Update - Warlord Titan No.114 - Hammer of Synne, Legio Shadowbane - 9 Jan 21

Princeps Lucilla has updated us with her Warlord build, some fantastic progress with the main Torso.

UPDATE PHOTOS:

Main torso assembly nearly complete. The main armour plates and Tertiary Weapons are prepared but left off until Rites of Colour progressed.

Test walks in her assembly bunker with a provisional test loadout selection look promising.

Considerations for the name in High Gothic? Now Princeps Lucilla's High Gothic is not all that good but thinks Hammer of Synne would be something like Synne Malleo, Legio Shadowbane may be Legio Umbra Nocet (Though if you replace Bane with Slayer you get Interfectorem which has an unintentionally curious echo in the considerations of rites of colour below).

As to the colours, the Titan's name is  a reference to Princeps Lucilla's World of Warcraft Character, who is a large hammer wielding Blood Elf Bloodknight who wear black and red armour, though clearly you cannot feature an elf in the heraldry, so Princeps Lucilla may get away with a few hints a bit like certain Cobra themed iconography displayed on a recently shown Reaver.

Now there is Legio Interfector for reference to build upon with those two primary colours and the Mars Beta cockpit does echo the Bloodknight uniform's helm shape.

As Princeps Lucilla's collection features Deathwatch and other factions she is hoping to primarily reference the Deathwatch's Black Red and Silver as the primary colours whilst giving a nod to the other factions it may walk alongside in the heraldry (Again one of which is WoW themed 40K ). As Ordo Xenos Inquisitors do have the right to commandeer assets as required so imagine if they need a deployment for something larger than a Killteam The Hammer could honour its service in its livery for the allocation perhaps with a reference to its true Legio heraldry and Number on the shield plates.

Princeps Lucilla will have to research Adeptus Titanicus books for ways to make to make it work as a loyalist Titan but having a few hammer symbol ideas to adopt/adapt and perhaps a 'Deathwatch' silver arm?

Had a slightly crazy idea for the Deathwatch markings involving making a 3D printed layer of text to apply to the left shoulder with a freely internet sourced deathwatch icon model placed over it to mimic the marine shoulder pads style (and hot water heat treated to bend to the curve of the plate). The right shoulder still has its regular markings to honour the machine spirit.

Hoping this will seem a bit more 'Engraved' than a regular transfer.

Decided it just needed to be done on the Mid plate for the engraved look as it better suited the limitations I found in applying straight lines of text over a slightly curved form but will paint the overlapping plates and the rest of the left arm armour silver/gold as well, though the weapons on the left side with the exception of the still to be posed Claw probably should have red casings.

I could not see any full reference for the text on the Astartes scale pads, seemed to be a list of random flavour text. For my text I used the pads and codex as well as the Deathwatch computer game for the reference words and added in a few names and locations relevant to the armies and characters The Hammer of Synne walks with. Impact Font seemed to have a suitable format suited to forming the banded lines seen on the pads

After a lot of trial and error as I progressed the concept to prototype layers and final printing and application of the text 'hard transfer sheets' as I came to refer to them.

Nearly ready for the Rites of Colour, excellent work Princeps Lucilla!