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2012/11/10 20:47:42
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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If I could study under the tutelage of The_Blackadder I would be happy. It's looking incredible. I wish I could spare the time to be building with you. Keep it up!
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2012/11/11 12:32:27
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Squigsquasher wrote:What weapons is the big guy gonna have?
Heres a reprint of the post from a few pages back. Just the standard Warlord cannon I'm afraid for now, I haven't done any work on these puppies because I have to see how they fit in the finished carapace.
The_Blackadder wrote:There's an incredible amount of superfluous detail on the main guns/cannon/weapons to apply calling for a moratorium on the overall build but I have to see how much space will be required before I can continue so................... here is where it stands as of today.
http://i.imgur.com/CtJE3.jpg
Note both these guns are the same size within a tenth of a millimeter, I don't know why they look so different in size in the photo!
Glad to see you back Jabba and also that you haven't time to work along because I presume your career has taken an upswing?
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"It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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2012/11/11 23:54:26
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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 The_Blackadder wrote:
Glad to see you back Jabba and also that you haven't time to work along because I presume your career has taken an upswing?
Sadly no, currently on my 4th attempt at school. 33y/o mechanical engineering student (so I'm always busy with math homework). Hopefully I will someday end up in a position where I can again enjoy my hobby. Until then I must remain content viewing others awesome inspiring work...
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2012/11/13 21:32:39
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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I apologize for my flippancy Jabba, I was under the illusion that you had recovered from the ObamaNation recovery............
Meanwhile:
Pretty pitiful update this week but my excuse is that I had to gut the ground floor kitchen, bath and family room after Sandy saw fit to deluge my wife's abode with 2/3 meter of storm surge seawater.
Fortunately all my precious worldly goods were ensconced safely twenty miles inland including the subject of this thread.
You will note that after I have successful refurbished my ex's domicile I shall have no more excuses to put off building the head/cockpit.
http://i.imgur.com/D0wW4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Ur4MJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rDTEF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tnqJr.jpg
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2012/11/14 15:10:30
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Have you given any thoughts regarding power plant and the possibility to open up to look at that. Possibly some interior "real" lighting effects. Malignant red lights pouring out from the eyes, combat lights glowing red in the engineering.
I have some plans for the fusion reactor which will be mounted in the chamber above the command deck. The soccer ball style is the one I am leaning towards. And I have already purchased the fiber optic LEDS for the lighting but those go in last as I have to make the consoles first.
 This one is a kind of a joke but the lighting is interesting
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2012/11/14 15:15:57
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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Sorry to hear about the damage your home took during the storm. I was lucky, just knocked my power out for a 5 days.
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2012/11/15 06:57:52
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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That reactor looks boss! I'm curious to see how you do the head. Good luck with the refurbishing.
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2012/11/16 13:33:11
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Whew, I just spent two hours updating all the forums I subscribe to and taking pictures of the recent build below plus now hopefully rendering a bit of interesting rapartee to keep my noble readers stimulated. There is a lot of concern that I shall be neglecting the Warlord now that the Blackadder has a new bauble to attract his fickle attention but the Warlord is the real apple of my eye and the latest update follows: Modular construction is the best way to go on a model this big as it affords you a reasonable size to work on rather than taking up the whole of the workspace with extraneous equipage. Below are the floor and keel of the cockpit and the movable neck plug in module shown in the head down and head up position. The tab on the floor and the triangular tabs on the neck will be the base for the side to side neck movement and the rectangular plug-in will house the egress corridor to the main command deck hopefully with apropos detail should I live long enough to complete this project. Whew again! http://i.imgur.com/eXbLx.jpg  http://i.imgur.com/sXm2K.jpg  http://i.imgur.com/YRWx7.jpg 
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2012/11/19 17:14:09
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Ha bet you thought I'd forgotten about this. Truth is I've been repairing plumbing and wiring and installing a new water heater and hadn't much time for building but that's behind me for a couple of days so back to the cockpit design. Actually I had time to reflect how to proceed with this and have come up with a way to build a hollow flight deck.
Seen below compared to Lucie's cockpit the Warlord's is about three times larger which compares well as the Warlord is three times taller than the Warhound.
http://i.imgur.com/NKhhV.jpg
Here you see the footing for the interior floor and the inner edge of the prominent overbite of the head armour.
http://i.imgur.com/CsoU9.jpg
as seen in this image of the original.
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2012/11/19 19:10:37
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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Can't wait to see what's next. Looks great so far. Glad to hear you came thru the storm more or less intact. Sorry about your home, though.
