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I don't generally comment because repeating variations of "awesome" just adds clutter.

That said I thought your original greaves looked very good. The "tow rings for the ankle armor may be for swapping it out in the event of damage or wear. kind of like how they use cranes to assemble modern ships in sections.

Money is no consideration I've only invested $10 in 16 sheets of 0.25 mm sheet styrene, enough to finish the entire titan but cutting them to fit is tedious almost as bad as rivets.

I'm still under 200 bucks and I have almost half of the material I started with plus three poster board sized sheets of wholesale styrene. And enough scrap to build a Stompa.

But don't get yer hopes up.


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OMG I can't believe what I write sometimes............ Martinis and a keyboard make for some strange literation.

 The_Blackadder wrote:
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OMG I can't believe what I write sometimes............ Martinis and a keyboard make for some strange literation.

LOL...

Galorn wrote:I don't generally comment because repeating variations of "awesome" just adds clutter.

Second that!

So if we get hit by these tidal waves, I'm thinking that the only structure to survives wil be your Warlord... Or did I miss the watery grave - must have been on top of a telegraph pole at the time...

 monkeyh wrote:
Genius! I usually use small springs with copper wire (to bend to the shape I want) in the middle but the springs can be hard to find. The ones from lip seals work quite well though.

Missed this one and once again posting on this thread bore fruit. By lip seals you mean 'Garlock seals' and as familiar as I am with those I never connected the spring (the garter spring) with model building (slapping hand to forehead DOH!) All these leaking seals I have tossed over the years could have been recycled into bitz........ Gaaah!

Thanks for the tip.



You see lip seals (Garlock Seals) keep oil or other fluids from leaking around a shaft moving either linear or rotating. The seal has a fine inner scraper edge that does the sealing and a circular coiled spring (the garter spring) that maintains the tension around the inner circumference of the ring. The seal may be reinforced with a metal outer ring to form a press fit in a housing but it is the spring we are interested in; the rest is scrap. These springs are usually very small in diameter but could be quite large in circumference and almost never are the reason for replacing a leaking seal. A good source for finding these used leaking seals are automotive repair garages who must toss them regularly.

No problem. Keep up the good work

I've gotta stop surfing the web I just found another project that really piqued my interest. Not that I'll be starting this anytime in the near or distant future but how awesome would a Chaos Decimator Warlord titan be!



Although of a comparable size to the current Warlord. I didn't build this just upstage it with a larger opponent.

It would be extremely awesome!

I hope this looks better when it's painted. Heres a new use for camouflage; it hides discrepancies

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


I spent a lot of time finishing up the greave detail and lengthening and widening the thigh armour.

just taking a step back, I recall you mentioned about the bacta tank or hardwire option for the Princeps.. Well, whilst perusing some WestWind figures I saw this on their homepage and thought of you...

http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=196_198&products_id=1542

Yeah those are pretty much what I had in mind but tech'ied up a bit more and filled with some luminous gell......... I've got to find that somewhere.............?

Today I started on the last major component of the exterior, the Turbo Laser secondary armament.

I made these an 1.25 inch (≈ 29 MM) longer than the FW standard lasers for the Warhound but the same diameter which seems like a pretty good estimate.

I started with evergreen 0.5 inch (≈ 12.6 MM) tube and wrapped 0.020 inch (≈ 0.25 MM) sheet styrene (foreground) around the tube feathering the initial start lip smooth and gluing as I wrapped and clamped the outer edge. This is the best way I have found to increase the diameter of styrene tubing within reason of course. You wouldn't do this to say, double the radius but that method will be left for another demonstration.

Once I have the wrap dry (I called it a late night after I glued these last evening) and woke this morning to the seams completely dried (beginning to sound like a tweet!) I sanded the outer end to feather the edge which gave me the 4 barrels shown below.

http://i.imgur.com/1VfDCf2.jpg

http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/en_US/water-_-stone/family/21

Water Effects

Is a dense gel, perfect for shallow water on coloured grounds, and especially apt for rivulets and white water. Water Effects is available in a transparent gel and in 3 colors formulated with permanent pigments. Further variations in tonality can be achieved by blending the products with low viscosity colors like Model Air or with the Game Color Inks.The final effect also depends on the color of the ground.

Pesumably you could build this up in layers...

A good idea and thanks. What I am leaning towards is clear construction adhesive which I use in copious amounts lately. I only need a few thimbles full to make a tank and lighting it from below with a blue or green or red LED will give it that unearthly shine so coveted by SF aficionados.

As for the tube itself a toothbrush sleeve or something of that sort will probably do. I can amputate the Princep's arms and wire him to the life support console through the tube for a truly gruesome effect.

If you make your own tank, you could use a setting water like medium and mix in some Tide, then it will glow in a black light.

Quite an impressive project once again!
You really like building those giant machines don't you?^^

Will you make/allready have an imperial guard army to go with the titan?

Yeah ya got me; to be huge and destructive is the desire of every red blooded American boy.

I suppose I should when I make a diorama to display this thing because I can think of not many war machines more vulnerable without a lot of ground support. What army do you recommend?

Well, a classical mechanised Imperial Guard would be suitable I think (I guess you don't want to paint 10000 guardsman.. XD)
Steel legion is kind of THE mechanised assault army.
Maybe a steel legion themed army with desert camo?
That's something you don't see very often.

Good, I have Steel Legion equipment..............

These gun barrels are relatively easy compared to the mega bolter and plasma cannon. I suspect the flame thrower would also be simple to build. I wrapped another strip around the front end of the barrel sanded the seam to a feathered edge, matched the barrels because there is a millimeter discrepancy in length, too little to be concerned with as the guns pairs will be a foot apart.

http://i.imgur.com/j3NsX11.jpg


The seams won't show because the connection joints between the barrels will hide them.

