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Can you ID this titan?
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Author:  leaxe [ Wed May 22, 2013 8:47 pm ]
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A friend of mine sends me this photo and I have no idea what titan is that on the left side.

Image

Any ideas?
Author:  moredakka [ Wed May 22, 2013 8:55 pm ]
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Thought i'd seen all the titan models ever developed but i haven't seen that model before, interesting.
Author:  jimmyzimms [ Wed May 22, 2013 9:15 pm ]
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Ahhhh Realms of Chaos and what appears to be the OG Chapter Approved book from the font.

Where was this?
Author:  leaxe [ Wed May 22, 2013 9:32 pm ]
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I asked thefriend who emailed me the picture but he did not reply yet.

I can only guess.

warhammer world?

L4 surely has one of those. He has all the weird stuff

:)
Author:  jimmyzimms [ Wed May 22, 2013 10:03 pm ]
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Man that guy has stuff I've never even seen. :D

Hell, he probably has 2 of them
Author:  lylekelm [ Wed May 22, 2013 10:39 pm ]
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Very interesting. The shape of the base suggests its from a non GW range.
Cant quite make out the type of weapon on the left arm .
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Wed May 22, 2013 10:43 pm ]
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That's no Titan I've ever seen. I agree that the base suggests a non-GW product. If it's GW, guaranteed L4 has one. Even if it's not, he may be able to identify it, or Primarch, but he doesn't pop in as often as he used to.
Author:  Apocolocyntosis [ Wed May 22, 2013 11:13 pm ]
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looks like the shape of a milkfloat and a bettleback sort of mushed together, never seen it, i am intrigued …
Author:  GlynG [ Thu May 23, 2013 12:35 am ]
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The base could be GW if were an unreleased Adeptus Titanicus prototype?

Was this seen at the recent Horus Heresy Weekender? That would be a good candidate if they were dig something like this out of the archives.

We need a better picture! If it's a public event hopefully someone else might have a better picture even if they didn't realise it was signifigant.
Author:  Legion 4 [ Thu May 23, 2013 1:30 am ]
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Don't have one ... But it looks like one of the Metal MK.1 Warlord Proto-types from way back in '89-'90 ... For Adeptus Titanicus ... There's pics in the rule book and White Dwarf issues like around, 109 - 116 (?) ... or so ... Got all those in my Black Library ... just too lazy to look'm up ... :whistle
Author:  GlynG [ Thu May 23, 2013 3:02 am ]
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L4 - we don't mean the painted prototype metal Warlord in the right, which is a design seen before. Look closely at the unpainted metal titan on the left and it's definitely something different.
Author:  CyberShadow [ Thu May 23, 2013 10:58 am ]
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Wow. I have not seen that before! The feet look very typically 'Titan-esque' while the carapace lacks gun mounts, making it an analogue Warhound of the day, but its Reaver sized. That suggests not GW, added to the fact that one of only two weapons is a chain fist, and Warhounds have never been able to take close combat armaments.

I know that the 'Eavy Metal team had their own spin caster to make up their own parts for WD displays, etc and I wonder if this is the result of one of those activities?
Author:  Legion 4 [ Thu May 23, 2013 2:38 pm ]
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GlynG wrote:
L4 - we don't mean the painted prototype metal Warlord in the right, which is a design seen before. Look closely at the unpainted metal titan on the left and it's definitely something different.

OH !!! Sorry !! I didn't see that one !!!!!!!!! :nooo :o Looks like a proto-type ... There is a drawing on pg. 5 of the old Adeptus Titanicus rules that looks something like it ... My best guess ... :sos :{[]
Author:  leaxe [ Thu May 23, 2013 7:02 pm ]
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My friend just wrote me that the picture is from the Black Lybrary/ Forgeworld Seminar

So there must be other pictures out there about this display.
Author:  primarch [ Thu May 23, 2013 8:19 pm ]
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Hi!

As Dwarf Supreme mentions I don't drop in to frequently anymore, but I do read from time to time and this picture caught my eye.

That model is, as L4 mentions a prototype. Its all metal and was never released. Back then in prelude to the release of Adeptus Titanicus the studio made a lot of all metal models. These models precede the final design so they look very different from the standard "beetleback" that would be the final design.

If memory serves this one was a "siege titan". Note the "proto-chainfist" in one arm and a "proto-powerfist/wrecking ball" type arm on the other. Note that the carapace overhangs on both sides of the head in contrast to the beetlebacks. Also no ranged weapons on carapace. It looks as if the armor is mainly frontal (since that would be were a siege titan would take the most hits). I remember a stylized representation of such a carapace in one of the old books or perhaps an WD article.

I also remember another such model with a battering ram type arm.

I remember a picture with this model, assaulting a wall. I have my original books and WD's in storage right now, so I cannot confirm. Also keep in mind that back then they did not strictly keep games segregated as they do now, so such photos do not necessarily have to be in a article or book dedicated to epic. 'eavy metal and golden deamon pictures appeared everywhere and many times included epic figures, particularly titans.

Siege titans were mentioned either in the Codex Titanicus or a WD article. None were ever released.

These are even rarer than the all metal beetlebacks that were used for the original AT pictures (I own one of those). To my knowledge they have never been up for grabs. Otherwise I would own it..... ;)

Primarch
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