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Get well wishes to the Theo offspring!

And excited to see the beast assembled and primed!

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
What does that count as in a CD army?

I'm 95% sure Titan Forge created it to stand in for a K'daai Destroyer, an incredibly potent monster from WHFB 8E that FW made rules for but IIRC never made a model for. Looks like it hasn't survived the transition to AOS, tho I'd guess it's still kicking in T9A ... And would otherwise serve well as a giant in AOS or greater obsidian golem in KOW

That said, it's one helluva beast, props on pushing it through

Oooofph Theo. Best of luck to your daughter, that earring incident sounds nasty. Probably best to get it all out of the way in one go though.

Thanks guys for the feedback, thoughts and prayers.

Not much time this morning, headed to church to get some stuff taken care of, just wanted to show that the beast has been primed and base layers of metal applied. More layers later when time permits.


Head

Horns
Torso and arms

Legs

Axes.

I’m thinking of making the horns and axe handles a different color, but will probably go leadbelcher like the mechanical parts. I’ll let the whim move me when I get there.

I didn't notice the mini for scale in the used minotaur shop until going back to look right now. I didn't realize how absolutely massive that beast is . it's looking great so far

Holy (mecha)cow that's huge! I'm looking forward to seeing it all done. I'm not sure I'd dare print something that big on the resin printer...

That’s pretty awesome, I’m the proper sense of the word! It looks like it’ll be Titan size when it’s all put together. Can’t wait to see it in all its assembled glory!

The TItan-forge website lists it at 132mm tall. But that’s in their resin. Their resins are 28mm scale while the prints are set at 32mm scale if I remember correctly. So I think this will come out to 150mm tall (6”) if my mathematics is correct. Still, honking big.

That's a massive, glorious beast

Brass with agrax gloss wash. Null oil on the leadbealcher.
Not really liking the leadbelcher, good thing I went to Miniaturemarket and got some more iron colors.

I think iron warriors is what I’m more looking for with the dark metal. That to me looks more like the pig steel I would think chaos dwarves would forge.

I forgot to get nihlak oxide.

That metal monster looks great Theo, going to have to try some of your tricks. :-)

I'm fond of Leadbelcher, but the again I need a lighter base. But the Iron Warriors looks interesting, hadn't seen that one before, may test this for some other stuff.

And my word is that model massive, really excited to see it glued together. Hope it holds!

He's going to be an impressively big boy when he's done.

Hope everything went smoothly with the daughter. Prayers for a speedy recovery.

What a massive monster this will be. I didn't see the mini for scale, either. She'll be able to walk between his legs. Not that she'd want to . . .

Sorry for the absence. New work duties, schedule, daughter is doing great , mm back into and out of the hospital ....so basically life as usual. Oh, and the wife said we should think about getting another vehicle because the twins will be driving in six month, and our oldest should have learned a year and a half ago. So instead of date night last night we went and bought a minivan . Got done around 10:30 at night, was hungry for dinner at 7, so the guy could have sold me anything if he threw in a candy bar . The kids will get our older car, and my wife will use the van.

No painting has happened, no printing either, I think I killed my extruder. Haven’t had time or desire to mess with it with all the other stuff.

The iron warrior paint is like leadbelcher which has had a bulb oil wash or three, so perfect for what I wanted.

Pics later.

Also ordered the newest Bushido box set and a couple extra models that they released today. A new Ninja Master, so my Ninja army is still complete. A ronin samurai that works with Minimoto and Shiho I believe. I have to finish this beast at some point, so I can get back to Bushido.

Glad your daughter is doing well and there is nothing better than impromptu car shopping
Excited to see the Iron Warrior base painting soon.

Not so much progress as I have been too lazy to go downstairs for anything, but figured I could at least glue most of him together this morning for an idea of just how massive he is.

Iron Within: I redid all the steel with Iron warrior paint instead of leadbelcher. I like the effect.

Here he is with his center stone started as a huge chunk of Warpstone. I thought about doing it in orange, but I didn’t think it would go well with the brass.

You can’t see much detail here, just shear size.

