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Can't wait for the paintjob

Don't look into its eyes, it's madness.

Well done, very intimidating

Really impressive work so far, Blackadder, but I do have a question - all your reference material seems to be for an Imperator titan, rather than a Warmonger titan. Which is it you're going to have as the end result?

 Dysartes wrote:
Really impressive work so far, Blackadder, but I do have a question - all your reference material seems to be for an Imperator titan, rather than a Warmonger titan. Which is it you're going to have as the end result?

Good, a question; I love questions.

Truth be know, I googled Emperor Titans and got a lot of different names for these Goliaths. I don't know which class name is correct so I just use them arbitrarily. What I am attempting is an Emperor Titan with a Lucius Pattern motif but rationally realistic armament; no cannons with a three meter diameter bore. I probably will build energy weapons rather than projectile as they seem less comical looking. I want this project to convey a sense of realism that most of the models I've seen of this class do not, at least to my artistic sensibilities.

I want this as a companion piece to my (Dave Smith's design) wonderfully realistic Warlord. I have yet to see what I am striving for; a real looking Lucius Pattern Warmonger (Yes I have seen the epic scale model)

Keep coming back here, just stunning work, i keep looking at it and thinking how brave you are.

I know exactly what you mean about the build being the real joy.

The Neck Passage:

Before I leave for Las Vegas a little something that came to me this past evening. Since I am making a full cockpit interior I'll need a sufficient mount so why not use the mount to simulate a passage thru the neck.

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


And to reinforce the floor and give me something to attach the cockpit why not a few Lightening holes.

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


I'll explain how this was done when I

See you all next week; Ciao.

Bah! A week off . Well hopefully you win big in Vegas and come back with money to burn on titan building .

Great googly-.moogly. This will be another epic thread.

It's been a week aren't you back from Vegas yet?

Thanks for the reply; I am back from a tedious 2600 mile odyssey traveling the breadth of the United States in three days in a 16 foot truck trailering a car which was no picnic. It took me a day to recuperate and a day to unload the truck and a couple of days to get my groove back. Yesterday I began again to make pieces for the interior and I hope to have a post update ready tomorrow. Meanwhile thanks for all the posts and the support. I'll try not to let you all down. Worthy of note; I spent three days in Las Vegas and didn't spend so much as a nickel gambling. Somewhat of a record to my mind but I did see the Arizona Meteor Crater which was a life long ambition.

http://i.imgur.com/U16SLn8.jpg

Looks like a nice backdrop to post your Titan pictures on

Glad you had a good trip even if the wind down was rough.

Slowing Down:

Am I slowing down in my dotage?

A week ago I was somewhere in Texas, Windmills to the right of me, windmills to the left of me from horizon to horizon.

The tallest wind turbines in the U.S. have been installed in Texas — the Vestas V90 turbines are 345 feet high, and are rated at 3 megawatts each. They are part of the 63 megawatt Snyder Wind Project, a wind farm that’s just been installed in western Texas.

Today I finally put the floor in my Emperor Titan head. a weeks worth of work and damned little to actually show

http://i.imgur.com/XQ8Z1Xs.jpg


I vacillated from not enough room to too much room......

http://i.imgur.com/RZR7ltm.jpg


but now that the actual floor is installed it all is coming together correctly

http://i.imgur.com/NdhT0av.jpg


Sorry for what seems redundant images but the previous ones were without the floor and not able to be handled. Now at least they are held together with gum bands and aside from being somewhat askew are just about right for installing the interior furniture.

http://i.imgur.com/Kj1OPHR.jpg


With plenty of room to spare.

Tonight's repast; Martini, Texas Chili and the Doctor Strange BlueRay Video....

Skoal.

What's that coming out of its nose? Rubber bands........

Here I thought you were going to say the Titan would be the size of the the windmill.

Dang that is HUGE!

Its a titan. Duh.

Still looking good. Did the techniques used on the windmills provide inspiration? I know I always look at real-life stuff when converting.

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Still looking good. Did the techniques used on the windmills provide inspiration? I know I always look at real-life stuff when converting.

No, the windmills were just scenery on my odyssey albeit astounding in their magnitude. They are much too clean and futuristic for the 40K Universe.

 The_Blackadder wrote:

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Still looking good. Did the techniques used on the windmills provide inspiration? I know I always look at real-life stuff when converting.

No, the windmills were just scenery on my odyssey albeit astounding in their magnitude. They are much too clean and futuristic for the 40K Universe.

Aye, they are more of the tree hugging man you pamby Eldar type thing to have.

