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Almost done with my wee modded shoulder section. The shield and scroll will serve as a canvas to put the Legio name & icon on at the painting stage.

Daston wrote:

 weasel_beef wrote:
I started painting the markers/tokens and arc measuring things last night. Got the basecoat of Leadbelcher on the markers and basecoat of Warplock Bronze on the arcs. Probably paying a little too much attention to these pieces, but I need something to work on to keep the AT-hype going while I figure out a color scheme for my knights and warlord.

Edit: Definitely going to throw a clear coat on all the pieces after completion. I've got a pot of the GW 'Ardcoat, but it's kind of glossy. If I dilute it with water a bit, will it be a bit less glossy? Or am I applying too much?

Ard coat is a gloss varnish, you need a matt varnish from army painter/Vajello or a spray matt varnish like GWs purity seal

Ah dang, okay. Already put the coat on the firing arcs, will pop by the FLGS at lunch and see if I can get a matte one for the tokens. Thanks!

 Yodhrin wrote:
Almost done with my wee modded shoulder section. The shield and scroll will serve as a canvas to put the Legio name & icon on at the painting stage.

To be that good! That looks AMAZING! . . .

 General Helstrom wrote:
Tonight I ran our club's inaugural AT game. Lots of fun was had as a five-player co-op zombie Knight hunt turned into a desperate knife fight when two of the Warlords declared for the Warmaster! Two Warlords got completely obliterated, two were crippled and one was badly damaged. The loyalists carried the day but at great cost and with heavy hearts - the Horus Heresy has begun!

Spoiler:

Hey Helstrom do you happen to know how your friend masked out the flames? I'm planning to paint mine in Legio Fureans as well and wondering the best way to do the flames.

puzzledust wrote:
Hey Helstrom do you happen to know how your friend masked out the flames? I'm planning to paint mine in Legio Fureans as well and wondering the best way to do the flames.

Yes - he didn't He drew the outline of the flames with a fine-tipped technical drawing pen, then painted them in. His advice was to use a fine brush in an upward motion to create the flames, so you get a sharp tip to them.

 weasel_beef wrote:

Daston wrote:

 weasel_beef wrote:
I started painting the markers/tokens and arc measuring things last night. Got the basecoat of Leadbelcher on the markers and basecoat of Warplock Bronze on the arcs. Probably paying a little too much attention to these pieces, but I need something to work on to keep the AT-hype going while I figure out a color scheme for my knights and warlord.

Edit: Definitely going to throw a clear coat on all the pieces after completion. I've got a pot of the GW 'Ardcoat, but it's kind of glossy. If I dilute it with water a bit, will it be a bit less glossy? Or am I applying too much?

Ard coat is a gloss varnish, you need a matt varnish from army painter/Vajello or a spray matt varnish like GWs purity seal

Ah dang, okay. Already put the coat on the firing arcs, will pop by the FLGS at lunch and see if I can get a matte one for the tokens. Thanks!

try satin varnish.
mat and gloss is like the end of the scales. gloss adds unatural shine to it, matt removes any hint of it and they can be pretty rough on the final look. test, test and more test!
allso, GWs matt leaves a light greyish tone over the model so avoid it.

satin is the middle ground, it is more towards the gloss scale but it is very little compared to standard gloss.

Getting ready for priming, now with infantry, crushed buildings and a sand paper road.

The first battle is done, and it is great. We actually spend most of the time thinking about tatcics, avoiding exposed position and trying to flank the enemy; getting hard cover is essential to survival. It helps to keep shields online, and a shielded titan gives a feeling of being inpenetrable - until the voids go down.

Managing reactor is almost a mini-game in itself; and a hillarious one. Burning Warhound, running in circles with plasma leaks all over is most funny. It was seriously considered to ram him into something before he was done. However, knights charged him, caused catastrophic and the subsequent detonation of blastgun razed half of the buildings, finished off the knights and ripped of an arm from another unshielded warhound nearby.

Knights, by the way, are just brutal in full strength, murdering his at close quarters anithng unlucky to face them; especially with melta weapons. Always go for the melta. But, while knights live fast, they die fast as well, incapable of eduring any serious fire. Still, with House traits and stratagems, em masse knights should be a viable stand-alone force. We might homerule some of this - for we do want to start a campaign on AT in the next month!

Amazing work on that shoulder pad, Yodhrin!

I'm going to replace the Aquila on the front/back shoulder sections with a wolf head for my Legio Lupos Warlord.

Great battle report, Regis. Thanks for sharing.

BrianDavion wrote:

BTW anyone done up custom transfers for any of the Legios yet?

Working on it, Brian. I'm in the midst of making artwork for Crucius, (who will be half my collection), although I'm in two minds as to what traitor Legio to do to face them.

I haven't committed to AT yet, but I did buy a box of knights for making a micro Imperial Knights:Renegade set.

Has there been any news about a second knight kit with the Forgeworld styles and the missing weapons? If not has anyone kit bashed some nice carapace weapons? A Space Wolf or Chaos terminator power fist seems like it will do for the gauntlet.

Macrossmartin wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

BTW anyone done up custom transfers for any of the Legios yet?

Working on it, Brian. I'm in the midst of making artwork for Crucius, (who will be half my collection), although I'm in two minds as to what traitor Legio to do to face them.

