40k Warlord titan + projects update

A quick video to say I'm not dead!
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[@daveoreilly8246]

Delighted to see your back and creating fantastic pieces! As long as you enjoy it, I'll be watching it!🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@lukemockeridge7899]

I always look forward to new videos from you dude, so inspiring! 🙏

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers dude! :)

[@Geostationary0rbit]

very cool! nice paint job -and always good to know youre alive as well!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks very much :)

[@TheDavidPoole]

Like many others have already said, I too always enjoy your content. I'm happy to wait, as I always know it will be worth it. Great update. Love the paint job on the Titan. About the pixelated figure, only thr "attached"pixels really need to be in strict alignment. By that, I mean the ones either like etched panel lines or holes where some have already detached. The others, like the "cloud" around the shoulder, should be less aligned the further out they are. Rather than trying to line them up too much, make it a little more exaggerated. It will also add more movement to the piece. At least in my mind. I'm no expert, it's just how I imagine it. Not sure I'm explaining very well. Anyway, looking forward to seeing your next project whatever it may be! Thank you for allowing us to see what you do.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks David. Yeah I think you're totally right about the pixelated parts. I like the idea of scratching panel lines and then transitioning to blocks afterwards. Cheers!

[@Micky-74-v6f]

Cracking paint job on that model! Bet it would have been a pain to film but I'd have watched it! Lovely stuff! Especially the weathered stripes and the shoulder paldrons. Epic! .. the cosplay looks cool too, will you be weathering it? Re the sculpture you have with the pixelated suit morphing, I love that concept and I think it looks cool, I reckon if you were to cast some clear but coloured cubes and stick them near the ones you have, but sorta floating and somehow illuminate them with an led in the figure, maybe you could blend them into the opaque ones, so it looks holographic of sorts? If you see what I mean? Could be interesting. Either way it's a unique concept you have there for a sculpture. your channel deserves so many more views/subs.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks dude. Yeah alot of the blocks will be cast in clear resin. A few people have suggested sculpting up the individual pieces first, scratching in a grid and then adding blocks to the edges, which transition into clear blocks.

[@kurogiza]

The knight looks great, as does the dissolving digital armor. Stick with it, maybe it ends up somewhere where you didn't anticipate. I'm always inspired by your videos!!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks for watching for all this time sir!

[@hman2912]

Love it man. You should have 1 million subs 👍🏿

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers dude :)

[@redthecrusader007]

Love the Titan! Have you thought of tau?

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! Yeah I have had a look at some of the Tau mechs. Not got any yet though.

[@iamjadedhobo]

Just keep making the videos you *want* to make not ones you *have* to make. The gaps make every new post a special treat :)

[@thedarkpower]

Thank dude, appreciate it! :)

[@RichardThompsonCA]

You've got some cool projects on the go!

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers :)

[@simonbirch5726]

Titan looks great.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@edimusprime]

Damn man you dove head first into 40K

[@thedarkpower]

Hah, yeah - some friends got me back into it a few years back. I'd not touched it for 20 years before that!

[@id104335409]

I don't follow 40K but I those Titans looks sick!

[@thedarkpower]

They are pretty cool alright :)

[@BrushQuill]

The titan is looking nice, you'd hope when you pay £2000+ that its ok

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers. It's not quite that expensive, but getting there ;)

[@lauraschlieselhuber8487]

Hell yeh bruv

[@negotiableaffections]

If I'm incorrect you can kick my butt - I think with the 'digitizing', you sculpted the piece very naturalistically and THEN tried to turn it into cubes. You know the old saying; the statue is inside the block of stone- all you have to do is remove everything that is not statue to leave only what is statue remaining? Well, I thought, if you can imagine [maybe using cad software etc] the whole piece encased in 'the block of stone' but think of the block as if composed totally of smaller cubes; then you can remove any cubes that remain outside of the statue and meld the remaining cubes to the more naturistic parts of the sculpt. Do you see what I'm saying? Good luck, I'm sure you'll manage it somehow. p.s. maybe your pixel size is a little too big - smaller pixels will make the transition to realistic smoother and prob more convincing.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks, yeah I think you're right - building it out of blocks seems more problematic, so sculpting the pieces then adding or subtracting blocks afterwards makes more sense.