#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans - TO DONE! 🔴

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the eighth of #DreadTober2026 and I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Adeptus Titanicus Warhound Titans and they are TO DONE!

And you can see finally their weaponry too. This was one of the reasons for adding to my Warhounds - the new weapons available from the Legions Imperialis box.

Some of them seem a little situational, but the Swarmer Missiles load out looks a no-brainer. The Melta Lance might be OK, but with a 6"/10" -1 accuracy you have to get very close to get the benefit.

But the other bonus, and I may be incorrect is Warhounds can come in a squadron of 3? If so sharing Void Shields on 3 Warhounds in a pack seems really annoying to whomever you're playing against!

But I have 6 of them now so if it's correct I could run two squads of three.

Anyway, the other weapons also got done. I still have a metal Ursus claw from original Adeptus Titanicus.

The Volkite Eradicator looks OK, but it's Draining so I'm not overly keen on a Warhound.

The Natrix Shock Lance might be quite good too. But again it's a very short range and also Draining.

But I think it bypasses Void Shields so it could be awesome if it can get withing range do it's trick.

Overall I'm just really pleased with the finished result. They are slightly different than my other Warhounds, but also follow my existing template enough.

The blue Warhound is the biggest departure, with no yellow on the titan at all. It's only represented on the weapons. 

However, this will hopefully match up with my other 'blue' Warhound which itself looked our of place. 

I felt more blue was needed to try and cement it as an accent colour rather than an aberration.

And with that I get the third  Great Big Amber Stamp of Approval .

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And surprise, surprise the Acastus Knight Porphyrions 'stretch goal' was also met.

Now I've definitely made more compromises than usual on these. Not just to meet the deadline.

But I was also losing patience and even though I found some elements easier to do than they appeared there were some that were deceptive and I was just done with trying to accommodate them. 

Lets start with decals. I just couldn't entertain them. Aside from the skull cogs on the groin banners I just didn't want to faff around. And there is a definite itch telling me I should. Something on the side gun panels at least. But the patterns would be obscured.

Maybe big numbers on the missile launcher carapace top left? But there isn't a lot of room for them and the chevron would be obscured.

So I didn't bother.

Blessed Verdigris 🗽was also an issue. The right Porphyrion had every brassy bronze rivet blessed. But when I came to the left one I was spent so just blessed the lower legs. 

I'm much less concerned about this as an issue as Verdigris manifests in many different ways and I think both of these are valid representations.

However, rivets as a whole have been overlooked. Usually I add them in my knights and you would think the bigger knights would deserve them. 

But there are dozens and dozens. I refer back to my issue with adding battle damage to these - they'd just be too busy. I think it'd be overwhelming with all the rivets painted, especially when my ability to paint them does not scale - paint a rivet the same size on epic as well as 40k size. So it really life the painted rivets would be bigger than my head!

Anyway, they are 'finished, not perfect', and that is good enough for me. So with my DreadTober pledges complete what is next for me?

And we have the fourth  Great Big Amber Stamp of Approval , another 4 models, 20 points, plus 6 additional weapons which I'm counting as 10 models in total and 26 hobby points for the season.

AI

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Porphyrions - Highlights

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the seventh of #DreadTober2026 and I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Adeptus Titanicus Acastus Knight Porphyrions. And that focus has been rewarded. The red and yellows have all been highlighted

Even the black has had one set of highlights and I glued the guns on that no longer felt useful being kept separate.

The marble effect has been painted and I'm reasonably happy with the result. The yellow and black chevrons on the carapace of the left Porphyrion is a bit wonky but I'll live with it.

Decals will be a bit challenging, but I'll need to do some freehanding. Also the guns need to look like the laser glass insulators I usually do, so some more shading and specular highlights. 

A closer look at the marble effect. I'll be adding some yellow flock to it too eventually.

These end up a bit darker Vermilion than my 40k knights and I'm not so sure about battle damage. I think there's enough going on already with them that it would be hard to work out what was going on visually. Even adding the House Raven symbol feels like more visual clutter.

So I just need to be careful and crack on.

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans - Highlights and decals

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the sixth of #DreadTober2026 and I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Adeptus Titanicus Warhound Titans. Realising that perhaps some highlights might be beneficial before adding the remaining decals I cracked on.

Grer, yellow and blue highlights splodged on to give that mottled effect. Then, when it came to adding the decals I felt the blue carapace, even though perfectly split with the heraldry, seemed a little overwhelming on the side without stripes. So I added a chain decal.

Identification numbers on the back. Having used up all the 2 digit and a Greek letter decals from the Armiger kit I'm now having to create my own from the various sized numbers supplied. Very fiddly trying to get the spacing correct.

The left Warhound needed a little something on the side of the carapace. I'm not sure the kill markings work alongside the winged griffon head, but these a re just small rolls of the dice. They either work or they don't but it's not destroying the overall model. Battle damage next

As you can see the Porphyrions are way behind schedule here. I've sorted the yellow out and added in the black panels.

But all of the red needs doing and black chevrons. Not forgetting the marble on the bases.

Despite the size of them they can still be a little overwhelming. But it surprises me how quick something actually gets done when I focus.

So I'm going to put in a full session in trying to bring them up to speed and back on track with the Warhounds.

It's still tight as I've got the hobby shed on Thursday and I do want to go to the cinema and see Laika studio's Wildwood. Can I get them done in time?

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans - Decals and highlights

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the fifth of #DreadTober2026 and I've been #PaintingWarhammer and I'd foolishly thought decals was the next step.

I mean it wasn't completely wrong and this did prompt progress elsewhere as soon as I realised I may have been a bit premature.

So I obviously went in and added more grey, yellow and blue highlights across both of them/

Although there is still plenty of red oxide primer showing through on the left grey carapace. I also attached the heads, which is starting to make them look more finished.

I've since been quite productive. There's just a week left but the weapons are almost complete. I'm at the stage where I just need to do all the battle damage, highlights and FX. 

Meanwhile, the Porphyrions. Although they have fallen behind a little bit I added the yellow areas.

Getting them ready for their chevrons and heraldry markings.

Next up to do the yellow and then red highlights. Not forgetting the marble effect on the bases. I think I'm actively trying to ignore that bit for the moment.

I'm slightly less confident on getting these done too. There seems like a good chunk of work that needs doing before I change that opinion.

They're still both achievable, I just need a couple of good nights progress for both the titans and the knights.