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I really hope you get your titan back. There isn't much I can do here in switzerland, but I'll keep my eyes open on eBay. Good luck!

Thank you EmberlordofFire8, hopefully we get some evidence to crucify the theif with too!

I've been thinking about what to do with regards to the Titan-shaped hole in my life and came to some conclusions..
1: since i have the COA i can't replace Bello Canis with a chinese knock-off; that would be sacrilege.
2: buying another Warhound Titan will grant me another COA, so i'd still be missing a Warhound despite the fresh purchase.
3: what would i do if i replaced Bello Canis and it was then recovered? Go mad.
4: what will my knight titan protectorate protect if Bello Canis is missing?
5: i'm the only member of the titan owners club who doesn't own a titan now.


The way forward is clear - i must emulate the aquisition of Bello Canis with a new, larger titan...

Bigger is better you know

 SirDonlad wrote:
Thank you EmberlordofFire8, hopefully we get some evidence to crucify the theif with too!

I've been thinking about what to do with regards to the Titan-shaped hole in my life and came to some conclusions..
1: since i have the COA i can't replace Bello Canis with a chinese knock-off; that would be sacrilege.
2: buying another Warhound Titan will grant me another COA, so i'd still be missing a Warhound despite the fresh purchase.
3: what would i do if i replaced Bello Canis and it was then recovered? Go mad.
4: what will my knight titan protectorate protect if Bello Canis is missing?
5: i'm the only member of the titan owners club who doesn't own a titan now.


The way forward is clear - i must emulate the aquisition of Bello Canis with a new, larger titan...

I was thinking that you might get a different titan and if the stolen one shows up, they can purge the heretics together. Good luck.

Are you suggesting getting a second Warhound?

Hmm.

Options so far...
Ordo Sinister Warlord psi-titan
Legio Atarus Reaver titan
Second Warhound titan
Knight Porphyrion
Moar Knight Styrix
Ordinatus Ulator

Did they steal anything else or was it just the titan?

how on earth did they even have access to it?

Just Bello Canis - they didn't even take the COA.
Sorry dude, I can't say much - the police told me only to say the town where i live and identifying info on the model itself.

I live close to Warhammer World and frequent it occasionally, I'll keep an eye out for it incase it was one of the 40k community.

Did you do any conversions they may repainted it but might have missed that

Thank you Frozocrone, this feels very much like an Ordo Malleus deep-cover operation with all the people looking out for it!

Good point Oldmike - the most distinctive thing is the connection between the legs and the hips; the pistons which determine the angle of the legs at the ball-socket are a bit of a visual trick.
You can't actually position the legs like that without modifying the pistons since some of them have to be shorter than the parts allow and some of them have to be longer than FW makes them.

edited due to fuzzy memory

Greetings from germany.
SirDonald, I am really sorry to hear that.
I worked hard and waited long for my own Warhound and it's connected with remembrances and stories too; I can totally understand you.
I am very deep in the german community and have some good connections.
I will spread the message and tell the german guys to spread it further and have a look for Bello Canis.

I really hope she will return safely to you.

Best Wishes
Alpha

p.S.: I love the position of the legs!

Thanks to Alphawolf the german community is at the thieves heels, 40k-Fanworld.net and Tabletopnetwork are joining the hunt!

 Alphawolf wrote:

p.S.: I love the position of the legs!

Hmm, did you pin the legs or glue them on? It may be a way to recognise it by.

Thank you Alphawolf! Are you on the 'Titan Owners Club'? I'd like to check out your god-engine!

Hey, Hjalfnar_Feuerwolf! The spacewolf types just can't resist a good hunt can they?

@EmberlordofFire8: no pins involved at all, so technically you could break all the joints, scrape the superglue off and reposition everything but none of the pistons would be attachable again and half of them would be weird sizes - take the picture of Bello Canis from the rear; the two pistons on the underside of the hips are the proper length, fully retracted, but they are the proper length. Compare them to the pair on the upperside and you start to see the piston housing of the one on the right is waaay too short and the piston shaft of the one on the left is faaaar too long to fit in the housing.

If someone did try to remodel it, they would also be fething it up royally at the same time.



I have to say at this point that i have been truly humbled by the response to this situation by the community - I can't thank you all enough!

