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Another game today using our homebrew "skirmish" mode...

Loyalists

Reaver( Leader ); Gatling, Missile launcher and Powerfist.
Cerastus( Marshal ); Lance and Ion shield.

Traitors

Warhound( Leader ); Vulcan & Destructor.
3 x Questoris( Marshals ); Avenger(modified), Battle-cannon and Thermal.

...played over four turns it was fun. Reaver took a beating and lost his loyal Cerastus bodyguard, but the Warhound was severly damaged and only one traitorious scum - sorry "knight" - was saved by the bell!

We don't care that much for fluff'n'background, but we like the idea of doomed Legions and Households that didn't make it to the end of the Heresy, and in the final pushes it was a lone titan princep or knight scion leading a handful of surviving allied knights to their fate - and all that melodramatic jazz. I suppose this homebrew can be that - "Adeptus Titanicus: Doomed Survivors"...or something like that!

Little work on a Vulcan megabolter for a Reaver's carapace, using left over pieces from the AI Thunderbolt kit and some plasticard( the Avenger cannons are perfect! ). Looking forward to a dual gatling blaster and vulcan loadout, and calling the Reaver "Shredder"!

Oh, still not assembled the Icarus cannons for the Questoris. Must get and do that sometime...

Hark! A Knight sporting an Icarus Autocannon approaches!



...cosmetic officially, but should you wish to use it - unofficially - in your games we also have rules! Hurrah!

ICARUS AUTOCANNON
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Short: 6" -
Long: 12" -

Dice: 2
Strength: 4

Cost: 10 pts

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looks a bit meaner =P

I'd recommend cutting those cables off.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I'd recommend cutting those cables off.

Glad you said that because I've been thinking about it all day!

Weekend requires all the quake and I'll probably never need four Belicosas anyway so it's time to butcher one of the unpainted ones. Most fitting, Mori built out of the arms meant for Memento Mori...





Transparent plastic makes it look a bit wonky, but really it's straight.

That looks pretty monstrous. Nice work

Had some fun with contrast paint over boltgun metal - liked talassar blue so much i had to get a box of knights to see how it looked.. (apologies for blurry image)

Tabletop ready!

Contrasts look great on metals if you can smooth them out. I did the much darker blue and now wish I had waited for Talassar to be back in stock.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Weekend requires all the quake and I'll probably never need four Belicosas anyway so it's time to butcher one of the unpainted ones. Most fitting, Mori built out of the arms meant for Memento Mori...





Transparent plastic makes it look a bit wonky, but really it's straight.

Wow...amazing!!!

Also, paint! Tremble before the Judge, as he Quaketh thee.

That really works as a quake cannon! I need to glue and spray my missile-launchers-count-as-quake-cannons.

That is one mean looking titan you have there.

Thanks guys

I'm pretty happy how it turned out, heftier than the Belicosa but not yet comically oversized. The next project, how to make a properly chonky macro-gatling...

Nasty! Very nasty!

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Contrasts look great on metals if you can smooth them out. I did the much darker blue and now wish I had waited for Talassar to be back in stock.

You are spot on there - i did the gun of my primus redoubt first and it looked bad thanks to the paint not having any surface features to flow into.
I think there's a maximum distance between surface discontinuities for contrast paint and the AT knights shoulder pads are right on the edge of that.
I got into the habit of bleeding some off with a fresh brush after a clumsy initial layer


Edit: Fixed!

The DIY vulcan and volcano guns are now magnetized. Not ready asthetically, but the reaver can at least use them.

If Phoenix Rising doesn't cost too much I might get a set of Spires too. Just wondering how tall they are in comparison to a Questoris and a Warhound, but the look has grown on me since release. Knowing our luck I'll order those and on Sunday it'll be "COMING SOON! WARBRINGER AND RAPIERS! KNIGHT UPGRADES AND ARMIGERS!".

My first AT models (since like 1991, anyway). Got a couple of battlegroups of my own to do when I get a chance...

These aren't finished yet, still need decals and a couple of weathering passes, but as I've more to do in this job, I may delay that until I can do all at once.

WinterDyne, those are beautifully painted. What Legio are they?

Very clean (for now) Krytos. Need to put the decals on before weathering, but may well bring the other 2 titans (and weapons) I need to do up to this stage first.

May also add stuff to the base to help with scale perception, but not sure what yet. The old epic marines I have are a bit... naff, and way too small.

winterdyne wrote:
Very clean (for now) Krytos. Need to put the decals on before weathering, but may well bring the other 2 titans (and weapons) I need to do up to this stage first.

May also add stuff to the base to help with scale perception, but not sure what yet. The old epic marines I have are a bit... naff, and way too small.

Ah, Krytos. Yup.

Would love to see more updates!

The marines would be pretty much the right size, they look fine as a part of the whole.

Beautiful work, too, even if unweathered Krytos always throws the eye a bit

Huh, got all four built and ready to gather dust unpainted for... a time.



There was a lot of chopping going on with some of those legs, like this guy who is sort of hopping on the building under its right foot. Both knees got cut, toes and armour bits were bent, hydraulics rebuilt and so on.



There's also a wounded little guy on the base here:

Sherrypie, I like your bases. Its good conversion work all round and look forward to seeing it all painted.

Don't let them sit on the shelf for too long!

Could even happen during this decade

Not much time left then

So at 6pm tonight on the community channel it'll be "Coming Soon...Sherrypie's Knights! Fully painted!"

SamusDrake wrote:
So at 6pm tonight on the community channel it'll be "Coming Soon...Sherrypie's Knights! Fully painted!"

Blimey I'll have a heart attack if you put such pressure on me

Hadn't done much on that Ork Stompa and was out of materials today, so had to buy more. Little bit on that and started a new building.

Had another knight-skirmish game this evening and while we are enjoying that mode of play, we are regretfully losing interest in the actual "vanilla" game itself. Might get another pair of warhounds but that will be it until the game picks up again.