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Looking good man!

You are doing a very good job on it! How are you planning on painting it?

Hey black, random question for you. would it be possible to know the rough dimensions in inches of the warlord your working on please?

Measurements coming up this weekend.

A poor showing this week my real job workload was staggering but I did manage to rebuild the front of the knee joint (Why does it look like a marshmallow Easter peep?) and add a lot of basic detail.

God this will be detail heavy I'm up over a pound for each leg and half the detail isn't installed.

I'm taking a crash course on fiber optics and will be incorporating it in this and the Thunderhawk

Very much appreciated Black, thank you!!!

"marshmallow Easter peep"? Que?

The weight to detail ratio is a worry I'll be facing when I do my mars pattern, luckily though I'll be dealing in cylinders rather than boxing. Which might be a blessing and a curse on second thoughts... god help me

The fibre-optics will be interesting to see, as I was considering EL cabling for my trench system and possibly the Mars-warlord. purely because it's heat output is minimal and lasts a bloody long time without giving up the ghost.


keep up the amazing work Black, this is a treat and a privilege to watch unfold!!!

Egad the greatest information tool ever invented an no one thinks to google "Marshmallow PEEPS"

An Easter confection consisting entirely of marshmallow and yellow dyed sugar vaguely reminiscent of a newly hatched chicken (They used to look more real when I was a boy) now they look more like a cross between Jabba the Hutt and a cowpie; but be that as it may I was reminded of the shape when I finished the knee joint and installed the axle bolt. Hopefully additional detail will obscure the unfortunate simile (resemblance).

oh yeah I see it now... lols, tis uncanny... although the only thing that would make it weirder would be the face of something/someone religious

Forsooth, verily pray what could be more religiously iconic than an Easter Peep?

Blasphemy aside it's time to address the most baffling component of this project, namely what the outrageously long hydraulic cylinder is for running down the calf of the leg?

I appears in the epic model as well as the DS construct but I can fathom no applicable purpose. The quadrant gear in the ankle provides the step motion and that is supplemented by the small cylinders attached to the heel which mimic the function of the Achilles tendon. Were the cylinder attached behind the knee it would serve as the calf muscle but it doesn't attach there anyway it looks very interesting so I am including it in my construct complete with superfluous safety guard rails so people twenty feet off the ground don't lose an arm in the massive hydraulic piston.

As it is right now each of these legs are as complex as anything I have built with the exception of Lucie's pedal appendages and they are about only half detailed. Surprisingly my enthusiasm has not flagged.

Well for me, something more religious than an easter peep would be Trent Reznors face, but yeah, anywho...

Your attention to detail is magnificent as always. I'm curious though, since the last weigh in, how much has she put on weight? and have you given her a name?

This thing is too massive for a feminine name I like the sound of Invictus but it's taken I was toying with Chrysagon after the character in the 'War Lord' but it lacks panache.

One thing for sure, I won't be calling it Trent Reznor.

Who's Trent Reznor?

As for the weight, in spite of the hundred scraps of plastic installed since the last weigh in barely an ounce more.

what about Leviathan for a name?

Lols, Trent Reznor is my God... he's the lead singer and sole genius of Nine Inch Nails. A long time obsession of mine

that all for weight gain? hmmm not bad I guess... although final weight I'm guessing is going to be massive... ever thought of getting the finished product cast up for making resin duplicates to sell?

Use Google translator to type in a name and get it back in Latin. My beloved bought me a chaos warhound last Christmas and insisted I called it 'Fluffy'! Tranlated to latin it comes out as Crinitus so I called him Crinitus Rex (Fluffy the king). Great work so far by the way.

Sorry monkey, hate to break it to you, but the word "fluffy" is a modern one and as such you have to trace it back to the word it is derived from. so, "Crinitus" is actually a translation of "Hair".

Also in latin, the prefix and suffix define the translation. So if I translated your Titans name it would mean "King of Hair". As the suffix word is a descriptive one, so when translated it becomes a prefix word.

Latin is a truely baffling language.

SO is his titan the Axel Rose of warhammer? Or Jon Bon Jovi?

mxwllmdr wrote:SO is his titan the Axel Rose of warhammer? Or Jon Bon Jovi?

There are too many rude words I could use to describe those two...

Just another bit before I put this aside for the weekend. The detail is progressing nicely although what these devices actually do is a mystery. but they do look intricate and that is the look I am going for.

As always Black, high praise for you indeed!!!

I am sub to this! Great work so far and I can not wait to see what it looks like in the end!

The_Blackadder wrote:Just another bit before I put this aside for the weekend. The detail is progressing nicely although what these devices actually do is a mystery. but they do look intricate and that is the look I am going for.

Maybe a "backup" stabilizer system to punch a spike into the bedrock to anchor the titan?

(a better "fluff" answer might also be a scribe sneezed and added a random hydraulic to the STC pattern and then no one noticed until 1000 years later...)

I dunno the most probable fluff answer is because it looks cool and like it should work!

You need to ship these pieces off to Foda_Bett and get them cast up. One Warlord Titan is awesome, but three?

That's stupid good.

Yes, ^^ that and stupid large amounts of minute detail....


Amazing as par usual, Black.....

Maybe it's not really a piston, just an extendable power conduit or something? Legs are looking great Black!

May I suggest a stupid possible useage for that piece?

how about a presurised hydraulic resevoir like if the main hydrolics sping a leak that piston gets squeezed and boosts the system?

First let me apologize for such a tawdry post but I figured there are those that might benefit from an image from the beginning of the construction. The waist block is probably the most important structure in the whole model. Not only must it bear the weight of the structure above but it must transfer that weight to the movable legs and sustain that transfer for the conceivable future (At least until The Blackadder has shuffled off this mortal coil.)

You will note that the structure is grossly undersized as it is about 5 cm square. This is intentional. You can always add girth, subtracting is more difficult. tomorrow I shall apply my solution to the articulation problem; i.e. a workable material that will sustain the pressure of the upper works and still be small enough to remain within scale.

In addition the thigh detail is coming along nicely (IMHO)

nice to see your still alive Black, thought you may have shuffled off your mechanicum coil

looking good again as usual! this is the phase I am most interested in, as the hips look like they are going to be trouble to do. as always, keep up the amazing work Black! :thummbsup:

So much for alluding to Shakespeare

I found these marvelous 'Tee' fittings that are just perfect to supply the fore to aft swing of the hip joint. They take a nice 1/4 -20 thread and are strong enough to support the weight of the model without being too cumbersome. I was going to go with copper tube 'Tee' fittings filled with epoxy and drilled and tapped but these are better as they are machined perfect and the tap self centers when cutting the thread.

Now some readers of this may baulk at the employment of these tools but they are easy to use and readily available at the local 'Home Depot' or 'Lowes' and a cheap 'T' handle and tap set is adequate for modeling purposes. I happen to have a fairly good machinist set but that quality is not necessary.

Ooooo Most interesting!!!

Interesting to see tap and tap wrench being used - is that whitworth or is it all UNC/UNF over there?

I haven't used a Whitworth wrench since I worked on my '51 MGTD engine. In those days MG's came with their own set of mechanics tools in a leather bound roll up pocket folder. At that time I hadn't known that the actual bolt threads were metric and just the wrench heads on the nuts and bolts were Whitworth.

I'm using U.S. UNC (Unified National Coarse) threads where as I used 10-32 UNF (Unified National Fine) for the axles on the feet and legs.

Today I worked on the pelvic mechanism which needs a bit of revising. Even though it works just as I wanted the sphere halves need to be undercut to fit the 'Tee' fittings thereby retreating further into the pelvic block. Therefore I need to mount the 'Tees' further outboard so they will be visible and allow for a great range of motion.