So I originally had this scratch build posted in Painting& Modeling but am moving it to a blog for my Army that I can hopefully completely finish over the next few weeks. Below are the images of the now finished (build wise that is) Warhound Titan.

As much as I'd like to just prime and paint it right up I am sadly inexperienced with some of the finer points and detailing of painting and want to practice on some of my vehicles first before I tackle what will be my army's pride and joy.

All in all I think it turned out pretty well for my first scratch build and although I say it's done they're so primer or paint on it yet so if anyone has a handy suggestion I'm more than willing to hear them. So here is today's labor.


Finished legs. They now have rivets along all the plane metal plates to give them a little more character.


Rivets have been added to the sides of the hips, all exposed surfaces as well. Added some mechanical workings to the rear.


Added more "brass trim" and rivet detailing to the face.




A better view of the under-slung power cell details.


Plugged the gaps in the front of the barrels, added the stage down tips to the Turbo Lasers


I also had the realization that anything that was going to be painted brass should have rivets as well since that all would have been tacked on after the World Eaters jumped ship


Same rivet detailing.


Finished!!!


WOOO!!!




Build finished rear undershot # 1


Build finished rear undershot # 2


For scale.


Boom.


I'd rather not think or count the number of rivets I punched and stuck on today...

I'll slap a coat of primer on it tomorrow I think once it warms up enough to give it a uniform color and show a bit more detail and take a few more shots and throw them up. In the mean time I'll probably paint a few zerkers and then maybe finish the transport to try a couple painting/finishing styles to narrow down the one I'll use on this bad mama jama.

Looks awesome! The skull "carpets" are insane!

So I've attempted a few paint schemes. Looking for suggestions and opinions.



Base coated both chaos black and painted blood red.



Painted dwarf bronze.



Applied a light coat of shining gold onto the dwarf bronze.



I did the same steps to this 3rd guard to try a 3rd wash.



This is the layering trial. Chaos black base with a coat of red gore. I tried to leave some of the black edge showing in the recesses.



I then painted a layer of 50/50 mix red gore/blood red, leaving a thin line of red gore. Also painted the skull dwarf bronze and then shining gold.



Put 3rd layer just blood red in the center of the guard.



1st (left to right)guard was washed in Devlan Mud. 2nd was washed in a mix of black ink i made myself. 3rd is black ink again but with 2 drops of ink. 4th is the layering method.



A bit closer together.



This is the devlan mud wash next to the layered one. The devlan wash came out the best of the washes but I am partial to the layering method, it's just more work.


Personally I like the layering method best. It has the best appearance, especially from a little farther away and gives the model great texture as well. I’m going to try each method on full scale berzerkers tomorrow and put those up as well as the black primed titan. However opinions are always great especially from seasoned chaos painters.

On the windiest day since remembrance..

Dark Mechanicum Acolyte: "Hey let's paint the white and green titan that's been sitting around."

Dark Mechanicum Adept: "I dono, it's pretty windy and Kharnsaid he wants that thing to look beautiful..."

Acolyte: "........Kharn. ......said that....?"

Adept: " Yeah I dono, he's been acting weird since they gave him those new combat drugs."

Acolyte: " Is today April 1st?"

Adept " What? No, I'm 98.372% certain that's what he said."

Acolyte: "He usually only babbles about blood, skulls for the skull throne, you know all that."

Adept: "Oh, which reminds me, he said pay special attention to his 'skull carpets.' "

Acolyte: "Is that what those are! Haha, Rho Signus 38 told me they were antique Persian drapes. What malfunctioning peice of scrap."

Adept : " I heard they're downgrading him to a servitor. Anyways you thing we should paint it? It's really windy today."

Acolyte: "Oh hell yes! We'll just hold the paint guns really close, and we'll do it all black! That'll be really stealthy!"

Adept: " But the world eaters are blood red and brass and I th......Where are you going?"

Acolyte: "To spray this titan down, with or without you."














Acolyte: "See I told you! It's so much easier on the augmetic eyes now. I don't have to filter out the green from the white or the steel from the brass."

Looks good, Tme. Can't wait to see the final paint job.

mxwllmdr wrote:Looks good, Tme. Can't wait to see the final paint job.

Thanks mate. I'm currently working on some zerkers and then a rhino or two to really nail the paint scheme and get some much needed practice before I take a crack at that guy. Here is my latest paint attempt. It need just a bit more tweaking I think.

Berserker is lookin good, too. I have to learn to paint......

You and me both. I've gotten a few tips from a friend of mine here, gonna try a slightly different scheme on the next squad of ten. However, I am currently working on a secret build that I hope to finish in the next week. I'll throw all the pics up when I'm done.

Want to see that titan Painted! Great work!!!

