Reaver - the beginning

So during the summer I was able to get a forge world reaver titan at reduced price due to being pre-owned. It has already been painted and it looked OK on the battlefield but I knew I was going to want to go back over the paint job and redo it to be more inline with the rest of my mechanicum army.
The reaver is such a massive project I am simply sitting back and doing parts of it here and there when I am working on other models, so when I applied the candy coat red to the thallax I was also applying it to the first of the Reaver armour plates.

I have only worked on the one armour plate so far and it is still a fair way off completion, I am desperately trying to not rush this project since the Reaver has the potential to be an utterly awesome focal point model for my combined heresy era force and the model is simply so cool it deserves to be done right.

So with that said here are the initial photos of the carapace armour plate which I am currently working on, I aim to have this at the very least completed in time for the summer apocalypse game, I am not priortising this since I simply have set myself a massive target for that battle in terms of model painting and trying to squeeze the whole titan in at the same time would lead me to rushing it and ruining the effect I am trying to achieve

So far all I have done is the candy coat and oil paint wash on the main body of the armour plate, I have started to work on the scroll using some of the ideas from the new Horus Heresy Modelling Masterclass book as well as doing the very initial stages of adding the gold work on to the eagle and trim.
There is still a long way to go, the rest of the trim needs to be completed with an initial coat of balathazar gold and then various washes and layers need to be employed to make the gold look as vibrant and deep as possible and really show off all of the cracks and detail in the eagle. The scroll work needs several more layers of paint to build up the colour properly. I have purchased a nice stencil with some elaborate text which I am hoping to use that to add the name to the scroll. From what I can see the space where I would actually like to add the name is not especially large before the scroll starts folding which in my mind suggests the name should be pretty short and catchy - I am now having looked at the stencil and the scroll thinking of calling this beast "Dominus" which links in to the mechanicum quite nicely.

Once I have everything else done I will be adding decals to the armour plates to add some more detailed art work which is beyond what my painting skills could achieve, I have the Legio Fureans decal sheet and while I am not using their colour scheme I think the decals will work perfectly well on this battle titan.

Ler me know your thoughts.