Salamanders Crusader Titan WIP

First off, like to thank Mark at Dreamforge Games for putting together this awesome Crusader Leviathan kit & all the other kits from the Kickstarter Project.  I so far put together this one and another one that is going to be Blue & White for the other army I have.  Which leaves two more Crusaders from the Kickstarter deal, which I might do a Chaos conversion on one of them if I can find somewhere that has the new Khorne Lord of Skulls model built for a size comparison.  As I think the top half of the Lord would maybe fit on the Legs & Spine of a Crusader, but that will be a different post later on.

But here is the Salamanders paint scheme Crusader so far, need to do some touch ups and work on weathering & wear on it.  Then decals & symbols on the big guy, but the base is done on this one.  Which on the base I went with what I'm calling an Armageddon theme, with some Ork pieces and just a simple gray three color drybrush over the texture. 

One thing to note on the pictures, yes the Crusader did have a lean to it.  What happen was that I glued the spine joints in the pose that I liked at the time, then during painting the bottom spine joint broke on me.  So it took some creative fixing, but I believe it will for sure hold together now (no pictures of it after the fix yet) but the lean is gone.  What I did was take a hobby saw and cut the pistons on the torso where the two tubes come together, this was very much a pain it the butt to cut without cutting the area around the pistons.  Which on the pistons I didn't glue them together until after I painted them, and then right after that is when the spine broke on me (lessons learned).  But with the two halves separated I cleaned up the joints & drilled holes for some finish nail pins in the spine & the two pistons.  Then glued the joints together with the pins installed and used some rubber bands to keep all the joints together while it dried.

Note to other miniatures companies, make your weapon arms to disconnect.  Dreamforge Leviathan weapon arms are awesome, just twist and swap or disconnect for storage or painting.  Again, these are really nice kits & I can't wait to get the other weapon arms and bits from the Kickstarter pledge.