No such thing as a secret build on the Dakka... Pics should be WIP..... Shame on you, TME, for not sharing......LOL

Haha you're right, plus I'm getting too excited to wait the entire span of the project. I'll throw up all the WIP pics tonight after I get done on the next section.

So here is the big secret project....a Forge World Style Dreadclaw!! The most exciting part is I've been scanning all my original sketches to make templates that, once I tweak and finish them, will upload to Dakka as a PDF so anyone can make a DIY Dreadcalw. So here is the progress so far.


I tried making one strait outta sheet styrene and it ended up looking a bit off, so i made the next two outta poster board, I ended up going with C.


Now made outta sheet styrene.


Intake vents.


Instead of making 7more of the intake vents, I'm casting a mold and then will just cast them as I need them (I plan to make 3 dreadclaws)


Intake vent factory.

More to come tonight, I'm hoping to finish the bottom panel detailing and the four legs.

All that Chaotic loveliness and still no paint on the Warhound.....



Tsk, Tsk, Tsk......

Vent looks really good though. What dimensions are you using for the main body?

Haha I know, I've never really like painting, it always seems such a chore, probably because I lack any real talent with it. The plan is to finish this, practice painting it, then the warhound and onto my next build project, although I'll probably just skip to the next build when it comes down to it. As for dimensions the capsule body stands about 5.5in high. I had to use the zerkers in the pictures on FW website to approximate a scale. I feel I'm pretty close. On it's legs it will be 6.5in to 7in tall. Here it is with all the molded vents attached.





Time to move onto the legs.

woah, awesome CSMs!

Subbed!

The dreadclaw looks Pretty good

Dude, how do i get a set of those molds?

Like I said when I get finished I'll post a PDF with all the templates and you can make your very own set of DIY dreadclaws. The mold works wonders as far as time. I used Polytek Plasil 71-10 for the silicon mold and Polytek EasyFlo 60 liquid resin. Awesome stuff. I'm sure I'll be making another purchase for my next "secret" project.

Sounds good, Tme. Can't wait.... Now that they are 40K I need like 6 of them, too.....

Yeah no joke, they'll beat the hell out of plowing rhinos up the field and hoping you make it past turn 2.

What a project, I'm in awe!
Subscribed.

Thanks to all for the kind words and encouragement thus far.

News update though. The retro-thruster panels are done. The only thing I feel I left out was the wiring around them you see in the original FW one, however when I attempted to add some to mine it seemed overly cramped and much of the detail was lost so I just left them out. Currently making a mold and then casting 8 of them. I've drawn the designs for the legs and and currently constructing those in between casts. More to come.




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So I've finished casting and molding all the retro-thrusters. The legs is coming along pretty well, nearly finished with it then I'll move onto the main engine on top and the portal on the bottom. I had to order some more silicon so I can't cast the legs quite yet, but I figure I can finish it around the beginning of next week and have the PDF up a day or so after.

Will it open on the bottom like it is supposed to or will it be a closed model?


Man, that is georgeous, simply georgeous......

Wow, this all looks fantastic. Keep up the good work.

Hey, Tme, where is it written that Dreadclaws are coming to 40K?

Looks amazing keep up the good work

Holy toe monkies - your modeling skills are on the good side of awesome.

Thanks everybody. The new Dreadclaw rules for 40K are in the Imperial Armor Apocalypse: Second Edition book on pg. 112 and as for the hatch no it will just be a closed hatch, I'm not much of an engineer. The legs will be static as well, at least on mine. I don't think it would be too hard to figure those out, just some angel brackets and glide rails but, I just don't mind fixed legs so that's what I went with, much simpler for max production.

Unfortunately I'll be doing 56 hours my Paramedic clinicals this week in the ER and OR on top of class so I won't have any progress until the late weekend. Stay tuned though.

Oh, cry me a river, my mother did paramedics school at 63 years old. Get back to building....


LOL

mxwllmdr wrote:Oh, cry me a river, my mother did paramedics school at 63 years old. Get back to building....


LOL

Everyone will get the plans for this except mxwll, we just won't tell him the password.

Wow seriously. NICE job on the titan. You have inspired me sir. when i finish with the latest round of nurgle for my blog i am SOOOO making a warhound titan. Awesome. did you use a stamp to do the skull carpets.??

sennacherib wrote:Wow seriously. NICE job on the titan. You have inspired me sir. when i finish with the latest round of nurgle for my blog i am SOOOO making a warhound titan. Awesome. did you use a stamp to do the skull carpets.??

I did, I cut one of the skulls off a vehicle chain bit, glued it onto the end of sprue, flattened out some GS inside a small styrene box the cut of the shin guard and went to town stamping it to make the negative mold, then once it dried I put some water based lube (yes THAT lube, astroglide to be exact) in the mold and mashed more GS into it and voila, "skull carpets". Thanks by the way, I got my inspiration from folks on here making nice scratch builds as well.

Ok, maybe I was a little harsh with the my mother remark.....

