Adeptus Titanicus: Imperial Knights: Building and priming tips

Building and priming your AT: Imperial Knights

Introduction

In this blog post I'd like to discuss some tips and tricks I've come across when building and priming my Imperial Knights. Here are the first 3 I painted!


Sub Assemblies and Priming


I've built and painted 3 AT: Imperial knights and I'm working on my next 3 for House Griffith. Having followed the Warhammer TV tip on assembling and priming them, I wasn't too happy with it. In the WHTV video they assembled the body of the knight and glued on the weapon arms while leaving the top carapace off for priming.

When it came around to painting them, I found I couldn't get the brush into the areas I really wanted to make sure were painted, mainly the areas between the weapon arms and the body of the knight.

Below is a work in progress shot of my next 3 House Griffith knights. As you can see I've left the weapon arms off and the carapace off.

I recommend the following method for building and priming them.


  • Assemble the bodies but don't attach the weapon arms.
  • Assemble the weapon arms and keep them separate.
  • Assemble the carapace and keep those separate.
  • Prime the body in Leadbelcher.
  • Prime the carapace either in Chaos black or in the colour of your knight house if it is available as a spray.
  • Prime the weapon arms with Chaos black.

Initial base colours for your house.

A tip I've learned from painting my first 3 knights is to get the larger areas painted up first. In this case I'm using Instar IV-38 for my Bleached Bone replacement. When I painted the first 3 knights I primed the arms with Leadbelcher and tried to work from "outside in" when painting it. It took a lot of touching up with leadbelcher when I was blocking in the IV-38 so this time what I'm doing is:

  • Prime with Chaos Black.
  • Thin down IV-38 with 3:1 of Lahmian medium(or equivalent) to IV-38.
  • Paint in the armour panels with this in lots(I mean lots) of thin coats of this mix until it builds a nice solid colour.
Essentially what I'm doing here is painting the model from the inside out. After the Bleached bone is done, I can carefully do all the Leadbelcher around all the trim(and chainsword teeth, cannons, flamers etc) and save myself a lot of hassle when it comes to touch ups.

A small experiment for washing the armour panels

I was sitting on the train today and thinking about how I could make washing the carapace and weapons a bit easier on myself. I found when washing the armour on the first 3 knights to be quite tedious. A lot of touchups were required and took a long time. So I've come up with the following little experiment:

  • Finish the IV-38 base coats.
  • Paint all the trim with either leadbelcher or Brass Scorpion.
  • Once that's done, give the carapace and weapons a really thin gloss coat of varnish.
  • Let the varnish cure.
  • Then make a thin wash of Agrax earthshade and Water+ and wash the panels with that.
In theory the gloss coat of varnish should allow the wash to run into the small recesses much easier, and allow me to make minor adjustments as I go to tidy up the panels. That's the idea anyway, so if it works we'll see. I'll do another blog post on that little experiment.

Anyway!

Hope you enjoyed this little article, and if you've any feedback or ideas, please let me know! :)

Thanks!

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