Ye Gods, Has It Been That Long!

Over the past six years and four months since I started this project I've been repeatedly asked, What colour am I going to paint this beasty.

Well I've finally found a colour scheme I think will be befitting this endeavor.

It combines the understated mechanical appearance of a Lucius Pattern Emperor Titan with the garish opulence of the upper works.

The concept is credited to Joazzz2, the original 3D designer of the images I follow.

https://i.imgur.com/S2KmceV.png


You can see I quite a bit of detailing still to do on the upper works before I commit to painting.

And the four spires on the superstructure will be "Vengeance Weapons Batteries" for aerial defense.

Are We Having Fun Yet!

It took me the better part of a week but I finally have 22 cathedral style window frames for my buttresses.
Basilica Adminstratum 

https://i.imgur.com/7DCwNlo.jpg


I cut them out from the panels of couple Basilica Adminstratum kits I had lying about. 
https://i.imgur.com/tiCkgUP.jpg


Cripes! Blackadder Do you know what those kits are worth? 
Yeah, in point of fact I just purchased one on ebay for a hundred bucks free shipping ( I still need more windows and door panels.)
https://i.imgur.com/5tQiZge.jpg


But "In for a penny, in for a pound." I always say. It's only money.
https://i.imgur.com/STHfTYG.jpg


So, was it worth it?

Absolutely. Most impressive.

You’ve probably increased their value by adding them to the Titan anyway!

Thanks for the replies...

Octagons... That Feeling You Get When Things Go Awry 

It was a matter of disappointment when I found the turrets were hexagonal and would not fit the upper bastion assemblies.

Ultimately I had to make my own...

https://i.imgur.com/i7Ahp5P.jpg 

Fortunately I could still use the guns.

https://i.imgur.com/laagsbC.jpg


The upper works of one of the four corner bastions.

https://i.imgur.com/DapA7Uo.jpg


And some ideas of how to flesh out the basic structure..

https://i.imgur.com/lU9C8RC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ntsTWdO.jpg

holy jebus man, 6 years, I still remember when you were building the warlord and the thunderhawk. Wow has time flied or what. This is a work of art bro, I love it. The dedication you have put into it is mind blowing. Ive been on a hobby break the last 2 years or so. I have a warbringer about 7/8th assembled (just needs the gun finished and the armour panels put on) and basecoated ive been kinda getting the itch to work on something but I don't know if I want to jump right back into the titan.

I also have a warhound I am putting together for a friend. I look at the stuff I want to do, then I look at the warhound....then I look at my stuff somemore then I feel guilty looking at my stuff when the warhound is still in pieces. Le sigh such is life.

This is mind blowing blackadder, im glad the local stores could donate polystyrene that stuff isn't cheap I am loving this bad boy. Like someone else said its like watching a child grow and age. Hell I think your warmonger is older then my granddaughter lol. But its so awesome to see. Its like a old friend you don't see much, but when you do you have a great time with them. The weapon arms look great, the whole thing looks mind blowing.

Also you can never expect the Spanish inquisition... I love those models

Keep up the amazing work. This is legend.

I love the paint scheme with the gold. It will look great.

Welcome back Jabba.

Guess What These Are?

https://i.imgur.com/U9bu6Vk.jpg


Hints;

They're grey and gold.

There will be 32 of them on the model when finished ... yeah I'm making a couple extra and picking 32 of the best.

They are divided into 3 panels with 2 spacers.

There are two of them in the Emperor image below.

https://i.imgur.com/kyiViH9.jpg

Corner Bastions,

In the past few weeks I've managed to complete hundreds of components out of thousands of bits on plastic.
 
I have far outstripped my budget and my original ambition for this project.

Seen below is my first trial assembly of the corner Bastion with its corner pylons each of with consumed days of tedious assembly.

The trim bound by gum bands on the left  contains 98 assembled strips each containing 8 bits of meticulously crafted styrene plastic.

https://i.imgur.com/1ARjLms.jpg


On the  right of the image is another bound bundle of trim 32 assembled strips each containing 6 bits of styrene.

https://i.imgur.com/pZI8z4u.jpg


I rebuilt the corner upper bastions to be more compact and began the upper gun mounts flanking the pylons.

