The sandpaper as dragon hide is a stroke of absolute genius, but I also want to give a shoutout to the beads as bubbles idea. Took me completely by surprise.
Yes! As a student of cosmetology and a lover of miniature wargaming, I LOVE the idea of using items from both hobbies interchangeably. The nail art section is teeming with creative solutions for environments and tools!
EOB is by far my favorite miniature painting channel. Jay is just such a goober and gets so into what he’s doing and is so incredibly talented at painting and making good painting done quickly more digestible for plebs like me. Love Nick in the background editing too. Keep up the awesome videos
Yes, you beat me to it. I was skeptical until the prime and it looks REALLY good and is REALLY easy! I’m definitely gonna try that. What grit did he say it was? 50?
Jay, the Crotch-King; he knows what's hanging. Thanks for another fun video, and a peek at a great paint job. The simplified hot-rod flames look very strong.
Salamanders always get an upvote! Nice idea on the sandpaper, I did the miliput&greenstuff sculpting for my Salamanders Intercession Killteam but might have to steal that idea for the Scout KT I want to build
The day I’ve wished for has finally arrived! I’m an avid Salamanders fan and have been (not so) patiently waiting for Jay to put his version of them out. 15/10 video!
You gotta do a crimson fist marine ,a soul drinker, Excoriators, a executioners, and imperial fist marines and then you can have a last wall protocol kill team with your black templar
I used to play Salamanders years ago, when I was still in the game. I _love_ your sandpaper scales idea; that's a stroke of genius! I made really simple lava bases for most by covering them in wall filler/spackle and carving cracks into them, then painting the cracks in red and yellow, and the actual surface in black...
Honestly I'd love to see your take on the legion of the damned or maybe a chapter with a metallic colour like the celestial lions either way love your work and looking forward to more
Crimson Fists have always been a favorite of mine, since Rogue Trader. Personally, I think no other chapter has been done more dirty by GW than them. They were the OG poster children for the game. Right up on the cover of the book and the first plastic boxed set. Somehow, the Ultramarines eclipsed them and then more chapters came on the scene that kep pushing them further into the background.
all the extra bits that makes salamanders unique are my favorite part. also makes them great for 3d printing all their bits and bobs but that sandpaper idea is fantastic.
Thank you for making this. Salamanders are one of my top 3 Space Marines. If you're wondering they are the Salamanders, White Scars, and Raven Guard with Blood Angels being close. The top 3 are in no order as they are all great.
Blood Angels will always be Space Marines for me. But the blaze orange ones of my youth 💅 lately I've been doing like you and just painting one-offs of different chapters. Will definitely do a Salamander now 🫰
as a salamander player seeing those kitbashed sanding paper dragonskins i am so happy because i never thought of that and i wanted more customization that dosent require printing! also can we get more specific details on that needle allocator thingy you used to make the centers of the greenstuff balls for the skins?
Some Kroot marines would be cool to see. Or a small short of single character marines from Custom chapters. Have a short form facts sheet and you can go through pick a few or rng who’s chapters make an appearance
Solid work on the Salamander! I’ve about 10k worth of them, currently finishing up the last of the first company detachment and a helmeted version of Adrax. Thank you for the sand paper tip, I’ll give it a shot with 50 grit on my judiciar kitbash
Thank Jay for painting up one of my Lads. He looks awesome!!!!😁. Crimson fist , Blood Raven or a Raven Guard next? Maybe a Raptor if you haven't done one yet ?
You just showed how with simple things we can improve also a regular SM. I started to follow your tutorials for bases, and they'd been very useful. A cheap alternative for resin could be two part epoxy glue, I used it mixed with red paint for a bloody lava's base, and was very good .
A minotaur space marine would be a great next project, as it would be a great opportunity to see if your "dry brushing metallics over a non-metallic base coat" technique would work on a whole model. Plus theres lots of opportunity for kitbashing
A fun thing people do over in gunpla is using pink primer for reds, so if that is a new or enticing concept, you could try painting a blood angel next.
I would love to see more of these videos of standalone chapters. On the topic of what chapters to do, I would say the Raven guard, the idea for them is just cool
That turned out great! I love seeing them get some attention. As a Salamanders player my only gripe is that the Salamander transfer is backwards on his left shoulder
Definitely going to try this. It’s been too much of a hassle to track down templates and materials to recreate scale hide for my guys and this looks perfect!
