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So I originally had this scratch build posted in Painting& Modeling but am moving it to a blog for my Army that I can hopefully completely finish over the next few weeks. Below are the images of the now finished (build wise that is) Warhound Titan.

As much as I'd like to just prime and paint it right up I am sadly inexperienced with some of the finer points and detailing of painting and want to practice on some of my vehicles first before I tackle what will be my army's pride and joy.

All in all I think it turned out pretty well for my first scratch build and although I say it's done they're so primer or paint on it yet so if anyone has a handy suggestion I'm more than willing to hear them. So here is today's labor.


Finished legs. They now have rivets along all the plane metal plates to give them a little more character.


Rivets have been added to the sides of the hips, all exposed surfaces as well. Added some mechanical workings to the rear.


Added more "brass trim" and rivet detailing to the face.




A better view of the under-slung power cell details.


Plugged the gaps in the front of the barrels, added the stage down tips to the Turbo Lasers


I also had the realization that anything that was going to be painted brass should have rivets as well since that all would have been tacked on after the World Eaters jumped ship


Same rivet detailing.


Finished!!!


WOOO!!!




Build finished rear undershot # 1


Build finished rear undershot # 2


For scale.


Boom.


I'd rather not think or count the number of rivets I punched and stuck on today...

I'll slap a coat of primer on it tomorrow I think once it warms up enough to give it a uniform color and show a bit more detail and take a few more shots and throw them up. In the mean time I'll probably paint a few zerkers and then maybe finish the transport to try a couple painting/finishing styles to narrow down the one I'll use on this bad mama jama.

Looks awesome! The skull "carpets" are insane!

So I've attempted a few paint schemes. Looking for suggestions and opinions.



Base coated both chaos black and painted blood red.



Painted dwarf bronze.



Applied a light coat of shining gold onto the dwarf bronze.



I did the same steps to this 3rd guard to try a 3rd wash.



This is the layering trial. Chaos black base with a coat of red gore. I tried to leave some of the black edge showing in the recesses.



I then painted a layer of 50/50 mix red gore/blood red, leaving a thin line of red gore. Also painted the skull dwarf bronze and then shining gold.



Put 3rd layer just blood red in the center of the guard.



1st (left to right)guard was washed in Devlan Mud. 2nd was washed in a mix of black ink i made myself. 3rd is black ink again but with 2 drops of ink. 4th is the layering method.



A bit closer together.



This is the devlan mud wash next to the layered one. The devlan wash came out the best of the washes but I am partial to the layering method, it's just more work.


Personally I like the layering method best. It has the best appearance, especially from a little farther away and gives the model great texture as well. I’m going to try each method on full scale berzerkers tomorrow and put those up as well as the black primed titan. However opinions are always great especially from seasoned chaos painters.

On the windiest day since remembrance..

Dark Mechanicum Acolyte: "Hey let's paint the white and green titan that's been sitting around."

Dark Mechanicum Adept: "I dono, it's pretty windy and Kharnsaid he wants that thing to look beautiful..."

Acolyte: "........Kharn. ......said that....?"

Adept: " Yeah I dono, he's been acting weird since they gave him those new combat drugs."

Acolyte: " Is today April 1st?"

Adept " What? No, I'm 98.372% certain that's what he said."

Acolyte: "He usually only babbles about blood, skulls for the skull throne, you know all that."

Adept: "Oh, which reminds me, he said pay special attention to his 'skull carpets.' "

Acolyte: "Is that what those are! Haha, Rho Signus 38 told me they were antique Persian drapes. What malfunctioning peice of scrap."

Adept : " I heard they're downgrading him to a servitor. Anyways you thing we should paint it? It's really windy today."

Acolyte: "Oh hell yes! We'll just hold the paint guns really close, and we'll do it all black! That'll be really stealthy!"

Adept: " But the world eaters are blood red and brass and I th......Where are you going?"

Acolyte: "To spray this titan down, with or without you."














Acolyte: "See I told you! It's so much easier on the augmetic eyes now. I don't have to filter out the green from the white or the steel from the brass."

Looks good, Tme. Can't wait to see the final paint job.

mxwllmdr wrote:Looks good, Tme. Can't wait to see the final paint job.

Thanks mate. I'm currently working on some zerkers and then a rhino or two to really nail the paint scheme and get some much needed practice before I take a crack at that guy. Here is my latest paint attempt. It need just a bit more tweaking I think.

