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It's a blog. It's in the Blogs section. End of story.

Now can we all stop cluttering up the thread with off-topic nonsense and just get back to the titans?

Wow! Caput Inter Nubila is actually going to be. That's so cool.
Watching this one with great interest.

Wrote this on your building the impossible thread but, it gave me the necro message:



So yeah, I am posting this here lol so I don't get in trouble, I think only the OP can bump really without irritating people.

Anyways, how do you think your titan's base slide out will work? I'm kinda curious about that as I can sorta do the same thing to my dropship's base (it has a slot on one side due to the way the glue went, and I am thinking about adding a campaign sheet to it to describe why it is deployed, etc.

Epic Blog Crisis thread. Thanks for sharing, good luck and look forward to seeing developments.

Looking forward to this. Good luck Buttery.

EDC

 whalemusic360 wrote:
That was at my suggestion. You are likely to get way more traffic in blog land, normal P&M is more a place for resources like base size and whatnot.

For instance Jan showed up.

No worries, I can always siphon out the parts that are useful to people and make a Titan resource topic when this is done, so folk don't have to read pages of "help!!! It's gone wonky."


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 theCrowe wrote:
Wow! Caput Inter Nubila is actually going to be. That's so cool.
Watching this one with great interest.

Yeah, when the contest is over, I'm going to share her fluff in the first post.
And to answer KB, yep it's the same idea.

So, have you thought of a name? Crew names?

Caput Inter Nubila (Head in the Clouds). The fluff is in the good news topic a few pages back.

I haven't got much of an idea for the crew yet, it tends to come once I see the figures all primed up.

This looks good, colour me interested!

Exactly, kids these days have it way too easy.
I remember when we didn't have instructions at all.

Buttery, I wish you luck, I am not much into new-age stuff but...I looked around: very little Google kung-fu would be needed, there are a fair number of assembly guides so it is looking good!
<edit>Ah, I looked back and it was you who put the lander together.
That was a labor of pity if I every saw one... well done.

Thanks!
The only reason I never saw the bird to completion, was I realised my painting limits, and I started doing some more work to get there. I will likely finish her shortly after this, or get a quote from a Manchester studio.
The canopy is still evading my abilities.

Subscribed, I shall be following this with much interest.

Trimmed one leg, this is how much waste resin you get back.

Ollie for scale.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Trimmed one leg, this is how much waste resin you get back.

Ollie for scale.

I hope none of that was parts that were supposed to be on the thing, Buttery...

Nah, there's a few pounds of waste resin on a Titan. To bad it isn't reusable beyond basing and terrain stuff.

FW's gates and topper blocks are always a bit on the excessive side, especially with their larger kits.

Some of the larger blocks, after cleaning and scoring, can make for excellent concrete barriers or supports though.

How's the casting quality by the way Buttery?

Looks like it'll be an amazing project, especially the base as a unique piece. I look forward to seeing this develop over the coming months...

 BrookM wrote:
FW's gates and topper blocks are always a bit on the excessive side, especially with their larger kits.

Some of the larger blocks, after cleaning and scoring, can make for excellent concrete barriers or supports though.

How's the casting quality by the way Buttery?

The casting is high to reasonable. Only one missed rivet, a few slips on seams here and there. Had one piece replaced but that's it for the kit.

That is good to hear, as well, Forge World still has some notorious cases of horrendous mold slippage and the like.

Congrats and subbed, BC. Been working on my Chaos Reaver for several months now, and I can sympathize with your headaches.

I'd be happy to pass along any life lessons learned so far, but I'm an amateur as well...I'll probably be watched your thread too for tips

Whelp. Good luck pal.

(shares in superglue just went up by 80%)

 TheEyeOfNight wrote:
Congrats and subbed, BC. Been working on my Chaos Reaver for several months now, and I can sympathize with your headaches.

I'd be happy to pass along any life lessons learned so far, but I'm an amateur as well...I'll probably be watched your thread too for tips

I'd welcome hearing your experiences.

Eh, only thing to really warn about it dry-fitting. Holy Terra, if you think you're overdoing it on dry-fitting, you're about halfway there. The body is a considerable amount of weight once it's all assembled, so getting a good stance with all those pistons in play...yeah, dry fitting.

Yeah, I'm dry fitting the legs alone tomorrow, so that I may try and work out the base size. Got some 1/8" brass rod and some drill parts. Here's hoping.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yeah, I'm dry fitting the legs alone tomorrow, so that I may try and work out the base size. Got some 1/8" brass rod and some drill parts. Here's hoping.

Good luck, Emperor be with you, and one of these days I'll make the Great Pilgrimage out to WHW and challenge you to a Titanicus smackdown

Looking forward to lots of BC reports on the build! Really wanting to get a Warhound at some point but backlog needs to be addressed first. If I can shift enough by Oct, my wife has siad she'll buy me the body. Paint, paint......must paint faster!!!!

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Got some 1/8" brass rod and some drill parts. Here's hoping.

I haven't built a titan, but I've done other large FW models and I'll suggest this: if you think you've done enough pinning you've probably done 10% of it. You don't assemble big FW kits with glue, you assemble them with pins and use a bit of glue to keep the pins from sliding back out of their sockets. If you do your pinning right you should be able to glue a titan together with the kind of cheap white glue they give to small children and still have it work just fine.

Even the picture of the offcut resin is quite exciting!

EDC

 Peregrine wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Got some 1/8" brass rod and some drill parts. Here's hoping.

I haven't built a titan, but I've done other large FW models and I'll suggest this: if you think you've done enough pinning you've probably done 10% of it. You don't assemble big FW kits with glue, you assemble them with pins and use a bit of glue to keep the pins from sliding back out of their sockets. If you do your pinning right you should be able to glue a titan together with the kind of cheap white glue they give to small children and still have it work just fine.

Yeah, I'm thinking the glue should never be the thing taking the weight. I'm only using putties and epoxy because I was told superglue was too brittle and might tap apart if knocked. I wasn't too keen on using the two part glue.


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 TheEyeOfNight wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Yeah, I'm dry fitting the legs alone tomorrow, so that I may try and work out the base size. Got some 1/8" brass rod and some drill parts. Here's hoping.

Good luck, Emperor be with you, and one of these days I'll make the Great Pilgrimage out to WHW and challenge you to a Titanicus smackdown

That'd be awesome. My friends nearby have enough knights and big guns that it could be quite an event. Whw allow table bunching if you ask nicely.