Ok then, Here we go: I am starting work on a Reaver titan I got second hand. The guy that I bought it from was a new father and since the baby and the titan were approximately the same size, it seemed reasonable to take the titan out of the stroller, and put the baby in. it came to me in the original bags, shipped inside a diaper box. It had never been painted or assembled, so I really got a steal on the price. Especially since it came with the Titan close combat arm, missile launcher, and melta gun.

Now, how to paint it?

After looking online, I decided that the standard blue/yellow that everyone seems to paint theirs was definately not for me. I don't know enough about titans to recognize the history behind the colour scheme (I generally play tau in apocalypse games, as railguns come in handy) so I came up with a colour scheme to suit my tastes. I decided on a dark green armor (British Green from Tamiya Color), with bleached bone or similar highlights and dwarf bronze trim. My girlfriend laughingly told me it would look like a leprechaun (obviously she believes her eldar are superior), and the name stuck. Leprechaunis Rex has been commissioned for the emperors service, and I could definately use any insight on how to get this project done.

Question #1: Detailed work I have noticed that most titans have large amounts of "blank" space on them. Specifically, their shin guards, torso and shoulder plates seem to be painted a flat colour, with no inspiring paintjobs. Is this because it will make the model look too "busy", or just because it is easier not to spend the time?

Question #2: Pinning and Painting I have been thinking that it might be better if i painted the entire model piece by piece, and then assembled and pinned once everything was done. this way I could be sure to get the entire model painted, instead of fiddling with a brush in nooks and hard to reach areas. Does this sound reasonable? I found an amazing looking website on assembling, <ref=http://www.theinnergeek.net/2008/08/reaver-titan-pt-1.html</a> but I don't know any articles on painting techniques or pinning.

Anyway, I am trying to paint a single piece every day (prime, paint, and finish), although it is proving difficult do restrain myself to doing just one.

Please leave any and all comments you have: any ideas are welcome!

This will be the most GLORIOUS leprechaun of all.

Should make a giant shamrock that you can attach/detach for those important battles.

For Question 2, if you're going to paint the inside, maybe make some way of the roof being detachable, so people can see inside it and admire it better.

Those feet are looking great!

I would suggest highlighting the edges with Dark Angels green or another lighter shade of green for that extra detail.

Iranna.

Swordwind wrote:For Question 2, if you're going to paint the inside, maybe make some way of the roof being detachable, so people can see inside it and admire it better.

Yeah if you were to do that... use magnets
Looks great

Thanks for the responses! It has really helped me make a push on some of the pieces I have been painting. Without further ado, here is my progress

My other models are just realizing how truely massive this titan will be, and seem to be giving it a wide bearth. The girlfriends eldar seem to be quite nervous: there is talk of them bringing in a reverant titan sometime in the near future to compete. I also found out that the local games shop (which I have never actually played at) doesn't allow Reavers due to them being "impossible to kill" except by other reavers. Oh well, It is still going to be awesome!

Awsome. Hope you finish it. It seems like a lot of people start these blogs and don't finish. Good luck

Yeah nice work so far. Don't give up and continue doing a outstanding job.

Good start dude, I found the hardest thing with the thunder hawk was starting it!

Ok, its been a few days, and I did a lot of painting to avoid prepping for my exams this week. Since I can't seem to figure out how to post pictures in my blog (just at the end with captions), you lovely folks will have to skim my speal before you get to the juicy pictures .
I am hopefully going to do one more post this week, although I doubt I will be able to since I have exams Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Saturday morning I am off on a quick vacation to the East Coast of Canada, to visit relitives and relax for a bit. Obviously I will be doing some painting there, but I sincerely doubt I will post my Reaver progress until around the last weekend of August.
That being said, there may be another juicy tidbit for anyone who notices: the majority of my space marines are on the East Coast, and I just might have access to a nice camera

Without further ado, the pics, and enjoy!!!!

Lol the gold is mine

Genius, good stuff so far, love the knee caps, it's a beautiful kit!

Is that all free hand on the pad that saysbthe gold js mine?? If it is its amazing. Overall really good so far

Looking great !

This is looking really good and the green and gold works really well. I certainly agree with 40K Ninja - use magnets, especially for the weapons, that way, if you ever get any more they will be easy to swap round, although I guess you'll need quite big magnets (8-10mm diameter?) I've used the 3mm diameter ones on my latest dreadnought to great effect. Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing it complete.

Thanks for all the encouragement! I will definately be using magnets. I saw a utube video of a reaver magnetized, and the idea is to pin the torso to the legs and the head to the body. Ideally I will use bolts to hold the upper arms to the shoulders, and magnetize the arms at the elbows. This is because all the arms are interchangable up to the elbows, with the exception of the titan fist. Id like to magnetize the carapace onto the back, and the top of the head to the bottom, but im not sure how that will work. I will also magnetize the 4 void shields on its back, so i can take them off as they are destroyed.
Still trying to figure out how I am going to be carrying this sucker

Lookin amazing, diggin the Green highight on the toes

"the gold is mine"

Priceless, I can only hope you make it a lil hat w/ a buckle

It is looking good so far. Keep it up!

Sorry for being so tardy guys: on the east coast until Wednesday. Will have new Titan photos by this weekend for sure! In the meantime, check out my hawk lords 4th company. Some of it needs touchups, but all in all its rather cool on the board

Everything thus far is looking fantastic, I'm anxious to see the new pics this weekend!

