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Chaos Reaver Titan Completed Minor Update

2011-12-02T12:19:00.000-08:00

Finally, after 2 years of working on this model I've finally finished it. Now, I still have 3 weapon options I need to finish, make a banner, and possibly spray a varnish on the model, but otherwise, it is done. The Titan stands at 16 inches with the Apocalypse Missile launcher attached.

I have gone back and did a few touch up repairs where I could find imperfections, but I'm sure more will come up.

*I've now included the HD version of the video.*

Enjoy the photos and video of the Titan!

Until next time.

HD Version of the Video.

Apocalypse Missile Launcher.

A bit of a size comparison below.

The Titan in all its individual parts.

Titan Weapons: 66% Completed

2011-11-29T20:42:00.000-08:00

Update time! :D

Well, managed to get two of the three primary weapons completed. I only have the Apocalypse Missile Launcher left to work on. Both the arm weapons below are magnetized. They are interchangeable, between each arm.

Enjoy the photos!

Weapons Primed!

2011-11-23T23:58:00.000-08:00

Just a small update, I've gotten the main weapons I will be using with the Titan primed. Used the same method as before, applying a coat of matte varnish, followed by black primer.

All the weapon bits laid out below.

The Melta Cannon

Laser Blaster

Apocalypse Missile Launcher

Now I can start painting these, until next time.

Enjoy!

Titan Body Complete

2011-11-21T22:52:00.000-08:00

Finally! I can say I completed the body of the Titan. I can now move onto the weapons. I touched up some details here and there, but I'm sure there is something I need to touch up still, if anything I'll go over it later. The weapons that I want work on immediately is the Apocalypse Missile Launcher, Laser Blaster, and Melta Cannon.

Enjoy!

The Eye of Horus

2011-11-19T20:11:00.000-08:00

Another update!

I've managed to complete yet more of the Titan. This time the underside armour plate, the plate that fits between the Torso and the the upper Mid plate, and of course the actual Mid plate. Probably one of the coolest parts of the model, the eye of Horus. Decided to go with a blue/white for the eye, similar to the smaller one inside the Titan. I only have the two shoulder plates left, and then the body will be officially done. At this rate, it will be done faster than my initial prediction of end of next week.

Anyways, enjoy the pics!

A face only a mother could love

2011-11-17T02:42:00.000-08:00

Small update!

I've started painting the remaining armour plates. Initially I was going to do chunks of each piece, so I could get them all done at around the same time, but I ended getting the face plate done first. I created another stencil for the symbol I wanted to do. It wasn't quite as good as the Mark of Khorne one I did for the knee, but it still turned out quite good. Just one step closer to getting the Titan body done at least.

Enjoy!

Big Update Part 2

2011-11-13T23:02:00.000-08:00

So tonight I went ahead and glue all the upper Torso parts that I wanted to glue. I also dry fitted all but one of the armour plates(the one that I didn't needs to be glued on the underside).

It's looking really good so far. I will have a bit of touching up to do here and there after gluing, but overall it's coming along quite nicely.

Some pics below. Enjoy!

Torso without any armour plates.

With armour plates.

Big Update

2011-11-12T23:37:00.000-08:00

Wow... I haven't worked this hard on a model for quite some time. I've managed to get a significant amount of work completed on the Titan.

All the photos below are parts of the upper torso, more specifically the internal guts and arm joints. Next update will include the remaining armor plates for the upper torso. Don't know how long it will take exactly, my guess is about the same amount as all these parts below.

After that's all done, I'll quickly go over the model to make sure there isn't any damage or missed spots, and then I'll start moving onto the weapons. I also plan on spraying the model down with a matte varnish, I don't normally do on my models, but I want to play it safe with this one.

Until next time... enjoy the pics!

Titan update, finally!

2011-11-06T09:17:00.000-08:00

An update on my Titan that is long overdue. As I've stated in my previous post, life happened, and I put the Titan on hold. So, I've started again, mainly because Necrons finally got their codex updated, and I will be assembling many new models for them. I'm hoping this wont deter my efforts from working on the Titan too much. :P

Anyways, here some pics. I painted the cockpit and some of the internal parts for the Titan. Enjoy!

Yikes...

2011-10-17T00:48:00.001-07:00

I'm not dead!

So, its been a while since I've last update my blog. Sadly, the Titan is not done. Not much has changed since my last update, other than having prepared and primed the next bunch of parts that need to be painted. As for the reasons why I haven't finished yet, life simple happened. However I will be picking it up again. As for part of the reason why, necrons are finally getting their codex update, they are the first army I truly started collecting. Needless to say, I am quite excited about it.

