Blackadders Fully Articulated Warlord Titan

[Blackadder]

Love the detailing there, can't wait 'till you detail the shin parts. Going to look amazing.
Another structural question. Is the whole weight going to be put on the kneejoint axles there? I don't have a lot of experience with plasticard, but wouldn't you be safer to put metal spacers between the nuts and the plasticard to prevent wear and allow you to tighten it a little more so it doesn't collapse trough it's knees?
Again, I don't know how heavy the final thing's going to be and what you're planning, just wonderin'.

edit: I see the joint 'gear' resting on the top frame of the shin though, is that intentional? (to limit movement and spread some force down there) Or am I not seeing that right.

I don't quite follow where the gear is resting on the top frame. All the joints are moveable on their 10-32 screw axles which will be replaced with 10-32 studs and the tensioning nuts will be disguised as the axle caps.

As for the mass, the hip unit even without the external side trim tips the scale at 5.5 ounces and each leg unit masses a total 19.05 ounces. Thats a lot of plastic!

[Blackadder]

The Blackadder is in his glory. I relish doing the fine detail. Well this project is fraught with minute detail some of which is smaller than the pixel resolution in the images I have.

You're going to have to look close (If you're so inclined I won't presume my work is worth more than a causal glance.) to see where the changes are in the detail. I'm particularly pleased with the piping on the edge of the hip plate reinforcement which is literally a thread of styrene 0.4 MM by 0.75 MM. Strips so fine as to be ephemeral when full strength ProWeld is applied. I used de-volatilized Proweld to keep it from disappearing. The cog components on the ankle quadrant (sic) are a gimmee.
Note that the strips on either side of the Bow-tie like trim which I presume serve some utilitarian function.

The Knee plate reinforcements are in progress at the moment............



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[Meph]

'More than a casual glance...'?! I'm pretty sure this thread is being subbed by DARPA techs making detailed notes, while their half-finished, full-scale Titan is being assembled in the underground hangar behind them. Although some drunk senator will probably name it the Patriotron 3000...

[Goblinho]

'More than a casual glance...'?! I'm pretty sure this thread is being subbed by DARPA techs making detailed notes, while their half-finished, full-scale Titan is being assembled in the underground hangar behind them. Although some drunk senator will probably name it the Patriotron 3000...

And it will be used to enforce SOPA, break up any peace rallies and invade small oil rich countries?

Blackadder, how long before you make a remote control version?

[khavor]

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm thrilled to see this thread. Had a great read catching up with a cup of coffee, now I'll have to anxiously wait for updates w. everyone else I suppose. This beastie will look great next to Lucie!

And someone had asked earlier if you were planning any LEDs or similar? I'm thinking just a simple red glow in the command deck would be pretty darn cool without having to go wiring crazy.

[Blackadder]

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm thrilled to see this thread. Had a great read catching up with a cup of coffee, now I'll have to anxiously wait for updates w. everyone else I suppose. This beastie will look great next to Lucie!

And someone had asked earlier if you were planning any LEDs or similar? I'm thinking just a simple red glow in the command deck would be pretty darn cool without having to go wiring crazy.

Do you mean like this? I found these images a couple of days ago. Looks like Invictus is a copy of the DS Warlord as well right down to the searchlights on the greaves.

http://images.wikia.com/spacemarine/...ttle_Titan.png Whoops wrong image.

[khavor]

Now that's just cool! Yes, that's exactly what I meant, although I hadn't seen that picture.

[roninjr]

I think that would look awsome if done right. I don't know too much about it but here's two great places to set you on the right foot.

1. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=KoFnSy2NCX4
2. http://www.modelersbrand.com/

I hope this helps you.
Stay Frosty!

[Blackadder]

I think that would look awsome if done right. I don't know too much about it but here's two great places to set you on the right foot.

1. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=KoFnSy2NCX4
2. http://www.modelersbrand.com/

I hope this helps you.
Stay Frosty!

I knew if I posted long enough someone would give me the information I need. While I don't get the "1." link the "2." link is just what I am looking for. From there I found a lot of electronic sources for the circuits I require (strange I didn't find them during my searches; I guess I needed the right key words I haven't dabbled in electronics for many years out side of my vocation. Anyway thanks very much and I don't suppose anyone knows a source for a five diode LED chasing circuit? I can make a chaser circuit but not small enough to fit in a turbo blaster tube.

