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Sneaking up on it....almost done with first warlord!!! C and c always welcome.

That's some weathering, very nice!

Thanks!

Nice work, Rabenga, I like the little skulls at the back of the cannons.

Meanwhile, no rest for the wicked, so after the Warhounds it's Reaver time. I might even get a legal maniple some day

Thanks Sherry pie. Reaver is off to a good start.
.looks like it's striding with purpose...

My local GW Store has the manager's own 40k size Warlord titan with carapace laser blasters stands proud.
The Adeptus Titanicus Warlord with the rocket launchers is nice, but I wanted blasters!

Now I feel kinda silly, since I modified, printed, magentized and painted my own blasters. I finished a week before GW announced the official version.
However, I waited to take nicer pictures, since I was working on a bunch of Lucius pattern warhounds to keep my plastic Mars pattern Warhounds company.

Here is my AT Warlord , just a few days before his unplanned buddy Warlord with crisp, high quality blasters will show up in a cardbord box, some assembly required. ;-]

Gorgeous work and be proud of your laserblasters, they look cleaner than the ones I printed.

That's utterly fantastic and the glow on the lasers is really something!

 Overread wrote:
That's utterly fantastic and the glow on the lasers is really something!

Thank you. The effect loses a fair bit when you look very close. It's just white followed by Vallejo Model Air Flourescent Red. The heat effect is Secret Weapon Red and Blue Heat.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Gorgeous work and be proud of your laserblasters, they look cleaner than the ones I printed.

Thank you. That should be down to the printers; I used an Anycubic Photon, i.e. a cheapo resin printer.

Very nice looking there, Stephanius.

Some progress on my front too: Ruina Superborum, Fall of the Haughty, joins Favilla's ranks. Rip and tear!

Didn't bother magnetizing the arms, carapace can be changed if one for some reason wouldn't want to wear the one-shot wonder of overcompensating that is the Warp Missile...

I have been building buildings. Foam block cores, cardstock and found object dressing. Some buildings will block LOS some will simply block movement. The first is a cathedral, the second, some low-rise movement blocking buildings, the final two are a hotel and office building.

WIP buildings. The first is a cathedral. (argh it is upside down)

Building WIP. A Hotel

and a few more WIP Buildings. Office building and some low rises, meant to block movement, not LOS

 Sherrypie wrote:
Very nice looking there, Stephanius.

Some progress on my front too: Ruina Superborum, Fall of the Haughty, joins Favilla's ranks. Rip and tear!

Didn't bother magnetizing the arms, carapace can be changed if one for some reason wouldn't want to wear the one-shot wonder of overcompensating that is the Warp Missile...

I went with the skinnier hunter killer missile for my warp missile but I still have one of those and I almost wish I used that one. It looks great painted up, good work!

Assembled and magnetized my Knights today. As a funny side effect of being consistent with polarity I can swap their arms with my Cataphractii

CommodorePerry3 wrote:
Building WIP. A Hotel

That's some awesome buildings right there, CommodorePerry3. It is tempting to try and replicate them.

And now, another update: finally, they are here. The Orks are advancing upon the campaign in a big way, led by the mighty Gargant, "Uhniverze Stomper".
The ork maniple is ready to go, made of one gargant (hardpoints are modular and can be changed, alll of them), two stompas with magnetized arms, and one old epic-scale gargant, that fit just nice as a stompa. The do require a bit more painting, but only an adjustment, and the test is scheduled this week, in two flavors: ether as a proxy imperials, or with our own homeruled terminals, featuring four main and one secondary weapon system per one orky titan, because you can never have enough dakka. The SPECIAL location was quite handy at that, almost as if GW intended to have titans with more locations.


Upd: adding a little, may I say, teaser off the next part of the AT project.

 Regis_sotum wrote:

CommodorePerry3 wrote:
Building WIP. A Hotel

That's some awesome buildings right there, CommodorePerry3. It is tempting to try and replicate them.

