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If you're going to be layering the grid, make sure that you have alternate cutting orientations between them. That'll increase strength, while also decreasing glue use to just where they intersect.

Main Gun Mount Yoke:

Today I finally finished the rough laminate build of the Gun Mount Yoke. This was a major production, tedious in the extreme and the amount of glue required was staggering. Two full tubes of Testors cement dribbled on each and every spine and cross piece with six sheets of 0.030 inch 0,075 MM styrene between the honeycomb sheets. Everyone in the house was high on the fumes with the exception of me strangely enough.

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


The Layers look rather crude now but I dressed the upper mount edge and plotted my Inner edge line culminating in a freehand yoke arch which seems satisfactory.

https://i.imgur.com/rdtke7M.jpg


Fortunately I have a built in French Curves in my mind's eye so I don't have to resort to using them. One of these days I'll have to learn how to use them. Ha!

https://i.imgur.com/pIAf5ui.jpg


Anyway a half hour or so on the belt sander and the job is done. Not too shoddy if I do say so; I'll have to finish sand by hand but I'm about ready to start detailing the yoke.

https://i.imgur.com/5Jf7Dsh.jpg

Damn. Looks like a lot of work, but it's lookin' nice.

Can't wait to see how it looks once you start gettin' on the detailing.

That looks like it can carry the serious amount of weight that it'll be carrying.

Thanks for the replies,

Weight May Be a Problem:

The component I am building is loosely based on a 'Warren Truss' bridge.



albeit 'enclosed' with the trusses displayed on the exterior for interesting detail. Not being an engineer I don't know the actual nomenclature of the structure. It is 23 inches (59 CM) long between the penciled in guide lines labeled 'Beam' Excluding the roughed in ends.

This component as of right now masses 1.18 pounds (.505 kilo)

https://i.imgur.com/0SegaRS.jpg


Naturally the model does not need such a massive structure but a "real Life" Emperor the span would need to support the Cathedral-like superstructure and the suspended wing arms which I believe would in some configurations be firing projectiles hence a nod must be given to recoil and mass/arm/moment.

Many of the Emperor/ Battle Titans I have seen do not allow for real life weight and look to spindly especially in the legs and gun support mounts. Regardless on how you configure the details you must make your model believable in that the structure has to withstand the stresses of massive steel/ceramic/ adamantine what-have-you structures. Also a bit of grace must be adopted for aesthetics when possible.

If believable is your goal, this structure DEFINITELY seems to be in the right direction! Looking great!

Main Weapon Yoke:

This turned out much better than I hoped it could. I'm basing it on the most ephemeral of images and I had only a smidgen of the overall detail.

https://i.imgur.com/hS1DBXM.jpg


Tomorrow I hope to have it mounted beneath the superstructure decking.

https://i.imgur.com/fb9vjPn.jpg


Once mounted I'll see how it melds with the overall plan but for now it sure looks like it means business.

Thats a pretty bridge you made there.

A Quicky:

Just a quicky before I quit for the night.

https://i.imgur.com/emV5HLH.jpg


Damn!

Ho.

Lee.

Crap.

I mean, how could one human have created this? Especially given that marine for scale!

There’s a marine for scale?

missed him completely .

The arm yoke is great, can’t wait to see what you have planned next.

Also I think it humorous where the vise is holding him , the_Blackadder really has that Titan by his ball bearings.

Tsk Tsk! Yeah, well I'm painting the Adeptus Mechanicus Priests and the Space Marine was handy

Requests Honored:

I received a few requests for more information and photos so here's a different view of the same stage of the build.

https://i.imgur.com/jJyiv0g.jpg


The lollipop shaped appendages jutting from both sides of the model will eventually be the main weapons yoke. It is a torsion box assembly built up layers of styrene 2 ft X 4 ft Florescent light lens $14 bucks a pop at the local HomeDepot. I am using this material extensively throughout this model mainly because it is much cheaper than Hobby Store styrene and is a great weight saving building material.

https://i.imgur.com/L894Zio.jpg


I commandeered the Master Bedroom in my home for a Den/Workshop/TV/computer room as it was the second biggest room in the house and all we did was sleep in it; ahem......

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


Finally it's my work cubical that is constantly being messed up. For some unknown reason I cannot keep it orderly and I hate wasting precious building time cleaning and vacuuming styrene dust. The above rear view shows I've done precious little to the interior decking and have used partially built subassemblies to buttress up the deck to take these images.

Now with the yoke firmly in place I can address building the interior decks of which I believe there will be five including a railed walk around exterior veranda so Belisarius Cawl can watch the battle from above the fray. These interior decks will be in addition to the Cathedral/fortress superstructure so there will be plenty of room for accommodations of the Officers of the Church.

Looks good, definitely keeping an eye on this...

Thanks for the bump. Auto Append is the bane of the Dakka Dakka Universe and I've not run across any other forum that employs this archaic method of limiting excessive posting. Other Forums have their peculiar traits but I should think DD² as one of the premier Forums would be above these restrictions.

That said here's..........

One of my greatest fears was to diminish my Warlord's stature by building an Emperor Titan. In a side by side comparison the Warlord which stands about 28 inches tall will be dwarfed by the 40 inch tall Emperor.

https://i.imgur.com/eIl2kKx.jpg


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


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


I suppose that cannot be helped.

