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/envy

I do not envy you having to build or paint these Epic monstrosities, but truly I envy you the finished product, which I have no doubt will be awesome.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, keep up the good work

Wow!

Good luck - from what I hear, you'll need it!

Looking forward to seeing this progress...

You sir have way too much disposable income...(contemplates the hobby itself)...(discovers the Emperor's real reason for the crusades across the galaxy)...(tells findings to a bunch of Black Templars carrying chain swords)......

I will be watching this one with interest.

Well we were able to get more done on Warhound #1.  We're working on the torso now, and while its not quite as hard as doing the legs, it's still important to make sure everything lines up correctly. I also plan on going back and painting the interior. I just want to get the outside painted first because we have an Apocalypse game coming up in a few weeks that I need this guy for.


We started with the powe-plant piece that connects to the hips. If you remember from the last article I magnetized it so we could separate and rotate the torso in game. I got a lot of comments saying to protect the magnets themselves from shattering under their own attractive force, and I have to concur with that recommendation. I plan on either putting thin card or a small layer of resin on top of the hip magnet to give it some protection. So good heads up to all that commented on that!


Back to the torso- It's best to lay everything out first, and then dry fit it all together before glueing. First I attached the powe-plant to the forward hatch area. Then I glued the servitor arm sockets on. It's very important to make sure these are level, otherwise your titan arms will be slouching.


After that is all assembled I added on the back shoulders and filled the gaps in the pieces as best I could with some gap filler CA glue. Dry-fitting the top carapace here is a must. I realized after doing this that the right arm was a little off, but manageable.  The top servitor hatches glue to the carapace and have to line up with the recesses on the torso assembly. Be sure to double check that and the overall fit of the carapace carefully, you don't want your centerpiece to look like the hunchback.

Good luck sir

Good luck with the epic modelling and painting job.
Unpainted, they remind me of AT-ATs.

3 titans... Some poeple have too much disposable income I guess . Nice step-by-step, I'll be following this one with interest since it promises to be a very detailed account of what it takes to build one!

wait wait wait........ You spent HOW much money on these?!?!

Sweeet!
I'm in the process of building a Chaos Warhound myself, and I can safely say its the most challenging and fun model I have ever laid my hands on
I see that you have glued it together before you painted the interior. It might be hard to reach some places afterwards when your going to paint it. I painted the pieces seperatly and then glued them.

Also, what titan legion are you going to paint them in?

Luftwaffel wrote:Sweeet!
I'm in the process of building a Chaos Warhound myself, and I can safely say its the most challenging and fun model I have ever laid my hands on
I see that you have glued it together before you painted the interior. It might be hard to reach some places afterwards when your going to paint it. I painted the pieces seperatly and then glued them.

Also, what titan legion are you going to paint them in?

Cool, yep they are no joke.
I didn't glue the middle bulkhead in, or glue on the carapaces so I should be okay for going back to do the interior. I'm thinking for the legion, something black and gold or nurglily. I would like to maybe do the legion of the des ires? from the storm of iron, and one of the heresy novels. I need to check that asap cause I want to start painting this week.


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Sigh,the titan I wanted to duplicate was an Imperator...

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dies_Irae

Dies Irae was from Legio Mortis, same legion I'm painting mine in. Dies Irae is perhaps the most (in)famous titan in history! Both firering on the loyialists on Istvann and also breaching the wall of the Imperial Palace on Terra

You can find their colours in this pdf document along with icons and other stuff.
Edit: I see you already found their colours

So far we're up to working on the pistons and weapons for Warhound #1.  We knocked the rest of that assembly out in one night, and managed to clean and trim the weapons.

We went ahead and cleaned up all the weapons I bought for both Warhounds just so we could have options to use for the upcoming Apocalypse game. I wasn't sure what lists we would be running for that so I wanted to make sure I at least planned the Titan out for maximum killing.


I left the leg greaves off so I could paint them, and the leg detail itself easier. The pistons go on pretty fast, but some we had to drill out because the casts had been a bit smooshed and the sides had jutted into the mounting hole.  No big deal really, but you have to be prepared for anything I think when you are assembling these things.



I ended up magnetizing the weapon arms, so we could use whatever weapon load-out I had. The most popular weapon combo so far, seemed to be the twin Turbo Laser Destroyers. I pinned the top of the weapons mount and magnetized the bottom, again with a 1/2" diameter rare earth magnet.  I also glued a small strip of plastic card onto the magnet on the weapon mount, to help prevent them from chipping or cracking- a fact learned from a previous blog comment!


Now that the assembly was complete for the most part, I needed to wash the resin down so I wouldn't have any problems with the paint adhering to it.  It's a good idea to do this because when resin is cast, a small coat of mold release is left on the model. Sometimes some of the mold comes off and gets wedged into bits of detail as well. It all can make paint run off, or not even stick at all.  So it's best to scrub this thing down with soap, and let it dry overnight.


I used some Dawn to clean the titan cause it good at cutting grease as well as dirt.  I dunno if there is any of either on there, but hey least I got my bases covered.  I got an old tooth brush and a normal soft sponge and just scrubbed every exposed surface I could see.  Then I left it to dry overnight with a small fan running on it.

By morning it was completely dry, and I started priming it up in the base color I wanted.  I used Army Painter's Necrotic Flesh. It's a lighter green color, like Dead Flesh, which is fine because I'm going to wash it with darker colors anyways.



Next update- a little bit of customizing...

-MBG

Wow, ambitious project. Watching with interest.