Atia's Thread (Legions Imperialis: Sons of Horus Kratos pg. 107)

[Atia]

Howdy Guys and Girls :)

 

Just a little update - started to layer down the base colours. I'm quite busy with Socialist Youth stuff right now, so don't expect much progress in the next days.

 

 

Also my original idea of using a metallic scheme for House Devine didn't worked out as planned, so back to the drawingboard, this time with flat magenta ^.^

 

 

Seeing your hobby work and reading your plans has me wanting to dust off my grandmaster box! I've got no suggestions or experiences with AT tactica so I am going to be borrowing ideas I see here

 

And back to the fauna I'd say go with what you like. Planets are just one type of terrain, good old terra in her heyday had deserts, forests, jungles, and oceans before the Mad Max of Strife age. I will be very happy to see the quality terrain you pump out for this. I am still head over heels over what you did for Necromunda with the ZM tiles.

 

How big of a biodome will you be building? Big enough for knights and warhounds to fight in? That would add in some interesting rules where warp infused fauna could try to tangle up some knights. And to see some poor gardening servitor look at all his hard work get trampled by god machines would probably lead to conflicting emotions...if it still had any.

 

Indeed - I also think to remember that Molech actually *was* a jungle setting in Vengeful Spirit! So it should all work out haha. Also ordered some cute tiny dinosaurs to represent some critters down the line!

 

Regarding the biodome - not sure yet, as there isn't that much of room on the FW tiles to do something really big. 

 

Daaaang, thats so many buildings! Thats going to looks flippin' awesome! I want to play AT so bad but I just dont have a community for it. Hoping to make a Solaria maniple just for fun in the coming months though.

 

Keep it coming!

 

Legio First! Solaria are bae, so totally do them! Now!    

[Mendi Warrior]

Looking good!

 

 

Regarding the biodome - not sure yet, as there isn't that much of room on the FW tiles to do something really big. 

 

You can go wild on an additional non-FW tile. I like the idea of a biodome. Check amazon for acrylic spheres, or the following two links:

https://www.superiorlighting.com/12-inch-plastic-globe-neckless-opening-clear-acrylic/

http://www.complast.com/BALLS/ACRYLIC.htm

There might be something useful there. There might even be the possibility to find a company willing to do bespoke work.

[hushrong]

The board is off to a great start. As for Molech, well I am starting to reread Vengeful Spirit but I do remember that they had lots of vegetation.

 

Post some pics of House Devine when applicable. Would love to see what you do for their scheme.

[Dosjetka]

Would you mind sharing your recipe for the downed Xiphon, please? That shade of blue is gorgeous. :tu:

[Atia]

Looking good!

 

 

Regarding the biodome - not sure yet, as there isn't that much of room on the FW tiles to do something really big. 

 

You can go wild on an additional non-FW tile. I like the idea of a biodome. Check amazon for acrylic spheres, or the following two links:

https://www.superiorlighting.com/12-inch-plastic-globe-neckless-opening-clear-acrylic/

http://www.complast.com/BALLS/ACRYLIC.htm

There might be something useful there. There might even be the possibility to find a company willing to do bespoke work.

Indeed! Ideas aren't the problem, I'm full with them haha. It's more a time/space issue right now . 

 

The board is off to a great start. As for Molech, well I am starting to reread Vengeful Spirit but I do remember that they had lots of vegetation.

 

Post some pics of House Devine when applicable. Would love to see what you do for their scheme.

Yeah Molech is actually quite similiar to ancient Terra, with jungles, dessert aswell as lots of water (and underwater-cities!!). 

 

My first try on Devine (the metallic idea) didn't went well so any proof of it's existence got deleted from the files of the Inquisition haha. Gonna try a flat scheme today and will hopefully have some pics later 

 

Would you mind sharing your recipe for the downed Xiphon, please? That shade of blue is gorgeous.

 

I used Vallejo Air 71.004 Blue and 70.841 Andrea Blue aswell as GW Drakenhof Nightshade and a glaze of Guilliman Blue :)

[Atia]

As promised - the colour tester for House Devine

 

 

Keep in mind that it still needs some details, transfers aswell as weathering, but I'm quite happy with the colour tones now 

Edited May 6, 2019 by Atia

[hushrong]

Tester looks great already!

[Arkangilos]

Nice!

[Atia]

Thanks boys 

 

The tile so far:

 

 

Next onto some pigments - hopefully it will all work out haha 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the base.

[Aasfresser]

This terrain is simply insane. All those destroyed knights and vehicles. Keep us up to date on the progress!

[Atia]

Thanks again boys  - time for another update!

 

 

I'm quite happy already, just needs a few details and minor touch-ups - tell me what you think 

[Arkangilos]

Man that’s awesome!

