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Great start.

I think the green is too dull and uniform. I think it needs to be lightened with some patches/areas of lighter green. I also think that the white could use some additional 'shading' from the airbrush.

It looks good. I have a white and green scheme for my CSM and agree with berglin that you might need some areas of lighter green to break up the otherwise dark green trim.

This is my WIP landraider:


While not up to your standards of painting, the lighter green works better on larger areas of white than the dark green that I use for the infantry:

Contrast colour: orange rust, always work for nurgle.

I'd keep the green and maybe do a thin line of dark brown or black to separate the white and green and keep them from blending in with each other. And then make some contrast in form of rust instead. you could also define the green with a rusty outline as though the rust emerges from the recess as this would separate the colours as well, like this:

Two minutes in photoshop, hope it helps to underline what I mean

Nice idea. I will try and disolve some FW rust powder in alcohol and paint the edges in order to achive what you did. Thanks. Stay tuned.

I'll be looking forward to seing what it looks like

Update!
I used the FW rust powders around the edges, comments?

Could maybe do with being darker (perhaps a sooty black?) at the very base of the trim before it goes to the rust red. It looks a bit too washed out and diffuse at the moment when compared to the un-rusted side.

It looks great, if you have a lighter more orange tone of weathering powder you could do some even smaller lines to make the rust un the deepest recess look more fresh/wet/still rusting. Although I don't think you necessarily need to
The green would benefit a lot from some edge highligting/ extreme highlighting for slightly more definition.

SilverMK2 wrote:Could maybe do with being darker (perhaps a sooty black?) at the very base of the trim before it goes to the rust red. It looks a bit too washed out and diffuse at the moment when compared to the un-rusted side.

Hmm.. that line gotta be very thin. Of course you are right, the contrast will be much better. I will definetly try that, thanks. This is after all my practice-run before the titan : )


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the damned artificer wrote:It looks great, if you have a lighter more orange tone of weathering powder you could do some even smaller lines to make the rust un the deepest recess look more fresh/wet/still rusting. Although I don't think you necessarily need to
The green would benefit a lot from some edge highligting/ extreme highlighting for slightly more definition.

Thanks, I agree. I am not quite ready with the green. Its only 3 stages of highlighting yet. I will add scorpid green, bleached bone and skull white. About the orange rust, "aged rust" is the only one I have... I am thinking of doing a thin black line in the recesses and adding gloss varnish at the end. That should improve the contast and add a wet effect.

just took a look at the pic in your gallery, and when zoomed up it looks extra great. So the above comment is not a must, only a suggestion if you don't find your already quite good model defined enough

Amazing work, and it's just a disgustingly beautiful work of art
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Well its time for an update.... the base is almost done. I need to clean up after the sand-glueing and clean some mold lines on the catachans and the Russ. I got the Russ on ebay, it had about 2mm of paint on it... took foreever to get off. But I got it for £5.... : ) All shields are removed for painting... thats why the legs look abit naked....

Looking cool

What is the little (well, little compared to the titan anyway ) gubbin in the 3rd picture on the right next to the toe?

SilverMK2 wrote:Looking cool

What is the little (well, little compared to the titan anyway ) gubbin in the 3rd picture on the right next to the toe?

Its a Trukk engine : )

Ah yes, I see it now

Oh my, You sir are a pro modeler! There no words I can chose to express how impressed I am with your titan.

Wow!

Soo, my test paint model is ready...
I will be using the same scheme for my titan.





The guy to the left is a conversion of marbo I made while waiting for the paint to dry on the test model. I will force my friend start spending points on non-gun line, non Russ-manticore-basiilsk-spam warfare and start using some "fun" models......

Main build - Clean surfaces, basic construction - DONE
Mechanical details - rivets, bolts, plates, engine, pipes, chains, symbols etc... - DONE
Wethering - Cracks, scratches, holes, rust texture - DONE
Nurglefication - Flesh, decay, bodies - DONE
Base - Details on base, war scene. The plan is to have interaction between the titan and the base. - DONE
Painting - Started

Looks very good. Would say more but there is a cat sitting on my keyboard.

*klonk*
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Sorry, but my jaw seems hits the table over and over again...

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Looks great. The red is a lot better than the purple and as usual when things come together they look a lot better than when there is just weathering on the model.

I like the soot on the exhausts. Real nice. Looks dirty.

And the Marbo dude really helps in getting the scale of that flyer. It's huge.

berglin wrote:The red is a lot better than the purple and as usual when things come together they look a lot better than when there is just weathering on the model.
I like the soot on the exhausts. Real nice. Looks dirty.

Yea, the red was a real improvement, the soot was quite easy to make with FW weathering powders.

Will start to basecoat the titan tonight....

Fantastic - cant wait. Its going to be tremendous and awe-inspiring

Lookin' good! Did you modify the purple on the pipes/hoses somehow? Looks redder in that top-shot. Perhaps treated with the same weathering powders? If it's not just the photograph or lighting or something, if you wouldn't mind a closer pic of that I'd appreciate it.

Say, are those bombs magnetized?

found this blog by random. WOW. Subscribed

Dude... this project... it's so... oh, whoops, just drooled on myself.
This is quite an amazing project you got here! I wish there was a way to transfer data from your brain to mine so I can make stuff this good!
Tech-Priest: Perhaps I can assist...
Can't wait to see the titan all painted up!

Savnock wrote:Lookin' good! Did you modify the purple on the pipes/hoses somehow? Looks redder in that top-shot. Perhaps treated with the same weathering powders? If it's not just the photograph or lighting or something, if you wouldn't mind a closer pic of that I'd appreciate it.

Say, are those bombs magnetized?

I repainted the hoses/tubes in red. After some feedback I re-considered my choise of purple, I now I am glad I did. The red is much better.
Yep the bombs are magnetized.

And thanks ALL for you feedback.

The titan have currently 1 basecoat of 50/40/10 mix of codex grey/Scorched earth/chaos black, salt, Bleched bone and a complete wash with sepia.

Next up is bleached bone and skull white high lights. After the skull white its time to remove all the salt.


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Basecoat and salt weathering done. Some more salt to remove..... its a big model : ). a bit more salt to remove compared to the Hell Talon.

Does not look very good yet, bot as soon a details being picked out, such as rims, rivets etc, it will look better...

Didn't realize that Titans needed to watch their diet (considering the literature in the background) but that's probably from eating all that salt?

Looks like your of to a smashing start, I don't understand how you find time for it considering that your just packing your stuff and moving but then again I never understood where you foudn all the time.

Have to say it is looking good even now

what is salt weathering? Awesome work, eagerly looking forward to seeing this completed!