Blackadder's Imperator Titan Build

[Rhaven Blaack]

The amount of detail work that you are putting into this is project is SPECTACULAR!!!

 

[Blackadder]

Eagle Corbel

The first of two eagle corbels is almost done so before I close it up I'd like to display the internal detail so you can see how it is made. Just pretend the waffle grid is all that is there and the skin and surface details are still to be installed.....

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

The three quarter end on view shows the approximate thickness of the finished corbel approximately a scale metric meter in thickness.

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

I used the freehand drawing of the eagle on styrene for a template to shape the internal waffle grid and cut the grid with handsaw and belt sander.

https://i.imgur.com/5ydqYB4.jpg

I glued the eagle to a 0.020 (0,50 MM) thick styrene sheet and cut it to fit the corbel frame glued and sanded the edges, added a reinforcing strip to the edge of the wing and glued on an accent stringer, filed off the excess reinforcing strip and glued the Gothic window gable to the end and Walla; it's ready to be installed on the model.

https://i.imgur.com/g9jU0xZ.jpg

Whew, I can't believe it actually worked. Now that it is actually done I can show on the next one (I need two of these) the actual work. No point of showing the process if it actually failed to reach fruition.

Yeah, that's how I work.

 

[Blackadder]

Good Things Happen:

Don't you hate it when good things happen to bad people. While Blackadder isn't exactly bad he's ill deserving of the luck granted him by the Omnissiah. This is coming out as if it were planned



Too many coincidences to be not under the guiding hand/claw/tentacle of the Machine God. The length verses scale of the Aquila, the size of the constructions on either side of the head. Even the placement of the weapons yoke vis-à-vis the upper deck have the aspect of pre-planning that I assure you is only the purest luck.



Likewise the corner reinforcement hanging buttresses constructions are of a size and shape that lend themselves to incredibly purposeful design planning that again is mere happenstance. What I thought was an eclipse of never to be seen detail turns out to be within the 40K penchant for over accessorizing.



Even the tiny gabled window seen here in the shadows seems to fit ideally as the Master planned Whom I shall take this time to credit the 3D designer of the Emperor Titan I am currently using as a guide. One Mister Joazzz whose images I have posted elsewhere in this thread. I hereby credit him for the inspiration of this project.



It also gives me a direction of how to proceed with the underside of the superstructure platform. I now plan to capture the airyness of the between the Wars Warships of the hangar catapult bridge structure so often incorporated in their design. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5d/54/b6/5d54b67ed6c496fd49d2447f5a822c88--aircraft-carrier-wwii.jpg

 

[zathros]

This will be so awesome when it is painted. You have done so much work, it is becoming easy to imagine how these parts will look all painted and gussied up.

 

[Blackadder]

Ye gad I've so much more detailing to do before even considering painting, everything is so bland as yet, but it would be appropriate I suppose to start entertaining ideas for colouration. Thanks for the replies

Fury Of Activity

In a fury of activity I accomplished the second one of these corbels in record time surprising even myself. I need fit only a few pieces of plastic where they glued crooked

https://i.imgur.com/67uAPQ6.jpg

I will now begin some surgery to the chest plates to open up the area and give a more airy and interesting appearance to the underside of the deck.

https://i.imgur.com/ODrRmw7.jpg

If these images look strange it is because I inverted them. The bas relief eagle shows up better for some reason inverted.

 

[Blackadder]

Back On Track:

I have finally seen where I went wrong

https://i.imgur.com/Yx2BTJr.jpg

It took the removal of the triangular chest panels to show me where the error lay


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

With the arms yoke exposed I realized I had broken the rule I cited early on in this construction where I stated that the main problem with most of these walking buildings is they looked too much like walking buildings.

https://i.imgur.com/cfR4l91.jpg

So after I show the full effect of the front elevation of the torso I'll begin again on the side pieces under the yoke. The work don there previously will be incorporated elsewhere.

https://i.imgur.com/334lIW7

The side doors will have to go.

 

[Blackadder]

Sanding Blocks:

An indispensible item for making these models are my home made sanding blocks.

https://i.imgur.com/F2lZQyQ.jpg

I got this idea from an old Radio Control model aircraft builder who always designed and built his own balsa and fabric models. The blocks as he demonstrated worked wonders shaping the soft balsa. He made the blocks himself using aircraft rug tape to affix the sandpaper to the blocks. When I graduated to scratchbuilt wooden model ship building I continued the practice of making these blocks refining the size so I could get two blocks out of a single sheet of sandpaper. Since I no longer build wooden ship models I have no need for the finer grit paper so I'm recovering my old 180 and 220 grit blocks with coarse 60 and 80 grits. I use 3M aluminum oxide paper as it is sharper than sand paper. first wrapping the block with the double back tape and then applying the paper to the block.

