WOW...you´re back into modelling! Great pics, thx for sharing your progress
As a fun aside, I came across this image today - a very different official take on Blue Max and Bollux:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net...ледство.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121112085719
As for the arms/sensor probes, I came across this in my local Poundland:
http://i.imgur.com/bJMxXDs.jpg
Bought 2 of them and after a bit of cutting up, rearranging and added washers I got these (I printed the "plans" out 1:1 scale):
Still needs the hand obviously.
[...] approximately cubical, with several protrusions and folded appendages. Atop it was a photoreceptor mount, monocular lensed.The unit was painted in deep, protective, multilayered blue. The monocular came on, lighting red.
The machine-within-a-machine studied Han up and down, photoreceptor angling and swiveling.
I always had the impression from reading that that the techs built him from scratch, not repurposed an existing droid. Anyway..."[...] Max because we crammed as much computer capacity into him as we could [...] Blue Max was a piece of work, even for us. He's puny, but he cost plenty, even though he's immobile and we had to leave out a lot of the usual accessories."
If it helps at all, here's the relevant text from an Solo at Stars' End:
Incidental interjection here, since it's something the authors of at least one of those reference books missed:
I always had the impression from reading that that the techs built him from scratch, not repurposed an existing droid. Anyway...
He has a "five-tine input" on one side -- which one not specified. From a passage a little further on, he has a scomp link behind another side panel (that flips down, incidentally) -- again, which side is not specified. There are a couple references to connector jacks -- plural -- to help hold him in place in Bollux's chest or other emplacements. There's a carry strap in a recessed groove on Max's top, long enough for Han to sling Max over his shoulder. My feeling is that if the input or scomp link were in the front panel, it would have said "front" instead of "side". Nothing to work with either way. But that may make the vocoder the primary feature of the front panel. *shrug* I'll review Han Solo's Rvenge and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy later this week to see if anything more can be gleaned from them...
--Jonah