Creating your own Titan

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Published on 06-27-2006 08:44 AM Number of Views: 29742

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Introduction: This is going to be my very first article in this comunity. what I want to do is to tell you something about my latest project and maybe giving some of you a bit of inspiration with it. The project:I love the space wolves, but I also do like the imperial guard with its' huge variety of weapons and vehicles as well. and because of the fact that my wolves are on a mission on a imperial planet for about 30 years now, the local forces took over some of the space wolves rites and designs. they even let them get part of their own culture.-so from now on I do no longer have any problems with integrating non space-marine-vehicles in my current army. of course I had many other ideas new vehicle-creations as well, but in the end I decided to build a walker, which should fit in a kind of wolvish scheme.Article-structure:first of all I want this article to privide you as many wip-steps as possible. Therefore I will also link pictures of stati in it I undid some steps later, just for giving you an idea of all of the possible directions the project could have gone so far ... most of the pictures I will leave uncommented for the very first time. of course I will add information to it and give answers to any of your questions wich might occour later on.but now lets start .... :first I started cutting enough space out of a land-speeder cockpit to provide a third seat for the commander.

then I started putting parts together, just to get an idea of what is possible ....

aferwards I noticed that the commander would not have any chance to get to his seat from inside the titan. ... therefore I needed to create some kind of space in between the other two crew-members ...

I decided to use the parts from the defiler kit for the legs and rearanged them a little bit.

for defending himself I also added a door-gunner

for the back I took the landraider exhausts

this is my very first brainstorm of how a foot could be build ... :-)

of course I also had to increase the main-weapons' size. so I simply gave them long barrels.

the dark part on top is the back of a 1/35 leopard2 tank

and here's the second door-gunner. I made him leaning with his knee on the rail which also supports his heavy bolter.

now I started adding some equipment to the cockpit. I started with tft-touch-screens ... ;-)

after that the head was about to get his wolvish style by getting some teeth and a wolf-skull-like design.

I kept the bolters movable by using lego/legs as mechanical connection.

I didn't like its' old hipp-design. so I had no choice than to change it. once again I used the lk's from an LandRaider and combined them with parts from the defilers' legs.

on this picture you can see the latest foot-design. the metal-looking parts are the bolters from a hurrican-bolter-system taken from the LR-crusader.

I added some armor and details and the leg was almost finished.

now the front of the leg-mounting had to be done ... .

I wanted the titan to provide transport-capacity for 10 humans. but because of its' height had no other chance to get the crew to ground, than attaching a kind of elevator-mechanism to it, which at least brings them down half the way..

of course this thing is not finished yet, but I hope you enjoyed this article allthough. as soon as i've continued working on it I'll update this article and if everything works fine I hope to finish it within the next weeks.-

-(please excuse my bad english, but I think almost everything should at least be comprehensible.) comments are highly appreciated :-)

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Avelorn - 06-28-2006, 08:12 AM

You can view the page at http://www.coolminiornot.com/article...own-titan&
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krom1415 - 06-28-2006, 08:15 AM

Looking really great, so far, thanks for sharing him.
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demi morgana - 06-28-2006, 09:26 AM

OMG! IMPRESSIVE!!!
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wolfen - 06-28-2006, 10:48 AM

Really a Titanic Job...
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Dark Seraphim - 06-28-2006, 11:06 AM

Although it's a nice looking piece, that is not what the vote is for. Your article is incoherent, and doesn't offer much for "creating your own titan" some text to some pictures you tossed into one page... Next time, look at some tutorials, I can't even begin to go into what you've done wrong... This is not a tutorial, it's a picture show...
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vikingkop - 06-28-2006, 11:38 AM

Hey man, incredible work!! Result is more than acceptable, and you had really brilliant ideas when creating this monster of war. Please post pics when you paint it. Definitely top score!
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BobPanda - 06-28-2006, 01:29 PM

@dark seraphim: i didn't want to do a tuturial in the way you might have liked it more. and to be honst with only 32 pics getting into detail, how ti glue parts together and where exactly the cuts need to be placed is simply not enough space. a complete tuturail for this model would at least need more than 100 pictures with arrows, descriptions and all that stuff on it. but in my case i decided just to give you an impression of wich parts might be usable for wich function when trying to build your own titan. also this is the reason, why i'd put it into the expert-category. because i think for experts, wich really want to build a titan with more detail than the warhound f.e., this "picture show" will completelly fullfill its' function. :-)
@ all (including dark seraphim) ... thank you very much for voting. :-)
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BobPanda - 06-28-2006, 01:29 PM

@dark seraphim: i didn't want to do a tuturial in the way you might have liked it more. and to be honst with only 32 pics getting into detail, how ti glue parts together and where exactly the cuts need to be placed is simply not enough space. a complete tuturail for this model would at least need more than 100 pictures with arrows, descriptions and all that stuff on it. but in my case i decided just to give you an impression of wich parts might be usable for wich function when trying to build your own titan. also this is the reason, why i'd put it into the expert-category. because i think for experts, wich really want to build a titan with more detail than the warhound f.e., this "picture show" will completelly fullfill its' function. :-)
@ all (including dark seraphim) ... thank you very much for voting. :-)
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Klute - 06-28-2006, 01:44 PM

Superb. Must see this painted.
Article works fine to me. Pictures say a thousand words sometimes. ;-)
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OrkyDave - 06-28-2006, 08:36 PM

A fantastic model in the making, well done! However, this is more of a 'look at my ace model' rather than a tutorial on how to build a titan. Looking good though, please post when finished.
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V!z0r - 06-28-2006, 11:52 PM

This is far most the coolest big thingie conversion ive seen! Great! cool thing with using old computer parts :P
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Tony Manero - 06-29-2006, 06:09 AM

quoting dark seraphim,
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DaN - 06-29-2006, 09:59 AM

Not bad! You titan is looking great, but if you don't wanna do an in-depth step by step as DS mentions, why not put it as a WIP like the Stompa gargant in the forums?

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=14343&page=5
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hofer - 06-29-2006, 05:44 PM

Excellent travail!
Original et ingénieux!
bravo!
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No Such Agency - 06-29-2006, 08:40 PM

Not a good step by step how-to article, but it does show how some parts can be used to construct something very different. Your use of Lego, breadboards and model/toy bitz is good too, as an inspiration for converters on a budget....
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Rancid - 06-30-2006, 07:20 AM

I'm just imaging a duel between your Titan and the stompa gargant Great work! Looking forward to see it painted
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ejsaunders - 06-30-2006, 08:49 PM

Although not a tutorial, and the title is perhaps slightly misleading, it is an inspirational article, particularly for those who perhaps love figure painting and modelling, but don't have 'natural ideas' like some of the more arty people. You've made some excellent design choices for parts, and constructed a believable model, particularly with consideration to how it would work in real W40k (with the gunners, cockpit and troop carrying sections). Many other modellers would have made a good looking model, but you have also paid attention to detail, which in my opinion, is worth more.
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Spee007 - 07-03-2006, 02:16 PM

WOW!! awsome project!!! Anyone whom gave this artical anything below a 9 due to the misleading title is a Pretentious $#!*!! Great job!! a super bad @$$ creation!!!
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Scibor - 07-06-2006, 07:36 PM

I think that this pictures are enought good inspiration to create own titan.
People what You need more ?
plans in scale in pdf file?
I think that no other informations are necessary to canstruct own titan - I think that it gives some space for own ideas.
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