Haha you know I'm just kidding buddy. Although it's hard to squeeze in WH40k building time when I'm gone from 6am until 10pm at night. Early next week though, I just ordered 9lbs of silicon so I should be good for quite a while.

Dude, those war hounds and dreadclaws are killer.
I'm looking forward to seeing the completed dreadclaw, and if they don't show up in the 6th ed CSM book, you could always use them as normal drop pods*.

*I'm really hoping CSM's will get pods in the 6th ed 'dex.

I think that you might have a first here on Dakka, tme003.
Astroglide used as a tool to assist in making a model for use in 40k. Very innovative.

Astroglide, LOL.....

Well it's water-based so it air dries, no need to clean the mold after, and it IS the longest lasting...

So the leg master is now finished, and now that the extra silicon I ordered is in, I can cast a couple and stick them on there. I hope to finish both the top thrusters and bottom hatch this weekend and have the plans posted mid next week, so stay tuned.






On the left you see how much silicon I bought the first time, 1.1 lbs. On the right you see how much I bought this time, 9.8 lbs.

Still looking great, man. Can't wait for the templates......

So here it is with the four legs. Again for simplicity I modeled it in the angled "deployed" position. I know the FW one can also move up and down, but I like it closer to the ground, and you can use it as 12 Armor cover.

Bad @$$, OOOOH I can't wait......

Amazing built!

Thanks guys, sorry for the delay in progress, real life is such an inconvenience. I have the templates drawn, and tested for both the top and bottom, just need to actually build them. I should have everything built as well as the PDF assembled NLT Sunday.

tme0003 wrote:real life is such an inconvenience.

No kidding, just imagine what we all would have accomplished by now if there was no j.o.b. to go to everyday.




I think I will take thirty days leave......

mxwllmdr wrote:

tme0003 wrote:real life is such an inconvenience.

No kidding, just imagine what we all would have accomplished by now if there was no j.o.b. to go to everyday.

tme0003 wrote:Agreed, why on earth would you need eight warhounds? Even for apoc? haha

mxwllmdr wrote:Can you imagine facing three reavers and 6 Mars Pattern Warhounds backed up by 6 preds, 6 vindicators, 6 LR's, and 12 squads in their own Rhino all at once? Not to mention the four Deamon Princes with Lash and 18 Oblits?.

Probably something along those ^^ lines.

Point taken...

Ioveing the work that going on in this thread. Your use of plasti card is super clean. Great work, looking foward to an update.

subbed. i got a FW claw, it's an awesome model but was $$$ and had some, eh, challenging to overcome casting problems (only serious problems i've had with any of my resins, actually). looking forward to your PDF plans!

How many ar eyou making? I was thinking I would need like four....

I'm gonna start with 3, but I may do 4. With the molds it will be hella easy. I may try and sell one or two as well, see if I can get anything for 'em to help pay back my casting materials cost. Schedule looks good for completion on Sunday.

I might be interested in a mold if you wanted to sell them....

Bottom hatch is finished, it's setting in a mold right now while I work on the main top thruster.






It's just set into place here. Also a note, when I make the PDF and tut remind me to do this part before the retro thrusters...it's very hard to move the little claws outta the way to squeeze the hatch through without breaking any of them, not to mention trying to guess the measurements.

You are one talented chap!

Have you considered adding the ability to deploy to the legs?

What sort of hinging or slide movement would be necessary?

So progress on this guy has been slow, I've had to redo quite a bit, however I'm on the final version now and just need to crank out some detail work on it after class after the green stuff has set and then drop it in a mold.



I had some left over GS so I did two quick conversions outta my bits box. I needed Icon bearers for my Chosen Infiltrator Squads so I made Nurgle and Tzeentch.





Otherwise I see the project being finished this evening and while I'm casting a bunch more I'll construct the PDF and tut and should have those up this evening as well.

So I know I'm far far behind my promised deadline but I'm very close to the completion of the model, PDF plans, and Tut to post up on here. I really really hope to finish and have it all up Monday, depends if the plastruct shows up in the mail though. In the mean time here is the progress on the original, just a teaser photo though as there is still much to be done.

That thing is beautiful........


I simply cannot wait to have my own......

I am looking so forward to your plans.......


I suppose I only really need them for scale but It will be very informative to see how you did each step......

Looking great, You got Chaos Class!

So the Dreadclaw is Finished! I hate nothing more than painting, such a pain in my @*#.... so tedious, especially when I'm trying to figure out the color scheme still. Anyways I'm happy enough with it so here is the finished product, I won't be embarrassed to put it on the table top. Tutorial and Plans to follow very soon.... I mean it this time haha.

