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

It's a cap from a plastic cover of a spring-loaded needle for pumping insulin. My lady has diabetes and tends to produce quite a lot of re-purposable trash to fuel my terrain building

So I've started going over the white on mine with Screaming skull.. giving it a nice cream colour more in line with the firebrands. the real pain is going to be doing all that trim again in silver

Got my GME just yesterday, started building the Knights first. Damn, some fiddly parts in there!

Brilliant models though, and I will be busy with them for quite some time.

 Darnok wrote:
Got my GME just yesterday, started building the Knights first. Damn, some fiddly parts in there!

Brilliant models though, and I will be busy with them for quite some time.

yeah nothing hits your appreciation of the scale like realizing something the length of a space marines height is a fiddly little easily lost bit at this scale

Micro Knights are impossibly adorable, gonna hase to get like a whole herd of them…

Got two reavers on order so will have a blast when they show up

 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.

Test a bit of sprue first, or one of the spare carapace bits.. I keep hearing from people how it's great for resin, metal and plastic models, but the stuff I got (in the spray bottle) softens the plastic to the point that brushing with a toothbrush will make it stretch and smear. Perhaps the stuff in the tub is a different formula to the stuff in the spray bottle.

I got a little stuck painting my first Warlord Imber Cruor, the Blood Rain. The bone in his blue-and-bone color scheme looks very yellow, which makes the blood drops look very orange, which makes the whole heraldry look like the print on a cheap pair of boxers :(




I've put him aside for a bit and started working on my Knights instead. I have some Karak Stone on order to knock the bone tone down a notch. I'll also touch up the blood drops with Khorne Red if that doesn't do it. As Imber Cruor sits on my desk these past few days he is growing on me again though.

It actually reminds me of some of the GW iconography from way back in the RT/2nd ed. days, I'd say keep it, it looks cool to me!

Starting on a building project...

I have four of the the 40K Comm objectives for the tower tops, and I'm thinking of picking up a Marauder bomber to be crashed into the side of one of the towers...

More as things progress!

Is anyone else doing a homebrew Legio, and if so are you struggling a bit with a colourscheme as I find myself doing? Every time I come up with something I think would be cool, I realise it's too close to one of the existing official Legios, it's infuriating.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Is anyone else doing a homebrew Legio, and if so are you struggling a bit with a colourscheme as I find myself doing? Every time I come up with something I think would be cool, I realise it's too close to one of the existing official Legios, it's infuriating.

Yes. I originally wanted to do something death-themed in the skull-and-bones sense, as I have lots of cool old WFB Undead transfers lying around for some reason. I figured black and bone would look awesome and had it all planned out. Then I read Titanicus which to my horror featured the Pallidus Mor in exactly the same heraldry. Back to the drawing board...

 Yodhrin wrote:
Is anyone else doing a homebrew Legio, and if so are you struggling a bit with a colourscheme as I find myself doing? Every time I come up with something I think would be cool, I realise it's too close to one of the existing official Legios, it's infuriating.

Homebrew all day. Not really struggling though, as Legio Favilla will march to war in a full panoply of autumnal browns, red and sunbleached bone punctuated by occasional checkers and frescoes.

Fluffwise, though, I really like Legio Suturvora but their scheme just isn't inspiring enough

Does working on Ork rules count for this thread?

 Yodhrin wrote:
Is anyone else doing a homebrew Legio, and if so are you struggling a bit with a colourscheme as I find myself doing? Every time I come up with something I think would be cool, I realise it's too close to one of the existing official Legios, it's infuriating.

yup. i have never like beeing tied to "you must paint it this and that way".
thus i finaly got my knights done, dropping watermarkings for now.

 General Helstrom wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Is anyone else doing a homebrew Legio, and if so are you struggling a bit with a colourscheme as I find myself doing? Every time I come up with something I think would be cool, I realise it's too close to one of the existing official Legios, it's infuriating.

