I'm trying something a little different with the heraldry on this titan. It well bear some quartered yellow and black as personal heraldry. But there will still be the usual hazards on the outside of each shin. I'm toying with putting hazards on one of the yellow panels in the quartered design, but still thinking on that.
The remaining armor on the sprue. It's always easier to tackle all the panels this way - but beware. It's easy to get confused when painting different colors on left/right sides, etc. Errors have been made in the past. The hazard stripes will go on next, then the brush painting begins. I like to give each coat 24hrs to dry fully before masking and laying down another color. Overkill, perhaps, but It seems to address most of the issues with masking tape pulling up the paint underneath. Some use lacquer clear coats to add protection, but I prefer to keep the layers of paint to a minimum.
So that's the project so far. I love painting these AT kits and look forward to making more progress on this one. This leaves a Warmaster Iconoclast for Legio Tempestus as the last of my big engines to build and paint. After that, I only have the new(ish) Direwolves and the Legions Imperialis Warhounds to paint. Then maybe I get to the Knights one day...maybe. I guess they feel more useful for games of Legions Imperialis so there's some incentive.
Check back for more progress soon. I'm planning to get back in the habit of two posts per week to keep things interesting here and inspire me to make better progress. Ever since the holidays I've been off pace, it seems.
Cheers and Happy Gaming!
Sweet, love the growing Maniple. I do fear that AT will get neglected now in favour of LI, which is a shame as the rule set is perfect for Engine War and less clunky than if foot soldiers are needed. Knights make the perfect foot soldiers of AT! And we use AT rules for Titan Walks at TOC (AT28mm with adjusted distances and template sizes!)
ReplyDeleteI have quite a few AT Titans in the to-do pile too! Thanks for the reminder ;)
Thanks! I agree that we've likely seen the last of AT now that the rules for Titans is published for Legions Imperialis. Sounds like the LI rules are nice for fielding a large number of knights and titans where the AT rule set might bog things down. but there's no argument that the AT rules are where it's at for running titan on titan combat.
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