Berserker is lookin good, too. I have to learn to paint......

You and me both. I've gotten a few tips from a friend of mine here, gonna try a slightly different scheme on the next squad of ten. However, I am currently working on a secret build that I hope to finish in the next week. I'll throw all the pics up when I'm done.

Want to see that titan Painted! Great work!!!

No such thing as a secret build on the Dakka... Pics should be WIP..... Shame on you, TME, for not sharing......LOL

Haha you're right, plus I'm getting too excited to wait the entire span of the project. I'll throw up all the WIP pics tonight after I get done on the next section.

So here is the big secret project....a Forge World Style Dreadclaw!! The most exciting part is I've been scanning all my original sketches to make templates that, once I tweak and finish them, will upload to Dakka as a PDF so anyone can make a DIY Dreadcalw. So here is the progress so far.


I tried making one strait outta sheet styrene and it ended up looking a bit off, so i made the next two outta poster board, I ended up going with C.


Now made outta sheet styrene.


Intake vents.


Instead of making 7more of the intake vents, I'm casting a mold and then will just cast them as I need them (I plan to make 3 dreadclaws)


Intake vent factory.

More to come tonight, I'm hoping to finish the bottom panel detailing and the four legs.

All that Chaotic loveliness and still no paint on the Warhound.....



Tsk, Tsk, Tsk......

Vent looks really good though. What dimensions are you using for the main body?

Haha I know, I've never really like painting, it always seems such a chore, probably because I lack any real talent with it. The plan is to finish this, practice painting it, then the warhound and onto my next build project, although I'll probably just skip to the next build when it comes down to it. As for dimensions the capsule body stands about 5.5in high. I had to use the zerkers in the pictures on FW website to approximate a scale. I feel I'm pretty close. On it's legs it will be 6.5in to 7in tall. Here it is with all the molded vents attached.





Time to move onto the legs.

woah, awesome CSMs!

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The dreadclaw looks Pretty good

Dude, how do i get a set of those molds?

Like I said when I get finished I'll post a PDF with all the templates and you can make your very own set of DIY dreadclaws. The mold works wonders as far as time. I used Polytek Plasil 71-10 for the silicon mold and Polytek EasyFlo 60 liquid resin. Awesome stuff. I'm sure I'll be making another purchase for my next "secret" project.

Sounds good, Tme. Can't wait.... Now that they are 40K I need like 6 of them, too.....

Yeah no joke, they'll beat the hell out of plowing rhinos up the field and hoping you make it past turn 2.

What a project, I'm in awe!
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Thanks to all for the kind words and encouragement thus far.

News update though. The retro-thruster panels are done. The only thing I feel I left out was the wiring around them you see in the original FW one, however when I attempted to add some to mine it seemed overly cramped and much of the detail was lost so I just left them out. Currently making a mold and then casting 8 of them. I've drawn the designs for the legs and and currently constructing those in between casts. More to come.




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So I've finished casting and molding all the retro-thrusters. The legs is coming along pretty well, nearly finished with it then I'll move onto the main engine on top and the portal on the bottom. I had to order some more silicon so I can't cast the legs quite yet, but I figure I can finish it around the beginning of next week and have the PDF up a day or so after.

Will it open on the bottom like it is supposed to or will it be a closed model?


Man, that is georgeous, simply georgeous......

Wow, this all looks fantastic. Keep up the good work.

Hey, Tme, where is it written that Dreadclaws are coming to 40K?

Looks amazing keep up the good work

Holy toe monkies - your modeling skills are on the good side of awesome.

Thanks everybody. The new Dreadclaw rules for 40K are in the Imperial Armor Apocalypse: Second Edition book on pg. 112 and as for the hatch no it will just be a closed hatch, I'm not much of an engineer. The legs will be static as well, at least on mine. I don't think it would be too hard to figure those out, just some angel brackets and glide rails but, I just don't mind fixed legs so that's what I went with, much simpler for max production.

Unfortunately I'll be doing 56 hours my Paramedic clinicals this week in the ER and OR on top of class so I won't have any progress until the late weekend. Stay tuned though.

Oh, cry me a river, my mother did paramedics school at 63 years old. Get back to building....


LOL

mxwllmdr wrote:Oh, cry me a river, my mother did paramedics school at 63 years old. Get back to building....


LOL

Everyone will get the plans for this except mxwll, we just won't tell him the password.