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31Jan/250

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XVI

With the finished bases packed in the boxes, I went off to the paint meetup last year, and this was my project for inbetween the other things to get either into the mood for painting or as a palette cleanser.

I used 3d printed bits and parts from the Civitas Imperialis ruins set, along with spackle and cork, to finish the bases.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV TabletopWelt - Maltreffen 2024 Rittergut Lützensömmern

From there I went the regular route, adding the texture paste (used the remainder of the Armageddon Dunes and Armageddon Dust, but from now on using Dark Earth by Vallejo) and let it dry properly.

28Jan/250

Adeptus Titanicus – The Dark Mechanicum stalks…

We've covered the Dark Mechanicum units for Legions Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus, and the smaller Stalker Constructs "only" include two of each of the three different constructs, so I went for a second box to boost them up to four per unit.

Adeptus Titanicus - Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs

It was important to me, to swap around the legs and poses as much as possible, to create the most variety from that set. With the Scintillax "Cyclops" Noospheric Stalker and Tenebrax "Archer" Battle Stalker, that wasn't the biggest issue as they have weapons options and that alone prevented them from being a clone army.

Adeptus Titanicus - Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs Adeptus Titanicus - Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs

7Dec/240

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.

Legions Imperialis - Dark Mechanicum Serperos Overlord Heavy Stalkers Legions Imperialis - Dark Mechanicum Serperos Overlord Heavy Stalkers

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.

7Dec/240

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.

Legions Imperialis - Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs Legions Imperialis - Dark Mechanicum Stalker Constructs

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.

1Dec/240

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV

27Nov/240

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.

TabletopWelt - Maltreffen 2024 Rittergut Lützensömmern

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.

11Nov/240

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII

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.

28Oct/240

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;

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XIII

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 - Warlord Titan Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan

20Oct/240

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XII

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;

18Oct/240

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.

Adeptus Titanicus - House Moritain Ad Arma Pt. III

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.