Thrillhouse Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 I dont know if this is of Interest, but I thought of you when I saw it: http://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/219949.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 Thanks for the link but what an incredible waste of money and resources! Soviet Bureaucracy run amok........... of course our own space program was the paramount of frugality........... contrast that with the vision of '2001 A Space Odysseus'; even Pan AM didn't survive into the 21 century. Ha! The images will be of invaluable assistance when I detail my Gantry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 Auto Focus Failure There is something wrong with my camera's auto focus http://i.imgur.com/xpqhJjB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xpqhJjBl.jpg But these two images convey the gist of the subject at hand namely the priming of the Gantry so with another camera later on I shall be presenting the cranes and paraphernalia requisite for a heavy equipment maintenance area. http://i.imgur.com/8CIMIkB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8CIMIkBl.jpg Right now with the overall gantry primed gray I think it shows off Luteus in a fine setting for display purposes http://i.imgur.com/LNvYtEZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LNvYtEZl.jpg Providing of course you have oodles of empty space in your "Man Cave"....Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 This is another awesome build buy you and the storage/display/diorama all in one is really a top notch idea. Might need to borrow some of the ideas for my current scenery project. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 This is another awesome build buy you and the storage/display/diorama all in one is really a top notch idea. Might need to borrow some of the ideas for my current scenery project. Borrow away to your heart's content; sharing ideas is a main purpose of my threads............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappyxs Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 One of the coolest builds ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 Thanks and judging by your post count I may have been instrumental in bringing you into the fold; welcome aboard......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Adder - was your Warlord ever painted in camo? Or, was that a different Warlord. Either way, your construction and the gantry is super cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 My Warlord is a copy of Dave Smith's original whom I credit quite often for his original concept. Unfortunately the images seem to be missing from this thread. My post 107 on page 5 shows the Dave Smith model. His warlord is made of foam filled poster-board and is in a fixed pose and is camouflaged in grays and blues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 My Warlord is a copy of Dave Smith's original whom I credit quite often for his original concept. Unfortunately the images seem to be missing from this thread. My post 107 on page 5 shows the Dave Smith model. His warlord is made of foam filled poster-board and is in a fixed pose and is camouflaged in grays and blues. Ahh ok, the two looked very similar I had thought they were one and the same - which says much about your construction. Kudos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 My Warlord is a copy of Dave Smith's original whom I credit quite often for his original concept. Unfortunately the images seem to be missing from this thread. My post 107 on page 5 shows the Dave Smith model. His warlord is made of foam filled poster-board and is in a fixed pose and is camouflaged in grays and blues. Ahh ok, the two looked very similar I had thought they were one and the same - which says much about your construction. Kudos. Thanks, I studied Dave Smith's Warlord carefully (It was the best Warlord, most 'believable' ever produced in my estimation); found several key components that ultimately gave me the scale and added some nuances of my own to give it movable joints and more hydraulic cylinders in the legs/hip area for a more substantial hip steering system but pretty much copied everything else. I did add a viable lighted interior and movable main armament and lighting throughout but all of the design credit goes to Dave Smith for the original concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanforthLaertes Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I spent some time last night (while the wife was on a 'phone call sorting out problems at work) reading this thread - marvelous mechanical magnificence and magic! It's really very, very good. Honestly, words can't do it justice I think - the scale of the thing is awesome, the devotion to technical accuracy, precision and detail amazing and the thought that has gone into all kind of little issues humbling. I am very impressed indeed. Blackadder; I seem to remember - some years ago, on a different forum, when I was using a different email address, writing to someone building a Warlord out of foamcore which he had then sheathed in plasticard? Was that you? I wrote a post on that thread asking if you knew how long you had taken to build it - I think it was in particular reference to the feet, which were very complex - and I asked something like ".. or is that consideration a calculus which leads only into a maw of madness within a cathedral made entirely of disembodied, screaming mouths filled with the bright, brilliant wailing of a trillion crystal bees where the light only casts shadows and does not illuminate?" I seem to remember receiving the response that no-one would cut into such a quote to spoil its poetry .... Anyway - marvelous thing you