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Thanks theCrowe And your concerns may be well founded. I'm just following the directions, we'll find out together if it works or not. If it doesn't work I'll start trying to jury-rig it into working. I was surprised that this papercraft doesn't have any tabs for attachment, so I have been making tabs as I go.

I have been adding pistons (but ran out of styrene tubes)


While I wait for my order of more styrene tubes to arrive, I continued building.

Go for it. Looking great so far. There is a great deal of interpretation needed in these designs, from memory. I referenced pics alot and altered applicably. Your off to a great start.

Wow, that's a really great start!

Rock on, Syro! Consid4ring how full life is for you just now, it gives me some grit to keep at my little projects even more. It's one thing to have an established color scheme on familiar figures and mechanically crank things out by rote; it's another thing entirely to creatively design something from the immaterial goo (in your case, glue stick) like the giant or actively interpret the instructions for the War Hound- takes brain power.

Your progress in all the variety of your imaginative projects is impressive- keep having fun!

@Camkierhi: Thanks Cam! I remember you made a cool Warhound for someone as a gift before (Was it Sir Donald?) Were you following any plans like this, or just picture references?
@Slinky: Thanks! No way it will look as good as the warhound you just finished painting, but hopefully it turn out well.
@Meer_Cat: Thanks so much Meer_Cat but don't sell yourself short. I remember lots of amazing scratch builds on your blog, and everyone is enjoying the great job you are doing on the pixies

The styrene tubes should arrive in a few days, and with the long weekend over I won't be able to work as much on this. It feels good getting some hobby time in, it feels like it's been forever. I've worked some more on the legs:

Not everything has arrived yet, but I thought I would share my holiday hobby haul.


48 new fantasy miniatures.

A new ancient historic wargame.

And perhaps most exciting (since my unfinished Warhound titan isn't enough) my brother has been printing me a Reaver titan.

Wow! Double Titan build! That’s some serious hobby-load going into the new year. What skin-tone will you be painting them both?

Those monsters look interesting too. What are they?

Thanks theCrowe, a double titan build is a lot of work to take on. Me being ridiculous, I am actually trying to build three titans currently. I'm making a second warhound out of foam. I was feeling irritated about how long it was taking to make quite basic geometric shapes the paper craft way, so I wanted to see how easy/difficult it would be to craft mostly from XPS foam. I haven't decided on the titan paint job yet, but maybe I should try to have it from the forge world that I made up?


As for the monsters, they are Wildspire miniatures. This set:
https://wild-spire.com/products/monsters-of-solan-set-of-68

I just finished a Dark Angels space marine tactical squad today that I have been slowly painting for over a month during little snatches of free time.


I also finished this custom miniature for one of my D&D players a few weeks ago:


I have been trying to rush out some D&D minis for a new adventure, this is a quick giant electric eel (I have another mini at school that I can't photograph):

Progress on the warhound legs. I'm worried I will have to order styrene tubes again before this project is over.


I also forgot to post earlier, but my freind's Joseph broke in her Nativity Scene, so as a gift I am scuplting her a new Joseph. Everything but the face is sculpted.

So many projects on the go!

Good luck with the titans build - legs looking good so far. I'm making note to buy shares in styrene tubes in 2024...

Love the D&D work - we finally got to play a one shot after about a 9 month break from our Curse of Strahd campaign due to real life stuff. I like making minis for my players too - nice halfling (?) - and is that eel from a kit somewhere or did you make it out of hotglue/something similar?

Some sound sculpting on display with Joseph too - check out those hands!

Great stuff Syro.

Thanks tzurk
Awesome to hear that you were able to get back to playing. And yes, the sculpt is a halfling, an extra small halfling. And as for the eel, yes it was a quick and dirty hot glue creation.

A little more progress on the warhound, but that I have to make up the tabs for every piece slows things down a little. These will be the waist sections.

Jiminey, Syro- everything looks great and all kinds of talent showing up! The detail on the Warhound legs is amazing. I've always liked the idea of playing with different diameter tubes to make hydraulic or pneumatic actions on things, but never to this degree!

