Blackadder Proposes a Warmonger Titan of the Emperor Class

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Anybody Know What This Is:

Gold is where you find it but from the moment I saw a couple of these in my neighbor's recycling I knew I would some day have a use for them. All along I was thinking some FW/GW futuristic Plasma weapon for a big Titan.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/El7xQNq.jpg[/url]


But the unique and unusual design works well with my plans to build a troop transport greave interior right down to recesses for the huge actuators that stabilize the foot and the levels to hang the troopers shoulder harnesses when their being transported.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/9nFLn7k.jpg[/url]


So now the ball and socket may make more sense especially with the sleeve removed..........

[url]https://i.imgur.com/uHF50bg.jpg[/url]


[url]https://i.imgur.com/8oXCttD.jpg[/url]

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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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/4sHkM6R.jpg[/url]


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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/GBKUHjH.jpg[/url]


Another of the same image but I think it portrays the greave better than the one above so hell, I posted them both.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/w7f4rYp.jpg[/url]


And Damn; I forgot the obligatory Space Marine for scale.

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The Bottom of the foot pads:

The Movie Helsreach shows the bottom of the foot pads as a rather bland tread pattern.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/NEfzlzl.jpg[/url]


So be it. I like it for it's simplicity.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/FYk80zj.jpg[/url]

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I've been requested to provide Scale for the Emperor Titan. Unfortunately the legs are not attached to the pelvis, in point of fact the upper leg segment has yet to be designed. But one lower leg is avail so for reference we can compare it to a standard Space Marine Trooper and to a Warlord Titan that I just happen to have.....

[url]https://i.imgur.com/V4kBmmr.jpg[/url][


One of these day I'm going to have to break out my green screen.

This next shot is from ground level

[url]https://i.imgur.com/BvHyUA4.jpg[/url]


[url]https://i.imgur.com/V4kBmmr.jpg[/url]


TTFN

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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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/xZLeTkM.jpg[/url]


The Lower Thigh to knee joint will be trickier and require a screw driver compression joint the same as on my Warlord.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg[/url]


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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/iQn5Ci2.jpg[/url]


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.

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Curing a rainy day:

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

[url]https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg[/url]


to this.....

[url]https://i.imgur.com/VUSn5xa.jpg[/url]



and even further to this.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/lij9Cbi.jpg[/url]


[url]https://i.imgur.com/bpd8MlQ.jpg[/url]


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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/TxcnBfk.jpg[/url]


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...............

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OMG

[url]https://i.imgur.com/wjMB0lQ.jpg[/url]


[url]https://i.imgur.com/Oq4QNLP.jpg[/url]


Words Fail Me............

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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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/y09kMSG.jpg[/url]


[url]https://i.imgur.com/pRzSZon.jpg[/url]


As I said, the model thus far stands just over a meter tall (39.36 inches); a lot bigger than I had originally planned.

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Reinforce and Detail Legs:

Today I began to strengthen the legs with the Armour and detailed the corner spires...


[url]https://i.imgur.com/Bl6BkMI.jpg[/url]


and ran out of plastic. Ha!

[url]https://i.imgur.com/3cOzYYu.jpg[/url]


I'll have to make a run tomorrow.

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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.

[url]https://i.imgur.com/bjzZa47.jpg[/url]


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.