Give it a try if you are seriously into model building. It's better than any commercial sanding block in my opinion.

 

[Revell-Fan]

OH BOY!

 

[Blackadder]

OMG

Blackadder if fickle but Oh My God this is something I have to emulate. I just wish I knew who the artist is and if he has any other views of this machine. I was browsing tumbler for ideas and came across this no nonsense Emperor Titan that I am afraid makes mine look rather toylike. there is no other words for it.

https://i.imgur.com/07c2jX2.jpg

The massiveness of the outriggers on either side of the head, the overall solidness of the outriggers, thighs, and lower legs plus the realism of the superstructure and upper works is astounding.

In an attempt to enhance the detail I brightened the image and increased the contrast.

https://i.imgur.com/Aqhlq7m.jpg

This has given me a whole new way to proceed on this construction borrowing liberally from both authors. But look at those shoulders and those guns. Truly the Machine God has been brought to life.

 

[Blackadder]

Can't Get No......

Satisfaction.

On rethinking this project I find I was in error putting Cathedral parts in what ostensibly was the engineering area. We need some techie looking cryptic machinery instead of monastic facades

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

So out with the old and in with the new.

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

This may work out and it ties the overhead yoke to the chest plate structures neatly.

https://i.imgur.com/V3pMz2a.jpg

I may also have room for a maintenance catwalk (I do like catwalks)

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

This design will give me more creative options when I tie in the rear exhaust structures as well.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

I think that you are doing a FANTASTIC JOB on this project!

 

[Blackadder]

Thanks,

3D Analog Modeling:

I love this stuff. This grid material is so relatively cheap and so versatile that it is rapidly becoming my basic building platform.

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

Anyway I shall be using these angled constitutions for the 3 floors of engineering so I am considering gluing them in place.

https://i.imgur.com/Yo4AcLp.jpg

The positioning of these panels is just about perfect as if the Deus Mechanicus were guiding my hand.............

https://i.imgur.com/uohMq6H.jpg

I now can reconsider adding the spurious hydraulic cylinders after all; Omnissiah be praised.

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

Now I just have to rationalize it's purpose????

 

[Blackadder]

Thanks for the replies.....

Back On Track:

Things are looking up now that I am back on track.

Below we se the first of eight trunnion mounts in place ready to receive the cylinders and piston rod ends with what I hope will be sufficiently robust to stand the torque to which they will be subjected (In the real world).
https://i.imgur.com/zpFncXW.jpg

Having worked around commercial aircraft for a good portion of my adult life one of the things I find in error about many of these Titan scrachbuilds is the lack of appreciating the forces imposed on the hydraulic actuators.....

https://i.imgur.com/egRe4Wo.jpg

The Boeing 747 in particular with it's four robust main landing gear filled me with awe on first seeing the tremendous machined components carved out of titanium ingots with their almost organic contours. The structures mimicking some antediluvian monster's skeleton.

 

[zathros]

Those pictures of that Titan like menacing but they are pictures, you're actually building one!! Pictures can inspire though. The gyroscope to keep that thing from falling over would have to be huge. Otherwise, it would have to be a Tripod. I don't think that present technology could make something like that work, and be battle worthy. Hey, it gives us something to shoot for! (no pun intended)

 

[Blackadder]

In one of my earlier threads on another forum I discussed and attempted to justify my choice of pose for a Chaos Warhound

Remember When The Blackadder Wrote:

More thoughts on.......

Ambulatory Dynamics:

Okay I've pretty much decided on the stance which will be similar to the image below except the trailing foot (The right foot Blue arrow ) will have the toes in contact with the ground.

http://i.imgur.com/GEqVh14.jpg

The hips will be canted in towards the centerline ( Red arrows) and the ankles will be slightly twisted in ( Green arrow ) so the width of the gait will be quite narrow instead of the way most Warhounds are displayed.

Most of the weight of the model will be centered above the left foot which will be fully in contact with the ground ( Left Blue arrow )

The overall motion representation will be similar to the image below:

although the feet will be positioned in this manner:

From the side the stance will resemble this:

Excepting it will be a Chaos Warhound of course.

