1:1 Wall-E Build - 2014 Halloween Appearance

[Chris27989]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Pics from his first event

this is a pretty cool way of doing rusting

Faux Rust Painting -Quick, Easy and Cheap! - YouTube

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Pics from his first event

This past week I took a slight detour and revisited an old project. It's not a prop, but a jukebox I built a few years ago that I was never entirely happy with.

For those interested here's a few before/after and progress shots

Original jukebox as built (2x1 interior framework, MDF skin, white Christmas light string for illumination):

Created side and top accent pieces and primed/re-primed all pieces that would look metallic

Hit all metallic pieces with gloss black

Airbrushed the front with a lightening scheme (not sure if Wall-E likes it...)

Swapped out the lighting for blue LEDs and rehooked up the electronics/touchscreen

It finally looks like my original "mental picture". Time to turn my attention back to Wall-E (don't these types of mental breaks help reinvigorate your enthusiasm for a project?)

More to come...

 

[Darth Mawr]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Pics from his first event

Hey that's great! Post video of it working. I would love to see how the touch screen works.

 

[Kevlarr]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - A little detour (done)

Wow, looks awesome, both the Wall-E and the jukebox!

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - A little detour (done)

Hey that's great! Post video of it working. I would love to see how the touch screen works.

Ask and you shall receive

Wow, looks awesome, both the Wall-E and the jukebox!

Thank you very much!

Sorry for the delay in posts. I'm four months through six month of chemo and the aggregate affects are starting to catch up with me -I'm tired a lot and I run out of steam a lot faster than I used to (boohoo, right?)

Also, and probably more of a factor, I was a little burned out on Wall-E -a few weeks break makes a world of difference.

I started working on the tread infrastructure last night. This piece needs to be load bearing, so I went with real wood instead of MDF.

Rough-cut pieces:

Rough assembly:

Bracket details added:

Shocks added:

First coat of primer:

Rough paint and weathering (like the rest of Wall-E, repainting and detailing will happen after full assembly)

Thanks for looking, more to come...

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

A very productive evening last night. Started on the tread tensioners.

A couple of different size PVC pipes and left over rubber stair treads:

…and primed

Gears cut and sanded

Gear detail cut from pink sheet insulation

Gear detail shaped with a palm sander and sanding block

Gear detail covered with Modge Podge to protect it during painting

Next up: light sanding of the detail pieces and another coat of Modge Podge -then on to assembly.

More to come...

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

I'm liking where it is…

More to come...

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

Made a Home Depot run and picked up the PVC T-Connectors and other bits and pieces I need to move forward. Hoping for good progress today.

A little more progress on the gears

 

[SofaKing01]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

He's really coming along! Looking forward to seeing those gears all finished up.

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

He's really coming along! Looking forward to seeing those gears all finished up.

Thanks SK, me too. BTW, I'm gobsmacked at how stunning your MF cockpit is. Absolutely brilliant work.

More progress on the gears.

PVC "axels" added to the gears and PVC T-joints added to the tensioners

Lower gearing assembled

Inner gear pieces glued in place

Inner gear brackets added

Another round of Modge Pode to seal the foam

…and started to get it all primed

More to come...

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

So Sunday, between family affairs and the daughter's birthday party, I figured I'd do a mad push to get the tread infrastructure done.

Cut 3" PVC into 2" lengths and cut scrap wood to fill the center of each

Added the PVC T-adapter to the upper tensioners and added detailing to the outer, upper gears

Added 1" PVC "axels" to each of the gears and joined them to the tensioner (I think they look like the light car from the recent Tron movie)

When I built the tread "feet" I miscalculated their width -the lower gear assembly was too thick to fit. So, let's fix them…

I cut off the back post for the two pieces, added an additional center piece, and cut and attached a new support post

Test fitting of the upper and lower gear assemblies on the tread foot and support piece

After reviewing screenshots I'm not at all happy with the color and weathering on the gear assemblies, next task: do them again.

More to come...

 

[SofaKing01]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

OH MAN! That is too cool! Very inventive. Excellent stuff! Have you considered doing a second Wall-E but this time as he would look right off the assembly line.

 

[hdtheater]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

Seeing this makes me think what my next project should be. Looks great!

-Eric

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

OH MAN! That is too cool! Very inventive. Excellent stuff! Have you considered doing a second Wall-E but this time as he would look right off the assembly line.

Heh, heh -you make me laugh. I've got to the part of the project where I can't wait to be done. I can't even wrap my head around the idea of doing another one. How have you managed to maintain your enthusiasm through your MF build?

Seeing this makes me think what my next project should be. Looks great!

-Eric

Thank you!

 

[SofaKing01]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

How have you managed to maintain your enthusiasm through your MF build?

I really don't know. I cannot think of ANY project I've worked on where I've maintained this level of excitement for this amount of time. But then again, it is the cockpit of the fastest hunk of junk ever! I have to admit, there have been a few times I've wanted to chuck the whole thing into the street and be done with it... but when I stand back and look at the overall project... I am amazed. It's almost become an integral part of my life.

I will say that changing the focus to the quad and the soon to be created display stand really helps.

Now... about your assembly line of Wall-E's?

 

[Toxx]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

but when I stand back and look at the overall project... I am amazed.

is it this feeling "wow, was it really ME who builds this whole beauty piece of sh.. from nothing?" ?!


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[SofaKing01]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

is it this feeling "wow, was it really ME who builds this whole beauty piece of sh.. from nothing?" ?! .

EXACTLY! I think we all feel that way during and after a build.

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

Amen my friends!

 

[Meta440]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

Great detail on the Wall-E project. how did you come up with the files to cut it out?

 

[Snow Builder]

Re: 1:1 Wall-E Build (WIP) - Starting on the Treads

Great detail on the Wall-E project. how did you come up with the files to cut it out?

Thanks for the compliment. I got my plans/dimensions/measurements from the Yahoo Wall-E Builders Club.

More progress (I'm actually a little further along, but this is what I have pictures of at the moment).

Repaint of the gears and tread tensioners

…and assembled

More to come...