I know its not the weekend yet, but I think I have hit a rut, and im not sure how to go about the next few steps
In nearly every titan picture I have seen, they are all standing upright on equally spaced, level feet. Not wanting to follow trends, I have decided to have Leprechanus Rex "squashing" either a tank or a defiler. This will lead to a nice scenic base. I like the idea of a defiler for the "defiling my gold" and "squashed like a bug" aspects, but a tank with a couple of corrupted gardsmen or chaos marines being squeezed out like toothpaste would also be cool.
Anyway, my problem is that I obviously dont have the base built yet, so the legs cant be assembled. this leads to complications all the way from the ankle joints to the waistline, where tubes and cables must be connected into holes and sockets.
Do I build a rough base out of plasticard, cardboard and styrofoam to sit the legs on, and connect all but the toes together, and then build a scenic base after the piece is done? I could start on the scenic base right away, which would allow me to figure out the toe joints, but would obviously be more complicated and take more time. I plan on magnetizing the feet to the base, allowing me to change between a scenic base and one for tournament play.

on a seperate note, here is some progress: I got in last night, and painted while playing my weekly game of Deathwatch over the internet.

If you're magnetising everything so you can change the position of the legs/feet for display/gaming purposes I'd start from the bottom and work my way up. Whilst the idea of crushing something like a defiler is good, I would think crushing a tank would be easier to build and would probably enable you to give the titan more stability when displayed.

I was going to magnetize the base of the feet to the stand. It makes sense to work my way up, but I was hoping there would be a better way

Not sure - I've never built anything this big before! Not sure either how much the model weighs, but just make sure the magnets are big and man enough to do the job. As mentioned before, I would guess you'll need ones about 8-10mm diameter. Those little neodymium/rare earth magnets you can get are pretty strong.

Hi all! Somethings a foot in my reaver blog. Well, two feet actually. I still have to do some fine detail work on the pistons on the knees, toes, and hips, but other then that, it looks pretty good.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS put the toes together before putting on the armor plates on the shins. As I found out, having the armor plates in place makes it impossible to glue the top of the toe pistons into place. Also, as I found out there are actually 4 different pieces of shin armor: two with big gaps in the side and two for the small gaps. the big gaps go on the inside, so if you get it mixed up (again, as I did) things get messy

Holy crap there huge

wow

Looking good Aeroroot, have you decided what will be crushed underfoot?

a chaos dreadnought, chimera, or leman russ

I am looking at a defilier (which i can get second hand), although the block underfoot is the size of a rhino. I feel like using a defilier would be cool, but a crushed rhino with smooshed khorne bezerkers would be entertaining.

YES crush the Chaos

Long time no blog! Sorry guys: new job taking 25 hours a day, and weddings galore. Headed to another one this weekend, so Ill try to post something next week. In the meantime, enjoy!


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ps: im sorry about the pic quality guys: using a cell phone camera because I own nothing else. there will be more professional photos of my progress come november i promise.
pps: the crest is my family coat of arms; seemed it was either that or a pot of gold

Wow, great paint job, subbed!

woah thats a lot of magnets

Beautiful paint job, certainly doing the model justice

What are the planned clours for the head? I know you mentioned bone?

Im looking at doing tamiya spray paint "wood deck tan" for the head. very similar to bleached bone (tieing it into the kneepad and script). I use it for all of my deathwing termies, and I can't think of any better colours. I read online that large amounts of metalic colors look bad on flat areas (so there goes a brass head). Do you guys have any ideas?

I used to use tamiya colours myself and i think deck tan would suit it quite well with the right shading.

You could still incorporate the brass in the metalwork that is around the edges of the head and eyes?

Absolutely stunning stuff man! subbed. I have used almost this exact paint scheme on my Baneblade (built to look like an ancient, holy tank). For all the antique brass trim, I mixed Vallejo game dwarf bronze with a little beasty brown. If you want some weathering ideas for this paint scheme, look at the Defiler in GW's How To Paint Citadel Tanks book. My Baneblade has never been finished, but this might impress me to work on it more

Amazing work! I wish I had a titan.
keep it up!

This is awesome! I have an old armorcast reaver that I intend to revamp at some point so I am very grateful to you for posting all the stages for your FW one! Will come in handy when I 'tweak' mine!

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Looking good Aeroroot - you'll have it finished soon!

If i had the money, i would defiently get one.
maybe if i sold off my arm??...

Norn King wrote:If i had the money, i would defiently get one.
maybe if i sold off my arm??...

We all have enough resin around here, we could make you an augmetic, so you can paint your model

Hmmm, only if i can get one like Wormtails!

Oh goodness....scariness: 1500pt apocalypse game october first, and I am expected to field Leprechaunis Rex in it. Better get to work! Have a 1500pt mechanized tau army prepared, so I have a backup, but my girlfriend wants to play and lacks the firepower to use her eldar. Guess Its time to put on the afterburners on this project!

Gogo power rangers! Oh, Sh*t, No... Hmm.. Ehm.. Gogo build your ass off! Yeah that's it. That's what I meant! ;D

lol

Norn King wrote:If i had the money, i would defiently get one.
maybe if i sold off my arm??...

You've got another one man, what are you waiting for?!! Although you may get more for kidneys

Aeroroot wrote:Oh goodness....scariness: 1500pt apocalypse game october first, and I am expected to field Leprechaunis Rex in it. Better get to work! Have a 1500pt mechanized tau army prepared, so I have a backup, but my girlfriend wants to play and lacks the firepower to use her eldar. Guess Its time to put on the afterburners on this project!

