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Amazing results so far. Absolutely bang up job.

Everytime I see long legs like that though I can't help but want to position them like this



It only gets better when you think about the gigantic god machine strutting around.

Ditto on my "wow them's some chicken legs" comment. Looking mighty fine, love seeing them standing, really puts the scale in mind.

As for the CoD bits and whatnot, that's all on what you feel comfortable, and how much of a "one-upper" you are Personally, if I had the skill to do all this, I would go ahead, simply to become TFG for the best reason: "I replicated the BOLS Warlord, but I did it all from scratch, 100% hand made parts" Fairly sure my ego would cause my head to explode

Wow, sounds like you are talking about me, Sigmund....


LOL

Started on the greaves yesterday, it's interesting that such a simple looking panel is so difficult to get right. There are so many compound angles on these that I had to invent new ways to make them. I settled on a twelve mm thickness for the basic structure, most of the Warlords I see have armour way too thick to be practical. 12 mm translates to 2.57142857 feet which I believe is quite thick enough considering that the Iowa class battleships (the heaviest armoured ships ever built) have a belt thickness of only 19 inches. Given that in the far off bellicose future there is ceramic and/or depleted uranium armour; 30 inches seems to me to be more than sufficient.

Unless it don't look right!

BTW mxwllmdr your avatar look interesting. A scratch Mars Warhound perhaps?

That is correct, Black, dedicated to Khorne at that.

It was a build I did for a friend to give to his son for a birhtday.

I consider it to be my best work and it is like pulling teeth to get paint photos of it. I was able to obtain one that was taken on a cell phone camera and isn't great. But you know what they say about when your kids grow up and move away. You are happy for whatever contact they do make.....


I have to join the scratch crowd on the details dilemma you are facing. I say make it yourself if possible. I have used very little bits on my projects and only when it served the model best to have the real thing.....

So no thread for the build I take it? On another forum someone PM'd me how I would make the curved carapace on a Mars Pattern Warhound and I told him how I would do it but never having done it; I thought it would be interesting see how you did it.

Back to more basic structures I should learn to accept Monsieur DS's plan and not make a fool of myself (at least not in print). I had to thicken the greaves armour another 3 millimeters as mine looked too thin. But I did manage to clean up the slope of the 'flying' greave segment so all the facets have a clean line. I should have the basic greaves done this evening. Then all that needs be accomplished is the detail which will make this rather plain structure more impressive.

Looks awesome as ever Black!!! Btw, are those electronics I see there?

nice big armor shins loving it

Each greave has two large search lights on the flying portion both on the DS model and the Invictus rendering. I thought it would be nice to have them light up. I plan to do a lot of wiring on this model because I feel it will be worth it.

deffinatly gonna be worth it but for gawd sake go for LED's rather than those stupid tiny light bulbs...... I found out the hard way.

Yes, incandescent can melt the model.

No, Black, the mars pattern has its own thread....

"Had" The thread posting limit has expired.

This is what I tried to post anyway............

"I don't know how I missed this thread, of course I don't get much chance to look around the forums I post on. Keeping up with my own project threads monopolize almost all my computer time............. But this is some outstanding work."

mxwllmdr wrote:Yes, incandescent can melt the model.

I mean the power needed to run the stupid little things... oh whats that each lightbulb is going to waste 40-60% of the voltage I run to it... Hmmmm Oh and you say a LED is going to lose a lot less

@Mullet_Steve, Yes, there's that....



@Black, Yeah, I had to consolidate all my threads. I am not mentally capable of keeping up with more than one. And barely one, at that......

Hmmm, have not posted for a week this will never do.

I got caught up in building the greaves and rather than post a half a--ed response I waited until I actually had something to show.

First the diagonal toes, I was wondering how I would mount them that they could be movable. They needed to twist when the front and back toes were flexed so they could maintain contact with the ground as the foot lifts during the step.

I woke up Wednesday with an epiphany* the solution was simplicity in itself; no wonder I couldn't think of it (I never do any thing the easy way.) Anyway drilling 7/16 holes in the diagonal toe mounts and drilling 3/8 holes in the toes themselves, gluing in the respective tubes and letting the dry overnight I trimmed and sanded them today and walla the toes ar mounted. Now for the kick in the a-- from the great equalizer in the sky, they can only twist a couple of degrees! HA!

Oh well it's the exercise that counts.

On to the greaves:

As they were when last presented they were too boxy looking IMHO and I thought the DS model looked a bit overly large and clumsy with those wide straight sided panels. I still will make the panels but slightly smaller and the flying portion is at a tighter angle to the leg.

The greave base section is what is pictured today and I built battery boxes into them for 9 volt batteries. I'm not sure a switch will be necessary as the whole greave is easily removable and uncapping the battery requires but a few seconds. I can still install a switch if I find one small enough.

The greave on the left is clamped because the battery compartment is glued in place and drying. Once assembled the box will slide on rails into the compartment and help center the leg to the greave along with rare earth magnets to hold the greave in place.

