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any more updates?

Lucie is pretty much complete and while I do want to build a full compliment of weapons and a stand for her I've just grown tired of the project. My son is home from college soon and perhaps he can renew my flagging interest. My new project is a THunderhawk which should prove to be fun especially since I have found some great 3D art to help me in my detailing.

Check it out:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/372703.page#2884176

I suppose it's alright to resurrect my own thread. I have also bitten the bullet, took out a second mortgage on my humble abode, genuflected('can't believe I spelled that right!), and purchased a bona fide and certified Chaos Warhound from the manufacturer (i.e. FW) to complement the neglected Lucie; with the promise to be arriving in 10 14 days. I'll be comparing Lucie to my own FW Warhound to see where I went wrong and I'll be using this production model to create a scrtachbuilt Mars pattern vehicle based on Lucie but not articulated. Too much work.

It's noteworthy that there are only two weapons options offered with the Chaos Warhound. Were there ever any more or do I have to purchase Mars pattern weapons and Nurgle them up for Lilith?

Sweet, should be fun to watch!

Nah, they only chaosed up the vulcan and plasma blastgun im afraid.

Yeah I know I haven't posted in over three years on this thread but I am thinking of resurrecting Lucie as a diorama display model and making a base for her so I thought I would start with some strange images I found on ebay:



Now this is purported to be a FW Warhound Titan but either the perspective is wrong or the camera angle is distorted but this is the strangest looking FW Warhound I have ever seen!

Your proportions a are perfect but the body is sitting too far back on the legs. It looks unnatural and like it would topple over at any minute. I've built two forgeworld warhounds and know a thing or two about the construction, everything else looks great though.

BrotherVord wrote:
Your proportions a are perfect but the body is sitting too far back on the legs. It looks unnatural and like it would topple over at any minute. I've built two forgeworld warhounds and know a thing or two about the construction, everything else looks great though.

I don't think that's his titan. He said he found it on ebay.

Right you are it isn't my Warhound.

I think the problem is the legs are posed fully extended which gives a stilted look to the model.

Actually I have been accustom to my model for so long that a FW model looks anemic and strange to me my Lucie being so much more robust.


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Irons in the Fire

Granted I have 'way too many irons in the fires what with the Warlord, T'hawk, refurbishing my Superheavy Armour and now a display stand for Lucie but a full plate keeps you young to mix my metaphors.

The basic display stand for Lucie and the forward cowl for Luteus basic primed

http://i.imgur.com/i2Q7DMl.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/snEfMnu.jpg


What's with all the L's Blackadder?

A Warlord break

Man I need a break the Warlord is wearing me out so this weekend I started the terrain of the Wahound base.

Naturally I'm doing things backasswards first I glued cork to the wood display base and now I have covered it with clay. This clay is "Sculpy" low temp fired clay that hardens in the oven at 275°F/130°C for 15 minutes.........any combustibles (Here's a thought, why isn't there metric time?)

Anyway I temporarily place some distorted Russ turrets and a Ryza barrel for effect just to stimulate some idea neurons because I want a scarred battlefield scenario. Perhaps a skeleton slumping out of the hatch. This is my first attempt at making a base for a model so I need some ideas.

Naturally there will be Warhound footprints and some small craters, weeds, rocks, and debris.

You hafta wonder how much heat it would take to melt a cannon barrel and warp a turret?

http://i.imgur.com/d2NXbNd.jpg

The terrain still need more moulding

http://i.imgur.com/iz5vUBB.jpg

There are too many wrecks, I know

http://i.imgur.com/X3G6OQ9.jpg

A closeup of the Ryza turret

Not sure if you seen these blogs before, but for basing inspiration they are well worth checking out:

GMM Studios: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/484325.page

Winterdyne: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/456441.page

How do you get so much time for this amount of work, as usual sir, nice job,
don't stray from the Warlord to much, we've been waiting a while to see her finished




Sam

The Rehabilitation Of Lucie:

Lucie has had numerous minor injuries over the years and since I was asked for a few reference pictures compared to the new Reaver I decided it would serve to show it along side of Lucie.