This year I was going back and forth between World Eaters and Salamanders. After spending so many hours painting trim on the World Eaters… I am starting to wish I went with the Sallys.
I asked if you could tackle a Salamander a short while back and you obliged :D Awesome looking model! I love how you kept the backpack black: it's already detailed enough
I've been thinking for months about how I can simulate lizard skin without having to do a lot of modelling. I've never come across sandpaper, but this is brilliant. I'll give it a try.
As a 24 year long Salamanders player. I have 100 heresy marines and Vulkan, over 350 old marines and a whole mechanized unit and of course I have about 125 primaris marines. It's been a love hate relationship with the flames and the darkness. My marines have gone from forest green in the heresy to classic marine and now my primaris are almost bright green. I have moved them along to make them appear less scary and more a hope of the imperium.
I'm new to 40k, decided on salamanders, and just finished building my space marine half of the leviathan box last night. The timing of this video is awesome! Thanks man
Always happy to see Salamanders get some love. I was excited they got added to the stock transfer sheet (feel bad for Raven guard players that were bypassed for a successor, though Raptors are cool and those players must be super excited). I feel like the drake head on the left pauldron is backwards though. Similar to tattoos, I feel like you want the nose of a face/creature pointed to the front centre. I might try that gritty sandpaper trick myself, I like it. Maybe use Vallejo Plastic Putty to add little spikes/spines here and there like on Adrax's cloak
I think Dark Angels next is a no brainer! There is hype from all the recent releases so there will be a built-in audience. Plus, I'm getting back into the hobby after about 15 years and starting a Dark Angels army, so I'd selfishly love some tips :)
looks great...I'm primarily a chaos marine and Aeldari/harlequin collector, but I somehow always end up with a starter box for the new editions, so I have a slowly growinng Red Hunters army that I use as a pallette cleanser when I need tppaint sommething different.
Fun tid bit for any space marine fans out there, Killteam is actually the way to go if you want to dabble in other chapters. I own Salamanders. yet all 3 of my current space marine teams are painted in crimson fist, space wolves, and raven guard, all being jazzed up with unique bits to get them extra special since Ill never own these amries. Im looking forward to the Scouts as I want them to be Dark angels with a more medieval asethetic, sort of like knight squires
I know another black scheme must sound miserable to paint, but I would genuinely love your take on a really good batch paintable recipe for Raven Guard. Or maybe something challenging like Grey Knights, where you try out a NMM versus TMM scheme and see which one comes out on top!
I'm really impressed with the sandpaper scales. I've never seen that before and the result is brilliant. Though I'd be a little worried over it's durability.
I'd love to see your take on either the thousands sons or the Alpha legion. I don't particularly care for the legions in story, but their color schemes are super vibrant and cool in my opinion; especially the Thousand Sons.
This was awesome! I'm enjoying the little series going on here. Now that you've painted a Salamander, what more could I want? Blood Angels would be pretty neat!
It would be awesome to see you do one on lesser known chapters similar to what the Lich's Laboratory did. I always enjoy seeinf he weirder less common color schemes being realized.
Have you considered painting some chaos? I'd love to see how you paint a Thousand Sons Rubric or Sorcerer with your painting methods, if you have a few days to do all the trim.
I heard i cool explanation why Salamanders are given the most horrific weapons. Since they are that nice, they will know how to wield the power of war crime level weapons responsabily.
Hey man, I really like your videos and you've got some really great stuff in them. I'm a Salamanders player and I gotta say the base had great potential but you made a toxic spill instead of lava. What's up with that man? On the other hand, the sandpaper is a genius idea!
Every so often, I imagine a situation involving a Salamander meeting one of his relative and it always makes me smile. Like, imagine a salamander marine, this 8 feet tall, 400 pounds of muscle and grit, beast of a man visiting his grandma. She hugs him and goes like "you look scrawny compared to the last time I saw you, are you sure they are feeding you enough on duty ?"
Oh my god! The little bubbles and sand paper are BRILLIANT, Im gonna use that from now on Also im REALLY happy that i have a similar way of painting them But I do use Karandras green contrat paint from gw and also a zenithal, but i keep it lighter almost more grey And today i got army painter metalic contrast paints for gold and melta muzzles, they work beautifully I can recommend them if you havent tried them yet But it really makes me happy to see someone i look up to have a almost identical way of painting 😊
Have you considered Deathwatch? you can mix match and customize to your hearts contempt. I enjoy putting details from different chapters on various squads and lets you play a small narrative when building them. Like an assault squad lead by blood angel or space wolf. The Novels are great and often highlight the fact that it is Marines from various Legions and chapters working together in squads.
