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Agreed.

Cosmic wrote:

The_Blackadder wrote:Here's the poor showing for this week.

No worries, Blackadder, at least it's some progress, as a suppose to none. Not that I'm saying that you don't deliver constant updates of this project - Far from it, in fact. Since you began, you've managed to keep up a really good level of dedication and progress. Look at it this way: The end is almost within reach now!

I'd imagine that it's almost time to mount the barrels onto the main weapon part. Are you going to just glue them straight on, or reinforce the bond by adding something more? Perhaps this isn't necessary... Well, I'm sure that I'll find out soon - Keep to the Emperor's word!

I'd wondered about that myself so today I just bit the bullet and glued them on with Testor's Blue label plastic glue which I find works better with plasticard that the red label original toxic glue surprise surprise. The bond is super strong and after a minute I could bearly nudge the two guns into a more refined alignment. The gun barrels are so light only a few grams each, that the glue joint alone is more than adequate.

Pictures later,

Blackadder

Im utterly speechless - I should have been working, but instead i was reading this amazing project log :O
Im astounded by your attention to detail. I cant even imagine working on one project for that length of time!
keep up the great work!

Hello!
I tought i should put a comment on your blog, it's so overall well done detail, quality and mechanized (hydraulics and such, dont think i would have made all those functionable) wise.
I wish you best luck on the Blackadder Titan , and keep up the great work!

The_Blackadder wrote:

jabbakahut wrote:............................No way you were able to put the aquilla on the piston joint right?

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The perplexed Blackadder


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Oh you mean:




Not yet.

E.B.

Man I had to do this just to take up Jabba's challenge. LOL



Look at the cylinder blocks above the forward toe pistons Jabba.

The suffering from eye strain Blackadder

BTW I use 'Opera' as a browser which gives me +300% or greater if needs be magnification.

Those look incredible man. And I have to say that yours look better than the FW ones. My disapointment with the quality of FW was cemented when I got my titan. In addiction to horribly shift molds, vent problems, air bubbles, there were also many small details (rivets in particular) which came out poorly. Now I wish I would have just shaved off all of the original ones and replaced them. Technically your reproduction is incorrect in that your rivets are larger-and all present, but it looks so much better in my opinion. Great work.

jabbakahut wrote:Technically your reproduction is incorrect

Gah! Don't tell him that! He'll probably redo the whole thing!

Wow! I love that conversion work! Make sure to do some more

jabbakahut wrote:Those look incredible man. And I have to say that yours look better than the FW ones. My disapointment with the quality of FW was cemented when I got my titan. In addiction to horribly shift molds, vent problems, air bubbles, there were also many small details (rivets in particular) which came out poorly. Now I wish I would have just shaved off all of the original ones and replaced them. Technically your reproduction is incorrect in that your rivets are larger-and all present, but it looks so much better in my opinion. Great work.

Gad! my rivets are too big well the trash man may not be that fussy, Guess I'll start over.


I'm really over my head on this one yadda, yadda, yadda.............

Blackadda

Yeah right it is what it is.


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exponent wrote:Im utterly speechless - I should have been working, but instead i was reading this amazing project log :O
Im astounded by your attention to detail. I cant even imagine working on one project for that length of time!
keep up the great work!

I do have other concurrent projects: raking leaves, cleaning the moss off the roof, helping my son with his scratchbuilt Thunderhawk, loading the dishwasher etc.

O yeah and of course work,

EB

Wanted to get this up before the end of the weekend. Lucie has guns, well weapons anyway. It's been a long wait but they came out fairly good. All that detail on the top and all you see is the bottoms and sides. The weapon hanging arms were a real bear. getting the length angle and size was really trying. The whole this is just slapped together temporarily so I size up the proportions. Everything looks okay so I'll finish the detail.

Blackadder

Now she's a really becoming a true Titan, Blackadder! The weapon joins are a cracking idea. BTW, your new image website host thingy seems to be displaying quite small pictures. Not that it reduces the awesome rating or anything.

Anyway... Well done to have got to this stage! Praise be to the Omnisiah! Wait... Blackadder must be the Machine God! Then what does that make Buldrick? Well, I'd going to go for the Emperor myself...

Cosmic wrote: Now she's a really becoming a true Titan, Blackadder! The weapon joins are a cracking idea. BTW, your new image website host thingy seems to be displaying quite small pictures. Not that it reduces the awesome rating or anything.

Anyway... Well done to have got to this stage! Praise be to the Omnisiah! Wait... Blackadder must be the Machine God! Then what does that make Buldrick?

Best kept secret... Baldrick is the Emperor!

Click on the image for the full sized display, the images are shrunk to fit your computer screen. If you DL them you get the full size as well.

Well I can assume someone might want to DL them,

EB

I don't see the hose connections on the head?

I swear, sometimes I look at your photos and think you've just been playing an elaborate senseless prank. Great work.

Wow Blackadder, I love it. In one year you've made a monster in your spare time!! and saved lots of money by not buying forgeworld.

You have inspironed us all.

it's utterly gorgous I have to say. WOW I mean just WOW great work all around, and though I applaud you I have but one question: in the end time/money wise was this cheaper overall for you if you combine the time to build it plus materials then buying a forge world one? I know building your own especially that cool is better, but I just mean in a economical sense.

Why climb a mountain when you could easily take a helicopter to the top. Why learn to play an instrument when you can listen to a recorded symphony. There is a certain satisfaction in model building that pays bigger dividends than the actual acquisition of the object. Time and money is not an issue although it would surely kill me to pay the better part of $500.00 for a model kit.