The Warlord's filling out quite nicely!

i'm anxious to see the Cathedral/towers/etc. start to come up when you get there!

Me I’m looking for some leg .

I’m curious how your going to turn the lawn chair part that you showed into functional supports. I’m confident you’ll do it, just trying to figure it out.

Unbounded Mania

My mania is boundless once I fixate on a project. I mistakenly took a shortcut in the initial construction of the chest turrets and have found a better way to reproduce the Gothic windows indicated by the pointer arrow.

https://i.imgur.com/gv0PiSf.jpg


I may or may not rebuild the other four penetrations above the wooden turret spheres but I do like the carrying on of the Gothic theme with styrene strip stock

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


Meanwhile I'll complete the two single window sets and prepare them for installation.

https://i.imgur.com/ur17IND.jpg

A couple of skulls and gewgaws and they are ready for installing.


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


BTW I've found the author of this titan version on Deviant Art; one Boazzz who has produced a fantastic version of a Emperor Titan that I shall be following (with a Few modifications) for the rest of this build.

https://i.imgur.com/50SkSIl.jpg


A tip of my hat to Mr Joazzz for his monumental inspiration.

Let's get an anti-auto-append in for ya....

Glorious so far Mr B

My stupid work blockage of imgur , and when I clicked your links I got malware notice.

 Theophony wrote:
My stupid work blockage of imgur , and when I clicked your links I got malware notice.

How 'bout at home?

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
My stupid work blockage of imgur , and when I clicked your links I got malware notice.

How 'bout at home?

Just got home. Yours was the first post for me to check . Images pop up just fine at home on our network, and no malware warnings when I click the links. I could try using cellular data at work, but being in the basement of the hospital means I have a lot of faraday cages, concrete and steel between myself and the outside world.

Very excellent progress, and Mr. Boazzzzz gets a kudos from me too.

Gack! I misspelled his sobriquet! It's Joazzz not Boazzz. Take a look at his breathtaking 3D renderings on 'DA' and 'Facepunch'

Here's two more examples of his work.

https://i.imgur.com/kiC4SD9.jpg


I heightened the contrast on the image below to accent the detail.

https://i.imgur.com/C1iQg0D.jpg


With these two shots I can pretty much extrapolate what needs be fabricated. They are so much better than that which I have been working from up 'til now.

What I find funny is the top pic has him leaning down some. Which means all the people inside the buildings are being hurled forward..(minus the guy going the wrong way like Star Trek).

 Theophony wrote:
What I find funny is the top pic has him leaning down some. Which means all the people inside the buildings are being hurled forward..

Clearly you've never been on a ship at sea.


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I Gotta Learn To Work Faster:

Wow, two days in the making and I'll wager no one will ever notice them when this thing is complete.

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


That is until the stained glass windows are lit up.

https://i.imgur.com/J4WBhAR.jpg


But seriously I've got to make about forty of these things in various shapes and sizes and I need to get an assembly line going once the basic castle architecture is complete.

These two were just a test run to get an idea of the feasibility.

I can’t see anything at work, but at least I can kill the auto append

I think they are brilliant sir. Will look amazing once lit.

Again for these kinda parts I would go the casting route, but that would depend on how many and how varied they are in size.

Those renderings are pretty cool. Though never really pictured these things "striding" across the battlefield, more a calculated movement. Wheeling and pitching all over the place is not a good idea when you are that top heavy.

Fantastic work sir, and the level of detailing is truly epic.

Even as a static model these things are hard pressed to keep upright especially when they are articulated. But you have to consider that true bipeds, such as we humans, being tailless, as opposed to bipedal dinosaurs and birds whose fulcrums are mid-body. We are constantly kept erect by our huge brains making numerous and infinitesimal stability corrections to keep us from falling flat on our mushes. The Titans on board stability computers have to do this as well with the added problem of no elastic tendons, muscles and ligaments. Even the very act of walking requires us to deliberately and literally fall forward with each step, the trailing foot swinging to the front to catch ourselves from toppling on our faces. With each step we have to subconsciously make a myriad of ground anomaly compensations, incline and declines, and surface friction or lack thereof such as ice and oil.

Walking upright freed our hands to do the manipulations they are capable of further increasing the power of our brains so we can dance, climb, do acrobatics and all because of our tremendous brain power and because our ancestors took that initial step.


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Play Time:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I got a hankering to do some detail so finding and modifying an Imperial Eagle I found on google and tracing it on a sheet of styrene is where I am right now. I intend to make half a dozen of these and some into a bas relief but first I'm starting with a sheet of 0,020 styrene for a durable pattern.

https://i.imgur.com/EQjvwt1.jpg

It’s designs like that which make me wish I could afford one of those cricut machines. It would make so many plans possible. I’ve tried to do one similar to that and when I got almost done I always botched a cut and screwed up the project

Nice really nice design. Looking forward to seeing this in action.

Wow, lots of progress since last I checked in! It's great to see these little details starting to come in, those windows are looking fantastic.

I thought you might appreciate this video of AI learning to walk while we are on the subject, it makes you realise just how hard our brains work to keep us from launching ourselves into the floor on a regular basis!