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**Gundam-Mecha**

Great Stuff Necros, its been really interesting to see this grow and develop as a project.

I'd love to see this versus a Titan in a game!

**s.j.mccartney**

If you were in the UK I would take it upon myself to post you some paint, because you're gonna need buckets of paint!

It is immense and you should be truly proud of yourself. Make sure you get a really big house with your girlfriend so you can store all your warhammer junk!

**Kagar**

Great work , I love scratch build stuff.

I'm really looking forward to seeing some paint on this contraption.

**Wehrkind**

That looks really great man. I am going to have to swing down to Philly one of these weekends to see the thing in person!

One thing I keep thinking though is that it needs something attached to the front. The squared off bumper that is shorter than the main gun makes it look a little over balanced forward a bit to me. I am thinking that a prow ram would go a long way towards balancing it out and making it a tad more elegant. Something along the lines of the Sisters of battle immolator style, with a gap in the middle of course to avoid covering your brass plate!

I suppose part of the issue is seeing such a large vehicle that doesn't look like a ship or a train in the front sort of throws me. Still, dead awesome over all!

**Necros**

For painting I'm going to use the army painter gray spray and paint the skulls and eagles and other bitz in gold and silver, then use the darkest Army Painter shader/stain. If I try to paint the whole thing by hand I will drive myself insane

I was thinking about building some kinda of massive dozer blade for it though. I will probably still try and do something different for the cannon too, we'll see. I built the thing so that I can remove the engines and guns and all that stuff so I can paint the body itself first, so I might feel like building a new gun later

**Anung Un Rama**

Very cool. It's stuff like that which makes Apocalypse so interesting. You could play a scenario based on a bunch of Speed Freaks trying to loot it

**Wehrkind**

Anung: That's an awesome idea... you and I need to hang out some time. You know, play some Game Cube, and just chill.

Necros is of course invited, provided there is a big dozer blade on that thing by week's end!

Also, Necros, to save you a little cash, you might try Rustoleum's light grey automotive primer. I get mine at Wal Mart, but you can definitely get it at like Lowe's or Home Depot. It is a very light grey, almost white, which covers very evenly. I used it on the Necros Pattern Battlewagon over a brown primer for rust (using the jelly rust spot method) and then just washed the whole tank with a brown and Payne's Grey mix (if I recall) to very nice results.

Results I need to post on Dakka, it occures to me.

**Anung Un Rama**

Sure thing Wehrkind. Drop me a line the next time you cross the atlantic.

**Iago**

I must say, what a nice looking model!

Great work, I wish I had the patience and resources to pull something like this off.

Cheers! cant wait to see it painted.

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Aww you guys are making plans to bro chill, don't forget the Natty Ice. On topic we need to see this sucker painted as it would be a shame to let all this work go to waste.

**pcon426**

PAINT!!!!!!!!!!!! soonish

**Necros**

hehe I will, but I will be mixing in the paint in stages between a lot of other things I have on deck like. 2 kroxigors, 3 razordons (w/ 9 skinks), 1 Carnasaur, 1 hellhound and 1 baneblade, then there will be new guard stuff coming soon too and I'll at least be getting a couple more boxes of men. So I don't expect to have this thing totally finished for a while :( sometime this summer maybe. My plan was to have it done in time for my club's big apocalypse game in November, so I'm already way ahead of schedule

**s.j.mccartney**

You are one multitasking machine! It is a very beautiful mother that you have created and you should be proud.

All you need now is an awesome battlefield and backdrop for some photos and then you will rock the kazbah! I take my hat off to you Necros.

**Wehrkind**

Natty Ice, damnit! I was trying for like 15 minutes at work to remember the name of that swill. It has been a LONG time since that name was among the list of "things I might put in my mouth".

**Necros**

You mean this Natty Ice?

I'm a tequila man personally. never was into beer for some reason.

I'll probably bring it to a game at my local store long before november. I wanna try to get it painted sooner rather than later I just have a lot of other projects on deck :( I wanna at least get all the other stuff built, if it stays in boxes too long it may get forgotten about completely

**Wehrkind**

Yea, the .15$ per can nasty beer like product that college kids can afford. I prefer whiskey + sugar myself to beer, and that stuff is much like what I piss out after a heavy night of drinking.

Haven't you ever seen the "Bro Rape" video Necros? Look it up on YouTube, it is hillarious.

Let me know when you are taking it somewhere. I want to see the beast in person! (Pssst. Take it to Games Day!)