Well the poor dear couldn't even stand when I took her down from the shelf.

http://i.imgur.com/WjGW3By.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/pjE5zjQ.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/jUMi6EZ.jpg



After a few hasty photos I set about disassembling the legs and waist.

http://i.imgur.com/7jm5bnT.jpg



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While I am repairing the waist it would be a good time to remove the velcro fasteners and install rare earth magnets in their stead.

http://i.imgur.com/M1VMrcSl.jpg


I enclose the magnet discs in capped styrene tubes to make them easily glued in place. I find the 0,25 MM thick cover does not interfere with the magnetic attraction very much at all and the magnets have less tendency to come loose than if just glued on with Super-glue.

http://i.imgur.com/Q6ekSdsl.jpg

De-lurking as a long time fan to slay your auto-append dragon Mr. Blackadder. I have always enjoyed all your blogs.

Keep up the good work of inspiring greatness in us all

Thanks, that helps to keep my frustration factor at a manageable level.............


Magnet Capsule:

I find these new rare earth magnets invaluable for making detachable components so that weapons, appendages, heads, what-have-you make your pieces more versatile on the battleboard.

A few simple steps to make a magnet capsule

Below are the four components indicated by the red arrows needed to make a glue on magnetic capsule

Cut two squares from some scrap sheet styrene and cut a ring from an appropriate sized tubing.

http://i.imgur.com/OVPcW82.jpg


I use 0,25 MM styrene for the cover where the magnet will face the metal or other magnet and whatever thickness is needed for the back cover so that the two magnetic surfaces are just in contact.

Stack the four components and glue.

http://i.imgur.com/LHmJZ4k.jpg


Trim or file away the excess if necessary.

In the image below note the magnet capsules installed the red arrows indicating the large magnets just made and the green arrows much smaller magnet capsules used for very small fastenings and as in this case to maintain proper alignment of a larger object.

http://i.imgur.com/SUTtQP7.jpg

yet again ou raise the bar (easier when it's magnetically attached), I usually just flu the magnets on and then try and paint over it. I never thought about making pockets for the magnets . I guess it helps to ensure which polarity is correct too as I always mess that up or glue my fingers when I attempt it because my mark always comes off the magnet.

Thanks for the input, it's hard to know how much of this construction needs to be elaborated on because what is obvious to some isn't others. Glad to see someone is benefiting for these mini tutorials.

Reworking the toe and ankle joints:

I haven't had the toes and ankles apart since I finished up this model about four years ago but I did accomplish an emergency repair a few years back so the ankle ball and socket were frozen locked in the full back position.

This gave Lucie a settled back on her haunches look.

While I have the ankle apart I'd better check the security of the piston rod ends that flex when the ankle shifts front to back and allows the foot to twist in its socket.

http://i.imgur.com/v12gpc3.jpg


That feature has not be available for quite some time due to the inoperability of the socket joint and gave Lucie a pigeon toed appearance in her recent photos.

The leg assembly at the rear left of the photo below has the center toe unable to flex up and if memory serves that is the toe that broke off a few years ago. That toe will have to be reworked as well.

http://i.imgur.com/FTT1HtN.jpg


Everything is functional on the right foot now so it is ready to be reassembled with my little guy looking on for scale.

http://i.imgur.com/68cNULL.jpg


You lose perspective on how big these feet are until you see them off the leg and along side a scale human figure.


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Left Foot Repair:

Reviving this thread serves two purposes other than demonstrating the rehabilitation of Lucie.

Theres a lot of new forums I post on now that have not seen how Lucie was assembled originally and while I constantly refer to the model there are no visible representations of how she works.

There are also I'm sorry to say picture empty posts where the image storage website has gone belly up and all the images are gone.

Anyway here's how Lucie's toes are attached and now that I have the toe off I cannot see why it won't flex.......?

