The Age of Strife

[EricF]

I may have done a bad* thing ...



Still it's not like we needed to buy groceries for a while ...

I don't really have any 40k Eldar (I've a few Harlequins somewhere and one or two random Eldar warriors), but I did have a huge EPIC army and the Phantom Titans were always my favourite. Granted the modern ForgeWorld one is pretty damn fine, but this lass is where my heart is!

With the wings this stands a lot taller than the Reavers, not sure I give that marine high odds.

* depending on your point of view

 

[ManicMan]

never fully worked out how some of the sizes match up as.. some of the titans were... very much bigger then the miniatures showed (hell, they show an imperial titan with doors on it's foot.. and they aren't small doors.. and yet.. I don't remember any titans for Epic being that big.. ^_^ but that's a nice boy.. More a practical and useable size

 

[EricF]

I think the Armorcast scale ups from EPIC are about right when I look at an old 6mm mini and titan, but of course in true GW/Citadel style the vehicles (titans in this case) are probably too small for what they are (hello ten man Rhino and gang) so they probably should have been larger, but I guess as ever limitations on cost/casting/molding etc took their toll when things were created. Hence some mismatch with the creative juices flowing out of the art studio! Although I guess some of those might be Emperor class titans rather than the puny little ones I have! I forget quite what the release order was, but didn't we have titans slightly ahead of the rest of the EPIC (then Space Marine) range, so it may well have been that strictly the scales for the two were somewhat out anyway once the 6mm chaps came along and set the size of about 1mm = 1'.

The current Forgeworld (not that Forgeworld exists now, but...) titans are a better scale since most have detailed cockpits and so forth, they are all somewhat larger (a warhound is about the size of my Armorcast Reaver for instance). This old Eldar one is about 2' tall to the top of the wings I'd guess.

The Phantom was the largest Armorcast one on general release as far as I am aware. I've seen a handful of photos of a Warlord titan Mike Blasi sculpted, but I don't think it was ever properly in production. I think from this picture it'd probably have been about the same height, but considerably more "massive". Not surprised they don't seem to have made many!

 

[ManicMan]

10 men can easily fit inside a rhino.. for one thing, you have far less person space in old army stuff, for another they all have to have a nice cuddle.

 

[EricF]

So I got back to tidying up the ogres we saw a few pages back and spent the evening in front of the telly with the green stuff and sculpting tools.

Here are the two missing weapons no more!



I also had a nice large metal shield I could use, just needed something looking a bit like straps on it. The mace is the same STL I used with the Fantasy Regiments orcs just scaled up a bit. Not quite sure I got the length proportions right for both weapons, but hey ho it's fantasy so I'm going with what I ended up with! Might add a chip in the axe tomorrow when the green stuff is solid, but otherwise done.

So that's them ready to sit in the lead pile for a while, but at least if the urge takes me they will be ready to paint now.