I decided to take a break from the frantic pace and post an update while I regroup and begin completing the other 7 pylons and mounting them on the upper bastions.


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Corner Bastions,

In the past few weeks I've managed to complete hundreds of components out of thousands of bits on plastic.
 
I have far outstripped my budget and my original ambition for this project.

Seen below is my first trial assembly of the corner Bastion with its corner pylons each of with consumed days of tedious assembly.

The trim bound by gum bands on the left  contains 98 assembled strips each containing 8 bits of meticulously crafted styrene plastic.

https://i.imgur.com/1ARjLms.jpg


On the  right of the image is another bound bundle of trim 32 assembled strips each containing 6 bits of styrene.

https://i.imgur.com/pZI8z4u.jpg


I rebuilt the corner upper bastions to be more compact and began the upper gun mounts flanking the pylons.

I decided to take a break from the frantic pace and post an update while I regroup and begin completing the other 7 pylons and mounting them on the upper bastions.

That's some impressive levels of work. Going to be pretty glorious looking when it gets done.

As ever Blackadder, the attention to detail is simply astounding!

Thanks for the replies,

Whew; well it took the better part of a month but I finally finished the corner obelisks. Literally thousands of pieces



But I think it was worth it.



I can't wait until they're painted gold and graphite and installed on the Titan's super structure.



The beauty of these modular constructions is that I can begin painting as soon as the sub-structures are completed....

To my satisfaction that is so there are the discrepancies to be dealt with.

But these are sufficiently done so I can begin working on the gun mountings on these units. it will be a release from the tedium as I only need eight gun emplacements. 

Piece o' cake.  

I'm really looking forward to this project log.
The orbital defence batteries are screaming to be converted into titan weapons and I love how you approach the project. You 'think in scenery', this causes you to design outside-in instead of the usual inside-out.

This will hopefully lead to a supremely detailed titan.

That is a lot of peices, but the combine result looks very worth it! Going to be amazing painted...

Looks bloody good. The pieces look spot on based on your reference photo.

Spires look much better than I expected.

Yeah, I've been totally remiss in posting new work but in spite of the tedium of adding all these bits and the time consumed it does not seem very much to report...

https://i.imgur.com/4zBKlBr.jpg



So we'll take it from where I installed the spikes on the corona.

This actually is a chaos feature but it looked so d@mned good I couldn't resist.

https://i.imgur.com/yPi1QhQ.jpg


Then I had to adjust the cannon emplacements to fit the new design otherwise all the new detail wouldn't fit.

There's a months worth of revamping to post but here's some tidbits to nosh on whilst I get some pictures together.

If nothing else I am impressed with your staying power. But the work is so massively impressive and brilliant. Love it all, the attention to detail, the grand scale. All so impressive.

That truely looks like the face of an angry god flanked by typical GW shoulders.

your work is always appreciated.

We're back ( I hope for good ) 

To tell the truth I've been busy with local politics and have not had time to work on this project for the past four months. 

I'll scrounge around for some update images.

Last week I totally disassembled the model to make ready to work on the upper deck.

I also removed the upper legs to work on the thigh and knee armour regions. 
'
I've also been teaching myself "Pirates of the Caribbean" on the piano.

It's a tough piece to learn and my old hands and fingers aren't up to the god awful repetition in the base clef.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pirates+of+the+caribbean+piano+impossible

I'll post something in a day or two

Good to see you back, look forward to seeing more titan goodness...
Glad you can take it apart, I was beginning to wonder how on earth you're going to paint it!

Joint Armour

I've thought about this a lot over the past few months and nothing I could come up with filled the bill of what I am looking for.

The joint armour must cover the knee and hip joint but still not be bulky and clumsy looking. It must be logical and functional but still be pleasing to the eye.

So to refresh your memory and not have you shuffling through dozens of pages of images I'll present the original leg sections as they are at present.

https://i.imgur.com/zHAQrvy.jpg


First of all I've decided to reverse the knee and hip joint so the quadricep actuators are in the front and hamstring actuators are in the rear of the knee.

