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I finally managed to get a game of Titanicus in! To celebrate, here's my first Warlord Titan, Call of Ktulu. If you don't know where the name comes from.... well, it's not terribly original, let's put it that way.

I decided to go with Legio Metalica because I'd always liked their background, little realising that GW seem to have decided to move on from them a bit and there's very little good reference out there for the colour scheme, even on sites like the 40k Wiki or Lexicanum. So this scheme is based on a variety of sources and has my own spin on it.

There's not a lot to say about building the model, other than that unlike some people I built the whole thing armour and all before painting it. I did magnetise the weapons, though, and the torso isn't glued to the legs, allowing it to rotate and come apart for transport. I did come unstuck (literally) with the arms, since I use either 3mm or 10mm disc magnets and thought I could get away with a 3mm in the hole in the carapace and a 10mm hidden inside the arm. This was strong enough- until I undercoated the arms, at which point they became just a bit too heavy. So my Titan's arm joints are a tiny bit longer due to a 10mm disc being attached on top of them and into the upper recesses, as always covered with a layer of Green Stuff to prevent direct magnet-to-magnet contact.

I undercoated the whole thing black before drybrushing up with Necron Compound. I then applied the red (Mephiston) in a fairly thin coat, deliberately leaving some bare metal, before going over some areas again to build them up. The black and white were applied in much the same way, with the yellow added last. I did blunder a little with the yellow, having to paint over the red which messed up the 'wear' effect a little, but we can assume that those markings were added to the Titan later. (Which of course, they were!)

The other place where my painting of this model differs from the norm is that after the black wash (Nuln Oil Gloss) I did barely any highlighting. The reason for this is twofold- first, I am very, very lazy, and second, on a model like this which is meant to be extremely large, I feel highlights make it look small. If you imagine that this was one of the 2' tall Forge World resin Warlords that then got on the wrong end of Rick Moranis, the edge highlights etc would be so small that you'd barely be able to see them. For the same reason of scale, rather than using my old-school flock on the base I simply used Stirland Mud texture, blended with a little Lustrian Undergrowth, before the Nuln Oil added some definition. I'm going to have to look into making some small trees to put on the base to add even more sense of scale.

The Legio symbol is a cheat. I painted the 'T' shape freehand, then simply stuck a trimmed Iron Warriors transfer over it. Heresy!

Photography by me, all original miniatures (c) Games Workshop.

Description
I finally managed to get a game of Titanicus in! To celebrate, here's my first Warlord Titan, Call of Ktulu. If you don't know where the name comes from.... well, it's not terribly original, let's put it that way.

I decided to go with Legio Metalica because I'd always liked their background, little realising that GW seem to have decided to move on from them a bit and there's very little good reference out there for the colour scheme, even on sites like the 40k Wiki or Lexicanum. So this scheme is based on a variety of sources and has my own spin on it.

There's not a lot to say about building the model, other than that unlike some people I built the whole thing armour and all before painting it. I did magnetise the weapons, though, and the torso isn't glued to the legs, allowing it to rotate and come apart for transport. I did come unstuck (literally) with the arms, since I use either 3mm or 10mm disc magnets and thought I could get away with a 3mm in the hole in the carapace and a 10mm hidden inside the arm. This was strong enough- until I undercoated the arms, at which point they became just a bit too heavy. So my Titan's arm joints are a tiny bit longer due to a 10mm disc being attached on top of them and into the upper recesses, as always covered with a layer of Green Stuff to prevent direct magnet-to-magnet contact.

I undercoated the whole thing black before drybrushing up with Necron Compound. I then applied the red (Mephiston) in a fairly thin coat, deliberately leaving some bare metal, before going over some areas again to build them up. The black and white were applied in much the same way, with the yellow added last. I did blunder a little with the yellow, having to paint over the red which messed up the 'wear' effect a little, but we can assume that those markings were added to the Titan later. (Which of course, they were!)

The other place where my painting of this model differs from the norm is that after the black wash (Nuln Oil Gloss) I did barely any highlighting. The reason for this is twofold- first, I am very, very lazy, and second, on a model like this which is meant to be extremely large, I feel highlights make it look small. If you imagine that this was one of the 2' tall Forge World resin Warlords that then got on the wrong end of Rick Moranis, the edge highlights etc would be so small that you'd barely be able to see them. For the same reason of scale, rather than using my old-school flock on the base I simply used Stirland Mud texture, blended with a little Lustrian Undergrowth, before the Nuln Oil added some definition. I'm going to have to look into making some small trees to put on the base to add even more sense of scale.

The Legio symbol is a cheat. I painted the 'T' shape freehand, then simply stuck a trimmed Iron Warriors transfer over it. Heresy!

Photography by me, all original miniatures (c) Games Workshop.