Probe Droid
1January 5, 2020Started by drilling some holes for the wiring and building a conduit
2January 5, 2020Glued 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)
3January 5, 2020Conduit added to the head base plate
4January 5, 2020Top of the baseplate
5January 5, 2020Head pieces glued and filled/sanded
6January 5, 2020Milliput 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
7January 5, 2020Some styrene rod and details added to the blaster part and hole drilled in the body top to locate it
8January 5, 2020I decided the arms need to look like they should rotate so I cut a set of discs to glue them onto
9January 5, 2020Discs detailed with holes around the circumference and set into recesses milled into the body
10January 5, 2020Arms cleaned up and with brass tube replacing all of the pistons, and pins glued into the ends
11January 5, 2020Test fit of all of the parts put together
12January 5, 2020I eventually found some connectors small enough to fit, soldered them on and tested it
13January 5, 2020Test with the battery box hidden in the body
14January 6, 2020Painting completed for main body and arms and rubber hoses added to underside of body
15January 27, 2020Milled 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
16January 27, 2020Also 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
17January 27, 2020Aerials added and everything primed.
18January 28, 2020All the kit pieces painted now
19January 28, 2020And the light still works!
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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.