And now, another update: finally, they are here. The Orks are advancing upon the campaign in a big way, led by the mighty Gargant, "Uhniverze Stomper".
The ork maniple is ready to go, made of one gargant (hardpoints are modular and can be changed, alll of them), two stompas with magnetized arms, and one old epic-scale gargant, that fit just nice as a stompa. The do require a bit more painting, but only an adjustment, and the test is scheduled this week, in two flavors: ether as a proxy imperials, or with our own homeruled terminals, featuring four main and one secondary weapon system per one orky titan, because you can never have enough dakka. The SPECIAL location was quite handy at that, almost as if GW intended to have titans with more locations.


Upd: adding a little, may I say, teaser off the next part of the AT project.

I had wanted to give an ork force a shot and that’s looks like what I’d have done. Really good work!

For my Lucius Pattern Warhounds, I went with bikers, attack bikes and a land speeder as base deco.
My reasoning is that these marines might be nimble enough to avoid being stomped into the ground by the scout titans. I think they came out rather nice.

I modified the 3D models to suit my needs, with regards to less wasted material and holes sized as close as I could manage (print size variation) to accept magnets.
This whole endeavor took much more time than the plastic Warhounds, which built very easily - compared to Reaver and Warhound.
For me this was a feasibility challenge and skill class, even assuming resin and printers are free, I'd not recommend this as a serious alternative to the original models.
If I'd do it over, I'd make sure to split the model into more parts for convenient lack of masking for airbrushing.

However, my cabinet of shame pile of potential still has a lot of models in need of attention, so I won't make more of these guys.
I have 3 more AT knights to do and I do expect 4 AT Cerastus knights to escort the Warlord with the new weapon sprue to my door.

I added individual pictures like these below for all my AT models to my gallery.

Those bikes and the speeder are nuts, what printer and resolution are you using?

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Those bikes and the speeder are nuts, what printer and resolution are you using?

I'm using a cheap DLP printer, the Anycubic Photon. It uses a 5.5" mobile phone display to mask it's UV lamp. That display has a resolution of 2560*1440 pixels.
My layer height is the default for that printer, which is 0.05mm.

I clipped the supports before curing the prints, then stuck them on doublesided sticky tape previously used for pre-painting base deco bits.
Then I hit them with black primer, a white zenital highlight, two shades of yellow and added a bit of chrome and brass before applying black semi-transparent oil shade.

All of these models - the second speeder aside - found a spot on the four Warhound bases. =]

So this is sort of a fluff question, but pertains directly to how I'm approaching my AT stuff from a building and painting perspective, so I'll ask it here.

Do individual titans have permanent weapon loadouts, or do they alter according to resources/mission requirements? So is it the chassis that identifies the titan, or would it only be considered that individual if it was rocking a certain configuration?

in the fluff titans do get completely rebuilt when they get downed. That means of course that certainly a damaged or destroyed weapon would be replaced.

From there it is a very small step to assume that the titans would grab the right loadout for the mission. Maybe there are fluff examples of that as well.

Princeps grow with their titans and I should think they'd want to keep the same loadouts as those are now their limbs. I don't know of any story where they refit a titan with different weapons.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Princeps grow with their titans and I should think they'd want to keep the same loadouts as those are now their limbs. I don't know of any story where they refit a titan with different weapons.

There is some background quotes of advice for princeps battlegroups "select your weaponry appropriate to the mission." Since you get whatever titans you are assigned, this suggests it is supposed to be possible to swap out weapons on each engine.

It would make sense to me but I've only read Warlord, Mechanicum, and Titanicus. I wish there were more books.

All current mortis titans ready for varnish minus burnt metal effect on inferno guns.

Next in line finish knights, paint lancers i get tomorrow(4) and next week(2, i hope), and then to legio victorum

tneva82, that is an awesome battle group you have there. I like the consistant colour scheme but also how each unit has its own individual flair.

SamusDrake wrote:
tneva82, that is an awesome battle group you have there. I like the consistant colour scheme but also how each unit has its own individual flair.

Stole the idea from another army liked the idea of individuality on god machines. First legion i painted to playable state was all same which i found dull so might redo them a bit. won't stop there though with this legion. 2 warlords, reaver and 2 warhounds will be added later. Damn discount box looking forward on 3k+ games

Today's project. 2 more got metals but plates require paint purchases