Beiträge von Blackadderz

Serendipity Doo,

I found just what I was looking for; I love the internet.

What the doctor ordered. The rear assembly of a Mega blaster that can be adapted to my construct with a minimum of alteration.

Just assemble a couple of boxlike structures and attach the elevation drum gear.

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

Then somewhat faithfully copy the detail and we'll have the suitable energy producing end of the Helstrum Megablaster.

https://i.imgur.com/a8xT5Jh.jpg

I even have some of the armour to replicate.

Ahhh! It;s Christmas.

Once again Serendipity Rears Its Ugly Head.

I began this Mega Blaster shortly after the Plasma Cannon but due to the conflict in scales I wasn't sure how large to make the arm weapons so I left it undone.

As I built the body and legs it became apparent that both weapons could be ridiculously too large or too small.

Originally I thought a meter tall (39 inches) would be a good height for an Emperor Titan but proportion wise as I built it I had to keep correcting the height.

At least four to six times at least. A month or so ago I increased the length of the thigh about 6.35 centimeters (2.5 inches). Hopefully for the last time.

The model now stands about 1,27 meters (50 inches) with still the spires on the bastions to go adding another six to eight inches.

https://i.imgur.com/ca4jaQZ.jpg

I managed to make the drum training device which is a lot more business-like than the forked yoke bracket. that is seen on the original Joazzz2 creation.

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

A dry run assembly today with a side by side comparison of the Mega Blaster and the Plasm Blaster Cannons....

https://i.imgur.com/93PdC6x.jpg

confirmed that the arm weapons are in a close scale to the rest of the Emperor Titan.

https://i.imgur.com/Nummpd0

A final touch today is the forward muzzle plate with a stylized 40K skull embellishment to start off the fine detailing.

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

I like the picture and plan to incorporate many of it's features. I was recently apprised it is an energy weapon. And of course the scale is way off, but the individual details are quite worthy.

Meanwhile:

I found some of my old images as well and decided to play around with one.

My old Photo Impact 13 program produced this in an hour or so:

https://i.imgur.com/cngW4vM.jpg

[img] https://i.imgur.com/cngW4vMl.jpg [/ img]

Multi-Barrel Weapon:

I'm trying to rationalize a multi-barrel weapon that looks like a gatling gun but does not rotate.

Something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/FZhY4xv.jpg

Let me know what you think.

I don't even know what kind of projectile this thing shoots but judging by the end of the barrels the shot is oval. I'm not going there. I draw the line at an oval shot.

I like the idea of a rotating chamber and I'll keep that but I also prefer the weapon mount disk over the bracket mount seen below:

https://i.imgur.com/02FXuBU.jpg

The Bracket mount just looks too plain and ugly.

https://i.imgur.com/Mlb4Ocn.jpg

The top view looks Okay

https://i.imgur.com/TzKJu5Y.jpg

All in all, not a bad day's work.

I just have to rationalize the barrels and the cylinder arrangement.

Raison d'être:

The business end of the Emperor Titan is it's massive arm weapons.

For too long I have put off finishing up these bad boys and not realizing the primary purpose of lengthening the legs. The guns were hanging too low and interfering with the hip joints or so I thought. In actuality the thighs were just too short.

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

Now we can see the preparation for the gatling cannon mount device which is greatly modified from the original mount bracket.

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

I've only just started the second gun mount but I thought it would be best to show it in the beginning stage.

I've just seen this version today as well . Nine feet tall egad!

My modest effort tops out at present 51 inches with still either spires or AA cannon to surmount the bastions but nowhere close to nine feet tall.

I have yet to address the finer detail on the greave armour.....

Interesting that this rendering has taken the team seven years to build. I've only been working in mine for 4.5 years so far.

Fortunately, I only need 48 for the time being.....

Whew!

48 of these bad boys and they're only half done.

https://imgur.com/vWBqseR

[img] https://i.imgur.com/vWBqseRl.jpg [/ img]

But finished enough to mount them on the corner bastions.

I just have to match them in threes to allow for minor discrepancies in size.

Thanks for the replies....

It's a good thing hobbies are entertainment expenses.

