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This is the poll for those who would or wouldn't buy a Titan.

Check my other forum http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/299245.page to see what people thought of Titans

Anyone who's ever spent HALF the cost of a titan on some pretty bauble for a girlfriend or a wife should easily be able to justify the cost of a beautifully detailed miniature that involves hours of fun to build and paint and hours of fun playing with, compared to a ring that sits on your finger and looks pretty.

Hell the cost of getting a [probably a girl's, but guys could do it too] chemical hair-straightening treatment is more than a warhound titan, and it's not even permanent!

I wouldn't buy one, but I might build one at some point. It's a fraction of the cost, with much more fun in the assembly and design stages.

£400 less arms for a 16" model????
Is that the height?

The smell of overpricing is wafting through the air.
Yup they look cool
They are resin so expect to pay more that IM plastic.

but 400 quid?

How many parts do you get with that?

I've quite literally nauseated myself just buying standard pieces. Frankly, I'm pretty sure spending in the triple digits on a single model would put me in the hospital.

I don't like spending money all that much, anything that costs that much better have moving parts and least one microprocessor in it.

Spellbound wrote:Anyone who's ever spent HALF the cost of a titan on some pretty bauble for a girlfriend or a wife should easily be able to justify the cost

Not really. I've bought my wife 2 expensive (for what I earn(ed)) pieces, an engagement ring and a wedding ring. These will hopefully last for a good long while and are worth what I spent on them as they mean something.

Splashing out £300+ on a titan does not really come close to spending the same amount on an engagement ring or anything else that holds emotional value. It's just a model at the end of the day. You may enjoy it, but it is not that important. Just because you have the money to spend on something, does not mean the thing you have the cash to buy is worth it.

Yep, bought a warhound and LOVE it.

Sod to put together (the feet have about 20 pieces, if i remember right) but they are great looking and now looking forward to painting it. They also bring a definite WOW to the gaming table.

AS for the overpricing remarks - I assume the posters have no idea about how low the yield is on resin? You have no idea until after you take it out whether it has worked or not - compared to the current plastics which are nigh on 100% reliable. Much more labour intensive as well.

£400 for something that will last years, and give you many hours of enjoyment - definitely do it. Its about what you can pay for a mech 1500 point force anyway, and slightly more exciting than yet another ultrasmurf army!

If it were cheaper i'd buy a titan.
Reverant for perferance.
But heres something i would like to know. If its cheaper to have it in plastic than resin then why not have plastic titans? Is it too weak to hold up to the size or something?

Moulds for plastic casting are really expensive to make and develop - I don't think they sell enough (or would sell enough if they had them in plastic) to be worth investing in the moulds.

I've bought a number of titans and gargants over the years, and scratch built others.

For Epic.

VikingScott wrote:If it were cheaper i'd buy a titan.
Reverant for perferance.
But heres something i would like to know. If its cheaper to have it in plastic than resin then why not have plastic titans? Is it too weak to hold up to the size or something?

AS silver stated - plastic injection moulding, especially the VERY cutting edge tech GW uses (yes, hard to believe that i know...) is *very* expensive. A standard sprue mould, e.g. standard infantry, runs to about £30k. Each baneblde sized one was running £60k. THen you have to factor in development (actully not that bad, as 3D CAD does most of it now) and finding space on an existing machine - and there isnt any. So you want to buy one, just for forgeworld, and youre looking at then SERIOUS money.

You're looking at a ROI in years - for example the previous rhino took most of its lifespan to earn back the money it cost to develop it. It is something forgeworld simply cant do - yet.

Resin, and metal, is great for low volume runs - to an extent. In addition resin can do things that plastic moulding cannot as yet, as you can have undercuts and other complicated shapes - its one reason why resin models have more detail, is becase they *can* have more detail in the first place!

When I think of the thousands of dollars I've spent on 40k, console games, mountainbiking, and any other hobby that caught my fancy the expense of a titan or two seems pretty reasonable. I plan on buying a titan or two at some point when I have the money available (and if you don't have the disposable income you shouldn't be buying miniatures anyway) and look forward to the experience of building and painting them greatly.

If you can afford them and love the hobby and the universe of 40k then they are worth it.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:£400 less arms for a 16" model????
Is that the height?

The smell of overpricing is wafting through the air.
Yup they look cool
They are resin so expect to pay more that IM plastic.

but 400 quid?

How many parts do you get with that?

Yes, 16 inches is the height of a Reaver Titan.
As for how many parts...they are a lot of parts. It's a multiple assembly build. Each leg alone is something like 30-40 different pieces, with hydraulics, etc detailed.

GW sure is a game for rich nerds

You might be prepared to splash out the rhino.
But are they really worth that kind of money?

