How to hide a titan

Today was a good 6 hours put in bringing the first part of my Adeptus Titanicus terrain up to table standards.

It is the contents of the starter set and the civitas imeprialis sector boxes, giving quite a lot of parts to build various structures.

After building they were undercoated black, then overbrushed with adeptus battlegrey (dark grey), then a heavy dry brush of Elf Grey, yes I still have a pot of paint over 20 years old.

Doors and eagle gargoyles were picked out in Vallejo polished gold, then the doors were given a wash of agrax earthshade.

The last image shows the versatility of the components, the smaller modules actually clip onto the bigger ones to create truly tall buildings that even the big titans can use as cover.
The spires kit makes up the little temple like structures, and I may get more of these as they do look fantastic.

The dusty dark look of the buildings is chosen to match my terrain matt, which has areas of rubble printed on it.

That's all for today, thanks for looking in, and stay safe everyone.

House Vyronni knights

Well I got these wee chaps finished just minutes ago.

These are the house knights for the new version of Adeptus Titanicus, probably the first game I got into by games workshop as it was large battle, and didn't cost a fortune.

A lot of people have been down on this game as they claim it is now 8mm scale and that puts all the old models out of scale, but if they had the old models , as I do, the infantry was 8mm scale for a standard human, all the original vehicles were closer to 5mm scale and the titans and knights were closer to 3mm scale.

Regardless, I have played the new version and it is good fun, managing the balance between keeping your titan healthy and pushing for a killing blow.

Here are 6 Questoris knights in 3 weapon loadouts, because that's what you get in the box....

Nice models, and still looking slightly shiny as matt varnish dries, they are from house Vyronni who fought alongside my titan legion Legio Defensor during the Horus heresy.
A little bit of artistic license, it shouldn't be yellow and green but more of a khaki and green but it looked to much like painting WW2 germans for my liking.

Anyway that's enough for one day,

Stay safe everyone and have a happy easter.

Update

Small update on where the 6mm ancients got too on the painting front, as usual I got distracted and started painting bits that were unfinished and lying around.

Here are 12 more bases of Numidian cavalry, a great unit to have, fits in so many armies.
Very easy miniatures to paint and a good start for getting me back into painting after a long time out.

These were started 2 years ago during the AHPC, never got them all finished until now, they are to be used with my dark ages Saxons, something to defend from the Vikings.

Some 28mm barrels and spares, for general scatter terrain, from renedra.

And here is the startled bog monster, I have no idea where I got him from, think he was an impulse buy at a bring and buy market. I think he is an old grenadier model but cant be sure, he certainly looks surprised at being charged by the numidians.

He was initially going to be used as a greater daemon for Epic Armageddon, but he may just pop up in other games for fun.

That's all for today, may be back tomorrow with some big stompy robots.

Stay safe everyone.

End of the year post.

Well it's been a quiet year on the hobby front. I don't think I managed to get in a game or get much painted. But that can be a new year resolution. 

After seeing a few other blogs, I decided to return to painting a bit of the massive epic collection.

These pictures show the highly neglected chaos army.

These are 2 of the 4 defilers I built from parts. Luckily I made a mould of these so I can make as many as I'll ever need.

This is the back bone of the force, standard chaos marines.

And finally a little bit of conversion work on some rhino transports.

I have been beavering away with a couple of other projects that may see the blog soon.

Thanks for looking.

An army in a pint glass

Continuing my purge of the huge box of epic models I have put together several forces from the masses. 

First up for a quick build n paint will be a white scars space marine army.

These guys have a very mobile doctrine so I went for lots of fast units.

So a couple of hours this morning saw them built n based, should get some primer on them lunchtime and may get paint on them tonight.

Thanks for looking

Ps the elephants aren't in this army!

Epic orks

So the gorging on food and drink has passed, and I'm already itching to be productive.

As a break from the medieval posts recently I have revisited some neglected 6mm miniatures.

These are a mix of various wagons for epic orks. I use a simple system for painting these by selecting a base colour (usually red as they go faster!), then pick out any metallics, and finally glyphs or embellishments or crew. 

They are then inked with either black or brown before Matt varnish.

Simple but effective at this scale.

Some progress pics

Base colour etc

Bikes and trucks at various stages 

Some wagons awaiting varnish 

Thanks for looking back soon with more updates