[Tee999]

Blackadder
If you are looking for a color changing LED I would recommend these

http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...nging-led/299/

They are 5mm tho
they cycle all by them self from red,green,blue,redgreen,greenblue,redblue,redgreen blue

I have ordered a lot of different LEDs from them and have had great results.

tee

[Blackadder]

Not changing but chasing; in other words a string of five or so green or blue LEDs blinking in succession with a circuit small enough to fit into a 5mm inside diameter tube. I can make such a circuit but not small enough to fit into the tube. There should be a microchip that can achieve this relatively simple circuit but I can't find it.

[Bloodhowl]

I found this:
http://www.makershed.com/SearchResul...rch=tiny+cylon

but I don't think it will fit into a 5mm tube. Can you extend the leds from the board with wire or run fiber optic from the bulbs to the tube and house the board in the main hull or in a display base?

[Blackadder]

Thanks,

A poor showing this week I'm afraid, my real job workload was staggering but I did manage to rebuild the front of the knee joint (Why does it look like a marshmallow Easter peep?) and add a lot of basic detail.

God this will be detail heavy I'm up over a pound for each leg and half the detail isn't installed.

I'm taking a crash course on fiber optics and will be incorporating it in this and the Thunderhawk


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[Verm1s]

You know when you read an HP Lovecraft story, and the characters catch a glimpse of some cyclopean lost city or many-tentacled elder thing, and go insane from the mind-numbing scale and impossibility of it all?

That's a bit like what I'm feeling right now.

The avatar isn't helping.

[Blackadder]

Whoa, first comment on my avatar, I thought it was apropos Blackadder's avatar is an Avatar that resembles Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder.



It's time to address the most baffling component of this project, namely what the outrageously long hydraulic cylinder is for running down the calf of the leg?

It appears in the epic model as well as the DS construct but I can fathom no applicable purpose. The quadrant gear in the ankle provides the step motion and that is supplemented by the small cylinders attached to the heel which mimic the function of the Achilles tendon. Were the cylinder attached upper leg behind the knee it would serve as the calf muscle but it doesn't attach there anyway it looks very interesting so I am including it in my construct complete with superfluous safety guard rails so people twenty feet off the ground don't lose an arm in the massive hydraulic piston.

As it is right now each of these legs are as complex as anything I have built with the exception of Lucie's pedal appendages and they are about only half detailed. Surprisingly my enthusiasm has not flagged.



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[VeristicalBlaze]

You, sir, are AMAZING! Do you build this all from plasticard? Super detailing and too awesome to not look at

Do you also happen to build another one? If you're a good painter, you should build another one to make one painted version and one unpainted version :P

[Blackadder]

Welcome to the forum.

No, one will be sufficient.

and yes this model will be 100% plasticard.

Just another bit before I put this aside for the weekend. The detail is progressing nicely although what these devices actually do is a mystery. but they do look intricate and that is the look I am going for.


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





Tomorrow the main lower leg cylinders; that should be fun.

[mud duck]

locks maybe? place foot/ leg in the proper place, lock everything down and move the other leg? want to say that in one of the Black Library books the crew 'talks' about locking the leg in place and starting the other in motion. So the bigger the Human Titian, the more arthritic the movements?

[Blackadder]

First let me apologize for such a tawdry post but I figured there are those that might benefit from an image from the beginning of the construction. The waist block is probably the most important structure in the whole model. Not only must it bear the weight of the structure above but it must transfer that weight to the movable legs and sustain that transfer for the conceivable future (At least until The Blackadder has shuffled off this mortal coil.)

You will note that the structure is grossly undersized as it is about 5 cm square. This is intentional. You can always add girth, subtracting is more difficult. tomorrow I shall apply my solution to the articulation problem; i.e. a workable material that will sustain the pressure of the upper works and still be small enough to remain within scale.

In addition the thigh detail is coming along nicely (IMHO)


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[MightyChad]

First, I get your avatar, and I love it. Clever stuff.

Second, this is phenomenal work, and never in a million years could I begin such a task. I applaud you for it, just amazing.