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Please Yourself and You Please Everyone

As the say'n goes. There seems a bit of controversy about my departure for the iconic 3D prototype but I think this looks much better.

https://i.imgur.com/jXTdCXw.jpg


The side panels make more sense with this arrangement and it allows for a maintenance observation balcony that I think will add interest to the model plus the grander of the weapons mount yoke is undiminished.

https://i.imgur.com/KVnXAwb.jpg


The dual actuators now have a purposeful appearance for what ever that may be.

https://i.imgur.com/FbDGRw4.jpg


And disappear into the yoke to accomplish it.

Ooh,I like that you have them going into the yoke - that looks good. Plus the fact you have a pair of them. Approved

I'm telling you, half the time you see useless hydraulics on one of these things, just think of them as drive-shafts going to bevel gears for rotary power transference and it fixes them immediately.

Actuators are looking better now. I simply love the look of that beast - always a joy to drop by here

A Man A Plan

Whom I kidding, it's all serendipity.......

I've worked long and hard to reach this point this evening but these six images make it worth it. Every thing is falling into place including the three story engineering compartment with it's 15 foot ceilings.

https://i.imgur.com/4dmRD2w.jpg


The fusion reactor will take up two of those decks.

The lower deck will open onto the platform under the head for the Adeptus Mechanicus Priests to supervise the battle a hundred feet above the fray

https://i.imgur.com/kkZa3fT.jpg


The upper balcony and promenade with egress through the blast doors to the cockpit

https://i.imgur.com/eKgx5FT


Below another shot of the lower deck for scale

https://i.imgur.com/8KfEK7n.jpg


The intermediate command deck where the tactical computers &etc will be displayed.

https://i.imgur.com/K5PU7Ah.jpg


Finally an overall view of the three decks

https://i.imgur.com/mSlGEbX.jpg


It's going to take a lot of bitz to clutter up all this space.

The new GW Plasma Regulators would look lovely in there

Lovin' it!

Actually, yeah, the regulators and the ferric furnace bits would look epic in there

I have to say I prefer the outside piston attachments: First, it looks more robust and powerful in the silhouette being dual instead of single. Second, the attachment point looks more convincing to my eye. The piston just disappearing into the solid structure on the newer version doesn't strike me as right aesthetically.

Imho, I think reserving that area for some cabling and other greeble porn linking the arm to the body would be the best solution, leaving the pistons over it all. Layers of detail and scale and all that.

Then again, wtf do I know, look at that thing

The marine in there really shows the scale.. wow... Can't wait to see what you come up with for the inside

Looking great! I also can't wait to see what bitz you decide to use to clutter it up.

Not sure if I am being blind here, but I can only see two decks in the engineering compartment...? What am I missing?

Haighus wrote:Looking great! I also can't wait to see what bitz you decide to use to clutter it up.

Yeah, me too.

Not sure if I am being blind here, but I can only see two decks in the engineering compartment...? What am I missing?

That's because the deck isn't there yet; only the space for it.

CommissarKhaine wrote:The marine in there really shows the scale.. wow... Can't wait to see what you come up with for the inside

Right now I'm at a loss for what to put in it but there will be stairs and an altar, lots of consoles and mysterious gizmos galore. A crew and a hologram battlefield simulator and a two story Matter/Antimatter reactor. We're not play'n with kid stuff anymore.

Master Azalle wrote:Actually, yeah, the regulators and the ferric furnace bits would look epic in there

Yeah, I've been looking at those

Rolsheen wrote:The new GW Plasma Regulators would look lovely in there

It seems GW is looking right up my street and producing just what I want with this Sector Mechanicus line of merchandise.

Could always take a little inspiration from Steampunk. Huge vacuum tubes, gigantic gears sticking half out of the floor, maybe a rack of pistons or a camshaft in the wall.

Or do what the old Orky Gargant makers did- Diorama it. Servitors carrying shells, techpriests anointing the walls with holy oils and peeling/replacing panels with their mechadendrites, maybe a guardsman hitching a ride and puking his guts out in a corner.

Probably going overboard, but have you considered one of those 'plasma' orbs or discs to represent the reactor? Besides all the gothic gubbins ans shrines and such, of course

Im curious to see what its actual back will look like

 Eldrad wrote:
Im curious to see what its actual back will look like

Yeah, me too.

