Adeptus Titanicus – Titans in Manufactorum – Big Build – Prime and Base TO DONE!
As much as I wasn’t feeling the hobby there are always some things I feel comfortable doing and priming is one of them, because as sure as eggs is eggs I’ll get my mojo back eventually and if I’ve got stuff ready to go then I can speed things along immeasurably.
Adeptus Titanics – Titans in Manufactorum – Big Build – TO DONE!
It seems like ages ago now when I visited Liam’s to drop off his Adeptus Titanicus, we spent the evening building Titans and then I crashed my car on the way home. Here are the fruits of our labors. Liam was responsible for the Warhounds and Reavers…
Adeptus Titanicus unboxing
As we all face Covid-19 lockdown I thought I’d just post some stuff. Here’s an unboxing of the new Adeptus Titanicus set that Liam bought.
Afternoon #warmongers there’s been a lot of love online for #AdeptusTitanicus recently and that has lit a fire under my mate Liam to get into it. I had seen the Grand Master box for £162, but in a 25% sale for him, but when I went back the following week discovered the sale had finished that weekend!
Anyway, GW brought out the new starter set and I offered to pick one up for him from Element Games [don’t forget my code: DAV910 for DOUBLE Element Crystals] as it’s only a short train ride from work in my lunch. Adeptus Titanicus was possibly the 2nd boxed Games Workshop game I bought, in fact I still have the box and most of my original figures. If you go back to the start of my blog you can relive my history with this game.
I’ll be delivering the box to him, we’re going to have a bit of a build session and much like Blackstone Fortress I’ll be helping with the painting so we can get playing. A lot of this feels like we’re entering into another game system but I think that’s in part because 40k feels so complex and convoluted now. I think we’re all after something a little simpler, with less rules upon rules. Although I see there a re ‘detachment style’ benefits to certain maniples of titan hopefully it’s a stabler set of rules that aren;t ripe for abuse.
Saturday Knight fever
Anyway, just stating my intent and sharing these old pics, have a good weekend.
Ebay sales you won’t regret* – a Frakkin 40k Warlord Titan!!! Holy Omnissiah!
* When I say you won’t regret buying my mate Liam’s scratchbuilt Warlord Titan, you may do when you’re otherwise mild mannered hobby widow see’s it turn – up there is no hiding this 3 foot tall behemoth, as evidenced in the pictures from our Apocalypse WOW battle: Prelude | Turn 1 | Turn 2 | Turn 3 | Turns 4, 5 and 6 |
There have been quite a few legendary scratchbuilds of the Warlord Titan but I think this is one of the most Epic I’ve ever seen. In some respects it’s actually bigger than a Warlord should be, scale wise, and approaches Imperator scale! Anyone who’s ever wanted one and has the finances needs to check it out right now. Starting price is £300 but that is less than a Warhound Titan including it’s arms and considerably less than a Reaver Titan [body only] and this thing is HUGE, check it out next to Liam’s son! Not to mention his scratchbuilt Warhound, which is I believe actually a little bit bigger than the Forgeworld version!
Seriously this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get an amazing model and with the way GW is going we’ll be seeing a 40k scale version of Adeptus Titanicus any week now, rules in White Dwarf 😉 If you want to see more pictures and the Work in Progress shots head over to Liam’s Blog at Blue Warp Studios for more. Even if you’re not interested in the Titan yourself, and have a blog please share it or re-blog it on your own blog or forums that you frequent, there are only 9 days left in the auction. This is an amazing piece, deserves a good home and we want to see Liam get a decent price for all the effort, blood, sweat and tears so please let as many folk know as you can. Whatever he gets will be invested back into the hobby so whatever final price it is rest assured there will be all kinds of crazy cool awesomness coming out of Blue Warp Studios thanks to the lucky winners contribution to Liam’s hobby fund. Incidentally I believe he’ll be getting rid of his Fortress or Redemption too, so keep your eyes peeled to his ebay listing should the Warlord be too rich for your blood.
What’s on my palette?
Nearly six weeks since my last confession…and how’ve I been doing?
- Capillary towers – painted and complete
- Skyshield Landing Pad – painted and complete [pictures to follow next week!]
- Finished the Epic Reaver Titan
- Started painting 10 Termagants [and added a further 10 last night that will be primed soon]
- I also primed and base-coated 5 Deathwing [well I have to at least pretend I’m interested in them]
- Added a further 4 Spore Mines to my painting list [for giggles]
- Won a Tervigon on ebay and have set about trying to remove it’s CC claws and head [only bled once so far]
- Stripped the Land Raider Proteus
- Started the walls to the Skyshield
So there are some pics to follow for most of these. But first up here’s the last aborted attempt for the Skyshield walls that resulted in me ‘keeping it simple’ and familiar with the frame and Milliput process. I tried using Silicone Sealant which I probably would have gone with except for one thing – it’s Silicone, nothing sticks to it! I thought a coat of Vernidas might ‘set it’ hard, but it cracked when I flexed it. Equally Tamiya Clear Red X-27 wouldn’t stick to, or harden it. So although I can create a nice organic shape that looks like alien excretions it’s not going to solve my problem. I’d just like to point out the ultimate solution would be to create the walls in Milliput, then make a mold and cast clear resin for the ideal effect I imagined. But that’s not the simple answer, which, given the time available I need to go with. So that leaves us where we’re at – with building the five remaining frames.
