Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

81 days after I received a box of beautifully cast resin parts from the UK, I present… Forgeworld Reaver Titan 1108 - Saevus Verum!





[

Larger sized and more pictures at 30mm-madness

Also posts about:

Building the legs

Painting the legs

Painting the weapon servitors

Building the Reaver Titan PowerFist

Pining the Reaver Titan shoulders

Magnetizing the Reaver Titan arms/weapons

Cleaning the Reaver Titan Resin

At some point, if there is interest, I'll replicate the 'how to' posts from my blog to dakka dakka for any future Reaver Titan builders out there. I have a few more 'how to's to build (e.g. wiring LEDs into the cockpit) first.

[edited a bunch of times, learning how to post to Dakka Dakka. Mostly getting the images to the ideal size]

Absolute Awesomeness

Stunning, love it in every way

Very cool! Love the smooth colors and clean printing on the banners.

AWESOME!!!!

Glowy eyes! Love it. Clean paintjob too.

The eye's, The EYE's.

Epic.

Stormphoenix wrote:Glowy eyes! Love it. Clean paintjob too.

deejaybainbridge wrote:

The eye's, The EYE's.

Epic.

Yeah, the eyes turned out...interesting. I spent 2 nights shopping for the brightest 3mm red LEDs I could find... and they're almost too bright... hurts to look at them directly... and the whole point of these miniatures is to create something notable to look at.

On the other hand, it's a frikken' Reaver Titan, should hurt a little bit.

Nice.

Holy BALLS that is awesome!

SWEEEEEEET. Crisp paint and awesome glowing eyes.

Excellent work - you have done justice to this awesome model.

Having built one myself, just how awful are those leg armor plates? Took me hours to get right...

Beautiful, great job!

Sweet stuff !

Well worth the 81 days of work to complete it. I always cry a little inside when someone drops the money on one of these and then gives it a poor paintjob. Clearly, that is not the case here. Excellent work all around. Would love to see some shots of it on a battlefield.

Gordy2000 wrote:Excellent work - you have done justice to this awesome model.

Having built one myself, just how awful are those leg armor plates? Took me hours to get right...

Yeah, the armor plate were interesting. Just to figure out which leg plate when where on each leg took time... I used JB-Weld, lots of carefully placed rubber bands and lots of fiddling to attach. I let the supports bond to the plates overnight, was terrified that I'd wake up and something would have shifted. Then a few weeks later when everything was painted had to go through the same overnight 'hope nothing shifts/rubber band' exercise. Fortunately they came out ok!

Moltar wrote:Well worth the 81 days of work to complete it. I always cry a little inside when someone drops the money on one of these and then gives it a poor paintjob. Clearly, that is not the case here. Excellent work all around. Would love to see some shots of it on a battlefield.

So I've been painting Warhammer 40k for over a year now and have yet to play a single game! That's probably some sort of crime. I've played a few games of Warmachine which I really enjoyed... I just have to make time and get my butt down to the LGS and ask someone to show me the ropes.

Most Epic!

Nice work with the glowing eyes

That is.... fantastic.

Very Nice!! I am in the process of lighting a Manta(number 50) just about to order the second set of LEDs for it. I really love the crisp paint job you did!

Well done!! It looks amazing

Although I prefer weathered kits, this factory-new look is great. Kudos on the LED lights!

Thanks all for the feedback. It helps inspire me to take on another project.

warhamster77 wrote:Very Nice!! I am in the process of lighting a Manta(number 50) just about to order the second set of LEDs for it. I really love the crisp paint job you did!

Nice. The Manta looks AMAZING. That's a lot of resin! How are you powering the LEDs? I ended up using a 1xAA 5V Step Up from Sparkfun with appropriate resistors wired in-line to each LED. I had to wire in parallel (so six wires total) and used 24G hookup wire, in retrospect 30G wire-wrap would have been better (less bulky, easier to deal with in the cockpit).

carlomontoya wrote:Although I prefer weathered kits, this factory-new look is great. Kudos on the LED lights!

I agree, weathering really brings out more flavor... but I've yet to be happy with any weathering I've done in the past... once I learn how to weather on other, cheaper/smaller models I might take the plunge and weather this Titan.

I am using cr2032 3v button cell batteries, just drilled four of the holes for running lights last night, each series of ten will have it's own power and switch, with at least four flashing lights(haven't decided what color yet on those). I'm using Military grade 28Awg Kynar wire, it's super thin and can take 36 volts at 5 amps without melting. I'm probably going to end up with about 20' of wire inside, all carefully hidden so the interior will be seen.