T̶w̶o̶ Three legios and a knight household

[Captain Semper]

Both the blood effect (which you have not overdone) and the coils of the plasma look ace! Also the golden effect is very... ermm... effective!

 

Epic stuff!

[Fajita Fan]

I’m totally tempted to overdo it with blood leaking from the head cables and shoulder joints too. Maybe a few splatters up in there but it was really the eyes and hydraulics that seemed most characterful.

 

Power claw holding something like an electrical tower or flying buttress as weapon. Discuss.

[Mendi Warrior]

I think the blood effect is great, I am feeling it is a case of "less is more", this said leaking from head cables and shoulder joints sounds cool as well.

 

Regarding blood splatters, I don't think they make a lot of sense due to scale, as other titans don't bleed and infantry would not have enough blood to show stains. This said, if you can somehow manage to find sacrificial victims to hang from hooks or be chained to the carapace, then some more blood is required around them but you run into scale issues and lack of appropriate material to depict said victims 

 

Using an electrical tower or a flying buttress for clubbing opponents is an interesting idea. I personally would not see it for a Warlord (I like the Arioch power claw as it is, big, majestic, fear inducing), maybe for a Reaver, where if you can replicate the lower part of the power claw, you can add a magnet and essentially have two alternative power claws, one with a club, the other without.

[Fajita Fan]

A Myrmidon list is hard to do at 2k points. A lot of Gatlings and quakes  
 

 

Reaver

Powerfist

Chainfist

Megabolter

 

Reaver

Melta

Gatling

Missiles

 

Warlord

Plasma

Gatling

Apoc Launcher

 

Warlord

Gatling

Quake

Apoc Launcher

 

Warlord

Plasma

Quake

Apoc Launcher

[Mandragola]

I think that's a decent list. You do have to put a couple of quake cannons in to get three warlords and two reavers into 2k, but I think that's probably not a problem, as they're great guns.

 

Personally I think I'd put both quake cannons on the same warlord though. Gatling and plasma is an excellent set up for a warlord but neither weapon works all that well with a quake cannon, which wants to be outside their range.

 

I'm giving one of my warlords a fist too, but as Astorum I can move faster than most and have a decent chance of getting in range of things. Plasma, fist and vulcan mega bolter costs the same as plasma, gatling and missiles. It's probably not as good, but is quite fun.

 

I've never been much of a fan of double melee weapon reavers, but maybe they have their place. Your list won't be low on firepower, no matter what.

[Fajita Fan]

I had that exact same thought about the quakes so I have one who just (hopefully) First Fires every turn but I swapped them. My traitor Reavers are in an odd spot because because the boxer is glued together like that >_<

 

This looks like a challenging list to play and I had planned to use the DIY rules to shore up its lack of activations and suspect maniple bonus.

[Fajita Fan]

Did a couple of printed chemical tanks, I should have used some IG transfers before the shading   If you all haven’t tried Vallejo rust wash you really need to order some, it’s excellent. 

 

Tomorrow I should be able to finish a couple of warehouses, they’re basecoated awaiting shades and rust. 
 

Edited February 1, 2020 by Fajita Fan

[Rabenga]

So...I have to ask...what are the little turquoise beads on your bench for?

[Mendi Warrior]

These are sweet storage tanks!

[Fajita Fan]

I squirt a bunch of medium in my paints and use those as agitators. They’re not really big enough but they were cheap at Walmart.

[Rabenga]

Ahh..I imagined some bedazzled reaver carpaces and got excited...

[Fajita Fan]

Group shot of my 3D printed terrain I’ve been painting the last month, just simple stippling with a makeup sponge, washes, Vallejo rust wash, and mostly cheap craft paint.  I have four more of the chem tanks queued up for printing, I’ll probably paint them in red and blue for variety (or keep them all yellow?).  The roofs of the warehouses are removable to be dice trays and bottle caps are glued up under them to keep them from sliding off.  I highlighted the blue generators and added nonstick padding underneath because they slid around so much, something I‘ll do with my other buildings. 

 

 

I still have plans for a cathedral even though those would have been...rare?...in 30k and a pair of tall buildings with landing pads for the small dry erase command terminals I printed. I’ll probably use my AT terrain sprues to make 4-5 LoS blocking buildings and call it a day, that should be enough terrain for games on a 4x4 table. 
 

Bonus: those chem tanks, blue generators, and green plasma coils don’t have any writing to denote scale so they can be used for 40k.

Edited February 4, 2020 by Fajita Fan

[Mendi Warrior]

Excellent stuff! I love these a lot.

[Brother Captain Arkley]

This is looking so good.  I Look forward to see what you get up to next.