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2012/11/19 20:09:29
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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I haven't a clue what I am doing guessing at angles and sizes this head construct should prove interesting. It's much the same way I built the arms for Lucie so I can only that lightning does strike twice in the same place or in this case three times.
http://i.imgur.com/yDQbE.jpg
 Automatically Appended Next Post: Ya know when I was a kid there was a show on TV, "Jon Gnagy's 'Learn to Draw'." I used to watch that show religiously. I had the Jon Gnagy book, pencils, eraser, sketchpad, charcoal,.... you name it I had it. That SOB would start drawing some forest scene or Steam engine at the station and I was furiously following along trying to do everything that bast---d did and he'd be put the frame on his work and my jaw was on the floor. You just couldn't keep up with him.
I thought it might be fun for you to see how the Blackadder works so I'm going to be taking pictures step by step of this head assembly so you can see that I haven't the vaguest idea what I am going to do next. I have no mechanical drawings, templates, or sketches to go by except for the G--D----- images DS posted. A lot of people ask for templates and I feel bad that I can't provide them because there aren't any, it's all in my head so we can both see how this cockpit module progresses for better or worse because it could be a total fiasco..............
http://i.imgur.com/fKEn8.jpg
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2012/11/19 21:17:20
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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Templates? We don't need no stinkin' templates!
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2012/11/19 21:34:55
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Hey Jabba did you happen to catch my Chaos titan comparison thread. Your rubber conduits are prominently featured and stay tuned because I have a surprise coming up from Russia of all places. A ebay coup de argent with rubber conduit no less!
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2012/11/20 16:58:12
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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I Have to admit the head is coming along swimmingly The relative size seems good and the movement range seems adequate. also most of the damage to Lucie has been repaired; just remounting the guns with magnets to go. http://i.imgur.com/YQdaI.jpg  I had Lucie pose with the new titan for a size comparison and she is dwarfed by the Warlord; I may have to make a Reaver just to take up the gap http://i.imgur.com/219OM.jpg  Here we have the Warlord looking right, http://i.imgur.com/ZDnIs.jpg  Looking left and http://i.imgur.com/rq3Zh.jpg  looking down to the right a bit unnerving from this angle thank the Emperor she's not armed. http://i.imgur.com/qtapV.jpg  I have to reposition the chest/neck armour a bit as the head armour won't clear when it's installed.
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2012/11/20 17:39:10
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Poxed Plague Monk
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awesome! you're doing a great job!
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*poison wind mortar explodes* "Oh well. At least I tried." |
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2012/11/21 05:15:43
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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great stuff. for the princeps are you going to put him in a jar?
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The USS Orinoco was a Federation Danube-class runabout that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century, attached to Deep Space 9. It was outfitted with a sensor pod.
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2012/11/21 09:18:01
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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I was just made aware that princeps can either be hardwired or immersed in a SD tank, I'll probably go with the hardwiring.
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2012/11/21 10:00:15
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot
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Orinoco wrote:great stuff. for the princeps are you going to put him in a jar?
The_Blackadder wrote:I was just made aware that princeps can either be hardwired or immersed in a SD tank, I'll probably go with the hardwiring.
I thought everything from Reavers up required the tank. Isn't that what it says in Titanicus? Regardless, anything can be explained with some good fluff 
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 The 104th Vostroyan Mechanized
 Rawson's Reboot
Viktor von Domm: nope... can´t do that for the sake of all lving creatures that dwell on earth....
dsteingass: That's like saying "I forgot to tell you who your real father is"
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2012/11/21 10:11:39
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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According to my son the old school Princeps prefer the hardwiring and the new guys opt for the amniotic fluid sensory deprivation tanks because of the better interface with the machine.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Titan
He should know he's in college...........Glad to see my four years of salary isn't going to waste. Automatically Appended Next Post: I neglected to mention the telescoping feature of the neck module prompting some to comment that the neck was too short. I prefer to rationalize that the neck in full extension is scout mode and retracted is battle mode.
Thats my story take it or leave it
http://i.imgur.com/1neqy.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/ECHvU.jpg
That's the ticket Blackadder blind them with footwork..........
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2012/11/21 11:29:11
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Omnious Orc Shaman
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...
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WOW, WOW, WOW - the comparison shot with Lucie leaves me speechless... So it's lucky I can type instead...
It's often said on these boards, but this is truly awesome, each and every update leaves me in awe of your work...
