Beiträge von Blackadderz

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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...

    Superstructure Detail:


    Whew!


    After a month or more I finally have something to show for all this effort...




    https://i.imgur.com/Xh3Kgyv.jpg




    First I found that a lot of the detail previously done was wrong or unsatisfactory.


    The secondary armament in the corner bastions all had to be redone. I ran out of ossarium panels and had to redistribute them and substituted scroll panels...


    https://i.imgur.com/mL5GhLf.jpg




    The panels I thought I could use gun turrets were too wide and had to be altered


    I had these doors I was going to use elsewhere.


    https://i.imgur.com/e6TFq2I.jpg




    They work rather well on the main gun.


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




    In spite of the seeming dishevelment of the project it may surprise you to know; I'm thinking I am very close to priming certain areas.

    Armour Continued:


    The decorative armour seems to be more difficult than I anticipated.


    My version of the Sun Blaster is more robust that the FW cannon so it requires some aesthetic compromises which I hope will work out.


    I scribed out some lines to show where the plate reinforcement strips will go but I'm still wrestling with making the curves.


    I'm also trying to make the louvers aft of the mount drum.


    https://i.imgur.com/lIy5GWC.jpg


    I had to increase the length of the shield by half an inch which caused some distressing of the surface. I'll call it "battle damage."


    After all, these machines are millennia old, they must have taken a hit once in a while.


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


    Yeah, I'll go with that rationale.

    Laser Blaster Armour and Shroud


    It's finally time to address the armour for the arm weapons. I've been putting this off long enough.


    One of the things I have been noticing in many attempts to build one of these hulking monstrosities is the walls of the cannons (in this case Blasters) and the weapons armour is too thin.


    https://i.imgur.com/tMyVk0c.jpg


    As you look at the photos below, take note that the construction walls are very thick.

    This affords a modicum of realism to the item rather than sticking a toilet paper roll into a turret and passing it off as a gun barrel.


    https://i.imgur.com/J3yKGjD.jpg


    Note how the walls of this construction are very solid looking. I would not try it but I'm pretty confident it would support my 16 stone weight.


    https://i.imgur.com/wUvLut4.jpg


    I'm going to do something different with this shroud assembly and design and shape it whilst on the cannon assembly just to make sure its a proper fit.


    So we'll start with a sheet of 0,50 mm styrene and reinforce it later from within.


    Every time I do this I end up regretting it because building something outside/in is very difficult. Ha!

    I just want to make sure it's a tight fit.


    I had the same problem with the Mega Blaster.

    Whoa We're back,


    What happened?


    I haven't been able to post for almost a year???


    We've got a lot of catching up to do.




    Relegated to the stone age.


    I've been too long in the manufacture of this model and 3D printing technology has consigned me to the dust bin of "also ran."


    I was quite proud of my recently manufactured spires until I saw this Emperor Titan.


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

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    How' I supposed to compete with that! Look at the detail! absolutely incredible!


    3D printing has set the bar by a couple of orders of magnitude.


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

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    Witness my latest effort...


    https://i.imgur.com/3qAZJJ5.jpg

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    which pales in comparison.


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

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    Thanks for the replies...


    Octagons... That Feeling You Get When Things Go Awry


    It was a matter of disappointment when I found the turrets were hexagonal and would not fit the upper bastion assemblies.


    Ultimately I had to make my own...


    https://i.imgur.com/i7Ahp5P.jpg


    Fortunately I could still use the guns.


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


    The upper works of one of the four corner bastions.


    https://i.imgur.com/DapA7Uo.jpg


    And some ideas of how to flesh out the basic structure..


    https://i.imgur.com/lU9C8RC.jpg

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

    Are We Having Fun Yet!


    It took me the better part of a week but I finally have 22 cathedral style window frames for my buttresses.

    Basilica Adminstratum


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


    I cut them out from the panels of couple Basilica Adminstratum kits I had lying about.

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


    Cripes! Blackadder Do you know what those kits are worth?