The quads are the only actuators I really need so the hamstrings will be just for show.
 
https://i.imgur.com/GBbCQ7M.jpg


Suddenly the leg actuators begin to make a lot more sense.

I started with a couple of rectangular cards and reinforced them with the egg crate fluorescent lens material

https://i.imgur.com/pk4ZHMs.jpg


and started to pare away material until a shape began to emerge 

https://i.imgur.com/XtNURj7


That's all for today but this is beginning to take shape.

A weeks worth of work

Where I attempted to replicate the leg armour in the hip area.

https://i.imgur.com/AOvbslk.jpg


Since this is supposed to be an ornamented version of a Emperor Titan as opposed to my Lucius pattern Warlord I am proceeding with the decorative armour.

https://i.imgur.com/42Ylzql.jpg


This will set the pattern fo all the armour on the guns and the body shielding

https://i.imgur.com/IjMXWl9.jpg


Once I clean up the pieces these will be ready for painting.

Sometime in this decade that is....

Really nice trim work, he’s going to be a really fancy lad!

Relegated to the stone age.

I've been too long in the manufacture of this model and 3D printing technology has consigned me to the dust bin of "also ran."

I was quite proud of my recently manufactured spires until I saw this Emperor Titan.

https://i.imgur.com/WspZArd.jpg


How' I supposed to compete with that! Look at the detail! absolutely incredible!

3D printing has set the bar by a couple of orders of magnitude.

https://i.imgur.com/k3mGhdF.png


Witness my latest effort...

https://i.imgur.com/3qAZJJ5.jpg


which pales in comparison.

https://i.imgur.com/qpzAKjE.jpg


D@mn you AI.

While anyone can download STL and print stuff, it take a mad genius to do it old school by hand. And it shows. A lot.

What you have here is unique and amazing. Keep up the good fight.

I'm not really seeing a lot of daylight between the 3d print and your work honestly--you set a high bar for plastic work. That said, there's something to be said for if you can't beat 'em-join 'em--maybe look into getting some 3d printed detailing to help punch yours up even more?

Can heartily disagree. Yours certainly doesn't pale in comparison, it is phenomenal work. 3D printing has come along way, true, but it's still got a long way to go. The time, effort and skill that you have put into your work far outstrips a bit of mere technology! I always look forward to updates on your thread.

Such incredible work!

EDC

Comparing to 3D printing is like looking a photo and thinking you'll never draw that well.

Different mediums, different tools.

Anyone who makes models can appreciate a scratch build, the only people who'd say 3D printing is better are people who never tried.

Why so serious?

My little joke about 3D printing seems to have missed the mark.

But Damn, that Emperor does looks grand!!!

And it'll keep me on my toes to not compromise.

Good enough is never good enough.

Laser Blaster Armour and Shroud

It's finally time to address the armour for the arm weapons. I've been putting this off long enough.

One of the things I have been noticing in many attempts to build one of these hulking monstrosities is the walls of the cannons (in this case Blasters) and the weapons armour is too thin.

https://i.imgur.com/tMyVk0c.jpg


As you look at the photos below, take note that the construction walls are very thick.
This affords a modicum of realism to the item rather than sticking a toilet paper roll into a turret and passing it off as a gun barrel.

https://i.imgur.com/J3yKGjD.jpg


Note how the walls of this construction are very solid looking. I would not try it but I'm pretty confident it would support my 16 stone weight.

https://i.imgur.com/wUvLut4.jpg


I'm going to do something different with this shroud assembly and design and shape it whilst on the cannon assembly just to make sure its a proper fit.

So we'll start with a sheet of 0,50 mm styrene and reinforce it later from within.

Every time I do this I end up regretting it because building something outside/in is very difficult. Ha!
I just want to make sure it's a tight fit.

I had the same problem with the Mega Blaster.

Armour Continued:

The decorative armour seems to be more difficult than I anticipated.

My version of the Sun Blaster is more robust that the FW cannon so it requires some aesthetic compromises which I hope will work out.

I scribed out some lines to show where the plate reinforcement strips will go but I'm still wrestling with making the curves.