**Necros**

This is back on my work bench! I have the whole thing primed now, all gray except the guns which are primed black. I plan to begin painting it over the next couple of days. I have to add a base coat of shadow gray to the body all over, which will then be washed black and then drybrushed space wolf gray, same way I did my baneblade and valkyrie. I'm gonna paint the whole thing in stages starting with the bottom section. I hope to have that basecoated and washed in the next couple of days then I get some pics.

I was going to paint the window areas just black, but I think now I want to do some custom decals with photoshop and make the windows look like stained glass. I'll probably just scan some color pics out of the rulebook and codex. But I'm also wondering if I should do custom decals, or print them out on photo paper and glue them in the windows so the colors will be real bright and shiny.

**The Dreadnote**

Hey, I remember this! I look forward to seeing some paint on the thing!

**Wulfgang**

Can't wait to see the finished model, looks great!!!

**Death Gear**

That is so COOL!!

**ZeinEizoku**

... It took me about Half an hour of reading all of the 6 Pages of this thread and looking over the fine details and hilarious comments. I downloaded the Lords of Battle book like you posted. I have yet to look through it. I am a little upset that I found this thread so late in the game. I would have loved to suggest a little Rail like system on the Turret roof, so that you could slide the Hydra Cannon Around just for flavor. And the Loading bay door, even though you do not want to carry sentinels I think it would look cool if the Loading Bay would open down and then open up. Kind of like the Front of a Land Raider.

However, all in all I find this amazing the CoD Walls and the Toy Tank and building this monstrosity from Scratch... it is just phenomenal. I cannot wait for you to paint this, just I would like you to take your time so that it looks good, so ignore the rushing "Paint it NOW" Posts. Patients pays off lol.

I do have one question though, are you going to model the inside of it?

**Necros**

Thanks

Unfortunately, I didn't plan ahead and also got a bit lazy when I was building it, so no it's not going to be able to open up and have an interior.

And yes it will take me a while to paint. I plan to do the whole bottom section, then take a break and do some other models, and then the upper floor, and then weapons last. I probably won't do anything with the windows till the very very end. Right now I'm leaning toward photo paper stained glass instead of decals for them.

**ZeinEizoku**

For the Stained Glass, I am not sure how well this would work but you could use some Colored Acetate http://www.dickblick.com/products/grafix-clear-lay-assorted-colors/ But that is entirely up to you, it is your model it is just a suggestion.

**Briancj**

In my bitz box, I have pre-printed stained glass windows on plastic. If you go into military modelling stores, they may have them. Tricky to find online, but here's one example:

http://www.empirehobbies.com.au/images/ris35063.jpg

The ones I have fit COD windows pretty well.

NOTE: Unless you light up the interior, you really won't see the stained glass at all well!

Look forwards to seeing it painted!

--Brian

**acreedon**

wow

**Anung Un Rama**

Necros wrote:I was going to paint the window areas just black, but I think now I want to do some custom decals with photoshop and make the windows look like stained glass. I'll probably just scan some color pics out of the rulebook and codex. But I'm also wondering if I should do custom decals, or print them out on photo paper and glue them in the windows so the colors will be real bright and shiny.

Here are a few pics of the church my brother made a few years ago. He searched for different 40k pics, used a photoshop filter on them and then printed them on foil. The church was open on one side though, so there was a lot of light from the other side and you could see the pictures very clearly.

**Necros**

OK sorry for the update without pics

anyway here is the front corner

I wanted to test out the wash and stuff and see how it would look so here's an idea of how the rest will look one day

next I will be painting the whole thing with a shadow gray basecoat and then washing it with the black wash so it will look like the part I already did.

**ZeinEizoku**

I think that looks pretty awesome. I like how you are going with the Base coat and Wash, because that will defiantly speed up the painting time of the Leviathan. It is a nice simple Technique that makes a nice effect on the model and with some simple highlights and trimming. I think you could have this massive model done in a couple weeks? maybe 1 and a half total in-between all of your other painting and modeling projects and family lol

Again it looks great Necros

**Necros**

Yeah I think it will paint up quick. I think I may even get this bottom section done today. I have the shadow gray basecoat almost all done. Today is my first day in a long time where I have nothing to do at all so hopefully I'll get a lot done

**ZeinEizoku**

Well I hope you get it done today as well ^__^ I would love to see what a full section of the massive leviathan would look like.

On a side note, I downloaded and looked through the Lords of Battle pdf. I was shocked at some of the massive tanks in there. The Imperialis is just Monolithic to say the least. The fun challenge for me being the rule converter in my gaming group, is to now convert the Rules in LOB to Second Edition, because thats is what we play.

Keep it up Necros ^_^