I don't understand, why did you buy a FW one if you had that spectacular scratch build?

balllerrrrr

Dreadclaw is totally awesome! NEED that tut!

tme0003 wrote:So the Dreadclaw is Finished! I hate nothing more than painting, such a pain in my @*#.... so tedious, especially when I'm trying to figure out the color scheme still. Anyways I'm happy enough with it so here is the finished product, I won't be embarrassed to put it on the table top. Tutorial and Plans to follow very soon.... I mean it this time haha.

Capitansolstice wrote:I don't understand, why did you buy a FW one if you had that spectacular scratch build?

Haha, thanks for the clever compliment, although I doubt it's that good, mine doesn't move up and down you know.

Thanks for the other compliments as well. In other news the tutorial is done! Wooo. So head on over and take a peak for yourself.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/434255.page#3991312

Also I suppose I'll announce my next project, which will be a Hell Talon/Hell Blade fighter/bomber. Since the Hell Blade is 40K legal now, I plan to make a model that can detach the rear wings and bomb bay with some magnets so it can be played as either. Again I'm sure it will take twice as long as I planned but if you're patient I promise to deliver.

Cant wait!

You're a real plasticard wizard.

That is absolutely amazing.

Holy cow man, you have skills. All i want to know is..how much to build me a warhound?

Arrathon wrote:Holy cow man, you have skills. All i want to know is..how much to build me a warhound?

Haha, unfortunately that took me about a year to do, although alot of that time was trying to figure out what I wanted to build to get the right look. Still even knowing exactally what I want to do now, all the detail work alone at a $5 an hour rate.... you might as well just buy a FW one. However, after I build the Hell Talon/Blade a Reaver Titan is next for me, and I do plan to make molds as I go so check back in a month or two to see where that is at.

You know who you should talk to about a speed build? mxwllmdr. Check out one of his threads here, he did a fantastic one in less than a month.

Hey, thanks TME.......

I aprreciate bumping my threads.....

Plastruct arrived today, wooo! .... Only a 9 days late



So just one more day of class and tests, then it's Spring Break for me, and this loser will be spending the entire 8 days he gets off from school at his workbench. I can't wait to get started on my next two projects (Hell Talon/Blade and Secret Project # 2)

Here are some preliminary sketches I did while waiting for my next Endotracheal Intubation in the Operating Room yesterday.



I'll post some real progress Thursday, I just wanted to shamelessly bump my own thread the same way I did for Max.

HAHAHA, you shameless bumper, you.....

I just envy your post count.

Oh and on a note for you bud, that means I can do the new two piece mold of the entire Dreadclaw and, assuming that works, shoot you that original silicon the day after.

I prefer to look at my view count. It shows that I am getting out there and to that end, I envy Dave.....


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I may not be able to hit you back til end of month....


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Besides most of my posts are unintelligable blatherings about nothing in general....

Ok bud no worries, I'll let you know when they're available and then whenever is good for you.

mxwllmdr wrote:
Besides most of my posts are unintelligable blatherings about nothing in general....

I do notice that most of your posts contain an average of 2 edits...

...that and Viktor, Hayabusa, Horst, Capitansolstice, lone dirty dog and dsteingass do frequent your threads to blather on with you.

Oh and Congrats on nearly 24k Views, that is spectacular.

And I do so on there threads as well....


I consider it a non-professional professional courtesy....

I just blather on all of the scratchbuilder's threads!

It's Mold-o-Mania!

I cannot wait to get a set of those.....

These are spectacular! Can't wait to see more, I will be following this thread. Keep up the awesomeness!

So this isn't the Secret Project, just a side project that I kinda wanted to knock out since I actually felt like painting, I figure it will take a day or so.

The Apoc Formation 'Lament of the Damned'


Only have the base coat of Warlock Purple, but I think they'll go pretty fast, given the random placement of painted plates that Slaanesh/Noise Marines have.




This guy is my favorite pose out of them.

Your kidding! Thats a lot of FW!

And a lot of Win too!

Wicked.....


love the color....

I have an odd feeling that those are recasts... Just too much FW to be true!

Glad I found this thread. Epic work man!I wouldn't be able to tell that that was a scratch built dreadclaw if it was on the table. Looks perfect!

Samus_aran115 wrote:I have an odd feeling that those are recasts... Just too much FW to be true!

Glad I found this thread. Epic work man!I wouldn't be able to tell that that was a scratch built dreadclaw if it was on the table. Looks perfect!

I did find them on eBay from a guy in China....

Thank you for the fine compliment sir, I do my best.


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I had to go to work for a bit and then buy some groceries, the requirement for nutrients is truly an impedance to my daily progress.

Here they are with a 50:50 Warlock Purple and Tentacle Pink.


More to follow.

Here are the boys with all the pink work done and some Fortress Grey extreme highlights. Just have to a bit of metallic work, blue eyes and gems, and more importantly, figure out how I want to do the Blastmasters. I see most of the Blastmasters in pictures just have silver 'barrels' but I don't much care for that. I may try and do a blue gradient down the barrel like it's being charged. Opinions anyone?

