Impetus Maero: Mantis Warriors Warhound Titan

I have received quite a few inquiries about The Big Game and most of them were Xenos! This led me to believe that I might have to play Imperial, which I have no problem with. Well, I had one problem. I didn't have any titans or superheavies to speak of for my Mantis Warriors. I seem to have remedied that problem.

I had purchased a Baneblade a while back to put together and turn into a Plaguereaper or something like that (the big nurgle phallic cannon thing). I think I'm going to paint that in a green livery for my Mantis Warriors. I've also acquired a scratch-built plasticard warhound titan from CVinton over at Dark Future Games.

The plans to make this warhound are all over the net. CVinton did a great job in creating this one, making the joints and seams really nice and overall very high quality. I don't have the kind of plasticard skills or patience to do something like this, but I was willing to paint it!

I added some bits to it and put some liquid green stuff in seams to make sure they didn't show, then I was ready to prime. The bits were needed because the model didn't have a whole ton of detail on it (can't get a lot from plasticard) so I wanted to shore that up.

First I primed it yellow, masked some stripes onto it, then primed it green. I looked and looked for a good pattern to put on this thing and couldn't find a nice one. In the end, I plan to play this as a 'Mantis Warriors' titan, staffed by Imperial pilots under the MW command. This titan will have been captured by the MW and hidden during the Badab War.

I started picking out some of the details with a basecoat. You can see my chaplain at the base of it for scale.

I then added some decals (Mantis Warriors logo, Maelstrom Warders logo, imperial aquilas, etc) and some battle damage to the titan to give it some used up look. I also bought a plastic dinner plate at Hobby Lobby to use as a base for the thing. I added some flock and pine trees.

I'm about done with this model. I added highlights, a huuuuuuuuuge purity seal, and some more detail. Geneguard is going to show me how to do some scorch marks. Not bad for a holiday weekend of work.