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...
