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Are your titans for sale?

Stubby wrote:Are your titans for sale?

Oh wow a smart ass I've never seen one of those before.

Dam those are nice, whats the black thing in the picture with the weapon arms?

Commissar Agro - Are you talking about the thing in the bottom of the second picture with the tank hatch on it?
That's another gun arm.
It's built out of a camera flash with an imperial eagle glued onto the end. If any heretic is silly enough to get caught in it's blast they see the emperor for the next 20 minutes

Yes that is what I was refering to.
Ok i was just wondering cause it didn't look like another gun arm.

Fantastic work FB!

Loving to see your Titans come out and play again - me and my son loved following your work on those guys and it'll be great to see some paint on them!


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Fantastic work FB!

Loving to see your Titans come out and play again - me and my son loved following your work on those guys and it'll be great to see some paint on them!

tallmantim - Thanks! It's a good ways to go before paint but it's my hope to use them in an Apoc game around Thanksgiving.

Well I've always thought the Vendettas needed something and after coming home from gaming last night I grabbed the Tamiya make up kit and went to town



The muzzle burns by the cockpit


Looks kind of silly without the gun there


I think they look good. I'm going to go back with a little brown and hit the engine burns and muzzle burns a bit. I destroyed that little makeup brush they give you so I'll need to go buy another one.

I've got 1 week till I leave and the army is technically done! That's a big improvement from last year where I was painting in the hotel room the night before the Big Waaagh.

So what do y'all think I should work on next?
Terminators
Legion of the Damned
Tac Marines
Dev Marines
Marine Tanks
Russes
Guardsmen
Immobile Ordnance
Sentinels

Of course I'm going to keep working on the titans but I need micro projects do do in the mean time.
I don't have room to start anymore projects so I need to finish some of the ones I have abandoned.

Today I pulled the display board out and took some photos of the army on top of it.
Here's the whole thing


Colonel with Plasmas and medic


Inquisitor lord with 2 mystics and a familiar


Psyker squad 1


Pskyer squad 2


Callidus


Flamer squad 1


Melta squad 1


Melta squad 2


Flamer squad 2


Inquisitor's ride


Flamer Squad 1's ride


Flamer Squad 2's ride


Hydra squad 1


Hydra squad 2


Manticore


Back drop


Armageddon map


Army's history


Epic fight pic


Army name


If you're at WARCon please stop by and say hi! I'll be in classes on Friday and playing in the GT on Saturday and Sunday!

According to votes from other forums I'll be painting Legion of the Damned and then Sentinels.

Very nice looking army but I must be honest and say that I don't like those Hydras. The turret parts look way too high tech. You could've modify those somehow to mach the style of leman russ. But don't get me wrong that is just my opinion and other than that your army is awesome!

Good luck to the tourney and may the gods of die be with you.

Xenon - Thanks! The Dice Gods did crap on me a bit as in 1 turn ALL of my armies shooting managed to stun a Venerable Dreadnought.

Well I've back from WARcon.
I ended up getting 3 wins, 2 Draws, and 2 Losses. The points were a little weird (going from 0 - 50 per game in most cases) and I played a couple of jerks and some REALLY great opponents but all and all I had a blast. Hanging out with the friends I went up with and all the people we met was definitely the highlight! Dave Taylor taught and awesome class and I learned some sculpting tricks that I'll be trying out later. Meeting Romeo was cool too and we discussed a bag for my titans

But now that I'm home it's time to go back to painting. First up I put down some color on the flames of the Legion of the Damned.




Next up waiting for me when I returned home was a box from the Warstore with the new wargames factory greatcoat infantry. I'd been waiting for this set for almost 2 years now as I thought they'd make good IG stand in, and work great for heavy weapon team spotters, and conscripts.
Here's the first conversion. This conversion was only done using 2 cuts to remove the stock gun and attach the cadian lasgun.



I liked this conversion so much I built 2 more.

They seem a lot bigger than your Steel Legion guardsmen.

Steel legion models are smaller than cadians...I think.

Somebody here did a conparison of the great coat models recently...

Are you doing an entire army of damned legionaries?

Those German type guards look lovely!

I would take away the original base and than pin/glue them to the GW base.
It won't be much, but it will decrease the size issue.

I'm tuning in to this!

Looking very nice!

and also, gaaaaaaaryyy.....

poipo32 - Yeah, they're a quick conversion. I'm thinking if I remove the "base" they come attached to and sink their feet in a little it will look a little better.

