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god dang there is always a freak and this is a picture perfect case , that manual molding would have taken AGES!

Yes... yes!

Where are our updates?!?

Surely this beast has been completed, painted and has hit the tables by now, right?

Where is NAVARRO anyway???

Holy crap I need to see pictures of this with paint.

looks amazing, waiting for painted pics

Next update due for next week with pics of the finished thing... THIS EPIC EFFORT IS FINALLY OVER!!!!

Looking forward to it!

Can't wait, one of the most beautiful titans ever done.

This is so great that it burns. I'm eagerly anticipating the finished product. I can only imagine that the updates take so long because of all of the (obvious) loving care taken with the model.

I had to redo one shoulder pad and make a huge base for it... already done that and I'm just cleaning some parts here and there.

And then you're taking a squillion photos for your clamouring fans. And then you're posting it to the chap who's painting it. And then they are painting it to obscenely wonderful standards. And then they are taking a bazillion photos of it finished. And then you both automatically win the Slayer Sword simultaneously in all Games Days around the world, even the one's you don't enter for. And then we all crown you as Gods.

Right? Do I have a second for my motion?

Let's have some of those youtube 360 degree pan-arounds as well, like gamezoneminiatures and forgeworld do.

jabbakahut wrote:Can't wait, The most beautiful titan ever done.

Fixed it for you...

Quick sensible question for you:
From looking at the work you've done, it looks like you've put GS on a surface, flattened it out and then added additional details to that. How do you get the initial 'plate' of GS so smooth and so perfectly following the contours of the model?

Ta.

Lots of time and work I imagine!

The beneath layer of GS was a major pain in the butt to get it right and smooth but I had no choice really because if I didnt make it the intricate details above the flat resin would fall under pressure of normal things like holding the heavy titan.

To make this I spended lots and lots of GS heres a small step by step:

- Huge ball of GS
- get a plastic bag and dipp it in water
- use someting like roll to streetch the ball into a panckake
- now tricky part remove panckake from plastic without damaging it
- remove water from the pcake side you want to stick on titan
- put it on the titan and with a xacto(dipped in water) shape it to the right size and form
- use water and plastic bags and clay shappers and wet fingers in continuous horizontal or vertical movements to make GS shine ( about 100 movements should be a good starting point)
- apply details fast because you dont want it to cure
- let it all cure

so its a balance between time of curing and getting the surface clean.

Thanks for that Navarro. It makes sense. Although, if the 'base layer' cures, surely it's not that much of a problem because the GS on top would still stick to it? I realise I'm probably wrong, but I just can't quite work out why!

It would but you have a much stronger bound with 2 fresh GS surfaces, and on this titan that weights a lot the stronger the better.

OK. Makes sense. I guess if you were doing the same style of thing with a marine shoulder pad, for example, it would be fine.

Thanks for the help.

It's the time to close this blog.
I finished the Eldar Phantom Titan... Took me about 2 years and drained me completly.
This project was so far the biggest challenge to my endurance, almost drived me nuts but its over now and I just hope client likes it.

Tried some diferent concepts, I had in my mind, and kind of worked out the way I planned to. Not overthetop but high detailed, hard balance to get it right in these scales but I think its a positive result.
After all this time I think I'm now a more experienced sculptor and probably would change some parts, yet its time to close this door.

Thank you all that keept giving me energies and motivation to carry on II really apreciated it.
To all I leave the final pics.

do you plan on painting this?
I wouldnt even know where to start..... it is too awesome

Abso-frakkin-lutely gorgous!!
I dont think I need to say more since Ive commented on this thread several times and each time I was blown away by the amount of work and obviously the details you put onto this beast. And it was well worth the effort and time. Amazing work

He has already said that it is being painted by someone else. We can all only hope that we end up with photos of it painted on here....

Navarro, thank you so much for posting all of your hard, excellent work on here. It has been an inspiration to many! Only one question remains.....

What's your next project?

You, sir, are a green-stuff God among men.

Nay, among boys!

Hats off to you!

(And when that masterpiece gets painted, if you can remember, please let us see the final pics of that too!)

Stunning work!
since i cant say anything else then AWESOME!!!! i'll just ask:
where did you get those trees that's on the base?

Fallen Angel, I think they're the warhammer scenery ones that GW makes....

2 years well spent i cannot see him (client) thinking anything other then money well spent ... you are a masters of the green

InyokaMadoda wrote:Fallen Angel, I think they're the warhammer scenery ones that GW makes....

oh crap more expensive junk

Magnificent.

Detail level is insanely good. I can see why you say its drained you.