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Decrepit Dakkanaut





Nottinghamshire

I bow to your understanding of the Mechanicum, so now there's pressure!

I'm going to update the OP with her story, now the contest is over. You'll see why I didn't place.

Spoiler:
Titan name: Caput Inter Nubila

In more recent years renamed to the Caput Inter Nubila ("Head in the clouds"), this Titan was originally named Vindex Manus. Retired after centuries of punishing warfare, and then restored through several centuries more, by a dedicated band of Tech Priests, the Nubila is part of an Explorator team. They work diligently to reclaim both long-forsaken Imperial worlds, and the immeasurably valuable bounty of long-lost technology they may hold. The presence of a Titan is often all that's required to remind any inhabitants that they are indeed, loyal Imperial citizens. For those with an unfortunate or persistent lapse in memory, it is usually a very short reminder.
How does a Titan earn a second name? Upon finding themselves brought forward less frequently for frontline battle, and spending their years exploring these forgotten worlds, the Nubila’s Princeps and closely bonded machine spirit began to slowly change over time. An otherwise entirely reliable servant of the Emperor, much to the chagrin of her crew and dedicated techpriests, the Nubila has through these years, developed a curious habit of entering long periods of total meditation when left alone. During these times she refuses to respond to any and all issued commands.

The Nubila continues to perplex and mildly frustrate her crew, but as she is yet to perform any less than ferociously in battle itself, they have deemed ironing out her eccentricities more problematic than allowing them to develop. Bewildering them further however, are the occasional alerts from the sensor arrays during those periods of rest, which indicate her more than casual interest in tracking local wildlife.

The Explorators, determined that there must be a discernible meaning behind these readings, have tasked their novice engineseers with logging her discoveries. Unwittingly creating the Imperium's first and only field guide of Terran species long thought extinct.

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Hyperspace

Excellent fluff. I now have this persistent image of its machine-spirit having the personality of Doug from Up.



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Decrepit Dakkanaut





Nottinghamshire

+++ THE GOD MACHINE ANSWE- Squirrel! ^o^ +++


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The Last Chancer Who Survived




United Kingdom

Damnit, now I am imagining a reaver titan playing david attenborough in a nature documentary.

*in a booming voice*

"And here we can see the buffalo in their natural habi-"

*BOOM*

"This used to be a buffalo in its natural habitat"
   
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Hyperspace

And that's my new sig.



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Nottinghamshire

Base materials: Get!
I now have the weekend to drill, saw and glue a giant acrylic base.

Completely random, it's clear. I may think about using this fact for something.


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Decrepit Dakkanaut






OH-I Wanna get out of here

To bad you aren't doing a winter style base. Maybe you could do some sort of stream or water hole, give it some real depth?
   
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Nottinghamshire

Perhaps I can faux fibre optics with some acrylic rod and have some glowing eyes in a tree...


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Nottinghamshire

The menagerie grows!



Upper left, that's the two fenrisian wolves, and an iron hawk familiar.


Then the Jungle Spawns old lizardmen bits, with the more unusual bits (two headed snakes) removed:


There's also my tree, a falcon, some rats, and some very kindly donated plastics there, from our favourite goblin-writer (theCrowe).

And the base is started. This is only one and a half pieces of 5mm glass-clear acrylic, because they need cutting, and I only have a hand-saw.

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Chicago

Very neat! But why the clear base?

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Nottinghamshire

Doesn't matter what colour it is, really.


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Canada

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Doesn't matter what colour it is, really.
All materials are fair as long as paint sticks to it...
<edit> ...as well as what glues you intend to use work on it.

I keep looking at the bits for that titan model and I keep wanting to reach for screws, forget glue, I have no trust in bonding to resin.
I want to get a long shaft drill bit and make a skeleton of rod for that monster... just to be sure.

I have this really bad OCD thing with models of only wanting to put them together once... no pieces falling off allowed.
The metal Vindicator after a hot day in the car sent me down this dark path.
Though resin in a hot car will ruin anyone's day (got a titan sized car fridge anywhere?).

