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Started to look at the Reavers and how to magnetise them, dosn't look too hard to be honest.

I have 2 boxes so plan on doing Left and right of each weapon arm, this will allow for all combinations.

I drilled a 5.5mm hole into the top part of the arm (the bit on the Chassis frame). This will house a 5x1mm magnet.

I then used the hole at the top of as a guide for each arm so that the magnets line up. These will have a 2x1mm magnet put in.

This should mean the magnets are in perfect alignment, just waiting on Amazon for the 2x1 magnets to turn up!

Cool advice for magnetising the Reaver, thanks a lot.

I came across this product while looking for some magnets: a combination of magnets and steel balls, the magnets being shaped so the steel balls fit nicely. Maybe something useful for allowing even more flexibility in posing the weapons.

http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/rotation-magnets-n52/427-rotation-magnets-size-s.html

Back from a few days off, I continued building some more terrain.

What can you do with a bottle of milk and a CoD component? An industrial building of course. Still a lot of details to add, pipes, stairs, chimneys in particular.

Oh yeah, consider that idea pinched for sure

I split a GME box with a friend and got three knights - obviously i had to pose them like my full size ones but i only had two GW style knights...



Going to recreate my current full-scale maniple in AT scale

My reaver arrived today. Mortem pyram (death pyre) shall walk soon enough. I aslo assembled 3 knights. Converted them to have sicarian ruststalkers power swords instead of reapers chainswords(I never liked the look of that weapon) and converted 2 heavy stubbers (28 mm) to battle cannons.

Another update - this time it's from the assembly line. Since the terrain is destructable, I want to make an underlying base with rubble for each building. The idea is to remove the structure when it is destroyed, leaving the ruin with the same footprint - all free from the rushed search for the suitable piece of rubble nearby.
Also, Xestobiax warlord is operational with the new weaponry, and the base for Atarus Warlord now features a fallen knight and some defence positions with a spare stubber from the knight kit.

And now I claim first Reavers painted - two for the Legio Mortis!



I put together a few painting notes on these chaps (https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/reavers-of-legio-mortis/) but TL;DR, I am beginning to loathe those leg assemblies. Lovely when finished but, by the Throne, actually getting there...

I love seeing all you guys' Titans, loads of inspiration in this thread

Currently working on my first Warlord, and have 2 Reavers and 3 Knights ready to paint, with 6 more Knights and a 2nd Warlord still on sprues

Very nice Reavers.

Eagerly awaiting mine to arrive.

In the meantime, whenever I have some time available, I continued experimenting with ways to break the overall cubic feel of the civitas imperialis sets.

Here is a modified tower (all modules are independent). Quite happy with the result. Now I'll try to replicate it a few times

My first Warlord is complete (minus bases and transfers). Base will be done at a later point, when i get my "absolutely not Mechanicum troops in 6mm scale" 3rd party bits and more Titanicus buildings for ruins.
Anyways, no more talk, time for pictures!





And the "absolutely not Mechanicum troops in 6mm scale" 3rd party bits that i ordered include 40 "Totally not Skitarii troops", 20 "absolutely not Castellax/Kastellans", and 2 "I can't believe these aren't Dunecrawlers":

Where might one acquire such unique troop models?

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Where might one acquire such unique troop models?

The "Absolutely not Mechanicum" models? https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/product-category/defeat-in-detail-6mm/cybershadows/

Keranis wrote:
My first Warlord is complete (minus bases and transfers). Base will be done at a later point, when i get my "absolutely not Mechanicum troops in 6mm scale" 3rd party bits and more Titanicus buildings for ruins.
Anyways, no more talk, time for pictures!

That looks absolutely fantastic! And very striking with the bright colorscheme

Want more guns already!

Volcano Cannons are fun, but I want those other affects. Being able to tonk a Titan and potentially force it to turn 45 degrees (more if you hit it twice and get jammy) is potentially game winning. Right target at right time, and you can knock that Titan out of the game for a good couple of turns!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Want more guns already!

Volcano Cannons are fun, but I want those other affects. Being able to tonk a Titan and potentially force it to turn 45 degrees (more if you hit it twice and get jammy) is potentially game winning. Right target at right time, and you can knock that Titan out of the game for a good couple of turns!

I am in the process of printing some out for me to test things with. Quakes are my favorite but its random on the turn so you could shift it one way then shift it back.

Mendi Warrior wrote:
Here is a modified tower (all modules are independent). Quite happy with the result. Now I'll try to replicate it a few times

I like the way you've expanded from narrow to wide on the way up.

That's giving me some ideas!

 schoon wrote:

Mendi Warrior wrote:
Here is a modified tower (all modules are independent). Quite happy with the result. Now I'll try to replicate it a few times

I like the way you've expanded from narrow to wide on the way up.

That's giving me some ideas!

