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That interior is looking great, your almost doing a diorama.

I want the reactor to be huge. If not, I will be forced to hunt down that titan and destroy it with a blowtorch (or a flamethrower).

The fact that the strip by the blast doors is off by a few mm detracts from it though... Send it to me and start a new one! :p

Problem:

When I built this Titan I raised the head off the Promenade deck because it looked too close and the function of the head to 'look' down was impeded.

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


The artist had no such problem because he had the flexibility of adjusting the position of the head to suit his whim

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


but in the real world that option is not available to me

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


https://i.imgur.com/2PDAbIv.jpg


So now I am in the position of filling 4 inches of space with extemporaneous Titan gobbledygook to fill this void

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


Such is the pitfalls of scratch building without a plan.

The room you added makes it look alot better proportioned. It's an improvement IMO.

Rear Heat Exchanger and Exhaust Ports:

The waffle styrene panels are proving their worth.

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


The constructions I make are far more easy to build, stable, and true to square without having to resort to extreme measures in fabricating.

https://i.imgur.com/fHIE3GJ.jpg


These two shots of the assembly on the desk and mounted on the model demonstrate the durability of the construction....

https://i.imgur.com/zrfZ33d.jpg


Whereas before it resembled a house of cards.

https://i.imgur.com/ZCDY7Bo.jpg

I can see why you like the waffle styrene. Need to get me some myself I guess, if I ever start large-scale scratch-building

Thar's Gold In Them Thar Hills...........

Of recyclable trash that is.

I struck paydirt last month when I saw this discarded tv. Readymade Static louvers says I for my Emperor Titan.



All that needs be done is cut them out and install them.

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


It's worth a shot...........

One man's trash is another mans titan.

Super cool. i need to keep an eye out for things like that. i need gratings too :(

 Desubot wrote:
One man's trash is another mans titan.

Super cool. i need to keep an eye out for things like that. i need gratings too :(

"One man's trash is another man's titan." I wish I'd said that.

Heat Exchangers Sheathed:

They look a tad large but I'm hoping once the rest of the stern/back whatever is made they will blend in.

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


I was too conservative in my estimate of the size of the rear deck but no matter I can spline on an addition.

https://i.imgur.com/d5ILOFA.jpg


Now for the side intakes.

The Basic Structure:

Is pretty much delineated. Now it just remains to fill the void left by raising the superstructure platform about four inches.I already have ideas about adding another deck to the interior and with access to the rear of the titan in the mode of the FW Warlord That should fill the space nicely.

https://i.imgur.com/mu1o5UN.jpg


I spent the past couple of days building another pair of Aquilae for the rear portion of the Cathedral platform just because it's there.

https://i.imgur.com/1M68If6.jpg


The rear panel was quite an effort to design especially so the whole thing can be disassembled readily.

https://i.imgur.com/EOYSz7z.jpg


Right now it just hangs on the back by friction but eventually it will have locks to hold it to the main structure.

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


Amazingly it's less than a millimeter off symmetry wise.

Coming Together:

In a burst of optimism I have a feeling that this is somehow coming together.

https://i.imgur.com/nfo05eH.jpg[


In this 360° panorama you can get an idea of the magnitude of this construction

https://i.imgur.com/bGrP0MV.jpg


Awright so a few images are missing but you get the idea.

https://i.imgur.com/b0uKOsE.jpg

This blog never ceases to amaze me... Keep it up, I love what you're doing here! This may be the first ever properely done 40k scale emperor titan.

I think i might be more amazed that that baby vice can hold that thing up.

being mostly plastic im going to assume its surprising light.

I have a suggestion for you, before you go to paint it.

Take a steel wire brush (manual one, that is) and brush the whole thing over, lightly. That should give it some texture on the smoother parts of the plastic- scratches and little holes suitable for a god-machine that's seen combat for thousands of years.

She's Got Legs

Well she's gonna have legs but we have to start with a single step (Groan!)

First the basics.... The Greaves



I'm using a 3D image provided by joazzz2 on Deviant art for my inspiration

One of the problems with the representation of many Imperial Titans I notice, especially those that CoD for detailing bitz, is the panels are not truncated. This causes a boxy square look that is æsthetically unpleasing.

