WIP - Warmaster Titan for Adeptus Titanicus - part 2

 

Greetings and welcome back. As I've been cobbling away on this Warmaster titan for Legio Ignatum, I'm in that place where I don't have all that much to show for it.  The picture above shows that I have the main assembly done and some armor painted.  After this, I paint all the armor plates and that is where things really aren't that interesting...

Here is the main armor sprue with all the parts painted.  I first use an airbrush to lay the colors down, with masking to get the stripes.  Then I use a brush to paint all the gold trim...oh the many, many parts with trim...

Once the base colors are laid down, the parts are sprayed with gloss varnish and then shaded with a thinned wash of GW Agrax Earthshade.  The varnish helps prevent the usual staining and gets the thinned wash to the recesses and off the flat surfaces.  This worked well with the Warhounds I completed recently, so I used the same method here. For the prior titans painted without gloss varnish, there was a lot of rework to clean up the panels after shading - that is not necessary here.

Here are the rest of the armor panels and the head painted to the same level.

And the upper armor and void shield generators on the carapace shaded to match.

And let's not forget the painted toenails. That's where I'm at today.  The next stage will be clipping the parts and touching up the paint.  Then all the parts will be attached and the torso will be glued to the legs.  At that point, I'll be able to share the first look at what this Warmaster will look like assembled.  Then I'm on to transfers and the weapons and this beast will be close to done.

Check back next week to see a much more interesting view of the marvelously detailed titan.It's a beauty and will make a great center piece for my Legio Ignatum force.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!