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First Off, that is unbelievabley freakin cool.

Secondly, thank you for sharing the inner workings in detail.

Third, do you know off the top of your head about how much those Tamayi gearbox kits cost, and where I can get some ?

Motors are easy to get, but the gears are tougher.

Adamsouza - Thanks, my dad's been keeping tabs on this thread and he's been enjoying all the inspirational comments.
The Tamiya gear box is $8.75 it is part number TAM70103.
Most well stocked hobby stores have them (or can order them). I got mine from Hobby Town USA.

No Problem at all. All praise in this thread is warrented.

Thank you for the information about the gear box. There isn't a decent hobby shop within an hours drive of hear, but I'm sure I can track one down online, now that I have the part number.

That new gun was a brilliant idea. Every time I think your titan has reached a pinnacle of modeling quality it surpasses it. I really cant wait to see a finished warhound now

Ahhhahahaha great video, I was hoping that was where the gun was going! Props to your dad, that's some very cool dakka

- Salvage

This just keeps getting more and more awesome. I'm envious of your skills, I wants me a titan!

...

Well, Gargant, but it's all good.

adamsouza - I hope the motor will work on your warlord, motorized guns just add a deffinate "WOW" factor to an already sweet model.

legoburner - Thanks, I've got to finish the 2 turbo-lasers, build another turbo laser, and build 1 more "special" gun. I'm thinking an inferno cannon w/ working smoke, but finding cheap smoke makers is proving difficult. I've also got a bunch of left over swappable GI Joe guns from another project I wonder how a modular light up gun would look.

Boss_Salvage - I'm glad you liked it. It'll be really cool, when they're all finished, to have 1 titan with both moving guns blasting away.

Vandez - Gargants are just begging for some cool motors and stuff. With all that extra area inside the gut you could put tons of neat details into it!

Well my dad's been working on the gun some more.


The inside of the cover


More interior pics:



Attaching the cover:



The battery cover removed:


Cover


Attaching the cover:


The bottom:



The side:



The top:


The front:




Attached to the body:




And all of the guns so far (minus the 2 WIP turbo lasers)

That shot of the guns next to each other may be the coolest thing that I have ever seen in a 40K modeling forum.

Yours are going to be the ubertitans. Brilliant work.

On a tangential note, have you got names for these labors of love yet?

This is quite probably the coolest and most inspirational modeling forums post i have ever witnessed!

My god!

Whats the price on one of thouses thing lol - seriously what is it costing you to build it and how much do you think your gonna spend, i proly aint the only one to buy one if you go into bussness makeing and selling these, i know you carnt becuase you dont want games work shop legal team after you but still if i could i would buy one!

This is the best moderling / conversion, or anything 40k realted i have seen yet! i gonna keep an eye on any more scatch bulds you do they be ace even if you buld them blind folded!

congradulation on this already monumentous achevment

Tharamanthar

This truly is awesome. I'll be following along on your progress.

"Oi! Doz oomies kan sure buildz da biggest Dakkas! Dat gonna makes 'em all da betta fer da lootin! "


Absolutely amazing! What a great display of craftsmanship here. Thank you for sharing such an in-depth progress of this soon to be masterpiece.

Waaaaaghh!!!


That thing is screaming for fiber optic lights!!!!


Great Job on those guns!

Savnock - Thanks! I haven't thought up names for them though. I rreally wait till they're done to name them.

Divine_Tyranny - Thanks!

Tharamanthar - They're not for sale. I've got a couple of hundred dollars in resin so far, as well as about $60 in plastistruct, $12 in motors, most of the plex is scraps from the warlord, and the bits are all left over from my armies so not to much. The resin is being used for other stuff as well so this isn't its only use.

HungryTaz - Thanks!

War Grot - Thanks, I'm glad you like the thread!

Grot 6 - Thanks! I think the cockpit will have some small lights but doing 4 sets of fiber optics will be a bit much
There will be plenty of other lights on these beasties.

I knwo their not for sale and i can understand why, i was just saying if they was not this complecation stopping you froms selling them you could make a lot of moeny from them, i can only imagen what models you will be showing us in the future, i sense some possible awards as well if you stick to modeling and conversions

geez, i wish I had this type of fabricating power at my place.

selling the pieces obviously violates the copyright, but what about selling the molds, or comissioning someone to make a mold for you?

Even if he was willing to sell his molds, which I trust he isn't, he's scratch built 75% of the model and only cast a small percentage of it.

The joints and armor details are nice, but they don't make a titan by themselves.

obviously, but i was wondering on a larger scale, not just with the warhound, although he has done alot of work, im sure that there might be people who would want molds done up like his, and dont have 300 dollars to spend on equipment.

About the only thing I could possibly sell was a mold of the magnet holders or the stuff I hand carved based on GWs stuff.
The biggest problem is I'd run into the same thing Dreamforge did.
Its basically a replacement for something GW offers, and/or based on their IP, and they'd shut me down when I listed the first one for sale.
In the case of dreamforge they didn't even make enough to satisfy all their pre-orders.
So although I'd love to see a world filled with warhounds and make a little $ myself its not worth the hassle.
You can how ever make your own based on the plans.

You have really out done yourself, wow.

tylermenz wrote:obviously, but i was wondering on a larger scale, not just with the warhound, although he has done alot of work, im sure that there might be people who would want molds done up like his, and dont have 300 dollars to spend on equipment.

I've done alot of casting myself. Molds for something 28mm usually cost $20-$50. Something Titan scale, especially custom, would likely cost $300+ to have made for you.

Not only is the mold material expensive, it's alot of skilled labor involved.

Just so you understand what I'm saying, it costs MORE to make a good mold than it does to buy the original model.

what is that giant double cannon in the middle?

let me rephrase that: i don't care how it's called, but what does it do?

Yeah, so give us a recap...I get that first and fourth ones are pom-pom guns like the on the Millennium Falcon. And I imagine the vulcan gun rotates. Do the other two light up?

Death by Monkeys - The one with the clear barrels lights up (there's even a video a couple of pages back), and the other is the turbo laser destructor.

Anung - It doesn't have any cool things because I'm building 4 of them (1 for each titan) and they needed to be reproduced quickly.

adam - You're very right, and all of my molds so far have been 1 part (1 side is flat) which makes them less labor intensive but doesn't make them that much cheaper.
I show off my molds and people go "Well why don't you just cast up a space marine army." Its not that simple I try to stick to single part molds because they last ALOT longer than 2 parts, and often times the resin ends up being more expensive than GWs high prices.

you should have sound somewhere on that thing. for the vulcan bolter and such.

In the video clips you can hear that the Vulcan Megabolter makes a satisfying WWWhhhhhhrrrrr

That alone convinced me I need to make one

Drill a hole behind one of the barrell paths and stick a thin strip of plasticard or cardstock through there and you can get that ratatatatata noise going if there's enough clearence between the barrells and the arm

I'm loving this thread.

It's the first place on Dakka that I check for progress.

Keep it up m8. Awsome work and I mean it in the true sense of the word.

I just hope your going to show us your babies all painted up. A family photo before one goes would be just too much.