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Nickeled and Dimed:

Another FW tease displaying tantalizing bitz and pieces of the forthcoming Warlord titan. No Hollywood starlet ever received better hype regardless of the size of her guns.



You can tell by the painted areas that the titan is ready for display and FW is just milking this for all it's worth.

Meanwhile since I already have a titan of sorts I can use these images to enhance the detail on my own construct...

So there FW eat your hearts out; yours is only an attenuated Mars pattern also ran. Ha!

Whom I kidding I've already mortgaged the abode to get one of these.

I think I will just build a couple of them.

Black, have you not continued the Cool-Mini-Or-Not Blog? I am asking because over the course of the next two weeks I am clearing back projects and will be starting my Warlord/Imperator Projects. I have sizing concerns. I am interested in what you would think of making an Imperator from the basic frame and chassis of a Warlord. Of course, adding beef in suspension for the added weight. I wonder this because there doesn't seem to be that massive a size difference in the two in the area of height at head, waist, knees, so on, etc. Could it be that the Imperator would be just retrofitted Warlord? Much in the same way the original Knights had three different frames but were loaded out for different combat roles?

I'm in the process of PM'ing 'wargamesculptor' on 'cool mini' as I received your post on an unrelated to 40K issue. Personally I would hold off on any large titan work until the FW Warlord is released; there seems to be drastic sized reductions in the offing. Since FW seems dedicated to Mars Pattern issues, I am studying the feasibility of a Lucius Warmonger titan myself based on the Epic Lucius Imperator.

I like the Warmonger. Noted on the waiting. I need a couple weeks for planning anyway.


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Don't know if I can wait til spring....

 mxwllmdr wrote:
I like the Warmonger. Noted on the waiting. I need a couple weeks for planning anyway.


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Don't know if I can wait til spring....

Spring???

I think Dakka² owes me a debt of gratitude bringing the erstwhile Mxwlldr back to the fold.

You only need a couple of weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, you are why I am rejuvenated. Been needing it though.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

I think Dakka² owes me a debt of gratitude bringing the erstwhile Mxwlldr back to the fold.

Granted

Black, that Mars toe: I reckon it at about 1 3\4" wide by 2 1\2" long and app. 1" tall. Your weigh in?


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Correct me if I am wrong but the same toe on Luteus is around 2x2"?


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This by comparison would leave the entirety of the foot pad disc at just around three inches, if I am close.


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Black. I've had an epiphany. I can make your foot design work with all parts being capable of being molded and resin casted. I'll get some good design drawings done and put them up on my page. I really need your input on this. I have decided to try this at your scale for the sake of the interior detail. FW be damned..

Judging by the scale of the SM compared to the center disc I'm figuring the disc is about 3.5 inches which is in the same ballpark as my Warlord.

The head came out today so it looks like a breach birth.......



I'm pleased with the overall shape of the head but the size is a concern. Obviously there must be a 3 man cockpit crew so it has to be bigger than the Reaver head. The 'Face' is long rather than squat like the Reaver so I see a lot of the Dave Smith version and my own. In the FW tradition the cockpit helmet comes off to reveal the interior; I guess it's just a case of wait and see how the sizes compare.

Ooooh. That is pretty.

Meh!

I have to say after all the hype the debut poster is rather uninspired:



The painting is pretty mediocre and the model looks like all the recent gangling Mars kniggets that FW has been offering.

What a disappointment...............


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A real image in the flesh, er, resin...........

albeit with an alternate Helmet.............

Based on that last photo, how does yours match up size-wise? I've got to say I prefer yours: the angular Warlord beats the beetleback every time for me!

Looks like an oversized rever in many aspects, not impressed.

We can do better, Black.

It all depends whether the figure shown is a Space Marine which i think/hope it is so the height of the titan is ≈ 26 inches tall; slightly shorter than my Warlord which stands ≈ 27 inches tall depending on pose.


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 mxwllmdr wrote:
Looks like an oversized rever in many aspects, not impressed.

We can do better, Black.

My thoughts exactly, it just looks like a larger Reaver.

Its not even worth comparing yours with FW's offering... your Warlord looks so much better, its not even funny...

 Tyr13 wrote:
Its not even worth comparing yours with FW's offering... your Warlord looks so much better, its not even funny...

Thank you; but Mine doesn't have a veranda for dining alfresco.............

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


I never would have thought of that. Ha!

Well, the back is way cooler than the front from what I can tell...

Have they made a full interior?

 granander wrote:
Well, the back is way cooler than the front from what I can tell...

Have they made a full interior?

I was just given the link to about twenty images of which this was one.

http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/warhammer-world-reopening-forge-world.html

I have an image of the cockpit but not the interior.




A single occupant in the cockpit which is rather disappointing, even the Warhound and Reaver has a 3 man crew.

It is a little silly when you think about it.

You don't want your pilot in an obviously target-able spot.

I always viewed the larger titans as having their crew in the torso with the "head" just being a place for the main sensor banks. The Principes is safe in his amniotic tank in the center of the titan.

The warhound I understand having everyone in the head due to space concerns.

It would of been nice if they'd done something closer in design to your one,
this just looks like a giant Imperial Knight.

That said though, the detail on the back is just gorgeous.

Yes, the one man crew is pretty lame, I like your setup much better.

Thank god they have fixed them weak a-- feet btw...

I really do hope they have made a full interior, but I doubt it's close to the detailing you put into it.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

Thank you; but Mine doesn't have a veranda for dining alfresco.............

So..... get on that.....


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Honestly I can believe the smilarities between this and the reaver.....

Well I've already set my sights on purchasing one; second mortgaged the homestead, volunteered the kids for scientific experiments and set the missus on door to door solicitation; so mebbe I can make a few amendments.

After all I do have a modicum of experience correcting FW's deficiencies........

I don't think it's a crew of one, the image you have is taken too low down, there are two moderati in there, just set lower down than the princeps. There's a much blurrier picture somewhere that shows them.

My main concern with this titan looking like a knight is in the armour plates. All panel lines and silly numbers of rivets. If you compare this to the mars warhound, then it's pretty clear they're done by different designers. Great model, but too different for me to like. Still want to buy one though...

 fiorehellheart wrote:
I don't think it's a crew of one, the image you have is taken too low down, there are two moderati in there, just set lower down than the princeps. There's a much blurrier picture somewhere that shows them.

Roger that! If you find it please post or link since it got me curious.

 fiorehellheart wrote:
I don't think it's a crew of one, the image you have is taken too low down, there are two moderati in there, just set lower down than the princeps. There's a much blurrier picture somewhere that shows them.............

If you can find it, post it because the way it looks now they're either doin' a Lewinsky on the Princep or they're not there............

.......... Still want to buy one though...

Like I said, blurry, but I think you can just about make them out at the bottom. I think it's such a wasted oppourtunity though, could have had a much better interior.

Wow, you can just barely see their bald little heads popping up there. The glare is semi-obscuring them too.

Obviously they have based this on the early Space Marine Warlord Titan models, rather than the more 'recent' metal Epic 40,000 one we are all more familiar with. I wonder why they did that? Could this be a Horus Heresy Warlord? The single occupant head makes no sense to me either, these things are supposed to have a somewhat open bridge area. Weird...

EDIT: missed the shot with the additional crew, still far too cramped though from how they are described in novels et cetera.