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Was curious as to whether anyone had any good titan substitutions, especially for loyalist Imperial forces. I found this amazing do-dad:



The Leviathan is scaled for for a warlord class (although it looks like an imperator)

I also stumbled across the models from http://dustgame.com from the dakka forums, in particular this model:



It's only 40 bucks, plus shipping, but before you get too excited, I roughly estimate that the whole thing is between 6.5 and 8 inches tall. It seems to be about a proper SM dread size, but would need a lot of "bulking out" to become the Titan it almost is.

Any other suggestions? I'm not a cheap-arse, I have thousands of dollars of Bretonnians and Space Marines, nevermind my other gaming hobbies, but it's always rankled me about the prices Forgeworld charges. While ordinarily a purist at heart (I'm the guy that has to have at least one of EVERYTHING they make for his army) I feel that it's price gouging at it's worst and in this rare case, would rather scratch build my own, or use a substitute.

Go to Wal-mart and buy one of those 15" tall transformer toys.

Not only is it already painted, but it only costs $20, it won't break when you drop it, and it talks too.

Dashofpepper wrote:Not only is it already painted, but it only costs $20, it won't break when you drop it, and it talks too.

Does its voice praise the Emperor, or is it full of heretical words?

it says
"I am a super fighter"
"pew pew pew, kaboom"

I'm sure that you could upgrade the $20 version to the $40 version which is remote-controlled, has actual nerf missiles, and has the little three second message recorder thing so that you can have it say "I come to destroy you" or "Thought begets heresy" or something in it.

Not only would it still be 1/10 the cost of a Titan, but it would already be assembled, would be more durable, already painted, be freaking remote controlled, and has NERF MISSILES.

Sorry, sometimes I'm in awe of GW's pricing.

For $40, it's almost worth buying one, ripping out the voicebox, and using it to have a Land Raider scream, "Praise Russ! Awooooo!", not to mention the huge pile of leftover parts that could become something Orky.

less Q_Q and more pew pew.

try some of the battletech stuff



makes a good knight titan



Ed 209 works too

My friend tried to substitute spraypainted cereal boxes...

...No.

ED 209 is so a base for my new Revenant.
There's some really big mech tanks for a Wierd War Two game (that isn't DUST) out there, can't remember who does them though...

Generally speaking, I'd go out and buy a really decent robot toy. There's a ton of them; even Gundam model kits would work, provided you put in enough affort to stop it looking so japanesey.

I'm my gaming group's Emperor Titan substitute. Talk about true-scale...

I even make sound effects and can inflict real battle damage!

Good call on the ED 209. I see there's a 1/6 scale as well, which should put it around 14 inches, but it looks like the 1/6 version is around 200$. The 1/12 appears to be going for about 20$ plus shipping; not bad at all. Which size did you end up going with?