Straight up stolen

I love community. I was doing some work today and came back across Drakes Warlord on www.titanownersclub.com and saw how he did his "gunk" for they oil grime and to deepen colors.

What a nerve wrecking thing to do but what an effect.  After coating some of the painted parts in floor wax I mixed up some Winton oils, burnt umber and ivory black with some spirits into a gravy consistency. Fully coated the bits, hit with a heat gun till dryish and buffed with an old tshirt.

I think I might switch the black for something not has harsh for the larger plates but the effect is good on the legs and head.

Side Jobs

Progress has slowed a little on my Warlord in attempt to catch up with some commission work. You have to love when commission work includes a Titan, no matter the source. 

I had a chance to work one an old Armorcast Reaver. I've done several of these kits down through the years. On the bench is a Phanton and two Revanent knight/Titans.

The client wanted red and simple. A days worth of work.

Engineering trials

Got an opportunity to play some Apocalypse this weekend. 3000 points per player, 9 players.

Usually the group who played Apoc come loaded for bear, this go around it was a little light.

Helios went into battle "naked" as his plates were in the shop.

Because of that I went more for the World Burner roll just plucking terrain off the table. Then Tau decided to poke the Warlord and took down "A" void shield.....they had to die.

Round 1 my Titan Guard (Ad Mech) were able to dispatch four Battle suits who deep struck in a little to close for comfort.  With the pesky suits a pile of burning radiated husks the Warlord was able to turn its attention to a group of Space Wolves standing on a hill. Helios reached out and burned 30 down as well as a Rhino. The Tau were using cover to effectly so three buildings had to go.

Round 2 more Tau, Riptides, Battlesuites, Stormsurge. All needed removed and Helios saw to it. To sweeten the count more Space Wolves and a Land Raiders were melted to slag.

Round 3 a Supremency Suit dared to remove two more shields so I removed the Supremency suit. I then removed a walled fortification which saw the death of some Tyranids, Helios was able to turn a Marloc into mush with his point-blank defense weapons. I was also able to recover all Void Shields.

Lesion learned: modeled with 8 void shields, only six of them work.

Once again into the B...ath

Making some prep work before painting. After the endskeleton was constructed I still had drilling and pinning and gluing and the like so I went ahead and soaked it the heads and weapons in a mix or Castrol Super Clean and water to help any stubborn release. I then gave everything a coat of Matt sealer. After that's dry it's onto base the primer coat.