5 more snapfit Termagants with Adrenal Glands on their tail! |
Dark Vengeance Deathwing |
New Tervigon, for £24! |
Four new Spore Mines |
I had plans to make a couple of Tyranid Void Shield Generators for Throne of Skulls too. This was the final epiphany from my last ‘What’s on my palette’. I’d thought to create a couple of them, based on the following concept but I can’t take them AND my Imperial Strongpoint so they’re hanging fire and I may well reconsider the design. I actually added the ‘battlements’ with suitable room for 10 gaunts to ‘man’ them, but then noticed they’re ‘impassable’ buildings so didn’t need to add space. Anyway, they may or may not get done, we’ll see. I also took out the bits for my Tyranid Icarus Las-cannon emplacement but have decided not to pursue that just yet as it uses the T-fex Rupture Cannon I may need to magnetize to create my Tyrannofex.
I also picked up 3 more Tyranid Warriors and a Carnifex on ebay. I intend to make 2 of the Warriors into Hive Guard and have the remaining one either with a Venom Cannon or Deathspitter. The Carnifex was also a bargain, I think in total I may have made something like a 65-75% saving and this came fitted with a Fleshborer Hive to make it a Dakkafex, which was my intention anyway, bonus! I also plan to pick up a Venomthrope, two more Zonathropes and one or two Biovores, depending on availability. To cap it all I may go insane and look at something from Forgeworld too! I might be able to get a good deal on something so we’ll see. So much for my Winged Tyrant being the ‘treat to myself to celebrate finishing the Tyranids’.
And THIS is why the Dark Angels are languishing! So I’ve still got to get the following done:
- 20 termagants
- Skyshield Walls
- New Tervigon
- 4 Spore Mines
- Deathwing
That’s the priority order. Everything except the Termagants would be nice to have, the gaunts are essential.
PS, I also broke the 200 follower barrier and had an increase in the amount of hits this month by 25%! High Score again – you guys rock!
To Done – Adeptus Titanicus Epic Reaver Titan
support your local blogger – Blue Warp Studios
He’s only gone and done it! My mate Liam has started a blog at http://bluewarpstudios.blogspot.co.uk/ I cannot recommend it enough, afterall I’ve been showcasing his insane talent and machine-like productivity for years. Lets face he scratchbuilt a Warlord Titan:
EPIC! Battle Report – Horus Heresy Skirmish
PeteB went and pickedup the bargain set of Space Marine 1st Edition about a month ago now. Following his ‘epic’ purchase we decided to have a battle. I thought I had more pictures but it seems I didn’t take as many as I first thought. Really we were just struggling to come to terms with the rules as I also had the 2nd edition rule set and Pete had the current Epic Armageddon ones. Having looked at the new rules one thing jumped out at me – the fact you have to roll off to see if your unit actually follows through on it’s orders [am I wrong in this?] I hate that dynamic so we went with 2nd edition and mixed in some of the stuff we liked from 1st.
I got to roll out some of my old Ultramarines and PeteB had his force of traitors ;). I really need the 2nd Edition Warlord Titan datasheet, so if anyone has it or a link to it I’d appreciate it. Instead we used the Adeptus Titanicus rules that make it incredibly difficult to kill with non-titan units. Anyway, this was our set up at the beginning of the game, we put down orders and PeteB won the initiative and moved first.
And we suddenly realised that putting everything on Charge orders was quite an issue as some of our faster units – bikes, speeders etc. were suddenly on the other side of the board. 2nd edition rules I think stated you couldn’t fire either, compared with 1st edition where it was at a -1 modifier. Therefore I tried to position to capitalise on the next turn, making sure I’d got everything in place to rain fire down on the traitorous scum.
My Tarantula battery set up on the hill but I’d bigged them up too much before the game and the next turn they were assaulted and wiped out. My Titan spent most of the game untouched, firing with impunity but not doing a whole lot of damage. 2nd edition doesn’t state you get +1 to hit on First fire orders, it’s only advantage being you ‘fire first’! Given most to hit rolls are on 5+ I’m not sure we liked this. When only a third of your hits do anything it can be a pretty unrewarding experience.
Sadly this is the last pic and so much happened after this. I tried to blow up buildings but again 2nd edition works by only barrage being able to damage them. My Thunderhawk came on, managed to do practically nothing and then put itself in a position in PeteB’s deployment zone where it was just riddled with fire and shot out of the sky. Pete also created a Land Raider sandwich attack – my four Land Raiders in the centre of the board [three by the time this event took place] were assaulted by 2 units of three Rhinos with a higher Close Assault Factor the Raiders easily dispatched the first Rhino but the second Rhino gets an additional d6 as a secondary attacker and he was able to ram the Raiders into oblivion.
Once again it was getting late and we called it a night. I’m not even sure who won, we didn’t even bother to work up which units had broken [and therefore we gain their VPs] and to be honest I didn’t care. This was a game full of fun, attack and counter attack, periods were nothing seemed to happen and then suddenly entire units were vaporised. The great thing was there was no emotional attachment to the forces, these aren’t my nids I’ve been using for years so it didn’t matter if I won or lost it was the ‘cinematic’ journey along the way.
We had a 40k battle the next time we met up, as that was in preparation for Blog Wars but I look forward to our next Epic confrontation. We still need to iron out some of the rules we want to play with, being happy with a system that works for us. I think if we have the correct edition datasheets for Warlords, Reavers and Warhounds that would help too. I was devastated with their rules in 2nd edition, they became so much easier to kill but if we play them like Adeptus Titanicus rules they’re overpowered so that has to change.
Shoulder pads, missile launcher, and head are all pinned to be secure. I’ve tried to do a similar metal effect as on my drop pod [do you remember that? G.O.D. that’s so long ago now and still so unfinished!] Anyway, I’ll add some more highlights and then probably a ‘devlan mud’ wash and then work on the red bits. I can’t decide to go basic highlights on the red or try and do a mottled blotchy pattern of highlights…