Blackadder's Attempt To Build a Lucius Patten Imperator Titan 'Invictus'

CreganTur

CreganTur

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I love checking in with this thread every week as your attention to detail and bits of engineering are fun to watch.

This is a great project and you're doing great work.
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Eight Set Of Toes:


Boring!


Producing eight identical toe sets was tedious in the extreme but at any rate they are done except for the detail of course.


https://i.imgur.com/4sHkM6R.jpg
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I modified the side toes to be shorter than the front and rear toes for what I consider aesthetic purposes and I made the ramp a bit shallower than on the image as well again because I think it looks better.


https://i.imgur.com/GBKUHjH.jpg
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Another of the same image but I think it portrays the greave better than the one above so hell, I posted them both.


https://i.imgur.com/w7f4rYp.jpg
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And Damn; I forgot the obligatory Space Marine for scale.
 
Hairster

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The foot and joint solution is genius....and sturdy enough to support the final monstrous weight hopefully.

Fascinating as always
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Hairster said:
The foot and joint solution is genius....and sturdy enough to support the final monstrous weight hopefully.

Fascinating as always
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Genius!!! please , my modesty. :D 3/4 inch (19,0 MM birch dowel as a core for the lower leg should be adequate for a base.)

Meph said:
No foot in sight but a interesting pic I found. A cover for a new book, with an Imperator ;)


https://i.imgur.com/3UIxwEP.jpg
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Thanks for the info, nice to see that at least this image coincides with my height estimate.....
 
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Dexter0015

Dexter0015

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I silently follow your progression on this impressive project for months now, and I have to say: I'm constantly amazed by the level of engineering and the level of detail you was able to achieve so far.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us!
This is really impressive work.
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Dexter0015 said:
I silently follow your progression on this impressive project for months now, and I have to say: I'm constantly amazed by the level of engineering and the level of detail you was able to achieve so far.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us!
This is really impressive work.
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Wow, an newbie; Welcome aboard. The only Toulouse I know of is in France. My mother's family came from that area.

Legs Akimbo:


It's time to put my theories to the test. Yesterday began designing what I hope will be a movable leg system that will use friction locks to maintain the pose.


The PVC pipe couplings have "O" ring compression gaskets that will lock the upper thigh in place yet allow me to change the position in seconds.


https://i.imgur.com/xZLeTkM.jpg
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The Lower Thigh to knee joint will be trickier and require a screw driver compression joint the same as on my Warlord.


https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg
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The biggest problem and one I just solved today in a fit of serendipity is how to make the legs sprawl out into the classic Titan pose.


https://i.imgur.com/iQn5Ci2.jpg
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That will require a homemade gimbal assembly that I may have worked out in theory. It remains to be seen if the material is up to it.


Looking at these images I can just see my loyal readers cringing...........


I'm putting a lot of hope on flimsy styrene components. :D
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Curing a rainy day:


It's a far cry from this.....


https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg
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to this.....


https://i.imgur.com/VUSn5xa.jpg
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and even further to this.


https://i.imgur.com/lij9Cbi.jpg
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https://i.imgur.com/bpd8MlQ.jpg
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It is my hope to have fully articulated legs on this beastie although I will not go to the effort I went to with my Warlord giving the legs a "Toe in" and "Toe Out" capability. That was much too much and although workable I have never employed that feature when posing my Warlord.


https://i.imgur.com/TxcnBfk.jpg
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Finally I can get a glimpse of what I have been working toward for these past few weeks; with the hip connect scaled to size, and the upper leg finally attached at the knee. I can now make some inroads towards an actual knee structure. I am now thinking of cutting the knee joint into the upper tier of the greave. which I believe will look much better.


Onward and Upward as they say...............
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Ha! Well I wanted to set up the model to see if the sizes were in scale but the upper torso was too heavy to suspend over the lower torso and legs. I instead Photo shopped a quick composite to present here. First the image of the torso and the legs and then the green screen composite. The legs right now are like a house of cards so mounting the body on them is not possible.


https://i.imgur.com/y09kMSG.jpg
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https://i.imgur.com/pRzSZon.jpg
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As I said, the model thus far stands just over a meter tall (39.36 inches); a lot bigger than I had originally planned.
 
Canny

Canny

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Man you are amazing! such devotion and attention to all the different parts! Always a pleasure to pop in and see the progress :)
 
nels0nmac

nels0nmac

Member
WOW!! Mr BA that looks EPIC. This is turning into something truly special and impressive. Getting it out of your room when it's finished is going to be an interesting challenge.
 
Meph

Meph

Cat-herder Extraordinaire
Wow...it seems like the possibility of riding that beast to work every day is coming closer to becoming reality.
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Stallmate


My local hobby supplier has let me down and I cannot get the large amount of strip styrene of a particular size I require. Normally I cut my own but even that did not produce enough.


https://i.imgur.com/bjzZa47.jpg
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But every setback has a silver lining as it forced me to work on detail I was putting off 'til later. Which ultimately was most gratifying.


It also relieved me of the tedious aspect of making eight of these constructs plus I am catching up on current Dinosaur theory.
 
Dexter0015

Dexter0015

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You should be sponsored by styrene manufacturers as your work is such a testimony of what can be achieve with there products.
 
Blackadder

Blackadder

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Looking More Like A Wedding Cake


Everyday


https://i.imgur.com/5FR5BVh.jpg
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A pains taking week and a lot of work but does it really reflect it; not so much.


The spires, Minarets, whatever mimic the 3D work by measurement but the spire points seem a bit squat.....


https://i.imgur.com/z4mddtV.jpg
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But in this image they look okay. Go figure.


Anyway I'll try sanding them down some more. After all I have almost a millimeter to play with.
 
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