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The_Blackadder wrote:Yeah I know I'm slow but I don't play Warhammer...and I enjoy building for the challenge not the finished product.

I wanna build a Lucius Reaver all of a sudden............

I understand the not playing part and the finished product Part, but I am not a fan of the appearance of the Lucius Pattern Reaver

The_Blackadder wrote:And a Lucius Chaos Warhound

I think I am gonna do one of my 6 warhounds as a Lucious. I like the look of them. Of course, I will have to build a loyalist Lucius to put in my Chaos Warlord's Power fist. HA! TAKE THAT DAVE SMITH!

The_Blackadder wrote:and of course the Dave Smith Warlord

Oh, hey, Dave, Just kidding about that thing above, ok? Just kidding.....

The_Blackadder wrote:And I don't even like T'hawks anyway

from XcaseX's Signature wrote:
" ‘I don’t like this,’ said Sergeant Barkha. ‘Feels like we’re flying in a rations can. I could spit through this fuselage.’
‘You can spit acid,’ Remus reminded him. ‘There aren’t many hulls or fuselages you couldn’t put a hole in with your saliva.’
‘You know what I mean.’
‘I do, but I wouldn’t worry. The Thunderhawk is just a stopgap design. It won’t be around for long.’ " -- age of darkness -- rules of engagement by Graham McNeill

The_Blackadder wrote:

I need a Martini



Quickly!

Bond. James Bond wrote:

Shaken, not stirred.

mxwllmdr wrote:................, but I am not a fan of the appearance of the Lucius Pattern Reaver.

Me neiither, nor do I like the round shoulder appearance but I think I could make a better broad shoulder looking carapace and change the look of that rocket launch pod as well.

Not much to show for this morning; the trailing edge devices glued in place with a touch more work to do on the right wing device. The wing spars sliip nicely into the wing butt end slot and give a chord to the wing even though the prototype doesn't have one. It gives a little character to the wing and takes away from the block-like appearance.

Its looking really good now black! The detail on this is insane!

I couldn't sleep last night; I was wide awake at 1:50AM so I figured why not do a little work on the T'hawk until i got sleepy. Well here it is 9 hours later and I'm still working on the d--ned thing. H-ll I couldn't be paid for working this hard but the results are gratifying none the less. I just fastened on the wings (temporarily with a couple of screws so the wings have a bit of negative dihedral (Dihedral! We don't need no stinking dihedral! (especially negative)). I'm lucky today is Saturday or I'd be in a world of hurt sleepwise.

Hah, who gives an F about dihedral?
No-one!
Do you know planes?

20 years as an aircraft mechanic yes I know planes all too well.

Now for the engines:

As familiar as I am with current jet engines I'm stymied by the drum-like affairs surrounding the compressor housing and exhaust turbines on these engines. There are two above and two below and they seem to be vented with louvers fore and aft. My guess is they augment the intake air in the rarefied partial vacuum of orbital space but why they are needed on the rear as well is a mystery. After burner maybe?

Anywho here are the bits components of the basic engine rough cut and ready for final shaping and assembly.

Looks interesting

I think you may be giving the fw team a bit too much credit.

My guess would be that the stuff is there cos it looked cool..

Vitruvian XVII wrote:I think you may be giving the fw team a bit too much credit.

My guess would be that the stuff is there cos it looked cool..

It's funny because it's true...

Vitruvian XVII wrote:I think you may be giving the fw team a bit too much credit.

My guess would be that the stuff is there cos it looked cool..

Cool, Well that's a hell of a lame reason!

The un-with it,

Blackadder

The_Blackadder wrote:20 years as an aircraft mechanic yes I know planes all too well.

Now for the engines:

As familiar as I am with current jet engines I'm stymied by the drum-like affairs surrounding the compressor housing and exhaust turbines on these engines. There are two above and two below and they seem to be vented with louvers fore and aft. My guess is they augment the intake air in the rarefied partial vacuum of orbital space but why they are needed on the rear as well is a mystery. After burner maybe?

Anywho here are the bits components of the basic engine rough cut and ready for final shaping and assembly.

That is the Aircraft Mechanic speaking!
I am really loving the T-hawk, It is really starting to come along nicely.

Black, that thing is turning out amazing.... What is dihedral, anyway?

mxwllmdr wrote:Black, that thing is turning out amazing.... What is dihedral, anyway?

Off the top of my head:

Most aircraft are built inherently stable; the wings form a shallow 'V' shape when viewed from the front or rear. This shallow 'V' shape causes the plane to fly straight and level with very little adjustment from the pilot. When I took basic flight training; that was what my instructor showed me in my first lesson. I was steering the Aeronca all over the sky and coulldn't get the plane to go where I wanted it to go. "Take your ham fists off the stick and watch what happens," he said and the plane settled into a smooth straight and level configuration all by itself (no crosswind was present which muddies up the theory). The ailerons on the outer trailing edge near the tips when moved cause that stable configuration to change by increasing the dihedral on one side and decreasing the dihedral on the other by the same amount and the aircraft banks to the side with the lesser dihedral. Using this feature in conjunction with the elevators and the rudder,( the control surfaces on the tail of the aircraft,) the bank becomes a turn to the side with the least dihedral. If you fly on commercial jets (the kind I worked on,) watch the wings when the pilot makes his turn on approach for landing; you may see a very slight movement of the aileron. That is because commercial jets aren't usually called on to make aerobatic maneuvers. The subtle movements are usually sufficient to give a comfortable low 'G' turn for the passengers.

