Terrain and Scenery - Pegasus Hobbies - Hab Block to hide Titans #4

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. Another huge terrain piece for line-of-sight blocking titans at Titan Owners Club Titan Walk events. This was made from several Pegasus Hobbies Large Gothic building sets.

I added some lovely 40k propaganda posters along the ground floor to add interest and scale.

And like the other sets I've already done, (Hab Block, Cathedral, Administratum) they are flat packed for easy transport to and from Titan Owners Club events. I have another 3 sets to do before October Main Walk event.

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Terrain and Scenery - Wrecked Warhound Titan #3

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. Following on from Monday's other wrecked titan terrain, the other half! This is a wrecked Warhound titan to be used as terrain. It is also 3D printed much to my chargrin as I like to support Forge World when buying actual titans, but £457 is way too much to spend for a piece of terrain, even for mad ol' me with my many many FW official Titans! 

Like before, I took inspiration from a mate's own titan, this above is John's Legio Ignatum Warhound "Omnissiah's Fang" so I have recreated in it's image.

The 3D print has several scars from battles, unfortunately it's legs have been taken from beneath them. The smoke marker is also 3D printed.

The quality compared to a FW resin one is very poor with wrong scale and print lines, however as terrain it is perfectly adequate.

The scale of this print bought on eBay is nowhere near to scale, noticeable on the weapons but less so on the main bulk of the torso, however as terrain it's not really noticeable and doesn't detract.

And for ease of storage and transport to events where this will be used as scatter terrain, the smoke marker is magnetised.

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Terrain and Scenery - Wrecked Warhound Titan #2

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. The only good use of a 3D printed Titan in my book is as a wreck terrain piece. I am an avid fan of Forge World and do my best to support them with my numerous official titans, but I am loathe to spend £457 on a piece of scenery so a quite crappy 3D printed version will do for that! This is PLA line printed and boy can you see the layer lines but as terrain it's completely usable.

In honour of co-author here, Lord TITANium H's own Legio Crucius titans I painted to match his Warhound Titan "Blood of Caldos". The first wreck was Legio Mortis, seen above and HERE.

The smoke was another 3D print and clipped to size on the base so match the hip ring, to simulate some catastrophic explosion leaving just the legs! The torso is being used for another terrain wreck maximising the terrain pieces to spread around the battlefield.

On the base is the remains of the blown off arms, a Vulcan Mega Bolter and a Turbolaser Destructor.

The smoke was simply painted black all over then sprayed from above with grey and lighter spray of bone and a red light spray on base to simulate fires burning. Simple and really effective.

As you can see the 3D print is not to scale to the official Forge World titans and of poorer quality but as terrain it does the job admirably and the scale isn't actually noticeable unlike the shot above! 

The base and smoke marker are also magnetised so they can be detached for ease of storage and transport to Titan Walk events. The first wrecked Warhound terrain can be found HERE.

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Terrain and Scenery - Wrecked Warhound Titan #1

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. The only good use of a 3D printed Titan in my book is as a wreck terrain piece. I am an avid fan of Forge World and do my best to support their continued production of Titans - 7 Mars Warhounds so far, and 3 Lucius, plus Warbringers, Reavers and Warlords... anyway, even with my collection I am not mad enough to make a wrecked one from a FW model! (Warhounds are £457.50 without Arms at time of posting), so to have a cool terrain piece I sought out an alternative.

A poor Mortis Legio Warhound, as my most common adversary at Titan Walks has been Drake_Seta's or Winters Warhammer's Mortis Engines. I added a big skull icon from the bits box plus two FW skulls for the arm mounts. 

The Plasma Blastgun is out of scale and a lot fatter than the genuine article and overall the 3D print is nowhere near as detailed as the resin FW kits, but as a terrain piece its ideal for a quick and dirty paint job as wrecked titan. The magnetic coils of the Plasma Blastgun are powered down from my usual blue glow pulse designs to the copper mag-coils un-energised.

The head is at an acute angle, neck-broken as the Titan face-dived into the mud after losing a leg from a well aimed loyalist shot!

I added the neck cables as trailing cables beneath the titan, one powering the Vulcan Mega Bolter, and...