I like the idea of the gradient blue....

mxwllmdr wrote:I like the idea of the gradient blue....

Seconded

They are perfect!!!

I had to do some traveling yesterday so no progress, however I have some today. The "Lament of the Damned" is done, aside from the some sand on the bases which I will get when I'm back in Mobile near the beach. Now that they're out of the way I can start on Secret Project #2 mwahahahaha!!!! Hopefully some pics tonight.

Really like the blue charging effect, well played!
Waiting for the second secret project and I'm sure that will be as awesome as this if not more!

Oh forgeworldgasam!

Yes, the charge effect was the right way to go.....

So I know I promised those secret pics something over a month ago, alas a new job with a new ambulance service, a move to a new apartment, and semester finals looming in the next two weeks I have been EXCEEDINGLY busy. For that I apologize. However I do have several cool new things to put up that I promise will be worth while, you'll just have to bear with me for another 2 1/2 weeks or so.

I canwait 2.5 weeks... but it better be good

You, sir, are a god.

I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS BEFORE!!!

The titan and dreadclaw are just breathtaking... I am getting inspired to do more just by looking at this.

The FW dreads are fantastic, love the blue on the guns, just pops with the rest of the model. Base them and base them good and BAM!!!

S'Okay....


We can wait... I have been horribly busy myself and shouldn't complain.....


Still want a set of molds for the dreadclaw.....

I would love to buy a set of molds for the dreadclaw - I need like 9 of them and that would be the only economical solution...

mxwllmdr wrote:S'Okay....


We can wait... I have been horribly busy myself and shouldn't complain.....


Still want a set of molds for the dreadclaw.....

Max I know you and I have already spoken and I can swing you the same deal.

Inigo Montoya wrote:I would love to buy a set of molds for the dreadclaw - I need like 9 of them and that would be the only economical solution...

I should be able to accommodate both you gentlemen. Give me those 3 weeks or so and I can roll you both a set. Shoot me a PM next week and we can talk business.

Will do......



Seriously this time, Will do......

So school is done, and I have enough free time to really dive into things now, at least it seemed that way until I actually started cracking away at it. I've got my fingers in too many pies as it were and can make minimal progress on everything, or decent progress on a few. However, the piles of awesome make it difficult to chose.





As you can see in these two pics I've based coated and assembled three Blood Slaugterers, with a Plauge Hulk and quite a few Blight Drones in the background. Behind all that forgeworld goodness there are 2 of 5 current Dreadclaw shells assembled.



Here is the casting factory to decorate all said Dreadclaws and while production is good, it never seems to be fast enough for the customers.



Here we have the very very humble beginnings of Secret Project # 2 beginning to form. Can you guess what it is? As for the Hell Talon project...it's been shelved. While all the drawings are done, I don't see them getting any real use in my army at the point since they take up Fast Attack choices and the Blight Drones and Dreadclaws, in my opinion, will be a much better investment of points. But I'll get back to it...eventually.

So with all this said my current order of projects is such.

1) Assembled and base coat all the Blight Drones and Plague Hulks, Plague Marines and Thousand Sons.
2) In-between assembly/paints continue to assemble/sell Dreadclaws to fund my growing Apocalypse Army.
3) Finish Secret Project #2
4) Build Reaver Titan
5) Build 2nd Warhound Titan
6) Paint Army/Hell Talon

But I'm sure the above list won't make it more than two weeks haha. Anyways that should be the rough progression over the next few weeks.

So, creating your own decimator engine are we? Should prove to be interesting. A lot of interesting things to work on. I approve.

Kaesar II

Its a Brass Scorpion right?

Decimator!

Consider this subbed. Awesome. Pure awesome.

Capitansolstice wrote:Decimator!

Great Brass Scorpion!

Lord Kaesar II wrote:So, creating your own decimator engine are we? Should prove to be interesting. A lot of interesting things to work on. I approve.

Kaesar II

Yeah that was a rough sketch, but I figure they don't cost that much so I dono if I'll follow through with that one.

a94marbo wrote:Its a Brass Scorpion right?

Yes sir, you have it. Getting the body right seems to be the most tasking part, especially to not have the wiring look like a bundle of crap. But the rest of it seems like it'll breeze right though. I should have some progress next week so keep it tuned.

Hey, hit me with a PM when you can get a set of those Dreadclaw molds ready....

mxwllmdr wrote:Hey, hit me with a PM when you can get a set of those Dreadclaw molds ready....

Will do buddy.

In the mean time I give everyone...THIS!!!



Its a sad turtle right now, but I will reveal more this evening.

I know that shape for some reason. It really is ringing the old noggin bell.......

Well don't spoil anything yet haha. Also, you're on your 3rd avatar pic for the day. You didn't think anyone would notice...but I did.

i\s it a...