I tend to the pessimistic side of opinion, which dictates 'Bello Canis' to be lost forever - but the response has been so widespread and heartfelt that i'm getting hopes that i might actually see it again..


I was checking out titan weaponry lore from epic 40000 last night and i got stuck on the titan 'Trident' - "Damn, I need one of those!"

I have an Ordinatus army and would be devastated if even one disappeared!

I will keep an eye out from across the pond and get word to my friends in Swansea, UK where I went to graduate school! They all still play!

Your Ordinatus army is a thing of wonder, beauty and fear Unit1126PLL!
Thank you for doing that, the more people who are aware of it and what happened the more likely it is to get 'spotted' randomly - i like to think that the theif at least knows it's worth a few hundrend quid and may try to trade it with someone so they can 'make a few quid off it' who doesn't know that it's stolen or being looked for.

I've 'crossed' everything, even my hair!

im sorry to hear about all this!

Im across the pond but i do traverse ebay a ton. Hopefully that can be my assistance to you in some way!

 SirDonlad wrote:
Thank you Alphawolf! Are you on the 'Titan Owners Club'? I'd like to check out your god-engine!

Not yet. He is still in his transport Sarcophagus... or better said his box. I travelled to Warhammer World in february and brought him home with me. I think I will start him at the end of the Year or at the beginning of next year =)

Greetings to Hjalfnar_Feuerwolf, we know us from the 40k Fanworld Good to know, you already informed the Fanworld

You have eyes in newport and cardiff my friend

Hey man, truly sorry to hear about that! I will post this is the austrian forum "diefestung.com" so that the Austrian Community will know! good luck on your hunt

Thank you Ashleigh and Shadowgamer!


As you may have read in the title....

BELLO CANIS HAS BEEN RETURNED TO ME!!!!

I'd like to continue thanking everyone who contributed to the inquisition-esque network of eyes out there watching and waiting, i can't prove it but part of my mind just knows the online response made the difference!

A big thank you to the Police obviously, PC Brogen of Gloucestershire County Police has been very helpful and his advice was spot-on!

A similarly sized thankyou to all the lurkers on dakka who were looking out as well - sometimes i started telling fresh faces about my stolen Warhound, and they already knew!

Massive, huge, enormous (titanic?) thanks to all the posters here!!!..
Reds8n
Torblind
Ratius
Supreme Overlord
Stevefamine
Zedmeister
Feeder
DarkTraveller777
Formosa
Stormonu
Jmurph
Freddy Kruger
StraightSilver
Pete Melvin
WisdomLS
Skinnereal
Little-killer
TheAuldGrump
Nostradamus
Precinctomega
Fueli
Cuda1179
EmberlordofFire8
OomieCrusha
Desubot
Frozocrone
Oldmike
Alphawolf
Hjalfnar_Feurewolf
Unit1126PLL
Swampyturtle
Ashleigh
Shadowgamer
...for alerting their social circles, Facebook pages, gaming groups and generally keeping an eye out for me in places i just can't - Thank you, thank you, thankyou!!!!!!

Also a huge thank you to the Titan Owners Club for reposting this link and providing further global reach that i couldn't possibly hope to emulate!!!

My last heartfelt Thankyou goes to Legoburner and Yakface for allowing this thread to remain on Dakka with all the traffic the site already has to deal with and to Reds8n for the advice on thread placement and reposting the thread to other sites i don't have accounts with. THANK YOU!!!!

That's amazing! i'm so happy that this worked out

Excellent!

good to hear! happy to have helped

..well I'll be a son of....

Great news, very very happy this worked out in the end

Excellent. How'd you get it back?

alright now this is what I'm talking about

Story to brighten our day!

Great news!

I am glad that police were able to get it back for you - many happy stompings!

The Auld Grump

Oh my. Have never heard of a stolen model being returned. This is amazing.

 Verviedi wrote:
Excellent. How'd you get it back?

It was put back in the cabinet it was taken from!

I have moved house since the theft, so it was the most unexpected surprise when i went to get some of my terrain i had to leave there (i moved anything valuable already) that there it was!

I rang the police straight away and they said i had to leave the cabinet well alone to preserve any evidence - sooooo painful!!