The apoc book only lists a Reaver Titan known as Butcher's Mirth, which I have adopted for one of the Reavers when I get around to them. Thanks to Khemri for the list you presented above. I wasn't worried too much about the warhounds as I've been devising some names of my own, it was just the bigger boys that I wanted to try and get some listed names of.
So I said I'd do a tutorial due to popular demand, so hare we go.
This section is for the legs which can be a bit tricky, on the original warhound I had alot of problems with getting them to postion where I wanted them, but this method works wonders.
Firstly, when you are happy with the design of the legs you want to use, make a set of plasticard templates from them.
The templates I made are to give a solid joint that can, if you wish have a small tube placed in the centre of each joint to allow for movement when the model is complete. I'm not doing this. So the templates with the discs attached to them are the joints themselves and the templates that are similar in shape but missing the discs are spacers. So now that we have our plasticard templates we need to transfer the design to the medium / material we wish to use to make them. For this I used 5mm foam core which can generally be found in most office supply stores and some hobby stores.
Simply trace around each template untill you have the amount needed, as I'm using 5mm foamcore and I need the legs to be 20mm wide, I need 1 full joint piece and 3 spacers per solid joint section. It's a good idea to work out how many of each part you will need before tracing onto the material for cutting.
eg: I'm doing 6 warhounds each with two legs, for this example I'll use the ankle joint.
6 x 2 = 12 legs, so we need 12 joint pieces, now for each joint piece we need spacers,
12 x 3 = 36, ok now we have the number of space parts needed.
Now that we have worked that out, traced the templates onto the material we just simply cut out the amount needed, clean up if needed and glue together. This is where you have to keep in mind how the leg is going to work, hopefully the following pic will help explain it a bit.
Its best to assemble one leg at a time to make sure that pieces go together smoothly, or you could do like I did and figure out how many of each piece need to be put together which way and just get stuck into it with the glue. So thats the main work for the legs done. Now you should have all the required parts for the legs. It's entirely up to you if you choose the plasticard over the lot or leave them bare to fix with spray putty. I do recommend plasticarding over the ankle joint or you wont have a sturdy support to glue the ankle cylinder to.
Moving on to the feet, these I need to be 15mm thick, so once again with my trusty template I trace the template onto my 5mm foamcore (3 for each foot = 36) and cut them all out. Thats the simple part.
Now we need to find something to use for the ankle ball joint (looks directly at christmas tree, sneeks past wife, and starts to remove decorations). Now that I have all the baubles off the tree I set about cutting the cheap plastic in half with the trusty razor saw and model vice. After an hour or so and many explitives later, I get the 12 half spheres I need ( aswell as an angry look from the wife when she realises what I've just done
). To get these to set nice and firmly in the foot I trace around the half bauble on 12 of the foot cut-outs and remove the disc. Then we apply glue to the edge, put the bauble into place and glue another 2 foot cutouts to the baubly bit.
When the leg sections and feet are dry, give them a clean up with some sandpaper on a sanding block (180 grit is good) or IF you have a steady hand, a power / belt sander.
Now I'll leave you with that for the moment while I go and remove more baubles from the tree to use for the hip joints.
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