[Atia]

Update:

 

[DuskRaider]

Looking good! Can't wait to see it finished with buildings set up.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Beautiful work on that battlefield.

[hushrong]

It’s looking better and better!

[Atia]

Thanks everyone - the first tile is finished for now (since the buildings will be modular and done at a later time!) - I'm planning to add some palm trees in the future though!  


Lupercalia - Civitas District War Zone Gamma
During the Doom of Molech


It is a great coincidence of the Warmaster's invasion that the ultimate prize he sought bore his name. This was the doing of the Emperor, who was also the reason the city existed at all. A site of hidden eldritch power, Lupercalia had begun life as an unwitting garrison set in place by the Emperor to protect his dangerous secret. One of the first structures to stand on the site was the Dawn Citadel, a towering edifice constructed from the hull of the Emperor's ancient starship, placed at the apex of the mountain valley in whish the capital sat. In time, the Dawn Citadel became the ancestral home of Molech's ruling Questoris Familia - House Devine, though not even its lords suspected the great important of the palace that they now ruled.

By the time of Horus' invasion, Lupercalia was among Molech's largest cities, a centre for the ruling elite and a meeting place for the planet's many peoples and cultures. This sector of the city is dominated by a partially destroyed factorum, still defended by strategically sited emplacements. Next to the factorum are storage bunkers, while the shattered remains of an Imperial Knight Warden of House Devine and a downed Xyphon Interceptor of the Ultramarines Legion should just be the first victims of the battle to follow ....

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Atia

[Arkangilos]

Incredible!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Well done.

[Atia]

Thanks boys 

 

Work on the second tile has already started 

 

[hushrong]

Awesome work on the terrain! I am looking forward to seeing some battle pics with titans going toe to toe on that tile!

[Atia]

Awesome work on the terrain! I am looking forward to seeing some battle pics with titans going toe to toe on that tile!

That's the plan - in theory I have a "Table of Ultimate Gaming" on the way for exactly this (long long story ..... if it arrives I will tell you lol .....).

 

Also - since people on facebook asked about it - a list of paints/pigments I used on the board:

 

- The whole board was washed and than primed with Black Primer spraycan. Where possible, I mostly used my airbrush!

 

- Air Mechanicus Standard Grey

- Air Dawnstone

- Air Administratum Grey

- Air Ushabti Bone

- Shade Seraphim Sepia 

- Shade Fuegan Orange (not everywhere, just use it to make the board more visually interesting)

- FW Weathering Powders: Dark Sand, Dark Earth, Aged Rust, Black Soot

 

Buildings:

- Mechanicus Standard Grey

- Thinned Nuln Oil

- Play a bit with weathering powders :)

- Play a bit with A-Mig 1401 Light Duster, you can use White Spirit to make dust streaks etc

 

Copper Roofs:

- Sycorax Bronze

- Seraphim Sepia

- I tried some Chromdioxyde effect, and also used some Vallejo Vertidgris for ... well, the vertigris ^.^

 

Red parts:

- Vallejo Gunmetal

- Vallejo Aged Rust

- Varnish

- Sponge some Vallejo Liquid Mask on top

- Air Khorne Red

- Air Mephiston Red

- Give it some good drying time!

- remove the liquid mask, add some rust streaks

 

Ultramarines Legion:

 

- Vallejo Air 71.004 Blue

- Vallejo Air 70.841 Andrea Blue

- GW Drakenhof Nightshade

- a glaze of Guilliman Blue

- edge Highlights of Andrea Blue

 

House Devine:

 

Devine Crimson:

- Vallejo 72.712 Scarlett Red

- Vallejo 72.714 Warlord Purple

- glaze of GW Carroburg Crimson (2 times)

- glaze of FW Angron Red (I just hope they finally re-release it via GW propper ....)

- shade with Druchi Violett

Still need to do some highlites where edges are

 

Molechian Purple:

- Naggaroth Night

- Genestealer Purple

- glaze of FW Eidolon Purple

 

Cyprian Gold:

- Formula P3 Rhulic Gold

- Wash of GW Nuln Oil

- Edges with GW Auric Armour Gold

- Edges with GW Stormhost Silver

 

Lots of Munitorum Varnish on top to seal the whole thing ^.^

 

Here are the two tiles next to each other, one finished, the other before the wash/pigment stage :)

 

[Arkangilos]

Looking good!

[Atia]

Looking good!

Glad you like it

 

More progress on the city - it's slowly coming together!

 

Hidden Content

 

 

 

 

Aim is to finish them 'till the start of this years ETL - so I can focus on the forces of the Warmaster himself:

 

 

"And thus, driven from Holy Terra and resigning forevermore in the underworld, the Sons of Horus, the treacherous Sixteenth, became the Black Legion. From shame and shadow recast. In black and gold reborn."

Edited May 25, 2019 by Atia