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Hey all,

I'm hoping that I can call on the great omni-brain of Dakka and work out some basic sizes for parts of the upcoming Reaver Titan from Forgeworld. If anyone can offer any concrete or speculative (based on viewing the thing!) insights to the physical dimensions of anything I'm mentioning, I'd be very grateful.

My research so far has indicated that the Forgeworld Warhound titan is 10.5in to the top of its flat carapace. The height of the Reaver has varied from website to website between 12in and 24in. The most reasonable and common estimate/measurement for the thing is 16in.

Comparing this to the pictures on the 'net where the Warhound can be seen alongside the Reaver, I'm guessing this 16in measurement is based on the top of the carapace, not the top of the missile pod. Can anyone confirm?

With the tentative measurement in mind, here's a picture with a 1in scale ruler I've sketched in based on the 16in measurement mentioned above.

The scale starts from the base of the foot, as this aligns with the Warhound's foot. Given the fish-eye distorted view of the camera, this seems the most reliable way of getting a correct measurement – unless anyone can tell me otherwise?

Speculative measurements based on that scale:
(Please offer any corrections, additional measurements or considerations you think appropriate)

Lower leg and foot:
The leg is 10in from the floor to the midpoint of the hip (and hence core of the pelvis)
The midpoint of the knee joint is 5½in from the floor.
The toes are 1in wide and 1½in deep from the armoured skirt of the lower leg.
The toe braces (the bits leading down from the leg to the toes) are 2¼in long and 1in wide at their deepest point.
The foot is 6in wide and 6in deep from toetip to toetip
The kneeplate armour is 3in tall and 2in wide

Upper leg and pelvis:
The upper legs are mainly made of three pistons/struts. The largest is 1½in in diameter. The two smaller pistons/struts are ½in in diameter.
The hips are 9in across from their outermost points. (Very speculative!)
The pelvis armour plate is 4in tall and 2½in wide.

Torso:
The torso is 5½in high from pelvis to top of carapace.

Head:
???

[Upper arms
???

Weaponry
The barrels of the turbolasers are 1in across.

I'd really appreciate any help you cats can give on the size of this warmachine, particularly the breadth of the shoulders, the depth of the torso, the size of the head, the length of the guns etc.

Really, any additional help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated – even better if you can explain or demonstrate your reasoning.

Over to you, dakka übermind!

first time i've seen this monster - sweeeeet!
(sorry can't help with the sizes but if you print it out then use a photocopier to blow it up until the hips measure 9cm across, scaling off shouldn't be a problem as the photo seems pretty 'flat' - ie not much perspective)

any estimates to the cost?

Cpl_Saint wrote:Comparing this to the pictures on the 'net where the Warhound can be seen alongside the Reaver, I'm guessing this 16in measurement is based on the top of the carapace, not the top of the missile pod. Can anyone confirm?

Based on the original discussion at Warseer I'm almost positive that the 16" measurement includes the missle pod - around 13.5" without it.

Given the fish-eye distorted view of the camera, this seems the most reliable way of getting a correct measurement – unless anyone can tell me otherwise?

I think it would be more acurate to find a center line from top to bottom running through the middle of waist pivot and terminating somewhere between the feet.

That's awesome. Release date? I will most surely be buying one of these.

I've heard the Reaver being described as 14" tall to the top of the carapace.

seen this at gamesday, it will be at least 24 inches to the top of the carapace! another 3 inches for the Missile rack.
this thing is huge, the Warhound come level with the Reavers hip.
Hope these pics help, i have the basic templates for the reaver, but as yet not assembled one.

Its cool and big and all but i dont like it nearly as much as the warhound. Looks too buggish and non 40k. Maybe i just need to see one painted.

Buggish is very old school Adeptus Titanicus. I'd rather see a Lucius Pattern one myself. Still, the leg design is quite nice.

Nurglitch wrote:Still, the leg design is quite nice.

It really, really is.

The head would look a lot better if it were modeled after a Chaplain's helmet. "Giant skull-titan lumbering towards your forces, hahahahaha!"

to my eye it's looks like it's twice as big in every direction, which makes it ... like really freaking big.

I love how the Warhound is small now.

I'd have to guess the head is at the most, four inches from side to side. From where the gun connects with the arms five inches. I'm sure I'm a little off but that's my best guess from the pictures.

General consensus where I'm at is...10.5 inches for a Warhound (Forgeworld gives this in its description on their site,used it to scratchbuild my own) , 20-24 for a Reaver (assumption from pics), and 32-36 for a Warlord, pic estimation from Apocalypse book.

I second the motion for a Lucius pattern. Even the current body with a head-swap would do. Although a skull-head would be cool, I like how the Lucius pattern (and all squared-angle Imperial tech, really) emphasizes that you're still looking at a machine, not an insect/bat/whatever.

20 inches is WAY too big. I have seen this thing from different angles and talked with someone that saw it in person. It is about 16 inches at most.

cuda1179 wrote:20 inches is WAY too big. I have seen this thing from different angles and talked with someone that saw it in person. It is about 16 inches at most.

I concur. Compensating for perspective, the warhound appears to come to the chin of the Reaver. Looking at the OP's pic which is almost head on, we can see that the chin is a bit more than 2/3 of the Reavers hieght. This works out to 14-16 inches give or take.

Thanks for all the input, guys – I'm going to aim for 13½in to the top of the carapace, which luckily allows me to use fairly standard size parts.

Better dash off and pick up the raw material tonight!

Brother Paen wrote:General consensus where I'm at is...10.5 inches for a Warhound (Forgeworld gives this in its description on their site,used it to scratchbuild my own) , 20-24 for a Reaver (assumption from pics), and 32-36 for a Warlord, pic estimation from Apocalypse book.

Warlord is over 4' tall.

I'm guessing this thing is going to be about 400 sterling, so $794 currently. No thanks. Looks really cool, but you can buy a used car for that kind of money. Sorry, but resin doesn't = solid gold.

That is expensive. Even by FW standards. And if it's only 3 inches taller than a Warhound it's just not worth it. Maybe for a Warlord I could be persuaded to shell out that kind of money, but for a buggish, 13.5inch Contraption I'll have to pass.
Also does anyone else think the guns are a little too small?

The Warlord is definately NOT 4 feet tall. There was actually an article on this some time ago written by the armorcast guys. As the only "official" Warlord was made by Armorcast, we can use that as a referance. It was 19 inches tall to its shoulders. A new Mark 3 Warlord would be about 22 inches tall.

Armorcast made a Warlord? How come I've never seen one?

I thought the original M1 Warlord Resin was done by Mike Biasi PRE-Armorcast, was considered but NOT created.

Now that you mention it. I believe I've heard that before too. I just forgot as it was quite a while ago.

hey all....first post woo!

anyway, on topic.. I'm building a Reaver at the moment too... here he is so far, I'm also working on the other parts and shoudl have a much more complete titan very soon..

progress..

Is that a reaver or a warhound? his head SCREAMS warhound.

What are the dimensions you're using?

that'll be a reaver when done. the head is the alt one fron epic which Armourcast used for their 40k reaver.

he's gonna be about half as big again as a warhound which seems about right.

you should make a thread just for your reaver so that it gets the attention it deserves.

cuda1179 wrote:The Warlord is definately NOT 4 feet tall. There was actually an article on this some time ago written by the armorcast guys. As the only "official" Warlord was made by Armorcast, we can use that as a referance. It was 19 inches tall to its shoulders. A new Mark 3 Warlord would be about 22 inches tall.

Armorcast also wrote an articel stating that they made all of their titans 1/60 scale instead of the normal heroic 28mm. Remember that GW doesn't know what scale is.