Commissar Agro - Steel Legioin are a lot smaller than cadians. I only have 20 Legion of the Damned models, they were just too cool to pass up.

Dakka_Dok - Thanks!

Leigen_Zero - Thanks!

I support the idea of clipping the base to make them smaller, nice and fast weapon change btw.

M.

Miguelsan - Thanks! Hopefully that small change will help a bit.

Well I've been putting some color down on the Legionaires






Next I finally installed the exhausts in the first warhound



I also built control sticks and cabeling on the drivers for the hounds but didn't take pictures. Maybe I'll remember when I get home from work tonight.

Really like your legion of the damned...I think the muted colour suits them more...looks like you painted blue and tallarn flesh first or no?

Actually they started out as Armory Grey primer, then I painted the details (both of which you can see in the previous post), and finally 2 heavy washes of Badab Black.
Then I went back and drybrushed bleached bone and other spot colors.
I'm slowly bringing the fire back with drybrushing but I want to keep the tones muted. Also the parchments really need a mud wash.

WOW, they look so damned good

Commissar Agro - LOL! Thanks!

Ok, I may have gone a little nuts on the pictures but here they are:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Foda_Bett/40k/Space%20Marines/Other/?start=all
Chaos black was NOT used on these models. Most of these models were done with dry brushing. After I black washed the flames I brought them back with dry brushing, and that's how I did the braziers by dry brushing the flames. Same thing to highlight the guns, and that is even how I did the bone (except for the noses of the beakies). A small dry brushing can go a long way.

I think they're probably the best line infantry I've done. Obviously some flaws here and there but I'm tired of painting them.

I've also been invited to be a co-author at Game Headz blog at
http://game-headz.blogspot.com/
so expect to see some stuff from me over there.

Well rolling strong with the responses

I've done some more work on the warhounds.
First up I added the headlight holder



I also built a new gun for all 4 out of the same toy we're using for the exhausts.
Original:



Comparisons





It has attachments that light up.






Of course these guns are all work in progress they need more details. I've got some BFG mechanicus skulls to cover the location of the old hand hold and they'll need some eagles skulls and rivets.

I've sent off an order to Romeo for an awesome case to hold these behemoths!

WOW, just wow, that is nice!

Those titans are turning out just fine !

Great to see you posting on dakka again foda. Those Titans are still looking epic. And I love your steel legion army. Really good work on the armour, its much better in my opinion than the flat - clean - black that GW have painted their models with.

All you need now is a couple of thousand of points of Orks to play against to refight armageddon!!

Commissar Agro - Thanks!
Armorum Ferrum - Thanks!
s.j.mccartney - Thanks! I've got a friend with 9 blood thirsters and around 8k of khorne that wants to refight the 1st war for Armageddon.

Well the titans have been slow going. We've basically taken the time to bring the other 3 into line with the first.

So in the mean time I've been working on a little commission (20 sanguinary guard, dante, and sanguinor) and painting some terminators.
I've tried a few things out on these terminators that I like. First I've tried dryrbushing the light gray for all of the highlights. Second I've treid Kermi brown with bleached bone highlight instead of scorched brown with bleached bone highlight for all the parchment.
Both these slight changes have increased the speed at which I can paint terminators, and I managed to paint 28 of them since my last post!

First up 10 Thunder hammer storm shield termis




Next 10 shooty termis with assault cannons




Then 5 Lightning claw termis




Finally 3 un-Blood Angel-ed space hulk termis.












I built them custom bases so they can still be used in space hulk as well as serve in the 1st when I have to deploy the entire company.

The titans are looking great! But I would say that the termies need a litle more work doing to them, but I suppose if you did that it would defeat the purpose of speed painting. I am painting around 20 terminators but have only got 3 painted because I wanted then all to have NMM helmets... sigh.

Welcome back to dakka
Havent seen those hounds since your blog on making them ages ago

The armies are comming together quickly.

How do you keep interest throughout all of that painting?
I tend to get bored after 4-5 hours of painting.

wow your stuff looks awesome I especialy like the legion of the damned.

Very Nice. Foda-Bett, I don't know if you've mentioned this as I had to quickly look through, but I'd love to see some tutorials on your stuff, and/or a website/blog where you go into more detail. You're an amazing modeler. Is that your personal workshop in the background? Very clean and organized. That in of itself is inspirational. (I know I'll reach a new level once I get my basement finished and I can have my workspace organized instead of everything scattered on a fold out table.)

Thanks for posting.