Friday, May 14, 2021

From GregB: Another Titan - Nemesis Warbringer

More reinforcements for Legio Gyphonicus - a Nemesis Warbringer Titan.

Hello again everyone! Here is another war machine from GW's Adeptus Titanicus. This is "Nemesis Warbringer" Titan (love those names), a multi-part plastic kit from GW. This is another Titan for Legio Gyphonicus, the "War Griffons", a loyalist Titan Legio that fought on the side of The Emperor during the wars of the Horus Heresy.

The new Warbringer, together with the Reaver Titan from my previous submission.

This Titan class is slightly larger than the Reaver in my previous post, and is still broadly a "medium" class of Titan. It is still covered in heavy weaponry, of course! You can see all sorts of big guns all over this thing.

Now THAT is a big gun!

A lot going on up there on top of this Titan...

There are even some anti-aircraft batteries up there...just in case!

Where this machine stands out from the others is the interesting weapon mount on the top of the Titan. This is a "quake cannon" - no need to get into the specifics here, but you can tell that it is a really big gun, and it has really satisfying big-gun-type effects in the game. 

You can just make out the crew access hatch in this view...

This is a beautiful model kit from GW, but the assembly for this requires more caution than the other large Titan models I have built to date. It also needs more painting of sub-assemblies than the other main kits for the model range. Many of the components/armour plates overlap, but do not cover completely, the various sections where they are mounted. I get obsessive about these situations, and end up wanting to be sure everything is painted, even if there is only a 0.000005% anyone will see one of these mostly-covered areas. 

So much great detail on the armour plates...really great job by GW on these kits.

Lots of overlapping plate armour on the legs and torso.

So putting one of these together and painting it is a bit of a slow process, at least for me - I paint a lot of the components (like the armour plates) separately from the base structure, and then assemble afterwards. That takes more time, and is more fiddly for sure. But it is worth it in the end - I really like the model, and I'm glad to have one of these available for my loyalist forces.

Thanks for reading! Hope you are all well out there.  

14 comments:

  1. That big gun on top... Looks like a cannon on wheels. Totally insane in every possible meaning. Well done, you are making me to wa t buy one those, thank you very much!

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    1. Thanks Teemu! I'm sure if you buy only one, things will go fine... :)

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  2. Wow, you really are on a roll Greg, another awesome God machine!

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  3. Excellent work from the patented GW “Tombola of naming”! What an utterly ridiculous machine..... and therefore it fits perfectly into the genre and you’ve done a smashing job on the painting.

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    1. The "Tombola of Naming" - very true! The machine is so absurd...and I do love it.

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  4. Another great machine! One really does not know where first to look, such a wealth of detail. Magnificent.

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  5. Oh, he's a beauty Greg! Love that ridiculous main gun, especially the upper viewing platform. A nice place for the Princeps to string a hammock and have an umbrella drink when he's not blasting heretics and flattening neighbourhoods. :)

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    1. Cheers Dude! Yes - all sorts of possibility on the viewing platform. For example, high-value donors to the Legio can watch Titan engagements live! I'm sure it is totally safe to be up there when the main battery fires...

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  6. Awesome looking Titan. GW has done a splendid job with this range and your painting really showcases that.

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  7. Another great rompin stompin robot thingy Greg

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