Hopefully I will have more updates on the Titan in the coming week. :)

Chaos Titan Legs, Part Four: Retribution

2011-05-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

It's done, the legs are finally done. After a good solid 3 weeks of work. :)

Things came together much better than I had expected, after the initial problems of the armour plates not wanting to fit together properly.

I also went ahead and did some freehand work, the mark of Khorne on the one knee pad, and the quotes on each side of the legs. I think the bleach bones colour came out really well on the red, better than I had initially expected.

I created a mask with some green painters tape for the knee pad. This worked out ok, some of the paint still bled through over the the lines, so I had to touch it up.

Now that this part is done, I can start work on the weapons and Torso. Which I think I'll be able to do tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Used some green painters tape to paint the symbol on the knee pad.

Front view of the legs completed and glued.

Back view.

Writing on the legs. Had a friend help me with what to write here.

"Imperator Rex Mortis, Vivat Deus Tenebrus."

Roughly translates into, "Death to the emperor, long live the dark gods."

Mark of Khorne and Angry Knee happily at home, although I'm sure its hard to tell.

A side of Dakka

2011-05-16T19:41:00.000-07:00

Here is a preview of my next project, Orks.

I've been looking at them for a while, and a part of me has been wanting to do conversions on some Orky contraptions. It's going to be a lot of fun to see what I can pull of.

A lot of the Lootas/Burnas/Nobs/Deff Kopta bitz are most likely going to go into conversions.

So far I have the following:

1 Ork Warboss
15 Nobs
40 Boyz
10 Ork Kommandos + 1 Boss Snikrot
5 Lootas/Burnas
3 Deff Koptas
3 Killa Kans
1 Deff Dread
1 Truk
1 Battle Wagon
6 Ork Bikers

Expect more Dakka in the Future.

Chaos Titan Legs. Part Three, The Reckoning...

2011-05-16T19:21:00.000-07:00

So, what did I learn about gluing all those pieces for the inner lower leg areas. It's a pain in the butt.

I had two parts that did not want to fit together. Essentially, because of how both of the legs are bent as far as they are, I neglected to realize that I won't be able to fit the piston in with the guard piece. Issue occurred on the front most leg's rear piston guard and on the front piston guard on the other leg. In the end having to shave a lot of the piston was the only way to get it to actually fit, and even then it was very tight.

Next problem was with the toes, once again caused by how far the legs were bent. I had to use a mixture of pinning, green stuff, and super glue to get it all to fit together.

Needless to say it was a messy, frustrating ordeal. I also ended messing up some of the paint because of getting super glue on my fingers. After about 3 hours it was done, and I patched up all the areas I messed the paint up.

Front of the legs.

Back/Side view of the legs.

Rear of the front most leg. As you can see the back piston is very close to the toe. This caused me a lot of grief.

Front of the front most leg.

Enjoy!

Chaos Titan Legs, Part Two of Many

2011-05-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

Just another update. Managed to finish painting all the lower inner leg pieces. A total of:

16 toe pistons, 8 leg pistons, 2 back of the knee pistons, 8 Toes, and 8 Piston leg guards.

Was a bit of pain to paint them, surprisingly. Now that it's done I can go ahead and get it all glued. I'll probably have an update for that later this weekend.

Enjoy.

Chaos Titan Legs, Part One of Many

2011-05-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Well, I was hoping to have an update last Saturday, but as it turns out, the inner leg parts took longer than expected. I've been doing a good solid 1 - 3 hours each day so far. I'm feeling really good about it and I'm excited to be on my way to completing this project.

Anyway, here they are for everyone to see. Enjoy! Comments are always welcome.

Angry Knee, a Chaos Reaver Titan Update

2011-04-29T22:45:00.000-07:00

Yikes, this is embarrassing. I haven't put up any updates on the Titan in a long time. I've had the thing for over 1 year, and its still not at all close to being done.

So here we are, back at it. The group that I've played with are all getting back into Warhammer, as well as some newcomers to the game. With that I set a goal that I'd spend at least 1 hour every day working on the Titan. So far, during the last 6 days, I've accomplished just that.

I decided to paint, what my friends and I have dubbed "Angry Knee". It was good practice and a bit of a challenge to remember how to go about painting it. I also finished the metallic colors on the inner leg portions, which I will upload later.

So here you are, long overdue. Enjoy!

Fluttershy is Win

2011-04-16T00:39:00.000-07:00

Possibly my last MLP madness Post.

This is fanart for one of the actual characters from MLP.