I'm also trying to make the louvers aft of the mount drum.

https://i.imgur.com/lIy5GWC.jpg


I had to increase the length of the shield by half an inch which caused some distressing of the surface. I'll call it "battle damage."

After all, these machines are millennia old, they must have taken a hit once in a while.

https://i.imgur.com/QBtkwsm.jpg


Yeah, I'll go with that rationale.

Battle damage is just a part of growing old and gaining experience (at least that's what I call all my aches and pains).

Superstructure Detail:

Whew!

After a month or more I finally have something to show for all this effort...

https://i.imgur.com/Xh3Kgyv.jpg


First I found that a lot of the detail previously done was wrong or unsatisfactory.

The secondary armament in the corner bastions all had to be redone. I ran out of ossarium panels and had to redistribute them and substituted scroll panels...

I was at a loss as to where to use these CoD ossuary pieces until it came to me that the are the previous Princeps and Skitarii caretakers of the Titan.

https://i.imgur.com/mL5GhLf.jpg


The panels I thought I could use gun turrets were too wide and had to be altered

I had these doors I was going to use elsewhere.
 
https://i.imgur.com/e6TFq2I.jpg


They work rather well on the main gun.

https://i.imgur.com/cRMJYjL.jpg


In spite of the seeming dishevelment of the project it may surprise you to know; I'm thinking I am very close to priming certain areas. 
 

You have integrated those CoD tiles in well, it is looking good

Wow, Just wow. Amazing work, amazing vision, amazing ambition

The top level four corner bastions are essentially finished; the four corner bases are awaiting some decorative bitz.

Rather than subjecting my erstwhile viewers to the tedium of daily progress I opted to show a month's work in one swell foop...

The much neglected rear view of this model is my major project at the moment. That and making College Titanica and Adeptus Mechanicus symbols out of green stuff for the major embellishments...

I cobbled together outsized Imperial Eagles for the rooftop ornamentation making 6 overall.

Today I'm going to tackle the four exhaust ports and the lower deck ducting.

So to the business at hand in the way of pictures:

https://i.imgur.com/xsEFdno.jpg


Note the rooftop Eagles and...

https://i.imgur.com/kbiASzv.jpg


the Laser Cannon emplacements which will adorn the Warmonger version of this beauty.

These will be interchangeable with conical spires on the Emperor Imperial version as seen below

https://i.imgur.com/k3mGhdF.png


I really want to prime paint this today...

Work work work...

Looks magnificent. Inspired madness

It's HUGE!

All the homemade Emperor Titans that I've seen always skimp on the cathedral, yours is magnificent and has the proper grandeur it should come with.

ANy thoughts on how to transport this beauty?

I saw one titan with flexible legs that could sit in the passenger seat of a car

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
ANy thoughts on how to transport this beauty?

I saw one titan with flexible legs that could sit in the passenger seat of a car

Transportation is super easy. The legs hips and pelvis are separate pieces from the upper body. I may make the superstructure another separate piece Right now my biggest problem is the weight.

Approaching 15 kilos (33 pounds)

Impressive, most impressive. The Firestorm lascannon turrets work really well on the towers.

My only concern is that the ball turrets on towers might be too small, given those are meant to mount Titan-grade weapons in their own right (at least Warhound level). On the other hand, difficult to judge the scale of such an enormous project!

Looks really great. I echo Haighus that the ball turrets look too weedy for 40k

Detail of the legs and the 8 deck levels at the rear of the superstructure.

Alright we'll begin with the rear maintenance lower decks of which there will be four.
 
The bottom two will be for the reactor core which will look like the Warlords reactor 

The three blue pipes are for the cooling system (glowing blue due to Cherenkov Radiation) the four vents two on either side are the heat exhaust ports...

https://i.imgur.com/59eLIai.jpg


The octagonal shin below the knee joint mount has eight cathedral windows and will have four ball turret triple laser cannons

https://i.imgur.com/loTHDOd.jpg


Everything is lining up and coming out as if it were planned; go figure!!!

I think the triple laser cannons will be fine for ground defense.

In my previous post I mentioned how everything was coming together almost as if it were planned...