I know, well, I am in the army and I know that sometimes I have to abide by certain standards of public conduct and was asked politly to take down the last one by a person in position of authority......



























The wife.....

mxwllmdr wrote:
The wife.....

The highest of authorities.

Yup. Nuff said...

More piece-mail hints.

TITAN!!??!!

reaver titan thats the feet!

mxwllmdr wrote:I know, well, I am in the army and I know that sometimes I have to abide by certain standards of public conduct and was asked politly to take down the last one by a person in position of authority....

You say you're in the Army and your profile says your at Ft Lost-in-the-Woods. How long have you been there. Spent 2.5 years there as a medic with 14th MP, left in 2010 for Korea. Gamers Hideout opened when I was there. Before them, closest game store was Rolla.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:TITAN!!??!!

Close

cormadepanda wrote:reaver titan thats the feet!

Very close...

Warlord then

Yeah I started hitting The Hideout a couple years back. Been here three years....



I knew I knew that shape..... good luck.....

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Warlord then

A little bit colder, cormadepanda was almost there. Last hint then I suppose I'll just give it away.

Knight titan?

I was a bit deceitful, I am building two Reaver Titans.



Here they are a few hours and pints later. The progress I put up today was actually 3 days of me chipping away at it, but today encompassed cutting, assembling all 20 toes and the ankles. It became very boring and repetitive to cut 20 of the same piece out in a row or 3 separate parts, then assemble them, so it took me a bit. Not to mention I'm on the road this week visiting family since I have a few weeks between semesters. In any case this is as about as far as I'll get until next week once I'm back "home" as well as the fact that I am waiting on some supplies and tools to come in. The reavers I am building will be based off the FW ones with the aid of many notes from both a94marbo's and mxwllmdr's scratch builds, so much of the leg work (get it, get it ) has graciously been done by them (check their threads out, outstanding work).

I decided I liked the way the 5 toes looked a bit better they the current FW 4 toe design, not to mention the design work was done for my by the Reaver Titan DIY plans; but I was ready to change my mind halfway through the cutting process. So look back next week for what should be some more progress on these two, maybe some detail work on them tomorrow. In the mean time I'll be trying to finish up my Blight Drones.

Edit: BTW, the ankles, toe joints and toes are not affixed to one another yet, so they appear a bit wide. I will attach them after I build the legs so I am able to give the legs a bit of a dynamic walk and still be able to pose the feet to give an even/stable base.

Again, good luck. Those plans were made for paper......


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I think I rather prefer the five toes as well....

Ugh, no kidding, just flipping through the entire set of plans made me want to quit scratch-building forever.

Thats why I didn't use 'em....

I must admit, I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper just to get the Forge World model. Still, my hat comes off to you!

Cheaper? No, never. I have a total of about 50 bucks materials into the two I have already began...


And for another hundred (because hindsight is 20/20) I am gonna get another three.....


Time spent building them? Maybe, but honestly cleaning parts sanding sprues off, dryfitting, pinning and all that other stuff one resin models of that size and weight requires is not too far ahead of what it took me to scratch out the two I have almost done. So, No.... Not cheaper....


Is it worth it to commission the build of one for yourself from someone to build it? That depends on how highly the artist values his/her work but to me it is about the same....

I'd have to agree with mxwllmdr on all those points especially the price. To purchase the FW Reaver with 3 weapon arms comes to a bit under $1,000 USD, not to mention if I wanted two...

Also, for the most part, I enjoy the building process and of course the appreciation and satisfaction you get from a completed job that you are pleased with that is all your own handy-work.

So the new toy has come in so it's time to get some work done.

Man, I love my Dremel. I have the drill press for it and want that circle cutting attachment yours came with....

Is that how you get all of yours to look so perfect? Finally I have the power! Mwahahahahaa...

Well, I wouldn't say iwas all that perfection, now, but thank you. And no. Actually the dremel is responsible for very little detail work....


The inlayed aquila's on the legs and weapons sponson shoulders of the Reavers were done with the Dremel, though....

Well I assumed that, I'm marking my 1" PVC to cut out those 4 sections to make room for the pistons to the 1/2" inside, then I'll be moving up to the 'thigh' section and hips.

I WANT A MEDAL CAUSE I CALLED IT!

I still owe you dimensions....

mxwllmdr wrote:I still owe you dimensions....

is your figure curvy and appealing? cause i like to know your dimensions

I owe TME dimensions on my reaver, but ok...


Whatever floats your boat....

mxwllmdr wrote:I owe TME dimensions on my reaver, but ok...


Whatever floats your boat....

funny i was talking about the titan too... :/ still want my medal

cormadepanda wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:I owe TME dimensions on my reaver, but ok...


