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It can be tricky, I made the problem worse for myself here by using autogenerated supports. Spend a bit more time placing them manually and then you'll have less to clean up. That said my print sometimes does crazy stuff, even with what should be correct support placement - I have loads ot Warhound legs without the ankle ball joint as it didn't print properly.

For curing, I use natural light, or a UV curing machine sold for curing finger nail coverings.

Neat stuff. I’ve seen a $4k one running but we’re looking at something cheaper.

Group shot getting ready to be sprayed. Should I try the new contrast paints on these guys?

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Group shot getting ready to be sprayed. Should I try the new contrast paints on these guys?

tbh, only you can know that. do you have the will and fokus to paint 25+ small/medium size models for a game ment to have only 3-5 big models?
if no, then use contrast.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Some effort this afternoon. I’m still not happy yet but I need to get the rest of the lances done soon before it’s too hot to spray.

What bits did you use for the iron halo, back banner and streamers?

Personally, I would test the Contrast paints before deciding to use them on your household. Maybe a space marine or Gretchin.

Dunno. Knights seem diddy and detailed enough for Contrast to have a chance to do it's thing?


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Ooooooooh!

In terms of back banners? Can anyone point me to suitably scaled, ideally plastic, Kislev Winged Lancer style back banners?

Both for Knights and bigger Titans?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 FrozenDwarf wrote:

RazorMind wrote:
Legio Solaria coming along, still need to do decals, some touch up, and finish the basing

very nice job.
im tempted to run that maniple [Venator] but as it was pointed out to me, that free shot might not be avalible as mutch as you would think, so that put me on hold for it and i went axiom instead for now.
but it is a nice maniple for low point games.


(add a few colourfull LEDs to the base and your set for december )


@SamusDrake

nice idea with the reaver fists.

It’s definitely a Maniple you might want dual Volcanon Cannon on your Reaver. Let the Warhounds do the legwork, and Reaver be the force multiplier.

Lot easier said than done though

I have done this very thing. (Only in one game, mind.)

The terrain was open enough for the Reaver to stand at one end of the board next to a Plasma Generator and take potshots at anything that lost its shields. It blew away a Warhound that was trying to abscond with some rescued crew.

Dual Volcano (with Apoc Launcher carapace) doesn't get to move much, because it needs to keep cooling its reactor. Against a shielded enemy it's better to hold fire, so it often wastes turns not shooting at much. And if the enemy can get up close, it's in trouble unless you guard it with something. But it's really the only long-range fire support option a Reaver can offer (that I know of). I can't afford to buy Warlords at crazy local prices, so it's the next best thing. It's also a decent way to create fire corridors and deter the enemy from moving into certain zones.

Besides, the terror it inspires in both you and your opponent is hilarious. One way or the other, somebody's going to blow up.

As for melta cannons (and plasma blastguns on hounds)... it's all fun and games until it ricochets off the enemy and hits your own Titan in the face. I managed to explode my own Warhound that way.

 schoon wrote:

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Some effort this afternoon. I’m still not happy yet but I need to get the rest of the lances done soon before it’s too hot to spray.

What bits did you use for the iron halo, back banner and streamers?

On the leader who’s standing on the Reaver arm? The waist cape (dunno what that’s called) is the Fantasy Empire general’s cape which is the perfect width for a Cerastus waist, the halo is from a Stormcast model (maybe the mounted leader in the old box set?), and the two streamers are flags from the Fantasy Chaos chariot. The sword is a Stormcast halberd blade and the pommel is the bit from the very end of a Cerastus lance arm.

I mocked up a LOT of bits from different kits and ranges but many have details that make the scale totally wrong. I used a bunch of Grey Knight shoulder shields but sadly most of their other bits have skulls or =I= icons that were too hard to remove. Conversions at AT scale require using or modifying bits so that you don’t end up with scale issues like skulls the size of boulders.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Neat stuff. I’ve seen a $4k one running but we’re looking at something cheaper.

