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When you spend that kind of money for a titan, seeing whats under the hood is the least you should get

New from the Imperium of Man: Warhounds Gone Wild!



Heh... Plus, Alf.... Com on. I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to painting. I painted the screen on a SAG Mek, for cryin out loud! not to mention all the Rhinos Ive built over the years xD

 Ramos Asura wrote:
New from the Imperium of Man: Warhounds Gone Wild!



Heh... Plus, Alf.... Com on. I'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to painting. I painted the screen on a SAG Mek, for cryin out loud! not to mention all the Rhinos Ive built over the years xD

If I had a Titan, I'd probably take years to build and paint it, but I'd probably also use it as a palette cleanser. Like, "Oh man I've just painted 50 Guardsmen, I'm gonna go spend a week on these three panels"

Whalemusic, buy me a titan

I do kinda want to get a twin brother with the flamer and bolter options. And a Reaver. And some Eldar titans of various sizes.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I do kinda want to get a twin brother with the flamer and bolter options. And a Reaver. And some Eldar titans of various sizes.

I want a warhound with plasma arm and bolter... it's never gonna happen though.

Never say never.!

Do it all.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I do kinda want to get a twin brother with the flamer and bolter options. And a Reaver. And some Eldar titans of various sizes.

I want a warhound with plasma arm and bolter... it's never gonna happen though.

The two weapons don't complement each other as well. This titan has 2 guns with 96" range, so it can stand in the back for support. The Bolter is much shorter, so you loose the maximum functionality of the long range gun. At least in theory, I haven't used it yet.

So minor work on the Titan: The carapace is now magnetized!




Most of my time today was spent finalizing the base master:




And molding it...



And crossing my fingers...





And kinda failing, but kinda succeeding.

After removing the mold box, It was then a chore to start removing the master. Unfortunately, it did not survive- it just had to be broken to get to the cast!

The ground detail looks decent, and the results in areas are promising. However a majority of the milliput (the lighter yellow parts) is stuck in the resin. Unfortunately, it means I need to carefully excavate them, whilst preserving the mold's detail. After removing the polymer clay base, I threw this cast into the fridge, where I hope it'll loosen up on the trapped pieces of clay and milliput.

Next time, I need to utilize a different technique, or at the very least use a more aggressive mold release like petroleum jelly. The spray I have helped, but the details got glued to the resin!

Optimally I should have used rubber, then resin, then something else to get a cast I could reuse, but Im all out of the stuff- Plenty of resin, though!

Hopefully this hasnt been a colossal waste of time!
So fingers crossed, everyone :/

You could dunk the resin in something like simple green. Should break the softer stuff down while not hurting the resin.

Thats actually a really good idea. Ill have to pick up some when I go out next.

In the mean time, the freezer made the remaining gunk brittle, so it was easier to remove. Still a lot of trash still in it, but its good enough to try it out in spots!




And the first few prototypes. Bear in mind, Im gonna sharpen details on them as they harden a bit more, and when set Im going to square off the blobs.



I guess not too bad, considering what happened to the cast. I wish I was a better sculptor so I could make a better resin plate!

it looks pretty good to pass off.

So today I get the mail and what should I find there to greet me? A box full of vehicle wrecks!!

So I quickly set to work cutting apart the myriad bits, and have now started the base of the Warhound!





And the legs:




On a related subject, WM and me realized she still needs a name!!
So iffin you guys would have any ideas, shout em out!

And to sweeten the pot (as if you really needed more incentive than to have named one of the Emperor's finest machines), I might just ship the namer a special thank you gift!

IT shall be named Destructicus. For it is wolf.

I nominate Quæ lupus. "She Wolf".

Shakera

I choose Dorothy from the wizard of oz or Toto just because lol

"Genetrix de Omnis Acies" (mother of all battles) or "Gene/Genie" for short...

Since we seem to be going with a feminine theme...

Its interesting to see the feminine theme emerging... the "she" bit really just came from the tradition of referring to things like cars and other big machines by feminine pronouns (itself a carryover of the tradition of calling ships "she").

Neat ideas thus far, guys! Keep em coming! ^^


So I got excited and went and put together her legs, and with a bit of effort and a lot of sticky tack have managed to get a prototype stance.




And a 180 degree view of the stance:

Dunno about all these female names, it is clearly a male...

I swear that was completely on accident... Didn't even realize it till someone on tumblr pointed out its "third leg"

 Ramos Asura wrote:
I swear that was completely on accident... Didn't even realize it till someone on tumblr pointed out its "third leg"

Is my name suggestion really that female?

How about: Acutis Dentem. I like that.

Yours wasn't, but the others were (even if most weren't serious) what does Acutis Dentem mean?

Looks kinda like "Big Teeth", though my latin is only slightly better than my Arabic....

Nice Titan work, Ramos.

Thought-Maybe that Chimera should be a little more squooshed looking, as though the titan is squashing it with its bulk as it puts its weight down.

As far as why you get a Vulcan Mega-Bolter... Screw in game reasons, it looks ridiculously cool. Plus, people will get close enough to you and it's hard to find a better anti-infantry anti light vehicle weapon.

If I had a titan, I would definitely paint the glass gold and move on with my life. I would also just spend the money to get another tooth crowned instead....

Names: Hogwalloper. Chumpslapper

You're welcome for that.

Heyas moonpie! Glad to see you're starting to adapt to your new environment
We'll make a Dakkanaut out of you yet!

I hear ya on the Chimera- Im gonna try to squish it a bit more with some heat. Darn thing is surprisingly sturdy all put together xD
After I get the positions all sorted, Im going to put debris and rock formations around it to emphasize the squished effect. Should work in theory.


Last bit of progress for the night:
Test-fitted the torso to the legs to see how it looked- mostly checking to see if it'd lean too far forward. Seems ok, so tomorrow she should be standing on her own!

this thread needs more of my models in pretty colors

Mainly because all of these pictures of WIP titan is making me want to build one.

Looking at getting one this year... Maybe I should have Ramos paint it in matching colors!

That third leg is clearly a strap-on, of course it's a girl.

Nice to see one of these being put together and good work on the interior Ramos, shame about the flaking issues but hopefully it doesn't happen anywhere that it'll show.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Looking at getting one this year... Maybe I should have Ramos paint it in matching colors!

This legion does have history with the Lamenters. Killing them, mostly, but history none the less.