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all of this there's so much to do and as you can see from these sprues it's a lot of little parts little pieces the instruction booklet is the equivalent of a novel it goes on and on and on and that's because you know this thing is meant to be some giant giant night right stories and hundreds of feet tall even though it's actually it's about the same size as a regular Imperial Knight in the 40k game so it's quite big so in this video I'm gonna take you through building painting and doing everything I do with this Titan you're gonna see both how I attack big projects like this and also how to paint this particular thing individually so it's kind of a two-fer but what we're gonna do is we're gonna start by breaking it all down alright so if we're gonna do a big project the first thing you have to do is plan right it's the reality is when you're painting a normal figure you can pretty much just roll into it but with a thing like this we got to break it down so let's talk about what we've got here so we've got a big robot okay fine cool now you know whatever you have you have in this case I got a big robot so the first thing we're gonna do is of course clean and assemble no problem that one's easy that one's obvious that's where we start all our projects to we're gonna go ahead and we've got to we're gonna make the skeleton is gonna be a sub assembly we're gonna do the armor plates that's gonna be sub assembly too right and we're gonna put those armor plates into a position where we can work with them alright so we're going to basically work with work on skeleton so that's metals oil wash right details five we're going to work on armor right so that's gonna be painting freehand and then details right and then finally we're gonna put it all together but wait we forgot something what did we forget ah that's right we forgot six the base can't forget the base on a big project so then seven is going to be assemble so the key here is logically think about what you're gonna do and then you can go in on each one of these and you can say okay what is my plan here what is my plan here that's where we come to research so all of this we are going to research very important step okay so so we start our research where we start most things we're gonna look over on Google now this is adept as Titanic a setting I don't really know that much about it so I figured okay let's go read up let's look at what our factions are what are our options so I go down here and look and you know I scroll through the page for a while see that they're divided into loyalists and traders okay cool well I definitely want to make something trader I want to make something chaosy so I scroll through the page until eventually I come to these guys legio sir to Vora I don't know how to pronounce words but I was like fire masters legio and furnace that seems cool it's a cool symbol I like that I kind of read about their story you know see if I like that right get through some of that and then most importantly on this page we scroll all the way down and then we get images things like that so you know we can look at cool images from various places and see exactly what some different paint schemes are stuff like that right what their symbols are yeah neat stuff now I actually looked at probably like 20 different houses before I came to this one or legions or legios or whatever they're called but this one struck me and that's one of the places you begin you start looking out in the world and you look at other people who painted miniatures like this and you say what of these grabs me what has a cool narrative what has a cool look what has a cool image what do I feel like is gonna be fun for me to paint whether I'm doing something organic like a big monster whether I'm doing something that more scale modeling like this with a robot I start from just inspiration of other painters of the narrative of the art of the world draw on everything you can there's not always gonna be you know traditional art for you to draw when you're dealing with big monsters or big giant robots but you can find somebody who's done something similar it shows up in the lore in the books use those resources draw inspiration from them and use that to formulate your own scheme all right enough research it's time to get into this bad boy so as I said this thing has a lot of pieces so relax to the dulcet images of me in hyperspeed assembling this thing so this process is obviously hopefully familiar to all of us right you'll notice that I'm working through each piece trying to go in order I'm cleaning as I go I am using sprue goo to attach everything if you're not familiar with making sprue goo that is melted sprue or plastic bits melted into Tamiya extra thin I have a video on it you can see that up in the corner right now if you want to go check that out it's what I actually use to assemble miniatures plastic miniatures makes it so easy because some of it squishes out you can wipe it off and there are no gaps so makes your sort of gap filling type of thing non-existent which is great you can also just fill gaps with it directly which is fantastic this is a lot of pieces and the key is to be organized and so I'm going through in order now every so often here you might notice a little highlighted number or a highlighted point in the instructions I'm highlighting any place that I skip and the reason I might skip something is because it's telling me to put an armor plate on but I already have my building plans that I wrote down and I'm not putting the armor plates on I'm going to leave them separate because that'll make it much easier for me to paint right but I want to remember where that piece is that I didn't assemble so pretty important not to forget it so I just highlighted in the instructions so later on when I do put this bad boy together I can easily go back and reference it the other thing I'll say as you're going through and attaching this stuff the reason I like using something like sprue goo is because then if you mess something up especially with something as big and complicated as this you can pull it apart pretty easily and change it before the glue sets but the important part is just to work your way through the process make sure everything is clean scrape every mold by you can take the time to sand the things down to get them clean it pays a lot of dividends later when you don't have to go back and find that thing in the middle of your work alright so now it's time to work on the armor this is pretty simple we're gonna put the armor in what I call position zero effectively with big robots you can put these armor pieces into the locations they'll ultimately fall as though the miniature was laying flat what that means is as I paint these things work on these things highlight them and do everything I'm going to do I always know how they sit in relation to each other I keep the lighting consistent I keep the entire composition of the piece consistent it's a good thing to do regardless of the type of miniature you're doing keep those subassemblies ordered so that way your entire piece stays coherent alright now it's time to work on the skeleton I began with a zenithal of true metals you can see the video for that up in the corner it's steel all over silver from above black ink from below very easy all Vallejo metal color of course and now it's time to give it a wash and not just some acrylic wash because acrylic wash is just ruin metals and make them look like trash when I want this thing to have some shine to it like it's real steel so we're going to use an oil wash I've made this out of shadow brown a color from up to lung 502 I also have a video on making oil washes and I use it on a different metal skeleton you can see that up in the corner up there the nice part about oil washes is they have a very long drying time taking usually about