Yes. I originally wanted to do something death-themed in the skull-and-bones sense, as I have lots of cool old WFB Undead transfers lying around for some reason. I figured black and bone would look awesome and had it all planned out. Then I read Titanicus which to my horror featured the Pallidus Mor in exactly the same heraldry. Back to the drawing board...

Pallidus Mor is useally depicted black and yellow so you might be able to get away with it.

that said said Maybe Black and a pale green?

 Lysenis wrote:
Does working on Ork rules count for this thread?

I'm going to say, "Yes!"

 schoon wrote:

 Lysenis wrote:
Does working on Ork rules count for this thread?

I'm going to say, "Yes!"

But only if he shows us the rules when he's done!

Agreed. Even if SG have to take things slow, doesn't mean we have to wait about for them to have Xenos fun, I'm eager to see what folk come up with.


Things are looking up on my end, I finally found a colourscheme to shamelessly pinch, so Legio Aetherius will be a light warm green-grey with scarlet as a secondary, scarlet & white and black & white for check and stripe accents, and cool brass trim(credit goes to Gavin Lee Manners, though as I don't use an airbrush mine will be an approximation rather than a direct lift of his technique).

I also started trying to figure out some iconography, drawing from alchemy and related mysticism. Did a preliminary wee sketch for the Legio symbol, though I'm leaning towards replacing the Unity within the aether-cog with the classic bisected skull as the main version at least.

I claim first Reavers built!

Just finished putting these two chaps together, and I am hoping to get them finished off this weekend in Legio Mortis colours.



I put some quick construction notes together - you can read these at https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/reavers-assembled/

BrianDavion wrote:

 schoon wrote:

 Lysenis wrote:
Does working on Ork rules count for this thread?

I'm going to say, "Yes!"

But only if he shows us the rules when he's done!

Most likely in the form of a blog post


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MongooseMatt wrote:
I claim first Reavers built!

Just finished putting these two chaps together, and I am hoping to get them finished off this weekend in Legio Mortis colours.



I put some quick construction notes together - you can read these at https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/reavers-assembled/

Whats with those foot actuator joints? Can they be different?

Waiting for mine to turn up, any pics of the arm joints?

Got my first base done, now I'm stuck painting billion armour plates like old parchment... this might take a while.

2nd Warlord is nearly finished and made a start on the Knights

MongooseMatt wrote:
I claim first Reavers built!

Holy guacamole, that was fast!

I'm guessing that I've still got a week to wait till they even arrive.

They look beautiful!

So, we had our second game, even better one than the first. This time Atarus Warlord and the Raver faced unspecified Chaos Warlord and his twelve traitor knights.

The left flank started as a battle between the Reaver and a knight banner, which the titan won, catching them in the open; but he still did not went untouched, loosing carapace mout to tiny meltas. After that, damaged Reaver flanked Chaos warlord.
Black titan was duelling with Atarus warlord at that moment, drawing all the attention. Traitor lost his shields, carapace megabolters and took a hit in the face from the Volcano cannon, not really dealing much in return. However, that let the second banner to flank the loyalist warlord and dive into close range, where it was basically helpless: volcano cannons just can't hit a knight in base contact because of the 5" template, not even speaking of carapace AML. Ardex lascannons did not do much, and the only option left was kicking - wich the Warlord is awful at. Tiny traitors succseeded at ripping of the right arm, and disabled the left one, and the carapace AML.

And at that moment Chaos warlord just turned and charged the Reaver. He had a fist, and oh the fist it was, smashing the loyalist into the building behind it. They both pushed reactors like no tommorow, Reaver's melta ripped the plasma annihilator off a Warlord and wouded its princeps with a crititcal to the head. But the Chaos Fist still breached the torso of the loyalist. Reaver, being in a red reacor, went off like a nuclear warhead in a roll of 10 at Catastrophic Damage. That was too much for the black Warlord - with all those melta hits before - and the trator fell to the right.
With the loyalist Warlord luckily stomping three knights at that moment, it was victory.