Mine was <$500 (Anycubic Photon)

 LavuranGuard wrote:

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Neat stuff. I’ve seen a $4k one running but we’re looking at something cheaper.

Mine was <$500 (Anycubic Photon)

I think that would be pretty doable for our library. I'd love to do a DnD program where participants choose their avatar and we print them ahead of time, DLP printers seem to be the best way to print things like that. Our plastic extrusion printer needs tons of supports that ruin detail - I tried printing some of the new Battletech designs from the new video game the company released so we could print our minis and they came out AWFUL on my printer.

I'm waiting for things to dry up outside before I go spray my household knights but I have to go to work in an hour :(


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 FrozenDwarf wrote:

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Group shot getting ready to be sprayed. Should I try the new contrast paints on these guys?

tbh, only you can know that. do you have the will and fokus to paint 25+ small/medium size models for a game ment to have only 3-5 big models?
if no, then use contrast.

TBH the biggest issue that I fully assembled these guys and I don't have steady hands so painting interior details is going to be a bloody nightmare. I'm kinda hoping that by spraying my guys with really bright Rustoleum aluminium primer the contrast paints will let me work a little sloppier with only needing to clean up trim. I figure these guys are going to be getting killed fairly fast anyway - it's funny that 29 models is considered a horde in a GW game

29 models in AT is something i would be scared of if i saw it; target saturation. they may live longer then you think.

im not shure how contrast would work on anything other then white primer, guess you will be one of the first to know.
personly i cant help more, as i do everything in alot of sub assemblys, even the knights.

Swapped the Reaver fists on the warhound's shoulders for Reaver shoulder-plates and it makes a lot more sense. Filled in the waist a bit too.

Outlining the Questoris trio with silver...not much else.

SamusDrake wrote:
Swapped the Reaver fists on the warhound's shoulders for Reaver shoulder-plates and it makes a lot more sense. Filled in the waist a bit too.

Outlining the Questoris trio with silver...not much else.

I laughed when I saw your work, that's like the people who can make a Troglodon out of the extra pieces that come with the Carnosaur kit.

 Fajita Fan wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Swapped the Reaver fists on the warhound's shoulders for Reaver shoulder-plates and it makes a lot more sense. Filled in the waist a bit too.

Outlining the Questoris trio with silver...not much else.

I laughed when I saw your work, that's like the people who can make a Troglodon out of the extra pieces that come with the Carnosaur kit.

Waste not, want not!

One of the most creative uses of bits from a kit with two alternate builds.

 Fajita Fan wrote:


One of the most creative uses of bits from a kit with two alternate builds.

Gotta admire the ingenuity! Fill the base with a swamp theme, perhaps with a fallen piece of ruin too, it could work well for most outdoor battle fields.

Some late night hobby.

Built my third Warlord, and magnetised the Weapons.

Also broke into my FW Weapons, and have them trimmed and magnetised, ready for a scrub tomorrow before assembly.

I'm really thinking about getting the gatling cannon because I only had enough assault cannons to scratchbuild two.

RazorMind wrote:
Legio Solaria coming along, still need to do decals, some touch up, and finish the basing

 Fajita Fan wrote:
They look so festive!

 FrozenDwarf wrote:

very nice job.

(add a few colourfull LEDs to the base and your set for december )

Few historians of the Heresy realise that the curious colours of the Legio Solaria are not in fact their original scheme. No details of their old heraldry survive. We know only that the Imperial Hunters adopted their famed red, green and dappled-white colours as a camouflage pattern while fighting on the snow-swept vermilion forests of Jul.

This benighted world--rechristened St Nikolaus in the late 33rd millennium for reasons that would require several data-slates to expound--was discovered in the late Great Crusade under the sway of the enigmatic Clawed Father. It is regrettable that this tyrant had to be destroyed. He showed many admirable qualities of planetary governorship. His attention to the moral discipline of his people--judging each and every citizen yearly, rewarding the worthy with small gifts while sending those convicted of misdemeanours to the coal mines--occasioned favourable comment from several contemporary observers. Nonetheless, his foolish opposition to enlightened Imperial rule and his dealings with the perfidious alien Eldar forced the nascent Imperium's hand.