1500pts? Leprechaunis Rex = 1450pts, what are you going to spend your other 50 pts on? Also, what weapons is he having?

1500pts? Leprechaunis Rex = 1450pts, what are you going to spend your other 50 pts on? Also, what weapons is he having?

Im planning on making him a titan killer. Only the game master knows I have this guy, so Im hoping I go second, keep him in reserve, and then bring him in shooting first turn. Looking at turbo laser, laser blaster and volcano cannon. that way I get 5-5" and one ordinance 7" destroyer hits a turn. On the other hand, two laser blasters and a turbo laser might be fun too. Looking at bringing 5 ratlings or a imp command squad

Good choice of weapons, but I think it will be the ratlings that swing it for you!

monkeyh wrote:Good choice of weapons, but I think it will be the ratlings that swing it for you!

Yeah, volcano cannons are overrated

Things are looking great here, Aeroroot! (Though I must confess, I got this thread mixed up with acolite's Chaos Reaver threat and got really confused when I saw the paint )

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Rawson

AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!! part of the thumb joint on the titan fist is missing! This is going to set me back (sob) HOURS!

WTF its missing??? Call forgeworld up, they will send you a new one

If haven't already magnetized the torso/hip joint be aware that the torso is extremely back heavy, especially if you have the head removeable as well. My first attempt made the whole thing fall backwards off the legs if the head was removed. I suggest a combination of a large post and magnets.

Please God tell me the shamrocks aren't staying?

Yes they will, their customer service is top notch

Well, if you dont like the shamrocks, you probably wont like what ive done next. In my haze of painting at 3am and such, I have made amazing progress, but still am behind in my schedule. As I bought this titan second hand, I dont know if they will give me a new piece, but ill try it. Anyway, on with updates

YOU HAVE DEFACED AN IMPERIAL MACHINE ..... THE XENOHUNTERS SHALL BE UPON YOU!!!
I like it alot

Oooh! Looks cool!

Please, for the love of the Emperor, if you have Chaos Marines spilling out of the crushed rhino let them hold lucky charms in their hands.....

I prefer the look of a defiler squished, legs flat against the ground, that sort of thing.

::sigh::

To each his own I guess. lol

Looking good so far. I have another Reaver inbound to work on now so this thread gets me excited to work on it.

I think your sort of wasting a titan by painting all this irish luck stuff.

Luckily he's painting his Titan, not yours.

I don't like it either. That's why mine will be different.

you could do a pounded copper head like this one:
they look really cool [url] http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=11500032a

I am probably going to repaint the bonejangles thing later: I Think the shamrocks are ok, but who knows: I might repaint them too. I have a lot more script to add eventually, but the whole idea is to get this thing ready by saturday morning so I can play it.

I need one of these models.

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We interrupt this painting blog to inform you of the tragic events on Lyndsais II, a Titanic Battle that occurred in the far reaches of the Imperium
Recenty constructed, the Reaver Titan Hibernicus Fortuna marshalled near the ork junkyard of the Big Mek GobBuzz, in an attempt to stop his creation of an ork mechanized army capable of laying waste to the Lyndsais system. There, Hibernicus rendezvoused with the larger Reaver Titan “Iron Fury”, as well as Tau, Grey Knight and Reformed Daemonic forces. Upon arrival, it was clear that another army also laid clam to Big Mek GobBuzz’s factories and fortress. A substantial force of Tau, ork Stompas, Land Raiders and the infamous Warhound Titan “Fluffy” were seen advancing towards the facility from the South. Most notably, it could be seen that Big Mek GobBuzz was still firmly entrenched in his fortified Mek shop, and showed every sign of fighting any and all comers for his hard won gains.
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In this battle, I was equipped with twin laser blasters and carapace mounted Apocalypse Missile launcher. Took 5 ratlings to round my army out to 1500pts even.
Set up first, play first. First turn resulted in me toppling an ork stompa. Second turn, a squad of tactical landed in drop pod between me and the table edge behind (only 8 inches of space there; not quite sure how he made it). Stunned my left laser blaster with melta fire, but some of my tau allies helped kill most of them before they did any more damage. Ratlings killed 3 marines with 5 shots. Third turn, Sanguinary guard with melta pistols and a second melta tactical squad landed behind me, and I soon lost both a structure point and my left laser blaster. The worst was that they stunned both my missile launcher and other laser blaster, spoiling my kill of an enemy warhound with 1 structure point left (Guardsman Marbo got it with a det pack, after using a vortex grenade on a land raider with Marneus Calgar inside). Spent the rest of the game killing land raiders and kicking sanguinary guard/space marines. Unfortunately, one Sanguinary guard lived long enough to contest the objective at my feet (and the game ended with him staring down my reaver and a named daemon prince of khorne), leaving the objective score at 1 for us and 2 for them, with one uncontested objective still being held by the third party orks whose home we had so rudely trashed for this game.
In the ride home, Hibernicus Fortuna’s hip came loose, so I have to find a better way of pinning it in place for the following games. Other than that, Hibernicus Fortuna gets a painting grade of 4/10: high enough so that she looks good on the table, as long as no one looks at her closely. No interior detail yet, and all weathering and a lot of fine detail still needs to be done on the exterior.

Nice Batrep! Thanks for sharing, it sounds like you had a lot of fun!