    Yeah, in point of fact I just purchased one on ebay for a hundred bucks free shipping ( I still need more windows and door panels.)

    https://i.imgur.com/5tQiZge.jpg


    But "In for a penny, in for a pound." I always say. It's only money.

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


    So, was it worth it?

    Ye Gods, Has It Been That Long!


    Over the past six years and four months since I started this project I've been repeatedly asked, What colour am I going to paint this beasty.


    Well I've finally found a colour scheme I think will be befitting this endeavor.


    It combines the understated mechanical appearance of a Lucius Pattern Emperor Titan with the garish opulence of the upper works.


    The concept is credited to Joazzz2, the original 3D designer of the images I follow.


    https://i.imgur.com/S2KmceV.png


    You can see I quite a bit of detailing still to do on the upper works before I commit to painting.


    And the four spires on the superstructure will be "Vengeance Weapons Batteries" for aerial defense.

    Bastion Base Detail


    Yeah I know; it looks like a step backwards but it took me a couple of days installing these stained glass window frames and the details thus far.


    But now I can install the finer detail items such as layered armour, skulls and Aquilae, corner angles and tchotchkes. You'll see where I am going with this..


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


    I've already decided I need to make two more building structures, rectories if you will' between the front and rear bastions which will really make the interior of the superstructure really POP!


    https://i.imgur.com/OTa0XJJ.jpg


    But right now I am excited about how will these components have come out.


    https://i.imgur.com/bY9Obu9.jpg


    Naturally these will not be stacked like these but instead will serve as the corner bases for the superstructure.


    I just thought it would be amusing to show them off before I install the really fun details.

    Back in the Saddle Again


    After being laid up with yet another bout with Covid, the worst one yet, these past few days have seen me in a flurry of industry where I managed to add quite a bit of detail to the upper works.


    This first images of the superstructure shows the angular shaped stained glass window frames that decorate the bastions in groups or threes;


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


    I made dozens of these basic decorations and they are used throughout the model in various sizes. Each one will ultimately be embellished with cut out paper 40k stained glass themes.


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


    I may or may not cut these out and install lighting behind the frames but that is far down the road from where I am today.


    The next images show the Gatling blaster mounted once again with the rear position of the gun mechanism lined up with the hull magazine. Amazingly it lines up with the proposed belt chain of projectiles even though I had not initially planned for this.


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


    https://i.imgur.com/tx26jkL.jpg


    And another view for clarity....


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

    Ammo Belt:


    After a few bad starts I finally went back to my original plan of how to create this structure.


    Also I decided to commit to an onboard round magazine rather than the drum attached to the weapon.


    https://i.imgur.com/X0SKDLq.jpg


    The reason is twofold.


    1 The Ammo drum is too bulky to attach to the loading housing and would look ludicrous.


    2 Plus the drum would be too small to store a significant number of rounds. The hull would be a better option.


    Maintaining flexibility was also a challenge which necessitated splitting the rounds on the ammo belt strip. Since the belt is merely for show I can make this presumption.


    It took me two weeks to come up with a viable plan and I haven't even applied the details;

    Whew!

    Okay so I opted for the in hull magazine.



    The clincher was that the ammo belt port lines up perfectly with the hull section that I designated for the belt egress, no lie, it lined up perfectly. Ha!



    Seen here directly above the loading port.



    The large blank area is where the belt will be situated.



    A much better use than proposed in the original concept 3D art.



    Cheers!

    Utility or Glitz:


    I've come to a crossroads regarding the magazine.


    Do I go for the more utilitarian magazine belt drawn from the hull of the titan or the ruddy great ammo drum mounted under the recoil/loader aft end of the gun.


    To me the drum offers a small number of rounds compared to the in hull magazine plus it will hang very low on what is already a massive construction compared to the elegant Plasma Blaster and even the multi barreled Quake Cannon.


    vfPfVush.jpg


    Regardless the infeed ports on the sides of the loader needs to be manufactured and positioned.


    The components shown above.


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    The layout of the position drawn in which will be aligned with the drum and the hull positions.


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    The ports roughed in.


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    And the roughed in chambers.