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Finished the buildings from the GM set - I only made two, as one is a "centerpiece" model.

I'm rather pleased how they both came out, and am looking forward to getting them based and painted.

I think I'm going to go for "winter" theme on my bases and terrain.

Regis_sotum wrote:
Some small hobby update. I have finally finished first maniples for both Atarus and Xestobiax. For a moment I am going to focus on knights - we have kind of a thing into thesee little guys in campaign - and probably build some Porhyrions. Don,t know how to use them yet, maybe count as Warhounds with trubo-laser, since they are of a similar size.

Love the two tone blue!

Sprayed 4 Warlords this morning, 3 for one Legio and 1 for another. Two Reavers are built with four more on sprues. Dunno if I can finish building them all before the Warhounds are released, the plan is to get four of those as well.

Morning. Some work on my traitor and loyalist legios.

For my Loyalist Legio Ignatum I am using their “camo” scheme which they used in the Ontario’s campaign. This is mostly due to my love of the Lucius pattern and it being what drew me into wanting titans many moons ago.

For my traitors I’m going Fureans as while looking at the 28mm titans they were the ones that screamed at me from the computer screen.

Just doing some LOS blocking terrain today. Mainly miniature mountain ranges with a few buildings on them.

Working on my 2 warlords for legio victorum. Almost done for armour plates. Then try freehanding and weathering.

For lulz two of my original titans. While painting still not top notch guess 15 years or so has helped a bit

Not on assembling though...these are Nevaniusmus pattern warlords! Knees are better protected at rear anyway...

Whew this takes time! Hopefully I can get at least something done before the Warhounds arrive

That chalice on the armor is a neat touch.

More constuction updates. To make nonstandart chaos Warlord more comfotable, old titan models for Epic are on modification. The initial plan was to downgrage titans to lower class, but being lazy and all that, I downgraded them two classes lower, so they are a bit bigger than new GW models.
Warlords have their carapace weapons replaced with plates, and armed with lasers, plasma and inferno cannon - thus, they will impersonate Heavy Scout Titans, being slightly taller than the Warhound. Imperator got just a new base and an armor repaint; I am still considering maybe replacing tower weapons with something more uniform to represent a Reaver. Or maybe not, if it's fine as it is.
This is the third maniple, in addition to Atarus and Xestobiax ones.

well, im getting there, slowly but steadily.

Rumor sites say the Warhounds will be 2 for $75. Thoughts? I’m going to probably start with a pair and get two more eventually.

Fajita Fan wrote:
Rumor sites say the Warhounds will be 2 for $75. Thoughts? I’m going to probably start with a pair and get two more eventually.

That was based on leaks on WD but good news is shops are reporting 65$ for 2. Wouldn't be first time WD is in error.

For now i stop at this. For thursday game good enough(freehands, weathering, bases missing plus knights half done) and really need to paint stuff for 40k apoc game.

Those look great!

Finally got round to doing my second batch of Knights - went for House Vyronis.



Penned a few short notes on painting them: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/house-vyronis/

Gah, finally the first one is done, took only a month or something. Legio Favilla walks, tremble before the Ashen Gods!

Hopefully the next one will be a lot quicker, now that I actually know what I'm doing

Nice work on the warlord. The tiny guy on the base is a nice touch. Also the cracking pavement. I'm going to steal that one.

Yeah, that cracked pavement is really well done.

Great stuff! The NMM came out nicely.

Rule Question: What if my Titan crazes, and Runs toward a Building - Collision, Damage.

How to determinate the target zone? My Titan was running into a small building, only high enough to hit the Legs. My friends idea was, to roll a Dice. But this feels wrong to me. If i only hit the Legs. Why roll a dice? The Target Zone is clear.

Any suggestions?

Aexcaliber wrote:
Rule Question: What if my Titan crazes, and Runs toward a Building - Collision, Damage.

