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

[familyman]

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Your creativity never fails to inspire.

Have you thought about putting together a book? Cut patterns, step-by-step instructions, in-progress and project completion photos, etc.

I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I do have a website that has a gallery and some of my builds from start to finish. Once Wall-e is done I will be spending a lot more time on my website, updating and stuff like that. I will be putting some links to videos on how to do stuff. And Might have a download section for some of the templates I have made.

 

[familyman]

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Ok so I just spent about half an hour outside making the frames for the feet. I couldn't wait to see what the tracks would look like so here are some photos of What i have so far.

 

[Snow Builder]

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Wow! You work fast.

 

[toneeboyy]

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Dude,.. you put these together so fast.

I've been looking at XRobots posts about How To Platic Coat Foam. Are you going to do anything like that? I think I'm going to do it on my R2.

 

[familyman]

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I normaly use plastidip to coat my stuff. I didn't with R2 though. but wall-e I may I am not too sure. He is supose to look rough an damaged so i am not to bothered about having him with a nice even coat. Plus he will not be outside or moved around a lot.

 

[familyman]

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Ok so here is what I am doing for the wheels in the tracks.
I need to make these strong and sturdy. However with foam I will not be able to make the tracks go round. But I really wanted to make Wall-e portable in case he does a school visit. So I am going to put wheels underneath the tracks at a level that it will look like wall-e is rolling but the tracks will be just an inch off the ground.
Here is what I have so far.
I glued the wood structure onto some foam.

Here you can see some gaps in the edges of the wheels, this is where the long foam linking the track pieces will go.

My son is holding the pieces in place for me as I take the photo. You can see what I was saying bout the long foam pieces going into the gaps on the wheels.

Now I am adding detail to the wheels. I will adding hydrolics and stuff to make it look more real.

 

[familyman]

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Ok what a day today has been. So much work done today.
First I covered the neck.

Then I moved on to the wheel section of the tracks.

I also glued the back on.

Then went back to doing more with the tracks.

Here is a close up of the neck. I know it is not movei accurate but still looks good.

Here is the wheel and track assmebly, the tracks are only laid on as I will be painting everything then fixing the tracks on right at the end.

I also started work on fixinf the eyes. And I finished the wrists.

 

[chuckyAPP]

Re: Foam WALL-E. Build almost finished!!!!..

Wow, really awesome, seems like there's nothing you can't do with foam. Love seeing how you overcome all the little details can't wait to see him painted.

 

[SqueekinOrka]

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wow he looks amazing! Excellent work can't wait to see him finished.

Will you be making a small foam cockroach his little friend from the movie ?

 

[Judge Spartan]

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WALL-EEEEEEEEE.... brought to life, Beautiful work..

 

[propnoob74]

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I show this to my daughter and boy!!! if she is bothering me to make her one!!!

 

[familyman]

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Amazing what even just one quick coat of paint can do.
\I love the fact that with wall-e I don't have to do a perfect paint job.

 

[DevilDogCota]

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That looks awesome.

 

[captain avenger]

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amazing, simply amazing

 

[Stage One]

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This looks great! Well done from one foam fan to another!

 

[SofaKing01]

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What a great build! There is so much personality in the eyes - you really nailed it!

 

[NAZGÛL]

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Adorable! And a very cool and well executed project!

 

[Props n Stuff]

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My god you're a genius. Once I'm done with my daft punk helmets, I was thinking of building a WALL-E. I was going to do it with insulation foam, bondo, casting parts, etc. but after seeing your project, I'm considering doing it this way.

 

[Glyn800]

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Excellent build! Thanks to you i know what my next build will be

 

[Monster Dave]

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Amazing what even just one quick coat of paint can do.
\I love the fact that with wall-e I don't have to do a perfect paint job.

Every little bit helps and it's nice to cut a lucky break when it comes to painting!

Very cool - and BIG!!