Speaking of the results. Meltas are brutal - if all traitor knights had them, Atarus Warlord wolud probably go down; Reaver melta is even more destrucitve, surpassing both volcano cannons when in short range. Arioch powerclaw is murderous as well, but watch out - it can litteraly throw your victim back, making it easier to step back and shoot you (using good bs instead of ws) with the aforementioned melta cannon. All that in mind, the smaller engines are a deadly threat even to the Warlord - mainlySo, we had our second game, even better one than the first. This time Atarus Warlord and reaver faced unspecified Chaos Warlord and his twelve traitor knights.

The left flank started as a battle between the Reaver and a knight banner, which the titan won easly, catching them in the open; but he still did not went untouched, loosing carapace mout to tiny meltas. After that, rever flanked Chaos warlord.
Black titan was duelling with Atarus warlord at that moment, drawing all the attention. Traitor lost his shields, carapace megabolters and took a hit in the face from the Volcano cannon, not really dealing much in return. However, that let the second banner to flank the loyalist warlord and dive into close range, where it was basically helpless: volcano cannons can not hit a knight in base contact because of the 5" template, not even speaking of carapace AML. Ardex lascannons did not do much, and the only option left was kicking - wich the warlord is awful at. Tiny traitors succseeded at ripping of the right arm, and disabled the left one, and the carapace AML.

And at that moment Chaos warlord just turned and charged the reaver. He had a fist, and oh the fist it was, smashing the reaver into the building behind it.. They both pushed reactors like no tommorow, reaver,s melta ripped the plasma annihilator off a warlord and wouded princeps with a crititcal to the head. But the Chaos Fist still breached the torso of the loyalist. Reaver, being in a red reacor, went off like a nuclear warhead in a roll of 10 at Catastrophic Damage. Black warlord did not manage stand against that - with all those melta hits before - and fell to the right.
With the loyalist warlord luckily stomping three knights at that moment, it was victory.

Speaking of the results. Meltas are brutal - if all traitor knights had them, Atarus warlord wolud probably go down; reaver melta is even more destrucitve, surpassing both volcano cannons when in short range. Arioch powerclaw is murderous as well, but watch out - it can litteraly throw your victim back, making it easier to step back and shoot you (using good bs instead of ws) with the aforementioned melta cannon. All that in mind, smaller engines are a deadly threat to even the biggest ones, because their destructive power is comparable, but they can not tank hits, like a bigger titan can. Knights are an extreme of this - glass hammers, basically.

Regis_sotum wrote:
So, we had our second game, even better one than the first. This time Atarus Warlord and the Raver faced unspecified Chaos Warlord and his twelve traitor knights.

Spoiler:

The left flank started as a battle between the Reaver and a knight banner, which the titan won, catching them in the open; but he still did not went untouched, loosing carapace mout to tiny meltas. After that, damaged Reaver flanked Chaos warlord.
Black titan was duelling with Atarus warlord at that moment, drawing all the attention. Traitor lost his shields, carapace megabolters and took a hit in the face from the Volcano cannon, not really dealing much in return. However, that let the second banner to flank the loyalist warlord and dive into close range, where it was basically helpless: volcano cannons just can't hit a knight in base contact because of the 5" template, not even speaking of carapace AML. Ardex lascannons did not do much, and the only option left was kicking - wich the Warlord is awful at. Tiny traitors succseeded at ripping of the right arm, and disabled the left one, and the carapace AML.

And at that moment Chaos warlord just turned and charged the Reaver. He had a fist, and oh the fist it was, smashing the loyalist into the building behind it. They both pushed reactors like no tommorow, Reaver's melta ripped the plasma annihilator off a Warlord and wouded its princeps with a crititcal to the head. But the Chaos Fist still breached the torso of the loyalist. Reaver, being in a red reacor, went off like a nuclear warhead in a roll of 10 at Catastrophic Damage. That was too much for the black Warlord - with all those melta hits before - and the trator fell to the right.
With the loyalist Warlord luckily stomping three knights at that moment, it was victory.