Cool.

rools over Titan:

I was going to suggest getting some etched brass from FW for those empty spaces but your freehand works just as well.

Great work painting this beast, the Meltacannon/CCW is my favorite Titan weapon combo.

Once again. looking great!

Sorry for the lack of updates guys: got a little distracted with some basing ideas for the girlfriends eldar, and decided to finish up some of my dark angels and tau. Hopefully going to start working on Hibernicus today or later this week: weathering the exterior, magnetizing the torso, feet, head, and carapace, and then starting on the interior detail.

Remove Irish Skeletor. The rest is awesome.

i have to agree with shark victim i think the irish stuff is letting the model down but otherwise good stuff

Sharkvictim wrote:Remove Irish Skeletor. The rest is awesome.

Have you really been attacked by a shark? If so what type and what was the bite radius (I've seen Jaws - I know what I'm on about )

i firmly intend on getting rid of mr bonejangles. Any ideas what should go there instead? I would like to keep with the irish theme (no pots of gold, or anything else like that). Something irish-gothic? does that even exist? even if its something as simple as a shamrock-skull motif.

Maybe some celtic knotting? That has the irish feel but can still be made to look suitably grimdark.

TiB wrote:Maybe some celtic knotting? That has the irish feel but can still be made to look suitably grimdark.

acutally i think this would be quite a brillent idea, coving the vast expances with a dark green undercoat and a complex gold celtic knot :3 would suit it well, keep the shamrocks though

Since the Oceans of Terra have long boiled over, I doubt they know what a shamrock is.

i dont know, there pretty resilient plant and they can survive in harsh conditions, like on the back of a titan :3

How about some Celtic designs or maybe thorns or something? It looks awesome either way.

Well I guess since im the only one that thinks so it doesnt matter much. But I like the skeleton.

Sharkvictim wrote:Remove Irish Skeletor. The rest is awesome.

dakkagrot187 wrote:i have to agree with shark victim i think the irish stuff is letting the model down but otherwise good stuff

TiB wrote:Maybe some celtic knotting? That has the irish feel but can still be made to look suitably grimdark.

Yes, yes, and yes

hefty29 wrote:Well I guess since im the only one that thinks so it doesnt matter much. But I like the skeleton.

Oh i don't mind it myself, what can I say? He has a Titan and I don't, so who am I to tell the man what he can do with it lol.

Exactly. Get your own $1K model and paint it any way you want to.

IF you want to redo the skeliton you could make him look more dark and sinister that might work

dakkagrot187 wrote:IF you want to redo the skeliton you could make him look more dark and sinister that might work

Maybe paint the Grim Reaper?

I've been painting, I swear!

NIce job A.

Badass! The pose is suitably heroic too!

yes.

Looks great man, and I sorta dig the Irish feel, I wouldn't ever do it as I like to keep my guys "realistic" (you know, for toy sci-fi soldiers and all) but you pulled it off well, I like the knotwork idea as well, maybe decal it though if you can do it right, may go crosseyed painting knotwork

Great progress since my last visit. I think I like the skellie, but I LOVE the way it'll split peoples opinions. And one things for sure, you've made it your own and people will definitly remember it!

Also great use (or abuse ) of the Apoc rules! Looks like an awesome game was had!

Keep it coming!

minor update: started working on some celtic knots to replace mr bonejangles. Tried to make it look a little cross-like so when i weather it it will look gothic-like. thoughts?

Wooh! looking good

Very nice freehand!

Loving the titan in general

That knotwork is awesome and should work just fine with a bit of weathering.

Well, three other people already said it, but:

Man, that looks good!

VERY cool!

I am facing a key dilemma today: to light or not to light? I can run wires under the crew in the head to the "eyes", through the torso and legs to the base. the only problem is... how do i take it apart after?

Like the knotwork, also like the idea of the lights, but got no idea how to get round the problem

Why of course"to light"

Aeroroot wrote:I am facing a key dilemma today: to light or not to light? I can run wires under the crew in the head to the "eyes", through the torso and legs to the base. the only problem is... how do i take it apart after?

You could use spade connectors (the male/female type). Cheap, plenty reliable for what you're trying to do, and easy to connect and disconnect. Should work fine for the connections in between pieces of your titan. Let me know if you need a picture or something...

Good luck!

Rawson

Only a small update today. Bonus kudos to anyone who can guess what I am going to do with the rods in the last picture...

Hmm, chinese food?

Shamroks? pah! Reaver titans dont need luck to survive. not when they have the blessing of the omnissiah!

TiB wrote:Hmm, chinese food?

Nope... good guess though


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Haonn wrote:Shamroks? pah! Reaver titans dont need luck to survive. not when they have the blessing of the omnissiah!

I guess painting a horseshoe on his rear pelvic plate is heresy then? was going to do "you'll never get my lucky charms" in latin on his rear somewhere

Who gives away a Reaver Titan?

looking GOOD!!


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on the Forge world website, on the reaver and Warhound Titans it says that arms are not included... not even a standard pair? do you have to buy the arms separate?

Damn nice titan blog! Pretty novel paint idea. I like it in the sense that it's cool but I am glad that it isn't my model. Still a brilliant job!

am I the only one that likes the "luck of the Irish" theme?

Nightfall wrote:Who gives away a Reaver Titan?

I guess the previous owner had a choice: reaver titan or a baby? they both took up the same amount of space


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I have no idea: I feel like there are one or two variations you can buy for a single cost, but as I got mine second hand, I have no idea

What! they gave it to you???????????????
I like the way its looking!

