Blackadder's Scratchbuilt Warhound

[Blackadder]

I use the name Blackadder. I like to scratchbuilt the larger 40K warmachines. My current project is a Lucius Pattern Warhound I call Lucie. Lucie is about 95% complete and I would like to share my building techniques with other like minded individuals on this forum.

This is my scratchbuilt Warhound Titan as it stands today.

I still have the weapons and armour to fabricate; a few minor details and of course painting. Right now she just has a coat of primer. I have a complete set of images of the whole manufacture of this model and being new to this forum I was looking for the right place to post a construction article.



Tell me what you think,

The Blackadder

I'm afraid I posted this in the wrong area. Would the mods please rectify this

Thx,

Blackadder

[Blackadder]

I hope the mods will put this in the proper topic, It's embarrassing to make such a tyro mistake. LOL

Anyhow:

Just a few more images of Lucie as she is today. Lucie has fully articulated legs and feet.

all the joints on her toes flex to the limits of the FW design. This is one of the reasons it has taken me so long to build this model. designing the joints and making them strong enough to take flexing so she can be fully poseable.



Lucie and friends.



She looks strange without arms.



Posing with my superheavy scratchbuilt Titan Hunter .



Leaving her companions in the dust.

Blackadder

[Scythican]

Well I can say this, it is very awesome. I would love to know the details of this thing's construction. Heck even if you decided not to make the weapons, you could easily buy them from forgeworld and finish this bad boy up. Please let use know how you made it!

[Stewie Griffin]

SWEET MERCIFUL klkn! 


that is freakin awesome!, cant wait to see it painted

[Warptide]

That is hands down the most amazing scratch built model I've ever seen, and likely will see. What weapons are you going to give Lucie?

[Unholy Harbinger]

Excuse me while I run downstairs to pick up my jaw!

That is so good if you hadn't of told me it was a scratchbuild i wpould have thought it a FW one.

Please share how you built this.

Oh and lucius pattern is the best one in my mind.

[Anubis]

Looking awesome dude!!!

[I am Legion]

HOLY shtlk!!!!  You scratchbuilt that??!?!?!
That's simply incredible, It looks like the real thing.  in fact if you didn't say that this was scratchbuilt I would have thought it was the real thing.  Great work.
By the by Blackadder is one of my all time favourite comedies.  So double kudos to you.

[Scythican]

Are right dude. You are going to either have to give up the plans, or make some more and sell them. I was just looking around on ebay and I found one that is nowhere near as good as yours (even without the arms) and the last time I checked it was at $170.00 USD. Check it out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCRATCH-BUILT-WARHOUND-TITAN-40K-SCALE_W0QQitemZ300367000468QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Toys_Wargames_RL?hash=item45ef44b394

[Anubis]

that one sucks dyi.
dude this one looks easily plausible that it could have been a fully fledged forgeworld kit.
I definitely take my hat off to you.

[Scythican]

that one sucks dyi.
dude this one looks easily plausible that it could have been a fully fledged forgeworld kit.
I definitely take my hat off to you.

My point exactly. If a few bidders think that one is worth $170.00, I could only imagine what they would think of this one.

[salamut2202]

that's scratch built? no way, really? your pulling our legs, aren't you? that's crazy!

[Blackadder]

Wow that's quite a reception. I don't recall getting that many responses to a first post. Thank you all very much.

Yes Lucie is entirely scratchbuilt and the labor of many hours. If I were to sell her on eBay she would probably have to sell for three to four times the cost of a FW titan to make it worth my while and even then I would be working for less than minimum wage. I started construction on Lucie (Short for Lucius Pattern) April first of this year. The initial prototype in foam was pretty pitiful and yet it is still the core of the present model of Lucie









One week into the build and I was still feeling my way along as far as size and proportion. Surprisingly the hull and carapace I had nailed from the beginning. I have not had to change anything on either other than to skin them with plasticard.

The legs were another story. My first set were functional but too small and dainty.









I'm looking forward to sharing my techniques on this forum,

BTW The Blackadder series is my all time favorite as well.

Next post I'll jump ahead to show the armament. For now a Megabolter and a Turbo Laser(I already made a Plasma Cannon for the Titan Hunter). Lucie will have a full array of the Warhound arsenal when I am finished.

E.B.

[SILKiam]

Dude! You deserve a spot of karma for the awesomeness!

[Odo The Brave]

Wow, this is amazing.  To be entirely honest, this is the best scratchbuild I've ever seen- much less the only scratchbuilt Titan I've seen on this site.  When I first found this page I thought you were scratchbuilding weapons for a Warhound- I couldn't tell that yours wasn't a Forgeworld product!  I hope that at some point you'll share with us your building materials and processes, I'd love to learn how you make these things even if my products are much worse quality than yours.

[Blackadder]

Alright one more post before I turn in.

Here's the Mega bolter and Turbo Laser as they are right now. If anyone is interested I'll post the building images.

EB

[Anubis]

polystyrene?
that stuff gives me the heebie jeebies...

[Blackadder]

Well I can say this, it is very awesome. I would love to know the details of this thing's construction. Heck even if you decided not to make the weapons, you could easily buy them from forgeworld and finish this bad boy up. Please let use know how you made it!

Lucie weighs a fraction of what a real Warhound does which I figure to be about 4 to 6 pounds That would make the FW resin weapons about equal in weight to Lucie and she would topple forward. my weapons are on the order of an ounce or two and can be compensated for by adding weight to the inside shield generator housings. I haven't done that yet as I am waiting to finish the guns and mount them. I figure I have room for a quarter pound of lead in each housing.

Nothing thus far has been purchased as a premade item and I would like to keep it that way. I will use the skulls and aquilla from the bitz box for althought the skulls and the aqulla on the toe piston/cylinders are handmade



the larger skulls would need finer detail.

I plan a step by step discription of the build. Enough to make everyone sick of it. LOL

EB

Hell I'm sick of it already Blackadder.

Figured I'd get that in before someone else did.

Blackadder

[Kakashi Sensei]

You've done a super-fantastic job so far, the Karma (for the awesomeness) was well deserved! It's just remarkably similar to the actual FW model, but you can spot the differences. I hope you'll get a respectable amount for this, for you've put a lot into this.

[Blackadder]

Sorry these are out of order but you can readily see the progression. Originally the toes were too weak and tended to break off. The new toes are a tad shorter, more robust, and the joint cylinders are more in scale.

 




 









All the joints are moveable and can be posed in any position. The hydraulic cylinder pistons move in and out as the toes flex and the cylinders are mounted on trunions so they follow the movement of the toes.

The hardest part of these assemblies was the repetition and the umpty ump rivets,

Blackadder