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Hello we are a small wargaming club in the south east of England and we just started a youtube channel.

This particular video is the first part documenting the process as one of our members builds a Warhound Titan




We have a few other videos already so feel free to browse the channel if you have time.

Some very good scratchbuilding going on at your club then!

This is very, very cool man.

Do you happen te have a link to the plans (looks like papercraft?) of the titan?

That's going to be an insane thing when it's finished!

Also! Damn you backwards bits of the world for not using metric! :p What is 40Thou and 10Thou plasticard?

Wow, Looking good so far! I cannot wait to see the final results.
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 Elmir wrote:
This is very, very cool man.

Do you happen te have a link to the plans (looks like papercraft?) of the titan?

That's going to be an insane thing when it's finished!

Also! Damn you backwards bits of the world for not using metric! :p What is 40Thou and 10Thou plasticard?

I think the plans are freely available on the web floating around a lot of places.
Here is a link to one such place. http://www.scribd.com/doc/13762978/diywarhoundtitanplanstemplates

Sorry for using the non-metric measurements. 40Thou is 40 Thousands of an inch and refers to the thickness of the plasticard. I believe 40Thou is 0.25mm thick and 10Thou is 0.10mm thick.


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 Xendarc wrote:
Wow, Looking good so far! I cannot wait to see the final results.
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Thanks for the nice comments. The guy that is making it is pretty good with plasticard and modelling in general. Here are some pics of a Thunderhawk he scratch built

Nice scratch building!

 Arcturus314 wrote:
Nice scratch building!

Thank you

Part Two is now available

Very nice work. Tremendous amount of detail so far. But I'm curious about the cost. Wouldn't it cost more, considering the time and effort, to build one from scratch, rather than buying one?

 lav25gunner wrote:
Very nice work. Tremendous amount of detail so far. But I'm curious about the cost. Wouldn't it cost more, considering the time and effort, to build one from scratch, rather than buying one?

That's a very good question. I think the immediate answer is almost definitely yes. Even discarding the buying of materials and tools if you worked out the hours spent (I would say somewhere around 150) at minimum wage it would easily be cheaper to buy your own.

That being said if you put in a couple hours in the evenings and a little more at weekends you could probably cover that in little over a month (which is basically how long this one should take to make). And you also have to take into account whether it is something you would enjoy doing and gain experience from and also receive a large amount of self satisfaction at the end.

There is also a lot of scope to make a much more simplified version. As it is quite a "square" model it would not take long to put together a very basic structure without all the crenelations, articulations and detail. You could probably get something like that done in a week and save a bit of money.

Very Cool video, I would need a idiot proof vid to even attempt this though. I don't think I would know how to build the toes for this.

Dax415 wrote:
Very Cool video, I would need a idiot proof vid to even attempt this though. I don't think I would know how to build the toes for this.

Unfortunately the toes and feet were already constructed before we decided to put the progress videos together. So we just made something which showed the individual parts and how they fit together. We were also quite concerned about making a long drawn out video showing every single part of the process as it would probably be quite boring. If you are unsure with scratch building and using plasticard you always start but trying a few simpler constructs and working up.

Part three of the video is up now

After quite a long summer break we finally got round to creating a part four

Insane. I can never build anything that looks that legit out of plasticard.

Very cool work! Are the legs going to remain moveable?

 Requiem wrote:
Very cool work! Are the legs going to remain moveable?

That is the plan, but it depends whether the pistons are stable enough to comfortably take the weight of the upper body

After a long while I was finally able to take some footage of the final build.

So here is the fifth and final part.

One of the best scratch build war hounds I've seen. Very well done.