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Yes I've seen it and used it as an example for what can be done to camouflage extremely large vehicles when the controversy came up whether it was practical or not.

It worked to hide the type of ship but wasn't successful in hiding the ship altogether which is what the DS camo is perceived to do.

An example of this type of camo was the false bow wave painted on the Bismark



so the ship appeared shorter than it was confusing the silhouette identification with its smaller consort the Prince Eugen:

I LOVE it! If you started making these to order I might buy one when my funds have properly recovered from buying my PC.

Yes maybe they will allow me to manufacture them in the prison workshop after FW/GW has me incarcerated.......


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I found these in the cosmetic aisle in my local food market (No I don't use these product (In the conventional sense at least) but there are some exciting patrons in that area.) any-who I found these and thought they might make flexible conduits for my titan so I bought a pack and brought them home to experiment............

http://i.imgur.com/dxTjWYi.jpg


Hair elastic bungees go figure...............

http://i.imgur.com/5wZhSDH.jpg


WIP

http://i.imgur.com/6GFiqEZ.jpg


Here is where the conduit will be situated

Bottom line they make great conduit and look for them on my Warlord...............

Genius! I usually use small springs with copper wire (to bend to the shape I want) in the middle but the springs can be hard to find. The ones from lip seals work quite well though.

When I saw the packet, I'm gonna be honest, I thought those were condoms...

But great idea!

Genius born of desperation...........

I had almost given up finding flexible conduit until I found this.

I experimented with the brown hair band as I felt this was the least applicable to my purposes. I painted the fabric with Valspar graphite spray paint (available at Lowes) and it took the pigment just fine. I used a soldering iron tip to cut the strand and while still malleable shaped the end to a cone shape. A liberal application of 'Testors' plastic glue sealed the threads and i inserted it into a reamed out 5/32 inch 'Evergreen' tubing.

The result was pure Nirvana, an exceedingly flexible conduit that fulfills my needs for a 1/8 inch hydraulic hose or electrical conduit that will move with the positions I put to the flexible joints.

Sorry for the long winded explanation but I am that exalted.

When I saw the packet, I'm gonna be honest, I thought those were condoms

Goody Ouchless condoms!

Not applicable in this situation I'm afraid!

Speaking of exalted, I beg you to so consider this thread; indeed, both yourself and this glorious work of yours as well.

Honestly, it's no exaggeration to call your work utterly inspiring. Having just finished reading through this thread, and mxwllmdr's projects-compilation thread before it, I can firmly say that between the two of you, I'm well and truly t on the path of scratch-building. As soon as I can clear away my innumerable works-in-progress. And find a bulk styrene supplier. And a convenient place to store my senses, as it seems that as a scratch-builder, I'll be taking leave of them soon enough.

So, again, exalted; add to that subscribed, drooled over with envy, et cetera. Spectacular work; keep it up, I implore you!

It's surprising the amount of skepticism I am encountering on other forum. Concern about the paint cracking, the fabric not accepting the paint, too stiff. It should be known by now that I test my suggestions before I recommend them; I don't want to mislead any of my readers.

BTW the can of flat black spray paint is a bargain, a buck a can at Wallmart for the basic white, gray, and black primer flats with the good 'old style spray' nozzle and extremely fast drying. I used to use Krylon primer but they switched to a terrible nozzle that applies too much paint and everywhere but where its needed. Fine of you are painting a barn door but awful for a hobbyist.

Its a pity because it was the best primer paint on the market............. But this Walmart stuff is just as good.

 The_Blackadder wrote:
It's surprising the amount of skepticism I am encountering on other forum. Concern about the paint cracking, the fabric not accepting the paint, too stiff. It should be known by now that I test my suggestions before I recommend them; I don't want to mislead any of my readers.

BTW the can of flat black spray paint is a bargain, a buck a can at Wallmart for the basic white, gray, and black primer flats with the good 'old style spray' nozzle and extremely fast drying. I used to use Krylon primer but they switched to a terrible nozzle that applies too much paint and everywhere but where its needed. Fine of you are painting a barn door but awful for a hobbyist.

