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Lots of nice stuff in your pics! And I quite like the skin on the ogroid esp. the wounds, they look really nasty and fresh.

I for one love a good bit of rambling painting, you never know what magic comes next. The Ogroid and Khal look awesome!

Rambling is good. Helps keep you loose. Maybe not as productive as focus or discipline would have you, but loose. Helps prevent burnout, too.

Patina on the Ogroid's shield is money.

Love the quality and variety over the last few weeks, a great range to a great standard.

Late to the party, but Gotrek looks especially superb!

Absolutely lovely work this year! The standouts for me are Gotrek, Katakros and the Stormcasts with their red clothes.

Great work on the Ogroid!

Thanks for the encouragement and kind comments everyone, it is great for inspiring me to paint more.

So this is my end of the month wrap up post, what have I been up to since my last post?

First up are some more ASOIAF miniatures, first is the last of my Freefolk starters heroes in the form of Lady Val The Wildling Princess, she never made it to the TV adaptation and is from the books alone. Nothing special here, just a nice and simple paintjob for a static and neutral coloured mini:



A bit more dynamic are my first Targaryen miniatures, the Dothraki Screamers. I had fun with these especially doing a few different schemes for the horses:









Next up is Warcry where I have painted the Mindstealer Sphiranx. I am a cat owner so this miniature really appealed to me, I just decided to have fun with it and went with a scheme slightly different from the studio one:









Now a confession...I have not stuck to my pledge of trying to buy less stuff as the new Adeptus Titanicus The Horus Heresy starter set. The good news is that I have already painted up a third of it. First up is a Traitor Cerastus Knight. I used the newer Citadel colours of Lupercal Green and Sons Of Horus Green for an as yet unidentified Knight household. I added some biege as a nice contrasting colour and here he is:







I also painted up a Traitor Warhound, his colours fit Legio Mordaxis so I may well go for that. No weathering yet, as I just have no idea how to weather the purple. Any hints anyone?













So that brings me to my February month in review.

5 Game Systems: 40k, AOS, Warcry, ASOIAF and Adeptus Titanicus.

7 Factions: Free Folk, Targaryens, GSC, Nighthaunt, Dwarfs, Chaos and Traitor Legions.

18 miniatures painted, add that to the 40 from last month and I am at 58 for the year thus far.

Thanks for looking, I know there is a fair bit there. Oh, and WIP?

Nice job on the big cat monster!

Good looking stuff. The Sphinx really came out nice. AoS continues to deliver interesting models. The Dothraki are sweet and I can't fault you for getting more cool robots.

You are very busy, nice output, especially loving the WarCry stuff; as I'm trying to get some of it done this month, may look again for color inspiration.

Great haul for the month! The Cat and Hound being my favourites. I agree with youwashock, some of the new Warcry/AoS minis are really novel at the moment. I think the warhound looks great all crisp and clean, I always kinda imagined them keeping pristine until their shields go down then they get smashed!

@Aku-Chan: Cheers dude, I adore the sculpt. I may get another so I can paint the alternate head up. And with it facing the other way they would be like bookends for each other.

@Youwasshock: So you like cool looking robots...yeah I have another revelation. Payday was also work bonus day. So I bought another Adeptus Mechanicus starter set..and a Warlord..and a Warbringer Nemesis Titan and a box of Acastus Knight Porphyrion. I clearly have a problem.

@Viterbi: Thank you, you are always good with colour choice regardless.

@Gobert: I see so many amazing warhounds with hazard stripes and great personal heraldry...but I am just not up to it . I would rather a neat and clean job overall. May well continue that trend then.



Cannot believe how much of a numpty I have been, I completely forgot to post my February "all painted" picture.



A lot of characters and individual miniatures rather than units but I am content with that lot as it a mixture of a little bit of everything. But I *really* need to get working on my Celestial Lions again.

A little bit of progress to start the month.

First up is my take on the Fomoroid Crusher, I am a big fan of this hulking sculpt and he was a lot of fun to paint.









And with the other Warcry beasties he forms Monsters Inc:





Also got another 2 Titans done from my first Horus Heresy Adeptus Titanicus boxed set, first up in my Legio Mordaxis Reaver armed with Laser blaster, power fist and Apocalypse Missile launcher. He has main plates of purple, black and bone but also some green to tie it to my previously invented Knight household. There are currently no Mordaxis transfers so I used an old CSM/ Plague Marine one to represent the Mordaxis triple skulled insignia. Again I had fun with this one, I enjoyed the in motion pose and just picking out the individual armour plates.













Finally is the start of my Loyalist AT army, in the form of a Legio Astorum Warhound. The blue and yellow is a nice bright scheme, and I love the various Astorum insignia and star chart transfers that luckily come with the kits as standard:







I currently have no plans on what I am going to paint next...so no change there then! Thanks for looking.

Awesome round of models. The Fomoroid looks great. Ready for the Scare Floor. The titans are also really good. I look forward to seeing the blue/yellow on some bigger bots.

Those crisp titans look fantastic. Revered relics about to enter battle along their chosen lines!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:

@Viterbi: Thank you, you are always good with colour choice regardless.

Thanks!

And that crusher The skin is superb and the stitching on the leather gauntlet really pops. Nice to see the group shot of all the monsters, I'm really excited to tackle them myself, but they are my reward after I finished most of the terrain and two warbands.

