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Actually I'm right now wondering why I decided to remake the helmet let alone worrying about installing quad-laser ball turrets in the shins. Ha!

But yeah the Ork titan and whatever it is to the right of the Imperator do give credence to the scale I chose for this monster although I think the legs are a bit stunted.


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Now It Can Be Told:

Now that I have resolved the issue I can reveal why I had to revamp the helmet. It all boiled down to an assumption on my part that the artist drawing the two elevations of the head was a draughtsman. In a proper draught you project lines from one plane to another and ideally there should be a top elevation as well but I accepted the two elevations as sufficient for my 3D rendering. I built my model slightly oversized than the plan as I wanted the 'head' to be larger than my Warlord's head as the finished model will be 10 to 12 inches taller than my Warlord. I blissfully used the side elevation for all my calculations and after laminating all the layers proceeded to sand the contours of the helmet but after the rough sanding was completed I found the helmet dome was significantly flattened.

http://i.imgur.com/8vAqAXM.jpg


It did not have the look of the front elevation at all. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed as I had based my interior design and mechanism on the front projection......


http://i.imgur.com/56WnEFl.jpg


Rather than scrap the helmet and start afresh I opted to build on the original to increase the height of the dome which is seen in these two images. It was last night that I managed to glue in the compound curved pieces requisite to obtain a smooth contour; the final pieces to be installed later this morning.

http://i.imgur.com/2QebzHA.jpg


So with this setback resolved I can continue with the building of the head; my obsessive compulsive integrity intact.


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Son of a b!tch; damn you 'auto append!'

Let's kill off auto-append. And thanks for the explanation, makes a lot of sense (I'm a bit OCD as well about those things )

I will endeavor to work harder on my anti auto append skills by wrestling live jaguars until you update next. Either my skills will increase, ......well I just hope my skills increase

A Cure for a Rainy Day:

After a rough rounding sanding I scored the armour panel lines. First with my utility knife. Then with razor saw and finally with xacto keyhole saw blade
https://www.widgetsupply.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/x-acto-x215-5pc-no-15-keyhole-saw-2016-main_519x340.jpg

to widen the gaps between the armour


http://i.imgur.com/rer2DpT.jpg


Now the helmet is ready for wet sanding which will hopefully remove the striation lines.

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


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


Now we're back to making the visor.

Looking good

Definitely starting to see the picture in your model, looking great!

Will the visor be permanently mounted, or removable? Maybe magnets to hold it in place so you can put it on and take it off to get inside.

It's a bit too early to tell but you know me; I try to make everything movable that is supposed to move. I want a full cockpit for this baby probably based on a land speeder cockpit already committed purchased and OTW from Ebay; yeah I'm going whole hog on this be-ach and yeah plenty of magnets and LEDs.

Jaguar wrestling has paid off, auto-append upended.

Another beauty of a model, the work on the head is off the scale

Wow, lot of replies on this project, it just goes to show, "Give the public what they want." Many Thanks for the interest.

Crest:

The crest seemed a daunting task but after the helmet it was child's play. I began by laminating six layers of 0.030 thousandths styrene last night because 1/4 inch styrene is too expensive and to hard to work with plus 0.030 is what I had on hand.

I then scribed two lines and equa-spaced the drill points with my vernier calipers.

I used my #11 Xacto blade to deepen the drill points and hand drilled 1/16" pilot holes for the scallops.


http://i.imgur.com/I6LWbhV.jpg


Then I drilled 1/8 inch holes to center the 1/4 inch final holes for the scallops.

http://i.imgur.com/shluvZ1.jpg


After drilling the 1/4 inch holes I cut off the excess material and sanded to the appropriate half hole depth.

http://i.imgur.com/5ugL5iz.jpg

Attention to detail , I had completely missed that on the drawing. But their had to be cogs somewhere since the mechanics was involved.

Big dumb robots are the best. Looking forward to seeing this bad boy come together.

ohhhh sooo bad ass, well done so far Brother!

Robot mohawk looks great! never would have thought to approach it like you have, but da*n effective!

Starting to see where you're going. I can only stare in awe at your determination

 Guardians Eternal wrote:
Robot mohawk looks great! never would have thought to approach it like you have, but da*n effective!