Applied the barrel quartering strips and the end detail to the secondary muzzle and the barrel base.

Next comes the final detailing............

To quote the Far Side; God making snakes, "That was easy!"



Once the basic measurements were established and the barrels bulked up bases and collars were installed the small detail went on quickly. I started gluing on the linear strips last night and finished the various gun sights this morning. About an hour ago I secured the Lasers to the drum turrets and they are drying so I figured it was time for a picture or two.

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


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


In all I guess the twin lasers took about 6 hours over the weekend to build. I didn't think it necessary to do a step by step on the fine detail.



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 The_Blackadder wrote:
I've gotta stop surfing the web I just found another project that really piqued my interest. Not that I'll be starting this anytime in the near or distant future but how awesome would a Chaos Decimator Warlord titan be!

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Although of a comparable size to the current Warlord. I didn't build this just upstage it with a larger opponent.

It's funny you should mention that concept as I started getting some materials in for it a few weeks ago, and I think at least one of my blog followers won't let me not do it now! I don't think I'll be keeping the three section legs though, they were a pain to position on a normal sized decimator never mind doing it on something titan sized. The detail on your project so far is incredible, looking forward to the finished piece with great anticipation.

Whoa unless your blog follower is also your old lady I can't see how you could be prevented from going ahead with the project.

Thanks for informing me of the dog leg articulation. I missed that although I thing it could be bypased by locking that joint. Lucie has the same type of suspension and I rarely move the lower joint.

post a link when you start the build, I'm interested.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:

 The_Blackadder wrote:
I've gotta stop surfing the web I just found another project that really piqued my interest. Not that I'll be starting this anytime in the near or distant future but how awesome would a Chaos Decimator Warlord titan be!

Spoiler:

Although of a comparable size to the current Warlord. I didn't build this just upstage it with a larger opponent.

It's funny you should mention that concept as I started getting some materials in for it a few weeks ago, and I think at least one of my blog followers won't let me not do it now! I don't think I'll be keeping the three section legs though, they were a pain to position on a normal sized decimator never mind doing it on something titan sized. The detail on your project so far is incredible, looking forward to the finished piece with great anticipation.

it's a double negative which vaguely means that he must do it

Missed that, Damn you Evelyn Wood!

Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:

 The_Blackadder wrote:
I've gotta stop surfing the web I just found another project that really piqued my interest. Not that I'll be starting this anytime in the near or distant future but how awesome would a Chaos Decimator Warlord titan be!

Spoiler:

Although of a comparable size to the current Warlord. I didn't build this just upstage it with a larger opponent.

It's funny you should mention that concept as I started getting some materials in for it a few weeks ago, and I think at least one of my blog followers won't let me not do it now! I don't think I'll be keeping the three section legs though, they were a pain to position on a normal sized decimator never mind doing it on something titan sized. The detail on your project so far is incredible, looking forward to the finished piece with great anticipation.

The_Blackadder wrote:Whoa unless your blog follower is also your old lady I can't see how you could be prevented from going ahead with the project.

Thanks for informing me of the dog leg articulation. I missed that although I thing it could be bypased by locking that joint. Lucie has the same type of suspension and I rarely move the lower joint.

post a link when you start the build, I'm interested.

Yes I'm interested too - let us know when you get going with it.

Paint, yes it's been a long time coming but finally I have applied a bit of paint to the old girl. I'm about ready to glue the face armour on permanently so before I do I primed the area covered by the armour and the back side of the armour itself.

I'm pretty sure all the head detail is done. I finished up last night while I watched old ''Untouchable'' reruns.

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


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So face armour glued on, fine detail finished; except for conduit and decals and of course the finish painting.

http://i.imgur.com/OoZb9W8.jpg

Dooooh, I am so sorry for not paying attention! He's looking great!

What colour scheme do you have lined up?

Yeah, you were sorely missed at the meetings............

I really like the Dave Smith Camo and have given a lot of thought as to why such a big machine would use image occluding cloaking. One thing would be that in a smoky battlefield setting, this would be an ideal camouflage. 'sides mebbe it's radar absorbing paint.

Okay here's the deal, I post on twenty different forums and almost to a man everyone hates the DS camouflage but cannot pique my interest in an alternative. I've seen all the colour schemes on the 40K lexicanum and I don't care for any of them. Does anyone know of a paint scheme that will suit this model?

Just so you know,

All red or all green is just out....................

Hmm what colour scheme... In my mind the DS camo is a good idea although maybe not executed expertly for the scale of the beast. I think it should be along the lines of battleship camo - these are huge metal lumps that you can't possibly hide, however the various paint schemes employed by the world's Navy's are testament to the power of camouflage on a huge scale... With this in mind, I would say that you could go this route on the warlord taking into account the type of world that it's campaigning on - i.e. desert world = desert camo, ash world = ash waste camo, etc, etc...

I don't doubt that you've done your research, but I do find these sites informative on these matters...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_camouflage
http://www.shipcamouflage.com/measures.htm
http://www.kristiangoddard.net/Blog/Dazzle_Camouflage_Painting.htm

it looks really impressive allready!
however the top edge of the windows (under the eagle) seems to be a little unclean : /
maybe you could adjust this a little?

as for camoflage, ship camoflage would actually be a great option.
However I would personally add some color details to the titan somewhere, like colored stipes or parts ontop of the camoflage.

The thing with DSs colors is that it's a typical winter camoflage.
Maybe think about the world this titan is stationed on first
and pick colors that fit it?