Old Skool hard wire sounds like the way to go for this behemoth 
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2012/11/21 13:27:14
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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There is nothing new under the Sun, the more I work on this thing the more it reminds me of the snout of a Diplodocus Carnegii.
http://i.imgur.com/mcQbk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rNnkR.jpg
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Dude I'm tell'n ya women have a lot of goodies that they keep from us and I'm not talk'n 'bout the obvious but chances are your ol' lady has a spatter shield that she uses when she fries up those 'burgers and that is just scream'n to be replaced. If its like my old lady there are rents in it and its all wrinkled (I'm talk'n 'bout the splatter shield now.....) and its time for a new one (Still talk'n 'bout the splatter shield). Imagine the joy on yer spouse's mug when you give her a new one for Christmas and what better way to help the environment than to recycle the old one in your scratch projects......
http://i.imgur.com/ed8YI.jpg
Here is mine as new grills for the Warlord cockpit intakes or whathaveyou.
http://i.imgur.com/N4eSy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UapZY.jpg
Its gonna be a Merry Christmas at the Blackadder household believe me or I'm an Orc's Grandpa.............
Yeah the BA has a bag on.
But I'm dead serious about the Christmas present......................
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2012/11/22 13:28:41
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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This morning I cut the lozenge shaped vents that define the screens and before I glue on the right side I'm taking a picture that you might know how it was accomplished.
The radius of the side curve where it wraps around the snout seems almost perfect; about a quarter of a millimeter too big on the bottom but not enough to quibble over if the other side matches.
http://i.imgur.com/SRfRS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XeKBl.jpg
Most of these vents will be covered with the face armour but if you peer really hard under that armour you will see that the whole vent opening is there.
Crazy I know but I need the practice.
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The lozenge shaped vents came out fairly decent but not as well crafted as Mr Smith's. I wonder how he made his?
But they should suffice for this titan.
http://i.imgur.com/GSWKQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sIDu8.jpg
The pencil scribed lines are for the face shield which I shall attempt next. This shield gives the head the anthropomorphic quality from which the upper lip and cockpit windshield detracts.
What would give the head a more human appearance would be a nose but that would just look silly. We're not going there.
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2012/11/22 23:23:05
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Whiteshield Conscript Trooper
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Dumbstruck... Is the head going to be curved like the original?
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It's a massive project, but you would make an Imperator Titan proud to have you as it's creator.
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2012/11/23 14:59:08
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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2012/11/24 14:54:44
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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The windscreen on this vehicle is much simpler than the one I made for Lucie. That had to be built inside out and caused no end of grief as the glue kept seeping onto the clear styrene and the styrene had to be meticulously masked during painting. Not so with these windows. the frame and windows can be built separately as a module and not necessarily installed until the model is almost done. http://i.imgur.com/t51pR.jpg  http://i.imgur.com/ghYud.jpg  http://i.imgur.com/Fu9vA.jpg  http://i.imgur.com/8bdkp.jpg  I learned a lot from my mistakes with Lucie.
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2012/11/24 17:09:16
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan
Somewhere In Time And Space
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Jesus Black..
... this is some astounding work, and the best scratch build I have ever seen! 
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2012/11/24 18:40:19
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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Thanks, that is saying a lot..........
The windscreen is done basically except for the paint and glazing with surprisingly little difficulty. Now that I have a real measurement I can start on the helmet.
This will have to be built up of layers of styrene and then carved and sanded down to the final shape.
I started out hollowed in segments but I think just gluing semi-circular ring might be more efficient.
http://i.imgur.com/TiwpI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/isWgY.jpg
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2012/11/24 22:48:20
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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This is the guy that came with my Reaver, I'm thought you could pick them up at FW individually. Do you have a lighting plan in place, I thought you were adding LEDs but haven't seen any specifics like lighting in the command deck?
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2012/11/25 13:52:21
Subject: Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Implacable Black Templar Initiate
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Every time I see an update on your progress Black, I can't help but be envious of your dedication and skill. It's inspiring!
I suppose if I cleaned my build area I'd have motivation to go with inspiration...
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2012/11/25 14:18:59
Subject: Re:Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
The Great Satan (East Coast)
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No excuse, my work area would be improved if a cyclone hit it..........
I know the helmet brow looks pretty much like a sh*t sandwich but there is a surprising amount of symmetry in it in spite of the crudeness. A couple of minutes with the belt sander brought me to this point where I have to take stock as to where I am and what needs tobe further trimmed.
Right now this seems to be the way to go........
More later today.
http://i.imgur.com/7LQkf.jpg
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"This is why I hate the novels. They squash our imagination and creativity and create way to many fluff lawyers. To many "you can't do that because Fluffy Kitty novel says Captain Ichypants lost his pointer finger in the battle of Dogtown"." 