Legio Xestobiax....Grotsmasha gets overly optimistic....

[Grotsmasha]

So I switched gears as I wasn't sure if my Reaver was too far done (thankfully Captain Semper has since said it's ok) for the Titans of the Heresy event, and got a start on my Warlord,

Presenting Legion Warlord Umbra It Gratitude, The Ghost Who Walks

Had a dig through my boys box as I remembered inheriting a Epic Land Raider at some stage.

Cheers,

Jono

[Captain Semper]

For the Reaver: Maybe it’s the picture but I think the metal and the gold could do with more shading (and darkening)... Really like the purple! :tu:

 

For the Warlord: BY THE EMPEROR this looks great! And my favourite head too! I think the Land Raider crew will be having a very TSOALR moment... :lol:

[Grotsmasha]

It's a bad pic, but both metals need further work, but they can wait for the Warlord now :tu:

Definitely don't envy those LR crew....

[Chaeron]

Looks great! Any Titan crushing anything looks so good - adds so much to the sense of scale!

[Grotsmasha]

Started on the colours,

[Mendi Warrior]

Nice start!

[Chaeron]

Looking good!

[Rabenga]

Purple!!! The artist formerly known as prince would be proud (rip). You should name it "purple rain of pain"

[Mandragola]

The colour is nice - and I don’t usually like purple if I’m honest! If you want to get more of a blend between the light and dark, get yourself some lahmian medium. It makes blending kind of effortless. It’s perfectly good as is though.

[Grotsmasha]

So.....it's TotH time again, and I'm going to try again....

So I've put my 3D printer to work, and am vowing for TASK 1: PRINCEPS - 1 Titan with 2x Warhound titans for Legio Xestobiax

[Captain Semper]

Looks promising! :)

 

whatever happened to the Warlord? :huh:

[Grotsmasha]

Looks promising!

 

whatever happened to the Warlord?

 

As suspected, the white trim was getting to me, so I stopped. I've now got a better, more consistent method for white, so you never know. It is, however too far gone for TotH, so the Warlord will need to sit this one out.

[Grotsmasha]

Just realised I didn't update here, 1 Warhound completed,

One down, one to go...

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[Captain Semper]

The leg joints are so funky! :D

 

That’s a great choice of colours - Xestobiax really needs to get some coverage in the near future. 
 

keep going for the second one brother! 

[Guest]

Nice to see you here Grotsmasha :) Loving your stuff.

[Grotsmasha]

Warhound number 2 complete, and with that my first Vow, time to fire up the Printer again me thinks....

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[Mandragola]

Cool. How are you finding the end result after printing? I got a dnd character printed and found the plastic was very brittle.

[Grotsmasha]

I've found them to be sturdy enough, but I've been printing these size models as solid, rather than with spaced in-fill. It is definitely not as strong as GW plastic, I could probably snap most of he models with my hands if I REALLY wanted to, but it would take some effort. I'm using PLA, and I don't know which your model was printed with, but other types (ABS maybe?) are different, and may be even more brittle.

 

As for quality, I wish I'd bought a Resin printer, but I've got a new set of settings after these two Wahounds were printed, and I'm hoping for an even cleaner finish next time around.

[Fajita Fan]

PLA is alright, ABS plastic reeks as it prints while PLA only smells faintly of maple syrup.  You will find printing a model like that in pieces on a resin printer to be muuuuuuch cleaner than an FDM type but they're suitable proxies.  Right now I'm actually trying to print a couple of lions for the shoulders of my psi-titan, once I get the sizes right I may be able to have them done at a nearby library in a resin printer. 

[Guest]

How goes your progress Grot? :)

[Grotsmasha]

I'd say I'm 50% done on my third Warhound, which I just realised I haven't posted here,

and I've done a test print of a AT Knight, it's turned out....ok, but I'm trying a second print with a slightly different setup now

[Grotsmasha]

As my third Warhound is almost complete, I'm going to switch gears,

I'm vowing a Knightly Task 1 - Baron 1 Knight Banner, I've found some "Lucius" pattern Knight files, and will doing those,

[Guest]

Out of likes :P

 

Looking forward to see you paint them.

[Grotsmasha]

I couldn't find a Knight colour scheme that I liked, so I pinched an Astartes one....

Edited February 21, 2020 by Grotsmasha

[Grotsmasha]

Declaring Titanic Task 2: Princepts Senioris complete with my 3rd Warhound finished,

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In addition to this, I've also completed the first of my Knights.

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