It's been some time since I posted but I have been working; mainly on the interior which must be done before I design the back structure. So from where we left off I had just made the Command deck balcony so here is the forward bulkhead complete with blast doors, and pocket passage doors to the cockpit.

https://i.imgur.com/20QX1Yb.jpg


This design is a copy of the Warlord Blast door assembly slightly enlarged and more functional plus I had a lot more room to work with so the design is more refined.

https://i.imgur.com/SvqDEBx.jpg


It's amazing how much more roomy this Emperor is compared to the Warlord.

https://i.imgur.com/rbmgnaF.jpg

Working doors of course . Lovely work!

Head and Neck Passage Assembly

The Emperor Titan head and neck passage assembly basically accomplished and ready to install as a component although the detailing is far from completed.

https://i.imgur.com/2nbtjON.jpg


Overall shot of assembly

https://i.imgur.com/9tMzz90.jpg


Interior Bulkhead looking toward passage way to Cockpit.

https://i.imgur.com/0alziBR.jpg


Neck installed into forward panel; visor and helmet removed for clarity.

https://i.imgur.com/dWr7z0N.jpg


Interior view of passage to Cockpit from Command Deck Upper Gallery.

https://i.imgur.com/rZ1csGC.jpg

The scale of that thing keeps suprising me.... Not to mention all the worky bitz that fit together nicely. And is that the warlord disassembled in the background? Is it OK?

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
The scale of that thing keeps suprising me.... Not to mention all the worky bitz that fit together nicely. And is that the warlord disassembled in the background? Is it OK?

I'm copying some interior components for the new model. This is why I always build with the anticipation that I may have to disassemble at a later date. Even my Forge World Models can be taken apart readily.

That's an amazing amount of foresight . My modelling usually involves staring at a bunch of bits, getting hit with inspiration, and glueing stuff together in a modelling frenzy :p

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
That's an amazing amount of foresight . My modelling usually involves staring at a bunch of bits, getting hit with inspiration, and glueing stuff together in a modelling frenzy :p

One of the incredible benefits of chronic Obsessive Compulsive behavior (and I've had it all my life, I've reopened bills to be mailed to make sure I signed the check...) is I am never satisfied with anything; the way it's built, the way it's painted, the way it is posed.... &etc. I know my problem and find ways to make it work to my advantage.


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Plan Ahea
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Horrors, I ran out of CoD Manufactorum Bitz.

I have become accustomed to accessing my CoD bitz box for whatever details I need so it came as a great surprise last evening when I found I had exhausted the larder.

Fortunately ebay had a kit at a reasonable price and it will be delivered next month on the fifth. Whew!

https://i.imgur.com/YdZ1rf5.jpg


Meanwhile I have plenty to occupy my time working around the omission.

Well enough procrastinating, it's a dirty job but I must address it. The rear of the Titan has to be interlocking with somewhat hidden seams but also allow the decks to be drawn out easily to view the interior. Yet the whole thing must be pinned together so the deck don't fall out when handled.

it's going to be hard to see these pieces in place so here they are unassembled.

https://i.imgur.com/q2gvkMS.jpg


Assembled and in place rear view

https://i.imgur.com/E3VjA8p.jpg


and side view.

https://i.imgur.com/jIzZ6Cw.jpg


Gluing them on as I type.

Hmm just noticed those grids would make excellent scale ikea book shelves

 Desubot wrote:
Hmm just noticed those grids would make excellent scale ikea book shelves

Really; Swedish Crap? TYVM. Joking aside these diffuser grids are a wonderful way to bulk up walls and armour inexpensively plus they are styrene glue compatible. I just about used up my first grid and purchased a second one. I wish I had them when I built my Warlord.

Wanna See Everybody From Behind

So the first step of building the back elevation is roughed out and two more decks to go.

https://i.imgur.com/E2WkIJj.jpg


I've no idea what these compartments do. I do know there are louvered exhaust ports on either side of the center structure.

https://i.imgur.com/oYYjkKf.jpg


Interior detail is lining up satisfactorily.

https://i.imgur.com/YJGLJyo.jpg

satisfactorily

He says... I'm honestly jealous of your precision. Splendid work as always!

Well the strip running across the back of the blast doors are off by millimeters at the sides!!!!

In A Rears

The rear panels are finally underway and the coordination with the interior is satisfactory. Everything is lining up as if it were planned.

https://i.imgur.com/ccQ0A0b.jpg


The two side chambers have their reinforcing floors and ceilings

https://i.imgur.com/77LMP9x.jpg


Next up, the engineering compart rear wall and the completion of the pelvic /hip plate

https://i.imgur.com/lYJUbHf.jpg