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Ta very much!

IT LIVES!!!!!! (now if I could stop the lights from melting the plastic and causing smoke to come out of the eyes)

Wait serious? Its melting??
You might have too high of voltage

I am using a filiment light instead of an LED. The plasic of an eye socket is right up against it, and I see smoke coming out of it. Maybe if I let it run in short cycles it will char (is that the right word for plastic?) and no longer smoke?

No, I think you have a problem there dood!

I would try to find an LED or else you're screwed

Sweet man looks good!

yes o.o defintly LED they have a low heat to light conversion [/i](unlike filiment and "engery efficent")[/i], where what would be heat radiation becomes light instead o.o plus there easier on the batteries o.o and if need be coat the outside of the plasic in foil to relfect it back if you cant change them

OK! minor updates-ish. Decided that I wanted to save as much of this awesome defilier as possible, so I tried making a scratch-built turret out of scraps. Loads of greenstuff to paint as flames or something, and I thought clouds of smoke as well when I incorporate it into the base


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Scratch built turret out of scraps? lol

Splat! Looks well and truly crushed! Hard to tell how the green stuff looks until its painted and got a big titan foot on it!

Nice man!Looking good!

this looks great. I have never even given much thought to a project like this. But you have my gears turning.


I would switch to LEDS for sure though.

Subscribed.

Ok, I did a silhouette of Hibernicus’ feet, and tried to place the scenery. Obviously the shaded green is the feet, and the purple is the ‘sploded defilier. The big red blob is the cracked Aquila from the”honoured imperium” set, and the silver blob is the ruined arches from the same. Not sure about putting the Aquila in, because it’s not completely flat on top and I don’t want to hover the foot above the base (meaning I need to modify the Aquila, or take apart the foot, both of which suck). That, and with the Aquila, the base is frickin huge! (nearly 24 by 36 cm, or 9 ½ by 14” for you imperial people) If I get rid of the Aquila, it makes the base smaller, and it will still be pretty rigid considering my plan to use low expansion foam.

Any thoughts?

Sounds good man! Looking forwad to it! Hey how about you check out my blog too? (Link is in signutre).

Yeah, it would look a helluva lot better splatted all over an Imperial titan-sized flyswatter!

I would use it all!

Titans lookin' da nutz!

Glad I found my way back to this thread!

This looks great Aero, subbed...

I know there has been no update in a while, and I am sorry for that. A combination of this being my last term in university, an increasingly demanding social life, and a disastrous failure of my first attempt to build a base for Hibernicus allowed for little to no progress whatsoever. The torso was touched up, the void shields painted, and a lot of weathering done on the shoulders and armor plates. Still have to finish the lower torso, head, and pelvis.
I have discovered that there are two kinds of low expansion foam. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call them the type that does what I want it to do, and the type that doesn’t. The type that does what I want it to do creates a very interesting, hilly terrain that is completely solid, extremely lightweight, and easily sprayable for scenic effects. The type that doesn’t do what I want it to do looks the same, but dries to the texture of cake. Fluffy cake. Spongy cake that could be mistaken for soft ice cream if it was cold.
Heres some photos of that disastrous event. I now (hopefully) have the right type of expansion foam, so I intend on making another attempt this weekend on it.

I'm liking the base Aeroroot, Btw my blog has had an update too!

thanks mxwllmdr, that made my day! I'll check it out HAZ!

Thanks Aero!

Did I ever tell you that I used a lot of your photos as reference for my Scratch build Reaver? Waiting for updates, Aero......

mxwllmdr wrote:Did I ever tell you that I used a lot of your photos as reference for my Scratch build Reaver? Waiting for updates, Aero......

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that my blog has come to use. I tried to take some photos that I didn`t see online when I started building. Even thought of uploading the instructions, except they are copyrighted...

Update (wow, two in under a week!!!)

Got the nice, new, hard base built and base-sprayed! Still have to add brown, flock, sand, and paint the scenery. Also going to mount the battery pack under the aquila I think, to make it discreet (although possibly not easy to access)



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Also, I am thinking of renaming Hibernicus `Pissy-Heavy-Arsed McWobbly` since it it rear heavy, and one of the knee joints is bothering me. Having magnets in the base attaching it to the base solves a lof of the problem, but still.

Looking great there. What detail work is there left to do?

I have torso detail (small skulls and such), along with the main display panel inside the head. Also have some coolant pipes to the legs left to add, and possibly some motifs.

Very nice, dude. Why isn't she lit up standing there?

The wiring isn't done yet unfortunately, The lights are in, as is the head wiring, but I still need to run the wires through the torso into the legs and the base. I only have one set of connectors left, so I need to go get another set at the local model train shop.