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used some air dried clay to build up earth around feet to give illusion of weight of the titan with feet sinking into ground,

Looking unbelievable based up. Any chance you will attach a few models fighting in and around its feet when finished? I think some Skitarii would be very fitting.

 Archer wrote:
Looking unbelievable based up. Any chance you will attach a few models fighting in and around its feet when finished? I think some Skitarii would be very fitting.

thanks archer, yes got to put a ruined admin building on it which will help support the beast and thinking of making the base as diorama

love the walking fortress, subbed.

managed to do some more texture on base, added ruined administratum, acrylic pole to be added which will give extra support to body, skull count 100

Amazing, amazing project.

Awesome to see some more work going on. How bog are the feet (care to run a tape measure around them?)

12/10
very cool

This is progressing nicely. Lovely work as always.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Amazing, amazing project.

thank you


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Alaricuk wrote:
This is progressing nicely. Lovely work as always.

thanks for comments


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 STG wrote:
12/10
very cool

thanks for comments, appreciated


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 Archer wrote:
Awesome to see some more work going on. How bog are the feet (care to run a tape measure around them?)

thanks archer, feet approximately 12 inches wide, put a space marine on latest pictures to show scale



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not done too much, undercoated legs ready for painting, added more skulls, skull total has reached 550

I admire the effort, deeply - and a lot of the execution. But honestly that pose will undermine the entire thing, especially if the top ends up as good as the. The leg geometry just has no analogue in nature of in the way everyone has seen titans posed and illustrated up until now.

I think you would be well served by bulking out and detailing the feet in a much more robust way, with 'toe' articulation, pistons etc, as well as a much wider toe base (extra inch or two on each toe in each direction), and then re-posing that back leg to be bent in standard plantigrade fashion, with the weight resting on the front toe and the thigh bone vertical or near so.

YMMV, but it seems like that bit of effort would be well worth it towards the final product and legacy of this huge undertaking.

I'd like more/better pictures/angles, BUT, it jibes fairly well with what we 'know' about this class of Titan:




Remember, there are (allegedly) a lot of troops waiting to disembark from those feet!

You have to wonder if the Epic Emperor titan actually could have walked. Lift one leg off the ground and you have a severe weight distribution issue.

No idea if this 28mm is any more realistic but it looks stunning anyway.

 Samsonov wrote:
You have to wonder if the Epic Emperor titan actually could have walked. Lift one leg off the ground and you have a severe weight distribution issue.

No idea if this 28mm is any more realistic but it looks stunning anyway.

thank you


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 MajorTom11 wrote:
I admire the effort, deeply - and a lot of the execution. But honestly that pose will undermine the entire thing, especially if the top ends up as good as the. The leg geometry just has no analogue in nature of in the way everyone has seen titans posed and illustrated up until now.

I think you would be well served by bulking out and detailing the feet in a much more robust way, with 'toe' articulation, pistons etc, as well as a much wider toe base (extra inch or two on each toe in each direction), and then re-posing that back leg to be bent in standard plantigrade fashion, with the weight resting on the front toe and the thigh bone vertical or near so.

YMMV, but it seems like that bit of effort would be well worth it towards the final product and legacy of this huge undertaking.

thanks for your observations, the pose originally was supposed to look like it was walking or a wider stance as I did not like the upright stance and thought It would give a more dynamic look, once the shin guards and rest of details attached to leg it should look better, too late to change anyway without dismantling, was thinking of adding some pistons to feet aswell


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 Alpharius wrote:
I'd like more/better pictures/angles, BUT, it jibes fairly well with what we 'know' about this class of Titan:


Remember, there are (allegedly) a lot of troops waiting to disembark from those feet!

thank you

i'm sorry to report that the titan project came to a devastating end as you can see from picture, obliterated by falling shelf above it, don't have the heart to start again so going to reconstitute bits to recoup money I spent on it, picture doesn't show the true effect of damage, windows broke, panels snapped, frame broke, leg hanging off, too much to redo, would like to thank those that subbed and commented on it

Oh no, that is awful!!!

Sorry to hear such an awful thing happened.

Oh boy, that's heart breaking to say the least. I guess this would make some amazing terrain pieces though - fighting round the wreck of a destroyed titan would make for a pretty inspiring battlefield

Sorry to hear it, maybe as others said a Titan Fall battlefield would work?

Such a shame, something good ought to come out of it.

Ouch.

I’ve had WIP minis crushed by falling objects before, but nothing like this. Sorry to see it end this way.

 Nevelon wrote:
Ouch.

I’ve had WIP minis crushed by falling objects before, but nothing like this. Sorry to see it end this way.

thanks,,, the air was blue I can tell you

Sorry to hear that :(
As others have said, resurrecting it as a big battlefield terrain project might work?

Well that just happened... Sorry to hear about that.

lliu wrote:
Well that just happened... Sorry to hear about that.

thanks

Oh that's terrible news, Had loved watching it develope. :(

More than one of my projects ended in a similar way. Usually with my butterfingers to blame.

Good effort man - but please, for the love of smeg; turn what you have done so far into the remains of a titan which has suffered a catastrophic reactor detonation.

It will be a wicked terrain peice and the effort will not have gone to waste - go mad with flickering LEDs lighting up smoke plumes and sound effect units emitting crackling fire sounds and it will still be glorius!! (and probably get more use in games tbh..)



edit: and do water effects running from the hip section to paint like molten metal...

For what it's worth, I really love your attention and dedication to detail. Using the building kit instead of bastions, the eagle heads, the painted windows, Emps on his pedestal, the belly earthshakers, the skulls on the base, the fact that you made a base, even the little undercarriage gun; while reading the thread I kept thinking "this guy gets it".

I'm really sorry to see it end like this.

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For what it's worth, I really love your attention and dedication to detail. Using the building kit instead of bastions, the eagle heads, the painted windows, Emps on his pedestal, the belly earthshakers, the skulls on the base, the fact that you made a base, even the little undercarriage gun; while reading the thread I kept thinking "this guy gets it".

I'm really sorry to see it end like this.

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Good effort man - but please, for the love of smeg; turn what you have done so far into the remains of a titan which has suffered a catastrophic reactor detonation.

It will be a wicked terrain peice and the effort will not have gone to waste - go mad with flickering LEDs lighting up smoke plumes and sound effect units emitting crackling fire sounds and it will still be glorius!! (and probably get more use in games tbh..)



edit: and do water effects running from the hip section to paint like molten metal...

thanks, was thinking of doing something like that, but, decided to reconstitute bits sell them and make my own version of ferro-giant alphus, will start a blog on it


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Alaricuk wrote:
Oh that's terrible news, Had loved watching it develope. :(

thanks

Aww man...

This sucks bigtime. I was enjoying seeing this thing come together, and wondering why no updates for a while. So sorry to see the inglorious end of an amazing project.

Thanks for the memories, anyways!

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Aww man...

This sucks bigtime. I was enjoying seeing this thing come together, and wondering why no updates for a while. So sorry to see the inglorious end of an amazing project.

Thanks for the memories, anyways!

thanks