Warlord Titan (Part 5 - Hip Hip Hooray!)

I have printed, painted and assembled the Titan's upper legs and hips.

I *have* made an error along the way though: I have assembled the lower legs backward (so the front armour is on the back of the legs). Unfortunately I didn't realise this until I'd attached the upper part of the legs.

So the net effect is that the knees are all wrong!

I have dry-fitted the upper leg and knee armour and I think that - when painted - I will get away with it.

I still feel like a complete mung-bean though. I *could* try and break it apart and reassemble it, but I don't want to damage either the model or the paintjob.

I'll soldier on, I think.

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Warlord Titan (Part 4 - Two legs!)

Progress is still being made. I've assembled and don initial painting on both lower-leg sections.

This has been a drybrushing jamboree! Hope I don't run short of metallics before finishing this off.

I think the blue/yellow combination works well, but I am realising why I normally avoid yellow - it's a horrible colour to paint with. I've never found a yellow that covers well; it always requires many coats to build up a decent solid cover.

There's a lot of armour left to add to these legs - can't wait!

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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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