#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the first of #DreadTober2025 and I need to crack on with my Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan.

When I last updated my pre-event progress I'd done the base and primed it. Since then I painted the Adeptus Titanicus Imperial Knights but I was still debating what colour to paint the skeleton. Silver was the prevailing choice, but the second [part-painted 2nd hand] Warlord I have is already silver. In which case this may be the one opportunity to do my traditional brassy/bronze... It's also easier in a way as I'm more familiar with it. I have doubts about achieving this pledge and want to to find a way to facilitate progress where I can.

In which case I should remember:

And so I made a decision, and yes I know it looks awful but as it's second hand it's much harder to paint without sub-assemblies.

But that decision, such as it was, certainly clarified something - I'd run out of gun-metal paint! To be fair I've had the Vallejo Game Color Gunmetal since I bought their starter set over 15 years ago.

It was much better than the Citadel Leadbelcher, which also pretty much ran out during this basecoat.  Which forced me to reconsider my decision. As I had just got a new pot of Warplock Bronze* [because my AP Rough Iron has gone walkabout] I'm much better prepared to follow through my traditional brassy-bronze route.

*Actually it's Castellax Bronze, which I assume is the same and has just had a name change...🤞

So I was decisive - I'd made a decision, I rethought that decision, made another decision and 

THE WORLD DID NOT END! 

Yes there is a lot of bronze on this Titan. In my head was thinking I either do a scruffy trim and tidy up with the plates. Or, do the scruffy plates and tidy up with the trim. As I don't like doing the metallics and I felt on a role from the AT Knights brush control I figured the plates would be much easier and pleasurable than getting my good brushes gunked up with metallic particles. 

I can be as rough as I want come in with the basecoats and the transition between armour plates and trim can always be fudged with battle damage and weathering.

This feels like a plan. Months of looking at this and contemplating it's execution, which is really little different than an Armiger or the Sentinels. As soon as I get going I pick myself up from a little stumble and I am back in the game. I'm positive, but the only niggle is I didn't get the second warlord rebuilt so if I do well on this one I could have had a stretch goal. Or, even painted them concurrently, especially as the second one already has some basecoats I'd be willing to keep...

Terrain is everything - Crisis Protocol (and Star Wars Legion) Cosmic Terrain - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon, you may recall I had been volunteered to paint the Crisis Protocol Cosmic terrain pack. But in the style of my Star Wars Legion Rebel Barricades. I am really happy with the results, although 'finished not perfect'.

There are some areas I could have spent more time on, but I was looking at the diminishing returns and wanted to get them done in time for our next shed session.

Then it turned out it was delayed a week as Ben and Otty were attending a midweek MESBG at Warhammer World.

Still, by accepting they were good enough I can now move onto other projects. And this building is worth 10 hobby points. It's a bit of a stretch, but it's not worth 5 and not 20pts either.

Getting to focus on my Adeptus Titanicus stuff now will really help get my head in the game for my #DreadTober Warlord Titan.

But yeah, I still wish the door was green, to reflect the shed. 

But I know it works better in red and is a nice additional accent colour across the set.

The neon green signs came out OK.

But my gloss varnish did not give the flat surface I was hoping for. There are far too many brush strokes and surface textures which make it a bit dissapointing.

I also think the shutters could have done with 'more'. But they're so hard to see what would be the point. I'd also like to have done a graphic logo in the space below the counter. Too late with all the grime on it but it would have taken far too much time as well. 

The power cells/converters are much better now with the weathering and additional glows on the black strips. Worth 10 hobby points [2 x 5pts]

I just used gun-metal drybrushes to highlight the black as a cheat. I feel guilty as it was a shortcut but I'm not sure anyone is going to criticise.

Similarly the tubing, with just contrast. Liam and Ben are totally into contrast paints so I doubt they're going to see it as lazy. It's not what I'm used to doing but I do conceded it looks like greasy rubber.

The broken wires look OK though. The yellow and black wire seemed slightly more 40k than Star Wars, but I think the addition of the blue, red and white wires helped to keep the Star Wars palette.

The barricades are cool. I did a few weathering highlights on the bone colour. Worth 8 hobby points [4 x 2pts].

I was lazy and didn't highlight the orange weathered areas. I should have done for my own obsession, but no one will be noticing it amongst all the other details.

