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Thanks guys    .

With the 1st box of Iron Warriors finished I've had a little play with another Chaos Titan - this time a Ravager made from a Cryx Reaper.




Just noticed that I need to finish off the chains propery.. D'oh!

The guns are made using DRM parts and fitted with GW Chaos accessories. The tail is a zip again.

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Oh sure Onyx, just keep churning out great looking models and make a person feel inadequate.  

Those Titans really look cool.  

On the BOLS banners, any tips on the resize size?  Was it an inkjet printer?

Great work as always.

Wow, it just keeps getting better and better.

Weathering up the first one turned out good.

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Epic- A version of the game with even smaller models that is often dominated by titans which are vehicles the size of a large building and have the ability to pwn...everything. There is also infantry, whose only function in Epic is to provide valuable traction to Titans walking across snowy paths.

This is such a brilliant idea! This Chaos Titan looks very menancing!

Nice conversion and painting!  

Fantastic Onyx, truly awesome stuff! As soon as I finish my own armies the traitor titans are on my list of 'to do' as I can't resist not stealing the idea

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Because we are, after about 8 years, finally digging up our old epic stuff I was searching the web for some inspiration and i stumbled upon this site. And further the search went and i found this thread.

I remember seeing the epic 3rd edition and how cool the miniatures looked then after playing with the boring land raiders of the 2nd edition for years. And now - this stuff blows me away :-)

I have to say the miniatures, the converting and painting skills are superB, onyx. You've probably heard that before, but it needed to be said once again.

I got a questions, and if it is answered elsewehere, i am sorry. What sort of technique do you use when you base your infantery? What sort of gravel do you use? Do you glue it on first, then the miniatures, or vica versa? I find that my gravel are either too fine, or to coarse, and still looking for the perfect gravel.

Well, keep up the good work. I would love to see a website with all your work

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Thanks for the very kind comments guys!

M4jumbo - Our printer is a Lexmark P707. I resized the images using Paintshop Pro5. My lovely wife then used some of her double sided tape (for card making) to actually stick them together.

Thanks Mark & XiHuanNi .

Olly - Go for it mate. I really look forward to your take on them!

olona - Many thanks mate   .
I try to keep the bases for my infantry very simple (partly because I think it helps the troops stand out but mostly because I'm lazy   ).
Once the infantry are painted, I lay a thin line of PVA down either side of the mini's and push it into place using an thin brush. I then dip the whole thing in Woodland Scenics Fine Brown ballast. Done.

For a recent army (the Iron Warriors), its the same process but with some Woodland Scenics Talus-Fine Brown mixed into the Ballast to give a bit of variety.

When I'm doing the bases on larger models (Titans etc) I put a little more effort into it. I glue (using PVA) all the basing materials on before painting the mini. I end up using several different grades of Talus, broken cork (from wine bottles) for larger rock formations and then I dip the base into a bag of filter sand (usually used for a swimming pool sand filter - I work in the industry) to cover most of the base. This stuff is quite fine (slightly finer than the Woodland Scenics Fine ballasts) and cheap to buy (a 25kg bag cost me $10 and after a year and a half of making terrain and painting mini's I've still got 3/4 of it left).

Once the basecoat is dry, I paint most of the ground with GW Graveyard Earth. Next I wash the flat ground with Woodland Scenics Raw Umber Rock pigment and the rocks with Woodland Scenics Stone Gray. A bit of drybrushing with Bleached bone and its done.

Hope that all helps mate.
Steve.

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I've wanted to use the Cryx stuff for titans for a long time.  Definitely cool.  I think some of the Khador (ithink?) jacks would work for Tzeentch as well (matching the teutonic knight theme the Thousand Sons have going on).

The zippers for tails is an awesome idea.  If you have tips on forming them, I'd love to hear it.

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Thanks mate.

I just held the zip in the shape I wanted and then ran Superglue along each side of the tail. A few minutes later and it'll hold's it's shape. I used putty and Superglue to attach the tail to the body (seems to be holding well so far).

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