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Accidentally Cerastus, whoops. Very nice kit, though the default shield is just... Yuk.

Bravo, Sherrypie!

I agree about the shields and really like yours. Where do you get them from?

SamusDrake wrote:
Bravo, Sherrypie!

I agree about the shields and really like yours. Where do you get them from?

Bitzbox

But really, one is an old Chaos Warrior shield and the other is a particularily ornate jacket button I've had lying around for at least a decade.

Thats a very nice jacket button!

Testing a conversion, Acherons from the Lancers. Flamer made from a chopped up inferno cannon.

Got my first painting project for Titanicus underway, a Warlord for the Tiger Eyes.

WIP obviously. If anyone has any comments or suggestions I'd be happy to hear, particularly if you have your own Fureans!

Afternoon all.
I've finally finished up my two Warhounds and first Reaver, I'd really like to seal them up with a coat or two of varnish.

What would you recommend?

 Eiríkr wrote:
Afternoon all.
I've finally finished up my two Warhounds and first Reaver, I'd really like to seal them up with a coat or two of varnish.

What would you recommend?

I use Vallejo matt varnish by brush, works okay. Might want to try a spray though if you use powders or feel busy.

 Eiríkr wrote:
Afternoon all.
I've finally finished up my two Warhounds and first Reaver, I'd really like to seal them up with a coat or two of varnish.

What would you recommend?

if there is a large amount of metalics and you want to keep the metallic shine then you need to do one layer of gloss clear and 1 layer of satin clear. any other clear then gloss as first spray will remove all metallic shine from metallic paints.
however as just gloss will make it extremly shiny, you use the satin to remove that shine but it keeps the natural shine of the paint underneath the gloss layer.
if you have more regular colours then metallics, then go for just satin. satin is a few levels less shiney then gloss but its not in the realms of matt so it wont kill the natural shine of non metallic paint.

matt sprays destroys any paint job, as the natural shine of the colour is completely removed(in some situations a grey layer over the colours is the result) and i simply dont understand why they exist.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Testing a conversion, Acherons from the Lancers. Flamer made from a chopped up inferno cannon.

Great work, I’m doing the same thing in a banner of 4 along with 2 lancers and a castigator.


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 ph34r wrote:
Got my first painting project for Titanicus underway, a Warlord for the Tiger Eyes.

WIP obviously. If anyone has any comments or suggestions I'd be happy to hear, particularly if you have your own Fureans!

Ah, Fureans - the traitor legio we all want but none of us want to paint. I commend you.

Magnetizing a Warhound and Cerastus.

The Cerastus has seemless ports either side of the torso for 5*1mm magnets. This suggests that they could receive upgrade weapons, but it also pushes the shoulders out to a point where it seems you need to leave the carapace as unglued. You then remove it before swapping arms, which isn't a problem because the carapace slots in well enough to turn the model upside down and it will stay on.

Alternatively small magnet to weapon and then the upper piece of arm(which reminds me forgot to do that). Could be the weapons comes with just the weapon part, not the shoulder.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:

matt sprays destroys any paint job, as the natural shine of the colour is completely removed(in some situations a grey layer over the colours is the result) and i simply dont understand why they exist.

Because the shine destroys the illusion of scale. A model which has shine is very obviously a model because the shine on the model is never correct for the object that the model represents (unless the size difference between them is fairly small)

This is why NMM is a thing - it creates what appears to be a shine which is correctly scaled to the model..

The grey layer is misapplied varnish and can be fixed with a coat of gloss followed by a correctly applied coat of matte.

Damn. I'm going to need a stronger adhesive as the magnets ripped straight off the warhound and eventually the Cerastus too. Fun while it lasted though!

tneva82 wrote:
Alternatively small magnet to weapon and then the upper piece of arm(which reminds me forgot to do that). Could be the weapons comes with just the weapon part, not the shoulder.

That is definitely an option although the magnets and then visible, but I suppose you could paint over them anyway.

SamusDrake wrote:
That is definitely an option although the magnets and then visible, but I suppose you could paint over them anyway.

