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Hi all.

I'm starting to gather materials for my first attempt at a 40K scale warlord. I'm going to go with the smaller scale (about one and a half FW reavers in height). Any tips, suggestions etc. to get me going?

Budget is pretty much non existant so any clever ideas of what to use to make a sturdy structure without spending much money would be gratefully appreciated!

Thanks

With out sounding flippant . Bin diving and employer waste is a good place to look

Have made a start - WARLORD ON A BUDGET!!!!

I know this doesn't look too great so far (or something a 5 year old might make) but hopefully it will look more like a warlord as time progresses.

Spend so far - £6.50 on plasticard and poly cement (for use later)
From the 'larder' - some k'nex I had knocking around from my younger years, a base from a scenary project that's not happened, glue gun, children's foam checkers set, card etc. Postcards are really useful for details and small bits as well as a strengthening tool, and if you keep an eye out in students' union, tourist info etc you can pick up handfus of the things absolutly free

I've started on the legs naturally but more because I find them the hardest part. After playing around with k'nex I managed to get a rough frame to give the right shape and they look mostly in proportion. I've got the epic scale model to hand as well as some photos of others as reference. I'm not aiming for an exact scale copy, partly because I don't think I'm skilled enough or have the pateince and partly because that tiny models so hard to measure acuratly. I'm going more on the principal if it looks right it'll do. I have seen scaled up models before and sometimes they look a bit odd just being bigged up. Mines roughly 9-11 times larger than the epic, I think it will come out around the 30 inch mark in height when he's done.

The pink coggy bits are foam pieces from one of those floor checkers. I haven't found the board but hopefully will in the next day or two to use as the bulk for the shin guards. It's got quite a nice industrial pattern on it which helps, although is a bit over scale.
The k'nex frame adds quite a bit of strength when glued with added card to help prevent the boeing when weights added. At the moment it still has a bit of sideways give, I will solve this when I add more bulk and detail to the pelvis area with some braces desguised as mechanical bits.

So far the plan for attaching the top is to use an upside down hot chocolate jar, with the lid glued to the pelvis and the body built around the jar. Hopefully this should allow the top half to unscrew for transport while giving a strong join and allowing a bit of rotation. I'm also aiming to have loose sections to allow access inside the body and use k'nex peices to make clip-on arms and head again for transport but meaning that the connections are hidden inside.

Weapons fit at the moment - I'm thinking of mega gattling blaster (or whatever it's called) for right arm, volcanoe cannon on the left, twin turbo laser thing on one shoulder and a vulcan mega bolter in the other. Ideas for constructing these (especially the mega bolter so it looks 'natural in a shoulder mount' will be extreemly welcome!

Other ideas and suggestions welcome also!

At first I giggled a little bit at the Knex, then I realized the budget savings with using them..



So far so good, want moar

Quick update. I've started bulking out the legs, more to do but hopfully they're starting to show some sort of resemblance to a warlords

Day 3 update:

I think the bodys too wide by about 2cm looking at it but I don't think it's worth the efforet to change it now. Hopefully it will look a bit better once the chest, shoulders, engines and leg armour has been made. Height proportions seem to be pretty much accurate going from the epic model and also the cover art on titanicus.
The waist join is a bit flimsy but that should be improved with the waist lighting section added.

day 4!

Not much to show today for the time it took. I don't have he epic shin guards so it took a couple of attempts to get them looking reasonably. The first attempt was way too small. lower legs have also had some bulk added and are looking much better now.

This thread seems to have been quiet over the weekend. Anyhow, day 8 update:

Spend over the weekend £2 - garden ties for detailing plus a tester paint pot.
Total spend so far approx £8

Main armour now cut and added, plus edges taped/postcarded up to neaten. Have also begun cutting armour plates ready for the detailing stage. (day 7 photo)


and latest photo from before work this morning:

Feet - I know these are a bit different to the epc model but to be honest they don't look too bad at the moment (I think anyway!) and it's got to be one of the dullest jobs (even with a helper to cut out the bits - greatly apprciated!) The toes still need strengthening, especially the front and heel ones as they are a bit wobbly now the weight building up on the torso section.
Shin guards are held on with a couple of lego bricks to allow them to be removed for painting and travel.
Arms have the basic shape now built ready for more detailing. They clip onto the shoulders with k'nex to allow them to be transported/painted separatly and swapped for alternatives should I wish to in future.
Still debating how to construct shoulder weapons and what to make. Will do a bit of bin diving later to see what I can find. The head will hopefully have some interior detail and will be made from a certain hair gel tub (green) which seems to fit nicely as a neck section and wil allow the head to be unscrewd for painting and travel again.
I have also cut out a door section from a necromunda bulkhead and fished out a ladder from the building sets for the customary door and ladder to now-where to go on the rear.

Tip of the week - If you are as impatient as me get someone else to make the feet section first and draw up templates for the armour plates (or preferably cut everything out to make a kit for you to put together!!!!)

C&C welcome

I'm struggeling to find missile shapped bits to make either an apocalypse missile launcher or a vortex missile for this, any suggestions? WIll have an update later when I get chance to upload a photo.


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day 9!

Not much to show. Have given the card a thick coat of cheap hairspray in the hope of sealing the masking tape - didn't really work. Am slowly going over it with PVA now. Have also beun adding armour plates from plasticard and early details such as sticking the rear door on.

and the mess that is my living room floor - don't do this if you have family or wives around, I'm guessing they won't be best pleased. It did get me thinking if a 30" warlord creates this much mess how much would a full size one create, and how long would tidying up take even with the benefits of a 41st millienium vacume cleaner...........

