Don't worry, I'm not selling off my collections...
Between heatwaves and busy weeks causing my long covid symptoms to flare up again, hobbying had petered out over the course of july. These interruptions had caused my enthusiasm for the Division project to slowly peter out. So my hobbying scaled back quite a bit.
Then I discovered Bloodsong by Death of a Rubricist... Ork and Eldar Titans for Adeptus Titanicus was exactly what I needed to relight the hobby fire! So I scaled my hobby back from 28mm to 8mm... ;p
I've long been of the opinion that Games Workshop shot themselves in the foot by chaining modern Adeptus Titanicus (and by extension Legions Imperialis) to the Horus Heresy. The joy of (previous iterations of) Epic scale games has always been the spectacle and challenge of diverse and eclectic armies and factions battling it out. Seeing mobs of Ork Battlefortresses charging a lance of Imperial knights as a squadron of Baneblades manoeuvring to get a shot on an Ork Gargant. Or Eldar Titans dancing around a Warlord as it struggles to get a bead on them. A line of doomed Guardsmen facing down a charge by Tyranid Bio-Titans...
On a modelling level, it was just great to see the massive warmachines and other bizarre contraptions of the various factions of the 41st millennium that are just too large for a 40K table.
But I digress. With inspiration and a goal in hand, I scoured the internet for suitable printable Eldar and Ork warmachines to combine with the ones I already had. Some were a bit harder to find than others, but soon I had enough for a maniple (or their particular equivalent) of both Orks and Eldar, and I set my printers to work. In the meantime, when circumstance allowed, I dug out my old Warlord titan to paint while I complete the weapon loadouts I wanted to 3d model for the Ork Gargants (Using Red Nebular's Collossobots).
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| A nice afternoon spent airbrushing the Warlord bits |
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| One of my already painted Reavers supervises the proces and serves as a colour matching aide. |
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| A quick test spray of my intended colour mixes of my Biel-Tan titans. |
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| Meanwhile, printer goes brrrr.... |
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| And I'm cheerfully bashing away at Fusion. |
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| Two down, half a dozen more to go to get the full loadout options. |
While the Collossobots are deeply retro-Ork styled, I want my guns to hit a sort of halfway point between the classic retro Ork style and the more modern Max Max-ian style.
I'm also feeling the desire to add to my Legio Astraman force, and incorporating some more retro styled bits as well.
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| A Reaver shoulder pad I modelled based on the older metal Reaver shoulder. |
Anyhow, when weather and health allows, I'll be chugging away happily on this little big project!
See you next time!
