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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Ye Gods, Has It Been That Long!

Over the past six years and four months since I started this project I've been repeatedly asked, What colour am I going to paint this beasty.

Well I've finally found a colour scheme I think will be befitting this endeavor.

It combines the understated mechanical appearance of a Lucius Pattern Emperor Titan with the garish opulence of the upper works.

The concept is credited to Joazzz2, the original 3D designer of the images I follow.

https://i.imgur.com/S2KmceV.png


You can see I quite a bit of detailing still to do on the upper works before I commit to painting.

And the four spires on the superstructure will be "Vengeance Weapons Batteries" for aerial defense.
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"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Are We Having Fun Yet!

It took me the better part of a week but I finally have 22 cathedral style window frames for my buttresses.
Basilica Adminstratum 

https://i.imgur.com/7DCwNlo.jpg


I cut them out from the panels of couple Basilica Adminstratum kits I had lying about. 
https://i.imgur.com/tiCkgUP.jpg


Cripes! Blackadder Do you know what those kits are worth? 
Yeah, in point of fact I just purchased one on ebay for a hundred bucks free shipping ( I still need more windows and door panels.)
https://i.imgur.com/5tQiZge.jpg


But "In for a penny, in for a pound." I always say. It's only money.
https://i.imgur.com/STHfTYG.jpg


So, was it worth it?

"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Absolutely. Most impressive.

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






You’ve probably increased their value by adding them to the Titan anyway!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Thanks for the replies...

Octagons... That Feeling You Get When Things Go Awry 

It was a matter of disappointment when I found the turrets were hexagonal and would not fit the upper bastion assemblies.

Ultimately I had to make my own...

https://i.imgur.com/i7Ahp5P.jpg 

Fortunately I could still use the guns.

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


The upper works of one of the four corner bastions.

https://i.imgur.com/DapA7Uo.jpg


And some ideas of how to flesh out the basic structure..

https://i.imgur.com/lU9C8RC.jpg

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





"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
Made in ca
Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot






holy jebus man, 6 years, I still remember when you were building the warlord and the thunderhawk. Wow has time flied or what. This is a work of art bro, I love it. The dedication you have put into it is mind blowing. Ive been on a hobby break the last 2 years or so. I have a warbringer about 7/8th assembled (just needs the gun finished and the armour panels put on) and basecoated ive been kinda getting the itch to work on something but I don't know if I want to jump right back into the titan.

I also have a warhound I am putting together for a friend. I look at the stuff I want to do, then I look at the warhound....then I look at my stuff somemore then I feel guilty looking at my stuff when the warhound is still in pieces. Le sigh such is life.

This is mind blowing blackadder, im glad the local stores could donate polystyrene that stuff isn't cheap I am loving this bad boy. Like someone else said its like watching a child grow and age. Hell I think your warmonger is older then my granddaughter lol. But its so awesome to see. Its like a old friend you don't see much, but when you do you have a great time with them. The weapon arms look great, the whole thing looks mind blowing.

Also you can never expect the Spanish inquisition... I love those models

Keep up the amazing work. This is legend.
   
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Virginia

I love the paint scheme with the gold. It will look great.

Terrain Blog Reaver Blog Guide to assembling Forge World Warhound titan
"So if I want to paint my house green, even if everyone else thinks it should be red, guess what? I'm going to paint it Jar-Jar." -George Lucas 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Welcome back Jabba.

Guess What These Are?

https://i.imgur.com/U9bu6Vk.jpg


Hints;

They're grey and gold.

There will be 32 of them on the model when finished ... yeah I'm making a couple extra and picking 32 of the best.

They are divided into 3 panels with 2 spacers.

There are two of them in the Emperor image below.

https://i.imgur.com/kyiViH9.jpg

"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Corner Bastions,

In the past few weeks I've managed to complete hundreds of components out of thousands of bits on plastic.
 
I have far outstripped my budget and my original ambition for this project.

Seen below is my first trial assembly of the corner Bastion with its corner pylons each of with consumed days of tedious assembly.

The trim bound by gum bands on the left  contains 98 assembled strips each containing 8 bits of meticulously crafted styrene plastic.

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


On the  right of the image is another bound bundle of trim 32 assembled strips each containing 6 bits of styrene.

https://i.imgur.com/pZI8z4u.jpg


I rebuilt the corner upper bastions to be more compact and began the upper gun mounts flanking the pylons.

I decided to take a break from the frantic pace and post an update while I regroup and begin completing the other 7 pylons and mounting them on the upper bastions.


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Corner Bastions,

In the past few weeks I've managed to complete hundreds of components out of thousands of bits on plastic.
 
I have far outstripped my budget and my original ambition for this project.

Seen below is my first trial assembly of the corner Bastion with its corner pylons each of with consumed days of tedious assembly.

The trim bound by gum bands on the left  contains 98 assembled strips each containing 8 bits of meticulously crafted styrene plastic.

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


On the  right of the image is another bound bundle of trim 32 assembled strips each containing 6 bits of styrene.

https://i.imgur.com/pZI8z4u.jpg


I rebuilt the corner upper bastions to be more compact and began the upper gun mounts flanking the pylons.

I decided to take a break from the frantic pace and post an update while I regroup and begin completing the other 7 pylons and mounting them on the upper bastions.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2022/10/13 10:39:34


"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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That's some impressive levels of work. Going to be pretty glorious looking when it gets done.
   
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As ever Blackadder, the attention to detail is simply astounding!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Thanks for the replies,

Whew; well it took the better part of a month but I finally finished the corner obelisks. Literally thousands of pieces



But I think it was worth it.



I can't wait until they're painted gold and graphite and installed on the Titan's super structure.