Wondering if you can't embed an LED and battery (or conceal the battery in a 'water weeds' stand for the figure) to make the eel light up? I may have to play with my hot glue gun!

rock on!

Go for it with playing with your hot glue gun But don't tempt me with that cool idea about lighting the electric eel, you can see how I over complicte things with my titan project And thank you.

I think the few new pieces really tie the warhound legs together


I'm also continuing to make pieces for the foam warhound titan. No that the card warhound's legs are done, I have a better idea of how to put together the foam warhound for a more dynamic pose

That's very exciting. I admire your ambition with this cardboard beast!

Thanks Graven!

I realize that I should share something hobby adjacent that I completed this year. I finished collecting the entirety of the Horus Heresy novel series.


I've injured my back, so I can't set up all my minis for an end of the year hobby retrospective yet, so I will just talk about it.

I sculpted a total of 54 miniatures this year (30 less than my record last year). Some highlights are Heracles, the prisoners from the D&D adventure "Out of the Abyss", and attempting to make my own custom made Leviathan box set.



I painted a total of 230 miniatures this year (23 more than any previous year).
Highlights include a homemade Ultramarines terminator captain, a member of each first founding space marine chapter, the big squiggoth from the first page of my blog, Mamon the daemon prince (also from the first page of my blog), a fire snake made from hot glue, and lots of tiny American revolution soldiers.


The highlight of terrain is that I went back and finished making Tresendar Manor from the D&D starter set.

Happy new year! Amazing work on the titans, and congrats on an awesome total for 2023!

Thanks Slinky!

" I finished collecting the entirety of the Horus Heresy novel series. "

Oh, you poor, poor man. You'll go blind!

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
" I finished collecting the entirety of the Horus Heresy novel series. "

Oh, you poor, poor man. You'll go blind!

Blind and broke
I finished 5 Horus Novels last year plus 9 other Warhammer books in 2023. Already finished two more HH novels this year because of my back injury.

I made this for a D&D game in late December, but left it at school, so didn't get to photograph it until today.

That's a huge output for the year mate, well done.

I actually saw a Horus Heresy book in real life for the first time the other day when I took the kids to the library. I did a bit of googling and got stuck in a rabbit hole before I'd ever read a single word of the series so good luck to you!

Sweet lobster boi too!

Thanks tzurk!

That giant shrimp (?) is an amazing scratchbuild, nicely done!

Thanks Slinky! I like how it turned out, especially since it was surprisingly fast to make.

Here are the first 7 painted minis of 2024. 6 more chaos gnomes and a giant electric eel.


I have also been working on making my last seven plague marines to use up the last of the bits from the kit.


I took out all of my painted (or mostly painted) space marines, and by 6th/7th edition rules my total painted force is 2201 points (though many aren't legal to play)

Using the entire Horus Heresy as a backdrop for your marines is so meta.

Nice work on the sculpting as always. Was eyeing up your Tresendar Manor too. Looks like a great table for skirmish gaming on too. Hope it stores away well.

How’s your back?

Thanks theCrowe, I thought it made a fun background
Luckily, Tresendar Manor packs up decently well, except the central chasm piece. I have a plastic bin that I hope to be able to fit everything for the entire starter set play through. I'm not sure if it will work. I will probably have to design something different for tree storage.

And thanks for your concern about my back. It's much better than it was, since I was basically bed-ridden for a while. My chiropractor says he's impressed with how fast my improvement is, but it's much slower than I would like. I miss being able to lift and carry things, and being able to exercise.

Small update. I've started slowly piecing together the second titan's foot. This titan is my attempt to see if I can improve on the paper craft titan build in speed and looks.

A little progress on the foam foot

Lecky eel took the paint really well!

Foam foot lookin good. Are you finding it faster than playing around with cardboard?

Thanks tzurk Making the shapes for the foam titan is definitely much faster, but unfortunately it's having plenty of it's own unique challenges.

 theCrowe wrote:
Using the entire Horus Heresy as a backdrop for your marines is so meta.

I'm realizing it will be hard to have the group photos of everything I made/painted in 2023 with many of them at school. Here is my entire painted ork force at the end of 2023, with appropriate backdrop . By 7th edition rules it is 1319 points.