Foam WALL-E. Who knew talking to the wife would pay off!! lol..

[familyman]

Well, now that my foam R2 is finished I figured it was about time to get working on my next project. If R2 is my favorite movie robot of all time (Which he is) Then Wall-e has to be second. I can not say enough about the Wall-e movie and as for Wall-e himself well,,, he is just awesome!.
Ok so here we go..
First I am starting with the eyes, I figured this was the best place to start. I made templates with help from pictures and some diagrams which came from the wall-e buiulders site.

 

[familyman]

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Next I did some work on the inner eyes. I had some speakers that I kept for parts and decided to take them apart to see what was inside apart from the obvious. I found some cool pieces that I rearranged and made the center eye with. Then I need to make the rest of the inner so I used some apple sauce cups containers and painted the black. For the lenses I uses the lenses out of two magnifying glasses I brough from the local bargain store for $3 each. They are almost the perfect size. I will need to make a small frame for them. The magnifying glasses also had cool LED lights in them, I will keep those for some other project.

 

[Judge Spartan]

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Jamie, not only are you the master of foam, your engineuity in amazing as well!! Get work!!

 

[familyman]

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Thanks man,
Next comes the body for now. I got a basic size from the wall-e builders yahoo club. Made some templates and built the main body. I have learnt a lot from my foam R2 build especialy with regards to how much a foam body can suport. So before I go any further I built a wooden skeletal stucture. That will allow me to build the tracks and not have the weight of the body sag like the legs started to on R2.

Then just for fun I decided to tape the eyes on the top just for a quick photo shoot. Next I will do more work on the neck it is too thin I am going to cover it with foam and add detail, and maybe do some work on the arms.

 

[Judge Spartan]

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Just lovin it and hat's off to your wife as well for letting you do this in your kitchen LOL...

 

[irricanian]

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Can't wait to see more progress on this one, nice work!

 

[familyman]

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Just lovin it and hat's off to your wife as well for letting you do this in your kitchen LOL...

If you ever read my thread on how to mould foam for shoulder bells you will surely remember rule number 1!. "Make sure the wife is out of the house" lol. She was at work, but yeah joking aside she is awesome.

 

[Judge Spartan]

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Read that post as well, just forgot. Mine is too

 

[chuckyAPP]

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Walle is my favorite robot, this is coming along nicely, can't wait to see more.

 

[Replicant X]

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It looks amazing so far. You make it look so easy to
create.
i will follow to see the finished work.
Keep it up!!

 

[familyman]

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Ok so, been working on the arms this past week. Here is what i ahve so far, they look a little big but they are to scale. I think once finished and painted up they will be fine.
I made the arms out of duct and foam.

 

[familyman]

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Been trying to figure out how to do wall-es eyebrows.

I mean sure I can make them from foam, but I can not get the foam to keep the same. If I heat the foam and bend it then cool it it will be ok but any form of heat and they will just revert back to their normal shape.

So I guess I could use some other material, but I do like foam!.
So here is how I got around it.
I used the thin craft foam. Got some strips of bendable wire. This wire came from some fake flowers it was the stems. I got the hot glue nice and hot so it was spreadable, I put some hot glue on the foam, then spread it around. I then layed the wire on and layed another piece of foam on top. I pushed down to make sure the two pieces of foam glued well. Once dry.... You now have bendable/twistable foam that will keep its shape until you change it.

 

[indiefilmgeek]

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I used the thin craft foam. Got some strips of bendable wire. This wire came from some fake flowers it was the stems. I got the hot glue nice and hot so it was spreadable, I put some hot glue on the foam, then spread it around. I then layed the wire on and layed another piece of foam on top. I pushed down to make sure the two pieces of foam glued well. Once dry.... You now have bendable/twistable foam that will keep its shape until you change it.

GREAT solution! This is looking SOOO cool! :thumbsup

 

[familyman]

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Thanks man, I figure I might use this method for his fingers aswell.

 

[Bootlegger137]

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I'm subscribing to this thread. This is a great build! Makes me want to attempt one myself.

 

[Jedi2016]

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I always underestimate just how big WALL-E is. For whatever reason, watching the film, he tends to look small, but he's really about four feet high, I think.

 

[familyman]

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I always underestimate just how big WALL-E is. For whatever reason, watching the film, he tends to look small, but he's really about four feet high, I think.

Oh man, tell me about it. I often think of wall-e as a small robot, but them when you think you about it and think about all the scenes where you can compare him to stuff. For example when he puts the bra over his eyes. or when he is holding the rubiks cube, then you start to realise just how big he truely is. Not sure where I am going to put him when he is done.

 

[Woodlake]

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Great looking build. I concur with the size issue. I just picked up one of the cinema standees (for $50!) and its friggin HUGE!. I ended up putting him in my home theatre - He just fits in without obscuring the screen.

Really enjoying the build - subscribed for updates! :thumbsup

 

[crypto]

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Nice work Jamie.

I loved the R2 project and this looks like it will be a great build as well.

Off topic question...did you ever finish the foam K-9 build ?

 

[snooks]

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I absolutly love Wall-E and this project is just great!If i had the skills to do one too i would do it in a heartbeat.