Today in Titanicus I...

[Fajita Fan]

I've got three 6mm marines scaled to 110% and a 6mm Rhino scaled to 115% at the printer for my traitor titan bases.  These are scale tests on medium quality to eyeball how they look, doing this is challenging because 40k vehicles are way too small compared to 40k infantry anyway.  When you eyeball a 28mm scale Rhino next to a 28mm scale Reaver they look okay until you add infantry then things look odd.

 

I'm pretty much going to wing it, I actually really prefer the 6mm vehicles people have added to their 8mm scale AT titan bases because it makes them feel suitably titanic.  I have to keep telling myself the Custodes tanks I printed are actually the right scale because they seem too big but my local GW told me they're way bigger IRL than you'd think.  Oh well.

[Noserenda]

Hehe ive ended up helping folks spray in Nottingham hotel bathrooms just before events with the fans on :D I usually wait for a good day and heat the can in my trousers for a bit in winter here, though i ll admit the South coast of the UK is barely winter by global standards! 

I used a bunch of old epic minis on my titan bases and they look pretty spot on imho.

[Fajita Fan]

I have to go get more aluminum primer to spray my Rhinos.

[Fajita Fan]

Shading some exoskeletons today, need to consider basing soon.

[Dark Bjoern]

Today i finished my 4th Warhound and tenth Titan in total. And i started with my 5th Reaver. I want to finish the Corsair maniple.

[Fajita Fan]

I love the moment when you realize you can actually see the back of Warlord leg plates and you didn't actually paint it first before doing the front like you should have...

[Fajita Fan]

Well for better or worse I finished the marble on my titans' plates, the Reavers and Warlord are glossed over it to make them look like giant polished plates of marble. My loyalist Warlord is assembled, still need a few touchups and the torso will be glued to the waist. I still have plenty of guns to paint and I need to redo my attempt at weapon glow on laserblasters and turbolasers. 

 

It's amazing how much left I have to do.

[Fajita Fan]

I’m liking Grey Seer, I’m using it for basing off white on my traitors. A couple of thin coats!

[Burni]

You’re really trucking now though, nice! Edited November 26, 2019 by Burni

[Doctor Perils]

Last night in Titanicus, I...

 

Finally found some of my magnets and magnetised my arm weapons straight away before losing them again. I've ordered some slightly larger ones for the carapace mount on the reaver

[Dark Bjoern]

I magnetized all missile launchers of my knights.

[Fajita Fan]

I resprayed my resin WL guns because the paint wasn't really grabbing.  I thought I got a good layer of Rustoleum primer on there but both layer and contrast paints were just beading up on the surface instead of laying flat.  Granted it was pretty cold that day but the plastics I sprayed at the same time are working fine.  Welp, I hope these very expensive guns come out okay.

[Mandragola]

I magnetized all missile launchers of my knights.

I’d be interested to see how you did that.

[Fajita Fan]

Yeah, like how tiny was that magnet?

[Black Knight]

Today I noticed that all the Standard equipped titans are only direct from GW so the newer boxed ones with the new weapon sprues are cheaper oO.

[Fajita Fan]

:cuss, can I not return my Reaves for Warhounds now?

[Fajita Fan]

Alrighty gents, opinion time. 
 

Before getting a little gold, shades, and Grey Seer laid down after getting home late I compared the two land raiders I printed today. 
 

On the left is one of my IW Rhinos, the middle is a 40k mk3 or mk4 LR for Epic scaled up a little, and on the right is the same file but with a simple mk2 sponson I made in 3 minutes with Tinkercad but scaled up a little larger (I also changed the heavy bolter). The middle one printed first and I felt it was a little small, the problem is the right one looks kinda huge on the titan bases. This would go on a Warlord not a Reaver but you get the idea. 
 

The bigger one looks too big to me but then look at them with the obscenely huge Thunderbolt. The supposedly 8mm scale Tbolt looks so massive!

 

 

Now here’s the weird part. I used this image with my iPad to mock up the size of the two models. 

 

Now if I put my tanks on top of them the bigger LR fits better does it not? There’s a parallax error but the bigger LR is almost spot on. 
 

 

Your thoughts? I know that 40k vehicle models are designed small for gameplay purposes and that IRL a land raider isn’t appreciably smaller than some houses. This makes eyeballing vehicle sizes from the FW site

hard!

 

 

 

 

[Mendi Warrior]

I magnetized all missile launchers of my knights.

I’d be interested to see how you did that.

My guess is using 1x1mm magnets. The knights' carapaces have already a 1mm diameter hole on top. So likely removing the peg at the bottom of the missile pod (assuming there is one as I haven't it yet), drilling a 1x1mm hole and inserting the magnets. At least that is how I would do it for the missile pods and how I did it for adding a Chaos icon.

@ Dark Bjoern, please let us know how you did it.

[Mendi Warrior]

 

Alrighty gents, opinion time. 

 

Before getting a little gold, shades, and Grey Seer laid down after getting home late I compared the two land raiders I printed today. 

 

On the left is one of my IW Rhinos, the middle is a 40k mk3 or mk4 LR for Epic scaled up a little, and on the right is the same file but with a simple mk2 sponson I made in 3 minutes with Tinkercad but scaled up a little larger (I also changed the heavy bolter). The middle one printed first and I felt it was a little small, the problem is the right one looks kinda huge on the titan bases. This would go on a Warlord not a Reaver but you get the idea. 

