Wednesday 24 February 2016

The Gods of Graia rise

Good evening everyone - sorry for the late posting but as you'll see I've been working on a bigger than normal model today.

You may remember a while ago I posted about my growing titan legion maniple for Legio Astraman. The maniple currently stands at 2 Reavers and 2 Warhounds in various stages of finish. I believe Legio Mortis is itching for a smack down so I really want to get the big greens ready to march at Warhammer World. My maniple will feature 5 Reavers in total and as such I have lots of weapon options to switch around in the maniple. Recently I have been working on the two fists for the reavers, I really like the look of the double fist (even if it's not that practical) and considering it's a force to square up to other titan maniples the combat bonuses of having the two combat weapons may come in handy (pun intended).


 Here's the nearly completed head, with the gold trim and detailing to complete.



I built the fists as sub assemblies. The main unit was built and tested against the body builds to ensure a natural or slightly aggressive pose and each of the fingers is a separate part (mainly for ease of painting).

I went for a closed fist arrangement as I felt this worked best when the fists are paired on one engine. this was fairly easy to do as once one finger was positioned I could then use that as a template to fix the others together.



As with the rest of my god engines the painting was the same. Halfords black primer, my titan metal mix (see previous post) with the inclusion of Lahmian medium to make the paint flow - as when I first started the titans the majority of the mix wasn't base paints as they are now. Once dry I washed with Nuln Oil and then dry brushed with Leadbelcher.









The greens were done with old Games Workshop paints, a foundation of Knarloc Green Foundation Paint and then a top coat of Goblin Green (needless to say I'm always on the hunt for pots of these - especially as Forge world have announced that titan support forces are coming soon).




So the first fist is nearly there, with detailing and gold trim to do, the second fist I have decided will be half green and half blue and white check split down the detailing on the fist.

So here stands the second Reaver, still with some plates to finish. I really need to build some official weapon systems for these now, perhaps the two volcano cannons and some more D weaponry - it's also a great inroad to building Reaver no.3.




Next I want to finish the carapace detailing, as at the moment it only has the block colours applied.


So stay tuned, and if you get a spare minute whilst passing any of the Forge World design studio team don't forget to whisper 'Legio Astraman transfers' into their ear.

Keep young and beautiful.

KF


16 comments:

  1. Five Reavers, flippin' awesome! Great stuff and rare to see green titans, so kudos to you.

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    1. Thanks Siph, check out the family portrait in my previous post;

      http://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/legio-astraman.html?m=1

      It's not all about Reavers :-)

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  2. I am in awe of the size of your force. It is Demi-Legio. The other thing is I love the metal work effects you have on the structure. It looks great. I am looking forward to eventually learning more about this Legio!

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  3. Looking great!! The Titan battles that these guys are going to fight in are going to be a lot of fun!!

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  4. Can't wait to see more of these guys! What will you do for legio support? I am assuming infantry of some type right?

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    1. I've started a skitarri unit but that's on hold until Forge World release something more official but yes it'll be infantry, heavier stuff will be in my Graian mechanicum force.

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  5. A very vivid green, it works well on your Titans! Look forward to the next family portrait!

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    1. Thanks GunGrave. The green won't be as vivid once weathered but I'm waiting for Bone Garland to take the plunge so I can call in Drake's assistance in getting everything finished and looking suitably gnarly

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  6. Looks like bone garland has some opponents! Particularly the top load out. Still not convinced even two Reavers can face a warlord and survive, so a third will help I guess but we will see.

    The models look great. Can't wait for the battle report!

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    1. Well at the minute it's two Warhounds and two Reavers but yes a third Reaver will be in the offing soon - I may need to through some Knights at Bone Garland too

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    2. it's only overkill if your on the other side lol

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  7. Love your stompies! And yeah, FW should release transfers for them (aswell as House Malinax/Xana and Cyclothrathe! And where are my Vyronii transfers QQ?)

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  8. Show us how you built the Turbo laser Carapace...

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    1. I think some close ups are in order as a minimum!

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  9. I'll upload some photos but it's simply the missile launcher mount cradling the central spine under the turbo laser block with a little plastic card pieces to blend the join. I trimmed off the flange where the arm ball goes then cut a rectangle of 3mm plasticard to blank out the hole. Pretty easy to do and looks better than the upside down version which seems to be done quite often. You could even add a mechanicum cig to break up the blank space on the top (which now I think of it I may well do now)

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    1. fw are going to built more reaver weapons for the carapace base off the rather nifty warlord weapons. But this is a way off, so I may try to copy yours in the meantime.

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