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Getting Ready

  titan: legs

Before assembling anything I sprayed all the pieces figure black, and then codex grey.   At this point of the process a heap of imagination is called for: as you have to be able to visualise how you want the figure to look by the time you’ve finished: and you’re stuck with the toes and bird-thumb and how to model them all. 

Forge World, with their usual over attention to detail supply you with a ton of pistons that all need trimming and filing.  Procedures for safely dealing with resin dust are largely ignored as I find I’m a little disorganised and I end up holding my breath for as long as possible and filing away, or just walking outside. 

Note to self, again: go to Woodies and buy face mask!!

I’m not really sure what I was wanting from my titan now, final figure-wise, but I think I gave up on anything too dynamic (like balancing on one foot or with toes just touching down) because I wanted it safe from falling over on the battlefield and also have an idea for a diorama for it: which it’ll be semi-stationary.

The legs come in three main sections, with armour plates that cover the shins and thighs, which I'll leave off till right at the end.  Again some luck, blutack and imagination is required to visualise how you want the legs and the hips to all fit together.  Once you have put these in place then there are a load of pistons around the ankle joint that all need trimming to the right length. 

I screwed up royally when trimming and cleaning up the hip joints and managed to trim off the small nipples that would be the fixture points of the hip pistons and cursed royally myself when realising this. A little bit of drilling would fix this later on. 

Finally the ball joints fit into the abdomen piece: which I angled to give the basic leg structure a bit more animation, while still allowing me to fit the titan into the diorama I have planned. 

 I left all the scrolls and pistons and all till later – when I would add the black patterning - and put the lower torso saside.  I was glad to get this piece over with – as it’s fiddly and irritating trying to glue and fix it all together – and legs are not the most inspiring of pieces to paint.  I was a lot more excited about starting onto the princeps and the body and the much more interesting interior details.

 

 

Legs

 

 

Body and guns

 

 

 

Cockpit

  Interior details
  The Finished Beast