Blackadders Warlord WIP

[Blackadder]

I've been working on the disc tilting cylinders. These will allow the disc to tilt side to side while secured to a longitudinal pivot axle yet to be fabricated.

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[Igen]

Keep up the good work, I want to see that beast on the battlefield. =)

[Meowcenary]

After seeing them in a pic with a marine I take back what I said, they actually look pretty good so far.

[allenacity]

Wow, I don't know how you think this stuff up, absolutely amazing.

[Blackadder]

I appreciate the responses and the subscriptions but just so you know 'The Blackadder' is very prone to mistakes. I spent half a day building the pistons receiving the cylinders on the discs and after forming them and starting to install them, I found that they were totally unnecessary!

Since they are totally hidden inside the ankle discs whats the point of even installing them? added work, more parts to fail, who needs that; so eliminated. But all is not lost, they may be useful in another area and if nothing else they keep me humble.

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They are shown in the left foreground.


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So who would know they are even missing :*)

[Grrmpf]

Looks great. Im looking forward to the next update.

[I_R_Chaos]

Looking good so far. I can't wait to see more.

[Blackadder]

It's extremely gratifying to envision something in your mind's eye and then to duplicate it in some medium. In this case extremely malleable styrene but I can see how real engineers get their rocks off. Granted the days of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and John Scott Russell are pretty much over where an engineer designs and executes an entire construct but I'm sure even today such gratification must still exist.

Case in point, this highly speculative tilting table mechanism for the foot attachment.

I believe I have come up with a viable solution to allow the foot to tilt side to side, be light and strong and also look complex enough to grace a 40K denizen.
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Were I to build this for a real vehicle I would enclose the axle within the disc housing so the table doesn't shift side to side as much but then the mechanism would be totally hidden. so this way I have an excuse for the diagonal toes linear actuator system that give enhanced stability during the stepping process and decreases the upper body swaying which is the cause of so much seasickness in some Warhound crew members.
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That's my story and I stick with it :P
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When I see how much of this system will actually be visible I may fancy it up a bit using some of mxwllmdr's lightened girder and buttress techniques.

The beauty of this construct is it can be disassembled for maintenance, painting and repair.
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[TheAmbit]

At the end of a scratch build people always ask me 'how much time did you invest' and I never really know. As this thing looks amazing and puts most other scratch build projects to shame in terms of shere size, I'd be curious at the end of the day how many hours it will have taken.

You should log it

[Blackadder]

At the end of a scratch build people always ask me 'how much time did you invest' and I never really know. As this thing looks amazing and puts most other scratch build projects to shame in terms of shere size, I'd be curious at the end of the day how many hours it will have taken.

You should log it

Right all I need is to waste more time logging how much time it takes me to make a Warlord; and then I need a log that delineates how much time it takes to log how much time it takes etc. until I have no time to do anything except make logs.

Well there's your answer, it takes an eternity to make a Warlord or somewhat less if you don't make a log.

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