Blackadder

You have made a wise investment, no one in the world will have as detailed and as personal a warhound as you. or as pose-able!

Keep it going!

very true my good man, and I concur it was definately a worthwhile investment for you.

Agreed

I really wnna see it painted,

any estimates on when you will finish construction?

DC

Then I'm afraid you will have to build your own, I am so close now I don't want to take the chance and rush the end work. I'm working on the leg armour right now; not too much to show but I should have it close to completed this weekend, er; the leg armour that is. Two millimeters seems a bit too thin and the ankle armour is a real bear. Getting the proportions and angles right and still allowing for the flexibility. This model wasn't really meant to walk or my proportions are off.

Nahh! It wasn't meant to walk.

I reject FW's reality and substitute my own,

Blackadder

Good work! This should bulk up her lower legs a bit. I must say that I do like the look of warhounds. It's possible to imagine them actually walking. When I see these huge EMPRAH CLASS TITAN! scratch builds I just think:

"Yeah, you've done a great job, but seriously... That's just a fancy monument! How could it possibly walk?" kind o' thing. Well, I suppose it's 40k, so anything's possible. (Such as dwarfs in space for instance...)

++Thread hijack STOP!++ Anyways, all the best with getting this bit done this weekend. We look forward to seeing the results!

(P.S. I don't know whether this has been mentioned earlier, but do you prime your components after you've finished them? The grey model areas have always made me wonder about it...)

Cosmic,

Many years ago I started priming my models with Krylon Sandable Grey Automotive Primer. It goes on thin, dries instantly and gives great coverage. The silly bast---s went and changed the nozzle so you can't spray as thin a coat and I'm using my last can with the old nozzle for Lucie. When that's empty I'm screwed.

EB


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BTW I still want to do the Dave Smith Warlord with full regalia and that is a believable rendering of an imperial titan.

Blackadder


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Cosmic wrote: Good work! This should bulk up her lower legs a bit.

Hey wait a minute! You still think the lower legs are too scrawny??? I though I licked that problem.

One doesn't tease the Blackadder with impunity

LOL

EB

The_Blackadder wrote: Two millimeters seems a bit too thin...

Yes, it's actually 3mm. Hope these photos help with the angles. At first I thought it was based off of a square box, but the angle jig in the photo's is 90 degrees, they flare out father than I thought. The other photos I tried to take on the same plane as the Armour when possible.















Sometimes I really hate the Dakka image servers, half finished uploads my ass.

That's terrific, thanks a lot. One thing though; whats the measurement across the square front panel?

The 'rectangle' front of the greaves is 29.5mm x 47mm. Is that what you were asking about?


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The_Blackadder wrote:Many years ago I started priming my models with Krylon Sandable Grey Automotive Primer. It goes on thin, dries instantly and gives great coverage. The silly bast---s went and changed the nozzle so you can't spray as thin a coat and I'm using my last can with the old nozzle for Lucie. When that's empty I'm screwed.

Is it a special design? I have bags full of different spray can nozzels, they can pop right on and off. That is how I make sure they stay clean between sprays.


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That is really weird, I answered your question a little while ago, but it never posted.....


29.5mm x 47mm

Well this is the first comformation that my model is in the ballpark scalewise. I calculated from visual evidence that the front panel of the 'greaves' was 30,0 X 48,0 mm but when I made the cardboard mockup the ankle pistons locked up because they hit the armour so not knowing the side skirts flaired at the back edge I widened the front panel to 35,0 X ~ 50,0 mm adjusting the height proportionately. Now it looks too damned big and your information about the shin armour not being square in cross section may allow me to scale it back to the original size. If my guestimate was only off by 0,5 mm the whole model (With the exception of the waist block is fairly accurate.) Thanks for the information. You are a godsend Jabba.

BTW "greaves" is a good name for this piece of armour but 'griefs' would be more appropo.

Blackadder

Hi Blackadder,

I've been watching this blog for quite some time now and I have to say that it's a superb piece of modelling. I doff my cap to you and will use your model as inspiration so that one day(!), I will get round to modelling a Ryza pattern Reaver in full Warmongers regalia!

Just a quick, Baldrick-esque cunning plan for you Re: the basecoat spray paint you use. you may already have tried this and I may be teaching you to suck eggs as it were (no offence intended if so) but you mentioned that they have stopped producing the cans with the fine spray nozzle. I was just wondering if they are similar cans to normal spray paint as I have often managed to inadvertantly pull the nozzle off the can when cleaning it which reveals the little plastic feeder tube underneath. Maybe you could pull the fine nozzle of one of the old cans and pop it onto the newer ones? Apologies again if you've already tried this and I'm stating the obvious.

Looking forawrd to seeing Lucie finished!

All the best,

tsd

Edit: Sorry, I missed Jabba's post above first time round, have just read it and realised he had already addressed this.

The new nozzle is incompatible with the old valve and vis-versa. The new nozzle has an adjustable horizontal/vertical spray pattern that uses too much paint and actually offers less control than the old style nozzle that has been around for more than fifty years.

That's progress for you. Bah!

EB

I respect the grumpy-ness. I used to buy GW spray paint in shadow grey and catachan green. Even though my space wolves and IG armies still weren't painted after all that opportunity at least I had the chance!

Now its been taken away and replaced with a gimmicky, over priced, waste of time and paint spray gun!!

Oh well, I must be getting old.

But your titan looks great. A crazy suggestion would be that you could have hinges on the greaves, so that they 'flap' over the ankle joins to give you more movement.

I know, I'm crazy!! But you can't do something like that with Resin, why not do it when scratchbuilding!!