Eldar Phantom Titan - On the Table

Quick update on the Phantom Titan progress. Not finished yet but good enough to get into battle. a few friends and I had this little game at Warhammer World last month (January 2012 then). 209,000 Points. I managed to bring 11,000 points of Eldar, including the Phantom Titan...

Picture courtesy of Tagule's photostream on Flickr

More pictures of the Epic day on that other Flickr Photostream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brigu/

A few pictures of the building process. In this picture, we have a good view of the base. I used a terracotta flower pot saucer, Pouring a 1 Kg of resin in it. Using Terracotta is important as the resin reaction when mixing the product is highly exothermic. I could feel the heat through my Heavy gloves. Was a bit of an issue to remove the base from the Saucer, so I simply used a good ol' Hammer. On the picture we can see some bits left. Well, part of the scenery now.

 I used 4 mm brass rods in the legs and Hips. Hips always an issue for me, so here it's pinned, green stuffed, glued and I won't touch it any more. For transportation issue, that part is detachable from the base and fits into a GW or KR case. The whole model, including the base can be carried in 2 cases. I'll post some pictures of the model in his cases.

Next was the upper body, the easy part frankly. The focus here was to give him an attitude, working in line with the legs dynamic.

Then the fins and the arms, that was tricky bit. The shoulder especially. To make it sturdy but still able to be carried in a box, I worked the fin and shoulder as a single part. The fin is pinned into the body and detachable at will. the weapon is itself detachable from the arm.

Tip here is to make sure the fist is not glued in case you would like to be able to swap it for the mighty blade. I wanted to use a big magnet for the barrels of the guns but that definitely is too heavy. I ended up pinning and gluing both gun barrel (they're huge!)

Detail of the Torso, the gun is pinned, again, for transportation reason and so to be able to swap both weapon choice.

On this picture we can see where the main weapon get into the arm, just using 2 huge pins. It's very simple indeed.

Now for the paint Job. I have the overall idea. Not sure yet for the Guns, that's why they're still dull red. the body paint is final though. Face mask has been painted as we can see on the first picture. The base has received a prime and a few scenery elements. Shoulder Missiles need some painting and the pilot of course will be worked out too.

In conclusion, lots to do still but it was certainly a lot of fun already along with the Apolcalypse game itself.

The story begins here:
http://www.monstrouscreatures.com/2011/04/eldar-phantom-titan-part-i-delivery.html