Witness the undeniable joy of making 96 of these detail pieces; HA!

https://i.imgur.com/T0z69dp.jpg

48 shown here but I know I'll probably need at least that many more later on.

I streamlined the procedure by making an assembly line. I'd say these detail bits are about half done.

Up In The Big Leagues:

About a week ago I began detailing the various edifices of the upper works and found myself in short supply of the 0.80 X .250 inch Evergreen Styrene strips (2,0 X 4,8 MM)

According to my calculations I would need about ten Packets. I found a user friendly "Factory Direct" Hobby Supply site which will now be my go to source for special styrene strips etc.

https://factorydirecthobbies.com/products

https://i.imgur.com/6Ihv12U.jpg

Behold $150 bucks worth of styrene strips and tubes

And The beginnings of making 96 pieces of the same size portal details for the corner bastions.

https://i.imgur.com/gVpN3PU.jpg

We're not fooling around anymore boys and girls.

Thanks for the replies;

Up In The Big Leagues:

About a week ago I began detailing the various edifices of the upper works and found myself in short supply of the 0.80 X .250 inch Evergreen Styrene strips (2.0 X 4.8 MM)

According to my calculations I would need about ten packets. I found a user friendly "Factory Direct" Hobby Supply site which will now be my go to source for special styrene strips etc.

[url] https://factorydirecthobbies.com/products [/ url]

[url] https://i.imgur.com/6Ihv12U.jpg [/ url]

[img] https://i.imgur.com/6Ihv12Ul.jpg [/ img]

Behold $ 150 bucks worth of styrene strips and tubes

And The beginnings of making 96 pieces of the same size portal details for the corner bastions.

[url] https://i.imgur.com/gVpN3PU.jpg [/ url]

[img] https://i.imgur.com/gVpN3PUl.jpg [/ img]

We're not fooling around any more boys and girls.

Zitat von Yngir

"(...) have you seen me today?"

"It is impossible not to see you princeps."

"It's impossible to kill me as well (...)!"

I watched the HelsReach Emperor Titan fold up like a two dollar suitcase in episode 13. What an ignoble end for a God Machine; Faaa!

Eureka!

First time together with the complete top hamper, the basic edifices that is.

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

Also the first time with the new leg extensions and the full weight if the basic model brought to bear on the legs.

https://i.imgur.com/PUe9D72.jpg

The model is extremely top heavy and while precariously stable walking around the model would topple it I'm sure; so for the time being I propped it up against the back of a chair.

https://i.imgur.com/7M5NaSJ.jpg

I need to add stabilizers to the interior of the greave housings.

https://i.imgur.com/9t6DdfX.

(Note the 51 inches (1.2954 meter) on the six foot scale... a far cry from my initial projection of a tad over a meter.)

The top view and the foreground level camera angle shot brings home the majesty of this monster.

https://i.imgur.com/mT6H9Ky.jpg

The two figures added for scale are virtually lost in the immensity of the construction.

https://i.imgur.com/JB3LsYx.jpg

Optimistically I am going to start detailing the basic components and getting the main weapons mounted on the shoulders.

One of my biggest complaints about the Forge World Warlord is I thought the legs were too short. I even resolved were I ever to purchase one I would lengthen to legs.

https://i.imgur.com/o3XkR4q.jpg

With a lot of effort I managed to increase the length of the legs by about 7,0 centimeters (2.75 inches). It required a lot more work than I had bargained for. If I had to do it over again I probably wouldn't have done it.

(whom I kidding; I'm not obsessive compulsive for the fun of it.)

Anyway here's a couple of views of the stretch job...

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

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

and I also got the legs to work so they can be posed as seen below.

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

A Fine Madness?

Someone stop him before he goes all the way back to the beginning!!!

This morning I finished off installing the cooling vanes/buttresses (?) around the base of the waist.

https://i.imgur.com/HoaC76Y.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Xiv2bFO.jpg

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

I've put this off long enough. I couldn't decide how the should be arranged around the forward corners but these seem to work okay.

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

I cast a troubled glance at the femur/thigh component and thought what the hey; while I've got the thing completely disassembled I might as well lengthen the upper legs as well. I've put it off long enough.