Nothing could be further from the truth; witness the large blank area at the rear of this Titan.

https://i.imgur.com/MQ5XFaH.jpg


There was very little to go on in many areas of the rear elevation. Constant studying gave a glimmer of the detail.

https://i.imgur.com/WRdyxAO.jpg


And how easily they could be reproduced with virtually no modification to the existing structure.

https://i.imgur.com/LDGFF9C.jpg


Imagine my surprise to notice that the upper gallery relief could be duplicated on the lower two levels.

https://i.imgur.com/EaOFjOH.jpg


The most outstanding feature were the huge flying buttresses that adorn the rear detail.

https://i.imgur.com/fZ4tPCw.jpg


Naturally the rear area cannot be made of stone but somehow the engineers incorporated this architectural feature purely for aesthetics.

Likewise the numerous gothic windows have no place in a war machine and I suspect they're a mere façade.

The corner turrets could also be incorporated with little trouble to the superstructure deck and the spacing of the buttresses allows for the gothic style windows.

The Rear Nave will house another large caliber cannon under the 'A' frame roof albeit of a lesser diameter than the front main cannon.

I may even make the windows stained "glass" (some sort of transparent metal alloy) perhaps a diamond material.

Steady progress on an outstanding build,, awesome work

Your attention to detail continues to be amazing Blackadder! The future plans seem like we’re destined to see even more detail too!

Thousands of Bits of Plastic

Literally thousands of bits of plastic added since last I posted and d*mn me if I can see a difference overall.

I've carried out the closely spaced chest high crenellations theme to protect the combatants and added doors, ossuaries and scroll of departed crew members since the Titan was first constructed thousands of years ago.

https://i.imgur.com/iHpNIwG.jpg


There's still a tremendous amount of detail to be added to make this construct pop.

Some excellent updates here, really nailing that Gothic look.

Such an epic project.

It is really starting to look like something. Impressive work detailing up that beast

Ready For Prime

Well the back is finally done and I'm about to spray on the gray primer.

https://i.imgur.com/6ePX0FE.jpg


Once I see it in a uniform gray I will be better able to determine if it is detailed enough.

Thought I would never see this beast again Adder. Glad you also post here.

It's looking good, still not finished though? LOL!

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Thought I would never see this beast again Adder. Glad you also post here.

It's looking good, still not finished though? LOL!

I did a lot of work on the back since I last posted and since I stretched the height of the superstructure I had to come up with two floors worth of detail.

I can copy pretty good but original inspiration; that takes a lot of time.




https://i.imgur.com/gFEUQoW.jpg



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 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Thought I would never see this beast again Adder. Glad you also post here.

It's looking good, still not finished though? LOL!

I did a lot of work on the back since I last posted and since I stretched the height of the superstructure I had to come up with two floors worth of detail.




https://i.imgur.com/gFEUQoW.jpg

Good job on the changes mate. Still looking awesome.

Amazing!
It's been a long road but it's been worth it.

I can't wait to see it sprayed - that step always brings the parts together into a whole, and in this case? What a whole!

This is truly a heroic project. Excelsior to you, good sir

Looks even more majestic with each post!
I do wonder how much work that's going to be to paint though, good luck!

 Guardling wrote:
Looks even more majestic with each post!
I do wonder how much work that's going to be to paint though, good luck!

Work!

The detail and the painting is the fun part... The icing on the cake.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 Guardling wrote:
Looks even more majestic with each post!
I do wonder how much work that's going to be to paint though, good luck!

Work!

The detail and the painting is the fun part... The icing on the cake.

Looks incredible. How tall/big is the finished model going to be?

HOLYmolly that is EPIC!

Amazing Blackadder! Amazing! Looking forward to see it in its grey majesty. How many spray cans will you need? A couple of dozen is my guess!

You're a god among men, Black. Can't tell you have much you've inspired me to do some stuff bymyself, but once A week I think about this thread.

RHodeidra wrote:
You're a god among men, Black. Can't tell you have much you've inspired me to do some stuff bymyself, but once A week I think about this thread.

I routinely check it for updates as well. It's very inspiring to follow thru the years

Honestly if it wasn't for his work, I would probably have forgotten to continue to check-in to dakka every so often.

