Adeptus Titanicus - Questoris and Cerastus Knights in Manufactorum pt. 1 and 2

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Adeptus Titanicus Knights. I've been base-coating the Cerastus Atrapos. Adding the silver and I really liked the dark red, part of me thinking the first red highlights on the left had spoiled the grimdark essence I'd achieved so far.

The yellows had been shaded and toned too. I had hoped the yellow shins and toes [I don't usually paint the knights toes] would look cool like my Reaver Titan did. 

The Questoris are painted to match my own 40k scale Knights. With Euronymous, Lady Pettorini and Ser Ellenbogen. The 4th Knight was painted up as Lord Grevan Raven, current Princeps of House Raven, Iron Duke of Kolossi.

I mean technically these are an offshoot of House Raven so Lord Grevan Raven wouldn't be in this group but it was the only Warden in one of my old Codex that I thought would be fun to replicate in mini-miniature.

And a fair few highlights later. Positives - the chevrons have come out really great, as have the tiny House Raven symbols. Negatives - I'm not convinced about the yellow feet and shins. I've lost a lot of the yellow because my chevrons were thicker than I expected them to be. Although, that thickness made them work so well ⚖. 

I'm also not convinced about the white cog on top of the shins. Maybe it should have been black, or kept silver like the one on the right. It's just odd looking...

Well at least I'm happy with the gunmetal skeleton. It was pretty much just a wash with a very slight drybrush. Arguably easier to achieve than my brassy/bronze. A few bits of gold here and there for definition and variety.

The Questoris, Euronymous [the green one] had limited progress as I was focusing on the red ones. I've been able to match my 40k scale knights. My freehand felt so much more effective than usual. I mean it's far from perfect but at this scale it looks really good.

I even decided to freehand the cog symbols on the shoulders. I have some decals that may have been the correct size but it felt like a faff to gloss varnish, decal, varnish again and shade. Not to mention the cogs would need to be cut and didn't contain skulls. Easier to just hand paint the five symbols, especially as I was already freehanding the black and white crenelated edges.

There's an honesty in freehanding that even if it's imperfect it's admirable because of its imperfections - you had a go and that should be lauded. Decals have their place too, but combine them both in the same space and I think the perfection of the decals undermine the effort of the freehand, because it highlights how imperfect it is. So, freehand the lot and then I get to bask in the cute factor! Teeny, tiny, ickle Knights

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - Yellow and decals

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the thirteenth of #DreadTober2025 and my stretch goal Warlord didn't quite make it. My fantastic progress from Warlord 1 didn't quite carry over to Warlord 2. A number of things came up in the last week that allowed me to take a step away and come back to it slightly refreshed and invigorated. I had done all the yellow highlights before this, but obviously didn't take pictures before adding the decals.

And the decals were part of the reason I had delayed. I already knew it had been a slog on the first one, but this is over 4 hours worth of work. Nearly 60 decals are on this titan and it's alternate weapon options! I'd say I'm happy with most of them, the Gatling Blaster has a quartered cog that is a bit ropey.

But we're well aware at this point that battle damage will help tone some of these down and fix those that look like they're not in the the right place. I also had a few times where the decal ripped, or folded on itself. 3 times I had to try on one gun armour plate to get the decal I wanted. Hopefully it's easier now back to just painting. 

I am considering not varnishing the front of the gun armour plates so I can add 'engine kill' markings. I added a couple already but I stopped when I had the idea. So I've all the battle damage still to do. Some additional highlights on all the lenses and reds. The gold needs a highlight so it's less like my brassy bronze. I want to add some blessed verdigris 🗽to the silver skeleton. Yes, I know it seems odd but it does happen in reality and I've already shown it works on my silver battlefield assets.

So, there we go for #DreadTober2025 I've already been looking at next year's badge, but the initial results weren't as I'd hoped. So, I'm going to learn from this experience, take a break and come back refreshed and invigorated.

