Warlord Titan Project Progress

Truth be told this has been a WIP draft for about a week and a half, it just never seemed to get finished. Here are a few of the reasons why:

I went to Supanova Brisbane and had my cousin stay over for a few days. This ate up a bit of time on things and as I was flat out all weekend i was ludicrously tired and only had a little time to do a few production sketches. Last weekend was the ANZAC Day weekend, so while I did spend some time painting and modelling on the Saturday and Monday, the lads and I went out to see "Beneath Hill 60" on the Sunday, which was a really great film to remember those who fought for us. I also raised more than a few drinks to their memories on the Friday night a 21st party. Lets just say the the painting on Saturday started slooowly.

Work is steadily progressing on the Titan. So far I have the toe design nailed and the first toe three parts done so I can cast the 24 I need (6 toes on each foot, 2 titans) and I refined the lower leg design. I also did the designs for the Gattling Blaster, Apacalypse Launcher, the Core cutouts of the torso, and started on the I have bought all the fittings and LEDs for the builds as well as the plastics and other bits I needed.

I have started posting WIP CAD layouts of the beast on my Deviant Art Account. I did this for two reasons; 1) I had been neglecting it a little. 2) I don't use a whole swag-load of my file limits on here or my website.

So if you want to see how things are going with that you can go here.

A sample of the Cad Stuff

I also bought some bases from Jeff Dragonforge, specifically some of his wonderful Lost Empires Bases, which I think would go perfectly with my lost-technology-hunting-Titan-escorting Skitarii. They arrived about a week and a half ago So far I have the whole lot ready to put miniatures onto. Below is my test mini mounted on his new permanent residence...

(for a larger pic you can visit my Deviant Art account)

This is after about ten years of actually owning guard miniatures (yes I have a bunch of metal Cadians, Stormtoopers, and some Steel Legion minis, plus the plastic Cadians that this mini is taken from), I have found a color scheme I actually like. I plan to doo the whole lot up like this. Plus most of the other minis in this lot will have re-breathers, goggles, bionics and other conversions to make them a fair but less like freshly recruited Skitarii.

I really wanted to get this out before I posted my contribution to the latest collaborative post for FTW. Just in case you were wondering why the two posts in a day...

The Engines Shall Walk!

Yes a nice little quote from Dan Abnett's Titanicus there shall decribe this nicely...

So I began a new project last week, and I put a teaser up on the blog about it. The project started at a passing comment at the FLGS about a double tournament. It evolved into utter madness.

The madness is to build a force to deploy in a 6000pts per side Warhammer 40000 Apocalypse Tournament in November. Ideally I could field a force from what I have painted up already (Chaos Marines, Space Marines or Imperial Guard Apocalypse Formations). But as it is a doubles tournament and I would be entering with a good buddy of mine we decided we wanted something with "Wow factor"...

To that end we decided to scratch build and field two Warlord Battle Titans worth a staggering 2500pts each.

I started out by trying to find some sort of reference to size and found this over here at Lexicanum.
Being that the game itself is in 28mm scale (actually it is exaggerated 25mm scale), Titans are a daunting project. Scratch built Titans are problematic as there is not any real defined size. The Warhound specifically coming in at around 11 inches high when assembled.

Taking this into consideration I looked at the comparison picture in the rule book and started out on the CAD, with the shin armour 11 inches high. Roughly mocking out the blocks the whole build will come in at around 900mm/36 inches high (to the top of the shoulder mounted weapons).
While this seems a little big it is about right when I look at it.
Scale wise it is about right too, in real scale the thing would be around 53 meters tall!
How did I work this out?

Well 25mm scale (the height of a normal human in 40k scale) is about 1:58 scale.
if I use the nifty converter over here to convert the inches to 5303cm in real scale.

I have a WIP gallery on Deviant Art, so most sketches, snaps and CAD mockups can be found over there. Link

and here is a pic for everyone.

and yes that is a marine silhouette for scale next to his foot!!

Cheers

Subby