Probe Droid
Started by drilling some holes for the wiring and building a conduit
Glued the LED in place. Note the rookie mistake (the battery box needs to be hidden in the main body, so its wires had to be cut after this)
Conduit added to the head base plate
Top of the baseplate
Head pieces glued and filled/sanded
Milliput used to make a more positive location for joining the top and bottom of the body. Rare earth magnets (they come with the lighting kit) glued in place - the parts need to come apart to allow access to the batteries and switch
Some styrene rod and details added to the blaster part and hole drilled in the body top to locate it
I decided the arms need to look like they should rotate so I cut a set of discs to glue them onto
Discs detailed with holes around the circumference and set into recesses milled into the body
Arms cleaned up and with brass tube replacing all of the pistons, and pins glued into the ends
Test fit of all of the parts put together
I eventually found some connectors small enough to fit, soldered them on and tested it
Test with the battery box hidden in the body
Painting completed for main body and arms and rubber hoses added to underside of body
Milled out recesses for the cabochon eyes as I didn't like the way they looked sitting flush. I also rounded the eye bases into a more circular shape
Also milled out a recess for the small eye which was more oblong than circular - it will be replaced by a 6mm cabochon which is on order
Aerials added and everything primed.
All the kit pieces painted now
And the light still works!
Kommentare
5 January 2020, 01:45
Uwe KaedingWell, to be honest, this one is about as simple as it comes as its just the installation of a pre-wired LED and battery pack that was designed for this kit - all I really had to do was drill the right size hole!
6 January 2020, 22:11
Uwe KaedingSome more work done on this one. I didn't like the look of the cabochons that come with the kit when they just sit on the plinths, so I milled some recesses for them. Also the eye plinths were oblong rather than circular, possibly due to the 3D printing process used for the master. They have been sanded to a more circular shape. There was also a fourth eye, which didn't have a cabochon supplied, but which was also oblong. This was cut off and will be replaced by a new 6mm cabochon, ordered from E-bay, also into a milled recess.
27 January 2020, 01:27
Stephan H.Awesome project. I am very much looking forward to see the whole "family" picture at the end. 👍
28 January 2020, 08:34
Uwe KaedingThanks Stephan - I'll have to do that group photo one day. Anyway the missing eye finally arrived and this one's finished!
12 February 2020, 09:01
Uwe KaedingUnfortunately, no. I just used various diameter milling bits in a standard drill press. The trick was finding a clamp that worked on the odd shape without damaging the resin - found an aluminium wood working clamp with fairly soft plastic on the jaws which ended up working.
16 February 2020, 12:07
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This is the probe droid seen at the start of The Empire Strikes Back, made using the JPG kit (mastered by Nick Sagan) with the Tirydium Models lighting kit - my first try at lighting a model.