Enjoy the awesome. :)

Galana straight to Tablet

2011-04-05T23:40:00.000-07:00

Decided to draw some more directly on my tablet in photoshop, rather than just sketching it out first. Used the same method on the ponies. :)

Overall I think it turned out well.

Enjoy!

More Ponies!

2011-04-02T12:53:00.001-07:00

Can't ever have enough ponies. Here is another League of Legends character in pony form.

Katarina, The Sinister Hoof(Blade).

Enjoy!

My Little Pony, League of Legends

2011-03-30T15:55:00.000-07:00

A small contest ran by one of the community members is currently underway on the League of Legends site. Basically you need to draw a champion into a pony. I've decided to give it a shot. Needless to say, it was quite fun, and it's too damned cute. :D

Forum link

Mordekaiser Pony (Mordehoover)

Enjoy!

Galana Time

2011-02-17T01:44:00.000-08:00

Drew some quick sketches of Galana. Old character of mine. Decided to do one of them up.

Initial Sketch:

I'm sure there is all sorts of out of proportion parts in this one.

Enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T18:31:00.000-08:00

Just a simple pic I drew up quickly in photoshop.

Enjoy. :)

Random Doodles

2011-01-26T21:45:00.000-08:00

Haven't really worked on anything solid for the last month. Here are some random drawings I've done in the last week or so.

Practicing some facial expressions:

Just some random girl.

Character based on Mirror's Edge. Recently played that game, enjoyed it very much.

Sure is Veigar up in here.

2010-12-25T21:38:00.000-08:00

I give you the Tiny Master of Evil, Veigar.

A friend of my plays him often. It's always satisfying to see someone on the opposing team explode because of this little guy.

Happy Holidays!

2010-12-19T15:00:00.000-08:00

I haven't had much time to draw due to Christmas coming soon, been busy with family etc.

Here is the last piece of art I had been working on. Warwick, The Blood Hunter.

Enjoy!

For the LoLs...

2010-11-28T00:22:00.000-08:00

Some more League of Legends Characters. Enjoy!

Teemo, the swift scout. Has the ability to plant invisible exploding mushrooms. Very annoying when you run into 3 or 4 of these in a row and die to them. Figured this picture would do him just. :)

Nidalee, my favorite character by far. Very fun.

Mundo going where he pleases. He ended up a lot thinner than intended, but otherwise I think he turned out fine.

Demons and other things!

2010-11-18T00:53:00.000-08:00

Some more drawings and sketches I've done over the last few days. Enjoy!

Super Meat Boy is just coming out in the next couple of weeks for the PC. Been looking forward to the game, felt like drawing our little Meaty hero.

Some practice sketches of my favorite demon girl. Using Shades of Grey sketch book by J.Scott Campbell for reference on poses.

More rough Galana demon girl sketches etc.

Finally, drew another hero from League of Legends, Morgana, The Fallen Angel. This took quite a bit of effort, especially the wings. Overall I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Thats it for now, until next time.

Acolite

Been a while

2010-11-11T03:37:00.000-08:00

So, I haven't updated this in quite a while. Part of the reason is I've put the Titan on hold for some time now, lifes kept be busy etc.

I've decided I will be updating with artwork I am working on as well. Fear not, I will resume working on my Titan in the not so distant future.

For now, I'll share my last few sketches that I had been working on in the past week or so.

Some rough sketches for a character design, will probably be working on this more at some point.

Sketch of Celestine from Sisters of Battle that a friend of mine requested.

Trying out some new designs for my symbol. Still working on this.

Random Demon guy I drew, partially influenced by DarkSiders.

War from DarkSiders, beat the game recently, felt like giving him a sketch.

Nefer-Tina from an old cartoon, Mummies Alive!

An attempt at Mordekaiser from League of Legends.

Enjoy the artwork for now, more to come later!

Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne

2010-04-04T20:14:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd also share one of my previous works.

This was my first Forge world model that I bought. It was quite an investment of time, blood, sweat, and money. It was worth it. I probably spent about 6 months working on this on and off. The biggest pain was all the underside cables. So many cables...

The faces were a fun experiment after seeing a few examples on other models. I did think about doing that for the Chaos Reaver Titan, but I figured having them and angry knee might be redundant.

Painting

2010-04-04T19:13:00.000-07:00

So I started painting the Titan. In the end I decided to go with the Red/Brass World Eaters color scheme. I did try the white first on a piece of the leg armor plate to see how it would look. Initially it seemed ok, but as I got further into it, adding some weathering/damage and blood splatter, it looked worse. After about staring at what I had painted for 30 seconds, I found myself going over the entire white with red gore. :|

Needless to say, it didn't work. The red ended up turning out much better.

