Warlord Titan (Part 3 - The first leg!)

I have been busy with the glue and the paint and assembled the first let (up to as far as the knee) of my 3D Printed Warlord Titan.

I must say as a relative newbie to 3D Printing I am very impressed with what can be achieved with a very low-cost machine.

The detail in the model is impressive and the printer is doing a great job!

The printed parts are rock-solid. I don't doubt that there will be times when a re-inforcing pin or two may be required, but on the whole - as I said - I am very impressed.

I've decided on a two-tone colour scheme (yellow/blue). As yet there is no weathering - I'll get on to that later - and there is also a heap more armour to apply:

Necromunda model added for scale

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Warlord Titan (Part 2 - Been busy printing...)

Hi all

Whilst this may be my first post for a few months I have not been idle (and neither has my 3D Printer!)

I have printed, assembled and painted loads more of my Titan project (and I'm still not finished) but I have been remiss in not posting about it. My blog has been horribly ignored for a while and I need to do something about that.

So, here is the first in a series of catch-up posts on the Titan.

So you can see from the photo above that I have printed all the parts required to build the Titan up as far as the knees. The feet have been assembled, spray-undercoated and given a first drybrush. The other bits (in black) just spray-undercoated and the white parts were fresh off the printer when the photo was taken.

I took the photo on my cutting mat to give an idea of scale (the squares are 1cm).

More updates WILL follow!

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Warlord Titan (Part 1 - First foot forward...)

So I got myself a new toy last year - a 3D Printer. My intention is to use it for creating scenery pieces.

As is my wont, however, after using the machine to print several upgrades for itself and learning a bunch in the process, I got distracted...

I'm still going to use it for scenery pieces (I have a bunch of stuff to print for my Middle Earth SBG Moria army, for example), but I have discovered that some nice person has created the models for printing a 28mm scale Warlord Titan.

So now I'm making one of those.

These things take a long time to print - the five components making up this foot took a couple of days, for example. This is a project that I will be running with for some time.

Now a confession: I have actually printed quite a bit of this model and am working through painting it up, so there will be a series of posts over the next few weeks to get me up to date with where I really am, then it may well all slow down.

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Middle Earth SBG (The Dead of Dunharrow - part 2)

Wow - almost a month since my last blog post.

That could be a record.

I have not been idle! Here are some more dead chappies for my Dunharrow army:

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Middle Earth SBG (Ruins of Osgiliath - part 2)

Hey, hey, hey, sports fans.

Here is the second batch of buildings I have painted towards my little Osgiliath project.

I'm aiming for something that is flexible, changeable and easy so I'm sticking to using off-the-shelf GW models. I've swapped a few bits around here and there just to keep things interesting.

Building#5

Building#5 - Alternate view

Building#6

Building#6 - Alternate view

Building#7

Building#7 - Alternate view

Building#8

Building#8 - Alternate view

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Middle Earth SBG (The Dead of Dunharrow - part 1)

I've focused quite heavily on bad guys up until now. Aside from The Fellowship I really haven't painted any goodies at all for Middle Earth.

Well, that changed recently when I decided to (excuse the pun) flesh out the Dead of Dunharrow force that came with the Pelennor fields set.

So, before the "War in Gondor" book that came out with the new King and Heralds models, I trawled ebay and (excude the next pun) added some meat on the bones of the army for not a lot of cash.

So, here are my King (original metal model) and some of his mates:

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Middle Earth SBG (Ruins of Osgiliath - part 1)

As you may well have noticed I've been on a bit of a "Middle Earth Mission" recently.

Well, I'm still on it. Five separate armies on the go (The Fellowship, Moria, Isengard, Mordor (and friends!) and The Dead of Dunharrow).

I needed a break from painting "people" so I've decided to do some scenery pieces too.

The easiest way to start was to pick up some of the GW ruins which can be bought quite cheaply off eBay so that's exactly what I did. I decided to have a go at building something that could be used as either "random ruins" or - deployed in quantity - Osgiliath (I'm still searching for something that could represent the infamous bridge - stay tuned).

Anyway, here are the first few items:

Building 1: view#1

Building 2: view#2

Building 2: view#1

Building 2: view#2

Building 3: view#1

Building 3: view#2

Building 4: view#1 

Building 4: view#2

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