have done here. Thank you for all your effort - this was every enjoyable to read and look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 In reference to the above post (No need to quote) Thanks for the in depth reply; I posted a topic WIP Thunderhawk on this forum that initially had a foam core: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/231647-blackadders-scratchbuilt-thunderhawk/ and that project is still in production. I cannot begin to estimate the length of time it has taken as I have been working on it for over six years on and off. In 2008 I built a Warhound with a foam core when I first started out scratchbuilding and that was fully articulated as well but it does not seem to appear I posted that project on this forum but I did post a WIP on a dozen other Warhammer forums of which Dakka Dakka is one: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/226296.page;jsessionid=EF709C8E569DC3DF952B8A2593E458FB After a few false starts I became comfortable with the medium and the work progressed slowly as I had to come up with proper scaling and engineering issues so the construction time initially was on the order of about two years. I have since gone back and rebuilt some areas with which I wasn't totally satisfied. I shall never use a foam core again as it is just too difficult to adhere plasti-card to the foam core at the level of detail I have since achieved. I really should post my Warhound project here as a study in what not to do........... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 I've become quite discouraged that so many of my images have disappeared. I like putting captions before and after my photos so I don't usually use the house image loader. Read the whole thread eh, thats quite a task. A Poltergeist Named Dave: Well here's the family portrait taken after a bit of an incident where Luteus toppled over on top of Lucie. http://i.imgur.com/UT7Sm6z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UT7Sm6zl.jpg I set up the Warlord and the Reaver last night on the battle board with the Cadian planning to take a group portrait this morning after I installed the counterweights in Lucie which worked very well incidentally. I added a quarter pound to the generator housings and for the first time in a couple of years Lucie can pose bending forward. http://i.imgur.com/j997PgH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/j997PgHl.jpg So why was the Warhound facing the wall in the first picture you may well ask? I was setting up the camera when I heard a crash behind me; twelve pounds of Warlord styrene for no apparent reason crashed down upon Lucie flattening her down under it's mass. First thing I did was look for the cat but it was nowhere around. Then I surveyed the damage. Lucie had all her breakaway armour displaced and the battle banner broke off for the twentieth time. Some of the magnet attached armour fell off the Warlord and the prime was a wee bit scuffed but no significant damage to him as well that I could readily see http://i.imgur.com/wOVNKHk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/wOVNKHkl.jpg I set everything back up and snapped a few quick pictures before I realized Lucie was still facing the wall. I turned her around and finish photographing it was then I noticed the Laser cannons on the left shoulder of Luteus were knocked askew.so there we have it. http://i.imgur.com/jkX5ykM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jkX5ykMl.jpg A poltergeist named Dave knocked the Warlord over after it had been standing for almost twelve hours. Here is a picture of Dave.............. If anyone is interested in a WIP thread of Lucie's construction let me know........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphariusOmegon108 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Dave is so sneaky his pic is not even loading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Back To the Warlord: While I am designing the T'hawk cockpit interior I ran across my Tech priests for the Warlord. I'd forgotten I made these to go in the upper gallery of the Warlord interior in the altar area. http://i.imgur.com/x6jTfb8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/x6jTfb8l.jpg Since then I made a few priest consoles and added a FW production Tech Enginseer. http://i.imgur.com/VV8Pw7i.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VV8Pw7il.jpg The problem with you Blackadder is, "You can't paint!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackadder Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 Four Images of A Warlord: My new toy, a mini Ipad has become my favorite camera; at least for desktop photos. The trouble is in transferring to my PC. because the Apple doesn't like my PC for some reason and keeps asking if I want to allow access. Life is HARD! ;) Anyway, four images of the new interior lights of the cockpit. and they're all pretty much the same but what the hey, I'll post them all. http://i.imgur.com/U12KntO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/U12KntOl.jpg What irritates me is I can see the crew in the cockpit but the camera doesn't. http://i.imgur.com/PVwYxYp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PVwYxYpl.jpg I like the battle scars in this closeup http://i.imgur.com/kRaAzfL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kRaAzfLl.jpg I like this low angle view because it shows the upper engineering deck through the blast doors. which normally can't be seen with the chest armour in place. http://i.imgur.com/xFOtD0J.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xFOtD0Jl.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Most impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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