#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans - Gold and base colours

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the third of #DreadTober2026 and I've been #PaintingWarhammer I wasn't bluffing when I said I'd managed to get my head back in the game! You can see I got all the Retributor Armour highlights on the brassy/bronze mtallics.

I also bit the bullet and added the armour plates on too. Then picked out the various colours. The yellow areas had Instar Vintage-17 which is an equivalent of Macharious Solar Orange. 

Then the yellow is IV-16, and Iyanden Dark Sun equivalent. It's amazing how beige it looks in the bottle but how yellow it goes on the model.

Everything has since had a sepia/AP Soft Tone wash to tone down the metallics and blend some of the transitions or add shadows. All thee weapons were done to, all 10 of them and the heads.

When I took the Warhound pics I hadn't done anything to the Porphyrions. So I decided to do all the planned yellow areas and this is after the shade washes.

I don't know how I'm going to reconcile the chevrons on the legs.

Especially as they wrap around the legs of the knight on the right.

But I love the choices I've made and will find a way to make them work.

What I've also discovered is previously the Warhounds were worth just 5 hobby points each! Despite them being on 80mm bases, where the 5pt category is up to 70mm. The spare 6 weapons are another 6 points and the Porphyrions are 5pts each. So, this will be worth 26 points when done, but I do feel a little robbed, but what can you do?

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans - Hammered copper

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the second of #DreadTober2026 and this may not look like progress but I've actually done all the VGC Hammered Copper highlights. I'd taken a hit to the motivation by losing the heads for the Warhounds but I thought there was still value in pressing on with the copper. I had hoped to do the Retributor Armour highlights too, but I actually had an early night instead. It's really hard to balance DreadTober with my Season goal to get more sleep!

Still, I will get the Retributor armour done tonight and maybe also add the shade wash and pick out the armour colours. That might bring me back on track.

I also got all 10 weapons highlighted and primed some of the armour plates. They were a little behind but I'll bring them up to speed before the weekend. 

The Porphyrions are highlighted too and the process at least made me feel much less worried about getting these done too. I hope I've not jinxed myself there.

But despite my initial concerns over how much detail is on them this came together really quickly, so I have revised hope they can progress swifter than I'd imagined.

We can only see what happens.

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the first of #DreadTober2026 and I need to crack on with my Adeptus Titanicus Warhound Titans pledge. Having recently finished my Cerastus Knights I'm somewhat burnt out hobby-wise. So 2 Warhounds may seem like a relatively small pledge, compared to 2 AT Warlord Titans for DreadTober 2025 but I'm still not sure it's doable with my current level of hobby mojo. Hopefully, the community spirit will provide the fuel to get me going. 

Even so, I know my hobby pace and I'd already built and [mostly] primed the titans months ago, ready to be picked back up in October. Firstly I wanted to adjust the pose, so I started with one leg.

I cut off the top thigh and used flower arranging wire to extend the piston behind the knee.

I then drilled a hole through the hip sockets and waist. This was to allow the wire to pass between legs and waist and provide a solid structure for it all to be glued to. I will then fill the gap with some modelling material. I think I just went with tile adhesive/grout rather than kneed some green stuff or Milliput together.

I constructed a base with cork. Smoothed it was tile adhesive and added crackle paint for the titan impact.

I like doing these sorts of bases but they do delay things a bit - extra construction work. But it was months ago so doesn't really matter now . Sorry about the blurred pic.

Anyway, they both got done

And I was not surprised when I noticed that I'd done similar poses to my recent [? it was 2 years ago!] Armigers.

But, as it was last Hobby Season I get a belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval.

But the bases had not been painted, so my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 got done. I had mistakenly done a lot of the AP Rough Iron, which has been caught by the drybrushing.

Hopefully that'll be covered up by further metallic highlights but we'll see.

What worries me though is I have not primed the missing armour plates or heads. I have the sprue and could just do it but I know I have some already primed, basecoated and with the metallics done. 

I did them at the same time as my last Warhounds because they were spare, just in the off chance I ever did some more. Now that situation has come up and I'm not entirely sure where those bits are! Typical! 

In the mean time though I get my first  Great Big Amber 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval  of the season.

I also have a stretch goal of 2 Adeptus Titanicus Acastus Knight Porphyrions. Again these were secret squirrel projects that I was saving for DreadTober.

And the last of my Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamps of Approval.

Built and primed in March for completion in DreadTober 🤞 I did realise that keeping the guns separate would be easier, but only after I glued one set on.

I think when I was doing the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 on my Cerastus Knights I also did these at the same time.

Obviously there are still bits to do. I want to try and do the marble effect on these similar to my Red Marble Display Board 🔴.

There is so much detail on these knights, I have certain amount of dread [pun unintended but I'm embracing it now I spotted it] in painting them.

As stretch goal go they seem easy as they're not that big. And I've been surprised how quickly epic scale knights come together. But something about these worry me. 

So, despite all the planning and headstart in getting both the Warhounds and knights to a point I think is achievable...

For now I'm still giving myself my last belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval. And I'll give them a  Great Big Amber  one too when I do the marble bit, because I can 😝

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - WHITE BACKGROUND PICS ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the very last of #DreadTober2025 and my stretch goal Warlord showcase pictures on white background.

I think the side panels of yellow worked really well and that white cog on the blue weapon armour plate looks much cooler than the grey one I've already done. 

I wanted the access hatch to be yellow, but forgot to highlight the black edges. I'm not sure anyone will notice [or care] but I think that spot of yellow really helps break up the back. Although, I'm not convinced the silver skeleton was the best choice.

I can live with it but like I said in my previous post, enough is enough. I'm better off sticking to brassy bronze. I know it, I have the paints and I just think it looks better.

Even the bright gold is something I'm not 100% happy with. Mainly because it should be easy to do but I've somehow made it more difficult and not convinced it's as good as some of the easy tutorials I've seen online.

The sneaky Reaver kneepad on the left, versus the kneepad that has had its bottom trim cut off, maybe to help pose the model originally.

Plasma weaponry.

You can better see the additional blue glow effects I did on the coils at the back of the cannons.

And the opposite side too.

Trying to get a decent shot of the trophy Warhound head, painted in the style of Liam's Titans - he started it putting damaged grey and yellow heads and weapons on his bases.

The gatling options.

And perhaps a decent look at the Void Shield Generator glow effects. 

I did like trying different white heraldry patterns on the blue weapon armour.

Gryphonicus is predominantly grey and yellow, but blue was an original accent colour of the War Griffons.

I may have gone slightly overboard here, but I needed to add some extra blue to help reinforce it's part of the scheme, with my Reaver that has blue. And the added white patterns help reduce the overall density of blue on the model.

But I think I prefer the first one overall, although I really like the weapons on the second one.

Looking forward to getting to play with them at some point too.

Now, before I close this project for good I made one additional change after all the pictures. I added weathering powder to its feet.

No fixative, just brushed it on. A mix of both Rust Orange and Rust Red, to help match the Ferron Proxima colours.

It just felt too unnatural, the 'blue steel' next to the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 

And arguably it may have made the transition between feet and base almost seamless, I don't think that's a bad thing.

It really depends if you want the feet to stand separate from the base. I looked at adding it to my first Warlord but I thought it was less of an issue.

I definitely think it works much better from this view. Perhaps it creates a more realistic scale that this is a miniature of a giant machine.

And ultimately, if I wasn't happy, a wet paint brush could remove it in an instant!

Anyway, job done. Lets have a break and then we can see what's next...