Robot Mohawk.. Rohawk?

hmmm Mobot?... no no Rohawk is far superior

Spear Heads:

Spear Head ornaments are tedious but worth the effort. There are probably easier ways to make them but I want mine to have a 3D bas-relief so I made mine out of 0.040 thousandths styrene. Below we see one in place on the helmet and the rest in various states of manufacture. When doing something like this I always make a few extra so I don't have to start from scratch. You never know when you might need a spare.
Start by making an undersized template (marked 'T'), trace the points on a piece of scrap styrene, cut them out with scissors (yeah it's that simple,) Drill your pilot holes, Cut the corner holes with your; surgical diagonal cutters, Fingernail cutters, Dikes, what-have-you, use your rat tail needle files to make the spade base compare you work to the finished and make the proper adjustments with you, curved nail file and you're done.

http://i.imgur.com/fFxZ4If.jpg


Now do it twelve more times or more........

http://i.imgur.com/84L1tlJ.jpg


See you tomorrow.

Do you have a set of hole punches? I can't find my other photos, but this is my big 1" hole punch.

I've purchased the set of 11 different sizes for around $15 on eBay a few years ago, but the 1" was separate for about $10. Just line them up where you want it then smack it with a hammer, very therapeutic leaves a nice edge so no absolute need to file.

Just an idea on how to make the holes easier.

I've tried hole punches and found them useful in some instances but limiting in size These are rather odd in diameter and I would have found it difficult to get the as exact as I want for this application but thanks for the tip.

Incidentally I have found that this helmet has an almost organic appeal even without the visor now that I have refined the contours.

Always love the attention - or rather, dedication- to detail when I drop by here!

Nice work on the crest, is that going to drop behind the face plate?

Bada ba ba baaaa I'm Lovin' It:

Funny how these ungainly projects grow on ya. At first I was mildly interested in this project. A lot of people requested I give it a go so for the past few years I accumulated various plastic bitz that looked like they might go on a quicky Imperial Titan that anyone sufficiently motivated could build. I still have baskets of the junk; bottlecaps recyclable containers and the like and I finally solved the pelvis dilemma but until I saw the head for lack of a better term I had little enthusiasm feeling that I had reached the pinnacle of Titan manufacture in my Warlord.

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


Now I am in a quandary because this Titan will eclipse my previous effort but Damn I am getting really fond of this beastie.

http://i.imgur.com/izMrl2e.jpg


The front view shows up on the image more so than in person that the spearhead gusset on the right side is longer than that corresponding one on the left. that will have to be fixed but overall I am pleased with the outcome. I made my darts a tad larger than that in the computer image as I couldn't translate the drawing into an actual model. But it seems close enough and even as I write this I get the depression of compromise.

http://i.imgur.com/jRCmP0p.jpg


But no; that way madness lies.

and it's still two hours to Martini Time... Dang!

Not the same size? You should start over. Send me these bits, I'll dispose of them for you

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Not the same size? You should start over. Send me these bits, I'll dispose of them for you

Ha ha ha! Too late I already resolved the problem.

Working on the visor...............

Brilliant work.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Not the same size? You should start over. Send me these bits, I'll dispose of them for you

Ha ha ha! Too late I already resolved the problem.

Working on the visor...............

Worth a shot And looking forward to your rendition of he visor!

The Perfection of Asymmetry:

When you look at the Darth mask you are thrilled with the evilness of the visage but split the image and reverse it mirror image wise and you will see the resulting perfect symmetry of either the left or right is not nearly as disturbing. We are all different people when we see ourselves in a photograph. With the magic of the computer we can splice together the left and right images of our face and see two entirely different people neither recognizable as ourselves.

http://i.imgur.com/N07NveX.jpg


That is where I am with this visor. That and the printout I made is too small. The 0.030" plastic cutout I made directly below the helmet assembly seems to be of the correct size.

Also the visor wraps around the helmet so the front view is foreshortened therefor I must allow for that by adding what i estimate a quarter inch (6,3 MM) to each side........

Fun and games, Right?

I was wondering how you were going to account for the wrap around and the space lost, guess we will see how that space translates.

As for symmetry, I remember the fact that no ones features are symmetrical, and that my high school art teacher had done a presentation where he took pics of us and then flipped our faces to make us symmetrical (both directions in different pics), it was pretty scary seeing those, totally unnatural. It was a really neat slideshow he put together 25 years ago (I'm getting really old now), and was pretty cutting edge back then.