Everything seems okay.

http://i.imgur.com/CvrFk6z.jpg


While I have the leg disassembled its a good time to show the flexibility of the ankle I mentioned in the above post.

Lucie has fully functional spherical ankle joints just as in the real Warhound the FW model is taken from. Later I'll explain in depth how the cylinder and piston rod ends are produced if anyone is interested.

The red arrow points to the ankle flexed......

http://i.imgur.com/V5dOzqn.jpg


and extended...........
http://i.imgur.com/L1G9RCZ.jpg




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I do have another update............... drums fingers expectantly ................

This is a informative as watching it get built the 1st go around.

I am always interested in the engineering you do sir

What a great blog! I am just painting my FW Warhound at the moment and to be fair I started on the last page at first and didn't realise it was scratch built. Really great work! Do you think it was cheaper to scratch build than buying a FW one? A lovely paint job too by the way, I love the griffon on the leg.

I'll tell you how I did the griffon.

I googled Wargriffon in images and came up with the griffon in question.

Using the photo shop to scale the image down to the size I wanted and used the same program to reverse the image because I felt facing left looked better aesthetically.

I then printed the image on standard printer paper and spray painted the paper with clear satin varnish.

I then cut out the image with a new exacto blade and glued it to the greave.

Finally I touched up the flight feathers with acrylic paint.

I'll see if I can find the image for you.

BTW what legion are you adopting?


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Arrggghhh!!! There's that d****d auto-append again#@#$%^&*%@!

 Kandle wrote:
This is a informative as watching it get built the 1st go around.

I am always interested in the engineering you do sir

Thanks, I have a lot more time to go into the details of the construction now that the model is completed whereas before I was learning myself how to scratchbuild and just posting a progress report.

Great way to get it right, I have heard similar techniques, I think Gitsplitta does something similar with his Mantis Warriors. I will have to pop over and check your other blogs out.


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Oh I am doing Warp Runners, you can pick up my work here;

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/420/328895.page

Thanks for the reply Reaper, now I can post the update from yesterday................

Toe Pistons and Cylinders and Blackadder's Shame:

Each toe has three actuators; two at the base that extends and flexes the intermediate phalanges (Red arrows) and one actuator (Yellow arrows)that extends and flexes the distal phalanges (Blue arrows).

http://i.imgur.com/rpKDWDr.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/kMPSDmX.jpg


Now for the part I am ashamed of, after I completed the feet I found the side toes did not touch the ground when the foot was flexed and I excoriated FW for a flaw in their design.

Well it turned out I was the one in error because the very savvy FW engineers did make allowances for the toes to swivel at their base; (Green Arrows) It was I who did not pick up on it.

I went back to correct the error but I would have had to make each toe less wide to accomplish the modification and it was there that I drew the line. But a note to anyone attempting to replicate these assemblies; be aware of my error and plan accordingly.

Just popped over to see your Thunderhawk gunship blog, I typed up a comment and then got warned for trolling so thought I would say again on here that it is another awe inspiring project, you are the master of super detailing!

Yeah I shouldn't let a thread fall that far behind......

Big Butted Woman:

While I feel ambitious I should add a bit more junk to Lucie's trunk. Right now Lucie's hull weighs about one and a half pounds (3/4 kilo) including about 8 ounces
of scrap lead. If I hollow out the rest of the generator housings I will have room for an additional 10 ounces of lead weight which would make Lucie more stable on her feet.

http://i.imgur.com/D53ZahA.jpg


I shouldn't need that much but there is room for it.

I was going to link Rob Bartlett's hilarious song parody rendering of the 'Big Butted Woman' but it may be too risqué for a SFW forum.


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 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:
............................. Do you think it was cheaper to scratch build than buying a FW one? A lovely paint job too by the way, I love the griffon on the leg.

Thanks for the compliment, will you be painting your Warhound in the Wargriffon colours?

It wouldn't have been cheaper to build a FW Warhound by far as Lucie cost less than a 100 bucks to build plus I wanted to see what I could do.

