Blackadder Attempts to build an Emperor Titan

  • The top level four corner bastions are essentially finished; the four corner bases are awaiting some decorative bitz.


    Rather than subjecting my erstwhile viewers to the tedium of daily progress I opted to show a month's work in one swell foop...


    The much neglected rear view of this model is my major project at the moment. That and making College Titanica and Adeptus Mechanicus symbols out of green stuff for the major embellishments...


    I cobbled together outsized Imperial Eagles for the rooftop ornamentation making 6 overall.


    Today I'm going to tackle the four exhaust ports and the lower deck ducting.


    So to the business at hand in the way of pictures:


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


    Note the rooftop Eagles and...


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


    the Laser Cannon emplacements which will adorn the Warmonger version of this beauty.


    These will be interchangeable with conical spires on the Emperor Imperial version as seen below


    https://i.imgur.com/k3mGhdF.png


    I really want to prime paint this today...


    Work work work...

    "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."

  • Detail of the legs and the 8 deck levels at the rear of the superstructure.


    Alright we'll begin with the rear maintenance lower decks of which there will be four.


    The bottom two will be for the reactor core which will look like the Warlords reactor


    The three blue pipes are for the cooling system (glowing blue due to Cherenkov Radiation) the four vents two on either side are the heat exhaust ports...


    https://i.imgur.com/59eLIai.jpg


    The octagonal shin below the knee joint mount has eight cathedral windows and will have four ball turret triple laser cannons


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


    Everything is lining up and coming out as if it were planned; go figure!!!


    I think the triple laser cannons will be fine for ground defense.

    "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."

  • In my previous post I mentioned how everything was coming together almost as if it were planned...


    Nothing could be further from the truth; witness the large blank area at the rear of this Titan.


    https://i.imgur.com/MQ5XFaH.jpg


    There was very little to go on in many areas of the rear elevation. Constant studying gave a glimmer of the detail.


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


    And how easily they could be reproduced with virtually no modification to the existing structure.


    https://i.imgur.com/LDGFF9C.jpg


    Imagine my surprise to notice that the upper gallery relief could be duplicated on the lower two levels.


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


    The most outstanding feature were the huge flying buttresses that adorn the rear detail.


    https://i.imgur.com/fZ4tPCw.jpg


    Naturally the rear area cannot be made of stone but somehow the engineers incorporated this architectural feature purely for aesthetics.


    Likewise the numerous gothic windows have no place in a war machine and I suspect they're a mere façade.


    The corner turrets could also be incorporated with little trouble to the superstructure deck and the spacing of the buttresses allows for the gothic style windows.


    The Rear Nave will house another large caliber cannon under the 'A' frame roof albeit of a lesser diameter than the front main cannon.


    I may even make the windows stained "glass" (some sort of transparent metal alloy) perhaps a diamond material.

    "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."

  • Thousands of Bits of Plastic


    Literally thousands of bits of plastic added since last I posted and d*mn me if I can see a difference overall.


    I've carried out the closely spaced chest high crenellations theme to protect the combatants and added doors, ossuaries and scroll of departed crew members since the Titan was first constructed thousands of years ago.


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


    There's still a tremendous amount of detail to be added to make this construct pop.

    "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."

  • First of all: It looks fantastic! Reading that it's getting primed sounds like a milestone to me. I'm super excited to see how it looks in a consistent color, especially all the angles, bay windows, and details of the towers. It should have a different impact when they're no longer white and in a uniform color.


    As for possible missing details, I would say that in the middle, next to the doors, 2nd and 3rd floor, something seems to be missing. At the level of the 2nd, 7th/8th, and 13th tile. Maybe it's the combination of both being so close to another that it looks empty.

    Some decorative elements like at the very top, or simply adding some air vents would be great. Or even covering it completely with Cities of Death wall elements like you did it on the 4th floor would be fiting. Can there be too much detail on a Imperator Titan like that? Maybe some different building walls would be a good option to get some variety to the different levels.

  • First of all: It looks fantastic! Reading that it's getting primed sounds like a milestone to me. I'm super excited to see how it looks in a consistent color, especially all the angles, bay windows, and details of the towers. It should have a different impact when they're no longer white and in a uniform color.


    As for possible missing details, I would say that in the middle, next to the doors, 2nd and 3rd floor, something seems to be missing. At the level of the 2nd, 7th/8th, and 13th tile. Maybe it's the combination of both being so close to another that it looks empty.

    Some decorative elements like at the very top, or simply adding some air vents would be great. Or even covering it completely with Cities of Death wall elements like you did it on the 4th floor would be fiting. Can there be too much detail on a Imperator Titan like that? Maybe some different building walls would be a good option to get some variety to the different levels.

    There is plenty more detail/building that needs to be done.


    The internal magazines, the cloister gardens, in fact all of the upper galleries have to be sheathed and detailed.


    And don't forget the two main weapons still need their decorative shielding.


    I'm surprised no one else has mentioned the two "doors to nowhere ..." situated above the reactor cooling cores.


    These will line up with the maintenance bridges when the titan is in the repair gantry.


    Yeah, I've got a lot to do still.


    I just need to put some paint on the finished parts to maintain my enthusiasm and sanity.

    "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."