Looking pretty good so far. :)

I have also begun work on the actual legs. So far I have just been doing a flat coat of Bolt gun metal on most of the inner legs.

As you may have noticed, some areas have a rough job done to them, but those areas I will be going over with another color, or I simply had no choice, because of how difficult it was to get the paint brush where it should have gone.

More to updates to follow!

Color Scheme!?

2010-03-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

So I've been thinking about what I am going to do for a color scheme. Now, I was initially going to go with pretty much the same idea with what Forge world did for theirs, red and brass, mainly since my army is khornate CSM army.

However lately I have been having second thoughts. I've been wanted to paint some of my csm in a different color scheme, I got the idea after playing with the army painter in Chaos Rising. This is what color scheme I came up with:

I was thinking something like that, as my own personal color scheme. I'll probably be making a small personal war band for part of my army as well. obviously the army painter in the game is pretty limited, but I'd probably add a splash of red here and there, since it would still be loyal to khorne.

Otherwise I'd go for the more traditional colors:

My whole thought behind this is, I'll probably not be buying another one of these, at the very least not any time soon. I'd want it to be somewhat unique, that it is my Titan, yet, at the same time, I do like the forgeworld colors.

Anyway, I'm open for ideas and input from everyone.

Let me know what you all think.

Massive Update!

2010-03-18T19:55:00.000-07:00

An update, about the Chaos Reaver Titan? Really? Yeah, really!

Finally have gotten around to giving you all an update on my progress so far. Last update I had started pinning and gluing the model.

I got to the point where it was almost all done except for dry fitting the lower leg armor parts, which was a bit problematic since it wasn't lining up properly with the sockets as seen below:

Lucky nothing that can't be fixed with the help of a hair dryer or heat gun. Once the resin gets hot enough you can just bend it into whatever position you need.

Once that was all done, I went ahead and prepared everything for priming. Took small bits of painters tape and stuck it on all the places where I would be gluing parts together.

Next I primed all the parts, using the same method I described before. After that, I removed all the tape that I had attached from earlier.

Unfortunately there were some areas where the primer could not reach, such as here. Might be hard to see, but towards the left side, there is a nice gleaming line of gray where the primer could not hit that well. I'm hope there is enough for the paint to stick, but we will see when I get to it.

There was another problem I didn't realize before, the back ankle piston, there is very little room, which is going to make it very difficult to glue in after, I got a couple of ideas to get around it, for now I'm not going to concern myself too much with it.

Finally came the gluing of all the remaining parts for the leg, only things I left unglued was the leg armor plates, knees, rear upper pistons, all the ankle pistons, and toes. Simply for the reason of being able to access all the areas for painting.

Well there you have it people, a long overdue update on the Chaos Reaver Titan. At this point I can finally start painting the legs. I'll have another update in about week hopefully.

And now time for something entirely different

2010-03-11T02:17:00.000-08:00

Ok, not really...

So, most are probably wondering why I have not updated in over a month. Simply put, I have been busy with work and the Olympics in Vancouver. Now that its over, I can finally start making time to work on this beast.

I have made progress and at this point, have primed the leg pieces. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to upload the pictures yet, I will do after I'm done my work shifts in the next few days.

I will also post some photos of other models I have assembled and painted later as well, including Brass Scorpion from Forgeworld.

So, for now I'll share with some other things I've been working on, that is Warhammer 40k related.

First picture is a Khornate deamon bunny, I got the idea from the fact that Khornate Terminators look like bunnies with the piece on. So, I jokingly drew a picture of that idea.

Since then I have decide to do something for each of the other Chaos gods. I still have Nurgle and Slaanesh to do.

For those who are interested in other artwork that I have done, you can check out my deviant art page here:

http://acolite.deviantart.com/

Right then, back to it! The Legs

2010-01-28T21:40:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

So I have an update for you all.

I've finally started gluing and pinning the legs. So far, I've learned to truly hate pinning. It does help, but it's a pain on such a large model. It is coming along quite nicely though.

I also did some test priming, to see what would be the best method. So far, the first method is working out great. I got some Krylon Matt Varnish and your Regular Chaos Black GW spray paint.

I used the Matt Varnish first, since it adheres better to resin than regular spray paint. I did about two light coats on each piece. It dries quite quickly, only takes about 15 minutes, once that was done, I sprayed the pieces with the Chaos Black spray paint.

After letting it dry over night, I went back to check how it turned out. After rubbing all the pieces, none of the primer came off. Success!

