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Patience, one must learn to savor the moment. Assembling these lower legs, as basic a structure as they are, teaches us how to build in strength with a minimum of material. I have assembled a box beam structure out of thin plastic and glue that can easily sustain for years if needs be a weight of 50 lbs or more. The ankle to leg joint likewise. There will be no need for buttresses as in the DS model (A problem he acknowledged in his sparse construction text.) except for decorative purposes plus the leg is moveable.

To quote the old carpenter's maxim, "Measure twice cut once." or the old Italian carpenter's lament, "Sunnva bitcha I cutta thisa two times and it'sa still too short!"


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Okay where's the post?

Hey I know there's a new post around here someplace, I saw it just a second ago......... I found it!

one trick they used in Aircraft mfg in WW2 was drilling/milling/manufacturing with holes to remove non neccessary material from struts and beams.

It's called lightened strut or lightened girder. I used the technique on the interior walls of my Reaver and it looks good. This type of infrastructure on the legs may actually benefit from it, Black, it it can be done structurally sound and still provide a lighter piece.

Mainly though it is one of those 50's retro scifi looks for design purposes.......

It's fun to see something like this move along at a resonable pace~!

Good job!

Yes, that above, Black. But don't let your usual quality suffer for speed.....


What am I saying, I know you won't do that.....

the feet look great. Are you going to add anything for little extra detail like a mesh grill or anything? The plasticard looks great but is flat. just a thought.

Orinoco wrote:the feet look great. Are you going to add anything for little extra detail like a mesh grill or anything? The plasticard looks great but is flat. just a thought.

A lot of detail is gained when painting is done, and the old adage "less is more" is applicable on something this size.

I was just looking at the door of my microwave and the inner shield is a lattice of 1/16 inch holes. I need to find a defunct microwave and retrieve the door panel It's ideal for grills and detail and would make perfect PSP panels for trench floors and roadways.



There is nothing to be gained from lightening the lower legs But when I get to the torso I'd like to attempt interior detail something I haven't done as yet and is sure to add months to the construction time. Now where to put the loo?


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AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:...................A lot of detail is gained when painting is done, and the old adage "less is more" is applicable on something this size.

You obviously haven't studied the DS Warlord. There a layers upon layers of detail and its what makes that model seem so real.

I dare you to put the Urinals above the crotch housing, and the seated toilets above the rear

all with suitable drainage lol

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:I dare you to put the Urinals above the crotch housing, and the seated toilets above the rear

all with suitable drainage lol

Just remember in the winter don't eat the blue ice.

Dare accepted.

Triturator alligator.

haha win!!!

That is gonna a relieving site to behold.........


LOL

Macro setting didn't work too well but these are just interim images There will be others later. To reinforce the ankle joint I applied arc segments for the spacer slides to ride on. This model will be of considerable mass, I figure about 7 kilo, so these shanks must be protected from torsion effects.

tis a tad blurry Black.

Are you working on enclosing the box now? also, how much stengthening is there within the box?

My bracing will consist of two box beams sharing a common center wall the two spacers top and bottom serve as floor and ceiling respectively for the joint gears. The structure is rather sturdy to that I can attest.

Awesome, I was curious about that, thanks

The_Blackadder wrote:To reinforce the ankle joint I applied arc segments for the spacer slides to ride on.

At first I thought those were decorative in terms of just bulking up that piece and breaking up the smoothness of it with paneling. But it actually rides on the little lip created?

You know after I installed those slides I had an epiphany, What if I cut cogs in the slides and used a toothed gear to actuate the semicircle, how would that be? I'll have to redesign the slides a bit but it would make perfect sense to have that as the mechanism.

Meanwhile todays run not as much as I had hoped for but I had to repair the porch.

Looking good there Black, and yeah the cog & pinion idea seems sound... but, my only thing against it is that something so big wouldnt use cogs and gears as the stress and strain of constant use would more than likely strip the teeth from the cogs.




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If your wanting aesthetic value, then go for it.

but if you want it to "make sense" then maybe there is another option available?

Pounce! Looking at the DS model the disc in question has very shallow strangely shaped teeth I will probably duplicate those but the cogs intrigue me just from the visual sections alone there could be for sets of cogs and pinions with who knows how many hidden in the shank sleeve.

Just looking at your avatar prompted the "Pounce!"

lols, mad scientist kitteh awaits mad science ^_^

Fair enough then, I can't exactly fault your logic Black, it's been spotless so far

I wasn't going to post this until I rectified the problem but then I thought, "Hey this is a good thing to demonstrate that even the Blackadder isn't infallible " and has to go back to the drawing board now and then.

Seems I made the shanks too long by about an inch. measuring for the upper leg somehow the proportions just didn't look right so I remeasured and sure enough I managed to add an extra inch to the overall height.

So what's an inch you may say but to me it will change the look of the finished model from a hulking looming menace to a spindle shanked travesty ergo I shall be cutting the lower legs in half and removing the offending inch but not yet as I may have to do other things as well so might as well do all at once.

Black, your alive! HUZZAH!!!

are you sure that Warlord isn't just growing before your eyes?


On a more serious note, loving the shape and curvature of the upper thigh. is the aim for pistons as the main joint extender/decreaser?


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Is it me or did the pictures vanish before my eyes? O_o

I had to edit the images a bit. I'm not quite sure what you mean by pistons.

The curve is there in both the DS and Epic model to accommodate the upper leg armour otherwise it will interfere with the knee disc when it intersects with the greave.

Now that I look at the pictures I wonder whether the feet are big enough!

By pistons I mean pneumatic rams, like you see on digger arms and such.



O_o Don't know how I missed that curve on the originals

I think the feet probably don't look big enough because you don't have the other toes attached yet. when they are on, I think it'll increase the overall aesthetics of them, as well as show a larger area of footfall.

So much detail as usual! Great work!

nice to see it start to rise!

The following is my answer to a question involving the cog mechanism on another forum:

"First of all it will only be a simulated cog drive I don't need the pinion gear as it will be hidden in the shank. slicing off the 0.5 mm sheet styrene will take a matter of minutes and fabricating the cog detents

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detent

about an hour but it really would make sense of the quadrant (semicircle; still awaiting our erudite British readers to come up with a viable alternative for semicircle. There's gotta be a proper word for this device but it escapes my watered down provincial colonial education. ) mechanism.

Now the real beauty of this is I have made sense of the vertical disc at the knee joint. Think of it as a flywheel rotation at various speeds depending on how fast the titan is walking. A simple clutch mechanism engaging and dropping out at propitious intervals allow the knee to flex for the step with a minimum of computer input. The only caveat would be in turning which would be performed by accelerating either the left or right flywheel. ( I rarely use this word but COOL!)."