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Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:19 pm
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Location: Hungary
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Hello everybody!
As I have completed a stage in the process of creating tyranid proxies, I could think things over and decided to start something drastically different from sculpting in 6 mm. I have always been fascinated by the Imperator titan, but sadly, I have so far been unable to purchase one (I mean one that's relatively cheap). I have been craving for it, but nothing happened, until I had an idea.
When I first got into the hobby, I started with WHFB, and right at the beginning of my carrier as an orc warboss, I committed the ultimate blasphemy: I built an orc lobba from three plastic ice-cream spoons (from a well-known fast food restaurant). I put orcish things on it, and I even painted it, but it was of course well recognisable. Even so, that piece of warmachine was the only thing in the army that never misfired and always hit (it has only scattered onceso far; right on top of the enemy High Elf general  ). Apparently, my "MCLobba" appreciated all the work and caring love I had invested into him, and rewarded me with a lot of squashed things on the battlefield. Now I collect mostly EPIC, but the question is present: would some warmachine work better if I build it myself from something utterly scratchy?
This idea has made me create something that looks totally funny (or revolting) at first, but it is crazy enough to work on the battlefield. The first result of the mad techno-priest that lives in me: Timothy the Imperator. The legs are made of two ball-point pens and plactic tubes that used to contain dissolvable vitamin tablets. the torso was built from Kinder egg toys (I don't know if they exist in the USA, they are chocolatae eggs with some small plastis toy parts under the chocolate casing). The "plasma" weapon is the shoulder rocket of some old Transformer toy (a Dinobot, i think). the towers are again plastic spoons, and if you look closely, you can actually see a genuine GW component in it too: the devotional bell is a skaven bell from a fantasy command sprue. I still have to work on it a lot (and I DO mean a lot, especially on the legs), but you can get the general idea.
(I only wonder what kind of machine spirit can get into this titan  )
I am going to make some more warmachines like that: I even have a set of rules for them.
1) I will not use GW parts, or even actual modelling bits if I can help it.
2) The more impertinent the model, the better.
3) The outline of the model should resemble the original one if there is an EPIC version of it.
4) If I use GW bits, they should be used up in a sense that they were not meant to be (like, I don't know, taking a 40K bolter, and turn it into a plasma drive for a BFG ship,you know what I mean).
5) As scratchy as possible. Nothing fancy, not Golden Demon, just to get the message through even on the tabletop.
Please tell me what you think of this idea or of Timothy himself.
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