I'd love to see you paint a Soul Drinker, purple is a hard color to get right. Plus, when typing this I first wrote Soup Drinkers, and now I know what their chapter symbol is for.
I still really hope you do a tactical, kitted out Raptor. The operator, "SEAL TEAM 6" of Space Marines in my opinion (being RG successors helps). Their scheme is really simple but there's a heavy military vibe to them that just looks right, plus you get to kitbash them with gear and upgrades too and can make a nice fitting base to set them on the hunt.
Thanks for listening to my comment and painting a Salamander. The only loyal space marine I painted in my life is a Salamander (I paint chaos space marines and chaos demons mostly) because my son (who paints blue space marines) wanted me to paint "one of his minis" with him. So I chose the most cool...I mean most hot, chapter to paint :)
Yay Salamanders! Great job on painting the best chapter. I'll definitely have to try the sandpaper trick on a character model at some point. And as valid as the critique on Citadel contrasts is, Karandras green is the best color for Salamanders armor. You just have to paint with a big brush and/or quickly, and since it will be the first color you put down over the undercoat you can be as messy as you want anyway. Also, you put the wrong dragon head decal on his left shoulder. The Dragon's head always faces forward, similar to how american flags are oriented on soldiers uniforms. However, you made the right choice on the right pauldron with the flame. All Salamanders have the Flame and not the battle role symbols, something I myself only learned recently and I own north of 6000 points of Salamanders.
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When i first heard about the Salamanders being friendly to normal humans i thought they were basically firefighters, i'm sorta not wrong
reverse firefighters
Damn now I want yellow salamanders with red hats shooting water from their "hosers"
@@medeaMULTIMEDIA yeh, FIRE-fighters
Literal fire fighters
fighting fire with fire
The sandpaper as dragon hide is a stroke of absolute genius, but I also want to give a shoutout to the beads as bubbles idea. Took me completely by surprise.
Yes! As a student of cosmetology and a lover of miniature wargaming, I LOVE the idea of using items from both hobbies interchangeably. The nail art section is teeming with creative solutions for environments and tools!
Scale scales and bubble doubles!
Congrats, you've single handedly revelutionized how people put scales on their models
EOB is by far my favorite miniature painting channel. Jay is just such a goober and gets so into what he’s doing and is so incredibly talented at painting and making good painting done quickly more digestible for plebs like me. Love Nick in the background editing too. Keep up the awesome videos
I love the sandpaper idea. The dragon skin effect is really nice.
Yes, you beat me to it. I was skeptical until the prime and it looks REALLY good and is REALLY easy! I’m definitely gonna try that. What grit did he say it was? 50?
@@magnusmillerwilson I think he said 30
@@magnusmillerwilsonI'm pretty sure he said 80 grit
@@clashhoyland9583he did indeed say 80 grit
80 and 30
Jay, the Crotch-King; he knows what's hanging.
Thanks for another fun video, and a peek at a great paint job. The simplified hot-rod flames look very strong.
Salamanders always get an upvote! Nice idea on the sandpaper, I did the miliput&greenstuff sculpting for my Salamanders Intercession Killteam but might have to steal that idea for the Scout KT I want to build
I'd love to see something vastly different to anything you've done. Maybe the Ravenguard?
But itˋs black armor like the Templars.
@@tuskarthetauren i think thats the joke
Even better, Deathwatch
SOUL DRINKERS !!! Do them next :)
But first finish the salamander!!! The lava base was waaaaayyyy to yellow, and the hot rod flames need orange :)
The day I’ve wished for has finally arrived! I’m an avid Salamanders fan and have been (not so) patiently waiting for Jay to put his version of them out. 15/10 video!
The Sons Of The Phoenix have an amazing scheme and style (and some spicy lore) and dont get as nearly as much love as they should
Amazing idea!
You gotta do a crimson fist marine ,a soul drinker, Excoriators, a executioners, and imperial fist marines and then you can have a last wall protocol kill team with your black templar
I used to play Salamanders years ago, when I was still in the game. I _love_ your sandpaper scales idea; that's a stroke of genius!