When the rebels retreated to the canyon-forests for the winter, they must have imagined they had bought themselves time. The immense trees of Jul rival basilica in size. Even now they remain the world's major export. In wartime the hollow spaces within their stone-hard bark provide space for hundreds of troops and materiel. To fight in a canyon-forest is to face all the nightmares of cityfighting and a wooded wilderness at once.

Any tree bole could conceal a rebel force. Tremors set off within the branches could dump an avalanche of snow onto besiegers. The deep-set canyon floors and heavy snow made orbital bombardment inconclusive, while ground forces inevitably found themselves too thinly spread among the treacherous drifts of spiny red-and-green leaves, picked off piecemeal as they wandered hopelessly among the endless ranks of giant trees. The rebels settled in and waited for the Imperials to blunt every knife in their armoury trying to winkle them out.

They reckoned without the hunting packs of Solaria. Warhounds stalked the canyon forests like wolves on Ancient Terra, sniffing out renegade strongholds. Other Legions would struggle to steer their clumsy god-engines between the trees. Other Legions would waste time clearing firelanes and founder in snowdrifts and find coordinating their movements too difficult in the trackless forests. The planet's potential wealth might have gone up in smoke, one more victim of military expedience. Not so Solaria. Canyon by canyon, they incinerated enclave after enclave while sparing the majority of the surrounding forest. It was this foresight that enabled Imperial forces to seize the canyons for their own strategic use and eventually storm the polar fortress of the Clawed Father himself.

Since the Jul campaign, the Imperial Hunters have retained their camouflage colours in more stylised heraldic form to commemorate their instrumental role in bringing the Reign of the Red Slayer to an end. Should any foe of the Emperor seek to challenge them, they had best watch out. They had best think twice.

Got all my Titans on the one shelf now, alongside their Knightly Brethren.

My *insert deity of choice*, this is a visually appealing game. Now everything is properly scaled, Warlords look truly imposing, Reavers look great, and Warhounds look agile.

Gonna have to break out my spray booth soon and getting painting!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Gonna have to break out my spray booth soon and getting painting!

We look forward to that!

For the buildings, may wait until I can get some of those Contrast Paints. Pics so far look extremely promising!


But here’s a video of my collection thus far.

Gorden Bennett! Check out that collection!!!

3 Warlords!
2 Reavers!
4 Warhounds!
4 Lancers!
9 Knights!

Let’s all post group shots of our collections today. I’m at work so it’ll be awhile.

There’s also another 3 Questoris still in their box...but they’re awaiting the new sprue.

Fajita Fan wrote:Let’s all post group shots of our collections today. I’m at work so it’ll be awhile.

Nothing here i havent allready posted tbh.
As usual, no theme, just using the colours i feel for. Freeblade Axiom Maniple + support ftw!

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Best background i have read in a long time!

Out-of-date group photo, but they've only had minor edits since. Titan weapons are now silvered-up and minor paint work since...



This is my initial Battle force, but I'm promoting the three Knights to Scions of their own Household force. The chap with the silver cap and the Battlecannon is to be the Senechal, and once GW get round to releasing that upgrade sprue, they will each have a rocket pod slapped on their bonce.

Building of terrain continues.

Longer building and a deeper building added.

Will use up the last of the sprues involved to make some smaller buildings. From there, I’ll break my board out, see what sort of coverage I’m up to at that point, using said info to gauge what else I want/need to build.

Derp! Forgot the pic!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Building of terrain continues.

Longer building and a deeper building added.

Will use up the last of the sprues involved to make some smaller buildings. From there, I’ll break my board out, see what sort of coverage I’m up to at that point, using said info to gauge what else I want/need to build.

Derp! Forgot the pic!

Thanks for sharing that!

Was of a mind to pick up the Spires set( the one with two sprues ) and maybe the buildlings too( 4-sprues ). Did you purchase the big box set with both?