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**Theophony**

I always liked the sentinels and their concept, but wish they would have expanded the idea more, not sure exactly how, but I think there isn’t room there.

**Briancj**

Theophony wrote:
I always liked the sentinels and their concept, but wish they would have expanded the idea more, not sure exactly how, but I think there isn’t room there.

Well, the biggest flaw is how every other walker in the game mounts multiple weapons, etc. Even back when the "big advantage" of a walker is that it could move and fire two weapons, the best you could do was have the chin mount and an HK missile. Really, they're one of GW's "Models without a Cause".

PS:

Four Ikea DETOLF display cases are on their way to me.

**Theophony**

Let me know how those work out. I’ve been thinking of getting one even though my painting skills suck I’d like to display some things.

Also there are some kits out there to add more shelves just FYI.

**Briancj**

Yup! 6mm U-bolts and acrylic or glass shelves. I can source these myself, so I can even try and 'match the glass', or take glass from one to add shelves to another, and put acrylic into the now-empty, to try and maintain a cohesive appearance.

I'll let you know!

I *CAN* say it is worth having them shipped to you. Each cabinet consists of two packages, one about 45lbs the other 30+lbs. IKEA shipping tops out at $79 (here in the US) so once I went past #2, I was getting free shipping on 'em. FAR better than driving, dealing with crowds, loading 80 lbs of cabinet into your car (for me, over 300 lbs...) driving home, UNloading, and then finding the energy to put them together.

Also, remember: They're GLASS. Tempered, but still GLASS. They can BREAK, if yer stupid*.

--Brian

*IE: Myself, old and absent-minded.

**Briancj**

Let's dance.

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One down...

I can say this would be a LOT easier with two people. However, it can be done by one person, carefully.

The most important thing is to make sure the two side 'ladders' are adjusted evenly, when you screw their end caps on. Otherwise, you get a trapezoidal warp that requires you to rotate the entire cabinet, so you can work on the bottom caps.

Yes, I have a slight warp. No, I'm not going to try to single-handed-ly rotate this cabinet.

One step has you putting a plastic corner protector on the door, while you maneuver it in place. This is smart, because your natural tendency is to put the corner on the floor. But, then you have to remove it and put the magnetic plate in its place. Instead, just mount the latch plate.

Otherwise, the shelves sit tight on their little rubber feet, and do not have enough 'play' to slide to one side or the other and fall. As someone who lived in Los Angeles, I can say that if you use the wall-mounts, this would survive most low to mid range shakes without a problem.

Onto #2...

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And here's a scale reference for you all, so you can see what things look like inside the cabinet.

Adding four more shelves would not interfere greatly with the visibility of the models. However, there is plenty of room for flyer-based models, with other models below.

There's also a ton of room for complex dioramas.

**Syro_**

Man that looks heavy. You did a nice job putting it together, they will be great for viewing your pieces.

**Briancj**

Syro_ wrote:
Man that looks heavy. You did a nice job putting it together, they will be great for viewing your pieces.

Each one is about 70 pounds or so. But they look good, and are easily customize-able AND have holes for putting lighting in, if you so wish.

**Gitsplitta**

Looking good Brian!

**Briancj**

First, a shot of the 3/16th inch cable clamp in place. Four of these provide corners to support a sheet of acrylic or glass. Here's a piece of incorrect thickness/length, for illustration purposes. I have some acrylic on-order.

And now, four little DETOLFs, all in a row!

Pain in the butt to have to do it alone, two people could rip through these in about 30m each.

Note: ZERO trapezoidal warp strength, really, so screwing them to the wall with the supplied L-brackets should really be considered, even if you're not in an earthquake/cat zone.

--B.

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While digging around, found these old things to put into the case. You know, stuff you keep for nostalgia reasons.

**Theophony**

They look great all in a row. I was wondering if you were going to light them up.

**Briancj**

Lighting will be interesting. Unlike the traditional use of DETOLF shelves (china, artwork, etc.),
using them for displaying models and toys means the density is much higher, less light can filter down from the top.

So, I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to add more expense to bring in lighting.

As you can see, the shelves are only about 11"x15", less than an 11"x17" sheet of paper! The space fills up VERY fast.

So, once I add four more shelves to each, internal lighting will be terribly inefficient.

Oh, and Syro_

Have some cardboard jealousy.

**Camkierhi**

I have seen vertical strip LED working beautifully in these. Very envious of the display and the room to house it. I have a wall full but does not seem to hold half of what I would like.

Great work bud they are looking amazing.

**Syro_**

You've succeeded with causing me cardboard jealousy

It looks like you could build another whole group of load bearing shelves out of that cardboard. Speaking of which, the shelves look great all lined up together

**Briancj**

[Music - Bolt Thrower - "Lest We Forget"]

Here's what's on today's workbench:

Happy MLK day, everyone. Fight hard for true equality.