I made really simple lava bases for most by covering them in wall filler/spackle and carving cracks into them, then painting the cracks in red and yellow, and the actual surface in black...
Honestly I'd love to see your take on the legion of the damned or maybe a chapter with a metallic colour like the celestial lions either way love your work and looking forward to more
I think next chapter should be your take on Carcharodons! The shark chapter
Love this. Stealing that sand paper idea. Also SPACE SHARKS.
Great job, sometimes its just about the fun and not to collect an army. I would love to see a carcharodon next 😁
Nice Job with the Salamander! Would love to see your version of Crimson Fists!
2:56 We're just gonna gloss over that, eh? There's... a lot to unpack here... 🤣 Great little kitbash, final result came out great!
The sand paper as scale hides is genius! I've been meticulously placing individual scales and it's madness!
The sandpaper trick is super good! You can definitely do a squad with little effort!
VULKAN LIVES!
STOMP STOMP
Crimson Fists have always been a favorite of mine, since Rogue Trader.
Personally, I think no other chapter has been done more dirty by GW than them. They were the OG poster children for the game. Right up on the cover of the book and the first plastic boxed set. Somehow, the Ultramarines eclipsed them and then more chapters came on the scene that kep pushing them further into the background.
I'd like to see you do a really gnarly Iron Hands Space Marine, with bionic arms or legs, just full on embrace the "Flesh is Weak" vibe.
Salamanders player here, just wanted you to know I’m definitely going to be stealing the the sandpaper scales in the future it looks awesome. 😊
all the extra bits that makes salamanders unique are my favorite part. also makes them great for 3d printing all their bits and bobs but that sandpaper idea is fantastic.
Blood angels would undoubtedly look amazing in your painting style
That hint of OSL with the yellow glow really brings it together
Thank you for making this. Salamanders are one of my top 3 Space Marines. If you're wondering they are the Salamanders, White Scars, and Raven Guard with Blood Angels being close. The top 3 are in no order as they are all great.
Blood Angels will always be Space Marines for me. But the blaze orange ones of my youth 💅 lately I've been doing like you and just painting one-offs of different chapters. Will definitely do a Salamander now 🫰
as a salamander player seeing those kitbashed sanding paper dragonskins i am so happy because i never thought of that and i wanted more customization that dosent require printing! also can we get more specific details on that needle allocator thingy you used to make the centers of the greenstuff balls for the skins?
Some Kroot marines would be cool to see. Or a small short of single character marines from Custom chapters. Have a short form facts sheet and you can go through pick a few or rng who’s chapters make an appearance
Solid work on the Salamander! I’ve about 10k worth of them, currently finishing up the last of the first company detachment and a helmeted version of Adrax.
Thank you for the sand paper tip, I’ll give it a shot with 50 grit on my judiciar kitbash
Thank you Jay! There just isn’t enough Salamanders content out there!
I use the sandpaper idea on all of my sergeants and heroes it’s awesome. And I use the speed paint mixture with just an extra drop of shamrock green
Thank Jay for painting up one of my Lads.
He looks awesome!!!!😁.
Crimson fist , Blood Raven or a Raven Guard next? Maybe a Raptor if you haven't done one yet ?
You just showed how with simple things we can improve also a regular SM. I started to follow your tutorials for bases, and they'd been very useful. A cheap alternative for resin could be two part epoxy glue, I used it mixed with red paint for a bloody lava's base, and was very good .
A minotaur space marine would be a great next project, as it would be a great opportunity to see if your "dry brushing metallics over a non-metallic base coat" technique would work on a whole model. Plus theres lots of opportunity for kitbashing
A fun thing people do over in gunpla is using pink primer for reds, so if that is a new or enticing concept, you could try painting a blood angel next.
I would love to see more of these videos of standalone chapters. On the topic of what chapters to do, I would say the Raven guard, the idea for them is just cool
That sandpaper for salamander skin trick would have been hella handy back when I was working on Salamanders. Kinda makes me itch to revisit them.
One trick I've seen for yellows is to use either pink or magenta as a base and then go over with yellows. Helps make it pop a lot
That turned out great! I love seeing them get some attention. As a Salamanders player my only gripe is that the Salamander transfer is backwards on his left shoulder
Definitely going to try this. It’s been too much of a hassle to track down templates and materials to recreate scale hide for my guys and this looks perfect!
