Eldar Revenant Titan and Vampire Hunter: scartchbuilt

[ikim]

First thread, here, and I hope to make a good impression right away.
Some of you might know me from the CMON forums, but, I present myself here, too, with my latest works: a FW Eldar Revenant Titan and a Vampire Hunter spacecraft, both completely built from scratch.

It has been about 3 months of work, now, and I am a pretty advanced stage, but, for blog's sake, I won't post the whole 3-month-progress, in one single post (I don't even think I can... technically), so I'll just create posts, as I get along, and receive feedback from you guys.

Before I begin, here's where I am now with the Titan:





for post's sake, I dive this post in two different ones.

cheers

[ikim]

and open top:


and the Vampire Hunter:




Later, I'll post pics of the first stages of the processes.

cheers

[cyprus01]

i have just one word for you

WOW!!!

[Dark Apostle]

Mighty cool! I'm really impressed.

[Hairy Norseman]

Whoa...well impressive!!!

Am looking forward to seeing them finished

HN

[adreal]

Are they drinking straws for arms and legs of the reverant? If so I'm impressed they actually hold the wieght, if not, what are they?

But damn they are both awesome

[ikim]

all your questions will be answered withing the next few days... here are the early WIP steps (very early)

But let me begin from the beginning:
in an Italian board, Titans were coming out as mushrooms, and lots of people asked me to build one.
At first I said "no thanx, I have too much of other stuff to do", but one of them, a double crossing friend of mine started a "scratch built titan competition"... and I couldn't miss out.

Everybody was doing Warhounds of all sorts, using templates, so all lookalike.
A couple were already doing a hierophant; the net is full of Stompas (some good, most bad), but no one was doing a Ravenant.
So, since I had to go for social suicide, I decided I might as well do it good, and began the project.

here are some sketches of the legs and feet:


I had a hard time figuring out how to make these parts, and, while at first I wanted to self sculpt them from scratch, I opened a drawer in my bathroom and found my toothbrush

I cut it, gave it some detail (according to my sketches) and, after a lot of sanding, here is the result:


I then made a cast of it, and fixed some flaws with putty:

[ikim]

for the upper part of the legs, I grabbed more toothbrushes and cut them in the right length:



and here is a mock-up of the legs so far, with added feet and kneepads (the ball in the middle is there for distance-reference):




and it fits.


stay tuned for more WIPs in the next few days.

cheers

[Pekel]

Someone posted WIP parts of that Revenant here earlier, and the final is amazing! The toothbrushes were a brilliant idea. The Vampire's also amazing. Hope you plan on painting them.

[vice]

Is the Vampire Hunter made from plasticard?

[ikim]

Is the Vampire Hunter made from plasticard?

Yes, I made templates out of cardboard, using pics taken from the FW site, and I had this:




I then made some changes, and I de-assembled everything, and transfered all the templates to plastcard.

cheers

[Leonathion]

This looks really good! Keep up the good work

[Morbus]

yay the toothbrush titan!
the vampire hunter is awesome too, look forward to seeing it finished
(this is Fallen Angel by the way)

[jakub]

That looks really awesome, I tried building a valkyre for my dark angels from cardboard but it turned out horrible. I hope you will show some more steps

[de Selby]

They are really remarkably good. Well done.

[Corai]

Ah, the toothbrush titan, truly inspirational.

The eldar super heavies still look just as great and ingenious over here Ikim

Look forward to more progress on the Vampire

Thanks
corai

[RavingGuard]

very nice work, look almost perfect. i wish i had the talent.

[ikim]

Thanx to everyone for the kind words.

@Pekel: someone posted my titan in warseer also? cool? in which thread?

@Corai and Morbus: nice to see you guys here too... lol

here are the subsequents steps of the titan-build: chest and hips:

The chest was done using a paper model, to see the fit. The aim was to use plasticard to make a cone shape, 3,5 cm opening on the top, and 3 cm opening on the bottom, with 2 round shapes on the sides, oval on the top, and round in the bottom... Not at all easy.
If you think I don't even have a real Ravenant Titan for reference, but some 2D pictures I have to try and print to match the 1:1 scale... the thing got even harder.

After 2 whole hours, I managed to find the right shape: a half moon line shape, I cut out of paper, at first, then on 0,75mm plasticard. I bent it, I glue it and I got a torso. I added details and plaques, and I have myself a nice looking Ravenant torso.
I glued 2 stripes of plasticard inside the empty torso, and glued the chassie of a pen, which I stuck into the hips I made yesterday.

The torso was, later on, filled with milliput to make the shoulders.

The hips were done using those caps that come with toothbrushes, to cover the bristles, cut to fit, with added "wings" of brown stuff (which is a lot sturdier and stiff than grey stuff and green stuff).

The 2 little white wings just over the hips will be holding a pair of reactors, which gave me a hard time to make, being a very difficult shape.

But, 'nough talking, and more pics.
The titan couldnět stand, since I still had to drill holes for the pins in the hips... so here is a lying pic:


and here are 2 reference size pics:



I will have to add all those stupid gems, and a lot of details.. etc.


Uh.. I almost forgot, I added gems to the feet too.
While I like the gems added to the heel, I was not too convinced about the gems I added to the foot: it made it look like an insect, so ditched this idea.

C&C are very welcome.


cheers

[ikim]

moving along.

More work done, and here are things done in this stage:
1.I was concerned about the sharp angle of the top most chest plaque; so, with my dremmell, I filed it to make it round-ish. I am very satisfied with the result;
2.I added gems all over (I'll add more in the future) and details on the cest;
3.I built the hip shields;
4.I created the general shape for the shoulders: I will have to file them and add more layers of detail;
5.I made it stand up.

and here are the pics (keep in mind the feet are not attached yet, and that pics were taken while the legs weren't fixed, so don't mind the pose, which is so, only to make the model balance and stay erect.






As usual C&C are very welcome.

cheers

[so.sad]

Wow, this looks fantastic...
What are the overall dimensions of your Vampire?