Well it was September of 2014

So it's better to entitle this:

A Half Decade Late:

Because 'Agis' has a blog that demonstrates the efficacy of this pose and the overall menacing aspect.

http://agis40k.blogspot.com/search?...d-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=7

Witness this amended image from his 2015 entry:

http://i.imgur.com/Yeju1O9.jpg

A work he began in 2010.

 

[Blackadder]

And My Solution to the Problem:

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
~Salvador Dali

Well I don't know what his satisfaction stems from, flaccid clocks or the world's most ridiculous mustache but I can understand the gist of his statement.

Today my Chaos Warhound stands 95% complete with all pertinent parts installed and ready for final painting. I regret I couldn't make the legs movable but the mass of this model prevented such niceties so I have to be satisfied with neck, waist and weapons being able to be posed but the legs are permanently glue into the pose you see here.

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

I had hopes to open my paint booth this weekend but Winter still has it's icy grip on the the northeast US so no painting as of this date.

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

So instead a brief show of the dexterity of the neck joint, would that I could have the time to animate this but you'll get the idea.


http://i.imgur.com/as1pnlT.jpg

And in the final image the Space Marine is toast.

http://i.imgur.com/j2F3qkE.jpg

Martini time; Skoal.

 

[zathros]

Salvador Dali's early work was quite brilliant, then he just sold out and put his name on anything to make money. "Persistence of Memory" is an excellent piece, probably his real only surrealist work. He had fascist underpinnings, and maybe the satisfaction he felt was part of that horrid mentality. It's such a small painting, to have garnered so much attention. I saw some of his larger pieces in a London Museum, quite astonishing in person, not so much in photographs. The mustachio, well that was ridiculous, and anyone who has to go through so much every day just to make an appearance kinds of bothers me anyways. Of course, being such a Freud fan, maybe his flaccid clocks represented his flaccid _ _ _ _. (you can fill in the blanks.

 

[Blackadder]

Ha! All you got out of these last two posts was a presumed critique of Salvatore Dali. As an artist (I sketch, paint, and sculpt) I find modern painting, impressionism and abstract &etc a sell out for money. What you are buying is the artist's signature. I don't acknowledge these charlatans for the same reason I do not buy designer products. It's a case of the Emperor's new clothes. Crap produced in oriental sweatshops with an YSL et al label on it. Who was it that said Gucci could put three stripes on a turd and sell it wasn't very far off the mark? Graham Norton on his chat show, April 2015. "We live in a world where Gucci can paint three stripes on a turd and sell it." He wasn't the first to state this because I've been using the quote for quite a few years.

 

[Blackadder]

Obsessive Compulsive Roll:

"You snooze you lose." as the saying goes. Last night while watching youtube and reading science articles I lost myself in autonomic reflex mode. Low and behold this morning I awoke to find my output was far greater than I thought.

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

Apparently I quadrupled my work in a night doing what would ostensibly 'by rote.' My mother was capable of this absentminded production as well. She could knit an afghan blanket whilst watching TV and be completely oblivious to the process.

Anyway the result seen here is a small portion of the entire Titan but eventually would have had to have been done and I'm glad it is but it's unnerving to have no memory of the process.

https://i.imgur.com/84E7pMe.jpg

Elves Maybe? Umpa-Lumpas?

 

[zathros]

I wholly agree. The only work I liked was the melting clocks. It was like Roger Dean's work. I like it, It's not Van Gogh. Dali was a total sell out, with the ridiculous mustache. As far as designer clothes, I usually wear a T shirt and Blue Jeans, so , to be honest, I don't even recognize designer names, none have made a dime off of me. I do also own some nice sewing machines, as my mother was a seamstress and taught me how to make some stuff. We used to make our own jackets, as she also had sewing machines for leather. Our clothes was then Branded with a label and sold in the upscale department stores, but where made in our rather large apartment in a four family house. It was "piece" work, you got paid by the amount you put our, and we definitely made a production out of it. We also made wedding gowns. At 14 pinning a dress to a young beautiful bride to be, half naked was not something I complained about, I saw a lot, and learned a little tool. I actually own a Merrow Machine that has 8 curved needles and also cuts the edge, for sewing and sealing the edges of knits, and T-shirts too. I know a lot how clothes and most things are made, having been a master machinist, tool and dye maker, and mold maker, I also had a T.V. repair shop for 10 years. Not much get buys me. I may not post what I get out of your threads, but I do appreciate what I see. I probably post more in your thread than in any other.

I personally thought that when you can put a can of soup on a canvas and be praised for that, something's wrong. Campbell's salty soups suck too. I never understood why Andy War-hole was thought to be "all that". :Coffee: