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Seeing the scale in context like that is just ridiculous.

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Up In The Big Leagues:

About a week ago I began detailing the various edifices of the upper works and found myself in short supply of the 0.80 X .250 inch Evergreen Styrene strips (2,0 X 4,8 MM)

According to my calculations I would need about ten Packets. I found a user friendly "Factory Direct" Hobby Supply site which will now be my go to source for special styrene strips etc.

https://factorydirecthobbies.com/products

https://i.imgur.com/6Ihv12U.jpg



Behold $150 bucks worth of styrene strips and tubes

And The beginnings of making 96 pieces of the same size portal details for the corner bastions.

https://i.imgur.com/gVpN3PU.jpg



We're not fooling around anymore boys and girls.

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Northumberland

Those photos in scale have cheered me up greatly. I love how comically massive that Titan is. It's 40k. You're doing an awesome job.

Good luck with all that detailing!

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You were fooling around before?

   
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 Nevelon wrote:
You were fooling around before?


In a manner of speaking, yes. But an outlay of $150 bucks in one swell foop is a serious matter (To me anyway.) Granted my overall outlay for material I cannot begin to calculate... must be a good percentage of a thousand dollars . but all that is spread over the course of a few years.

It's a good thing hobbies are entertainment expenses.

Witness the undeniable joy of making 96 of these detail pieces; HA!

https://i.imgur.com/T0z69dp.jpg


48 shown here but I know I'll probably need at least that many more later on.

I streamlined the procedure by making an assembly line. I'd say these detail bits are about half done.

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A Swell Foop, you say? Must truly be dire straights for you to be invoking that.

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Anvildude wrote:
A Swell Foop, you say? Must truly be dire straights for you to be invoking that.


Don'cha mean strire draits?

Swell foop is a Spoonerism (Allegedly)

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Ah, I was alluding to the Xanth novel.

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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Whew!
48 of these bad boys and they're only half done.

https://imgur.com/vWBqseR



But finished enough to mount them on the corner bastions.

I just have to match them in threes to allow for minor discrepancies in size.

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Raison d'être:

The business end of the Emperor Titan is it's massive arm weapons.

For too long I have put off finishing up these bad boys and not realizing the primary purpose of lengthening the legs. The guns were hanging too low and interfering with the hip joints or so I thought. In actuality the thighs were just too short.

https://i.imgur.com/xnnktDw.jpg


Now we can see the preparation for the gatling cannon mount device which is greatly modified from the original mount bracket.

https://i.imgur.com/mbvRfde.jpg


I've only just started the second gun mount but I thought it would be best to show it in the beginning stage.


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As ever Blackadder, your attention to detail and quest for perfection is impressive! Good luck with all of the modifications

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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Thanks for the reply.

Multi-Barrel Weapon:

I'm trying to rationalize a multi-barrel weapon that looks like a gatling gun but does not rotate.

Something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/FZhY4xv.jpg


Let me know what you think.

I don't even know what kind of projectile this thing shoots but judging by the end of the barrels the shot is oval. I'm not going there. I draw the line at an oval shot.

I like the idea of a rotating chamber and I'll keep that but I also prefer the weapon mount disk over the bracket mount seen below:

https://i.imgur.com/02FXuBU.jpg


The Bracket mount just looks too plain and ugly.

https://i.imgur.com/Mlb4Ocn.jpg


The top view looks Okay

https://i.imgur.com/TzKJu5Y.jpg


All in all, not a bad day's work.

I just have to rationalize the barrels and the cylinder arrangement.

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Denmark

I have always seen it as a giant multi-barreled laser weapon. At least since playing the dawn of war mission, where you get to use one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcEA5Hvi4RA

I guess the multi-barrel design is a way to do compensate for the massive heat it must be generating?
   
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 Oestergaard wrote:
I have always seen it as a giant multi-barreled laser weapon. At least since playing the dawn of war mission, where you get to use one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcEA5Hvi4RA

I guess the multi-barrel design is a way to do compensate for the massive heat it must be generating?


Great images, you're my hero Oestergaard.

At last some detail I can sink my teeth into.

Are there any details of the back end of this weapon?

Thanks very much.
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Emperor Mega Cannon

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Emperor Mega Cannon 2

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Emperor Mega Cannon 3

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Emperor Mega Cannon 4

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Emperor Mega Cannon 5

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Emperor Mega Cannon 6

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Denmark

You're welcome!

I don't know if you get to see the weapon from any other angles during the game.. It's been ages since i played it..
   
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Thanks, I found some on line but not as detailed as the ones you offered.

Meanwhile I found some of my old images as well and decided to play around with one.

My old Photo Impact 13 program produced this in an hour or so:

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First hour


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Looking great! I love peeking in after a few months away and seeing the massive progress.
   
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Once again Serendipity Rears Its Ugly Head.

I began this Mega Blaster shortly after the Plasma Cannon but due to the conflict in scales I wasn't sure how large to make the arm weapons so I left it undone.

As I built the body and legs it became apparent that both weapons could be ridiculously too large or too small.

