Anamnesis's minis madness: [Showcase] Astraeus super-heavy tank forgeworld

Alright, it's finally time to post what took me the last 3 months to paint (only to paint, I'm not counting the cleaning and building time...)

I've finished this big guy over the week-end and I can say that's been the most exhausting project I've done so far.

I'm really happy with the result, some things might still be better but considering the size of this thing, just to finish building and painting it, is an achievement in itself.

Being forgeworld mean you need to take your time playing with resin, massive mould line and bad joint, the result is very impressive but goodness me, this thing is heavy. It almost flipped the glass shelf in the cabinet! Beware!

Building the kit, you can clearly see it's one of the newly cad design, a good kit not too bad to build, though the amount of grav-plates and cleaning required for them can be off-putting.

Oh, and keep in mind, if you add a gunner or techmarine, you won't be able to have the trap lying flat on the side, it will touch the side weapon otherwise and you'll have to keep it slightly open (been there, done that...)

The painting was mostly straight forward, you can find most on the recipe used on this blog, I had a few setbacks with the gold and the void shield but settled for an old gold in the end.
The thrusters were granted a small ionic effect, similar to the void shield which is many small globes of lightning, the osl for the light is a bit strong.
Most of the weathering is a mix of oil and acrylic, I don't usually use oil but on this kind of surface, it's way easier to control the result.
I also had to come up with a colour for the plasma; I settled for green, which give a nice contrast with the red, a tutorial is planned for the next unit with plasma, which will be the inceptor.

As usual if you're interested in tutorial on other part of the model, feel free to ask in comment.
Seeing the result, I now find my repulsor a bit boring though 😅

A small description/fiction to go along, something I always wanted to try, let me know what you think!

"Gifted to the second company of the Knight of the Chalice during the relentless time of the Indomitus crusade, the Astraeus Celaeno has been the back bone of many frontal assault and a strong asset in the hand of Captain Artemis Beshop.

Deployed from orbit and protected by her void shields, she opened the path to many deployments of reivers and inceptors, creating opportunity moving straight for the enemy; a temperament strangely reminiscent of the company's captain.

Since her first induction during the 21st year of the crusade, Celaeno has been a paragon of war for nearly a century. It's last sighting has been in the Vigilus sector of Dontoria fighting the ruinous power of the death guard."

*Side note, excuse the font, I had nothing big enough to accommodate this tank. Say hi to Vigilus!