I really like the green and brass contrast, looks great. He's a big bugger, isn't he?

It is progressing Theophony.

Cheers,

CB

Holy crap is that big! lol

Love all the Bushido stuff. Can't wait to see more. Been meaning to get into that game myself.

Thanks guys. Just home from work. I’m at an impass with the trim work on this beast. Do I keep him all brass? Do I make the trim a different color? Or do I paint the panels? I like the brass, but I think it’s too much. Not sure I want to go red with it even though it screams Khorne to me .

Also more Bushido stuff was ordered Saturday morning .

Quick pic of last thing I printed before my printer f’d up. I think I have it going again, testing now.

Bushido model for scale.

Your printing is coming along nicely, and that IS a big ole' massive beast of a monster!

Go team bronze cogs!

--Brian

So I told myself I wasn’t going to buy any Battletech figs because I’m not a fan of big stomps robots......


The legendary mech warriors box changed my mind. Being a Robotech fan I see a Zentradi officer pod and a Gladiator. Of course, they are really called marauders and archers . I then bought 4 blind box legendaries and two onimech blind boxes and got 3 more marauders and a Warhammer. I’m actually fine with a small fleet of marauders, not sure how they would play, but I love the look of them.

Not being a battletech person, it just never caught on in our gaming circles, I went with my own color scheme. They all will have a red canopy/cockpit, but everything else is up to each individual model. Mostly done in contrast paints.


The printer has been down for a couple weeks. I’ve been too busy to take time to try and fix it. It clogged again, but I think it’s possibly more than just that. I have too much to do to fight with it. The big brass beast is at a standstill. The hands are way rougher than I thought, to the point I want to reprint them, but timewise and with the printer down it’s another failed painting challenge.

See you distracted me with ninja so I wanted to paint ninja. Does this mean I have to paint robots now you've painted snazzy robots?!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
See you distracted me with ninja so I wanted to paint ninja. Does this mean I have to paint robots now you've painted snazzy robots?!

Do you have any Robot Ninja? Because a Snazzy Robot Ninja would be the bomb .

 Theophony wrote:
So I told myself I wasn’t going to buy any Battletech figs because I’m not a fan of big stomps robots......

*cough* https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Syllogy *cough*

For when you get the printer back up and running...

I like those mechs! Hope you can get the big guy done at some point. It was looking sweet.

I was a big battletech player for years, right up until I discovered WHFBv3. I got rid of all my mechs many years ago, and regret doing so to this day. The Marauder was always my favorite. Seeing your work really brought out the nostalgia.

Well, somewhere, possibly in the city dump, there’s a shopping bag full of the Battletech/Mechwarrior heroclic figures. I had dropped a ton of money on them and never played . I might eventually find them again,but I’m not going to spend time looking for them.

Finished a third Marauder. I need to decide on basing for these guys.


That’s half the models that I have purchased painted up. I have a Archer and another Marauder I want to finish and two daisi and a Ryoken that I’m not too worried about as I don’t like their looks. They might be the best models in the game, I don’t know, but I am only concerned how they look right now .

I took about a half hour last night playing with the Ender3 and figured out that while I was changing a clogged nozzle I messed up the hot end extruder. A new one is coming tomorrow from Amazon. $14. So if anyone is wondering if it has been a money trap, I’d still answer NO. The big robot Minotaur to me was just one piece I made from the Ender and price wise a GW model the same size (Knight Castellan) cost the same as the printer if not more. Plus I have tons of terrain and models that I have built from it. Still probably the best hobby item I have ever bought.

So I have two more mechs to paint and a bunch of Bushido figures primed and some ordered and hopefully soon to be shipped. I’ll need to reprint the Axe hands for the Minotaur, then some Bushido terrain from my kickstart backing of Iain Lovecraft including the Junk ship he just released to backers.

I still need to organize my paint desk, the biggest part of my slow down was injuring the heel of my foot again so I realize I wasn’t walking up and down the steps, but now that’s healed up pretty well.

Good that you have come up with a solution, and it certainly seems to have given your hobby action a serious boost looking forward to more Theo madness!