Nightfall wrote:Who gives away a Reaver Titan?

looking GOOD!!


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on the Forge world website, on the reaver and Warhound Titans it says that arms are not included... not even a standard pair? do you have to buy the arms separate?

Yes, you do. Since there are only 2 and 3 weapon slots and more than 4 weapon options. It keeps a Reaver from being $1100+ if you just want 3 particular weapons.

Not sure where you got the idea that it was just given to him either.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Yes, you do. Since there are only 2 and 3 weapon slots and more than 4 weapon options. It keeps a Reaver from being $1100+ if you just want 3 particular weapons.

Not sure where you got the idea that it was just given to him either.

I'm so glad I live in the UK - I thought £560+ sounded alot for a reaver but $1100 sounds so much worse! (not that I can afford either!) As for the sticks - punji stick traps for tresspassers?

I am officially in love with Forge World!!!! I sent them an email today requesting their new catalog (looking into eldar titans for the girlfriend, and possibly some armor for my next project), and mentioned that I was missing a thumb for my reaver. I did stress that I got the model second hand, and that I was willing to pay to get the piece, but they're shipping it to me for free!! I am so impressed, I have sworn off buying new Games Workshop models for the foreseeable future, and intend on saving those funds towards a substantial forge world order!
PS: working 60 hour weeks is not very conducive to painting a titan. Hopefully I will work on it some more over the weekend, and have a shiny new update or two for you in the coming week.

Aeroroot wrote: mentioned that I was missing a thumb for my reaver. I did stress that I got the model second hand, and that I was willing to pay to get the piece, but they're shipping it to me for free!! I am so impressed

Me too! That's pretty sweet, mate! I'll have to keep that in mind if I find some FW stuff on eBay with missing parts How's the painting coming along?

They sent me a piece of clear film for the cockpit and turret of my Marauder Destroyer, they are great at Customer Service. Of course I had to pay $40 to arm the damn thing with 8 Hellstrike Missles.

So what are the sticks for?

Well, a small, but difficult update. With all the wiring in the cockpit, there is precious little space for the crew!

Wow, love the titan, the green/brass is such a nice combo

Love the irish theme too.

monkeyh wrote:So what are the sticks for?

Well, I guess I can give you another hint...

I need a better hint.

Yes, the suspense thing really doesn't work on a forum without dramatic music.

**sigh** spoilsports . I figured what would be the point of a giant leprechaun without some gold coins?

Your making a gold led?

coating parts of the interior in part of the emperors tithe. A leprechaun has to have a pot of gold somewhere, and what safer place then inside a titan?

Truer words were never spoken!

haha top o' demornin to yeh mah gold pewpew

Are you making the "CASKET" of bacta or fluids, or whatever the Princeps was suspended in from the novel Titanicus?

dsteingass wrote:Are you making the "CASKET" of bacta or fluids, or whatever the Princeps was suspended in from the novel Titanicus?

You know, as blasphemous as this may seem, I haven't actually read Titanicus. Is it good? I am currently reading the Firedrake series, and the newest Dresden files.

It is a pretty intense story, especially getting a titan's perspective on grimdark warfare!

Dude hes coming along nice! send use some PICS

Have read and enjoyed Titanicus very much - but then most of Dan Abnett's stuff is really good - he is the Godfather of Warhammer fiction!

monkeyh wrote:Have read and enjoyed Titanicus very much - but then most of Dan Abnett's stuff is really good - he is the Godfather of Warhammer fiction!

Yep! I am a fan too! Except I can't seem to follow "embedded" it just lacks the 40k background I want it to have.

Aeroroot wrote:

dsteingass wrote:Are you making the "CASKET" of bacta or fluids, or whatever the Princeps was suspended in from the novel Titanicus?

You know, as blasphemous as this may seem, I haven't actually read Titanicus. Is it good? I am currently reading the Firedrake series, and the newest Dresden files.

buy it. read it. love it.

It's a defferent perspective on titan crews, and it shows just how much little the imperium cares for Joe Blogs

Nightfall wrote:Dude hes coming along nice! send use some PICS

I plan on carpet bombing Dakka Dakka with photos sometime this week: the titan, my existing tau army and some more hawk lords pics, along with some imperials from my vostroyan project, and some dark angels as well if I can swing it.

Aeroroot wrote:

dsteingass wrote:Are you making the "CASKET" of bacta or fluids, or whatever the Princeps was suspended in from the novel Titanicus?

You know, as blasphemous as this may seem, I haven't actually read Titanicus. Is it good?

It is good (as everyone else already said). The subplots are very interesting as well. My only gripe is that it seemed to have a rushed ending. There was so much to wrap up with only a few pages left that I almost was expecting a "to be continued..."

Ok, so Titanicus is read...did I miss a prequel or something? I found that it was missing character development, especially with Adept Feist. Great plot otherwise; would love to see the characters evolve more.
On another note, it mentioned that only titans of warlord class or above are equipped with "casket" princeps, so I think I am safe not installing one. Even if I wanted to, the cockpit is way to small to give it the attention it would deserve. I was very interested in how each titan had a personality that manifested in its princeps. Perhaps my princeps needs an irish cane or something?

YES!!!

nope, it was just a one-off novel. I wish he would do more in a series though,.

Oh yeah, Warlord or up, cool, thanks.

Just finished his novel "Brothers of the Snake". My favorite of his space marine novels so far.