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - Highlights

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the twelfth of #DreadTober2025 and my stretch goal Warlord titan is a bridge too far. I'm not upset about this, I didn't imagine it was achievable afterall. In fact I'm really pleased the momentum for the first one got me this far. And yet, I'm also slightly sad that that momentum evaporated all too quickly. I started with the dappled effect and it just felt tedious. Probably because I was much less concerned about it when I did the first Warlord. It was very messy and casual. Here I was more careful, which gave me a thrill while I was doing it, because I felt how much effort I was putting into it. But at the end I was just disappointed at my lack of progress and how much I still had to do! This painting malarkey is just riddled with emotional and mental challenges. It's a wonder I see it as fun at all! 🤪 

Anyway, there's an abundance of blue on this, as I painted all the weapon armour blue [except the left arm mount, which is for the personal heraldry]. So I wanted to minimise this a bit and put a diagonal line through the armour. This will be white eventually. The Apocalypse Missile Launcher has one too, but leaning backwards. While the Turbo Laser carapace weapons have checks on the front half. 

This goes some way to mitigate the excess of blue and gives me an opportunity to play around with freehand. You can see the left arm has the personal heraldry pattern. This will echo the knee plate from one of my Reavers, they're from the same maniple. They both have yellow lower legs too.

I think I added some more Basilicanum Grey to the grey panels too. I wasn't 100% happy with the heatbloom on the gatling barrels. It looked OK in pictures but not up close. So, I toned it down a little with Leadbelcher over the sepia and purple bits. Then subtly added a purple wash and I don't think it needs the sepia. But the blue is what was already there. I may have to tweak the Plasma glow too. Some other bits on the gun need some blue glows so I need add some of my blue to the airbrushed bits so it matches.  

Here's a close-up or the dappled grey. So much of that underpainting is rough, it's almost pink in places where the grey basecoat over the red oxide primer wasn't opaque enough.

This is after a glaze over the first set of dappled highlights. Again I was super pleased with my efforts. This felt awesome and exactly as I wanted it to be. Then I looked at the first one and the Reavers and realised I'd been less detailed about the blobs, so this felt like something of an anomaly. It shouldn't matter at all. I've already acknowledged there can be differences due to changes in the Forgeworld manufacture, hence the silver skeleton. 

So, whatever reservations I had were mostly put aside and I was left with the rather mundane task of repeating this on all the panels, grey, blue and yellow. Then I have to highlight the gold trim, two sets of highlights. Which might look unnecessary, but Warlord 1's brassy bronze isn't a million miles away from this gold. I'd rather it was clearly different and identifiable as gold, so it needs to be done.

I'll have one more 'official' DreadTober post this week. It'll show the current WiP as the month comes to an end - 'this is as far as I got'. I'll still be tagging it DreadTober afterwards but I've some other delayed posts to share too, not to mention my #ArmiesOnParade2025 post!

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - Yellow and shading

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the eleventh of #DreadTober2025 and having met my Legio Gryphonicus Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan pledge I'm cracking on with my stretch goal Warlord titan.

And that's starting to look much better. The yellow and grey of Gryphonicus.

The coverage is insanely ugly, I just really hope that it works to my advantage when I try to create the mottled effect.

With some variation in tone already hopefully the shading and stippled highlights will create exactly what I'm after. It's amazing how little I recall of just doing this the other week!

And here we are with some Basilicanum Grey Contrast shading on the grey panels.

And Contrast Iyanden Yellow stippled on the yellow panels.

It's not the first time I've looked at that rich yellow and wished this was as dark as my yellow got. But I'll be adding a whole lot more brighter yellow highlights to it. It'll look great but I am going to miss this richness.

The guns and all the armour trim got shaded too. All the leg armour is glued on at this stage just so it's easier to paint. The carapace armour is separate as is attaching it to the base.

Only two days left and I doubt it will be finished by the end of DreadTober. Although these pics were from last Thursday and progress has been decent, my son is home this week and we're seeing Skindred tomorrow night. So hobby time has been tight. This one has been a little more challenging than the first one. So I don't want to push it. And lets not forget I have an additional 4 pair of weapons to complete. Although, it will be worth 18 points, 10 for the 'dread' sized model and 1 each for the additional weapons, as if they were 25mm based figures. 

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan - WHITE BACKGROUND PICS ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the tenth of #DreadTober2025 and just going to share my white background picture of my completed Legio Gryphonicus Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan. 

Not going to say a huge amount, I'll let the pics speak for themselves mostly.

As you can see I added a bit of blue [fer't Dad's] on the axes, to bring it back toward the official Iron Regent heraldry. I'm not entirely sure it's any better.

But the legs are my favourite element I think.

The void shield glow worked out really well too. Just some thinned Bahama Blue, then Nihilakh Oxide and then white.

Here we go, lets get the second wone done.