Funny I was painting salamanders last night and I thought how would rob paint it well I guess I have my answer 😂great paint job as always
This year I was going back and forth between World Eaters and Salamanders. After spending so many hours painting trim on the World Eaters… I am starting to wish I went with the Sallys.
I asked if you could tackle a Salamander a short while back and you obliged :D Awesome looking model! I love how you kept the backpack black: it's already detailed enough
I've been thinking for months about how I can simulate lizard skin without having to do a lot of modelling. I've never come across sandpaper, but this is brilliant. I'll give it a try.
I Recently Painted a Salamander on my Channel and I loved it. Yours Looks Awesome, I love the sandpaper tip Thanks
As a 24 year long Salamanders player. I have 100 heresy marines and Vulkan, over 350 old marines and a whole mechanized unit and of course I have about 125 primaris marines. It's been a love hate relationship with the flames and the darkness. My marines have gone from forest green in the heresy to classic marine and now my primaris are almost bright green. I have moved them along to make them appear less scary and more a hope of the imperium.
I'm new to 40k, decided on salamanders, and just finished building my space marine half of the leviathan box last night. The timing of this video is awesome! Thanks man
Salamanders are my favourite chapter There actually so cool
Always happy to see Salamanders get some love. I was excited they got added to the stock transfer sheet (feel bad for Raven guard players that were bypassed for a successor, though Raptors are cool and those players must be super excited).
I feel like the drake head on the left pauldron is backwards though.
Similar to tattoos, I feel like you want the nose of a face/creature pointed to the front centre.
I might try that gritty sandpaper trick myself, I like it. Maybe use Vallejo Plastic Putty to add little spikes/spines here and there like on Adrax's cloak
Love the look of the sand paper gotta try it on my devastators
You should make some lamenters
Love this series Jay! Really fun watching you paint up a new and unfamiliar chapter for a day
I think Dark Angels next is a no brainer! There is hype from all the recent releases so there will be a built-in audience. Plus, I'm getting back into the hobby after about 15 years and starting a Dark Angels army, so I'd selfishly love some tips :)
looks great...I'm primarily a chaos marine and Aeldari/harlequin collector, but I somehow always end up with a starter box for the new editions, so I have a slowly growinng Red Hunters army that I use as a pallette cleanser when I need tppaint sommething different.
The sandpaper for dragon skin is genius, I gotta try that sometime 👌
Fun tid bit for any space marine fans out there, Killteam is actually the way to go if you want to dabble in other chapters. I own Salamanders. yet all 3 of my current space marine teams are painted in crimson fist, space wolves, and raven guard, all being jazzed up with unique bits to get them extra special since Ill never own these amries. Im looking forward to the Scouts as I want them to be Dark angels with a more medieval asethetic, sort of like knight squires
I know another black scheme must sound miserable to paint, but I would genuinely love your take on a really good batch paintable recipe for Raven Guard. Or maybe something challenging like Grey Knights, where you try out a NMM versus TMM scheme and see which one comes out on top!
I'm really impressed with the sandpaper scales. I've never seen that before and the result is brilliant. Though I'd be a little worried over it's durability.
You are so freakin good at improvising creatively with materials. One of the many reasons that you're my favorite minis channel.
Great work as usual man. Absolutely nailed it 👍
I'd love to see your take on either the thousands sons or the Alpha legion. I don't particularly care for the legions in story, but their color schemes are super vibrant and cool in my opinion; especially the Thousand Sons.
This was awesome! I'm enjoying the little series going on here. Now that you've painted a Salamander, what more could I want? Blood Angels would be pretty neat!
That Salamander looks amazing. I vote for Blood Angels next, but specifically the Flesh Tearers.
The sandpaper idea is genuinely a game changer ill definitely be using this when i get around to building my salamanders
Coming from a salamanders player, I'm so glad you did this and you've given me some good ideas to spice mine up. Thanks!
"Space marines are the good guys"
Sir. SIR.
It would be awesome to see you do one on lesser known chapters similar to what the Lich's Laboratory did. I always enjoy seeinf he weirder less common color schemes being realized.
Have you considered painting some chaos? I'd love to see how you paint a Thousand Sons Rubric or Sorcerer with your painting methods, if you have a few days to do all the trim.