Aeroroot wrote:Just finished his novel "Brothers of the Snake". My favorite of his space marine novels so far.

That's nice

Ok Ok! I know, I have been slacking a bit. With relatives staying over all week, car payment problems, and working as much as I am, I am making slow progress. Hopefully this will appease all you riveters. It is only about half done, but heres what I have been up to.

LOL a pot of gold!

Awesome! The rivet Gods smile upon you, and will be gracious upon you.

Ok, I am done one of the interior detail pieces. Next up: the other one, followed by the remaining interior detail. After that, I need to figure out this darn wiring so I can put this bugger together properly. Also have to weather the armor plates.

That came out really well! It looks great!
And lemme guess.. If the titan breaks down, they grab the axe, mace and spear and continue the charge? ;D

I like this it looks really good!

so, spamming with pictures didn't end up happening... I was banking on my relitives that came for the week bringing a high quality camera, but they decided that the space was better used to carry an obcene amount of baked goods. The good news is that my stomach is now full, and I am content to paint for hours on end. The bad news is that I am still stuck with a phone camera. Sorry guys! My blurry photos will have to do until I can get some quality shots in sometime down the road. Maybe I can borrow a friends camera or something

THe pics WITHOUT the flash look great, the flash is gak. turn it off, and get a daylight bulb, they really work.
Most of my earlier WIP pics were done with an old 1.7 MP Blackberry camera, no flash, daylight bulb

dsteingass wrote:THe pics WITHOUT the flash look great, the flash is gak. turn it off, and get a daylight bulb, they really work.
Most of my earlier WIP pics were done with an old 1.7 MP Blackberry camera, no flash, daylight bulb

great. thanks. I just got a new light with magnifier for my painting, so the timing couldnt be better

Ok, here is the second interior piece. This magnifyer is amazing! I feel like I am painting with sidewalk chalk, but it is still much easier then without it. Also, my first shot with the new light. Any thoughts?


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eech: just realized that screen below the servitor is positively disgusting. Ill clean that up asap! I used pieces from the empire men-at-arms set, leadbelchers, and upgrade pieces for the titan

Ohhh yeah! the light really makes a difference! I can see the absolutely gorgeousness of the bronzes and golds! The green you used is absolutely the perfect shade too.

That looks nice, Maybe you might want to invest in a small box with white paper so you can picture outside in bright lights, or a daylight bulb or two.

Ok, with work being the way it is, and preparing for an epic Christmas vacation, I have had precious time to work on Hibernicus. I truely am sorry for the lack of updates; if I had anything to report, I would. Anyway, heres the (minor) work I have been able to get done.

With the work on the legs (the pins came out of the hip joints, and I had to reglue it) it still seems a little tipsy. I feel that it will improve once I build a base to magnetize the model to (yeah I want to magnetize the base so I can interchange them if I build anything cooler)

I also have my eye on a mars pattern warhound that my housemate hasn't built yet (its been almost a year). Maybe I'll be able to get that cheaply....

Epic sauce!

dsteingass wrote:Epic sauce!

with a side of cool beans

im thinking, why not spend a lil extra and get a chaos landraider underneith that sexy titans feet? :3 it could be squeezing goo out of the cracks and folds in the crushed tank just a thought

Clumpski wrote:im thinking, why not spend a lil extra and get a chaos landraider underneith that sexy titans feet? :3 it could be squeezing goo out of the cracks and folds in the crushed tank just a thought

I could definitely use a chaos land raider, although due to the placement of the toes on the foot it would make it more difficult (the side toes are curled downwards, leaving the space of a transport vehicle underneath). I suppose I could rearrange it so a LR could fit. At the moment, I am looking at ebay and other online sites for any chaos vehicle. If I find a defiler, rhino, land raider, or even a chimera at a cheap price I'll snap it up. Since I want to magnetize the feet to the base, I can always create a second base later with a different vehicle, and use the first one as scenery in smaller scale games.

++++++Update++++++
I spent most of the night working on the head of the titan. Got one light completely in, although the LED's are burning out if I poke them the wrong way. 2 more lights to go!!! Also magnetized the head to the torso with rare earth magnets+++++++++++++++++

Nice to see you're back Aeroroot - thought you'd given up! Keep up the good work.

WOW love it! You make me jellous! I wanta. So far so good. Love to sse it with its base though!

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HAZZER

monkeyh wrote:Nice to see you're back Aeroroot - thought you'd given up! Keep up the good work.

THIS IS MY BLOG! THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT, BUT THIS ONE IS MINE! MY BLOG IS USELESS WITHOUT ME, AND I AM USELESS WITHOUT MY BLOG.......lol

HAZZER wrote:WOW love it! You make me jellous! I wanta. So far so good. Love to sse it with its base though!

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HAZZER

Thanks Hazzer.

++++I have two weeks to get as much done on this sucker as possible: I leave for Christmas vacation on the 15, and won't be able to work on Hibernicus until the New Year...Better get cracking!++++++

GOGO Power rangers!

Damnit.. Wrong everytime..

GOGO work your ass off!!

Ok, heres an update. Finished the head armor, and found these little connectors that might be useful. Unfortunately I cut myself rather badly while cutting the connectors apart, so I am at a momentary standstill


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+++note: All I have left to do is weather the exterior, paint the display panel in the cockpit, and build a base for this guy. As I need a tank to build the base and I am confused for the lighting, there might not be many updates on this blog until the new year: got to wait to see what armor I get for Christmas!+++

Nice stuff! like to see what you light up!