**Camkierhi**

Briancj wrote:

Happy MLK day, everyone. Fight hard for true equality.

Absolutely. And a happy MLK day bud. One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard would be the "I have a dream" speech.

Nice work.

**Briancj**

Thanks, Cam!

So, this is mostly clean-up and repair, as I place things into the display cases. So, here's what I've bashed out, so far in the repair/cleanup queue:

Since I no longer need to transport the Fortress, I have perma-glued the four sections together. For now it, the Ordinatus, and the Ork Terrain contest entry are sitting atop the cases.

Next up is one of the minis from my old kill team/veteran IG squad. This was a squad done up with "Carapace Armor" using someone else's idea of Kroot Bits.
It worked very well! All of my snow infantry bases need to be touched up with fresher snow.

This is one of my very first kitbashes, an engineering chimera/tow truck. One of these days, I should rebuild the bridgelayer chimera that went with it.

Finally, here's the fully-repaired group of my original Menoth miniatures. I really loved the minis of this game, but HATED the ultra-competitive
atmosphere the game company was promoting at the time.

**Camkierhi**

Love the aesthetic of the group in the last pic.

**Briancj**

So, I've been hauling these around since 1988, when I was first introduced to Games Workshop. I really don't know why, but Nostalgia kills.

The Warlord Titan, and the two Eldar Tempests are what was leftover from my Epic-scale forces. The second Titan body came along a few years ago in some bitz.

Let's take them apart, shall we?

Bath time!

A little scan-n-print, and then there were two...

Now, since I do not have the carapace for the second/enough weapons, I'm going to have to do some work on the second one.
I don't have enough curvy-bits to cut up to match the rounded carapace, nor do I feel like hauling out the casting supplies for a one-off.

So I think I will build a 'new Warlord Titan' carapace out of plasticard, and perhaps mimic some weapons as well.

I am also debating just building these directly into a diorama, and not putting the card roundels back in. But, the feet were/are molded into the bases.
So I'd either have to build new feet (relatively easy) or work the round base into the diorama, or skip the idea entirely.

Thoughts on these two plans? What do you think I should do with the second Titan Body, and the base/diorama concept?

--B.

**Gitsplitta**

I loved... LOVED those tempest tanks. Think I have a full-sized resin one lying around somewhere.

**Briancj**

Hey, folks, the FEW of you who are still loyal readers, maybe.

If I may beg a favor, if you see me asking a question, I'd appreciate some feedback.

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As for the future...

I'm arming myself.

--B.

**Theophony**

Sorry, the last week has been a killer, trying to catch up.

Could you use the body of the second titan as a robot in 40K? I’m out of the 40K scene really so no ideas of their proxy use, but who couldn’t use a robot buddy. Otherwise how about building him as alucius pattern titan. Square edges are easier to do and would be able to say that’s the reason he doesn’t look like his pal Fred.

Also on the Detolf shelves, how secure are the doors? We inherited grandmas cat and then got threemore

. I love them, but my few pieces that I think I did well have been shoved off of their perches by these little faux rat chasers. Will the door keep shut from these cat burglars?

**Briancj**

Might be a good use, Theo, thanks!

As for the shelves, the doors are held with magnetic clasps, and the 'handle' on the door is at the top. The gap is about 1/8th of an inch, and as a former slave-to-cats, I can say they're pretty darn cat proof, and stable enough so if they decide to jump up on them, they won't fall over, etc. I would advise, for cats and babies, to use the supplied hardware to secure them to the wall.

--B.

**inmygravenimage**

Wow. That looks very exciting.

**Meer_Cat**

In the long ago days of the beginnings of Warhammer 40,000 (In the far future- there is only war!) I bought a set of those epic scale titans and specifically used them as (if I recall correctly) 28mm scale Castellan dreadnaughts/robots. I may be mistaken on the name of the class- it might be the Deredos I'm thinking of. Anyway, GW didn't make anything at the time, so we used these for 'real' WH40K, rather than 'Terror Comes to Tiny Town' .

The cases look interesting!

**Theophony**

Thanks Brian

, we have a nice cabinet upstairs which my models sneak into rarely just to annoy the wife. The cats have begun perching up there too, so good call.

**Briancj**

Man, getting a good 1:1 scale skull to work on is harder than one might think. Yeah, there's tons in Halloween stores, etc. but they're not very good quality. I may have to go to a medical supply store.

**Theophony**

Briancj wrote:
Man, getting a good 1:1 scale skull to work on is harder than one might think. Yeah, there's tons in Halloween stores, etc. but they're not very good quality. I may have to go to a medical supply store.

I work with a few people who don’t use theirs often, I’ll try and liberate one

.

**Briancj**

Be sure and use gloves.

**Gitsplitta**

I'm still a loyal reader!

**Theophony**

Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm still a loyal reader!

Says Alpharius.......