BTW Did I mention that she has movable parts?

I did read the whole blog today so I saw the Warhound pilates! Quite flash really! I have gone for the Warp Runners, which is a blue scheme with their symbol an eclipsed planet or moon. I think some one posted one of thier pendants for you earlier in the blog. If you follow the link above I have made a start painting it (interior detail and all).

I've become quite discouraged that so many of my images have disappeared. I like putting captions before and after my photos so I don't usually use the house image loader. Read the whole thread eh, thats quite a task.

A Poltergeist Named Dave:

Well here's the family portrait taken after a bit of an incident where Luteus toppled over on top of Lucie.

http://i.imgur.com/UT7Sm6z.jpg


I set up the Warlord and the Reaver last night on the battle board with the Cadian planning to take a group portrait this morning after I installed the counterweights in Lucie which worked very well incidentally. I added a quarter pound to the generator housings and for the first time in a couple of years Lucie can pose bending forward.

http://i.imgur.com/j997PgH.jpg


So why was the Warhound facing the wall in the first picture you may well ask?

I was setting up the camera when I heard a crash behind me; twelve pounds of Warlord styrene for no apparent reason crashed down upon Lucie flattening her down under it's mass. First thing I did was look for the cat but it was nowhere around. Then I surveyed the damage.

Lucie had all her breakaway armour displaced and the battle banner broke off for the twentieth time.

Some of the magnet attached armour fell off the Warlord and the prime was a wee bit scuffed but no significant damage to him as well that I could readily see

http://i.imgur.com/wOVNKHk.jpg


I set everything back up and snapped a few quick pictures before I realized Lucie was still facing the wall.

I turned her around and finish photographing it was then I noticed the Laser cannons on the left shoulder of Luteus were knocked askew.so there we have it.

http://i.imgur.com/jkX5ykM.jpg


A poltergeist named Dave knocked the Warlord over after it had been standing for almost twelve hours. Here is a picture of Dave..............

Eep! Good to know that they can survive that sort of thing if they need to, best not to test it too often though.

Good work.

A FW Warhound Titan:

This is Going to be Some Fun;

I've done this so often I believe I could assemble this blindfolded.

When I was in the service I made a bet that I could assemble the trigger mechanism and the rest of a M14 rifle blindfolded. Halfway through the assembly I thought someone was playing a trick and pocketed the trigger return spring so I said where's the spring? Turns out it had fallen off the footlocker and no one noticed.

Now that the Warhound is primed I can't wait to start assembly but I have to resist the temptation to plunge right in I want to magnetize all removable components and screw assemble the feet and legs so the stance can be re-positioned.

http://i.imgur.com/3rpBZy9.jpg


and I have to do it three times; once for the Wolf and twice for the Chaos 'hounds.

Not Much of a Poser:

After all these years I'm finally getting around to putting Lucie on a pedestal ahem! er; well a display base and taking advantage of her flexibility I want as dynamic a pose as she is capable of so adjusting the legs to the extreme positions I tried out a photo.

http://i.imgur.com/p6Hmknb.jpg


I must say I'm not exactly overawed.

Even the advent of a Trygon seems little to recommend the position.

http://i.imgur.com/f3r66vy.jpg


I'll try again tomorrow when I have more time.

Looks like Lucien has World Cup fever and going for a gooooooooaaaaaaaaaalllllllll!!!!

Also you've mentioned building a tyranid biotitan before, don't know if you've seen our own HK1X1 current project of a biotitan. Spoiler ing a picture for you to not derail your thread

Thanks for the reply and the considered input. I only had a half hour yesterday after a quick black priming of the base to mount and pose 'Lucie' and snap a few hurried images. I want to show her in a dynamic pose instead of how she will be represented in an actual game standing both feet flat footed. but the pose clearly does not appear gainly to my eye. I probably will emulate the classic FW pose for the finished display stand.






That pose while easily attainable is more stable that the pose above.