Cheers gents...lets take a step away from the Real World and enter into Adeptus Titanicus and the Horus Heresy.

First up is my first Legio Astorum Reaver, armed with gatling blaster, volcano cannon and carapace mounted turbo laser destructor. I have decided not to magnetise the weapons, probably a big no-no in the AT community but I just felt I could get better poses without the magnets.









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I am really happy with the Astorum transfers on him and also added a few kill markings from the "normal" sized titan transfer sheets.

I finished my second Cerastus Knight, I decided to add red as a spot colour to my previous green and cream scheme (try saying that quickly after a few adult beverages) and am happy with the results:







Furthering the Knight theme I have painted up my pair of Acastus Knights Porphyrion. I love the full sized design of these so had to buy the kit, and it is so detailed for the size not that these are that small, they are almost as tall as a Warhound. They are just a bit lacking in poseability so i modelled the second one to be aiming at a taller threat. I also mixed up their heraldry a bit just to create some visual interest.













Group shot of my Mordaxis and Knight household lot:







Finally I have painted up most of the tokens and markers from the starter set. Just a simple retributor spray, aggrax wash and silver drybrush for these but it works.





Finally...what is next? Enter the Warlord:



Thanks for looking

That’s a great host of Titans, the ground level group shot is like the background to some Horus Heresy artwork! Epic stuff!

Stomp, stomp. Pew, pew. Too much fun. They are all looking great. Excited about that Warlord.

Cheers gents, had a day doing nothing and stuck inside (I wonder why???) so made a bit of progress on the Warlord, starting with the legs. I am not entirely sold on my weathering yet, especially in the close up shots, but I am happy with my colour choices and the transfers so that is a plus. I also added a few shrubs to the base for a touch of variation.









I am also aware that often this is not really a blog, more a log of what I have completed. Truth be told i do not like taking pictures of half finished things but thought I would share a bit of the process on the Warlord.

First up is a black undercoat, then a coat of leadbelcher spray. After that I give the whole mode a Runefang steel drybrush. Next up is Retributor gold on the trim. this is then followed by another runefang drybrush over the gold. What brings it altogether is a 50/50 Aggrax and medium wash. That brings me to this:





Carapace weapons:



So the only thing I have not started on are the arm weapons, but I will leave them until last.

Finally are a couple of scale shots of the Titans next to a Primaris Marine just to give those that have not seen the AT minis in person an idea of their size:





Thanks for looking.

I think the weathering looks good. The new scale for AT is impressive.

Looks like you’re making good use of the lockdown. I seem to recall the old Epic Knights being about the same size as old Marines, so these new AT ones are pretty big. It’s surprising how small the Warhounds look compared to the knights.

Great work on the AT models. I really love them, but seeing as I shoul not start another game, I will be content watching you progress to them.
And I know you are on different continents, but I would love to see your more subdued purple/green titans against vejut's bright neon ones

All this AT goodness is looking absolutely spiffing! Wonderful colour schemes, lovely attention to detail and great variety without a loss of coherency or consistency. Top stuff!

Very nice work - I love the deep purple colour!

Wonderful work ListenToMeWarriors.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Blimey, I do not look in on the blog for a few days and there are a raft of responses...thank you.

@Youwasshock: The new scale certainly makes it feel a lot more, small e here, epic.

@Gobert: Sadly personally I am not on lockdown. I work in food retail so we are working very hard to keep people fed. The Warhounds are relatively small, but I think the scale is equal to their 40k Forge World equivalents.

@Viterbi: I am terrible at remembering names, and do not believe I have seen Vejut's Titans, I shall have to seek them out.

@Paradigm: Thank you Sir, what is the score with your studying and the current situation?

@Slinky: Purple is my all time favourite colour to use on models, I think about 50% of the armies I have ever painted have it. Just simple GW Xereus Purple over black.

@Captain Brown: Thank you, I have never really understood the exalt system but it is appreciated none the less.

So progress, he is done! I have not glued the torso to the legs as it sits just fine without the glue and allows it to be freely rotated without magnets. Anyway, the pictures:
























That gives me a full Axiom Maniple, clocking in at a little over 1200pts:



I also constructed my Warbringer Nemesis Titan, who do you think he should represent? Legio Mordaxis or Astorum?





And the sub assemblies for painting:



Finally I have invested in a bit of terrain, first from GW:



And scale:



I have also bought the Vanguard miniatures ruined gothic city set, a cool looking set of over 100 of these bits for £25:



That is me done for now. This month I have done a fair bit of painting, but I am not yet at 10 miniatures for the month so need to get motoring.

Thanks for looking.

Shazam. That thing is awesome. Love the lush purple/gold and the subtle blue on the power claw.

Agreed, they look great, and unlike me, you didn't stint on all the little details. I'd lean towards Mordax for the warbringer, that big chunky cannon in brass or steel would probably look good set against the more sombre purple.

@gobert, to be fair, those poryphon are all of one scale point smaller than the warhounds, but then, the cerastus aren't much smaller either. I'm more shocked at how big they look compared to the Reaver.

A rather fetching maniple you’ve pulled together in crazy short order! They’re going to look even better stalking through the new terrain! I agree with vejut, the warbringer would look great in purple! Sounds like I maybe had the scale thing the wrong way round and some of those knights are huge!