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Greetings

I finally decided it times to start a thread on the titan I have been building.

It had to be operational by 10/30 so I didn't post about it till now, but here it is in its current stage of construction. I have a gallery that I have uploaded pictures I took during construction.
Sorry about the picture, still figuring out how to take good pictures of this thing.



Its 18 inches to the top of the carapace weapon mount. The legs are still posable at the Knee and the arm/lower leg armor plates are removable. The Arm/Head are ball joints that have been magnetized. They just got to heavy for the ball joint lock to keep them in place. Especially the Gatling Blaster it doubles as a club when its not on the Titan.

Still a lot to do (Rivets darn them), I also want to redesign the armor plates for the thighs and add an additional plate of armor to the groin. there are still a few gaps to fill(by a few I mean a lot)

I'm also still working on what colors I'm going to paint it. I'm thinking a dark green primary, but still working on the secondary and tertiary colors.

Incredible, saw this in the gallery and had to come compliment you here as well.

I love that it has the aesthetics of the epic Warlord, and still retains a very recognizable Reaver Sillouette.

My only complaints, besides the thigh plates you already mentioned, is that 'bicep' area, I feel it is lacking a bit of hyrdraulic detail and articularion compared to the hips and knees.

Again, that is really something to be proud of, congratulations!

WOW!!! I would love to see you develop a full thread on the construction. How long have you been working on this?

I have been working on this titan since the end of September. As I have been telling my friends, this is what happens when I don't play video games for a month.

Your right I need to do something with the biceps area, but it needs to make since as well, and not lock the arms in position. Not sure exactly how to do that.

Wow. What a turn around time. Truly a model to be proud of.

So I did some more work today on the titan mainly on the Laser Blaster, the large details are now complete and Its time to start working on the rivets I think. The two holes are going to be for fans. Going to get those from some model trains, might have to do some editing to get them to work but shouldn't be a problem. Also need to work on were I'm going to attach the power cables to and from the carapace.

Looking at the pictures I realize the boxes that have the two magnets are a bit rough, but there is a giant armor plate that goes over them so you should never see them anyway .



Also took pictures of the missile launcher its been at this stage for a few days now but I was slacking. It also needs some etched brass and rivets.

Ok been working on the top of the titan.

Going to work on the carapace a section at a time, right now its the top.

Finished the exhaust port, and the rims around the armor sections. I have the Titan Legion symbols to finish on the top and also the main eagle on the front.



I also did some work on my the etched brass that I'm going to do. Worked for about 3 hours hours trying to get it to develop and then remove the none developed areas of the photo paper. Just to realize that I had the template inverted..... /sigh

So I remade it. The template came out much better this time anyway, tomorrow I will try again and maybe I'll get some Brass Etch.