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I can't see the curved approach working on this. Given the gothic detailing shown in the video and Mr Bs work thus far, the flat expanse of plastic is not going to be a flat expanse of plastic for long. Have faith in the Master of Engineers, he shalt delivereth a machine of purity and pure destruction. The Xenos will quake in the their heretical boots...

Twenty One To Go:

The basic shape of the greave portals

https://i.imgur.com/Nepf1Ip.jpg


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


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


https://i.imgur.com/aPf0N08.jpg

Your work with plasticard is just epic and awe-inspiring. Well done brother well done. Love following your progress.

I guess youll be adding some ankle pistons later? Hopefully theyll get some armour as well.

Oh yeah otherwise I'll have no way to lock the pose. I've yet to design the foot leveling cylinders.

I am honestly surprised you're not sourcing plastic directly from Evergreen or Plastruct.

And, yes, it's your damn Titan, and you can cry if you want to!

--Brian

 Briancj wrote:
I am honestly surprised you're not sourcing plastic directly from Evergreen or Plastruct.

I'm surprised they're not sponsoring this build!

Magnificent, BlAdder

 Briancj wrote:
I am honestly surprised you're not sourcing plastic directly from Evergreen or Plastruct.

And, yes, it's your damn Titan, and you can cry if you want to!

--Brian

Well after 10 years of posting on dozens of forums I've managed finally to offend someone. My apologies.

How finicky are you going to get with the detail? I mean, the Warhound can get away with some utilitarianism- smooth armour, with the occasional trim piece- but this is a literal walking cathedral. It's gonna need crennelations and quatrefoils and rosettes and gargoyles and plinths and alcoves and eaves and finnials and...

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 Briancj wrote:
I am honestly surprised you're not sourcing plastic directly from Evergreen or Plastruct.

And, yes, it's your damn Titan, and you can cry if you want to!

--Brian

Well after 10 years of posting on dozens of forums I've managed finally to offend someone. My apologies.

Oh hell no. No offense taken here!

--B.

So, its been more than a week since the last update... anything new to share? Can it walk on its own yet?

Clearly, motorized leg movement is the only option

... So, its been two weeks now... I have to admit, Im starting to get a bit worried. Everything alright at Blackadder Mansion? :/

 Tyr13 wrote:
... So, its been two weeks now... I have to admit, Im starting to get a bit worried. Everything alright at Blackadder Mansion? :/

It may have toppled over on him and he is trapped. Too bad he never got the vocalizes working on the warhound or it could tell us little Timmy fell in the well.......blackie got nabbed by the cops for buying too many lighting panels.

Sorry to have been so long in responding:

The tedium of making dozens of these structures; revising, chopping and rebuilding better representatives of them seemed like not the most interesting aspect of this build.

https://i.imgur.com/OYc5SIe.jpg


I finally have enough, eighteen, for the first tier of the greaves and, with slight modifications, I have devised of a better way to produce the second tier,eight in all, that is less labor intensive.

Couple that with an abscessed tooth, a root canal, and a mild case of the flu made me less than amenable to communicating my meager progress with my peers.

The castle portion of this construct will necessitate a lot of repetitive work and no I am not going to "cast" or 3D print any portion of the requisite components. In my warped OCD way I consider that cheating

Of course I am hypocritically not above using bitz.

Anyway thank you all for the concern about my well-being. I should be back in the groove after I finish modifying the rest of the eighteen above.

Glad to hear youre okay, root canals are a dog of the female kind... <.<
Hope youll be feeling better soon!

Glad to hear you've recovered, and nice work on all those parts!

Uggg, root canals. I managed to dodge one for a chipped tooth I have, but the prospect was certainly not one I was looking forward to. Your progress is looking good so far!

Thanks for the replies.....

Blackadder is Back In the Groove

To be a bit self serving I'm feeling much better and the past few day have been most productive. The gabled naves in the first level greaves give the appearance of homogeneity even though they aren't exactly the same.

https://i.imgur.com/BYJ02mZ.jpg


The first attempt at a stain glass insert for the naves for lack of a better name.

https://i.imgur.com/8d8LHKb.jpg


A side by side comparison I stumbled across on my imgur preview index. Even though my Emperor will be taller the proportions are pretty close. Whew!