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


So to begin with we are going to sneak up on the correct angle incrementally.....

https://i.imgur.com/DcZU4mk.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/B3LNxN5.jpg


I'm only going to do one this time in case this doesn't work out.

Jesus didn't realize the feet was baneblade sized.

Wow, this glorious monstrosity is really coming together! Great to see.

 Desubot wrote:
Jesus didn't realize the feet was baneblade sized.

The 3d design suffers from the common issue of overscaling the titan. Blackadder has a much more sensible scaling more inline with the FW titans, although a little larger due to some torso alterations. I think his scaling looks much closer to ideal. Still huge

Show some leg, baby! . Proper angling of the panels is a good idea, and it looks like the grid will allow you to easily replicate the angles. Bonus!

You've gotta get these grids

If you're gonna build an Imperator.

These are a godsend for this type of construction.

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


Tipping the greave to match the 3D image brings home what this skeletal structure will eventually become.

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


I just hope they are not too big or too small

the Goldilocks conundrum.........

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


Image taken earlier today leaves me a bit up in the air regarding proper sizing. Then I thought too small. but they've become so massive.

On the other hand, you would need massive to support that beast.

That thing is preposterously gargantuan!

And yet so well built, you deserve some kind of award for this.

Do you have any idea of how much it weighs? As said earlier, it's a light construction, but it's still gigantic.

 Cream Tea wrote:
That thing is preposterously gargantuan!

And yet so well built, you deserve some kind of award for this.

Do you have any idea of how much it weighs? As said earlier, it's a light construction, but it's still gigantic.

It's coming up on twenty pounds. That's a lot of styrene.

I would suggest, for the legs, go with steel. See if you can't find a Hirth joint that's been made for making railings out of pipe- that should allow for both adjustability and strength, without having to wrench down on a pressure fitting.

Because remember, it's coming up on 20 lbs now. That's without the main guns or superstructure, without the arms, without the paint, or the detailing, or the interior devices (and you may yet want to put in a working plasma ball or something for the core), and without the legs.

At this point, stability is, I think, more important than weight- at least for the supporting structure.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 Cream Tea wrote:
That thing is preposterously gargantuan!

And yet so well built, you deserve some kind of award for this.

Do you have any idea of how much it weighs? As said earlier, it's a light construction, but it's still gigantic.

It's coming up on twenty pounds. That's a lot of styrene.

Whoa, with legs, guns, bells and whistles it could easily surpass ye olde metal Thunderhawk!

Those legs need to be strong.

I was scrolling down and was like "Woah, those legs are huge!". And then I saw them next to the titan, and realised they're about half of what they're going to be...

You should really contact the community team or White Dwarf and get them to do an article (or series of articles) about the progress of this.

 The_Blackadder wrote:
She's Got Legs

Well she's gonna have legs but we have to start with a single step (Groan!)

First the basics.... The Greaves

I think it's been 11 years since I've logged in to Dakka, but I just had to today. Please don't follow this picture for inspiration, PLEASE. Your project is absolutely amazing, but it would be an awful travesty if you made the legs like that. Infantry are supposed to be able embark / fight from / disembark from those legs.It's actually a core design feature of the whole thing. If you tilt the legs like that, it will also tilt the floors that the infantry have to stand on. And not by a little. It'd become difficult for them just to stand up inside, much less walk around. I'm not saying you need to model the interior of the legs the way you modeled the torso, but it would be a real shame if it looked like anyone who did ride inside the legs wouldn't be able to stand up.

And while I'm posting, I have had a question about the engineering section for a while. Why does the engineering section stop at the (for lack of a better description) top shoulder platform? There's a lot of space up there, buildings even, and I'm surprised you haven't modeled a hole in the shoulder platform so that the engineering section extends up another story or two. It would give space to model a truly massive reactor. It might have to be oblong, extending more in the Z axis than the X or Y axes. But I could see something like the coils on a plasma gun, extending upwards as if the plasma gun was held straight up. Just a thought.

I think the top would either run off the core reactor, or have a separate reactor of its own. Some Emperor class Titans from the GC era (like Dies Irae) are described as having no cathedral on top, so the design has to be universal enough to allow variation like this, and the primary reactor should be contained within the core titan.

Regarding the leg angle- the slant does look aesthetically better. Maybe the solution is to have tilted legs, but horizontal interior flooring? The walls of the interior would be sloped as a result.