One of the spoils I brought back from foreign lands was a Warhound titan - Although I'm not sure if I saved on shipping based on the cost of the plane ticket... Hmm.  In any case, one of the wonderful Fugitives was kind enough to set me up with a custom upper carapace with a resin Machina Opus on it, and I couldn't wait to get started painting. ...And there it sat in a half-finished state for the last month and a half. But no longer!


I'd decided to go with Legio Metallica, as the Gold and Red with Black & White hazard stripes ties in well with the intended scheme for the upcoming Ad-Mech revival army. Some pretty minor conversion work on the rest of the model to add some banner hangers and so forth.


I took a crack at weathering the loincloth banner, and it turned out all right. It was only after the fact that I realized I hadn't trimmed the ragged edge into the banner, but it's going to be pretty tough to trim it now. Ah well. I added the Adeptus Titanicus symbol to the right leg and painted on a scroll with some High Gothic (read as: terrible Google mistranslation) nominally reading "Ride The Lightning". Har! I was exceedingly pleased with the effect on the silhouette the updated carapace gives, it feels a little sleeker without the big spikes. It's definitely a challenge painting something on this scale - now that it's in 'showroom condition' I'm considering going the weathering route on it. I think I'll hold off until I get some more practice in with the World Eaters, however.

In any case, rather pleased with how it's turned out. Now it will sadly just go into a battlefoam tray and not see the tabletop until well after 6th ed comes along. Or 7th, based on how our last apocalypse game was almost 3 years ago... Sigh.

Greetings and salutations, everyone! The dust has finally settled from the trip across the pond, there were mountains of work to plow through upon my return and I finally have a chance to post.


First off, the trip was spectacular! We had a blast, and probably inadvertently offended everyone we met (though I was on my best behaviour). There are definitely things I'd do differently schedule-and-venue wise, but all in all it was tremendous fun. As I get them sorted out, I'll put up some pictures of the trip, and the excellent campaign weekend run by the Tempus Fugitives. Let's just say my record for the trip was 0-7 (laughing all the way). To illustrate, here's a shot in mid loss taken at Warhammer World against the hilarious and incredibly friendly Jono and his terrifying World Eaters.


Now that I'm back, I have done a bit of hobby time in over the last couple weeks, in particular I've been working up something BIG!



While I was over there, I picked up a Warhound with some custom sculpting work. Cleaned it up a bit, and added a bit of extra detail here and there and it was ready for primer. The titan will be part of my upcoming Ad-Mech army, with the option of using it with my guard, so I decided to go with the loyalist Legio Metallica. The red and gold scheme will tie in nicely with the Ad-Mech, and it'll be a nice contrast to the dark blue of the Mordian 7th.


Got most of the base colors blocked in, though there's still quite a bit left to go. I'm planning on adding several banners to it once it's complete using the BoLS templates, but I need to work out the right scale to print them out. So far, so good, however!