Let Slip A Dog Of War

Work continues on the Warhound! A few of the bits and jesus there are a lot of them were ready for next stage. Rather than wasting a shitload of time and cash on GW’s overpriced washes,  I decided to give oil washing a bash. Not something I’ve tried before but ah well  – why not!!

2 thigh panels, the coc… crotch plate and the plasma blast canon were up for it.

Mixed up a wash with equalish parts of lamp black & burnt umber from W&N with odourless mineral spirit and had  a wee bit of neat burnt sienna on the side to blend into the wash as i went.

Didnt have any makeup sponges to hand so i cut up one of those yellow kitchen sponges to wipe off the excess later.

Slatthered the wash on with a cheapo Lidl oils brush and then took off the immediate excess with a chunk of sponge and left it be for an hour or so.

After an hour or thereabouts I removed more of the wash with sponge and odourless spirit and then feathered n tidied up any streaking with a brush.

Think they came out rather nicely. God smokey aged battleworn look. (none of that parade ground clean n perfect pish here!! )

After leaving the oil washed plasma gun to dry/cure fully for about a week twas time to tackle the bloody plasma coils.  Plasma on a smaller mini like a skitari or heaven forbid a space marine is easy enough but on a titan’s plasma gun……. bit trickier as flaws show up so much more easily but had to be done.

Paints use (from light to dark): Kimera white, DR white ink, GW Baharroth blue, S75 Adriatic Blue, VGC Turquoise, S75 Caspian Blue, AK3G Anthracite

Used a mix of airbrush and W&N S7 #1 brush on it. Happy how it came out in the end but twas a right PIA as a workup!!

Right……… RIGHT!! This behemo….. bohmoe……. bloody big fecker of a model is actually still being worked on beleive it or not!! And a lot has been done. really!! There is a digusting amount to still do…… but there has been progress dammit!!

So here we go – progress on ‘The Dying of The Light’ Warhound Titan from the least amount of work done to the most!!

The main body’s top canopy carapace plate. Marble and panel done and freehand too!! Oh the progress!!!!

Finally to the pieces I’m currently working on. The plasma shooty blaster cannon gun, the cockplate and two thigh plates. These have had their marble done, base metals, trim metals and even some freehand. The marble has been sealed with satin varnish as the next step is something I’ve never done before – Oil washing.

The marble effect was done with airbrush and is therefore thinner and more fragile than brushed on paint. Remember that 4th shin plate I mentioned – well when i tested oil wash removal on that plate, it lifted some of the marble effect so being extra careful this time around.

Fingers crossed it all goes well and doesnt arse up all the work I’ve done so far!!

Well alrighty then!!!  Its only been …………… 3 and a half years since I worked on/posted progress on the Warhound!!
Time to dig him back out and get stuck back in!!!

The interior(s) are now finished :  Cockpit, enginarium and ……… elevatorium (?) vestibule place….. thingy!!

With the interiors finsihed there was just the intervening door to be painted up and twould be time to break out the pins and the 2 part epoxy and get the upper body assembled – first a wee check to make sure it all goes together keenly and tightly……….

This being a Forgeworld cast of course meant it didnt………. a few snips, cuts n sandings later and we got the pieces to lock in together as good as it was gonna get. Pins, Epoxy, Trigger clamps and a Twitch stream later………..

And it’s solidly together!!!

So the upper body is finally coming together….. literally. After a lot of sanding, drilling, pins, more stinky epoxy and some colourful language…… the upper body sub-assemblies are now built and the base metals done. So let’s have a wee look.

With the two main body sub-assemblies pinned, built and epoxied twas time to think about a few wee other details and also think about the eventual joining of the two upper body components

The two upper body sub-assemblies are going to be left apart for the interior painting for obvious reasons of getting brushes into little teeny tiny areas and crevices. However, need to make preparations for when the interior is fully painted and the two upper body pieces need to be assembled… Pinning time!!!

With all the building done for the minute -It’s time to move onto the painty painty for the interior. Plan is to do a foundation metal work on the entire interior and then work on details and the like.

Guns are done……..ish. I haven’t done the magents and joints that will actually fix the gun arms to the shoulders yet as that wont be done till much later for posing reasons. but got the guns put together to this point. The Plasma blastgun just really needed the plasma cannisters at the back stuck in/on but the turbo laser needed the barrels attached to the cannon body. Long pins, 2 part expoxy and a trigger clamp to the fore.

While getting the carapace/body prepped and ready for assembly and considering what sub-assemblies to paint it in there is a magnet job that needs done early on. The waist and hip join.

The magnets for this need done now before the waist recieving socket piece gets built into the upper body pieces.

So we’re are going with a stack of 20mm disc magnets. 4 in the hip section and 2 in the waist. I can drill deeply into the hip part as its really thick but not so much into the waist.

The circular piece of plasticard will seperate the magnets in the two sections. Reason for this is if magnets smack against each other too harshly when joining they can shatter. And as I am using 6 very strong magnets that is a possibilty when linking the two sections. A plasticard divider lessens that danger of happening.

I used a two part epoxy. strongest i could find. Now, usually I would use nothing less than JB Weld, however finding JB Weld over here in Ireland is not the easiest thing and I couldnt be arsed ordering it off the internet and waiting. This Unibond stuff should do the trick but if you have access to or can easily get JB Weld – go for that everytime when asssembling large heavy resin builds.
So – hip magnets are set in and epoxied both to each other and into the drilled chamber and now we just need to wait 20 hours for the epoxy to fully cure and then I can position and glue the two waist magnets in.

I promise the next bits to come are much more exciting!!!!!

And so with many prayers and blessed hymns to the Omnissiah we may begin and see where we are so far. …… Not very far!!

About a year ago I did make a start of sorts and painted some of the crew of ‘Bitter Ire and the cockpit. I also magnetised the cockpit canopy and the neck joint so the head can be detached from the main body. In charge in his command throne we have the Princeps and seated in from of him the two moderati. The outside of the head has barely begun and just has primary basecoats for now.