That's really good. Is it warlords that have the buildings on top?

That's Imperator Titans that have a small citadel to house all their secondary weapons, psychic choirs, and landing pads.

That Warlord looks good so far!

Thanks. Would love to make an imperator, doubt it'll ever happen though.

This is looking really good!

Regarding the Imperator, I say go for it! Whats the worst that could happen?

By the way, I have the exact same glue gun and tape measure..... *insert twilight zone music*


Holy crap.... and the same carpet....

lemon detective wrote:This is looking really good!

Regarding the Imperator, I say go for it! Whats the worst that could happen?

By the way, I have the exact same glue gun and tape measure..... *insert twilight zone music*


Holy crap.... and the same carpet....

the worst that could happen? Waste a few months of my life plus a load of cash? Sounds like a plan lol. After all that what a pub does anyway
do do do do do do do do... that's scary! What part of the UK are you from? Not brum land too is it? That really would be weird!

Anyways,

Todays update - armour plates added as far as I will at this stage. After a clean tonight I should hopefully be starting on some detailing, either legs or engine most likely, but we'll find out for sure tomorrow!

I'm not from Brum land...

I'm from down South, that's right, I'm a London boy!

I agree on the pub thing, I'm not old enough to drink, but my uncle's a bit of an alky...

What weapons is it weilding? I think it's got a Vulcan Mega-bolter (or possibly a Gatling laser) and some sort of Uber-Mega-Death-lascannon.

Care to clear that up for me?

Edit: Wow, i just noticed how much of my personal life away when I post..... not good....

Guns are a gatling blaster and supossed to be a volcanoe cannon but it did come out looking more like a mega death laser thing. next time i'm reading the rules will see if there's a better laser weapon it could represent. Hunting for missiles or something for shoulders still.

anyhow's, todays update. Leg detailing started. It's not great but with a bit of paint should do the job with a bit more work. Most people wil look at the top half and front anyways.

another £1 spent on more glue gun sticks.

Total spend £9.50!!!! Still looks like this beast could be a bargain!

Looks great on the whole so far!

I'd advise against bendy straws though, I just hate to see such a massive piece have a mar on it like that. They just don't hold up over time and the slightest touch will flake the paint off!

Thanks for that grey_death, will try to use something else!!!

lol its cheap and effective! bravo!

Wow! Your building this faster than I paint squads! (necrons)

I absolutly love it. You've used part from all over the place, rather than just the standard card/platicard and that means you've got all those little details in there that other people dont have. It looks brilliant!! And, no doubt, once painted, it'll look better than most of the scratch-built stuff out there.
Hrmm... i seem to have alot of Lego and Knex hanging around myself...

Day 14 update.

Have started detailing the front with pipes and bits as well as making a start on the basic shoulder shapes.

Have also added the top engine sections on:


Have also made a start on the head. It's a different design from the epic model (and was quite a pain to make too). I'm trying to squeeze in interior detail. It will attach to the torso with magnets now and the top will be loose/magnetised or something.



I think the shoulders will now have a missile launcher and an ardex pattern vulcan mega-bolter as pictured in the apoc rules (the three barrelled version) rather than the more regular type GW tend to fit to their models.

Wow this is great

Rotflmao when i saw the title i thought you were going to build an ork warboss!

Speed building a warlord! Amazing, just amazing!

Wow, amazing and inventive use of random stuff to make a rather cool looking titan.

Impressive.

jamunition wrote:

Rotflmao when i saw the title i thought you were going to build an ork warboss!

yeah.... how do you change a title? Realised that after I posted the thread

Not much to show today. Before work I thought I'd have a go at the standard mega-bolter ends. They're not great and need the excess glue shaving off and a bit of a tidy.

not much to show recently, have had other things to do. day 16 - a bit more detailing done to the rear and the head is magnetised.

at last a bit more progress!

No more money spent but I have swapped a few bits in the swap shop for some missiles. Still looking for more if anyone reads this in the near future!

day 17. A bit more detailing (not visible) plus the left shoulder and mega bolter are basically done. Just detail and maybe a bit of bulk to the sides.


Have been playing around with details for the top of the shoulder too, looking for opinion here..... should I just put 'flat' detail as in texture and maybe a few pipes to preserve the current shoulder shape, or add a front observation 'balcony' with a raised rear section consisting of a hatch and crane type arrangement. At the moment I think the front of the right shoulder may be a bit higher anyway with the rocket launcher so the extra wall on top may help to balance out the height difference, however waiting for bit's to arrive. Main bit's tacked in place:


Thoughts please!

So far, your warlord looks great. Love the balcony idea on top of the Apocalypse ROCKET* launcher. As for the Princeps Chamber inside the Warlord's head, I like it, and by giving the princeps a more "german WWII u-boat captain who yells out orders" is in my opinion a fine break from all those "strapped to a chair and utterly immobile princeps".

It might be the image itself, but the Gatling Blaster looks a bit small in comparison with the Volcano Cannon and the rest of the Warlord. Perhaps sizing it a tad up would do the trick? All in all, you have done a great work so far, and I'll keep an eye out on this blog.

My honest opinion, FI

*Note: I wrote ROCKET launcher since I dislike the word missile launcher. even the word missile is an invitation to roll a miss on a D6 when you're trying to break open a loyalist Land Raider with missile launchers. Hence the word rocket