Titan Owners Club - now open to Knight Titans

todays post is about the membership changes over at Titan Owners Club.

You can see the announcement here.

Basically, TOC is now accepting knights.  Unlike Titans however they are only accepting full paint "banners".  Based off the information released, a banner is a group of 3+ knights.  This include Ork Stompas, Tau Battle suits, and Eldar Wraithknights in addition to the Imperial knights we know and love.

If you wish to join, just follow the instructions in the linked post.

Games Workshop Images of Knight Banners.

House Makabius- January 2017 update

Today's post is the next in a series of post to record the current state of play of my armies.  The first army I have chosen is House Makabius.  This household is still under construction, and needs a fair bit of work to get it game ready.  Getting this force ready is one of my goals for the year.

This is a reasonably large force and an will weight in at around 3500 points.  On to the pictures:

Seneschal mounted in a Cerastus Knight-Acheron

Lord Scion mounted in a Cerastus Knight-Lancer

Arebelsatar mounted in a Acastus Knight-Porphyrion.  Still need to build the body and arms.  This will be happening in the next few weeks.

Knight Militant mounted in a Questoris Knight-Errant.  This is a spare body, as I am in the process of reposing a pair of legs.

Knight Militant mounted in a Questoris Knight-Paladin

Knight Militant mounted in a Questoris Knight-Paladin - still mainly in the box

Arebelsatar mounted in a Questoris Knight-Crusader will have a thermal cannon to match the 30K rules.  I do find it odd he cant have a battle cannon.

Are you painting House Makabius knights?  I'd love to seen them, link in the comments below.

The long hobby war continues...

House Makabius Knight Lancer

Today's post is about a recent addition to House Makabius, my new Cerastus Knight Lancer.  This model is initially going to fill the roll of either a back up HQ (Lord Scion), or will get stuck in as a Scion martial.  I said it before and I wail say it again, these are the best kits in the world to build.  The go together very well and it's easy to get a good pose.

I've chosen to pose this Knight on the stance of the first Forgeworld Knight Lancer.  I love the pose, and if I build a second Knight house I would be tempted to do it again.  Now on to the pictures.

Note: I have left off some of the parts, armour, banner, and shield generator, to assist painting.

So I have told you my favourite build, What was yours? Let me know in the comments.

The long hobby war continues...

Acastus Knight Porphyrion

Circumstances have forced me to work on my Knights of house Makabius again.  The driver for this is the new heavy knight.  It is a massive heavy beautiful kit, that has so many cleaver design cues, it really ties the lineage of Titans and knight firmly together.

I am gluing the legs with JB weld due to the weight.

What do you think about this kit? Are you getting one?

The long hobby war contiunes...

House Makabius Imperial Knights, Part 8

It's a very quick post from me tonight.  I wanted to share some progress of my knight Acheron.  Sorry for the poor quality of the photos.

Really pleased so far, But ideally the position of the flamer should be pointing further forward.  The base is nearly finished.

Need to touch up the cream colour post wash.

Viewing panel, it should be in red, but hey, it's to tie my forces together.  The hatch is shiney as its waiting for some transfers. 

What do you think?

The log hobby war continues...

House Makabius Imperial Knights, Part 7

Today my House Makabius transfers arrived from Forgeworld!  Yeah!!

So having been studiously not doing knightly things over the weekend I promptly got on it.  These are the results.  Initial results are impressive.  Virtually no carrier film outline.  It is literally 1mm wide on the banners if that.  The graphics look way better in real life too!

He is really taking shape now.  I've started painting the poor dread as I now call him.  Rough golds applied.  Needs some touch ups to the flat aluminium before starting washes.

I also applied a transfer to the first banner.  These are AMAZING!!!.  The fit absolutely perfectly!

So to conclude, the transfers are excellent and then some.

Unfortunately, I also looked at my Belicosa Volcano Cannons.  Why unfortunately?  I have a bad miscast on one.

It's a bit annoying.  I want to check everything before I contact FW regarding this.

Well that's all there is tonight.

The long hobby war contiunes...

