MonsterMarch6 - Week Three Progress

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Greetings and welcome back to MonsterMarch here at 262Krieg. Happy Spring!  Week three had me peeling the remaining tiny tape flecks off the Warbringer Titan armor for the final camouflage reveal.  That took a lot more time than I expected to do well.

Lots of dazzling armor panels. I'm spoiling the next task for week three - custom checker transfers for the leg armor.  More on than later.

The body of the titan came out well.  There is a lot of metal cleanup needed due to over spray, but the camouflage looks good.

The Warbringer's head sports a camo beanie.  Lots of cleanup and general painting needed on the head now.  But the beanie looks solid.

  SO....those checkered leg panels.  I spent/wasted a BUNCH of time working on the transfers.  First I had to make patterns.  Then trace them onto the custom decal sheet and cut out the transfers.  And finally they needed to be applied.

On the left is Warbringer template and on the right is the Warlord template. They are made from heavy paper stock.  I use tracing paper to get the initial shape, then transfer that to paper and hand cut the results to get the best fit using fine, sharp scissors and a hobby knife.

I used an original custom transfer sheet I printed back when the first Tempestus engines were painted.  It's not great and I've learned a lot since.  But I wanted to be sure I has a consistent checkered pattern across all the engines. I wasn't confident that I'd get the check size correct, for instance, if I printed a new sheet. I could have done a better job archiving my artwork there.

With the little time left me in the week, I got started on the Warlord's armor trim.  And there is plenty of trim to paint.  The colored panels start to show their worth with the trim properly framing the designs.  While I have a lot of parts on sprue, you can begin to see that the project might be further along than it seems. During week four, I will be cleaning up the metal skeleton and dry brushing everything in preparation for assembling all the armor.  

With the titans assembled, all the detail painting will begin...and ultimately the bases will be painted (and in the case of the Warlord, assembled).  I'm pretty happy that March has five weeks this year!  I'm going to need it. But good news, progress will really accelerate now that all the time intensive, fussy bits have been completed.

Check back to see these tiny, yet mighty, engines walk.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!