Titan Build Debrief
...a year ago I thought I was done with Titan building, but I changed my mind at some point in the last few weeks. (Before the Warlord announcement;)
And so, to the surprise of no one, I took advantage of my trip to Warhammer World at the weekend to pick one up for myself...
So I'm able to document the lessons I learned Building the Reaver as I apply them to my Revenant.
I learned a lot of things over the build, and I want to put them out there for other people to read. So you don't feel alone in thinking like this crazy big task seems oh so easy for other people. So people with the box of titan resin bags under the bed pull them out and give it a go.
Before and After:
This resin Forgeworld Titan Chaos Reaver took me over 2 years to build:
... But the next one will only take me a few months. And I'm going to explain why I believe that over a series of posts with the TitanWatch tag.
Lesson 1.
I have learned that I need to have a better plan than: "1. build it, 2. paint it."
This sounds really obvious in hindsight, but that is pretty much how the plan goes with any other 28mm model building I do.
I sit at my modelling desk (yeh, OK or the coffee table in front of the TV downstairs) I pull out my box of tools, unbox the models and build them - putting to one side ready for painting once they are done.
Then I put away my toolbox, wipe everything down, pull out my brushes and paints, fill the water pots and paint all the things!
As you might guess, I made things more difficult for myself when I attempted to apply this plan to a model that would need to be partially assembled, painted, assembled some more, varnished, oil washed (with the drying times that comes with that) assembled some more, more details painted, then more building... And so on.
Lesson 1a
If I was doing the Reaver again I would get a cheap table (needs to be more stable than a cheap collapsible card table, probably from IKEA rather than the pound store) and set it up next to my painting desk to act as a staging area. I would want at least 3 square feet of space that I could partition, label & lay out the various parts as I went.
Lesson1b.
I would set up my airbrush in its own Paint station that wasn't on my desk. That means I don't stir up the resin dust from assembly if I need to switch to painting something quickly and don't completely clean my desk off first.
And so, to the surprise of no one, I took advantage of my trip to Warhammer World at the weekend to pick one up for myself...
So I'm able to document the lessons I learned Building the Reaver as I apply them to my Revenant.
I learned a lot of things over the build, and I want to put them out there for other people to read. So you don't feel alone in thinking like this crazy big task seems oh so easy for other people. So people with the box of titan resin bags under the bed pull them out and give it a go.
Before and After:
This resin Forgeworld Titan Chaos Reaver took me over 2 years to build:
... But the next one will only take me a few months. And I'm going to explain why I believe that over a series of posts with the TitanWatch tag.
Lesson 1.
I have learned that I need to have a better plan than: "1. build it, 2. paint it."
This sounds really obvious in hindsight, but that is pretty much how the plan goes with any other 28mm model building I do.
I sit at my modelling desk (yeh, OK or the coffee table in front of the TV downstairs) I pull out my box of tools, unbox the models and build them - putting to one side ready for painting once they are done.
Then I put away my toolbox, wipe everything down, pull out my brushes and paints, fill the water pots and paint all the things!
As you might guess, I made things more difficult for myself when I attempted to apply this plan to a model that would need to be partially assembled, painted, assembled some more, varnished, oil washed (with the drying times that comes with that) assembled some more, more details painted, then more building... And so on.
Lesson 1a
If I was doing the Reaver again I would get a cheap table (needs to be more stable than a cheap collapsible card table, probably from IKEA rather than the pound store) and set it up next to my painting desk to act as a staging area. I would want at least 3 square feet of space that I could partition, label & lay out the various parts as I went.
Lesson1b.
I would set up my airbrush in its own Paint station that wasn't on my desk. That means I don't stir up the resin dust from assembly if I need to switch to painting something quickly and don't completely clean my desk off first.