Being a "Tree Hugger" (I like to breath Oxygen) I can understand the need for clean electricity but these multi million dollar high maintenance wind farms seem to be far too expensive to generate much good. If we had an effective space program we could have a belt of solar panels in space collecting solar energy and beaming the energy to the Earth in the form of micro waves, converted to electricity with virtually no impact on the environment This was proposed as early as the 1970s and long before the present could have been in place.

https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+panels+in+space+collecting+solar+energy+and+beaming+the+energy+to+the+Earth+in+the+form+of+micro+waves&rlz=1C1PRFI_enUS728US728&oq=solar+panels+in+space+collecting+solar+energy+and+beaming+the+energy+to+the+Earth+in+the+form+of+micro+waves&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

But our space program was deemed a waste of welfare money so here we sit in the advent of the new millennium with our finger where the sun don't shine.

Oh I like trees too, and not just for oxygen.....toilet paper is a necessity in my book.

It is sad that the space program has been relegated to the closet.

It is always depressing that spending on space is seen as a waste, when the military spending of some countries isn't...

 Dysartes wrote:
It is always depressing that spending on space is seen as a waste, when the military spending of some countries isn't...

When you are the self-appointed defender of the Free World, as the UK also knows well, military spending must have a high priority. However, an aggressive peacetime Space Program should be all of mankind's' priority as well.

A Space Program will benefit the entire World immeasurably.

an aggressive peacetime Space Program should be all of mankind's' priority as well.

an aggressive Space CRUSADE!!!!! should be all of mankind-except-for-heretics' priority as well.

FTFY

Wow, Thanks for all the replies. Too bad they weren't related to the model Ha!

Don't Be So Proud Of This Engineering Marvel You've Created

It pales to insignificance compared to the force.

So it's been quite a while since I posted; I've been really busy with community activism. But I did manage to work a bit on the interior. So the best thing to do is to show how it breaks down......

The Complete er-ah- Head as it is today.

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


Slide the visor up to disengage the faceplate.

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


The Faceplate engages the neck corridor floor with a tongue in groove joint.

http://i.imgur.com/nds5dpa.jpg


Revealing where the interior cockpit will eventually be assembled.

The Chin fighting platform floor is held in place by a single screw , the only hardware needed so far in this assembly.

http://i.imgur.com/HwqgtR6.jpg


and tongue in groove edges

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


To round out the effort the visor slips off to reveal the cockpit interior when the model is completed.

http://i.imgur.com/R7pxo3T.jpg


Long Island Ice Tea Time. Skoal!

BTW I'm open to any questions regarding the construction if the pictures have you puzzled but only on the thread; not a PM please.

I thought for a second that the mouth was opening like the front of the thunderhawk to reveal the whole bridge. Totally cool how you pulled all that off without giving away any of it beforehand.

 Theophony wrote:
I thought for a second that the mouth was opening like the front of the thunderhawk to reveal the whole bridge. Totally cool how you pulled all that off without giving away any of it beforehand.

Ha! like I actually had a plan as to how I was going to do this. You give me too much credit; I'm seriously making this up as I proceed.

Nicely done.

It's always surprising how complicated a "simple" idea can get when it comes to putting it in practice.

Enjoy the LIIT.

I always marvel at the amount of detailing. Lovely work, keep it up!

 The_Blackadder wrote:
Ha! like I actually had a plan as to how I was going to do this. You give me too much credit; I'm seriously making this up as I proceed.

You mean you didn't get a plan from Baldrick, and removed the turnip?

 Dysartes wrote:

You mean you didn't get a plan from Baldrick, and removed the turnip?

Totally missed picking up on alluding to a "Baldrick Cunning Plan." I am getting old :sigh:

But no, I study the information as it presents itself (in this case the 'Head') and comes to fruition making the subsequent work conform to that which proceeded it.

I have a surprising amount of luck [As you shall see in the next installment ( A eureka moment in point of fact) ] with this method unconventional as it is from an engineering standpoint.

Rarely do architects and engineers make things up as they proceed; cost overruns would be prohibitive.

I am afflicted with dyslexia and ADHD which in my case gives me a holistic ability to visualize things in my mind's eye but to actually work from a plan is much more difficult.

Were I capable of doing the math I might have become an engineer or architect but following the proper steps in algebra or higher mathematics is anathema to me.

I can very often see the answer on simple algebra or geometry problems but the intervening steps elude me and if you can't show your work; i.e. how you arrive at the answer. The Product even though it may be correct, is unacceptable; at least when I was in school.

Today I might have made a career as a concept designer.