As a Salamanders player I am shocked by how good those sandpaper scales came out and I don't know how no one else has ever thought of it before
I heard i cool explanation why Salamanders are given the most horrific weapons. Since they are that nice, they will know how to wield the power of war crime level weapons responsabily.
THIS IS FRICKING GENIUS!! HOW THE HECK DID I NEVER THINK OF THAT, LIKE WTF?
I like how this came out after I just finished painting mine for a contest
Hey man, I really like your videos and you've got some really great stuff in them. I'm a Salamanders player and I gotta say the base had great potential but you made a toxic spill instead of lava. What's up with that man? On the other hand, the sandpaper is a genius idea!
Every so often, I imagine a situation involving a Salamander meeting one of his relative and it always makes me smile. Like, imagine a salamander marine, this 8 feet tall, 400 pounds of muscle and grit, beast of a man visiting his grandma. She hugs him and goes like "you look scrawny compared to the last time I saw you, are you sure they are feeding you enough on duty ?"
just about to start painting my salamanders perfect timing
Oh my god!
The little bubbles and sand paper are BRILLIANT,
Im gonna use that from now on
Also im REALLY happy that i have a similar way of painting them
But I do use Karandras green contrat paint from gw and also a zenithal, but i keep it lighter almost more grey
And today i got army painter metalic contrast paints for gold and melta muzzles, they work beautifully
I can recommend them if you havent tried them yet
But it really makes me happy to see someone i look up to have a almost identical way of painting 😊
Great Job! I'm working on painting my Leviathan Space Marines as Salamanders and this got me even more excited!
Sand paper was genius, would love to see your take on a Crimson fist, or even a Pedro Kantor
Blood Angles! Oow, how about the Blood Angles Chaplin with the Wings! That would be cool. Or a Sanguinary Priest, or a ...
wow what a good ide i am defiently stealing that ide with a rough sand paper thanks you sir
I really liked the lack of 3D printed bits!! Can’t wait for you to do space wolves like this
Great video, my man. The sandpaper was brilliant. I definitely think you should start a salamanders army. 👍🏻
Have you considered Deathwatch? you can mix match and customize to your hearts contempt. I enjoy putting details from different chapters on various squads and lets you play a small narrative when building them. Like an assault squad lead by blood angel or space wolf. The Novels are great and often highlight the fact that it is Marines from various Legions and chapters working together in squads.
THAT LOOKS AWESOME! As a salamanders player, I LOVED THIS.
As a salamnders collector I hope GW sees this and gives them more love 😢
I'd love to see you paint a Soul Drinker, purple is a hard color to get right. Plus, when typing this I first wrote Soup Drinkers, and now I know what their chapter symbol is for.
Maybe a Blood Angel next Jay? Give our Vamps some love too 😊
Brother Jay welcome to the best Chapter! Also its not a big deal but the shoulder trim on Sallys is green canonically but it looks really good gold.
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This was amazing! Would love to see you paint blood angels my favorite army of all time !
I still really hope you do a tactical, kitted out Raptor. The operator, "SEAL TEAM 6" of Space Marines in my opinion (being RG successors helps). Their scheme is really simple but there's a heavy military vibe to them that just looks right, plus you get to kitbash them with gear and upgrades too and can make a nice fitting base to set them on the hunt.
Thanks for listening to my comment and painting a Salamander. The only loyal space marine I painted in my life is a Salamander (I paint chaos space marines and chaos demons mostly) because my son (who paints blue space marines) wanted me to paint "one of his minis" with him. So I chose the most cool...I mean most hot, chapter to paint :)
Would love to see the Tome Keepers! Not very well known but their lore is so cool
Yay Salamanders! Great job on painting the best chapter. I'll definitely have to try the sandpaper trick on a character model at some point.
And as valid as the critique on Citadel contrasts is, Karandras green is the best color for Salamanders armor. You just have to paint with a big brush and/or quickly, and since it will be the first color you put down over the undercoat you can be as messy as you want anyway.
Also, you put the wrong dragon head decal on his left shoulder. The Dragon's head always faces forward, similar to how american flags are oriented on soldiers uniforms. However, you made the right choice on the right pauldron with the flame. All Salamanders have the Flame and not the battle role symbols, something I myself only learned recently and I own north of 6000 points of Salamanders.
I'd love to see your creativity do it's thing on a Grey Knight
I love that you go out of Templars to teach how to pimp other chapters 🤩