The holo-adverts, giving strong Necron vibes. Worth 4 hobby points [2 x 2pts]

I'm not sure if the black is too dark and more green would have helped sell the look I was after, but the green glowing letters are cool, if a bit messy. 

Again, the gloss varnish let me down. At least I have chance to get some more to try and fix them before they go to the shed.

And the floor lights/force field emitters.

I didn't bother with any highlights on the weathering.

It just seemed unnecessary. I just love the Aethermatic Blue though.

It's not like these will have any in-game effect, just decorative scatter terrain. They're worth 4 hobby points though.

But they look really cool and will add ambience and narrative to our games. 

And the first of this season's Great Big Chrome Stamps of Approval. FYI, according to my spreadsheet this set is worth 41 hobby points [plus the 5 point terrain bonus]. That's a pretty good haul, when my non-binding goal is 100 points! So I'm off to a great start this season, especially as these weren't a project I'd started in the Season of Wood and capitalising by finishing them early in The Season of Chrome. In actual fact I'd have liked 41 points at the end of that season to break the 500 point milestone. Still, it's not a competition, just a record of achievement.

Terrain is everything - Crisis Protocol (and Star Wars Legion) Cosmic Terrain

Afternoon, you may recall I had been volunteered to paint the Crisis Protocol Cosmic terrain pack. But in the style of my Star Wars Legion Rebel Barricades.

Ordinarily I'd have had some earlier WiP pics, but I seemed to forget that was a thing. They were primed Red Oxide, then a slight zenithal with Army Painter Skeleton Bone. Orange and brown panels were picked out and then Burnt Umber art acrylics wet sponged, dabbed and daubed - to give that grimy effect.

I printed and sponged a stencil for the numbers. Used Aethermatic Blue in the 'power cell' windows. The panels lines had Strong Tone washes and some drybrush highlights for definition. 

I used an Aurebesh font to say 'Otty' on the front and 'shed'. Then realised the door should be green, but I liked red more. The number on top is Naboo Aurebesh, just with some stencil tweaks. It's 1066 for the Battle of Hastings, obviously!

Power cells/converters. I had planned to do some stripes on these before I realised there were natural panel lines demarcated already. However, you can just about see some unfortunate pencil marks I couldn't rub out.

I'm not a huge fan of the contrast on the pipes. The intention was more highlights but it just felt like a greasy rubberised tube so thought I'd leave it as is.

Don't know if these are free-standing lamps.

Or force-field generators. But the Aethermatic Blue once again came into its own.

It was actually the inspiration to put it on the booth and power cells. It does so much compared to the Basilicanum Grey on the pipes above.

Some illuminated signs. I was debating whether these would be green, pink, red or orange. But lime green seemed the sensible choice as I can really make it glow. The edges will be full on, like light shining on refractive acrylic. It also needs some Aethermatic Blue in the circles on the frames. You can also see I started the weathering on these - sponging VGC Charred brown on the edges. It's also based on my Deathwing Land Raider Redeemer technique.

Some basic barricades too. They're more like cast concrete, or plastic filled with water , they'll still serve as standard barricades in Legion.

So, just the weathering, glow FX and some additional details and these are done. I still think these would work in Crisis Protocol. They're obviously very different to the box art examples but I don't see them being outside of the Marvel realm of possibilities.

Imperial Knights - Cerastus Twins in manufactorum pt3. - Base - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Cerastus Castigator and Acheron. Having done the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 on the Adeptus Titanicus models it made sense to do my Cerastus twins.

They're far from being high on my TO DO LIST. I expect to be working on them some time in November or December. But the bases and legs have been primed for a while now.

Seeing them unpainted was a constant annoyance. Not least because the last update on the Cerastus Knights was exactly a year ago! I considered getting extra hobby points for projects long on the hobby table finally getting finished. But I had no idea this had slipped so far down my list that it's over a year old. If it's that easy to be delayed then I shouldn't get extra credit for it.

Goodness help me when I finally get back to my Sammael conversion!

Obviously there are still some additional bits to pick out on both these bases - skulls, pipes, debris and other details but they're mostly TO DONE!

The Castigator also has had its torso 'lock and key' attachment done. It's snapped off already so I'm not sure about if I need to pin it for reinforcement. Certain other elements need doing too, not to mention priming both torsos, carapaces and armour panels.

 

Interesting height differences compared to my Lancer.

And two Great Big Chrome 'BASE' Stamps of Approval.