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I hope your warlord won't hit an icy mountain..^^

God's Blud marry if'n it hasn't been many a fortnight since I hung this abomination together in one piece. What strikes me the most is the numerous areas not yet adorn with detail on the exterior.

I've been working on the interior for at least two weeks and yesterday I started on the engineering level............... Since there are many interlocking pieces to the lowest deck I had to be sure the whole of the construct could be assembled.

On the plus side it can but on the minus side the leg joints and waist joints barely support the weight. I was sure that would be the case and have allowed for the 2.5 kilos the upper body weight.

The 1/4 inch hip bolts still need to be 'Loctited' once the final hip assembly is made but for now I'm afraid 'Dirty Harry' must stand splayed legged.

The straight on overall front view; the first wholly assembled image since before I built the Turbolazers.........

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


A very precarious infantryman's eye view of the God Machine............

http://i.imgur.com/57dvZNi.jpg


A shot of the side armour fully installed but still a lot of detail needs to be added to the side of the carapace..........

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


The upper waist rotation plate and the bottom of the pelvis block are totally devoid of detail; Fa!

http://i.imgur.com/6Hx4Dmk.jpg


In all I am quite pleased with the results after almost exactly a years work but I would hazard a minimum of six more months to completion.

You've come a long way.
Looks really good so far.

(for a moment I tought he had a missile launcher between his legs )

Is that a missile launcher between your legs or are you just happy to see me? Woof!

It's anyones guess what these triangular components are, from a safety crib side rail to a cooling grid for airconditioning. I ran out of images for this area on the DS Warlord so I am referencing the SM game Warlord Titan

Anyway here is the inner panel of the chest armour and the upper engineering viewing window panel in the closed position.
http://i.imgur.com/0PPQ9so.jpg


And here we have it in the open position to permit viewing of the interior detail. This whole central hull of the Titan is very strong but it looks like a house of cards.

http://i.imgur.com/P9KImjf.jpg


here we have the left side view with the Command deck gallery slid into place.

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


and lastly the overall quarter view showing the reworked rear door frame just to demonstrate the fallibility of the Blackadder and a flash image of the same area above.

http://i.imgur.com/X1UrX8n.jpg

This is absolutely amazing, and you're a madman, but in a good way .

Are you going to name it The Blackadder?

Will it have a servitor on board named Baldric?

This is seriously looking amazing. The fact that there's still work to be done on it, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to visually process that much awesome when it's all done.

 TheLionOfTheForest wrote:
Are you going to name it The Blackadder?

Will it have a servitor on board named Baldric?

I'm naming it 'Luteus Vexant' which roughly translates from Latin to English: 'Dirty Harry'

Just thought I'd let you in on the ground floor of building the catwalks. I received a lot of commentary regarding my choice of floor material for my catwalks so I have revised my nomenclature to redefine the existing 'catwalks' to 'galleries' and add gen-u-wine(sic) catwalks employing expanded metal mesh (Thanks to all for the suggestion.) of course I'm not actually going to buy said expanded metal mesh but raid the kitchen of the long suffering Ms. Blackadder and cut up her splatter shield to supplement my recycle stock. Never fear I shall replace her splatter shield with an apropos Mother's Day gift (''thereby killing two birds with one stone'' i.e. gift and building material)

The ever resourceful,

Blackadder

http://i.imgur.com/hnRUg9P.jpg


anyway here is the beginning of the plug in catwalk module(s)

Watch the agony columns for updates on my pending separation...............

The two long strips will be attached to the catwalk proper and the U shaped channel will clip onto the carapace inner frame for ease of removal as this delicate construct will need constant repair so I probably will remove it when the Titan is gaming.

http://i.imgur.com/9XM6JW6.jpg



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The catwalk without railing installed is hooked in place and reveals it is too wide and will have to be cut down width-wise about 5mm before the railing is installed.
http://i.imgur.com/ccft6Ig.jpg

Cat walks railing installed and the left side catwalk on cutting board showing the hook channel that holds it to the inner carapace frame and yet be removable because they are just too delicate to withstand the 'Dogs of War'.

http://i.imgur.com/hzz9QY9.jpg


Note how far I had to move the gun stanchion inboard from its original proposed position. I have to put some sort of hatch there to cover the hole.



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I have been thinking about how I am going to make a sensible engineering department out of the two story area beneath the command deck and fit a viable fusion reactor deck in the cramped space above the command deck when suddenly this morning an epiphany!!!!!

The lower space will be the reactor room and the upper space will be engineering.

Egad! How simple and it totally makes sense that the extremely heavy reactor would be in the lowest level of the torso and the mechanic dedicated area where the high maintenance equipment is. Access to the armament and legs through the carapace and the huge cooling fans and vents at the rear of the reactor room exhausting outboard behind the lower deck..................

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


Simple right? so why did it take me a year to realize it?



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Reactor on line.................
http://i.imgur.com/uSycaBz.jpg


There's my Cherenkov radiation.............
http://i.imgur.com/tkbVAJH.jpg

Cool! Although I always though radiation was green? (I guess that was from watching the Hulk)

 monkeyh wrote:
Cool! Although I always though radiation was green? (I guess that was from watching the Hulk)

Nope, in a modern reactor it's blue (because the rods are kept under water, and when the radiation cleaves the water the resulting light is blue.)

The Cherenkov radiation is simply the cherry on top, this whole project screams of amazing artisan skill, I've been following it closely. How soon til finish, do you think?

-Nikolakhs

Gottcha! Ha! Cherenkov radiation is produced by sub-atomic particles that are traveling faster than light in selected medium i.e. air, water, etc.*/** The radiation is predominately associated with nuclear reactors where neutrons emitted from the reactor plow threw the coolant much faster than photons can.

