Yes! I have joined the elite few who are privileged / unhinged enough to spend nigh-on £300 on a Warhound Titan from Forge World. It actually arrived a couple of weeks ago, but due to decorating, gardening, Red Alert 3 and other concerns my initial progress has been fairly slow.
My initial impressions were mainly shock and despair, at the sheer amount of components to wash, trim, dry fit, prime, paint, glue paint and so on.
There was also terror - the main body section (to which the head and shoulders attach) had a part broken off at the front next to the crew hatch, and the crew elevator had part of the lip on it break off as well. These were just about repairable, but I rang Forge World and they have dispatched replacements. Better safe than sorry where the fragility of resin is concerned!
In the meantime I have washed a lot of the components (once I sorted them out it didn't seem quite so daunting), and started the long process of trimming and dry fitting, but as anyone who has been through this will tell you, dry fitting isn't half as satisfying as when you start gluing it together.
I am currently up to the "pistons" stage of assembling the legs, which involves cutting the many many (38 to be precise) pistons to the size required by the leg pose and fitting them in place.
I a couple of photos here, though they are only quick snaps from my phone camera so aren't exactly works of art, and I have actually reposed the legs (to even up the groin section) since I took them, and attached the pistons at the ankles, but they give you the general idea until I can get more pics onto the net.
The feet:
Legs from the front:
and the side:
as I said, these are some really rough snaps; better to follow when I can find the time.
To conclude the inital posting, here are some of my "lessons learnt":
As I have said, there is more to come once I've made some more progress!
Oh and a question to all reading this - can anyone do English-Latin translation? I need to name this beast and I want it to be in Latin!
My initial impressions were mainly shock and despair, at the sheer amount of components to wash, trim, dry fit, prime, paint, glue paint and so on.
There was also terror - the main body section (to which the head and shoulders attach) had a part broken off at the front next to the crew hatch, and the crew elevator had part of the lip on it break off as well. These were just about repairable, but I rang Forge World and they have dispatched replacements. Better safe than sorry where the fragility of resin is concerned!
In the meantime I have washed a lot of the components (once I sorted them out it didn't seem quite so daunting), and started the long process of trimming and dry fitting, but as anyone who has been through this will tell you, dry fitting isn't half as satisfying as when you start gluing it together.
I am currently up to the "pistons" stage of assembling the legs, which involves cutting the many many (38 to be precise) pistons to the size required by the leg pose and fitting them in place.
I a couple of photos here, though they are only quick snaps from my phone camera so aren't exactly works of art, and I have actually reposed the legs (to even up the groin section) since I took them, and attached the pistons at the ankles, but they give you the general idea until I can get more pics onto the net.
The feet:
Legs from the front:
and the side:
as I said, these are some really rough snaps; better to follow when I can find the time.
To conclude the inital posting, here are some of my "lessons learnt":
- Check everything. Immediately, as soon as you open the box. And don't just check it's there, check it is in good condition.
- Resin is fragile! Some of these parts are huge chuncks of it so are generally okay, but the thinner bits WILL break if stressed. I've managed to knock off 2 of the ball joints the hip pistons are supposed to be anchored to, so I'm proceeding with extreme caution now.
- Dry fit, dry fit and dry fit again. Then dry fit.
- If in doubt, don't cut. Measure again. don't cut, file or snip anything until you are positive.
- Getting the groin section level was a pain in the behind. My advice is to get the groin section secured at the height and orientation you want, then attach the legs. I also used a spirit level (Perfectionist? Moi? Never).
- Superglue Activator is fantastic stuff, a great timesaver and excellent for projects like this. Just make sure you are very careful where you put your fingers :-D
- Pistons - I had some real issues getting some of these to fit properly. In retrospect, I think putting some greenstuff into the hollow end of the piston, then sticking the smaller one into that - I believe it will be a lot better than using superglue. I still have another batch of them to do though, so I'll let you all know if I change my mind about that! My main advice on them is to measure and dry fit until absolutely certain.
As I have said, there is more to come once I've made some more progress!
Oh and a question to all reading this - can anyone do English-Latin translation? I need to name this beast and I want it to be in Latin!