*Is that what they're calling it nowadays?

Ah summer when young men's thoughts turn to something other than tiny anthropomorphic figurines...................

meanwhile the Blackadder blunders on. This has been a very productive weekend having come close to completing the detail on the inner surface of the greaves replicating as closely as I could (because I changed the shape of the greaves a bit to suit my aesthetic sensibilities) the DS model.

I have a feeling I won't be seeing any more critiques on the legs being too thin; quite the reverse in fact considering that the hydraulics haven't been installed yet.

I don't have any idea why so much electric conduit is needed for such basic structures; there must be a lot more than just armour plating going on in these greaves. Considering that these titans are millennia old I guess a lot of additional retrofitting has taken place as technology changes. Finding space for wiring and the like inside the structure isn't always practicable so running it outside may be the expedient way to go.

Anyway the detail on the toes is next because if I don't do it now I may not after the superstructure is completed.

As ever Black... your work is truly astounding!!!

I fething love titans, specially when they are done with such detail and care.

The bloom is off the Tudor rose it would appear. The Blackadder has lost a lot of momentum judging by a cursory glance at the last few days effort but a closer examination will reveal a plethora of tiny detail on the toes all of which is time consuming.

On the basic structure front I began the upper leg armour and was very surprised how small the actual size was. Granted they represent armour on the order of more than a meter thick and twelve th fifteen feet long but they do look small even to me. I was use to looking at the top image on my screen which made the part look huge. I was actually concerned I had enough plastic to construct them. As it turned out I constructed them out of the scrap box.

http://i.imgur.com/ejWUT.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/fo1TS.jpg

Once again the devil is in the details. I spent this weekend producing what amounts to about twelve square inches of armour for a model that will have I figure about 500 to 600 square inches of highly detailed surface. And thats not counting the framework or interior detail plus the lighting and the fiber optics.

It is highly satisfying to work on a model in this manner though. Were I to complete the basic structure and then attempt the intricate work I might be tempted to skimp on the finishing up; this way if I get lazy toward the end the huge blank surfaces will be readily apparent and that will never do so I shall be committed to keeping up the intensity of the intricacies.

Perhaps "committed" applies in more ways than one.

Anyway the thigh armour is more or less complete except for the bitz and the moss-like fuzzy that abounds on the DS model. I cannot figure out what that material is.

http://i.imgur.com/kF0R7.jpg


I it has a nurgle like quality to it that conveys great age and decay; could it be dryer lint? I must remember to save the lint the next time I do my underwear.

http://i.imgur.com/GocUY.jp


http://i.imgur.com/fryYx.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/PVNmV.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/NPpvn.jpg


This is my favorite picture so far, It really conveys the scale of this thing.

"Aye lads there's majesty for you." Ahab to his boat crew in pursuit of the white whale.

Bloody hell Black...

can't really say much more than that... just wow dude... simply wow.

Im not sure why you'd want to copy the fuzzy bits, seems like its just glue to me.

I like it, it reminds me of my time in the service when we painted everything OD green.

OD meaning "Over Dirt" not olive drab as civi's think.

The_Blackadder wrote:I like it, it reminds me of my time in the service when we painted everything OD green.

OD meaning "Over Dirt" not olive drab as civi's think.

Sounds about right, saves on cleaning at least

The_Blackadder wrote:
Anyway the thigh armour is more or less complete except for the bitz and the moss-like fuzzy that abounds on the DS model. I cannot figure out what that material is.

I it has a nurgle like quality to it that conveys great age and decay; could it be dryer lint? I must remember to save the lint the next time I do my underwear.

I haven't used it myself, but maybe that new Citadel Brush on texture stuff could lend the same effect.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat800008a&rootCatGameStyle=

Otherwise, like Vitruvian said, it looks like glue to me...or in his article he talks about using a certain type of paper that he glued over the exposed foam edges of the foam board; it could be some kind of effect from the paper and the glue.

The_Blackadder wrote:I like it, it reminds me of my time in the service when we painted everything OD green.

OD meaning "Over Dirt" not olive drab as civi's think.

Quoted for truth....


Fantastic as par usual...

Time to assemble the whole and see where we stand:

The upper thigh armour needs to be lengthened about a quarter of an inch but the hinge and plate should take care of that.

The trailing legs don't have a large enough range of movement.

The leg joint lock systems works well but the bolts still need to be concealed.

The hip axles are way too thin in diameter but the length looks right.

http://i.imgur.com/ikTXV.jpg


The step dynamics look right in both the static and the step out pose
http://i.imgur.com/51WPc.jpg


The front elevation while bland will convey the power of this brute.

I may have to mount the greaves higher.

http://i.imgur.com/4QfE2.jpg


And I just love these low angle shots
http://i.imgur.com/I0Er1.jpg

I love it. What, if any, are your plans for hiding the hardware at the individual joints and pivot points?

Hadn't had chance to look at this in a while, so I'm very glad I dropped by! It's really coming together now and it looks fantastic.

D

FRACK.ME.