Such a truly magnificent labour of love. Beyond brilliant.

Finally!!!

I lost all my passwords and access to all my forums which is considerably attenuated since the beginning of this year.

This morning I finally got into dakka dakka and am able to post.

So here are the current images with paint primer


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gobert wrote:Amazing Blackadder! Amazing! Looking forward to see it in its grey majesty.

How many spray cans will you need? A couple of dozen is my guess!

I primed both lower leg shields with red primer and hardly used any of the can.

Both feet and the backs of the knee shield likewise.


The paint reveals building indiscretions which I'll chalk up to battle damage. Not at all that unusual for a machine that's millennia old.

Hmm, I don't think I deserve it but there seems like I've been missed over the past few months.

Thanks to all for keeping this tread alive.

Aside from the mishaps with my user name and password.

I had not the energy to post the current work when it really didn't show all the fine detail I was doing.

Tiny bit and pieces and cutting back areas in conflict with other pieces.

Earlier this week I bit the bullet and applied paint to the lower works; legs, feet, knee armour Etc.

What the hey; I also applied gold paint to the upper works...

That's a lot of fiddly detail, going to be quite the process! I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Great to see you back Blackadder, and that this incredible feat is on the home stretch :-)

Doldrums:

Occasionally I get in the doldrums and wonder if this thing will ever be completed.

But then something like today happens where I seemingly can do no wrong.

I started out to see where I could go as far as making windows for the bastions.

I did a google search for stained glass windows and ended up with these.

A bit of resizing with my antique photo editing program

And Walla (sic) stained glass windows reinforced with clear packing tape and we're in business.

Martini time!

That works impressively well!

 The_Blackadder wrote:

Spoiler:

Doldrums:

Occasionally I get in the doldrums and wonder if this thing will ever be completed.

But then something like today happens where I seemingly can do no wrong.

I started out to see where I could go as far as making windows for the bastions.

I did a google search for stained glass windows and ended up with these.

A bit of resizing with my antique photo editing program

And Walla (sic) stained glass windows reinforced with clear packing tape and we're in business.

Martini time!

Packing tape hu, that is genius!
I use ClipStudio ex verson 1 I got years ago for 60 monies.
When all be done, it be Epic. You will need to make a short video i addition to the pictures to grasp full glory of this build.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

Doldrums:

Occasionally I get in the doldrums and wonder if this thing will ever be completed.

But then something like today happens where I seemingly can do no wrong.

I started out to see where I could go as far as making windows for the bastions.

I did a google search for stained glass windows and ended up with these.

A bit of resizing with my antique photo editing program

And Walla (sic) stained glass windows reinforced with clear packing tape and we're in business.

Martini time!

Ahhh... bad news.

Packing tape over printed pictures eventually starts to separate from the paper and it starts looking pretty awful. I found out the hard way.

I find clear plastic works way better and ages well.

 Vulcan wrote:

 The_Blackadder wrote:

Doldrums:

Occasionally I get in the doldrums and wonder if this thing will ever be completed.

But then something like today happens where I seemingly can do no wrong.

I started out to see where I could go as far as making windows for the bastions.

I did a google search for stained glass windows and ended up with these.

A bit of resizing with my antique photo editing program

And Walla (sic) stained glass windows reinforced with clear packing tape and we're in business.

Martini time!

Ahhh... bad news.

Packing tape over printed pictures eventually starts to separate from the paper and it starts looking pretty awful. I found out the hard way.

I find clear plastic works way better and ages well.

Thanks for the information.

You know that may be a plus in that there can be too many pristine looking windows on a millennium aged vehicle. Perhaps a bit of deterioration is just what the doctor ordered. We'll see.

I may very well rue the day I didn't heed heed your advice. I cannot say I wasn't warned.

Looking good Adder.

I would use some modge podge, that stuff doesn't age well at all, discolors and cracks. But thinking about it now, maybe that is because I used it outside.

I like your thought process here, makes me want to do it with rear lit LED lights.

Christ it's getting painted

Geez, it's been two months since I last posted.