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


Note to self, "I have to shorten the second and third tier. And hip region needs to be beefier."

Once he has a crotch and hips it’ll look fuller and more like your inspiration. Stunning work. I kno what you mean by “appearance of homogeneity” - I’ve found that scratch building is often about making parts that appear to look the same when together, even if every piece is sliiiightly different.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
.........I know what you mean by “appearance of homogeneity” - I’ve found that scratch building is often about making parts that appear to look the same when together, even if every piece is sliiiightly different.

Yeah, well we're talking about FW products so inaccuracy of replication is considered as character.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
.........I know what you mean by “appearance of homogeneity” - I’ve found that scratch building is often about making parts that appear to look the same when together, even if every piece is sliiiightly different.

Yeah, well we're talking about FW products so inaccuracy of replication is considered as character.

Haha very true - I’ve never bothered replicating the misformed, bubbled casting look though! :-D

Supporting Cast:

A flurry of activity this week finally putting the finishing basic touches on the spaced corner greave armour and casting the hip joints with aircraft grade industrial resin.

I'm particularly proud of these hips and knees as they are an inch wide and barely a quarter in thick but they will bear the weight of bowling ball mass of the torso and a lot more but still not give a clunky appearance. Once the Hips are mounted I can add decorative gewgaws and details and the huge hydraulic cylinders that will stiffen the structure so it can be posed........

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


Further detailing of the second and third tiers will commence tomorrow.

https://i.imgur.com/9ahxtKa.jpg


I've decided to make the troop egress through the rear of the greaves and under the foot pad area as opposed to the traditional staircase down the front toes although I shall be keeping the center doors on the three sides as well but the design of the Epic Emperor was poorly thought out and made no real allowance for the purported troop transport alluded to in the rules and text description

https://i.imgur.com/pHK0Zmf.jpg


Besides I don't like the staircase concept; Period!

Very nice! Fully support your decision; creative liberties must be taken! Anyways, very nice design, it’s truly amazing to see how it started to how it is now.

Who needs stairs? When your badass enough to ride in the foot of a Titan you should be badass enough to jump down 20-30’ and assault your enemy .

Great work as always. I’ve been away a bit and my stupid work system blocks pics from your pic sharing site .

Those Crazy Ideas:

Of the questions I get most often is; where do I get these crazy ideas and those that question my sanity, but is really it's just my questioning how would something like these Titans actually work.

In the images below there are actuators that seem to serve no function and if they did they would be far too small to be effective.






Drawing on my aircraft experience I liken the actuators here to the landing gear on jumbo jets such as B747 and L1011 airliners. In particular the 747 has landing gear struts that are as thick as a man's torso. How much larger would the walking hip and knee actuators have to be on an Emperor Titan to be adequate to support the mass and function as a real mechanism would need to.






The biggest problem I have with most of the scratchbuilt Titans is the hydraulics when represented are totally too small in diameter to do the requisite job they are supposed to do.

So the next few posts will be dedicated to the walking actuators and hopefully I can make them sufficiently large enough to be believable.

My thought on the size of those actuators is they use materiel and manufacturing processes tbat, while stagnant in their time, are still way ahead of us.

Bleah. I think it's just people not realizing how mechanics work. Like folks making tank gun barrels that are super thin.

Anvildude wrote:
Bleah. I think it's just people not realizing how mechanics work. Like folks making tank gun barrels that are super thin.

Huh? In 40k, they tend to make tank barrels too thick! Isn't the Leman Russ battle cannon a 200+mm monstrosity that is basically a massive gun-howitzer?

I am pretty sure Titans use a lot of anti-grav tech in order to function. I think this is hinted at in some sources. Smaller actuators in that context could work, but bigger will likely look more balanced.

I have finally caught up, and I must say, I’m just amazed at the work you’ve put it. Fantastic stuff!