... the other detached underneath the torso to the head.

The detached leg I chose to do separate from the main base as the leg mass was quite heavy and would mean the unsupported severed leg would bend the fibreboard/hardboard base. It also means you can make the terrain more spread out and tell a story - and more practical for using the terrain on a 40K battle if wanted.

I snapped off some of the knee gear and pistons to show the damage from the killing blow

And here is the proud Scion who downed the Engine, a Cerastus Knight Lancer of Legio Astorum ;)

Cheers, Siph (25pts - Warhound but simpler)

Terrain and Scenery - Sanctum Cloisters

Hello all, thanks for dropping by. I have a few Pegasus Hobbies building tiles left over from when I previously made large titan line-of-sight blocking terrain pieces, so I put them to good use making 'normal' 40K sized terrain - a cloistered Sanctum block ruins.

I added some propaganda posters

I made some tiles from cereal box card

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Terrain and Scenery - Large Gothic Building to hide Titans #3

Hello Readers, thanks for dropping by. I had fun making the previous building and we had Titan Owners Club UK Walk on the near horizon so a few months ago I got to work making another big building as we would have four battle mats and one was a cityscape. This was made from 3 Pegasus Hobbies Large Gothic Building sets. The roof was made with foamcard and a few rhino APC spares.

Here it is painted and on the cityscape board for the Titan Walk. It did a great job shielding my own Warlord No.10 "Ex-Noctia" from incoming fire.

It was a blast and great to have a number of buildings and styles of buildings. On completion of the Walk I was handed enough Pegasus Hobbies building tiles to make 4 more ruined buildings - so next walk in February I guess will have a few more buildings bought along... better get buying magnets (all these four sides are magnetised for flat packing for ease of transport between events and stowage at home!)

Cheers, Siph (5pts terrain)

Terrain and Scenery - Large Gothic Building to hide Titans #2

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. I have a few of the Pegasus Hobbies Gothic Buildings but I regulary attend Titan Owners Club Titan Walks where we battle our 28mm scale Forge World Titans, so that means making some scenery that can hide Titans to make it more akin to Adeptus Titanicus with cover rather than a shooting galley where Warlord Belicosa dominate everything - cheeky Knights and Warhounds are great variation and worry the best Warlord Princeps.

Its first outing was at London Grand Tournament in Lea Valley Athletics Centre in north London, sans roof - that was added later.

The London Grand Tournament Titan Owners Club UK Walk in September. The building was put to good use, blocking line-of-sight on more than one occasion helping the Warhound's survive fire from the massed Warlords.

It was used again at the UK Titan Owners Club main Walk at Huxlow Academy in Buckinghamshire in late October. Here it was on a dedicated city board with plentiful buildings, such a feast for the eyes. There was over 150 God Engines plus plenty of Knights too!

The main colours were basecoated black, zenithal sprayed Zandri Dust and washed with Dark Shade from Army Painter - this was the oil based dip and took 2 days to dry.

Posters and announcements were added. Doors sealed with Purity Seals after the church was bombed out and abandoned.

I love the addition of the posters, gives a sense of scale and lived in. The basecoats were drybrushed Ushabti Bone up 3/4 of the structure leaving the tops burnt.

Once again, mapped out on paper what tiles I would require and what was the largest building I could make with the box of parts fellow TOC Admin Col. Hertford had gave me and the above was the result.

This one could be a little more ornate, flying buttresses and spiked finials and even some gargoyles. The original building I did was plain Administratum type block solely for LOS blocking.

I made a quick floor from foam board so the battle map cannot be seen. I made a roof a few weeks after LGT, partially collapsed and burnt out, even a little roof for the porch too - after a specific request from Drake_Seta at Battle Bunnies and Titan Owners Club.

For size comparison - here is a Warhound, easily hidden

And easily blocks LOS for a Reaver

It can hide a Warbringer Nemesis Titan end on. 

A Warlord Titan is taller and wider but will block most of the Engine conferring the cover modifier to shooting.

And is fairly flat-pack-able so can be transported between events with the other large Pegasus Building and the Huge Crane!

Cheers, Siph (5pts)