House Makabius, Part 6

Another quick post tonight.  This evening, me and my loyal hounds, journeyed to sorting office to pick up my box of paint.   As soon as I got home, I got the brushes out and hit the Acheron.  Here's what I finished with tonight.  Still have a lot of train on the chain fist, but getting most of the trim has started making the model pop.  The gold isn't as light as I had hoped, but I think it works well.  What do you think?

The vanquished dreadnaught is starting to get colour too.  Blue colours, who could that be? 

Argh, forgot to drill the exhausts....  I need to fix it....

And if you wonder what I did last night? ....

The long hobby war contiunes...

House Makabius Knights, Part 5

A quick update tonight.  I'm working hard on the Knights and...  Argh, I've run out of black paint!
The last two nights have seen progress on the armour plates of my Questorius Knights.  I decided batch painting was the way to go.

Looking at the heads of the three known Knights from House Makabius, two in volume four Tempest and the Castigator on the FW site, they all seem to have a grey/black brow and a white/cream chin.  I've followed this on all four Knights.  The knee caps in the official pictures show the left knee is white/cream and the right is grey/black.  For variety (in that I can't count too three it seems), I've painted one with two white/cream knees.

I'm still waiting for the gold paint, but I can gloss varnish areas to get ready for transfers this week.  Hopefully the transfers will arrive Friday or Saturday.

Let me know what to think?

The long painting war continues...

House Makabius, part 4

The Knights painting has started in earnest.  The metal is Tamiya Flat Aluminium applied with an airbrush.

This is the base FW used for their Cerastus Knight Castigator and I really like the colour.  I will be washing the chassis several times in a 1:1:1:1 mix of lahmian medium, seraphim sepia, nuln oil and water.  The gold trim is a pain, so I have ordered some retributor armour to see if I can reduce the number of coats required.  It's been five coats so far on the Acherons carapace, and its translucent in places still.

I had a brain fart while sorting out the armoured fuel lines, and got the two ends mixed up.  I happily started shaving down the end that should attach to the gun!  This will set the build back while I fix it, but I can add it later I suppose.

This week I hope to get all the armour plates painted for all four Knights. The transfer set is out next week and my set is on order. So next weekend, I want to get these applied. 

Finally, Look what arrived Friday!

The long hobby war contiunes...

House Makabius Knights, part two

The long painting and modelling war of my new knight force, I have a partially painted House Terryn force, has continued over the last couple of days.  Then yesterday, FW set the cat amongst the pidgeons, by releasing there FAQ.  All types of plastic Knights are HH legal, therefore with the four Knights I have (in pieces), I can field the major component of a HH army.  I will still build a few DG models to support as an allied detachment, but Knights are quicker.... Kind of....

The second Titan is underway, this time a trusty knight paladin.  The build is finished and the paint has started. I've currently gone lighter on the shoulder colours than FW Castigator.  I'm likely to add a carapace weapon system (magnetised) to the knight, but this can happen later.

The Knight Anchron is progressing also. (Note: the body is tacked to the hips and the armour is dry fitted).

 The leg pistons are underway.  The ankles are done

as is one hip joint.

The last hip joint, due to the pose, needs a longer piston shaft.  A bit of brass or plasticard rod will need to found to facilitate this.  I've also cleaned much of the model.  When I build my lancer, I will try to be more methodical, as I find myself doing a bit here and there.  Need to get more focused!

Hope you have enjoyed the post.  

The long hobby war contiunes...

House Makabius Imperial Knight, part 1

Today's post is about my Forgeworld Cerastus Knight Acheron.  He will be the Scenchel of a House Makabius force to support my Death Guard, but more on these in a future post.  I've assembled the legs, and hips.  The leg plates are dry fitted to check the pose hasn't caused issues.

The poor B@C dread is in a bad way I'm afraid, unfortunately the two large cuts in the torso are mostly hidden by the foot, but the missing arm is evidence of the unequal battle that occurred here. 

What do people think about the dread weapon, should this be added to the base as well?

So far I'm loving the model and will definately get another or two. I want to get the body, arms and Pistons built tomorrow and Saturday for under coating Sunday, when the good weather is said to arrive.

Sorry about the picture quality, taken on my iPad.

Thanks for stopping by.

The long hobby war contiunes!