Ever since I was tall enough to look over a warhammer table and understand what was happening I've seen cool models. Some were small and they were cool but I mostly looked at a friend's dominantly forge world tank army with envy. Sadly at the time, pocket money didnt really allow me to collect as much as I wanted.
Over time I've built and painted a lot of guard with some bombards, russes, vendettas etc. Most recently though I had the opportunity to get a Warhound titan while I was in England. I did this without hesitation because it's chance for a dream to come true.
Inspired by Dan Abnett's Titanicus and Hellsreach I wanted to give the titan a dynamic pose, Warhounds sprint, they're no slouch. Sadly gravity prevents me from doing my dream pose so I aimed to make the titan in full stride. Naturally this starts with the legs.
It starts with finding where to put the feet so the hips line up. Then I had to find the distance for the hips, pinning the legs with jumbo paperclips here was much nicer than the yellow tack. 5 Minute Epoxy will save your bacon if you get to do this, it will allow you to pose the model one last time before it bonds. Superglue is the reason the toes are a little off, this was a lesson learned the hard way, it bonds too fast to pose and is too brittle, hence the missing toe here.
Next up the torso. The torso is 6 major parts, the rear subsection is 3 large and heavy pieces and requires some major pinning. I measured a lot and managed to draw a nice grid in pencil to line up the pins and used jumbo paperclips about 8mm either way into both sides. Eventually it looks like this:
Me and my helper had a little chat, he's the guy who will paint this at a level beyond what I can do. He decided that he can paint it with the front and rear torso sections together as long as the door for the middle is not in. This is awesome because it let me get a lot closer to completion in the same day.
The front of the torso contains a crew elevator for the doors and the gun servitors which hold up the guns, again epoxy is king it's strength makes it the go to tool for this kinda work. I added a pin there too just to be sure. The crew elevator is a tough fit, later I trimmed it down to fit better.
After a little Youtube time for the epoxy to set firm I added some pins to both sides of the torso and as two became one. While the glue was drying I also added some 5mm rod to the weapon connectors, this allows me to bolt them in to the premade hole in the gun servitor sections (thanks for the idea worthypainting!).
Finally I was thinking about how to get the torso to stay on the hips without rotation, a disc magnet would have been convenient but it also allows free rotation. I need this to be storable just in case, I have some 4 inch pluckfoam for this. After a little thinking I came up with this:
Emperor bless jumbo paperclips! I will make caps for these somehow so they are hidden and removable. The results made me very happy.
I'll update this after I've added the pistons and other detail pieces and probably during painting (though that will be someone elses handywork)
