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Hello Today I was watching my little Bro play some Spore. While he was in the Civilization period he made a walker that looked a lot like one of the 40K titans. He assaulted an enemy city while doing soo he zoomed on one of his walker as it got hit by a laser. I watched it fall land on some little critters on the ground then I got the IDEA!

Using a Tutorial that I found on this Forum page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/381775.page (thank you GODETH!) I decided too make not a Titan but a destroyed titan that has lost its leg and fallen on a building with some Chaos Marines Terminators inside or some other hell bound unit that I dislike.

I don't want the Titan too look like it just walked out off the factory new paint glistening in the Sun Light. I want the Titan too look like and thousand armies it has stepped over and ten thousand have seen it in horror, but it got hit in the right foot, higher part of the left leg and both guns are no more so I want it to look like it just walked out of hell and just could not take another step. So when I said destroyed I meant ruined like what remains of the Roman Empire. The left foot will be still in one piece but from the ankle up will be gone.
I shall keep this Forum updated with recant pics of the Titan as soon as they come.

Titan Class: Warhound titan
used for: Terrain
materials used so far:
1) polystyrene
2) Terra cotta clay
3) pli wood

Started 2.03PM on 10th of July 2011
Finished: 10:42PM on 3rd of October 2011

thats looks like a solid start, is this going to be used as terrain as i think it would look awesome

Ya its being used as terrain I thought May before I try making a Titan Ready for combat i'll make one that can be "ruined" soo if I stuff up its not a huge problem.

Sounds really good, i may even try this my self at some point

Hope to see more soon

Good start, mind telling us what class of Titan it's going to be or are you not working to any specific type?

Its going to be a warhound Titan

Heres where I have gotten with the rest of the Titan.
Can you give me some Tips on how to paint on this the Polystyrene is very ruff and won't look very good painted.

Don't spray paint it black. it'll melt
i'm not sure whether its possible to remove the texture through painting alone

You could try to 'seal' it by painting it with PVA (white) glue. This would probably get rid of a lot of the texture and allows you to spray paint.

A thin layer of papermache maybe? It might wirk lol.

pva, in my experience, won't be enough. You should be able to use texture paint on it, spackle etc. I hate making things out polystyrene because of problems with priming and varnishing. Personally I would recommend remaking the whole thing with mdf.

mdf? Sorry, new to super-kustom-modelling materials.

MDF is Medium Density Fiberboard it does not warp easily and is nice to make gaming boards on.

Use a number of thin layers of Gesso on the styrofoam and it will help make it smoother, paintable and sandable.

what advise can you give me on Texturing on the Polystyrene, cause maybe on another Titan I will use MDF but for this one it was a learning Experience, I know how to texture paint but what other techniques could you give to me?

This is neato... one of my favorite maps from DOW: Dark Crusade is the downed Titan one.

I must get DOW: Dark Crusade again I lost my disk... :(
thanks! Today i'll put sand on the main Titan and start painting the sand.

Really cool, great start, I look forward to seeing more!

RIght heres the near Finished body with out the sand. thats next. JUST HAD a thought do you think if I sprayed it fixative would I then be able to spray-paint the model?


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Sorry painted bases will be up today but not finished... Ran out of paint... :(

looks good dude. I would just get a large housepaint brush and then apply a cheap black acrlyic paint liberally by hand.

i'm just worried that the Titan was to small... half way I looked at a FW Titan and it looked so much bigger. Is it around the correct hight?

KEWL!

Nightfall wrote:i'm just worried that the Titan was to small... half way I looked at a FW Titan and it looked so much bigger. Is it around the correct hight?

So what if it's a runt Titan? Maybe it never got a chance to grow up...

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cant wait to see more

what you can do, is glue on some tissue paper to the foam and that will make it so you can spray paint it. its obviously going to be thin, but its paintable at that point.

I REALLY like this piece, very nice job. I might have to copy this idea for my own table! kudos!

That's gonna turn out to become some incredible terrain, dude! Can't wait to see more. Love how you've made it separate pieces as well.

Nightfall wrote:i'm just worried that the Titan was to small... half way I looked at a FW Titan and it looked so much bigger. Is it around the correct hight?

That looks about right for the warlord titan, man. The forgeworld model stands 10.5 inches high. Eyeballing yours, I'd say it would have been a foot tall. No worries.

I'm consulting putting a "unlucky" marine or Zeno somewhere on either on of the models. what you guys think.

How about a layer of plasticard on the outside of the titan? It would fix the texture and spray paint problems.

I like what your doing. Ive thought about using polystirine for myt model. How are you planning on painting it, and getting a smooth finish as most paints will eat there way through.