Originally I thought a meter tall (39 inches) would be a good height for an Emperor Titan but proportion wise as I built it I had to keep correcting the height.

At least four to six times at least.  A month or so ago I increased the length of the thigh about 6.35 centimeters (2.5 inches). Hopefully for the last time.

The model now stands about 1,27 meters (50 inches) with still the spires on the bastions to go adding another six to eight inches.

https://i.imgur.com/ca4jaQZ.jpg


I managed to make the drum training device which is a lot more business-like than the forked yoke bracket. that is seen on the original Joazzz2 creation.

https://i.imgur.com/dJoRnLa.jpg


A dry run assembly today with a side by side comparison of the Mega Blaster and the Plasm Blaster Cannons....

https://i.imgur.com/93PdC6x.jpg


confirmed that the arm weapons are in a close scale to the rest of the Emperor Titan.

https://i.imgur.com/Nummpd0


A final touch today is the forward muzzle plate with a stylized 40K skull embellishment to start off the fine detailing.

https://i.imgur.com/tJbMuqF.jpg

 

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If you're looking for a picture of the hellstorm Cannon, well, there's always the actual model. This is the best image I have been able to find so far.

https://picclick.com/Games-Workshop-Epic-Bitz-Imperator-Emperor-Titan-Right-154604264786.html
   
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Bob Lorgor,

Thank you very much for the research, it is much appreciated. But>

Serendipity Doo,

I found just what I was looking for; I love the internet.

What the doctor ordered. The rear assembly of a Mega blaster that can be adapted to my construct with a minimum of alteration.

Just assemble a couple of boxlike structures and attach the elevation drum gear.

https://i.imgur.com/SoCrJHv.jpg


Then somewhat faithfully copy the detail and we'll have the suitable energy producing end of the Helstrum Megablaster.

https://i.imgur.com/a8xT5Jh.jpg


I even have some of the armour to replicate.

Ahhh! It;s Christmas.

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Northumberland

You know when you give measurements for this titan and the fact that it's about the size of a child really highlights how gloriously, wonderfully insane this project is

What will you do to paint it?

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Despite Appearances,

The clothes pins are on the rear of this piece.

The first 3 images are of the paper template I made to pattern the drum gear saddle.

https://i.imgur.com/WofWOvl.jpg
(I just make names for these parts as I go.)

I made the pattern in full originally....

https://i.imgur.com/lniKAqj.jpg


Although the pattern fit rather well I found making the pieces would be easier if I made them in two parts.

Paper seen here....

https://i.imgur.com/cLYe3ly.jpg


Than to make the styrene piece from the pattern in one whole piece.

The plastic pieces installed....

https://i.imgur.com/1zpQTyg.jpg


The result appears satisfactory.



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Still impressed at the lamount of effort thats gone into this, and the precision of the work.
   
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Apples and Oranges:

Or

Is my face red?

A day or two ago I was apprised that the images I was using for my Hellstrom weapon were of a Chain Ammo weapon called a Mega Gatling cannon. :blush: (Why is there no blush emoji?)

In defence I rationalized that the overall basic counterbalance form is what I was looking for and not the actual details.

But in retrospect it is plain as day that the curved structure on the lower edge of the center section does readily show an ammo belt feed replete with 6 rounds and a bolt action loader.

The ammo box being the rear third section of this very heavy weapon. (The six PVC tubes alone weigh a couple of pounds .)

While both arm weapons at this point weigh 2 pounds each the front end moment of the Plasma Blaster is 4 ounces and 10 ounces for the Hellstorm Cannon.

Detail, details.....

Interestingly enough it is precisely what I was looking for when I first began this multi-barreled weapon I.E. a projectile firing weapon.

So now I have the option of both a 5 barreled energy weapon (redundant with the Plasma Cannon). A quick change Hellstorm Cannon and a six barrel Gatling gun.

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Good lord this is insane!!!!!
I am going to be keeping an eye on this thread for sure
   
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Another newbie, welcome aboard.

Gatling Blaster:

While I am in the process of making a HellStrom Cannon I figure it wouldn't hurt to build a Gatling Blaster quick change set of barrels as well.

That way I can have the option of either weapon with minimal trouble.

The first thing is to make the six Barrel mount cone. 

Here we see the cone which is simply a disk of styrene about ten inches in diameter with a center eight inches in diameter removed.

I then took the two inch wide strip and made a cone about 4 inches wide so there are two layers of 0.020 styrene which should be strong enough once the cone is covered with reinforcing bitz of sheet styrene.

https://i.imgur.com/UqQTie0.jpg


Once the glue is dried I have the rough form of the bell housing that is ready for detailing.

https://i.imgur.com/mGC0sIb.jpg

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duplicate

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I love how you’re not satisfied with having a Massive Titan, so you build alternative weapons for it too! Keep it up Blackadder!

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 gobert wrote:
I love how you’re not satisfied with having a Massive Titan, so you build alternative weapons for it too! Keep it up Blackadder!


I'm not making more work for myself but just keeping myself busy while waiting for material to arrive plus you get stale working on one facet of the construction so rather than put the project on hold I can just move to a different area of the construction.

Yeah; it's that big!

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