Whatever floats your boat....

funny i was talking about the titan too... :/ still want my medal

Mxwllmdr, whenever you get the chance, I'm on the Ambulance today so I won't be doing any work.

cormadepanda, you only get half the medals since you didn't guess that it was TWO of them...

tme0003 wrote:

cormadepanda wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:I owe TME dimensions on my reaver, but ok...


Whatever floats your boat....

funny i was talking about the titan too... :/ still want my medal

Mxwllmdr, whenever you get the chance, I'm on the Ambulance today so I won't be doing any work.

cormadepanda, you only get half the medals since you didn't guess that it was TWO of them...

Well... I take my hat off! thats alot of medals. i am excited to see the work as it goes.

Dimensions tonight...

mxwllmdr wrote:Dimensions tonight...

Woohoo!

Dimensions, If you need anything else let me know. I am working on two more and am doing a tutorial on them while in progress....





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That lower leg section is two parts. That is why there are two measurements. the bottom (labeled 1) at 2 inches and the upper (labeled 2) at just over 1 inch.I took a ring of the pipe and a tube made of plasticard to give it a sunken in look. Check the Build section of this thread for close ups.....


And because I am stupid the right side number 2 indicates the actual inches.....


Same with the hip width coming in at 6.75 inches.....

What are the diameters of the two tubes used for the 'thigh'? 1/2 and something else? Thank you sir, your aid is invaluable.

There are two diameter tubes. THere is an inner piece that measures 3/4 inch outside diameter and the outside tube is 1". I did it that way because I wanted to have the inside of the thigh visible. It can be done with the 1" tube, though, I am sure.....

looking sexy with them legs

So I went to the Hobby Town USA near me today to pick up some styrene tubing a few paints, pictured here.



However, on my way to the checkout I saw a large section of Warhammer Stuff that was all 50% off ... and well ...



It was just too good of a deal to pass up.

So it looks like I may get around to starting the Daemons Army after all, but for now they'll just have to be a nice little compliment to my APOC forces. Plus, with all 4 Greater Daemons there was some kind of APOC formation called "The Four Have Come" or something like that...anyone remember what I am a talking about?

I believe its the tetragon of darkness of somesuch.

I'll see if i can dig it up, was from apocalypse reload iirc.

That was the one, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

Nice haul, TME....

I notice, however, that that is acrylic rod. What do you plan with that?

Is that my imagination or is it clear, too?

That's what it is and it is transparent. I'm using it to make bases for all my Blight Drones. I should have progress pictures of something by Monday.

Bases! Good idea....

Well the stems for the bases would be more correct, I have some scenic bases on the way here from across the pond.

Hey how are the blight drones working for ya in your list anyway?

No consensus yet as I haven't been able to play them yet, but I have enough for two squads and my plan is to send them up the flanks early to soften up the other guy divide the firing power/distract while bloodslaugterers and defilers drive up the center and everyone else deepstrikes/dreadclaws in off the main charge. I might get to play today, so we'll see.

Get a batrep, please...

So later than I promised, like usual, by a week I think this time. Anyways here is the current progress on the blight drones, I believe I will have them finished tonight. Otherwise I've been assembling the daemons I bought as well as buying more stuff...but I've self-imposed a buying ban. I don't get to buy any more models/supplies until I've finished working on everything I have on plans currently. I have some stuff in the mail to do two custom daemon princes once they get here thursday-ish. So some projects should be getting some work over the next two weeks. Blathering aside here is my work.


Based them all white then painted with a thinned down Vermin Brown, an older color.




Now with a thinned coat of Warpstone/Loren Forest. It was probably something like 6 Loren : 1 Warpstone, just a smidgen to help brighten it up.


Of course I tried to leave the recessed corded areas showing through to mimic rust.


2nd of coat of the same.




Now with the eyes black and the cabling silver.


After a bath in that new brown wash Agrax Earthsade. The green/rusted carapace parts got a 100% wash strait outta the pot as did the boltgun metal areas. The white bodies got a watered down 50:50 mix to sulley them up a bit without drowning the white. I like the more traditional Death Guard colors.


Here is the whole crew. They are only temporarily based on some spare bases with hot glue for painting and while I finish the scenic bases. So far I like how they are turning out, I like the more toned down nurgle scheme since I feel like its really easy to go overboard with the pus-spewing-rot that is nurgle. More to come this evening.

Also mxwllmdr, here is a quick snap of the battle report for the Blight Drones. I'll try to post the details up in the next day with the play by play photos. Suffice to say the Blight Drones were a huge game changer, they are my new favorite unit.


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So here is that battle photo I forgot to put.


Some more work.



Fan housing and freshly cast scenic bases.


Ready for some rust dusting and a wash.


Fan housing is ready for a wash, bases have been painted and pus cannons are ready for a bath as well.

....Almost there.



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I'll just have to put the finishing touches on tomorrow, they all need those little spikes on top and bottom of the fan blades and the other gun/probe/autocannon thing. Then some clear coat and gloss varnish over the eye lens.

