Blackadders WIP Warlord Titan

[The_Blackadder]

Not necessary, after Sandy microwave oven doors are plentiful to acquire but I appreciate the sentiment............

Pretty pitiful update this week but my excuse is that I had to gut the ground floor kitchen, bath and family room after Sandy saw fit to deluge my wife's abode with 2/3 meter of storm surge seawater.

Fortunately all my precious worldly goods were ensconced safely twenty miles inland including the subject of this thread.

You will note that after I have successful refurbished my ex's domicile I shall have no more excuses to put off building the head/cockpit.

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[The_Blackadder]

Have you given any thoughts regarding power plant and the possibility to open up to look at that. Possibly some interior "real" lighting effects. Malignant red lights pouring out from the eyes, combat lights glowing red in the engineering.

I have some plans for the fusion reactor which will be mounted in the chamber above the command deck. The soccer ball style is the one I am leaning towards. And I have already purchased the fiber optic LEDS for the lighting but those go in last as I have to make the consoles first.

This one is a kind of a joke but the lighting is interesting

 

[The_Blackadder]

Whew, I just spent two hours updating all the forums I subscribe to and taking pictures of the recent build below plus now hopefully rendering a bit of interesting rapartee to keep my noble readers stimulated.

There is a lot of concern that I shall be neglecting the Warlord now that the Blackadder has a new bauble to attract his fickle attention but the Warlord is the real apple of my eye and the latest update follows:

Modular construction is the best way to go on a model this big as it affords you a reasonable size to work on rather than taking up the whole of the workspace with extraneous equipage.

Below are the floor and keel of the cockpit and the movable neck plug in module shown in the head down and head up position.

The tab on the floor and the triangular tabs on the neck will be the base for the side to side neck movement and the rectangular plug-in will house the egress corridor to the main command deck hopefully with apropos detail should I live long enough to complete this project. Whew again!


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[Monkey's_Uncle]

She's looking very nice now.
I await the head with baited breath and all that.

 

[xFallenx]

This thing is amazing, and the bit about the microwave door was very informative. Makes me wish I had stripped ours down for parts instead of relegating to the trash. Keep up the amazing work, I’m subscribing so as not to miss an update!

 

[The_Blackadder]

Ha bet you thought I'd forgotten about this. Truth is I've been repairing plumbing and wiring and installing a new water heater and hadn't much time for building but that's behind me for a couple of days so back to the cockpit design. Actually I had time to reflect how to proceed with this and have come up with a way to build a hollow flight deck.

Seen below compared to Lucie's cockpit the Warlord's is about three times larger which compares well as the Warlord is three times taller than the Warhound.

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Here you see the footing for the interior floor and the inner edge of the prominent overbite of the head armour.

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as seen in this image of the original.

 

[The_Blackadder]

I haven't a clue what I am doing guessing at angles and sizes this head construct should prove interesting. It's much the same way I built the arms for Lucie so I can only that lightning does strike twice in the same place or in this case three times.

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[The_Blackadder]

Ya know when I was a kid there was a show on TV, "Jon Gnagy's 'Learn to Draw'." I used to watch that show religiously. I had the Jon Gnagy book, pencils, eraser, sketchpad, charcoal,.... you name it I had it. That SOB would start drawing some forest scene or Steam engine at the station and I was furiously following along trying to do everything that bast---d did and he'd be put the frame on his work and my jaw was on the floor. You just couldn't keep up with him.

I thought it might be fun for you to see how the Blackadder works so I'm going to be taking pictures step by step of this head assembly so you can see that I haven't the vaguest idea what I am going to do next. I have no mechanical drawings, templates, or sketches to go by except for the G--D----- images DS posted. A lot of people ask for templates and I feel bad that I can't provide them because there aren't any, it's all in my head so we can both see how this cockpit module progresses for better or worse because it could be a total fiasco..............

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[The_Blackadder]

I Have to admit the head is coming along swimmingly The relative size seems good and the movement range seems adequate. also most of the damage to Lucie has been repaired; just remounting the guns with magnets to go.

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I had Lucie pose with the new titan for a size comparison and she is dwarfed by the Warlord; I may have to make a Reaver just to take up the gap

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Here we have the Warlord looking right,

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Looking left and

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looking down to the right a bit unnerving from this angle thank the Emperor she's not armed.

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I have to reposition the chest/neck armour a bit as the head armour won't clear when it's installed.

 

[Vladimir the bloody]

Ive been watchin your titan grow for a while now and I think its about damn time I say: DAMN thats an awesome home-made warlord titan. Great job Blackadder.

 

[The_Blackadder]

I neglected to mention the telescoping feature of the neck module prompting some to comment that the neck was too short. I prefer to rationalize that the neck in full extension is scout mode and retracted is battle mode.

Thats my story take it or leave it
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That's the ticket Blackadder blind them with footwork..........

 

[The_Blackadder]

There is nothing new under the Sun, the more I work on this thing the more it reminds me of the snout of a Diplodocus Carnegii.