I learned things the hard way with my Greater Brass Scorpion, it was quite terrifying to see the paint peal off as I painted.

With that working out I went and tried it on several other pieces.

Since then I have pinned a few more parts around the pelvis/hip area. I just need to pin the toes, lower leg armor plates, and a couple of other things. I'll most likely have a larger update next week for everyone.

Acolite

Holidays and New Years...

2010-01-04T23:07:00.000-08:00

Well first off, Happy late Holidays and New years to everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates, but as some may guess, I have been busy during the last couple of weeks.

I actually have made progress in gluing and pinning the legs and I do have pictures, which I will upload a bit later. I'm going to have 4 days off, so I'm hoping to catch up on the work I've missed with this beast. :)

More updates to follow soon, until then, take care!

Part 3 Wash Thoroughly...

2009-12-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

So I finally finished cutting/trimming all the flash on the resin pieces. So, next step for me was to clean/wash all the parts.

Bath time for the reaver bits!

For those that don't know, you want to wash the parts to get rid of the release agent that might still be on the pieces, otherwise when you go to paint or primer the model, it will just flake off. I had this happen to me with my Brass Scorpion, luckily I had just started painting it and had not primed all the pieces.

These were a pain to clean, mainly because they were so damn small...

First, I poured some Mr Clean Floor cleaner into the water, dunno how much exactly;about as much as I felt necessary. :)

After that, I let it sit for about 1/2 an hour. Then took a tooth brush and scrubbed the pieces thoroughly. Then rinsed them in warm water, before scrubbing them again with soap, and rinsing them one last time.

Finally, I layed out all the pieces to let them dry.

So, after a night of drying, I had to start patching up all the air bubbles on the pieces, I did this two ways, using green stuff for the bigger holes and super glue for the smaller ones.

This piece was probably the worst as you can see:

After the green stuff finally sets, I'll sand down all of it to make it nice and smooth, once that is done, I can finally start to glue/prime it. :D

Part 2 Cleaning and Trimming (Pic Heavy)

2009-11-26T03:50:00.000-08:00

So I have begun cleaning and trimming all the parts. Damn there is a lot to do. I've spent probably 20 + hours working on this now. I'm about 80% of the way done.

First thing I did was make sure that I got all the parts for the reaver, went through each checklist sheet. Sadly I did find that I was missing a piece, it isn't anything major, just a cable/tentacle arm that is supposed to be coming out of the Princep's chest.

I already emailed Forgeworld about this and they are sending me a replacement piece, probably take around 10 days, which is totally fine, since I still have a lot of work to do before I can even start to worry about that part.

There really is a lot of excess resin to cut, I've managed to mutilate my thumb multiple times so far. :x

Once I've finished cleaning/trimming all the parts, I'm going to wash them all thoroughly to remove any mould release fluids from the model, otherwise the paint will just rub off. I learned this the hard way when I tried to paint my Brass Scorpion.

Anyway, here are some pics:

That is a lot of parts!

The angriest knee you will ever know and fear...

I too would be screaming with a giant whole in my chest... :|

Eye of Horus I would imagine. :)

They all is chilling in the head...

:D

Wow... I had lob that off... twice... :|

Part 1 Order Recieved

2009-11-24T01:41:00.000-08:00

I just received this massive model from Forgeworld.

Anyway, here are pics of it in all its wonders bags of bits!

What I ordered:

1x Chaos Reaver Titan Body

1x Melta Cannon arm

1x Laser Blaster arm

1x Power fist arm

1x Apocalypse Missile Launcher Carapace Weapon

1x Warhound Plasma Cannon arm (Which I will convert to a carapace weapon)

1x Warhound Vulcan Mega Bolter arm (Which I will convert to a carapace weapon)

I do plan on making all the weapons inter-changeable. It will take a lot of work, but I think it will be worth it.

I love that my Titan is number 469. I'm assuming that this is the number of total Reaver Titans casted to date, including both Loyalist and Chaos models.

Chaos Reaver Project

2009-11-23T06:06:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone,

Here I will be posting my work in progress on my Forgeworld Chaos Reaver Titan.

Here is a link to the model on the forgeworld website.

Some back story:

Titans are colossal engines of war, bestriding the battlefields like... wrathful gods.

Within the Traitor Titan legions, most individual machines have seen millennia of service with the renegade forces and long since become utterly corrupted by the touch of the Warp.

Chaos Titans are now as much daemon as they are machine. Their once living crews are fused with their engines, mutated into a single being dedicated to destruction and butchery on a scale incomprehensible to a mind bound by the constraints of human mortality.