[Fajita Fan]

I had to order more filament because someone used up mine that I keep separate from the staff filament.  

 

This is the landing platform I have downloaded to print, I plan to print just the platform and then build up a tall 2x3 building to put it on which I hope will hold the small command terminals MacrossMartin made.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3902862

 

 

There's also this tower which might be nice considering I have enough AI planes to make a nice little airfield.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3047642

 

I feel like that tower could be made with a bunch of official AT terrain just by making a 1x1 square tower.  Basically I think my GW should be very generous with me bringing in 3d printed terrain pieces considering how much money I spend there on actual models and the fact that AT terrain has been limited to square buildings.  They can't insist I buy the super overpriced FW stuff because they don't sell FW but I'm inclined to use all of my AT sprues in a judicial way and not waste them on tiny buildings that don't block LoS.  

[Captain Semper]

This 3-D printer is working overtime! :lol: And the results seem very rewarding! Now let's see that landing pad and control tower printed and painted up! 

[Fajita Fan]

Landing pad is sprayed along with 6 more chem tanks. I need to get a plastic building built, I have some new flat pieces printed as brackets for it.

[Zhiv]

You'll have easier time with washes on small details if you cover them first with varnish.

[Fajita Fan]

A gloss or satin varnish? Is that so the wash wicks away from the top of the detail?  I saw someone do a brown wash on a metallic (gold maybe?) dreadnought that had been gloss varnished so that just touching the brush caused the was to immediately sink into recesses.  

[Brother Captain Arkley]

Every time I come to this thread you just make me want a 3d Printer :P Bad FF :P

[Fajita Fan]

Well list building time for my knight household I was painting given the FAQ.  Acastus points have doubled rather than toning down their guns so I'll never field the four I've bought. They needed a nerf but simply doubling their points kinda restricts listbuilding rather than their substantial firepower. 

 

So this list was 2000 points on the nose with 3 mixed lances and 3 solo Acastus for six total activations.  I disliked only have 3 rather 4 knights in the command banner but squeezing him in meant losing the standard.

 

3 Cerastus Lancers, Battle Standard

2 Cerastus Lancers

2 Cerastus Lancers

 

2 Cerastus with Bolters/swords

3 Questoris (Gatling / melee)

3 Questoris (Battlecannons / melee / rocket pods)

 

2 Cerastus Lancers

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion/Las

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion/Las

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion/Las

 

 

That same list now minus one of the Acastus is 2070 so it's time to start trimming points to 1995 with five activations.  The second lance loses the rocket pods and replaces their battlecannons with gatlings.  The third lance has one banner replacing their thermal cannons with melees. 

 

3 Cerastus Lancers, Battle Standard

2 Cerastus Lancers

2 Cerastus Lancers

 

2 Cerastus with Bolters/swords

3 Questoris (Gatling / melee)

3 Questoris (Gatling / melee)

 

2 Cerastus Lancers

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

3 Questoris (dual melee)

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion

 

So this sucks because my Questoris knights were glued together so now I have extra thermal cannon knights hanging around and I need to use models from my Chaos knights to fill out the gatlings.  I guess the safest bet would be to start cutting limbs apart and using my tiniest magnets on their elbows but touching up models is a pain.  More to slow down my already abysmal progress.  

 

If I go less lancers and stick to more shooting I get this for 2000 points:

 

2 Cerastus Lancers (no battle standard)

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

3 Questoris (dual melee)

 

3 Questoris (Gatling / melee)

3 Questoris (Gatling / melee)

3 Questoris (dual melee)

 

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

3 Questoris (thermal / melee)

3 Questoris (dual melee)

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion

 

Acastus Scion - Conversion

 

Acastus Scion - Lascannon

 

The second lance would be trying to strip shields for the Acastus while the third banner focuses on microwaving targets under their shield bubbles.  I don't know that I have enough gatlings hence the dual melees scattered in there (it takes two gatlings to convert a Castigator bolt cannon). The command lance is in a weirder spot as the king is slowed down by Questoris and will probably get shot to pieces quicker.  

Edited February 28, 2020 by Fajita Fan

[Fajita Fan]

Still stripping knights and working on my psi-titan gun instead of painting. I also can’t find the skull head again I meant to use for this guy. 

 

[Mendi Warrior]

Very nice! I love the use of the manufactorum bits, they are perfect, as well as the token with the skull.

[schoon]

Nice work on the gribbling on the weapon - a good variety of bitz there.

[Fajita Fan]

I decided to cut the arms off my brawler Reaver who's almost painted to redo his arms since I have plenty of spares.  My new plan should look pretty cool but delay progress even further.