MonsterMarch6 - Week four progress

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Greetings and welcome back to #MonsterMarch6. We're drawing to a close and it's looking grim for my chances at securing two painted titans for this challenge.  That said, I've made some great progress and as promised, both titans now walk!

The week started with some more assembly.  I dry-brushed the titan skeleton and applied a few minor details with tin-bitz before removing the armor from the sprue, cleaning things up and gluing them in place.  Funny (um...tragic) story there.  After believing I had been careful to keep track of which parts were left and right, I managed to get the leg/knee armor backwards.  After much cursing and throwing of tools, I quieted down and repainted the knees then reapplied the transfers.  Thankfully I have a good supply of transfers to draw from for these sorts of issues.  Here's a look back at what the legs looked like originally after I applied the first set of transfers.

Ugh.  So that cost some precious hobby time. But the truth is, the facts of that mistake are only here on the blog now. The titan looks just fine and the bad memory will soon pass.  Take a lesson from this misadventure and pay careful attention to orientation of parts on the sprue if you choose to paint your projects as I have here.  With the issue fixed, I continued to assemble the main body and glue it down to the legs.  I made the decision back when I started with these models that I wouldn't bother magnetizing the waists.  Martis Renes walks!

I'm working on the weapons now.  Here are the missile pods after getting the trim and missile nose-cones painted.

While all this was going on, I was also painting a lot of Warbringer armor trim.

 And then some more trim...plus dry-brushing the body in preparation for final assembly.

Assembly of the Warbringer leg armor went well without issue.  My custom checkered transfer work on the legs will require a lot of cleanup, but it looks passable from this angle. I made the conscious decisions to just move forward and come back to that later.

And now Liberatus Mortis walks too!

So, with two days before the end of the month it's clear I won't have these titans complete.  But I'll make a good push on the Warlord, working right up to the bitter end Thursday, no doubt. I'm actually very excited to have these two titans very close to done.  The chosen color scheme is A LOT of work and it will be a good accomplishment to have two more titans complete.  I'll use the momentum to carry me on to completing the remaining Reaver and Warmaster iconoclast titans which will fill out the collection (I also have a Reaver and Warmaster waiting in the wings for Legio Ignatum).

So one more #MonsterMarch6 post after the 31st to share my results for the month, but there will be more to come before these two titans are in the DONE column. Congratulations to all of my fellow #MonsterMarch6 challengers out there!

How are your projects going?

Cheers and Happy Gaming!