The beauty of these modular constructions is that I can begin painting as soon as the sub-structures are completed....

To my satisfaction that is so there are the discrepancies to be dealt with.

But these are sufficiently done so I can begin working on the gun mountings on these units. it will be a release from the tedium as I only need eight gun emplacements. 

Piece o' cake.  

"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut






I'm really looking forward to this project log.
The orbital defence batteries are screaming to be converted into titan weapons and I love how you approach the project. You 'think in scenery', this causes you to design outside-in instead of the usual inside-out.

This will hopefully lead to a supremely detailed titan.
   
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That is a lot of peices, but the combine result looks very worth it! Going to be amazing painted...
   
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Northumberland

Looks bloody good. The pieces look spot on based on your reference photo.

One and a half feet in the hobby


My Painting Log of various minis:
# Olthannon's Oscillating Orchard of Opportunity #

 
   
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Spires look much better than I expected.
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Yeah, I've been totally remiss in posting new work but in spite of the tedium of adding all these bits and the time consumed it does not seem very much to report...

https://i.imgur.com/4zBKlBr.jpg



So we'll take it from where I installed the spikes on the corona.

This actually is a chaos feature but it looked so d@mned good I couldn't resist.

https://i.imgur.com/yPi1QhQ.jpg


Then I had to adjust the cannon emplacements to fit the new design otherwise all the new detail wouldn't fit.

There's a months worth of revamping to post but here's some tidbits to nosh on whilst I get some pictures together.


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Not where I should be

If nothing else I am impressed with your staying power. But the work is so massively impressive and brilliant. Love it all, the attention to detail, the grand scale. All so impressive.




 
   
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Affton, MO. USA

That truely looks like the face of an angry god flanked by typical GW shoulders.

your work is always appreciated.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

We're back ( I hope for good ) 

To tell the truth I've been busy with local politics and have not had time to work on this project for the past four months. 

I'll scrounge around for some update images.

Last week I totally disassembled the model to make ready to work on the upper deck.

I also removed the upper legs to work on the thigh and knee armour regions. 
'
I've also been teaching myself "Pirates of the Caribbean" on the piano.

It's a tough piece to learn and my old hands and fingers aren't up to the god awful repetition in the base clef.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pirates+of+the+caribbean+piano+impossible

I'll post something in a day or two

"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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Good to see you back, look forward to seeing more titan goodness...
Glad you can take it apart, I was beginning to wonder how on earth you're going to paint it!

My hobby ADHD, mostly Necromunda, with a splash of regular 40k... 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Joint Armour

I've thought about this a lot over the past few months and nothing I could come up with filled the bill of what I am looking for.

The joint armour must cover the knee and hip joint but still not be bulky and clumsy looking. It must be logical and functional but still be pleasing to the eye.

So to refresh your memory and not have you shuffling through dozens of pages of images I'll present the original leg sections as they are at present.

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


First of all I've decided to reverse the knee and hip joint so the quadricep actuators are in the front and hamstring actuators are in the rear of the knee.

The quads are the only actuators I really need so the hamstrings will be just for show.
 
https://i.imgur.com/GBbCQ7M.jpg


Suddenly the leg actuators begin to make a lot more sense.

I started with a couple of rectangular cards and reinforced them with the egg crate fluorescent lens material

https://i.imgur.com/pk4ZHMs.jpg


and started to pare away material until a shape began to emerge 

https://i.imgur.com/XtNURj7


That's all for today but this is beginning to take shape.

"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

A weeks worth of work

Where I attempted to replicate the leg armour in the hip area.

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


Since this is supposed to be an ornamented version of a Emperor Titan as opposed to my Lucius pattern Warlord I am proceeding with the decorative armour.

https://i.imgur.com/42Ylzql.jpg


This will set the pattern fo all the armour on the guns and the body shielding

https://i.imgur.com/IjMXWl9.jpg


Once I clean up the pieces these will be ready for painting.

Sometime in this decade that is....

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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Really nice trim work, he’s going to be a really fancy lad!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
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The Great Satan (East Coast)

Relegated to the stone age.

I've been too long in the manufacture of this model and 3D printing technology has consigned me to the dust bin of "also ran."

I was quite proud of my recently manufactured spires until I saw this Emperor Titan.

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


How' I supposed to compete with that! Look at the detail! absolutely incredible!

3D printing has set the bar by a couple of orders of magnitude.

https://i.imgur.com/k3mGhdF.png


Witness my latest effort...

https://i.imgur.com/3qAZJJ5.jpg


which pales in comparison.

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


D@mn you AI.

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Upstate, New York

While anyone can download STL and print stuff, it take a mad genius to do it old school by hand. And it shows. A lot.

What you have here is unique and amazing. Keep up the good fight.

   
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I'm not really seeing a lot of daylight between the 3d print and your work honestly--you set a high bar for plastic work. That said, there's something to be said for if you can't beat 'em-join 'em--maybe look into getting some 3d printed detailing to help punch yours up even more?
   
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Northumberland

Can heartily disagree. Yours certainly doesn't pale in comparison, it is phenomenal work. 3D printing has come along way, true, but it's still got a long way to go. The time, effort and skill that you have put into your work far outstrips a bit of mere technology! I always look forward to updates on your thread.

One and a half feet in the hobby


My Painting Log of various minis:
# Olthannon's Oscillating Orchard of Opportunity #

 
   
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Pious Palatine






Such incredible work!

EDC
   
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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

Comparing to 3D printing is like looking a photo and thinking you'll never draw that well.

Different mediums, different tools.

Anyone who makes models can appreciate a scratch build, the only people who'd say 3D printing is better are people who never tried.

 
   
 
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