Legion’s Bobperialis

And Finally the Warmaster  I only had to sell Kevin to afford it.

Took 3 days plus to build, partly as I let the glue cure on various bits before continuing on, leaving a lot of the armour panels and the arms off to aid in painting.

After the Infantry painting the Titans was relaxing!

I also did another pack of Questetis Knights , this time using a re-issued Legions Imperialis box, and was suprised that it had an extra spue with the missile launchers and fists, plus the Titanicus Command and wpn Cards.

So finally a picture of the mother hen and her chick’s.

Well having driven my self potty painting 8mm Infantry  I needed a break, luckily supplied by GWs mew and re released titan variants which I brought to round out my Legio.

Contining with my Legio Atarus Firebrands and their Cream and Red Livery, I started with the new Dire Wolves.

I then worked on the Nemesis, there were some fiddly bits on this one, and couldn’t help feeling there was a peive missing to hold body to legss but could not find anything in the Instructions, or had any left over or missing bits on sprue.

Having put it off to paint more fun things I had to do the Infantry,  so I started wit the Sentinels,  which were really just a variant of the Tank Schemes.

1. Then came the Ogryns which were probably the most complicated of the various Infantry. These were given a base coat of Gw Wraithbone,  then a coat of GW contrast Skeleto Horde which was the plan for the uniforms of the bulk of my Auxillia to carry on with the Desert look. Initially the flesh was just coated in One of the Darker GW fleshtone contrast, but it looked a bit dark, so I lightened it with Army Painter Barbarian Flesh.

The normal Infantry had the base, with armour and was painted in Gun metal with  Nuln Oil Wash.

I went a bit overboard with the BaneBlades 3 boxes worth( yes I will be adding Stormhammers etc )

After the lack lustre cammo showing on the previous tanks changed the Cammo blobs to GW contrast Snakebite Leather  which had much more orlf the effect I wanted.

The Decals I used are a mixture of GW,   with W2 French AFV for the card emblems ( to identify tanks) and British RAC stripes as I wasn’t going to paint them.

I used the same Cammo effect for my Tank Destroyer troop.

1. Having finally built enough of the armour to warrent a base coat I began on the Solar Auxillia ,, beginning with the Armour from my 2 x base boxes.

I wanted to go with the Desert theme, begun with the Air force so again gave them a base spray of Zandri Dust.

Now on the aircraft I had used GW Skelton Horde for the cammo bands, and this had worked well so intially on the The Malcadors and Leman Russ , did the same., adding cammo blobs, .

Only problem was the dry brushing of both the Zandri Dust and the 50/50 Zandri dust and Wraithbone tended to fade it almost out . Now on these I left it as was, thinking , that cammo in the 8th army tended to vary so would live with it , though I could have re picked it out with Freikorp Fleshshade wash, , but as the overall effect didnt look to bad left it as is.

I now moved on to some intact terrain, whilst in the interrim of building more L.I. models , a small office block , a warehouse and a bridge ( Which I will show later as I have temp mislaid the span peice @

I was originally planning to paint them all in as part of a whole set of Terrain for L.I. but then decided to paint them generic, as they in thoery would look historically, as believe it or not we have restarted using my Scytrex 1/200th armour, and they could cross over for that use.

All were painted using either contrast or Speedpaints .

The weathered , stained effect on the warehouse, I’d like to say was planned but was more of an accident , initially what I tried didnt work and its general look came about as I tried to fix the errors !

Right at the start of this project, I was having a re-org of my flat and found a box under the bed which I had no memory of. To my suprise it was full of unpainted 10mm resin terrain, which I think was from Timecast. Now the odd thi g is I have no memory of buying it, though I think it eas at least 12 years ago when I was doing g my last WW2 1/200th late War Project.

Now they are not Gothic Warhammer buildings but as the Heresy is 30k and many of the world’s would be what was there when the Empire arrived and would be either old buildings from the age of stife that had survived ( much of my Battletech terrain) and nwer builds which would have been put up with what materials were avail and with older techniques of construction, so may look similar to those of the middle east, and both Western and Eastern Europe.

The 1st 4 were total ruins, which I’ve done I a pale mud brick as in the middle east.

So far all the buildings have had a FW rattle can Wraithbone spray.

Then we these, an all over coat of GW skeleton Horde Contrast, then drybrushed GW Wraithbone and later Corvex White.Odd bits of timber were done with GW Wy wood contrast

The next 4 buildings were slightly less distressed and although the intial base coat and wash was the same, the brickwork was gone over with a GW  Skeleton Horde and Gryph Hound orange  for the British work varying the mix for the one roof. The other roof was done with GW Basilicum Grey.

After the wraitbone and white dry brush , I thought there want contrast between the rubble and the buildins so the rubble got a Nuln Oil Wash.

That is just a taster of the goodies in the box, next will be some Town buildings a farm, and a Bridge!

After all that tiny painting, I decuded to go back to painting Big Stompy Robots and finish my pule of Shame.

Whilst doing the Infantry GW had released a set of very nice decals for my chosen Legio Atarus which I was able to put on my newly finished Titans, allowing me to pair up some of my Warhounds with Similar Schemes.

In addition I Have Finished two more Reivers.

And finally but not Least, My final Warlord…. you may notice that the red is coming more and more predominant , that’s was because it was easier to workwith tha the chrome… plus I decided more veteran titans get more panel’s as its easier to cover up the Battle Damage.

With this I have now finished all the models in pile of shame, and have only two boxes of Knights recently purchased to make up their numbers.