Thanks, feel free to steal the idea

It took me a couple of iterations before finding a way I was happy with. Here are a few pics of the final structure. For the top part I cut a 51x51mm square, then I centered 4 walls (2 x 29x26mm and 2 x 19x26mm as I'm using 5mm thickness foamboard) to get a 29x29mm base. Now, you might want to adapt the measures depending on the angle you want. Notice that with a 29x29mm base you have exactly the footprint of the top of a single module, best to go for 27x27mm if you want to imbricate one in the other. Or add 1mm thick plasticard all around to rest on the lower top part of the walls. Also make sure your walls are well cut otherwise you might end up with a leaning tower The 29x29mm base served as a guide to place the civitas imperialis components. Then I used the connectors and cardboard to finish the corners. The cardboard is just a triangle with a slight cut to help fold it in the right shape.

Planning to add a few extra and experiment some more with the idea.

Don't hesitate to show your adaptations of the idea.




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Keranis wrote:
My first Warlord is complete (minus bases and transfers).

Simply gorgeous, absolutetly lovely!

Keranis wrote:
My first Warlord is complete (minus bases and transfers). Base will be done at a later point, when i get my "absolutely not Mechanicum troops in 6mm scale" 3rd party bits and more Titanicus buildings for ruins.
Anyways, no more talk, time for pictures!

Spoiler:

any1 knows the scale of this game btw?

im looking for terrain stuff but whitout a scale, it gets a bit hard.

Patriarch wrote:

Lovely work! On the trailing leg, did you gave to have to do a bit of "work" to make the armour panels fit? - if you did, it doesn't show.

My warlord is in a similar pose, I hadn't realised the armour plates might not fit with the shin bent forward, so keen to know if you got around it.

I did have to do a little tinkering to get the plates to fit. Mostly, the front plate actually rests mostly on the little black armour plates between the feet, and the top of it overlaps slightly with the spot that the kneepad is supposed to connect to - so i simply snipped off the kneepad connecters (on the back of the plate. The angle of the photo does cover it up quite good, it's definitly more visible once i turn it more to the side and look at it xD
I can send you a few pics with closeups of the "problem areas" and how i fixed it if you want?


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 FrozenDwarf wrote:
any1 knows the scale of this game btw?

im looking for terrain stuff but whitout a scale, it gets a bit hard.

I read some people compare the 8mm scale of the game, to 1:200 scale (apparenly called "Z scale")

Based on the image of the Walord from the back of its box(which is "actual size" and fairly neutrally posed) the scale appears to be roughly 1:270 - much of the old heroic 6mm stuff looks perfectly appropriate, and the Z scale stuff is a bit big in terms of its details(unless you're going for a big building with big windows etc, but I would have to add a lot of smaller detailing to make it clear that it's a big building rather than an out of scale building to be comfortable using them).

Keranis wrote:
I did have to do a little tinkering to get the plates to fit. Mostly, the front plate actually rests mostly on the little black armour plates between the feet, and the top of it overlaps slightly with the spot that the kneepad is supposed to connect to - so i simply snipped off the kneepad connecters (on the back of the plate. The angle of the photo does cover it up quite good, it's definitly more visible once i turn it more to the side and look at it xD
I can send you a few pics with closeups of the "problem areas" and how i fixed it if you want?

Thank you! PM sent.

added some colour to the tokens whitout dropping too mutch time on it, plain plastic grey is a bit boring.

Took a leaf out of a suggestion on these forums and grabbed the Cityscape set.



You can get your own from here: https://ttcombat.com/collections/dropzone-commander/products/cityscape-card-scenery-pack

This whole 6x4 set up costs just £20, and takes 20 minutes to set up out of the box. If you play Titanicus... you kinda want this

I'll get some more piccies tomorrow, if anyone is interested in seeing more...

ye, mix it with the AT terrain and you have a board that suits both games.

ohh wow yeah that's PERFECT

Nice.

That makes for some good terrain density!

And so it begins. Tommorow we start a campaign based early in the Heresy, 006M31. The first chapter will include enforcing Compliance on some unlucky xeno-human state and the betrayal itself; combat roster is made of Atarus, Xestobiax, two supporting knight houses and Sons of Horus - though not everyone has decided their allegiance at the moment.
As for the tanks and infantry - we have created a bunch of terminals for regular troops, just to provide some... let's call it target-rich enviroment. It includes non-compliant humans (count as guard) and space marines. We have taken an idea of "Unit Strength", that reflects an actual number of smaller vehicles/infantry squads, represented by a single base, to keep the movement and activation swift - otherwise they act like knight banners.

Regis_sotum wrote:
And so it begins. Tommorow we start a campaign based early in the Heresy, 006M31. The first chapter will include enforcing Compliance on some unlucky xeno-human state and the betrayal itself; combat roster is made of Atarus, Xestobiax, two supporting knight houses and Sons of Horus - though not everyone has decided their allegiance at the moment.
As for the tanks and infantry - we have created a bunch of terminals for regular troops, just to provide some... let's call it target-rich enviroment. It includes non-compliant humans (count as guard) and space marines. We have taken an idea of "Unit Strength", that reflects an actual number of smaller vehicles/infantry squads, represented by a single base, to keep the movement and activation swift - otherwise they act like knight banners.

loving that paint scheme. makes mine which is the same Legio look horriable by comparison

Dropzone Commander, or other 10mm buildings look excellent for AT. We've been using the MDF models from 4Ground for our games.

(a nitpick about those card buildings, Matt - the flaps should fold down so there's a lip round the top of each building).