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It is such a great game, well written, fun, and the posts on here rock!

Progress on the psi-titan. My desk lamp died, so picture quality and length of painting sessions plummeted a bit

Base colours are getting there, trim is taking a year to do before proper washing can begin. I'm going for a deep space look with stars here and there, theming my fortress around the old sublunar / aetheric distinction where the idea is that these engines belong to worlds other than that of man. Not sure yet how to approach the runes and wards yet, glowing red or green perhaps?

love the lighting effect

Thanks RazorMind

Mostly trim, metals and washes today before light ran out, but progress nonetheless.

 Alpharius wrote:
Really nice looking work there - well done!

Also, what is this 'baby wipe marbling' technique - sounds interesting!

Sorry, thought I responded to this one but didn't.

Take a cheap baby wipe, dry it out, stretch it, and then wrap it tightly around the item in question. Airbrush through the wipe. Move the wipe and repeat until you get the desired effect. Takes a little practice. Some folks use steel wool instead of baby wipes...finer veining, I think.

For white marble, most start with a black base and spray/build up white. My Warhounds already had a red base, so I did the reverse (dark over light) and sprayed very dark grey over it. The end result was pretty close to the studio models they showed off weeks back.

The Audax scheme in the book artwork is more of a black marble with red veins, but I think it'd be tricky to pull that off spraying red over black anyway.

Sadly no airbrush here, and probably not getting one for a while...

Still, your Warhounds look amazing!

Still plugging away on my Legio, just need to shade/wash/highlight & damage/weather my Warbringer. Went over the red with volpus pink contrast and really like how it did what contrast does over intermediate layers.

Finally completed my Warlord for my Legio Solaria! Now this COVID thing needs to be solved soon so I can get gaming again :-)

Besides some little fixes on the base later on, like the name, this fella is done.


Aetheris-Anathema, a horror born in the cold cradle of the void between lightless stars, walks.
















After painting brown all day long, this was a refreshing change. I do love me some purple.

The head reminds me of a villain from the old show captain power.






My legion walks! I got some painting ahead of me, still narrowing down a scheme.

Crablezworth, they look good and your terrain is nicely varied.

Here is what I've been plugging away on.

I did say a while ago that I was done with Warlord Titans - all that armour edging can be quite soul-destroying. Then the Warord-Sinister came out, and I managed to convince myself that it was not a real Warlord. So this happened:



Put together some quick painting notes, plus my system for getting through all that edging: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/warlord-sinister-psi-titan/

Psi titan looking v nifty, and I do love looking at the "big boys" in this scale as you can really get across the insignificance of the troops at this scale!

Thanks all v much for sharing (unless you end up persuading me to invest heavily in this and then curses to all of you!!)

Good work all round!

Nemesis warbringer is done. Time to get it primed. Also got a fair deal of painting done on the titans and knights. I can just about swing 1750pts with it all painted. Still waiting on the last of the card command dials to arrive.







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I like your black'n'silver knights as I've used the colour scheme myself.

Great work Crablezworth, but be sure the Warbringer gets a lick of paint - go now and be swift!

Nice job on the knights & God-engines. The green looks really "natural" & the silver n black is pretty clean.

Long time lurker to this thread but here are my efforts ,not painted for a while and started experimenting with an airbrush on a few models.

Welcome aboard, Sons of al, quite a colourful bunch you've got there

Thanks ,was kinda going with art I saw from the old epic days where all the titans were sporting different colour schemes.

Need to figure out where to get some banner poles and make some flags for the top and hanging of the weapons.

Also a few touch ups still needed.

SamusDrake wrote:
I like your black'n'silver knights as I've used the colour scheme myself.

Great work Crablezworth, but be sure the Warbringer gets a lick of paint - go now and be swift!

Thanks guy


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Racerguy180 wrote:
Nice job on the knights & God-engines. The green looks really "natural" & the silver n black is pretty clean.

Thanks, really happy with how the green came out.






My Battlegroup walks!

Still might do some touch ups but they're mostly done.

