Legio Mortis – Adeptus Titanicus

Now, for what I was super excited for! I decided to do the plates in with candy colors over metallics. Never done that before. I have two colors to worry about, one of which drove my decision on how to approach this. Typically, you see a very high reflective silver under the candy coats. I wasn’t sure how that would work for the Mortis black, as that’s a lot of the model. I don’t have a good black transparent paint. I decided to utilize more of my favorite metallic paints. Alchemy range by Scale75 has some really great (and odd) colored metallic options. For the Reds, I used Garnet for the base metallic and Secret Weapon Ruby Wash for the transparency, for the blacks.. well the Black Metal of theirs isn’t very dark. I ended up choosing Vallejo Air Color Black Metal and Secret Weapon Heavy Body Black for the transparency. The black only took two coats before it was about right.. it was subduing the metallic sheen heavily.

The above, I had to do by hand as the model had to be assembled to that point before painting. The majority of the armor though, that isn’t the case. Back to the airbrush. The effect comes off a little bright here, planning for a wash that needs to happen later.

That’s it for the first week. It’s been good to have a large project again.

This is the largest model I’ve ever done, and actually it’s also my first mechanical model. Even when I did play 40K it was Nids. It gives me a great opportunity to do something I’ve always wanted.. but I’ll get to that. First steps are first steps and a model this big really needs some airbrushing. This is a Vallejo Black Primer, Followed by Scale75 Black Metal Alchemy sprayed on a negative angle with Scale75 Thrash Metal Alchemy on the positive. Drenched in GW Nuln Oil and vigorously dry brushed with Scale75 Heavy Metal Alchemy. I haven’t done alot of any of that for awhile now, it was great fun.

Now, the base gave me a bit of trouble. I put crackle paint down and airbrushed a deep red, Vallejo Model Color Black Red. My plan was to dry brush an orange on top but that just wasn’t working. I ended up having to layer on orange pigment (Secret Weapon Rust Orange) but the crackle got buried. (pictured later)

So, I started this a week ago. I haven’t bought any Games Workshop kit for well over a decade but I couldn’t pass up Adeptus Titanicus. Now that the prices have been jacked up 95% in a week’s timeframe I remember why I haven’t been a fan. Oh well, I was able to get a bunch before Warlord prices went from 110 to 215.

It appears I gave myself an unnecessary  heart attack by being on NZ pricing. Still expensive though 🙂

I haven’t been painting a great deal in the past year either. Just a few random fantasy miniatures for myself and friends. But here it is. Firstly, Assembly.