Twinkly lil' toes OF DEATH! / Warhound WIP

From left to right. No highlight, wash. Highlighted and washed. Bare.

Got time to take a break and do something useful, so I finihshed up basecaoting the metal parts on the Warhounds legs.

I'm looking for a more weathered and less contrast-y metal on it. So for the first pass with color I used 50/50 VMA Grey and Gun Metal over a black primer. With just one highlight (Chainmail) and a pass of black wash it really looks like dull metal.

Now it's just the rest to do. And paint all the twiddly skulls (66 of them just on the legs) gold.

Its slowly taking shape

Fitted together with spit, chewing gum, pins and a ton of superglue.

So I finally found a pose I liked and started to glue the legs together. I'm kinda envisioning the 'Hound shooting up a bunch of "Charlie" and is no standing there asking for more / displaying power. I was originally trying to get it to be in a more walking pose. But my skills were lacking in the model department. And it also felt so much nice if it was standing firmly on both of it's feet!

Colourwise... meh. It's time to think about that now. Boomo called me a coward when I said "Blue n Gold?" but I think I'd stick to that. Making a really elaborate paintjob on the first model this big that I've ever painted feels like it'll just end in disaster. I rather have a cowardly painted titan than a halfway painted titan. : )

Here's the mockup I did to test the colours, of course you don't see the grey/gunmetal back-side of it. But it's pretty boring so we'll skip that view of the armor. Scratches looks fine on it (right part) and even thouht they will take ages to paint I think I'll stick to that instead of salt+hairspray.

I have to check up on some gold painting tutorials though. I'm not too confident in my teqhnique [Old Gold > washes > old gold > burnished gold > VMA Gold] so please drop any links to any gold painting tips you might have!

Slight Warhound update...

The feet went together without a hitch, some minor filing and sanding to make the fiddly little pistons fit, but that was about it.

For now the feet are just attached with some florists wire (for legs and positioning). With the massive amount of weight of the upper body it sure needs some solid pinning though. It'll be a job best done with power tools once the 'hound is together.

(It feels a little like a cop-out using a prefab base. The battlescape is pretty nice though. And with a prefab base I can concentrate on getting the Warhound together. I know that once it's assembled I'd be itching to paint the titan instead of modelling an epic base for it.)

Three kilogram of resin F*CK YEAH!!!

Finally dryfitted and glued together... not even close to done with the upper body though.

Today I recieved a parcel from Wayland Games (one of the few, if not the only, stores that actually ship in reasonable time…) with a new razor saw and one of those Filla-Glu kits. Which meant that I was able to start assembling the Warhound.

Now let me tell you this... it's a b*tch! The details and everything is wonderful. But putting it together is a royal pain in the backside. It really doesn't help that the "instructions" is three double sided photocopied papers in low resolution black & white. One could've thought that for £300+ they at least could've included a CD with a piece-by-piece, step-by-step instructions.

On the table... shoddy instructions

Not to mention that it's resin. So everything is slightly warped, which means that you have to spend 30 minutes dryfitting -everything- before gluing it all together. And even then you f*ck up a little. Thank God for slow curing cyanoacrylate!

I did get some time to paint a little more on Buzzgob yesterday… it's a ton of metal parts on him... I'll have to spend a day just washing them in different colors in order for the figure not to look like some weird kind of tin-man.

Buzzgob after washes... 

All work, no play…

I'm glad I don't have a girlfriend at the moment. She'd hit me in the head with that baseball bat.

As you can figure out from the title. Everything has been all work and almost no play. The good thing about it is that I make money. Which lets me buy stuff like this;

A tabletop sized titan was one of my childhood dreams. Ever since Space Marine & Adeptus Titanicus (the precursor to epic) came out I've wanted a titan. So I had some cash over and happened to browse Forge World... one week later the UPS-van came along and gave me a Warhound. :)

Now it's just the wee little problem of getting enough time on my hands to a) assemble and b) paint it. One of my friends said it'll probably take a year or two. I guess he's right.