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I've been following this for a while now and I have to say, Great project you got going on here! Your'e very skilled with plasticard!

You Sir have been disenfranchised as the nasty glitch in this forum prevents the thread from advancing to the next page until someone posts another reply so I'll do it so your post can be seen. Someday this may be remedied but as of now it still persists.


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See, I told you,

and thanks for the reply.

I also wondered where my post went, but, smart chap that I am, I didn't repost it five times (like I did on a few other similar occasions....) lol

Very ingenius thinking, Black. The flywheel thing..... Is that, do you suppose, an actual mechanical solution in use on any device that mimics this movement (if not the actual walking)?

New to following this particular project, bt as the son of a detail obsesessed 1/35 scale, I say this: "JESUS CHIRST MAN!" Seriously... mind boggling work. Once it's finish it will easily qualify for Best In Show in any number of modelling competitions.

Mind = Blown.

mxwllmdr wrote:Very ingenius thinking, Black. The flywheel thing..... Is that, do you suppose, an actual mechanical solution in use on any device that mimics this movement (if not the actual walking)?

Off hand I would cite the mechanical clutch and flywheel in a manual transmission of an automobile would be the most common application the lay person may encounter. There are numerous industrial applications such as the clutch and brake assembly on hydraulic dividers. where you want something to engage and/or stop instantly. Further thinking along this line leads me to having the entire large disc flywheel as the armature of the of electric motor and the axle as the stator which would be the opposite of the most familiar motors which have the housing as the stator. This system saves space and bulk as the massive disc itself is both the armature and the flywheel.

Hey this damned thing might actually work!!!!!!!!

Back to business, let's see where we are in the real (sic) world with a comparison to a known object of comparable scale:

HAHA, automatic transmission clutch!!! Told ya I knew nothing about engineering or mechanics.....


Though, admittedly I should have known that one.



And of course this will work... You are building it afterall....

Not to put too fine a point on it but "manual transmission." I wouldn't begin to attempt to comprehend an "automatic transmission."

Okay Ladies and Germs, this is what separates the Blackadder from relatively sane individuals. To borrow a phrase from another Charlton Heston movie, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"; The wine is sour, so throw it out!

I'm not happy with the look. The legs are too thin. So I'm bringing out my second biggest Xacto blade and rending judgment on inferior work.

How did you take pictures and swing the hammer and hold the bowwie knife? do you have prehensile man parts? or a tail? or a really long Gene Simmons style tounge?

Black, you got style my friend, in spades!!!

Ya have ta be quick, faster than the shutter speed of the camera and infinitely faster than the speed at which the Blackadder builds models.

Oh and mullet steve, there's such a thing as a delayed timer

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Oh and mullet steve, there's such a thing as a delayed timer

Spoil sport.

hehehe

my mental images were much funnier than reality! well at least in my head

If they were too thin why couldn't you just bulk them up around what was already built?

Because hes blackadder, and thats how he does things!

I guess so its easier to maintain proportions and symmetry.

^^ Makes sense....

have recently watched in silent awe... but now with this big choppa i had to join in again...

and i second your action here mate! if it doesn´t fit your style then tear it apart and start again! that is the true way ... after all you have to feel satisfied with the project!!!

and i like the brutality of using such tools for that kind of job!!! lol...that teaches that warmachine for having too skinny legs!!!

There are a few things that the use of such tools provide. I could have gently tried to pry the pieces apart. That would have 1, distorted the surrounding plastic rendering the salvageable pieces marred and unusable. 2, running the risk of a nasty cut from a slipped blade. 3, Damaged or broke the knife or chisel.

I reasoned the sharp knife blades I have are too short for such a cut, the chisel is too steeply beveled a blade and would warp the plastic, and any kitchen knife I had and I have the finest German chefs knives made I would not risk with a hammer blow.

So I dragged out my trusty Solingen butchers knife that I have had for many years. 12 inches of the finest carbon steel sharp as a razor, strong as a cleaver. A quick sharp rap and the piece is rended in twain, no damage, no danger; the right tool for the right job.

Plus the provided theatrical entertainment value ; Priceless!

i love such poetic comments of yours!!!

and yep... my dad had one of thoses kebab cleavers too...it was his favorite tool for making meal out of the bigger and well cheaper bought meatlumbs... you can´t beat such a knife...well you obviously could^^ beside i totally see the point in your choice... it was absolutly the right tool for that job...


so...how long till you show us what you do next to the legs?

The_Blackadder wrote:Not to put too fine a point on it but "manual transmission." I wouldn't begin to attempt to comprehend an "automatic transmission."

Okay Ladies and Germs, this is what separates the Blackadder from relatively sane individuals. To borrow a phrase from another Charlton Heston movie, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"; The wine is sour, so throw it out!

I'm not happy with the look. The legs are too thin. So I'm bringing out my second biggest Xacto blade and rending judgment on inferior work.

Don't worry black, I pulled the legs apart and rebuilt them several times on my titan. I admit mine isn't as perfect as yours, but nothing is too extreme in the pursuit of quality imperial fury.

HAHA thats some funny gak

With all that now said - I am gonna put my Kukra on the workbench.....

well...whatever does the job, eh?^^

I see your kukra, and raise you...

ups i nearly accepted that challenge... but somehow i think blackadders thread is not ready to take the full amount of leage banter...well soon maybe but for now he is so cool and productive... so better let that thread stay on topic and clutter the rather unproductive ones

Mine is ripe for the banter at the moment....


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Keep working, Black. Atleast you know we are hete when you are ready to update......

tihs is apiccccccc maan ahaaa is this an org i love em :8

I appreciate drawing new members to the fold but I for the life of me cannot decipher the following statement. I must be getting old.

tihs is apiccccccc maan ahaaa is this an org i love em :8 What I did manage is :

This is Epic man I is this ___ I Love them (emoticon for breastfeeding)!

Well I love them as well Breezy2.o but is this the forum to express (groan) that sentiment?