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Well I have been wanting some titans in my army for a long time so I decided scratch-building one would be the easiest way to go. So I (over-ambitiously) tried my hands at using the templates from " http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/206339.page " however due to rl and at that point me having little patience and it being almost a year back now I stopped after doing the head, shin and interior body part. Another reason I stopped was because I thought that card may well not be strong enough and did not want to assemble it all only to have it to collapse a few minutes later. So this brings me neatly to my position here. I guess that if I don't say this someone else will I know it was stupid to try to take on a warlord with no previous scratch build experience. Anyway my question is where should I start? How should I work my way up. I have some templates from " http://www.goldenboltersociety.com/paperhammer40k " I collect space wolves and have done for several years. So as you can probably guess my interest is directed towards super-heavies. So any ideas where I should start and what materials I should use?

Where should you start? Anywhere you feel comfortable with. A Warlord is a big project but if you want to build one, just give it a try. One of my first scratch built projects was a Warlord http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253829.page The trick is just getting some good plasticard instead of paper or cardboard. Most good hobby stores should have a supply. To cut it I use a pair of heavy duty scissors or a hobby knife. Just get some materials together and dive right in.

Wow nice titan. One of my biggest problems is sourcing materials as I am yet to find a shop that sells plasticard or foamcore near me. I live between Northampton (location of my closest GW) and Rugby. they are by far the easiest places for me to go to but I haven't found materials there except card. and that's the thing I tried the warlord but I didn't feel comfortable with the number of folds I had to do it was a nightmare to make one shin. took me a over an hour to get it cut properly and much longer to get it to glue.

The stuff they make real-estate signs out of is meant to be good - not advocating you steal a for sale sign, but you might be able to get hold of some?

ok, if you want to start easy, start using plasticard to make terrain. Buildings are a lot easier than tanks and titans.

2ndly try looking for HIPS (High-impact PolyStyrene) in your area. I googled it and Atlanta and found a wholesaler within a 20 min drive and got a 4"x8" sheet for about $30 US.

My problem with plasticard is that I can't find it in my local area. I will try asking in GW tomorrow as I am going to have a day of battles but I don't know of anywhere currently. On another more positive not if by HIPS you mean that high density blue or pink polystyrene I can get that fairly easily (in stupidly massive blocks annoyingly) from a hardware store fairly near. I guess I could try carving out some bunkers from whatever materials I can get my hands on. Also I think that if I do get round to giving a warlord a shot I'd try using that high impact stuff for the skeleton if it is what I think it is.

Start with a warhound if you are making titans.

Feet first and work up.

Don't rush it (it will be a long job!)

Measure twice cut once.

Sharp blades are better than blunt as they need less pressure.

cool thanks for the advice so fire. I had a day of gaming today only got 2 games in though :( but both 1000pts I was using my wolves. 1st battle 500pts nids + 500pts eldar I slaughered them. 5 dead squads and none of mine dead ( had 4 men left from my 15 bloodclaws ) second I lost. curse you chaos. anyway I asked one of the people in the store who used to go there a lot and now works there if he knew anywhere that sold plasticard and he said there was a place just up the street so I will try and find that probably next weekend. thanks for the advice so far everyone. I will also have to find my knives. what should I use to glue plasticard by the way?

As a substitute for plasticard, I know Stump uses "For Sale" signs. Here's a few of his creations made from these:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/237624.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/244914.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/274218.page

Although it does look like he ended up needing some "genuine" plasticard for rods and such... see this link:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/276448.page

Hope this helps! I was really impressed how he just went for it and started creating stuff with no experience. Apparently the material in those signs is the same / basically the same as plasticard, and cheap

Thanks RiTides but I think I have sourced some plasticard now. my next job is to find out what to use to glue it and to find my knives which ave disappeared since the house move

Thanks you everyone for the help, I have started work on scratch building a warhound and figured that I should link it from this thread. Thanks again for all the help everyone I realy appreciate it

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/290477.page