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Decrepit Dakkanaut





Nottinghamshire

I'm thinking about setting some glass cabochons against it, and running small tape LEDs under the felt I'm basing it all with.
Get some twinkly stuff going on.


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Canada

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I'm thinking about setting some glass cabochons against it, and running small tape LEDs under the felt I'm basing it all with.
Get some twinkly stuff going on.
Ooooh!
A small pond with "fairy lights" twinkling in the water?
I suddenly have a vision like the "lady of the lake" holding aloft Excalibur.

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Nottinghamshire

Possibly, possibly eyes in burrows or something close.


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Northern Ireland

 Talizvar wrote:
Ooooh!
A small pond with "fairy lights" twinkling in the water?
I suddenly have a vision like the "lady of the lake" holding aloft Excalibur.


Just remember - Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

   
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A Protoss colony world

 theCrowe wrote:
 Talizvar wrote:
Ooooh!
A small pond with "fairy lights" twinkling in the water?
I suddenly have a vision like the "lady of the lake" holding aloft Excalibur.


Just remember - Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

OMFG LOL I WISH I COULD EXALT THIS MORE THAN ONCE!!!

Back on topic, do you think you've got enough animals now Buttery?

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
You need your bumps felt. With a patented, Grotsnik Corp Bump Feelerer 9,000.
The Grotsnik Corp Bump Feelerer 9,000. It only looks like several bricks crudely gaffer taped to a cricket bat.
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Pious Palatine






Good progress on the base, how many more animals are you hoping to accumulate?

EDC
   
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 Talizvar wrote:

I keep looking at the bits for that titan model and I keep wanting to reach for screws, forget glue, I have no trust in bonding to resin.
I want to get a long shaft drill bit and make a skeleton of rod for that monster... just to be sure.


This is a really good idea.

War Kitten- Nothing evens the odds like a reaper chainsword to the naughty bits
Sgt. Vanden- And now I'm a whale with panties. Can't see how this day can get any better.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut





Nottinghamshire

@ZergSmasher: Nope! More critters needed. Birds and squirrels and a kitty.


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Sydney

Isn't nubila singular?

Can't wait to see this, more pics please. Also, work faster - what the hell are we paying you for
   
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Melbourne .au

Looking good so far, but those aren't just Fenrisian Wolves. That's Freki and Geri!

   
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Northern Ireland

 Azazelx wrote:
Looking good so far, but those aren't just Fenrisian Wolves. That's Freki and Geri!


Somewhere there's an old Leman Russ miniature going about putting up tiny "missing pet" posters.

   
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Leicester

 theCrowe wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
Looking good so far, but those aren't just Fenrisian Wolves. That's Freki and Geri!


Somewhere there's an old Leman Russ miniature going about putting up tiny "missing pet" posters.


Someone message Midget Gems, we need a conversion of this, stat!

DS:80+S+GM+B+I+Pw40k08D+A++WD355R+T(M)DM+
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Nottinghamshire

 theCrowe wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
Looking good so far, but those aren't just Fenrisian Wolves. That's Freki and Geri!


Somewhere there's an old Leman Russ miniature going about putting up tiny "missing pet" posters.
He's on the workbench, complete with white and yellow (!) color scheme.

I'm on hiatus until the 28th. Got a 7TV open day to attend. Not painted my cast.


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Nottinghamshire

Back on the horse. (in the cockpit)?
Got the base to finish sanding and gluing. It's a weighty and ugly looking thing right now, but it'll make perfect sense once built up and primed.
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Upstate, New York

Were you going to do a water feature on the base? I know you are planning a nature theme, but forget if you mentioned that.

If you were planning on doing a lake, you might want to get some paint in before you glue that base together. You could do some neat layered effects by painting little dashes of color for minnows swimming under the surface, but above the lake bed.

   
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All about that base

EDC
   
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Nottinghamshire

I don't think I'll be doing a water feature, with the Titan being so big, I'm wary of making things that could "blow" the scale. A lake looking like a puddle for example. I'll see how it goes with spacing.


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Nottinghamshire

I'm so salty that nobody told me SPIDER SQUIGS existed.

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