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[Marche Funebre]

Ive just spent the last hour gaping in awe at every picture. This is one amazing project and i tip my hat to you sir for taking it upon yourself.

I only hope you keep going and i avidly await the finished piece.

Have you considered entering this thing into the Open Category at the Golden Demon? Im well aware that it isnt painted yet but i think this kind of tenacity and love for the Hobby is what wins you a Slayer Sword. Or atleast i hope values like that are taken into consideration.

 

[The_Blackadder]

Dude I'm tell'n ya women have a lot of goodies that they keep from us and I'm not talk'n 'bout the obvious but chances are your ol' lady has a spatter shield that she uses when she fries up those 'burgers and that is just scream'n to be replaced. If its like my old lady there are rents in it and its all wrinkled (I'm talk'n 'bout the splatter shield now.....) and its time for a new one (Still talk'n 'bout the splatter shield). Imagine the joy on yer spouse's mug when you give her a new one for Christmas and what better way to help the environment than to recycle the old one in your scratch projects......

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Here is mine as new grills for the Warlord cockpit intakes or whathaveyou.

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Its gonna be a Merry Christmas at the Blackadder household believe me or I'm an Orc's Grandpa.............

Yeah the BA has a bag on.

But I'm dead serious about the Christmas present......................

 

[The_Blackadder]

This morning I cut the lozenge shaped vents that define the screens and before I glue on the right side I'm taking a picture that you might know how it was accomplished.

The radius of the side curve where it wraps around the snout seems almost perfect; about a quarter of a millimeter too big on the bottom but not enough to quibble over if the other side matches.

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Most of these vents will be covered with the face armour but if you peer really hard under that armour you will see that the whole vent opening is there.

Crazy I know but I need the practice.

 

[The_Blackadder]

The lozenge shaped vents came out fairly decent but not as well crafted as Mr Smith's. I wonder how he made his? I made mine with a Martini in hand which I wouldn't recommend to would be modelers handling razor sharp knives and the like and there seems to be a slackening of quality.

But they should suffice for this titan.

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The pencil scribed lines are for the face shield which I shall attempt next. This shield gives the head the anthropomorphic quality from which the upper lip and cockpit windshield detracts.

 

[The_Blackadder]

Its about time to start considering the scale of the furniture and crew in the cockpit. I'm getting an idea of the height of the seated figures so they might peer out of the windscreen. The seated Princep should be on a raised dais and a Moderatus standing in attendance. Two seated helmsmen; a Sensorus and a Steersman. The latter two individuals I have in abundance but I need candidates for the Princep and Moderatus?


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[The_Blackadder]

I'm really getting into it now as it seems the proportions are workable.

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I tend to get depressed when things don't work out and drop the modeling for a few days to reflect.

Another glimpse into my psychosis............

 

[The_Blackadder]

The windscreen on this vehicle is much simpler than the one I made for Lucie. That had to be built inside out and caused no end of grief as the glue kept seeping onto the clear styrene and the styrene had to be meticulously masked during painting.

Not so with these windows. the frame and windows can be built separately as a module and not necessarily installed until the model is almost done.

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I learned a lot from my mistakes with Lucie.

 

[Chaos_Born]

Ummm...What's Lucie?

 

[The_Blackadder]

I Have to admit the head is coming along swimmingly The relative size seems good and the movement range seems adequate. also most of the damage to Lucie has been repaired; just remounting the guns with magnets to go.

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

I had Lucie pose with the new titan for a size comparison and she is dwarfed by the Warlord; I may have to make a Reaver just to take up the gap

http://i.imgur.com/219OM.jpg

Lucie is my scratchbuilt Lucius Pattern Warhound Titan; didn't I post a WIP thread here?

Lucie is fully articulated but has no interior detail. I was just learning then.

 

[The_Blackadder]

The windscreen is done basically except for the paint and glazing with surprisingly little difficulty. Now that I have a real measurement I can start on the helmet.

This will have to be built up of layers of styrene and then carved and sanded down to the final shape.

I started out hollowed in segments but I think just gluing semi-circular ring might be more efficient.

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[The_Blackadder]

I know the helmet brow looks pretty much like a sh*t sandwich but there is a surprising amount of symmetry in it in spite of the crudeness. A couple of minutes with the belt sander brought me to this point where I have to take stock as to where I am and what needs to be further trimmed.

Right now this seems to be the way to go........

More later today.

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[The_Blackadder]

As I sand off the excess I continue to re scribe coordinate lines to gauge where I am on the contours. I can see by the vertical lines on the left front that I need to sand a little deeper in the front left. The block started off at around four ounces but now it's 2.5 ounces 72 grams. Once I have the outer contours right I'll hollow out the interior to reduce the weight further.

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[The_Blackadder]

A final sanding before retiring last night.

This morning I re scribed the line which reveal that I am off by as much as half a millimeter in some areas. That will have to be corrected before I meld the contours to form the requisite compound curves that are so striking on the original model.


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