Comparable size resin kits in other genres would not have that kind of price tag.

similar price tag would have got you one of these babies
iirc it was a limited edition with a relatively small production run


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more pics to give an idea of the size

Not interested in Appocolypse. Will never buy a titan. If I won a titan at a tournament I’d probably sell it on Ebay… just not my thing. Not faulting anyone who enjoys their titan purchase, and this may be the exception as opposed to the rule, but everyone I’ve ever known who owned a titan has been “phalically challenged” and used their model purchases to compensate for a overwhelming and profound inferiority complex.

Never they are just too big. I have no where to store such a behemoth safely.

If I had the $$$... feth yea I'd buy one. I don't care if they're the worst unit on the tabletop, the models are pure WIN.

I may buy one but i am more likly tto scratch build one.

TBH I really dont know. Id like to have a go at painting one but to go out and buy one i seriously doubt it because its just to dear.


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And while im on about price why are valkyries so expensive aswell? Or is that just me being tight fisted with my hard earned?

Valkyrie is the same level of detail as my Haesagawa AV-8B Harrier II Plus.

The Valkyrie was almost $100 cheaper.

If there was a plastic Warhound I'd probably go for it, just for coolness' sake.

Kanluwen wrote:Valkyrie is the same level of detail as my Haesagawa AV-8B Harrier II Plus.

The Valkyrie was almost $100 cheaper.

Are you sure about that Kanluwen? seems very odd.

was that the 1/48 scale

the Trumpeter 1/32 kit is around the £80 mark


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ps thanks for the heads up on the parts btw
apologies for missing your post

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Valkyrie is the same level of detail as my Haesagawa AV-8B Harrier II Plus.

The Valkyrie was almost $100 cheaper.

Are you sure about that Kanluwen? seems very odd.
Is it the 1/48 kit?
was that the 1/48 scale

the Trumpeter 1/32 kit is around the £80 mark

When the kit was first released, it was sold with photo-etched parts to round out the detail. The photo-etched parts are no longer available, but I'm very certain of the price because I have the invoice laying around still.

I've been tempted to buy a Revenant with pulsars but I have yet to ever play a game of apocalypse and I'd hate to spend that kind of money on something to sit and stare at in my room.

Id rather build one

When I have the money, yeah, I'll buy one. And I'll love it too. I'm not too worried about their effectiveness on the tabletop. I just want to continue to expand my army and Titans have always been awesome (in fluff and the models).

nosferatu1001 wrote:Yep, bought a warhound and LOVE it.

Sod to put together (the feet have about 20 pieces, if i remember right) but they are great looking and now looking forward to painting it. They also bring a definite WOW to the gaming table.

AS for the overpricing remarks - I assume the posters have no idea about how low the yield is on resin? You have no idea until after you take it out whether it has worked or not - compared to the current plastics which are nigh on 100% reliable. Much more labour intensive as well.

£400 for something that will last years, and give you many hours of enjoyment - definitely do it. Its about what you can pay for a mech 1500 point force anyway, and slightly more exciting than yet another ultrasmurf army!

I did know about the resin. And I would possibly buy a Titan. Read my other forum that talks about why people would buy a titan. Thiers a link at the top of the page.

Hi Kanluwen

Some of the prices IM plastic kits from the Far East have gone a bit mental lately
I think I must be at cross purposes here.

Are you saying the Harrier II kit was $500?
It must be me that has gone mental and misunderstood something!

A Valkyrie is $58 bro.

Some of the people here have never worked in a hobby store, or looked at their expenses before.

How much does a night at a bar cost? I've watched college students drop $50-$70 at a bar drinking alcohol on a friday night. A few less of those a YEAR and you can get a titan, and the alcohol is just something you dump in the toilet [one way or another] hours later.

I worked at a Hobbytown USA and had RC car hobbyists drop $600 on the latest nitro-powered truck, not counting fuel, starter, etc. Nevermind replacement parts or simply upgrading suspension, engine, or support arms with aluminum versions. Want a new speed control? $150 easy. Or the train hobbyist that wanted TWO nickel-plated collectors edition train sets that cost $500 each.

We all spend a LOT of money on hobbies, as a society. We spend money at gyms when we could work out at home, on eating at fancy restaurants when we could cook at home. It's easy to find the money to afford a titan, and the hobby itself really isn't that expensive when you compare it.

And jewelry might mean something to some people, but for me it's rocks and metals. I'll get them for loved ones, but don't care much about it myself. I'd hold more emotional significance to a malformed pottery piece made for me by someone I loved than a shiny metal with a rock that they bought from a store. Spend the money you WOULD have spent on jewelry for me on a badass model of a death machine any day!