I built this robot in my garage and on weekends. I am still having some troubles with control issues and will have hands in its circuitry untill I get it all worked out.
He is built mostly from polystyrene and is my first attempt at building a robot. I learned a few new skills and I got some practice. I will do somethings differently on a second attempt.
He stands 17 scale feet tall.
Out side of the windows I mentioned in the previous post I picked out some roofing options.
From the outside, left to right, and down.
Although I am rather particle to the shake and scalloped shingles why not build several structures and use them all?
I have watched the The Enemy Below (1957) staring Robert Mitchum twice and will probably view it again. Great acting and plotline.
Cover art from The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw, Ace Publishing Corporation, 1969.
"The planet Mnemosyne, was surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, and was known throughout the Federation as the Poet's World. It was a beautiful planet, far inside the frontier of Man's long war with the alien Pythsyccans, and it was to this quiet world that Mack Tavernor retired when he resigned from the Federal forces."
The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw. Prologue
I picked this window and door casting out of my windows and doors bin the other day while looking for odds and ends for an upcoming project. However, the dutch door seemed to be bit underscale. The door measures 2.5 scale feet wide, which is acceceptable and 4.5 feet high, which in most cases is way under scale. Although most doors measure 7 foot high, finding a door that measurers less than this is not improbable, however unless the structure is being built for darfs, 4.5 feet is not going to work. Not if you have scaled itens close by.
The windows on the other hand measure 2 by 2.5 scale feet (1/87 scale) which makes them usefull for an upcoming project.The door, well I will throw back into my collection of doors and windows and see what comes of it. Prehaps I will want ot build a wee little structure for darfs someday.
Although these tools may be useful outside their desinated uses, they were created and included with products for a specific use.
A miniature flat head screwdriver. This is the smallest example of those tools.
I didn't bother to measure this wrench, but it does look it may be a useful sized wrench. However noticing the materials in which was formed tells me that it would stand up to much use.
Both of these philips-screwdrivers may be useful for light work found on the hobby workbench. I keep one like the larger one in with my dremel tool to tighten my sanding disks.
I don't use allen keys all that much, but they do seem to a poplular assemble tools found in all sorts of products. I have them in all different sizes and configurations. The allen key at the bottom is your standard make, while the silver one has a star point configuration, really making it for a specific use.
I perchased this bag of metal parts sometime ago, and at the time I, did inventory of the components I noticed parts for what looked like a gondola. I have been some tinkering and dry fitting the parts and I have decided that the parts will create a narrow gauge gondola. N-gauge wheels fit comfortable in the boggie so that makes it a narrow gauge (HOn30} train car. This, atleast, is my intention for these kits parts.
The "kit" in under construction. I used expoxy to construct the kit.
N-guage wheels fit comfortable within the wheel set.
Hot Wheels: HKH20/M9COC, Roller Toaster. From HW,s Sweet Rides mini collection.
From the back of the 2017 card:
Born: 2017The adventures of tiny toy cars features several miniature toy cars roughing it through some playful but yet precarious landscapes.
Some other miniatures present on the site.
Fixed broken link : 4/13/23 @ 12:40pm
This BatMobile was created for the 1995 Batman Forever movie. The Batmobile features a jet engine and exhaust, a split cokpit canopy and a special V-shaped batwing at the rear of the vehicle.
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film about Metropolis a futuristic themed city. The city and its society is dystopian where the workers serve the rich by keeping the city and its industries running. The elites live above gound and in luxury, while the working class live in drudgery under ground and are not able to enjoy the luxury goods they toil to produce.
Edits: Links added and grammar corrected on 4/6/23 @ 11:30 am.
I haven't had to many good experinces with retro-fitting while working in scale. In other words, realizing I made a mistake along the assembly stage, it isn't always easy to make something fit when it previsouly did not. And when designing you don't always know what is or what is not going to work.
I suppose it is best to try to foresee all possible outcomes, but how are you going to do that when you haven't gone down this road before? So that brings me to my latest update. Although I have most of the robots components worked out I still do not have a foolproof method for attaching the robots hands to its arms. My first attempt required a new set of robotic hands.