Speaking of the results. Meltas are brutal - if all traitor knights had them, Atarus Warlord wolud probably go down; Reaver melta is even more destrucitve, surpassing both volcano cannons when in short range. Arioch powerclaw is murderous as well, but watch out - it can litteraly throw your victim back, making it easier to step back and shoot you (using good bs instead of ws) with the aforementioned melta cannon. All that in mind, the smaller engines are a deadly threat even to the Warlord - mainlySo, we had our second game, even better one than the first. This time Atarus Warlord and reaver faced unspecified Chaos Warlord and his twelve traitor knights.

The left flank started as a battle between the Reaver and a knight banner, which the titan won easly, catching them in the open; but he still did not went untouched, loosing carapace mout to tiny meltas. After that, rever flanked Chaos warlord.
Black titan was duelling with Atarus warlord at that moment, drawing all the attention. Traitor lost his shields, carapace megabolters and took a hit in the face from the Volcano cannon, not really dealing much in return. However, that let the second banner to flank the loyalist warlord and dive into close range, where it was basically helpless: volcano cannons can not hit a knight in base contact because of the 5" template, not even speaking of carapace AML. Ardex lascannons did not do much, and the only option left was kicking - wich the warlord is awful at. Tiny traitors succseeded at ripping of the right arm, and disabled the left one, and the carapace AML.

And at that moment Chaos warlord just turned and charged the reaver. He had a fist, and oh the fist it was, smashing the reaver into the building behind it.. They both pushed reactors like no tommorow, reaver,s melta ripped the plasma annihilator off a warlord and wouded princeps with a crititcal to the head. But the Chaos Fist still breached the torso of the loyalist. Reaver, being in a red reacor, went off like a nuclear warhead in a roll of 10 at Catastrophic Damage. Black warlord did not manage stand against that - with all those melta hits before - and fell to the right.
With the loyalist warlord luckily stomping three knights at that moment, it was victory.

Speaking of the results. Meltas are brutal - if all traitor knights had them, Atarus warlord wolud probably go down; reaver melta is even more destrucitve, surpassing both volcano cannons when in short range. Arioch powerclaw is murderous as well, but watch out - it can litteraly throw your victim back, making it easier to step back and shoot you (using good bs instead of ws) with the aforementioned melta cannon. All that in mind, smaller engines are a deadly threat to even the biggest ones, because their destructive power is comparable, but they can not tank hits, like a bigger titan can. Knights are an extreme of this - glass hammers, basically.

 Lysenis wrote:

Can I use this on my blog to show more people?

Sure, why not. Tell the world, that even in the cold Russia, we play AT.

Regis_sotum wrote:

 Lysenis wrote:

Can I use this on my blog to show more people?

Sure, why not. Tell the world, that even in the cold Russia, we play AT.

Sweet! Oh and what is that warlord based off of? the 2x plate traitor warlord?

 Lysenis wrote:

Regis_sotum wrote:

 Lysenis wrote:

Can I use this on my blog to show more people?

Sure, why not. Tell the world, that even in the cold Russia, we play AT.

Sweet! Oh and what is that warlord based off of? the 2x plate traitor warlord?

Actually, six - two traitor, one blank at the chest, two blank at the back and a hood with Opus titanicus. Model overall is an high-speed kitbash from the old custom Thanatar-cynis, that did not saw any action for about a year; now it is reborn as a chaos god-engine trough the precise process of slapping anything that fits on it.
The result is quite good, it seems.


Regarding older models photo. Not much, but here they are. It had been suggested in our company to rebase and modify them to fit a lower class - so that the warlord becomes a reaver and so on - to get more engines for the incoming AT campaign.