Fighter planes today have little or no dihedral or negative dihedral (anhedral) in the case of Harrier type aircraft. The pilot or auto pilot must continually fly the plane. This instability makes for a more agile or responsive vehicle capable of high 'G' maneuvers.

So, having said that huge mouthful, you solidfy your rightful place as the Chief rocket scientist and Mad Genius in Charge of DAKKA......

I wish I knew as much about anything as you do about airplanes and engineering......


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I'd actually settle for knowing as much about potatos as you do about airplanes and engineering......


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Is there as much to know about potatos as there is to know about airplanes and engineering?

mxwllmdr wrote:
Is there as much to know about potatos as there is to know about airplanes and engineering?

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were first introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize.[1] Long-term storage of potatoes requires specialised care in cold warehouses.[2]

Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to Uruguay.[3] The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations,[4] but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago.[5][6][7] Following centuries of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes.[6] Of these subspecies, a variety that at one point grew in the Chiloé Archipelago (the potato's south-central Chilean sub-center of origin) left its germplasm on over 99% of the cultivated potatoes worldwide.[8][9]

Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century. The staple was subsequently conveyed by European mariners to territories and ports throughout the world. The potato was slow to be adopted by distrustful European farmers, but soon enough it became an important food staple and field crop that played a major role in the European 19th century population boom................ Quote from Wikipedia which incidentally has an excellent article on the theory of flight happily I wasn't too far off the mark in my above statement.

Rocket Scientist! My god why not just say I'm a toll taker on the Golden Gate Bridge Sheesh!

Paraphrasing Sheldon Cooper TBBT

Taking the rough cut cresent pieces, I tacked them together with a couple of dots of ambroid and sanded them to the final shape. Then separating them more or less in the middle I reversed the two pieces to see how well they conform to their mirror inages. Then I compared the ends to the middle. Happily they matched up pretty good.

Wow, you used that many ribs...... I used two.... Hey, is that .080 plasticard they are made of?

The whatever it is cowling for the engine basic construction. The first two I made just for practice and are 23 mm long and the base flairs slightly. They will be abbreviated and used on the belly engine. The next set will be for the wing engines now that I have the specs down and will be 22 mm in length.







Only eight more to do, I do so hate repetition!

And one a little further along

You work so quickly .
Really loving the engine as a whole, The super detailing of the T-hawk really gives it it's own story.

Thats a new one, no one has ever accused me of working fast.

The tedium of manufacturing ten of these half drums is behind me I took a break to gab some images. I saved the template as there are a few more of the shapes needed for the reinforcement girdles midway on the engine housing.

Engineering precision as usual!

The_Blackadder wrote:....purchased a bona fide and certified Chaos Warhound from the manufacturer (i.e. FW) to complement the neglected Lucie; with the promise to be arriving in 10 14 days. look for an update on the Lucie thread.

Shocked, wow. Never thought you would go that route!


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That wing detail is great. As always, loving the work. I liked seeing the structural interior of your wing, and it's great that you actually have a curve to it. Do you use any photo editing software? If you could maybe tweak your contrast to make viewing those blasting white images a little easier? Like you don't have more important things going on


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The_Blackadder wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:................, but I am not a fan of the appearance of the Lucius Pattern Reaver.

Me neiither, nor do I like the round shoulder appearance but I think I could make a better broad shoulder looking carapace and change the look of that rocket launch pod as well.

I'm a fan of the original warlord titan bubble carapace (from Epic Space Marine).

Black, when you figure out the how to's of the blasting white image photo problem let me know.

@Jabba, Me too. And the Armorcast Mars Pattern Warhounds.

jabbakahut wrote:

The_Blackadder wrote:....purchased a bona fide and certified Chaos Warhound from the manufacturer (i.e. FW) to complement the neglected Lucie; with the promise to be arriving in 10 14 days. look for an update on the Lucie thread.

Shocked, wow. Never thought you would go that route!

My Dear M. Hutt,

Sometimes you must bite the bullet and make an investment. The Chaos Warhound was a covenant between my son and myself duly slatted to be turned over to him on the completion of the bargain. That said I am not above using said Warhound for my own purposes I.E. verifying the legitimacy of the Lucie Project and setting the stage for a Mars Pattern build Nurgle or otherwise.

BTW nice to hear from you, I'll drop by your threads soon,

EB

Bubble carapace?

i think he meant this:



To which, I agree, and indeed the old Armorcast Mars pattern Warhound as well.

Whew that Armorcast stuff was really strange. Towering humanoid automatons with hideous weaponry with not a nod to scale or design. Perhaps FW deserves more credit for engineering design and functionality. At least the machines look like machines instead of drug induced hallucinations........... hmmmmm the '80s, based in CA, mebbe they were drug induced hallucinations.

LOL, what does it say about me that I liked them?!?!?!?!?!

It's looking good black!Keep up the hard work!