Blackadder's attempt to build the BOLS Warlord Titan

[Meph]

Of the Flemish mantra my dad drilled into me when i was young. "Met passen en meten wordt tijd versleten, maar als ge het niet 'n doet, dan doet ge uw werk niet goed."
'With fitting and measuring time is wasted, but if you don't do it, you're not doing your job right.'

[The_Blackadder]

Of the Flemish mantra my dad drilled into me when i was young. "Met passen en meten wordt tijd versleten, maar als ge het niet 'n doet, dan doet ge uw werk niet goed."
'With fitting and measuring time is wasted, but if you don't do it, you're not doing your job right.'

I translate it as,"With fitting and measuring is time-worn, but if you do not 'n do, then do you do your job properly?"

But it is never a waste of time to measure twice for me because I suffer from dyslexia.

[The_Blackadder]

You know after I installed those slides I had an epiphany, What if I cut cogs in the slides and used a toothed gear to actuate the semicircle, how would that be? I'll have to redesign the slides a bit but it would make perfect sense to have that as the mechanism.

Meanwhile todays run not as much as I had hoped for but I had to repair the porch.
http://i.imgur.com/iWhNql.jpg


Stepping out

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


You'll have to imagine the rest but the picture height isn't as high as the shoulder mounted lascannons

[The_Blackadder]

I wasn't going to post this until I rectified the problem but then I thought, "Hey this is a good thing to demonstrate that even the Blackadder isn't infallible and has to go back to the drawing board now and again."

Seems I made the shanks too long by about an inch. measuring for the upper leg somehow the proportions just didn't look right so I remeasured and sure enough I managed to add an extra inch to the overall height.

So what's an inch you may say but to me it will change the look of the finished model from a hulking looming menace to a spindle shanked travesty ergo I shall be cutting the lower legs in half and removing the offending inch but not yet as I may have to do other things as well so might as well do all at once.


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

[Gedderz]

Fantastic work as always, even with the minor measurement error.

I have got to ask are you planning on using ply card for the whole model or for more bulky area's are you going to substituent something else?

[The_Blackadder]

I have a really good source for plasticard and am using sheet styrene throughout. It's too much hassle trying to get different materials to bond together, much simpler and ultimately cheaper and faster to use just styrene.

[The_Blackadder]

Okay Ladies and Germs, this is what separates the Blackadder from relatively sane individuals. To borrow a phrase from another Charlton Heston movie, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"; The wine is sour, so throw it out!

I'm not happy with the look. The legs are too thin. So I'm bringing out my second biggest Xacto blade and rending judgment on inferior work.

Health and Safety Alert! Kids don't try this at home! The Blackadder has years of professional experience in handling tools.

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


http://i.imgur.com/BbjB1.jpg


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

[AlfonsoTheTraitor]

Nothing sissy about that mans modeling skills or tools !

[Gedderz]

H&S alert! Kids don't try this at home!

[The_Blackadder]

Thanks, I'll add that to my post.