Got the titan names figured out:

Nemesis Warbringer - Tyrant King - “Tyranus Rex”

Reaver - Dark Schism - “Tenebris Schisma”

Warhound - Eternal Hunter - “Aeternum Venator”

Warhound - Dragon Fire - “Draco Ignis”









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Ordered my Core Game set but unfortunately it will arrive sometime by end of May (obvious bloody reasons :( )
Looking forward starting my Legio. I will most likely go for the Traitor side with my colour scheme being bruised, rusty and dirty.
I will be a complete rookie to the game and have not even read any of the rules etc yet but been watching excellent battle reports on YouTube by Tabletop Standard and the game seems absolute fun.
Besides I was always a fan of huge robots since got my hands on BattleMech when I was a teenager.
Anyway, to cut it short. Any tips from all the advanced gamers/hobbysts?
Spray before assembly or after? Got Black and Wraithbone undercoat sprays which if I go for a more metallic scheme should be fine.
Paint each individual part and then glue? Weapon choices magnetised?
Any tips and tricks are welcome guys as I am a total newbie in regards of Titanicus.

Welcome aboard, Blooddragon1981.

Magnetize all weapons, paint the armour plates separately from the skeleton, always dry check your fit with the armour on before gluing weird JoJo poses. Those tips will get you far.

I like to prime it all grey,assemble the 'skeleton' of the titan then spray black slap some gun metal on,and a dry brush with a silver.

leave the armour plates on the spures and paint them separate
paint it all the basic colour you are going for then do the edging etc.

Just got an airbrush...makes the painting a lot quicker! Minus the edging,there is no escape from that with a brush!

Sons of al wrote:
I like to prime it all grey,assemble the 'skeleton' of the titan then spray black slap some gun metal on,and a dry brush with a silver.

I use a similar method but drybrush with copper metallic from tamiya. It gives an almost xenomorph hue the gunmetal, I used it for my 40k scale knights.

Thanks,will give that a try on the next batch.
Bought the reaver titan starter set so plenty to practice on.

Thanks for you tips guys.
Will defo spray before assembly then. Might get another basecoat (grey or silver).
Knowing myself I will try and do some fancy bases and poses.
Anyone knows any good tutorials or guides on painting Titanicus?

The industrial terrain is gettin there. Got my vanguard landing pad painted. Ship was a bit smaller than I thought but I believe the pic on their site is with the larger master for the cargo ship and not the actual 3mm model. Anyway, stoked with the progress, gonna put the finishing touches on soon. Game hopefully end of the week.


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As I'm planning out my AT (and Epic!) armies, aside from the practicality of switching out Titan weapons using magnets, does the lore state that many (most?) Princeps and Titans like to stick with the same weapons, or did they often switch out armament based on anticipated battlefield and enemy forces?

And were some classes of Titan more opt to do this - Warhounds more then Reavers or Warlords?

 Alpharius wrote:
As I'm planning out my AT (and Epic!) armies, aside from the practicality of switching out Titan weapons using magnets, does the lore state that many (most?) Princeps and Titans like to stick with the same weapons, or did they often switch out armament based on anticipated battlefield and enemy forces?

And were some classes of Titan more opt to do this - Warhounds more then Reavers or Warlords?

There's so many legions with so many different levels of supply issues or abundance that you can kinda support whatever fluff wise. I don't think it's easy or fast to swap weaponry, could be done between warzones or campaigns or out of necessity, like the weapon its replacing is really damaged. There's also rules to make your legion in I believe the 2019 july white dwarf. So you could start there, its sortof a preview of the rules coming in the next book, which may be more fleshed out.

Also worth looking at, the molech book. It has some cool strategems for any legion, for example, titan hunter infantry, ya basically place a couple bases of infantry on/near terrain per turn that get scooped up at the end of the phase. Another cool one, you place a suitable looking model that acts as forward observers for barrage weapons. Could be a way to get your epic stuff in play. There's also a strategem where there's like infantry in close support of titans that defend them in cc againt knights.