Throwing more Shade

 Here's the second old school Revenant/Shade Titan with the rotary Multilaser and Pulsars. This one will be Alaitoc, so need to find my yellow and blue rattle cans!

Armorcast Era Revenant / Shade Titan

Well it's a 3D print version of the same, but as close as I'm ever likely to get. I'm currently printing a couple, one with the classic weapon opens, and one with the revised set from this creator. I'll be adding some Apocalypse 2019 rules for them, but listing them as 'Shade' titans rather than  confuse the issue with old and new names being the same. Look for those rules appearing over on the other blog.

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Here's the first one finished, with alternative armament options. I'm still debating which secondary gun to fit, Shuriken Cannon or Multilaser? This one will be getting my Mai-Bai scheme, whilst the classic will be Alaitoc. Some of the bigger parts were done on my new Elegoo Saturn 2, which is great for these bigger pieces.

Here's some photos of the second one, being built with the classic weapons, as a WIP.

Warlock Titan - first steps

After indulging in a buying a few big STLs, I found I needed a bigger printer. Hence a load of stuff has gone onto Ebay: board games, old 40k books, Warhammer Quest (incomplete), all my Warmachine, Old Blood Bowl and some old models kits. I've now ordered an Elegoo Saturn 2, which is 8k resolution and a much bigger printing bed. I'll let you know how it goes when it arrives. In the  meantime, the very old Anycubic Photon has been packed up, ready to go to a friend to get him started, and my Photon Mono has been working to print the smaller parts of these larger models. First out of the gate we have a Warlock titan head - you can guess what's following! The Sentinel cab is just for scale. The two fins are the leg fins for a Phantom, and since mine only had some the I designed, and was never happy with, these will be modified and grafted onto my Phantom before it gets it's paint repaired.

Bright Stallion - PIP

I got some blue paint on it - woohoo!

Phantom completely reassambled

As per the title, all the bits are now stuck back together - first time since he took his tumble in 2019! 

Wave Serpent Rescue Part 2

Following on from the last post, here's how the Wave Serpent looks now.

The list of work that I've carried out is as follows:

• Printed a Shuriken cannon and attached it via magnets.
• Replaced the turret heavy weapon mounts with metal rods, so I can swap out the weapons
• Printed new heavy weapon covers
• Printed a new aerial
• Printed new vanes
• Printed a FW style crystal mount to make this look a little different.

Wave Serpent and War Walker - Ebay Rescue

The other week I scored this Wave Serpent and War Walker cheaply on eBay but in terrible shape! Excuse the tiny picture, I can't get a better one from eBay now. The War Walker had both legs fitted backwards, but after stripping, and rebuilding, we get this:

The weapon mounts are 3d printed. I've got a file to print a new canopy, just need to load some clear resin into the print (I have clear blue to try), and to raid the spares box for guns, I'm feeling this one should be double missiles!

The Wave Serpent needed a lot of work too, and tonnes of soaking in isopropyl. I've had to carve out the driver, and will leave him out - he's too far gone. On the plus side, this means I can use the original canopy, as I'll be painting it since the innards are missing. I've removed all the upper body panels, and have reattached them in the right place now. Sadly I broke off the guns while stripping, but I'll make them detachable by drilling in some rod. I've some some stl files to replace the front 'fronds', the turret aerial and the gun covers. I'm also deciding if I want to break out a different loadout too, star cannons maybe? I also need to raid the spares box, or find stls for the underslung guns.

Phantom Titan rebuild - almost reassembled

Since we're looking at projects for the space elves, here's my Phantom. It now has the shoulder pads back on the correct sides, the rear fins reattached, 3d printed fins on the legs and sword arms and on one of the guns, not shown here. Next task is to reattached  the gun arm and then begin repairing paint work.

 

Bright Stalion WIP #1

I've finally started work on this, for which I've had bits loitering around for years - a 40k scale Bright Stallion model. Essentially it's one and a half Wraithknights, with a 3d printed, body, head and some detail parts. I'll post up the next update once the torso is completed.

Phantom Titan Rebuild - 01/21

 Just a little more work on getting this guy back ready for the table. I printed a Rhino wreck I found on Thingiverse, so that the Titan has something on which to rest his foot.

Phantom rebuild Part 1

 I never posted this, but my Phantom had a nasty tumble some months back, and then wouldn't go back together properly. After several failed attempts to rebuild it, I put it all in a box, and walked away. Now armed with 3mm brass rob and an battery drill, I'm building it again - progress so far it this. I had to repose it as the previous pose was very unstable, and was straining the joints anyway - also I saw it had been built with the shins on the wrong sides, and some bits were missing. Now the legs are fitted correctly, and I've started printing some bits to sub in for the absent parts - who knows what happened to them! I'll be printing and then beating the stuffing out of a vehicle that will be going under the foot - too much of a cliche not to copy that!

Pathfinders Squad #2

I realised I never shared this image of one of my other ranger squads from my would be Adepticon army.

Farseer

Completed the paint on my HQ, the Farseer conversion (swapped in a Witchblase from the Jetbike kit).

Here he is a few weeks back, no paint and missing a thumb!

Pathfinders

Finished my first squad of Pathfinders/Rangers. These are WHFB/AoS Elves with Drukahri arms, and a 3d printed Eldar sniper barrel. It's on Thingiverse as a replacement barrel for the Eldar from the Blackstone Fortress game, but highly useful here.

Wasps

Finally built my pair of Wasps. I've been using the stratagem to drop these guys in from deepstrike and then blaze away with the Shuriken cannons, very useful for board control.

Fire Prism

A rebuild of an old metal weapon Fire Prism.

Skyrunner Warlock

Using an old jetbike and a metal figure I got from Russia a few years back.

Hornet

I'm painting like mad at the moment, trying to get my Adepticon army done, we're in the Long War Doubles. I'm taking Alaitoc Aeldari, and my girlfriend, Lisa, is taking her Drukhari. Here's one of the first units I'd completed.

Phantom Titan - Weapon options

Just a couple of quick snaps to show I've added the mechanism to swap the guns now - magnets failed me, even re-enforced with brass rod. Final solution was friction fit with long brass rod, with a smaller offset rod to stop rotation. Basing sometime after Adepticon.

Phantom, not of the opera.

Just a quick snap, as until the base is glued to the larger disc in this picture, it's a bit wobbly. My friend Jamie painted this for me as a commission piece, and ~I'm very happy with the result. I'm left to texture the base to match the rest of my army - whatever theme that's going to be, magnetise the gun options , and add the missing pipe back to the gun.