Its a pity because it was the best primer paint on the market............. But this Walmart stuff is just as good.

note you can swap nozzles...

Well, I for one am impressed with the ingenious use of the hairbands and have total faith in your methods...

On an aside, was watching Iron Giant today with my younglings and it struck me how similar the waist and hips are to the Warlord - in fact the head was also remarkably similar...

It's mind boggling, I was actually asked if the spray paint was tested in case it could melt the styrene......... I've sprayed foam insulation with spray paint and not melted the foam. You just have to be careful

Maybe I am deluding myself in thinking these hair bands came out d-mned good and make as good a flexible conduit as I've seen.

The one hanging from the cylinder is left disconnected for clarity of how the plug in mounting is made. There is a straight pin inserted through the center of the hair band to hold the 90° bend (After the pin is threaded through the band I cut the point off for safety.) and the end of the hair band is glued into the 5/32 white tube with Testors thick plastic cement.

http://i.imgur.com/VbSll8C.jpg

Many a year ago I made some terrain out of foam, then the spraypaint melted it to a lumpy vaguely terrain shaped lump. :(

Looking good though!

man well done with the cables.

The operative word is "Carefully"

One thing this project has taught me is that designing your work before executing the hard copy is essential. Fortunately there were very few rebuild modifications necessary but it could easily gone the other way necessitating grievous overhaul of major components.

as it is I miscalculated on the lack of hydraulic actuators required to operate the legs so once they were installed; five per leg is how I see it for a reasonable set of actuators............ I had to revamp the eye-candy shock-absorbers to make them fit and still retain a modicum of the original configuration. I still have to resolve the inner thigh snubbers but I think I have a solution for those.

When last we viewed Chrysagon he had received his conduits to the upper thigh area and was awaiting the sprawled legged actuators so necessary for that "Waddaya want d-mn you?" stance so cool in the Reaver milieu.

Now I have the hydraulic shock absorbers in place and the inner thigh area is coming out sufficiently cluttered to give the impression of massive mechanizations. and take away from the fact that the actual upper legs are thinner than they appear. A source of critique for the last few pages.

We'll see how this work is received once everyone has recovered from the Super-bowl fever.

http://i.imgur.com/AAkTVvh.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/a39XjVe.jpg

It will be interesting how my departure from the original is received regarding the actuators but I honestly cannot conceive how I could have used less and still had this titan ambulatory........

http://i.imgur.com/0uB0bbE.jpg

These cylinders cannot be anything other than shock absorbers the way they are fastened. The ones on the inner shank dwindle down to a ridiculous diameter but that can be rectified at a later date.

http://i.imgur.com/K08EaUr.jpg

The overall look sans greaves is striking and to cover all that work is painful but fortunately the greaves are removable so the work can be viewed.

You are going above and beyond and it's paying off!

Looking great, and you've maintained articulation throughout the legs correct? I would have thought bendable mini straws would be a good scale conduit as well.

All the joint caps are magnetized for ease of access to the joint screws to change the pose. The upper thigh armour is afixed with magnets as well
The inner greave is held in place with the battery compartment drawer but i may add magnets to this area as well when I finish the greave detail in point of fact I had planned on doing that today..............

http://i.imgur.com/m3b5IlT.jpg

Theres still a lot of detailing to add................ yeeeechhhhh!

http://i.imgur.com/FyPjtuW.jpg

Note the ankle cap suspended from the wrench..........

http://i.imgur.com/e7JAT39.jpg

Note the battery compartment on the rear of the greave..........


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Well it appears my greaves are a tad taller and narrower than I intended. I always had two reservations about M. Smith's noble effort, one that the head was just a trifle too big and two, that the greaves were too square looking. I am satisfied with the head but I won't know about the greaves until they are finished. Right now they look too tall and narrow.

http://i.imgur.com/gaPHbVl.jpg



Why does this pose remind me of ''Saturday Night Fever?''
http://i.imgur.com/klPGeJD.jpg

Titan on the dance floor? Looks cool to me none the less. All in, your changes and detailing will only enhance this behemoth of the battlefield. I'm sure the esteemed Mr Smith would approve.