I paint over them automatically anyway as I apply them pre-painting. Won't go taping over them or anything! Especially as that hides them anyway ;-)

I don't know if I'd bother magnetising knights... except that I wish you could do something with the stubber/meltas. Instead I think I'll put meltas on my Errants but just not worry about it if I don't fancy using them.

I've got 6 knights from the GME box. Seems like a plan to get three more so I can run a banner of paladins, wardens and errants. Is that what most people do, or are mixed banners a good idea?

So today my Titan Battlegroup arrived. Sure, it will be months before I even start on my Warlord, but it's nice to already have it at home.

Edit: in fact, if I'm lucky that weapon sprue will be released by the time I'm busy building it.

Thinking about making another plasticard building( what can I say, they are just cuboids ) and then maybe adding minor detail before painting...

Considering the heratige of Titanicus and "epic"(whisper!), has anyone produced any papercraft templates for buildings? If not I might have a crack at that myself...

SamusDrake wrote:
Thinking about making another plasticard building( what can I say, they are just cuboids ) and then maybe adding minor detail before painting...

Considering the heratige of Titanicus and "epic"(whisper!), has anyone produced any papercraft templates for buildings? If not I might have a crack at that myself...

for spesificly 40k setting not yet as far as i have seen.
for futuristic 6/8mm, yea there are a few around.

I use the Hawk Wargames pdf buildings and print them on 8.5x11 paper then laminated them for AT. I also got Styrofoam blocks from Walmart and printed/laminated a building facade template in Publisher. This is an old pic as I didn't like the scale, a 75' Reaver should be as tall or taller than the 8th story but I haven't finished redoing them. I put two blocks in an L shape so it's not all just squares and rectangles.

That Reaver looks like hes going to scale the Empire State Building and NOT get shot down by Thunderhawks...

Yes, those buildings are a bit tall. I might have a crack at making my own using Gimp.

Basing evening, it seems. At least the Cerastuses are ready for painting, this time with some dead too.

SamusDrake wrote:
That Reaver looks like hes going to scale the Empire State Building and NOT get shot down by Thunderhawks...

Yes, those buildings are a bit tall. I might have a crack at making my own using Gimp.

Dunno. 8 floors. Bit taller in scale than our world 8 floor building would be but it's 40k so extra tall floors aren't that odd idea.

Good size for me

Magnets - MAXIMUM POWER!!!

Gorilla Super Glue. Nuff said.

tneva82 wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
That Reaver looks like hes going to scale the Empire State Building and NOT get shot down by Thunderhawks...

Yes, those buildings are a bit tall. I might have a crack at making my own using Gimp.

Dunno. 8 floors. Bit taller in scale than our world 8 floor building would be but it's 40k so extra tall floors aren't that odd idea.

Good size for me

The building isn't too tall, it's the windows that aren't to scale, I just eyeballed it in Publisher when I printed it. I wanted buildings that cover a Warlord but the Reaver should come up to at least the 8th floor. I have the new facades printed I just have to glue them but I'm discovering that gluing laminated paper to styrofoam is way more challenging than I thought. Superglue will detach from the foam and PVA glue hasn't dried in weeks, it's still liquid in the middle.

Pah it's 40k Everything's overscaled compared to real world anyway ;-)

tneva82 wrote:
Pah it's 40k Everything's overscaled compared to real world anyway ;-)

You should come hang out in Bolter and Chainsword's AT section, it's pretty active and you'd fit in. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/forum/293-adeptus-titanicus-the-horus-heresy/

Well, I probably won't have anyone to play against other than my gf using her knights and armigers as proxies, but I ordered the titan battlegroup with the ebay coupon yesterday. If anyone ever visits Sanibel/Captiva or Naples, hit me up and we'll get a game in.

Finished magnetizing my second Lancer. This time I'm going to leave part "19"( shoulder pads ) off the carapace to allow easy access to the arms. To be fair It gives him a unique look alongside the other Lancer.

You talking about the shoulder pad extensions? Why are those separate in the first place.