With my trusty razor saw and a couple of hacks I severed the knee joint; "In a thrice the deed was done!" Ha,Ha! Hee Hee!

https://i.imgur.com/Oqmqf6E.jpg

I decided to increase the thigh length by a bit over 7 CM (2.6 inches) shown here compared to the other leg (still to be done)

Once reassembled we'll if that is sufficient.

The Wine Was Sour:

So I threw it out.

I went for broke widening the superstructure deck by about 4 inches which necessitated revamping the ends of the deck.

After struggling with the modification ad nauseum working upside down I managed to modify the left hand side of the deck to allow for the cove moulding on the underside of the crenellations but it was beyond my patience to try to juxtapose the coordinates for the other side. ( I always wanted to use the word "juxtapose" in a sentence.

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

Anyhow I tore the entire superstructure apart and turned the deck upside down and still it was quite difficult to break out the underside of the deck but a lot easier than working upside down.

Here is what I had to replicate:

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

mirroring the completed underside.

And the entire underside for reference:

https://i.imgur.com/HoaC76Y.jpg

Easy peasy (Not)

Sometimes You Bit the Bear and Get away With It

The side crenellations have got to fit within close tolerances. I had only a few millimeters of leeway in seven inches to get these nine dentations to fit evenly without more major adjustments.

Naturally I procrastinated attempting to build these bulwarks until today (and last evening) but low they came out better than I expected with a tolerance of micromillimeters (otherwise known as 64ths of an inch)

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

(I dearly love the Imperial system. I can't wait until the rest of the World adopts it.)

So here we have the crenellations in place and ready for gluing...

https://i.imgur.com/ER0kZwG.jpg

But before I do that I need to complete the main arm cutouts in the deck which I presume are for servicing and retracting the shoulder armament.

https://i.imgur.com/c47iTCw.jpg

Gaad! Did I stumble into the purpose of these cutouts or What?

Purely by accident I assure you. Serendipity rears its ugly head once again.

Falling Together… Somewhat

After major renovations to the front and side bulwarks plus adding the concave panel below the decking gives a much more finished appearance to the overall project.

One of the criticisms I have with huge structures of this type is that the decks appear too flimsy.

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

This concave reinforcement provides sufficient bulk to the edges of the platform.

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

Once dried I can begin applying the crenellations to the sides and the deck battlements.

Zitat von C.U.Dead

that's really good work and it looks like you're on the fast lane

Hope, you can finish it this year how long did it take to this point?

I'll quote the very first entry of this thread:

Blackadder Attempts to build an Emperor Titan:

"Well a good many of you know by announcing this I have a fair idea of how I am going to proceed with this build but we also know we're gonna be in it for the long haul. Now that FW has released a Warlord (I'll buy the Chaos version when they release it because Chaos and the sculpted organic hulls and carapaces go well together in my opinion) but the Warlord Mars and Alpha not so much; also IMHO. Anyway it's always been in my mind to build a transport companion for my Warlord perhaps a foot taller with ruddy great greaves and threshold steps and Imperium Aquila doors to release a few hordes of grunts. I figure my Emperor Titan to be on the order of a meter tall." (Ha ha! More like 1,7 meters it seems now)

Posted 10 Marz 2017. So a little over four years.

As for completing it this year it's highly doubtful.

Maybe around the end of 2022 will see it completed.

Patience comrade; the fun is in the building

Shazam!

The crenellations have been increased by 6 giving a grand total of 34 across the front giving the busy look of the castle superstructure but not cramping the components as it did before.

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

There is now room to position personnel along the battlements....

https://i.imgur.com/u54RQWq.jpg

The corner turrets are temporarily affixed to the deck so I can begin the side crenellations.

https://i.imgur.com/Fbg99dx.jpg

Eventually these bulwarks will be applied to all sides of the deck.

Blood Sweat and Tears:

It's a pain when areas you thought were complete need to be modified. But I would never be happy with the deck being too small to accommodate the structures situated on the platform.

As you can see I had to add three dentations to each end of the deck platform.

This has the added bonus of overhanging the main weapons arms......

and making the overall effect more massive.

Ya can't have an Emperor Titan too massive I always say.

Perhaps that why I am always sitting alone at parties?