a full day to dry so I can be messy with this I can slop it all around get it everywhere I want to make sure it's all down in the cracks and because it's not water it's oil it has a much stronger capillary action and will flow everywhere then I'm going to let that sit for about 30 minutes come back with makeup sponges and wipe it off that will allow me to have nice deep dark recesses but clean shiny bright metal all right now back to some sped up footage so we now we're going to go ahead and detail the metal I wiped it all down this is a day or two later and now we're going to do all the rest of the details the key with any big metal solid chunk like that is you don't want to leave it boring if it's all steel it's really visually boring but you don't need that much to spice it up either there just needs to be things to draw the eye so here I'm picking out minor details things that interest me there's no guide there's no exact right thing to do but I'm turning them bronze and I make my made my bronze out of my green stuff world mix of two to one bronze to copper and so you see I'm just working those metals in finding interesting things to pick out there I also used a little airbrush just to shoot some shadow and darkness and sort of grease up in there just some brown color now it's time to work on the big old plasma guns these are a huge piece of this machine these took forever lots of blending and glazing back and forth the key with a big piece like this like the plasma guns is focus on these things this is a huge eye-catching part of the miniature it's its massive weapons there's the bright brass bronze caps on them these are bright blue no when something is important because it's drawing the eye and spend the time on it I probably spent five hours working these things back and forth and it was worth it because they're going to be the first thing people notice so spend the time on your big things on the things people notice so now it's time to work on the armor plates and again you can see all my armor plates are laid out in position zero as they will appear on the miniature to help me out I'm spacing out sort of the colors that I want to work with so everything that I'm highlighting or sorry shading brown here I'm eventually gonna want to turn orange or yellow or something like that so I first start by warming them up turning them away from the cold zenithal so I lay down a color of light rust and then ivory and then yellow over all of those parts even if they're going to turn orange just for additional vibrancy and then the ones I actually specifically want to be orange then I lay down a nice layer of the contrast griff hound orange mixed in with a little bit of ink the rest I just painted black with a little bit of gray highlight now comes the long part I won't lie I am sad how bald I am but that's okay this is the truly lengthy part of this adventure it is doing the little armor plates I would say total there's probably about 60 hours or so put into the armor plates if you want to know kind of the scope of this project you certainly wouldn't have to do something like that but each flame being traced individually and this is just the first layer of freehand there's going to be more on top of that so I have to go through with a sharp brush trace all of these little patterns out and keep going so once all the flames are done now it's time to give those flames some color because obviously just white flames aren't anything so when we're painting freehand flames one of the easiest ways to do that is to start by turning them all yellow the yellow ink is so weak and I use Vallejo game ink yellow it's so weak it won't show up over the black so even if you miss and kind of get in the area where you shouldn't be not a big deal so that's how I always start just give a nice yellow coat warms the whole thing up and it's super easy next I'm take some of that same griffhound orange and I just you notice I'm working upside down on the flames right because I'm pulling that orange toward the fire right I start with a little bit of your dollar roundy FW orange ink flame orange and then I mix in more and more griffhound then on top of that at the top of the flame we do a little hull red once all that's done then I did the longer pieces of freehand which took far too long and refer to delicate to ever put on any kind of camera so I apologize but if you want to know about how to do detailed freehand guess what I have a video and it's up in the corner right now and it happens to be on things like nights now comes one of the longest most boring parts of this entire thing which is tracing out all of the metal brocade and gold around the edge the key here is two things I'll say trace them out carefully use a sharp brush and if you make a mistake clean it up immediately in between all of these levels I was varnishing a lot make sure you varnish frequently throughout the process my varnish for all of that is a 50-50 mix of satin and ultra matte varnish I was applying it regularly to everything that wasn't metallic just to keep it everything safe it gives me a safe point if I get metal paint where I don't want it I can just scratch away okay so now let's make a base so I want this to be a little urban and I want a building that looks like it's real big but is actually quite tiny so I grabbed some extra adept as Titanic as little terrain bits I had for a project recently like tiny barrels and tiny ladders and the rest I'm just gonna make look small through pipes and stuff like that laid down a nice base of cork notice that I'm constantly putting the miniature on and test fitting everything to make sure he's standing in the right place so once that was done we primed it up basted up now we're just gonna get it painted the key is with this notice I'm using lots of different color and stuff like that in these early stages that's because I'm going to end up washing all of this down dry brushing over it never let your bases just be boring brown mud make something interesting their work color in the world is rarely flat brown or flat gray there are lots of interesting colors and things going on in the world try to capture that so here I've used tons of red pigment in the earth to make it look like it's a cool iron pigment or something like that I'm gonna put orange streaks on the walls I've got orange rust everywhere I've got a little bit of blue hidden color and hue make things interesting even bases the time has finally come to put him all together all the armor plates get taken out of their position zero and slowly applied now because I've got paint over some of these areas where the connection joints are I am going to use super glue here to attach these pay attention here while I screw things up and then have to pull the legs back off and assemble them in the correct place everybody makes mistakes it's okay yeah I put them on backwards and then had to rip them off and reapply them everybody screws up sometimes notice I'm going through the instructions to all my highlighted areas working everything together assembling that nice final miniature this is a careful part and what I'll say is I wasn't done actually after I assembled this I had to go through fix little minor details do little tiny touch ups it takes 20 30 minutes at the end but with a big project like this always spend those last few minutes touching everything up it makes it all worth it so thank you so much for watching this I hope you enjoyed it this was a really fun project to do it is a big project but these big projects are so rewarding when you're all done with it I hoped you liked going on this journey with me and I hope this helped with your own big projects give it a like if you did subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future if you've got any questions drop them down below but as always thank you so much for watching this one and we'll see you next time