Hey, I realized I never showed you the finalized version of this one!
Last year around this time I worked on an Imperial Reaver titan.
Cleaning, assembly, magnetizing, painting.
The cleaning was a TON of work, the assembly was very interesting (at one point I had to remove some pins to exchange them for thicker ones), and magnetizing as downright scary due to the size and strength of magnets I used. 😀 The weapons are magnetized so they can be swapped. I had painted several 40k titans before, once I had to repair one, but I never built one from the ground up.
This one was to go along with Legio Crucius, just like the Warhound titan I painted for the same customer a while back.
I looked through the titans in the legion, chose a name and all. It even went on the little banner.
I love detailling these chaps. Computer screens, servitors, gunmetal, weathering around the toes and all. This is where the mini comes to life.
Especially with titans it’s always extra sad when I have to part with them. They’re like horrible, ugly little people after all! 😉 Anyway, hope you like them and I definately hope this wasn’t the last time I painted an Imperial titan, because they rock.
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Corr. I've always resisted Titans as I thought they're an infinishable project. It's immense that you've finished several.
Well, I got the additional incentive that people would get really, really cross if they send me their titans and I never finish them. 😉
you do paint the white really nicely! love the chess pattern, it is perfectly designed and painted
Thanks very much! The white's just a really, really, really bright version of what I've done on the darker armour plates. With surfaces without texture as big as on titans you gotta do something to break up the single colour I think.
Simply stunning, lot's of time invested in that bad boy.
Cheers
Kevin
Thanks muchly! Building (and cleaning!) the chap surely took longer than the painting itself. But it pays off in the end. I love painting titans.
Looks fantastic! Your painting makes it look like a massive God of war as opposed to a 1 foot model. Are the lighter "dots" on the black armour done with an airbrush? Would you be willing to share the technique? I'd very much like to do something similar on a War Griffons titan.
Oh, thanks very much. That's a very nice compliment indeed.
Yeah, the dots are done with an airbrush. The technique is …well, dots. 😀 First with a mid-grey, then with a lighter grey. They show stronger in the photos than they do in real-life due to flash/sunlight.
Hey, if you wanna have some paintmonkey do that titan for you, here's my card. I'm really good at dots. 😉
Beautiful Engine, get it posted over at TitanOwnersClub and you'll get a lot of Titan fans happy.
Thanks very much! 🙂 I'm looking forward to seeing the chap over there. 🙂 I remember you posting after I did the past few titans too I think.