And a new Avatar I spy - looks familiar but I can't quite place it...

new avatar is zaphod beebelbrox from the recent hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy... sorry for bad spelling

Jeez, I wanted to tell him................

By the Emperor...

Sorry Mr The_Blackadder Sir... I'll go back to my quiet corner for a while..

Sometimes I should curb my attempts at feigned indignation......

mullet_steve wrote:
Sorry Mr The_Blackadder Sir... I'll go back to my quiet corner for a while..

I really shouldn't go off on these creative tangents and stick with the original design. The DS greaves were too wide in my perception but damn if they didn't look better than my narrower version.

So in one of my frequent all nighters I repaired the greaves to a compromise width and shortened the surface armour 11.0 mm top and bottom each to shorten the greave I also squared up the outer edge to bring it more into conformation with the prototype............ Sorry to have doubted your artistic genius Mr. Smith,

One day I will learn.

http://i.imgur.com/QOGIpXo.jpg


We'll have to see if these modifications are extreme enough.........

http://i.imgur.com/FuxLYWm.jpg


Note the wiring for the parallel circuit to the Leman Russ search lights

http://i.imgur.com/0gtSefa.jpg


Note on the top inner surface of the flying greave the gusset that obscures the faux pas. fortunately it only adds more detail and character to the design.

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats amsaing dude!!!!

Built the hinged greave extensions to protect the ankle mechanism yesterday. There is a lot more detail on the greaves than is perceived in a casual glance. layers upon layers of truncated armour which is seriously depleting my 0.25 mm sheet stock.

http://i.imgur.com/odQZedS.jpg

Note the tow rings that for whatever purpose are included in the original. Without wheels or dollies under the feet, I fail to see of what use they could be.?

http://i.imgur.com/qBWjY7m.jpg



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The following is meant to be humorous......................... I'm too shallow to be pessimistic.

Okay, I've reached a point in my life that I don't expect the Universe to work period.

There is no Santa Claus, Sorry kiddies it's true............

The SS system will collapse the day before I get on it..........

There'll be immortality discovered the day I am just too old to have it work..........

"The Big Rip" will commence as soon as I win the Lottery...........

Thats just how things happen and I accept it............

So when things like this happen I start looking over my shoulder for that asteroid.

I have no plan for this titan, everything is pretty much 'off the cuff.' I haven't given a minute's thought to the leg, ankle, step mechanism, 'what have you' since about June of last year.

So I gathers some bitz crap together and start making the heel actuator and hell! Everything is falling into place, I can't do anything wrong.......... The bracket is just the right width, there are two channels 2.0 mm wide running up the back of the bracket, there is sufficient clearance for the quadrant sprocket and there is a bitz that can act as the lower attach point! And it all works!

http://i.imgur.com/RVshtBE.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/b8PJ3Oc.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/Ff0eB8j.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/ZgQx2j9.jpg


What the frack gives?

and has that under water landslide just happened in the Canaries!

Don't blame the messenger..........

I post on about twenty forum and since I posted what I thought was a ironic reply about doomsday alarmists I have received damned few replies on any of the forums. Granted I reply to not too many worthwhile threads mostly because of a lack of time and I think that it's a good thing to recognize that there are forces of nature that are beyond the complacent control of burgeoning humanity secure in their ivory towers thinking there is nothing Nature can devise that cannot be over come by Pollyanna humanity thinking.

I'll have to stifle my misgivings!


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And so back to business. The greaves are a massive undertaking, much more than I gave thought to.

The layer armour is time and material consuming far beyond what I thought would be the case and I am still struggling with an acceptable solution. I have already resigned myself that I shall have to rebuild the thigh armour............

http://i.imgur.com/oMSevhM.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/luFR9LY.jpg

If your thinking of camo, on the armor plates try maybe gray digital?

What's the total build cost so far? Obviously not including your blood sweat and tears.

Sorry to hear the project is consuming not just your time but your money at a far faster rate than first imagined...