Legions Imperialis – Dark Mechanicum Serperos Overlord Heavy Stalkers
The second set from the Dark Mechanicum for Legions Imperialis are the Serperos 'Overlord' Heavy Stalkers and they complement the lighter Stalker Construct to flesh out the Mechanicum lists for the traitor forces.
This set goes for pre-order today on December 7th and will be released on December 21st 2025, at a RRP of 41 EUR.
The constructs are new designs to the Horus Heresy, and haven't been seen before neither in 28-32 nor epic scale. As Games Workshop uses the larger models for the product pictures on Titanicus, Aeronautica and Imperialis, we actually get a preview on the upcoming models right there on the boxes. With this kit we get four models of the new Serperos Heavy Stalker design.
Legions Imperialis – Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs
In addition to the Mechanicum release for Legions Imperialis, Games Workshop added the first sets for the Dark Mechanicum, the Stalker Constructs and Serperos Overlord Heavy Stalkers - both of which we're going to cover today, but starting with the Stalker Constructs here.
This set goes for pre-order today on December 7th and will be released on December 21st 2025, at a RRP of 41 EUR.
These are entirely new designs added to the game. We had obviously Dark Mechanicum in the lore in the past, as a playable faction as well, but never written out in detail. And to give the "full scale" Horus Heresy folks a heads up. Games Workshop uses the 28-32mm models for the box art with all the epic scale products (they did so with Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis) and what we see on the packaging is most certainly the upcoming model for the Horus Heresy.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV
The bases for all of the remaining Legio Astraman were designed, just two more miniatures to build - the Warhound Scout Titans. I looked upon the once I already build, three of them, unfortunately with fixed weaponry. Something that I want to take care of with these two and add further variation.
I used some of the traitor panels and removed the additional spikes / stylized chaos stars, and as I wanted more dynamic poses, I cut the aligners from the hip sections for a more flexible position on my warhounds.
TabletopWelt Paint Meeting 2024
For the third time, Robert aka Grinsemann of Wolpertinger Miniatures organised the TabletopWelt Maltreff (Painting Meeting), and this time - after some mild persuasion by Dino - I joined in.
The venue is a youth hostel, located within an old manor in the Eastern part of Germany, in Thuringia about half an hour north of Erfurt. But more on that later.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIV
The base building continues, and I pick up where I left off last time with Part XIII, but added to further bases to cover the base design for the two Warhound Scout Titans.
I started with the base for the Warmaster, where I used the Falchion wreck as a primary piece for the base design. I cut down the tracks, to lower the height of the tank's silhouette.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII
We're now in the post-Battle for Uulda part of this series and it is time to complete the Legio Astraman project. We're having for the main titan legio four (+maybe two further) models left;
- Warmaster Titan
- Warbringer Titan
- 2 Dire Wolves Heavy Scout Titans
- and maybe 2 further Warhounds Scout Titans to cover the new weapon options for both AT/LI, and magnetise them this time around
As I'd like to cover the bases first, and I already built the Warmaster with a slightly raised leg, so he could stomp on something.
The idea was to recreate something that I did with one of the Warlord Titans (this one will be used with Legio Magna, so the similar pose doesn't bother me within Legio Astraman), and have him stand upon a lower terrain piece or upon a (super) heavy vehicle.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XII
Next and final step for the preparations for the Battle for Uulda, were the bases. I bought the name plates for the bases and command terminals from Versatile Terrain, and used their Print your own-service for the initial 7 bases.
I went for the recessed plates with their Gothic (Calson Antique) font, without any further decoration (but most likely will go for some skulls or the eye of horus for the traitors) and chose the following names;
Adeptus Titanicus – House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. III
As the base decoration is dried and would be ready for further washes and dry brushing, I finished the trim and details on the models, it was time for further progress.
This meant a proper wash on both the bases and models. The later got a wash with Army Painter Dark Tone, but on a dampen surface, to use the capillary reaction of the water to bring in the pigments of the wash into the recesses.
Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XI
While I made progress on the Knights of House Moritain, it would be time to move on with the remaining Legio Astraman Reaver. I did the bases the same way as before, and added the two dry brushes after Citadel Contrast Aggaros Dunes dried. I used Army Painter Desert Yellow and Army Painter Skeleton Bone, and brushed it over the feet of the miniatures later as well.
As the armour plates were painted white and green, with the golden trim, I wanted to do the chevrons for some variation on left leg again and cut up some strips of masking tape and added the dark blue contrast in Citadel Base Paint Night Lords Blue. If you're not using an airbrush to do this, painting over the masking tape with the base colour creates cleaner edges, just like you would do on a wall.
Adeptus Titanicus – House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. II
We're jumping back in time to cover the progress on the miniatures for our Battle for Uulda campaign weekend. In addition to be a bit more flexible with my Legio Astraman, I added a few auxiliary knights from House Moritain.
As we would be playing between 1.250 to 2.000 points, in different matches and to cover the different point sizes of in these lists, I added three Cerastus Lancers and two Acastus Knight Porphyrion to the backlog of the current project. As I already put the Lancers on bases, but with thin sheets of plastic between the feet and the base, to not have them sink into the base decoration, I repeated the same thing for the Acastus knights and covered initial base decoration.
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