How to determinate the target zone? My Titan was running into a small building, only high enough to hit the Legs. My friends idea was, to roll a Dice. But this feels wrong to me. If i only hit the Legs. Why roll a dice? The Target Zone is clear.

Any suggestions?

Per rules text, just roll the location and don't stress about the exact fictional details. Flying parts might hit things, abstracted hit locations like the head also include other sensors around the machine anyway (which also makes life easier regarding how the knights can melee the "head" part) and so forth. Maybe they stumble a bit and break things while struggling to get up again?

The other equally cool option is to house rule a bit. If you have leg-high buildings and collide with them, you could agree with your opponent to just take damage on your legs and be done with it. I'd be cool with such a decision at the table, if it were consistently applied should the need arise.

Likewise I think Knights should only be able to melee a Warlord or Reaver’s legs personally. Maybe I should model a few Knights on scenic bases high enough to hit a Warlord’s head...

Just picked up my first Warlord today and can't wait to put it together. Time to order magnets to make the weapons swappable.

In the meantime, I'm making more scenery.

Ugh. Can't embed an image for my first post.

Sol

Took 3 days. Got the GM set and 2 Reavers done to here and magnetized.

The clash between loyalists and traitors at LV-46 goes on. Yesterday night, flank forces met near the spaceport complex in a swift engagement. Loyalists group was made of a Xestobiax Reaver, Atarus Warhound and House Taranis banner; opposing them were knights of Zhao-Akhad and a mighty Warlord of heretic Xestobiax.
Traitors stood on defence upon meeting loyal forces. They choose their former comrade Reaver as a prime target, quickly stripping it of Void Shields and head armor. However, before the killing blow was dealt, Atarus Warhound emerged from the flank. Effortlessly shrugging of full fire from the Warlord (not a single character shield save failed!), the scout titan flanked it.
While traitor knights abandoned thier cornered commander, going close to the loyalist Reaver and badly damaging him, Taranis knights charged into the fray, draining all focus on them. Warlord tried to stomp them, but just mildly damaged few knights, so they successfully got in the back of the battle titan. The following fire concentration on the Warlord got its shields first collapsed, then burned out, and breached the torso armor entirely. First fire from mauled reaver got through, and the traitor titan died. First, it backed a few steps, accidentally crushing one Taranis knight, and then fell, buring under itself the rest of the kinght banner.
After that, it only took few minutes - the Reaver miraculosly escaped being melta'ed in the head, while the Warhound finished traitor knights off. The loyalists stand wounded, but victorious. Tommorow starts the grand battle - two full maniples meeting head on in the spaceport.
P.S. Some problems with photos, it seems.

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I made my first steps into magnetising.

I wanted to be able to combine different weapons without buying lots of additional models and change weapons from left to right and vice-versa if I ever wanted to.

I used 3x1mm, as well as 1x1mm magnets and 2mm diameter steel balls to magnetise my knights. I still don't know if I want to magnetise the head or not. I gave a try at magnetising the torso and the legs but I was not happy with the result (positioning was too akward). All the weapons and arms are ready, for the torsos I need a new 3mm drill.

I'm quite pleased with the result.

Nearly finished this, I chose the decals based on looks rather than a particular legio

Good idea on the volcano weapon glow, I might try that too.

That's a lot of good looking chevron and hazard striping. Nice work!

All of my white paint is garbage. Even my newest Ceramite and White Scar are just chunky messes of particles in a white wash. I didn't keep the receipt either :(

I'm having decent success with Pallid Wych Flesh then drybrushing the thin white I can get out of the other pots across armor panels. My closest place that sold Vallejo paints closed so it's a bit of a trek to find out if their white is any better.

For those of you spraying tian exoskeletons you might give Rustoleum aluminum paint+primer a try:



It's brighter than GW's Leadbelcher rattle can but can be toned down with an extra wash layer, it depends on how dark you want it. At $3 a can it's pretty good.