Nice, I nearly went Crucis but black and white I figured might be a hassle.

Here is my First Warlord Titan. Furore Pectore Features of Legio Furean I have the Transfers left to go but otherwise she is all done. I'm just not skilled enough to paint the flames all over the armour....
I am adding 2 Reavers and 4 Warhounds to the force when they come out.

So, reposting my titan from earlier


I'm trying to figure out what Legion it should be, I sort of went with some inspiration from a few sources, and did my own thing and am wondering at this time if it's clsoer to Legio Artaus, Legio Metallica, or if it's really it's own thing and not close eneugh to eaither legion, what do you guys all think? I'm mostly asking so I can figure out what decals to use gimme your thoughts

Just working on cracking out some lucius based armour for the warlord

Spotted that on FB, amazing work chief.


Sadly my own Warlord is back to the drawing board, my attempt at being clever with the undercoats backfired so now it's taking a bath in some Cif Actifizz in the hopes I can get all the stuff off again before the W&N varnish completely sets up.

Ragin' :/

 Yodhrin wrote:
Spotted that on FB, amazing work chief.


Sadly my own Warlord is back to the drawing board, my attempt at being clever with the undercoats backfired so now it's taking a bath in some Cif Actifizz in the hopes I can get all the stuff off again before the W&N varnish completely sets up.

Ragin' :/

yeah that's thge problem with things like warlords. on one hand they're big amazing models and you're tempted to do fancy things, on the other hand if something goes wrong it's horriable. I've never done decals before but wanna do it, but 1: I need to figure out what decals to do my legio (anyone know if my earlier post matches closely a canon Legio or should I just go nuts with a custom one?) 2: I've got a spacer wolves project going on now that I'll experiment on first. Space Marines are easier to strip and if I mess up a tac marine it's not a big deal.

Yup, it's a nightmare. The CIF is having no effect either :/ Managed to get a sameday deliver from Amazon on some Biostrip20, hopefully that can handle it, or at least take the metallic topcoat off so I see what I'm doing and don't leave white spirit on too long trying to get the gloss varnish off.

Rather than trying to fanny about being fancy/lazy, assuming I can salvage things I'll just give it a blast of Chaos Black and then go in and paint the metals by hand with the Vallejo alcohol-based paints.

Fairy Power Spray. Instant* strip for acrylics, leaves the plastic untouched.



*well, 5-10 mins

TheTrans wrote:
Just working on cracking out some lucius based armour for the warlord

Great implementation! Does capture tha boxy feeling of Lucius warlord. Back when we were designing epic models for campaign, I did not tackle Lucious, unsure in possibility of success; and made an look-alike variant, "Anvillus". No your job makes me want to re-attempt it once more.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Fairy Power Spray. Instant* strip for acrylics, leaves the plastic untouched.



*well, 5-10 mins

Alas they changed the formulation and the old one is getting harder to find. This Biostrip stuff is supposed to be miraculous though so we'll see what happens when it shows up tonight.

Regis_sotum wrote:

TheTrans wrote:
Just working on cracking out some lucius based armour for the warlord

Great implementation! Does capture tha boxy feeling of Lucius warlord. Back when we were designing epic models for campaign, I did not tackle Lucious, unsure in possibility of success; and made an look-alike variant, "Anvillus". No your job makes me want to re-attempt it once more.

Got some better pics of those?

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Fairy Power Spray. Instant* strip for acrylics, leaves the plastic untouched.



*well, 5-10 mins

Alas they changed the formulation and the old one is getting harder to find. This Biostrip stuff is supposed to be miraculous though so we'll see what happens when it shows up tonight.

t rubbing alchol works beautifully too.

Second Warlord coming together, this one's going to be a walking ossuary full of skulls and skeletons like a walking reminder of the pitiful insignificance of each soldiers' life. Look up and despair before the God-Machine, mortals.

One well spent pile of skeletons later... Tomorrow, sculpting new fingers, ribs, spines and filigree as well as filling gaps.

Success! This Biostrip stuff is brutal in all the right ways - went through two layers of Leadbelcher, a layer of Winsor & Newton gloss varnish, and a car primer undercoat in 30 minutes like they were nothing, leaving the plastic untouched.

It's like Dettol but thicker and messier, basically, in that it goes on as a goo(but sticks better), and has to be scrubbed at using a lot of dish detergent before you let water near it to prevent the partially dissolved paint turning to sticky rubbery mess(though I suspect if you were more patient and left it to soak for a full hour or two, it might break down more easily). It's also pricey, at 10 quid for a 500ml tub(I was careful to scrape as much as I could back into the pot - it should keep working for a while yet).

So, I wouldn't replace my standard strippers(dettol and 99% isopropanol) with it, but in cases like this where you've royally buggered a big expensive model? Yeah I'd say worth it, my usuals would have struggled to get through the varnish layer.

Not exactly a project, but it soon will be:

https://www.beastsofwar.com/terrain/4ground-tiny-sci-fi-terrain-titans/

 schoon wrote:
Not exactly a project, but it soon will be:

https://www.beastsofwar.com/terrain/4ground-tiny-sci-fi-terrain-titans/

those'll be real handy, especially if the price is right

Gaze upon the God-Machine and despair. The little fella on the base has dropped his gun, as there is no point in resisting.

What’s the dome bit you have under the raised foot?