Star Wars Legion Geonosians - Test model and basecoats

Afternoon, when last we left the Geonosians I was deciding on colours:

• yellow contrast, blending into red for the hands, feet and faces
• horror show - pale sking akin to my Goblin Town, but with a lot more Tamiya clear Red X-27 blood effects on the hands feet and face
• Contrast Aethermatic Blue, Stormfiend and purple washes on the hands feet and face, with the wings in Nihilakh Oxide

And as you can see I went with the last option - Aethermatic Blue

With Nihilakh Oxide on the wings, but the difference is so minimal I may just go fully Aethermatic on the whole model. Now prepare yourself for a big jump...

Yep, this is the finished model and unusually it's a test model. I don't normally do this but I just kept on going with adding the Stormfiend and the purple wash on hands, feet and face and then something wasn't right. The features were just indecipherable within the face and hands. So I decided to use my Vallejo fluoro magenta. I created white highlighted areas on the lips 'nose', and knuckles of the hands and feet. Then I added the magenta which blended well thanks to its inherent transparency. The eyes were yellow and I used rust effect paint on the gun, but a green glow emanating from inside. So I've ended up with some sort of synthwave palette, which I think is very cool.

The armour plates were just my usual black highlights. The wings got heavily drybrushed in white to be much brighter than the rest of the body. You may also notice that the base has a black rim. And I will admit it looks awesome. I had added a bit of purple wash into my usual Red Planet BASE! 🔴 scheme [as there were no bone chips]. So, the added contrast works really well with a black edge and all the other models in this force are on black rims so it seemed unnecessary to force my red rims into this space.

With the test model done and some ideas on how to make the process more efficient I basecoated the lot of them - Aethermatic blue for their bodies. Black for the armour and Vallejo Game Effects Dry Rust for the weapons.

If I had any paint left over, like the black I used it up on the rims. As the test model was done in a night I figured each step would be one night's work so I thought they'd be done in a week or less.

Although I had felt shanghaied with these inserted into my schedule I was actually enjoying the process. The test model convinced me these would look cool, despite looking nothing like the film Geonosians. So I would have 14 very cool models delivered quickly. Good hobby points, fun to do and great results. So not a bad deal afterall.

Star Wars Legion - Geonosians - Big Build & BASE - TO DONE!

Afternoon and Liam, and the rest of the gaming crew felt I should be repping some Geonosians for Star Wars Legion. Despite making it clear I want a Jawa [or at the least Sand People] force but will only consider that when they have their own rules and cards. Still he was able to print some of these for me and force their completion on my TO DO LIST.

However, they did indeed sit untouched for a good few weeks as I could not decide how I wanted to paint them. My initial thought was yellow contrast, blending into red for the hands, feet and faces. Then I considered a horror show - akin to my Goblin Town, but with a lot more Tamiya clear Red X-27 blood effects on the hands feet and face. 

But then I thought I could use the Contrast Aethermatic Blue, Stormfiend and purple washes to make some blue skinned aliens, with the wings in Nihilakh Oxide... 

Regardless, I primed them Red Oxide, then did the models white - that Primer is awful.

Whichever route I was going down this was the starting point. So the bases got Red Planet BASE! 🔴

And I got my Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval.

Adeptus Titanicus - Extra Warlord titan weapons - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my additional Warlord Titan weapons. These came together really quickly as I thought we had a Thursday gaming session coming up. But instead my son had his monthly Teenage Cancer Trust social event. So they've not been used yet.

Decals were their usual fiddly self. I split the black cog symbol, tried to remove a bit from the middle so it wasn't too distorted but it is a bit rugby ball shaped rather than a circle.

The inner side of the Quake cannon's armour is just grey.

The second [right-hand] cannon has the heraldry colours I've been using. Quartered for the House Raven affiliation, Titan honour badge, Dark Angels affiliation and the black and yellow chevron - will this ever be my AdMech army? Who knows?

Inner armour grey, as it should be.

The Conversion Beamer, the Aethermatic Blue isn't Blessed Verdigris 🗽BTW. It's either some aetheric glow, or the metal has anodised in a similar way to a thermal bloom. 

I maybe could have done red cables on this but I just wanted to get them done.

And having only the upper armour plates meant these were quicker to get through.

I mean they are rough, but good enough when put alongside the rest of the titan.

And the extra Warglaive thermal lances

I used Stormfiend Contrast paint in the melta heat bloom. 

I think I got much richer colours on that than my older one [the on in the middle]. But again, very consistent with this technique nowadays.

A Great Big Chrome Stamps of Approval according to my spreadsheet this is worth 8 points. Therefore, this brings me up to 206 points for the season so far.

 

And just to finish off some pics of the new weapons on my Warlord.

The Extirpator gives 2 shots, rather than the 1 of the Volcano cannon. Both draining and the Conversion Beamer has a slightly shorter range but worth the extra few points.

The alternate weapons

And close-ups.

The Quake is a definite choice at only 20 points. It might be only Strength 9 but the Concussive rule might prove valuable too.

Battle Record - Adeptus Titanicus 02/04/26

Afternoon and I'm back at Otty's shed and we're finishing our game of Adeptus Titanicus. Sadly Liam took poorly and ended up in A&E and an Easter stay on the ward - send best wishes. Good friends as we are we played on regardless! It's what he would have wanted.

I think I had quite the plan on how to fight back this turn but the Gatling Reaver was pulverised. It stumbled into the Warhound and then flew backwards - Engine KILL! 

I'm finding how far a titan can fall somewhat disproportionate based on it's 'scale', when these things can't move that distance normally. We decided to First Fire with the Warlord and destroy the building in front to get a clear shot of the advancing Titan.

We were down to just the Reaver, Warlord and Warhound. At this stage the nearest Warlord seemed the biggest threat so we focused on that.

With the Warhound trying to get into its table quarter. But it got shot with a Quake Cannon by the Warlord on the right, not only were its legs damaged but movement and turns were halved. I think the Reaver had similar too. But the Warlord got a good bead on the Chaos Warlord and although we couldn't aim with its Quake Cannon 

We got double 6's for damage on the Head - critical hits, enough to take it down.

The Concussive hits spinning it into the buildings - Engine KILL!

The Reaver took damage but Ben was unhappy because he'd targeted one area and if he'd chosen the legs it would have gone down. As the game had intensified we weren't overly keen on charity at this stage so we carried on, much to his annoyance. 

As the dust settled the other Warlord headed for our deployment zone, pushing reactors to move and turn and just getting it's toe in. We were going to lose our VPs now.

Another Engine KILL! on the Warhound, probably from the backfield camper. The Reaver was damaged, so couldn't contest that table quarter.

But our Warlord had turned and the Quake Cannon's Concussive shells just managed to spin it back out of our DZ. That one dice roll took the game out of Ben's reach. I'm not sure what the final score was but having extended the game for a turn it ended after this.

As we had time we se tup another smaller game. Similar lists but Ben getting to use his Orks. Terrain was less spread out, instead cutting down the fields of fire between units. We had to save our Titan crew up and right of the centre of the board.

Having got to the middle of the board Ben was able to surprise us with his Cerastus [equivalent] Knights charging the Reaver. But we got in with Questoris Knights first. We struggled a bit with the rules at this point, but the outcome was the Ork Knights took damage, but not enough.

In retaliation Ben went for the Reaver and with a new game we were a little more charitable suggesting which order his weapons should hit. The game can be so complex I didn't blame him for disagreeing with us but eventually he took the hint and Engine KILL!, spinning it around.

Where it smashed into the building and collapsed.

Wiping out half the Questoris in the process.

So, we're a bit scuppered at this stage, who knows how it will end...