*This can happen because of the absorption and release of photons where as larger particles; neutrons etc can shoulder aside lighter matter and move faster than the weightless photons or neutrinos that rarely react at all with even light years of lead.

These escape from reactors leaving an unearthly blue glow know as Cherenkov radiation.

**However nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum. (According to Einstein's theory...................)

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=Cherenkov+radiation&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

Awww Nikolakhs ya beat me............ :(

An interesting side note is photons generated in the center of the sun take upwards of a million years to reach the surface because of the absorption and reemission of the photons by the intervening matter. The neutrinos make the trip in a few seconds........... because they rarely interact with matter.........

Alas physics is a hard mistress that finds me wanting. :(

I have no idea what you said there, but the blue light is purreetty

The reactor level is coming along quickly. I should have realized this sooner instead of butting my head against an nonviable engineering room design. Well at least I didn't have to tear anything out

The diagonal reinforcement knees and the room header in the background seems to belong in this setting.
http://i.imgur.com/s6LkwPM.jpg


Note how much of the room walls can be removed,
http://i.imgur.com/ddswF02.jpg


There is plenty of free space for painting and lighting installation.

I've followed it here and on Astro. Good God Machine that is awesome!

Every time I see this thread it gets better. And then I can't believe it will get better the next time, but it does anyway.

Bravo!

I was on such a roll last evening I forgot to take pictures until this morning. I felt the reactor needed a walkway and possibly a handrail ladder to the top so this might or mightn't work but what the hell I indulged myself. The walkway around the reactor will have a break in it for a ladder to descend to the reactor room floor and another ladder to the summit of the dome. For whatever purpose I cannot as yet fathom but it would be fun to have...............

The stanchions with out the rail in installed:
http://i.imgur.com/CASGBJ7.jpg


And the walkway in place:
http://i.imgur.com/4X5lbyB.jpg




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The circular railing:

http://i.imgur.com/kB8WP6q.jpg




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Atomic powered spacecraft have the problem of cooling the primary source. I suspect that a 'Fast Reactor' would be necessary because of it's efficiency in nuclear fuel and the compactness of a vehicle borne unit. Liquid Sodium as a coolant has a much higher temperature that water but it is extremely corrosive. I would say that running the return sodium external to the vessel would not drop the temperature of the coolant significantly, a vacuum being an excellent insulator. The heat exchanger would do more to transfer heat to the secondary fluid source. I suspect the large cooling fans on the rear of the titan back pack are used to cool both these fluids and I shall have to simulate ducting to that pack.

Meanwhile:

http://i.imgur.com/df5TR7e.jpg



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The speed in which this is taking shape is very gratifying. It is too bad I didn't realize the error of not putting the reactor on the right level.

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

It strikes me that I am not utilizing the two story reactor deck to it's full advantage. Heres the reactor stuck at the bottom of this huge area like a duck in a bag so I'm going to put it up on a platform with legs under it plus there will be room for all sorts of nifty piping and whatnot............

and I get to make more perforated steel beams.

Holy holey metal Batman!

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




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Oh yes, a smile crosses the Blackadder's countenance, this is how it should look. I have to admit I was nonplussed at what to do with the interior for a while but it all seems to be going together rather well.

I had a cunning plan. if I may say so myself.....

http://i.imgur.com/3oYqVzS.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/sXMZx8W.jpg


Now I just have to extend the ladder.

Damn, this scratch build has to be the best I've seen for a long time.

Your attention to detail is just schmexy.

Looks awesome and inspirational.

Here is a recent photo of the nuclear reactor at Reed college here in Oregon.

Really nice progress once again.
I like how that reactor turned out.

Very cool man! Words cannot describe how goo that this mechainical wonder is!

This thread is awesome.

As far as extending the ladder, why not build another catwalk at the bottom of that ladder, and then another ladder offset from that? I'm quite sure that it would be servitors and menials down in the bottom of the reactor pit anyway...

I think you should leave the cunning plans to Baldric.

Erm... I feel a little bit like a heretic, now... You see, your Plasticard-Fu is mighty, and you are creating an incredible construction here with a level of detail that is a paragon. I SHOULD bow my head in humility. Yet... I feel this reactor room is quite odd...
I see these four ribs in the corners and think "how the overheated environment for eternal punishment can these teensy-weensy pieces support such a huge structure that moves and shoots weapons?"
I would imagine that the interior of this zone, right above the "hips" should look somehow sturdier from the inside... May I humbly suggest you insert, like, rows of frame ribs on the left and right side of the reactor that, well, frame this fantastic centerpiece? I just feel this doesn't look credible...
The reactor itself is jawdropping, like the rest of this beast, expecially when the cherenkov effect is switched on.

You are the second to make that observation and it is entirely correct were this level finished as is but you can see I have a limited space and a lot of S(..)tuff still to fit in it.

I have to put all the reactor components in before I continue beefing up the compartment. I also want to paint all this stuff before I nail it down for good so the supporting structure go in last and fits around the reactor components.

But never feel that you shouldn't make a critique I welcome ideas and incorporate them when I can. Witness the turning of the reactor legs 45° as suggested by a reader on another forum. It works much better as it opens the floor space provides a support for the pluming and looks better to boot.


I spent a lot of time in the past few days preparing to build the huge steam turbines for the new Engineering Deck. In the meantime I began the piping to and from the reactor. I believe the best approach is to run the piping up the back of the reactor room to the back pack and from there to the steam turbines on the top level. Not the most optimum design but you can imagine the primary to secondary circulating system heat-exchanger in the back pack from there to the turbine then to the condensor and back to the reactor.

The only thing worthy of note here is the spherical 'shutoff valve' and 'hand wheel':
http://i.imgur.com/Y8KavaO.jpg


Note the coupling flanges:
http://i.imgur.com/pvQk7JP.jpg