HAZZER

Oh, I forgot to mention that my new side projects now get a forum of their own! I could use the input, so head on over:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/416412.page#3671388

(sorry I dont know how to hyperlink)

Awsome! Those connectors are called MOLEX connectors btw

What are they for

Hard drives, cd roms, fans of a bygone era.

I see

yeah, this 4-to-4 connector was about 12 bucks (CDN) and I got it at the local Source store


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You can also get 2-to-2 connectors, but theyre usually only at specialty computer stores

Aww don't buy them! A power supply from a dead pc will yield half a dozen of those things!

12 bucks?! xD glad i dont live over there, ive gotten some for £1.52 over in ye ol' england ;D but dsteingass is right you could save a lot of money using a dead pc

Sorry to hear about the personal injury, but blood, sweat and tears all go into any good project!

Hey guys back from my vacation. Updates on both my blogs after my birthday on Tuesday!

Happy birthday!

thanks for the birthday wishes! Got another box of vostroyan and a tau skyray for playing, and a defilier and the honoured imperium scenery for the base of the reaver! Painted some models over the holidays (hibernicus didnt fit in my carry-on). Christmas, engagement and a birthday over the course of a week have kind of worn me out, but now another deadline looms: Hibernicus has been requested for battle again at the end of the month, so retrofitting (lights and base) must be complete by then for her to march!

Hmm nice head!Looks good man keep it up!

Happy birthday! - almost coincidentally - it's my birthday on Wednesday!

Well, Happy Birthday to you then!!!

Yes Happy Birfday! You too monkeyh!

Ta very much!

IT LIVES!!!!!! (now if I could stop the lights from melting the plastic and causing smoke to come out of the eyes)

Wait serious? Its melting??
You might have too high of voltage

I am using a filiment light instead of an LED. The plasic of an eye socket is right up against it, and I see smoke coming out of it. Maybe if I let it run in short cycles it will char (is that the right word for plastic?) and no longer smoke?

No, I think you have a problem there dood!

I would try to find an LED or else you're screwed

Sweet man looks good!

yes o.o defintly LED they have a low heat to light conversion [/i](unlike filiment and "engery efficent")[/i], where what would be heat radiation becomes light instead o.o plus there easier on the batteries o.o and if need be coat the outside of the plasic in foil to relfect it back if you cant change them

OK! minor updates-ish. Decided that I wanted to save as much of this awesome defilier as possible, so I tried making a scratch-built turret out of scraps. Loads of greenstuff to paint as flames or something, and I thought clouds of smoke as well when I incorporate it into the base


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Scratch built turret out of scraps? lol

Splat! Looks well and truly crushed! Hard to tell how the green stuff looks until its painted and got a big titan foot on it!

Nice man!Looking good!

this looks great. I have never even given much thought to a project like this. But you have my gears turning.


I would switch to LEDS for sure though.

Subscribed.

Ok, I did a silhouette of Hibernicus’ feet, and tried to place the scenery. Obviously the shaded green is the feet, and the purple is the ‘sploded defilier. The big red blob is the cracked Aquila from the”honoured imperium” set, and the silver blob is the ruined arches from the same. Not sure about putting the Aquila in, because it’s not completely flat on top and I don’t want to hover the foot above the base (meaning I need to modify the Aquila, or take apart the foot, both of which suck). That, and with the Aquila, the base is frickin huge! (nearly 24 by 36 cm, or 9 ½ by 14” for you imperial people) If I get rid of the Aquila, it makes the base smaller, and it will still be pretty rigid considering my plan to use low expansion foam.

Any thoughts?

Sounds good man! Looking forwad to it! Hey how about you check out my blog too? (Link is in signutre).

Yeah, it would look a helluva lot better splatted all over an Imperial titan-sized flyswatter!

I would use it all!

Titans lookin' da nutz!

Glad I found my way back to this thread!

This looks great Aero, subbed...

I know there has been no update in a while, and I am sorry for that. A combination of this being my last term in university, an increasingly demanding social life, and a disastrous failure of my first attempt to build a base for Hibernicus allowed for little to no progress whatsoever. The torso was touched up, the void shields painted, and a lot of weathering done on the shoulders and armor plates. Still have to finish the lower torso, head, and pelvis.
I have discovered that there are two kinds of low expansion foam. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call them the type that does what I want it to do, and the type that doesn’t. The type that does what I want it to do creates a very interesting, hilly terrain that is completely solid, extremely lightweight, and easily sprayable for scenic effects. The type that doesn’t do what I want it to do looks the same, but dries to the texture of cake. Fluffy cake. Spongy cake that could be mistaken for soft ice cream if it was cold.
Heres some photos of that disastrous event. I now (hopefully) have the right type of expansion foam, so I intend on making another attempt this weekend on it.

I'm liking the base Aeroroot, Btw my blog has had an update too!

thanks mxwllmdr, that made my day! I'll check it out HAZ!

Thanks Aero!

Did I ever tell you that I used a lot of your photos as reference for my Scratch build Reaver? Waiting for updates, Aero......

mxwllmdr wrote:Did I ever tell you that I used a lot of your photos as reference for my Scratch build Reaver? Waiting for updates, Aero......

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that my blog has come to use. I tried to take some photos that I didn`t see online when I started building. Even thought of uploading the instructions, except they are copyrighted...

Update (wow, two in under a week!!!)

