.