Some amazing work here!

So..... many....... FW......... Models......

So many Blight Drones and is that more I spotted in bags to be assembled? This force is gonna be insane when it comes together, wish I had your disposable income. Keep the awesomeness coming

really interested in the tutorial! sub'd

I do have 3 more blight drones to be assembled at a time where I feel like I'll need them or just want to do it. The other stuff would be the other bits to a plauge hulk, which is soon to be on the painting plate. The other bags are bits I'll be using to construct two more daemon princes and will be my first real goes at conversions. Otherwise I spent the majority of my day working on these dudes. Despite the enormity of hours poured in, they still don't look like much. I've quickly decided I hate painting defilers.


A Defiler Flower in full bloom.





I did all the work on the legs first, trying to finish them. But looking at them more I feel they are lacking good highlights, but the shining gold doesn't pop enough, not the silver, on the colors I currently have (base coat of 50:50 tin bitz and shinning gold, then a layer of shining gold with a brown wash. The silver is boltgun/chaos black with a black wash) so I may have to look at all those fancy new paints Citadel has and see if I can't find anything. Then I just finished the gold base coat on the hulls and upper body/autocannons. What do you guys think? What are they missing?

Anyways, once the daemon prince box comes in, today hopefully, I should have everything I need and will probably take break from painting.


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Wooohoo! Conversion time!

Ummmmm, yeah.....






So.......









Where is the conversion? just curious to know your ok, bud.....

Yeah, where are you man?

Hey dudes! I am in fact alright Mxwellmdr, I was in Japan with my brother for a month, then I had to move again to my final new place once I returned as well as started school again so I've been a bit busy of late I suppose. I've done meager work, if any really, while making all the adjustments, however I'll be back at it this week so some progress should be along. In regards to the DPs, they are both rough ideas, I haven't really fleshed them out yet but here are the very beginnings posed with some putty.


This will be a Slaanesh DP, the idea taken from GuitaRasmus as he did an awesome conversion. Mine will be a bit different though. The white parts are some castings of some Keeper of Secrets bits. I don't think I'll use the head and I do like the three pronged claws, however four arms seems too busy to me. I may use a soul grinder claw arm for one side, and do the whip and a smaller claw on the other, I need to check the scale though. I also think I'll scratch the wings. I don't really know.


This guy will be a Tzeench DP. I got some necrosphinx bits to base it off of. The body is the only for sure part now, which will have long robes sculpted out of GS down the pole he's mounted on. I may keep the claw arm on the right side, but I think I want to cut and re-position it. The left I'm not sure of. I can't pick between a staff, the scythe arm, some form of wing arm....again I'm not really sure. Also I dono about the face.

All that aside I think I"m actually a bit chaosed out. It may be due the fact that I have so much I want to work on and so much that needs to be done. So what's my idea of a cure?






........






CRONS!!!!

I've actually always wanted to play these guys and just decided to start some up. This will get the army going. But I'm going to try and be smart about them. Unlike my Chaos, I won't build them all willy-nilly, no, I plan to build a box, paint it, and move on to the next box and only allow myself to play with what is completely finished. We'll see how the strategy pays off. Once they done I hope my Chaos palet will be cleansed and I'll have a taste for them again. Once I get going on the crons I'll start a new blog for that army I suppose. So look for some stuff this weekend, that is if Mobile doesn't drown in Hurricane Isaac....(I doubt it)

Youve returned!!! I quite like the 4 arms myself, and i cant wait to see what you do with the crons.

Glad to see you back. And nice job on the conversion stuff. Paint well, my friend.....

Extraordinary work! Keep it up!

Would you be so kind as to post a link to the new necron forum here?

Wouldn't want to miss it now!

As requested The Crons. Although not much to show on it yet.

Hey man beautiful work. Especially love the titan. I have never used molds / casts. would you be willing to list what products you use for these? The drop pods are excellent too



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NVM man. Looking back thew I found you post about polytek stuffs. thanks! Im off to figure out how to mold stuff now

Thank you for the kind words keltikhoa.

I have a small portion of my Dreadclaw Tut that talk about molds/mold making plus there are some excellent topics on it around here. Just use the search and you'll find some good info, but here is the little bit I talk about at the end of the tutorial.

Hi there, I have a quick question about your rivets you do, how are you making the holes to make the rivets with? I'm sure its something simple my brain just isn't firing on what you are doing to make them...

Nuwisha wrote:
Hi there, I have a quick question about your rivets you do, how are you making the holes to make the rivets with? I'm sure its something simple my brain just isn't firing on what you are doing to make them...

I just use a leather punch for the big ones.

And I use really small styrene tubes for the smaller rivets, if you click the link to the Dreadclaw Tut in my above post there is a little section showing/explaining it.