Got the nice, new, hard base built and base-sprayed! Still have to add brown, flock, sand, and paint the scenery. Also going to mount the battery pack under the aquila I think, to make it discreet (although possibly not easy to access)



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Also, I am thinking of renaming Hibernicus `Pissy-Heavy-Arsed McWobbly` since it it rear heavy, and one of the knee joints is bothering me. Having magnets in the base attaching it to the base solves a lof of the problem, but still.

Looking great there. What detail work is there left to do?

I have torso detail (small skulls and such), along with the main display panel inside the head. Also have some coolant pipes to the legs left to add, and possibly some motifs.

Very nice, dude. Why isn't she lit up standing there?

The wiring isn't done yet unfortunately, The lights are in, as is the head wiring, but I still need to run the wires through the torso into the legs and the base. I only have one set of connectors left, so I need to go get another set at the local model train shop.

Nice stuff man! Keep it up!Base is looking good!

Happy V Day! (V for Vostroyans of course)
In the middle of my last midterms ever, so precious little work has been done. I found a local supplier of foam products, and got some 2 inch thick sheets fitted to an old power tool box. Now I have something to carry Hibernicus in! Starting in on the painting and flocking of the base, but I am still a long way behind where I was hoping I would be. Planning on making a big push Thursday night/Friday so I have this beastie battle ready for the Apocalypse game this weekend.

++++Incoming Transmission++++
The Foundry on Orion IV has come under attack from as of yet unknown hostiles. A principle factorium of Imperator Titan components, this foundry MUST NOT fall! Hibernicus Fortuna must complete emergency repairs in preparation for an immediate assault on Orion IV, scheduled in T-minus-83 hours, including transit time. NO heritic is permitted to survive, no matter the cost. Additional troops will be assigned as a vanguard en route

May the Emperors light Shine!

++++End Transmission++++

HA! May the emporers light fade and blacken like the heart of our Lord Nurgle!

Boooo!hisss!Boooo!Hail the emporers light on the holly golden throne of tera! The base s looking good Aeroroot!

Should be an interesting game: the terrain has been built specifically so that it can block a titans line of sight. Also, its 2000pts instead of 1500, but 500pts must be troop choices. We found that the titans just had too much range, and everyone was bringing tanks and no troops. Should be a lot of fun.
I am hoping updating late Friday night after I am done all I can do on Hibernicus.

Terra has two r's, Hazz..... LOL

Got the foam today! 2x2`` thick, and 6x1`` thick sheets. Boy was I lucky: Hibernicus barely fit inside one of these boxes when all was said and done, and it is quite snug inside to tell the truth.
Each box is about 7 and a half inches deep, and measures 14.5x18 inches inside. I would not want to go any smaller in box side: I barely made everything fit nicely as it was!

I have a midterm in Biomechanial Engineering tomorrow, but after that I hope to really make some progress. Cross your phalanges, but there could be a halfways decent progress update on the horizion!

Looks real good man....

I must know where you got that box! I have two Reavers that need a good transport.

mxwllmdr wrote:Terra has two r's, Hazz..... LOL

Tuyping error! Dam I must be infulenced by chaos!

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I must know where you got that box! I have two Reavers that need a good transport.

I got 2 of them second hand at a thrift store. I think they one held some sort of power tool (circular saw or maybe survey equipment maybe). Not sure if I am going to use the second one for my 9 hammerheads, or wait and save it for the 2 warhounds I want....or give it to my fiancee so she has a case for her reverant(s) she wants for her birthday


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Ok, the fiancee proved me wrong: its called the "Califone 2005 carry/storage case", and its meant for portable audio systems. About $63 American new (~40 GBP)

HAZZER wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:Terra has two r's, Hazz..... LOL

Tuyping error! Dam I must be infulenced by chaos!

Damn, Hazz, get it together, man......

DAKKADAKKA wrote:Posts that contain poor spelling, grammar, punctuation or that are highly distracting (all bold, filled with emoticons, etc.) may be deleted.

mxwllmdr wrote:

HAZZER wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:Terra has two r's, Hazz..... LOL

Tuyping error! Dam I must be infulenced by chaos!

Damn, Hazz, get it together, man......

Yeah! Chaos reigns supreme!

Aeroroot wrote:
its called the "Califone 2005 carry/storage case", and its meant for portable audio systems. About $63 American new (~40 GBP)

OK I'm getting some of those, thanks, Good Sir!

Ok, the fiancee proved me wrong:

Oh, damn... it's way too early for that to start! lol

Still haven't seen it all lit up and standing on a squished defiler......


And it is already boxed up.....


Tsk, tsk.......

******ERROR 1011001101********
The light transport "Podracer" is unable to leave system due to warp storms. It is recommended that alternate titan legons be selected to defend Orion IV.

****End Message*****

Well, the weather turned nasty, with about 10cm of snow falling early this morning, and an additional 10cm forecasted for the rest of today. Too long a drive in such bad weather meant I was unable to get to the tourni. This was both good and bad, because the lighting connection from the base of the model into the stand is really messing up. I'll get some detailed wiring photos once it is done, along with the base when it is painted to a satisfactory standard.


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mxwllmdr wrote:Still haven't seen it all lit up and standing on a squished defiler......


And it is already boxed up.....


Tsk, tsk.......

Sorry, having technical difficulties: the heel of one of the feet isn't resting quite right, making the base a bit rocky. Once I fix the base, I'll post pics ASAP. I am on reading week now, so I hopefully have some time to get to work on this stuff.