I look at this thing and wonder when I'll be able to find the time to work in it again

But yesterday I bit the bullet and began masking the citadel four corner bastions



I'm rather disappointed in the leg armour

It looks cartoonish. Perhaps when I add the washes

Rignt now it looks like a giant version of the alpha knights

Anyway here's some images to look at until I get my act together.

Washes will help break up that big monoblock of color nicely, and add some depth to things.

Perhaps a drybrush of a dusty brown at the feet that fades as you go up the legs as well...

Numbers or caution labels, prayers, bullet holes can also break up the flat area.

I think some washes and a bit of varnish will bring the legs up Adder.

You've conquered modeling, now you will conquer painting. you just need to start weathering down. Washes, inks. Airbrush if you want to get fancy. Still looks great by the way.

You are at the paint now! Really looking forward to seeing this beasty painted. Such a truly epic build.

Well it's 3 months since I posted and I managed to paint the whole titan with black primer. Masked off all of the super structure that would be painted gold and hand rubbed with Aluminum powder all the internal structures that will be visible when the titan is finally assembled.

The image below is the corner bastions and the rear of the structure.

The front of the structure with the two metre cannon still has the blue masking tape on it and is ready for the gold paint.

That should be painted later today as I write.

Please give me a reply so I can add more images.

Mightily impressive in every way. And very nice windows.

Ridiculously impressive and massive!

Oh, we're going IMPERIAL imperial titan. Looking cool!

Extra Epic!!!

Yeah, Painting the whole structure with Flat Black Primer was quite a chore.



Not being ambidexterous I wore out my right index finger in the hours it took to completely cover the surface areas. Twice in fact as there were areas that needed a second coat.



This is not counting the areas that needed to be masked off that didn't require the Flat Black but required Flat Grey or Gold or Gloss Red. 



There are about 100 subassembies that needed to be painted seperately also.

Its is getting there Adder. Great job mate.

Absolutely immense Blackadder! I feel your pain with the spray can, it often triggers my RSI so I can imagine the pain of spraying an Imperator! It certainly looks worth the pain and must’ve been very satisfying to see the varied materials come together as one with the paint. 8 years since the first post, but what a journey it’s been and more to come . Thank you for sharing!

OMG; so many parts!!!

I'm hoping I can remember where all the parts go.

Wow. Every time I see this thread, just... wow. Ave to you, you magnificent maniac

In my mind it was AT scale... I had no idea that it was going to be like this.... amazing!

The first thing I modeled for this Titan was the helmet/cockpit.

Here it is seven years later and I finally worked up the courage to finally paint it...

I love the black and gold, very art deco!

Looking fantastic! Great to see some paint on this mighty project.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I love the black and gold, very art deco!

Who knew I'd rediscover an art style 100 years late (purely unintentional believe me.)

Thanks for pointing that out.

I think the Black & gold is perfect for this high gothic look. Reminds me of the classic Epic! game.

I think the black and gold work really well,,

Fantastic! The paint really brings it to life

Very very nice

How big is the total size of The titan?

Amazing work Mr Adder !! Always a plasure watching your projects in the making

Thanks for all the replies.

Biggdogg wrote:
How big is the total size of The titan?

Depending on How I finish off the corner bastions; it will be 57 inches (144.78 centimeters) guns and lasers to 63 inches (160.02 centimeters) with conical towers.

These parts will be interchangeable.



Question; Does anyone know what happened to the 40K forum "Warseer"

Adder,

It just closed, no warning, no comments, no explanation and I noticed a month so ago they were still taking guild payments which I have now canceled. Maybe Captain Brown knows some more.

I've decided to assemble this Titan to see where I am regarding painting.

I've already run into problems with the greaves as I painted over the penciled assembly remarks. Ha!

The images below show the gold clad statuary which I may or not use in the final construction.

Either way I'll make the removable as a option during display.

Obligatory "holy crap that's cool" comment. Amazing work as always, Blackadder.

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Adder,

It just closed, no warning, no comments, no explanation and I noticed a month so ago they were still taking guild payments which I have now canceled. Maybe Captain Brown knows some more.

Oh wow, interesting. Sad. I'm always impressed Dakka has stuck around.