 

The bigger one looks too big to me but then look at them with the obscenely huge Thunderbolt. The supposedly 8mm scale Tbolt looks so massive!

 

Now here’s the weird part. I used this image with my iPad to mock up the size of the two models. 

 

Now if I put my tanks on top of them the bigger LR fits better does it not? There’s a parallax error but the bigger LR is almost spot on. 

 

Your thoughts? I know that 40k vehicle models are designed small for gameplay purposes and that IRL a land raider isn’t appreciably smaller than some houses. This makes eyeballing vehicle sizes from the FW site

hard!

 

Excellent work!

 

With regards to length, I have the feeling the bigger one is very slightly too long while the smaller one slightly too short. At the same time the pictures are not exactly aligned and there is some optical distorsion. The sponsons make it also bulkier. Hard to tell. More pictures along the 3 dimensions are required I think.

 

Does this picture indicate theoretical measurements? If yes, I would use the similar plate of the Reaver in the rule book and put both next to each other, ensuring the scale matches. That would give a "benchmark". I would then scale the combined picture so as to have a 1-to-1 ratio between the Reaver in the picture and the actual model (knowing it remains an approximation due to the model's pose). Or I would put all the theoretical measurements (lengths, widths, heights) into excel and calculate ratios.

 

Keeping the "small size for gameplay" in mind, how does the width and height of the printed LRs compare with the one in the picture of the 3 models?

 

I know I would likely print the picture, take a ruler to draw multiple lines and take measurements and annotate it before going to excel and compute ratios.

[Doctor Perils]

I resprayed my resin WL guns because the paint wasn't really grabbing. I thought I got a good layer of Rustoleum primer on there but both layer and contrast paints were just beading up on the surface instead of laying flat. Granted it was pretty cold that day but the plastics I sprayed at the same time are working fine. Welp, I hope these very expensive guns come out okay.

Sounds to me like they could do with another wash? Let us know how it goes in the end :)

[Dark Bjoern]

I magnetized all missile launchers of my knights.

I’d be interested to see how you did that.

My guess is using 1x1mm magnets. The knights' carapaces have already a 1mm diameter hole on top. So likely removing the peg at the bottom of the missile pod (assuming there is one as I haven't it yet), drilling a 1x1mm hole and inserting the magnets. At least that is how I would do it for the missile pods and how I did it for adding a Chaos icon.

@ Dark Bjoern, please let us know how you did it.

Exactly like that. But i used 1,5x1mm magnets.

[Mandragola]

Cool. I might do the same. Haven't got any upgrade sprues yet but it's looking like I'll get the battleforce.

[Fajita Fan]

How the hell do you glue in 1mm magnets?

 

The bigger of the two LRs is 45mm long from track to track and the smaller is 41mm while the Rhinos are 33mm. That picture is official from GW meant to show the scale of the FW Primaris grav tank down at the bottom but I was only interested in the Rhino, LR, and Baneblade (I will be printing a 10mm scale Shadowsword to be Perturabo's Tormentor).

 

To make the titans more titanic it's tempting to make all of my vehicles and infantry 6mm scale but if/when GW does 8mm Epic I think we are all going to be astonished at how huge those tanks will be. The AI stuff is jarring how big it is compared to a Warlord or Reaver and the Tbolt isn't much smaller than a bloody Warhound. I think I may end up going with the bigger LR and make the Baneblade to the same proportions because that's actually how it's supposed to be. The 40k 28mm LR isn't terribly larger than a Rhino but it's supposed to be absolutely massive so that's a gameplay consideration, a Crusader can fit like 8 terminators without the lascannon batteries. Maybe I should make all of my vehicles the appropriate scale even though my 40k perspective is telling me to go with the smaller LR? Why is this so hard? When I line up the LRs next to the Warlord's point defense lascannons the bigger one looks more appropriate.

 

Using the dimensions from a Wiki and the ratio I started with my Baneblade would be 65mm long which is longer than a Dreadnought base. Hmmmmm...

 

I started shading the resin guns last night after another healthy spray and it's better but there's still areas where the paint beads up. I really sloshed some contrast gray on there so it'll take some drybrushing to clean up, I thought I scrubbed the resin well enough but I have heard of people soaking them in diet Coke to dissolve the lubricant.

Edited November 27, 2019 by Fajita Fan

[Fajita Fan]

Today I exchanged 3 Reavers for 4 Warhounds (Legio Audax begins!) and a pair of weapon sprues to make more Warlord gatling blasters and maybe turn a couple of Reaver arm laserblasters into Warlord turbolasers.  

 

I'm printing this nuclear power station, the cooling tower is going now and I'll probably do the complex on Saturday.  I've got it scaled to be as tall as a Warlord

 

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1374215

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by Fajita Fan

[Sherrypie]

Cool terrain project, Fajita! Given how wet draft towers often rise to 100-200 meters, that one might feel a bit small. Here's a pic from Westfalen, Germany:

 

 

The forced draft towers on the left are 34 m, pretty much Warlord size, whereas the natural draft on the right is 122 m. Some perspective :P

 

Yesterday I painted a super heavy company to support my Death Guard on epicalypse fields, but it might be fun to try them as counts-as knights in AT too. 10th Bavarian, roll out.