*Fistbumps* 🤜🤛

I have been lurking... but still hobbying away. Hope you are well, Czechia built, bark-derived spice buddy 👍

Thanks Mike, I'm glad those helped you out :)

My efforts on making this were not wasted I see :D

I’m thinking I could liqudate part of my stash to make it happen… we only live once, right?

Plastic full-size titans are the elephant in the room for sure.... they need high volume sales to make a financial success of plastic production, so the obvious first step would be the Warhound. Although I did hear a rumour (from Valrak IIRC) that plastic Cerastus Knights are coming soon - that would be fab.

@@leakycheese I agree. Creating a plastic mold for a titan kit would be very expensive, but would also sell like crazy for $300-400.

Cheers mate, hope you are doing good :)

*Wink* Talking of insane titan models, the scratch build Imperator that was at last months Titan Walk was about 2m tall... bigger than my children! 😆

@@leakycheese bigger than almost anyone really 😳 but i still await the day when somekind of land gunship bigger than a baneblade rolls out since already there are some primaris super heavies bigger than baney

Based on current FW prices, kits seem to be around two thirds of the cost the resin versions. I think next year will be interesting to see what comes about for the heresy. There are a lot of missing plastic kits for basic legion unit choices (Assault Squads, Seekers, Recon, Bikes, Jet Bikes, Speeders etc.) so I wonder if they'll focus on those? In terms of big things though, I hear a rumour that Cerastus Knights are coming soon in plastic.

@@leakycheese yes the knights first, I think next year will be a new age of darkness 2 boxset with different mark armour and X2 different legions on he cover, no all knights next year I figure will be plastic but guns and weapons maybe finecast. Perhaps they will do alternative heads in finecast aswell. Perhaps we may even see a new space marine race next year, rumors of a new chaos god are being talked about in AOS and 40k so I imagine there would be new law coming in, perhaps plastic warhound in 2 years, reaver titan in 3 years followed by the warlord and perhaps the warbring titan. I'd love if GW had a magazine where we would subscribe and build a titan in the hachette part works style. Perhaps this would open the door to new types of titans. All hypothetical ofc. I think the knights going plastic is a good chance of this, and new mark armours in plastic for sure.

I've been lurking.... like a wheel of cheddar hiding in the pantry 🧀 Fun fact: Warhounds are awesome in Adeptus Titanicus rules... mine finished off a Warlord at the Titan Walk in November.

I used the linear regression because the price ratios are so consistent. And don’t forget the data I used here isn’t a sample - for the phenomenon being studied it’s the entire population. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@@leakycheese Ah, yes it is the entire population! I'm not used to seeing that! Good point.

@@devononair Lol, yes, the entire population is a rarity in statistical analysis!

The Psi-Titan is an interesting one, essentially being an upgrade kit to the Warlord. The design work is done so I hope we get the full-size one soon.

We can all dream! I've not built a FW Reaver Titan, done the Warhound and Warlord.

I remember an interview when they first released the Warlord that they couldn’t build anything bigger specifically because the Warlord was the largest thing they could make in resin without it bowing under its own weight. And let me tell you, resin isn’t exactly the longest lasting of substances structurally.

Welcome back Nathan! In terms of the production economics of resin casting, a silicone mould is going to do 30-40 casts (or pulls) before requiring replacement (or quite a few more if it's been properly vulcanised). So for a Forge World model, the main up-front investment is in the digital design process and printing and preparation of the master model (which are 3D-printed and require clean up to remove printing strata-lines). So the probably don't need to sell that many to recoup these costs (especially as they've already paid for most of the design on the Warmaster with making it's epic variant). In terms of being able to support it's own weight, I've got a Warhound and a Warlord and these have been fine over several years of ownership. I reinforce joints with metal pins, sometimes several per joint, but the legs are strong enough to support the model's weight. Now, some poses might need through-limb pinning if they impose forces on the limbs high enough to cause the resin to bend over time. I've used carbon-fibre rod on the waist pin and arm weapon mounts... but that was in part due to there being an offcut of the right size in the bargain bin at my hobby store! But yeah, CF would be a good material to do through-limb pinning, it's easy to get at flying and other RC model stores. Finally the Warmaster - will it be able to support it's own weight as a full size resin kit? Personally, I think it has stout legs, notably more so that the Warlord on a like-for-like basis so I think those would be strong enough to support the massive body. On thr other hand, the Suzerain Plasma Annihilators are massive and I think the elbows would need some hefty pinning to make secure. Glad you enjoyed the video... if we do by some chance get a full-size Warmaster maybe I'll buy one and find out how to solve all these challenges!

@@leakycheese great answer thanks for sharing you expertise and experience.

Use it as a mobile defence wall to charge in while the Fistlords sneak along behind it!

Thanks, how’s it going? Heresy 2.0 is very good as a game (reactions make for a more tactical and involving game for both players), Marine armies are great, Mechanicum and Liber Imperium are decent but not at same quality. Legacies are a hilarious mess… some units are necessary and fine (e.g. Castra Ferrum Dreadnoughts and Carnodon) others are meh (anything on a Baneblade chassis, overpointed at 750 a pop vs. Fellblsde chassic tanks) and some are broken “That Guy” units (like the Fulmentarus and Loctarus).

@@leakycheese I’m doing well. Full disclosure, I’m the same guy that came across as a troll on your Mark VI video. I honestly didn’t mean to come across harsh, I just disagreed (and still do). Still, I reread what I wrote and I see how it sounds. Apologies. As far as 2.0, I’m not really feeling it. Note I’m a Salamanders player. I just don’t understand how the one thing we get, flamers, are useless against terminators. Terminators always had their invuln, but now they have two wounds plus a rerollable armour save. Not fair. Also, i don’t especially appreciate how much artillery was nerfed. In my experience, I feel that the new rules have actually condensed the army list selections you see in games. Everyone I played against is bringing massive blobs and several contemptors. Gone are the days when you see things like sicaran Venators and flyers. It’s a shame IMO because there are so many beautiful vehicle models for HH that are being ported to plastic, but people don’t play them. Even Leviathans are not efficient. GW made some big mistakes from a business perspective IMO. Why nerf tanks when you are bringing them to plastic? A disconnect between the people who are responsible for rules writing and the execs who are concerned with bottom line. Anyway, any chance we can have an army showcase? I always wanted to see that Word Bearers collection.

Rumours of my demise were greatly exaggerated! I think there's probably a price at which essentially no one would buy a Warmaster. But there are plenty of people with disposable income for hobbies in general.... airsoft, flying RC models, scuba diving, airsoft, motorbikes etc. etc..

Looking forward to it! XD

Or tradable body parts? 😅

@@leakycheese I don't think they'd accept the black market value of a kidney.

Spite buying a Warmaster Titan gave me actual lols 😂

Hello! I still have your Custodians and Mechanicum book! Drop me an email at Leakycheese@tutanota.com and we can sort it out. I'm also on Instagram and Twitter.

So you’d get one to keep the collection up to date?

@@leakycheese I’d get one because they look awesome and would be a challenge to build. Sure the others would like the company too.

Definitely small enough to be mistaken for a toddler.