cayman shen
Master Member
My kids wanted me to help them with making a cardboard battle droid, but I thought I'd see if anyone had templates or blueprints before I reinvented the wheel.
Thanks!
John
Thanks!
John
Life-sized Battle Droid Plans?
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Eopie Herder
Sr Member
There actually was one made by DK books, they were store displays that you could order directly from them in '99. You may find them on eBay. They made Destroyer Droids too.
cayman shen
Master Member
Life sized?
Yup...thats what I have. Watch ebay... There was also a Droideka.
http://artood2fett.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
I have also had other plans for making your own...not sure where I found them... but I have lost my hard drive data since then.
http://artood2fett.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
I have also had other plans for making your own...not sure where I found them... but I have lost my hard drive data since then.
Found this..but the link is dead... (2nd from top)
http://www.3dpapermodel.com.tw/freedownload/download-asp/link.asp?ID=free&areana=Robot&page=3
http://www.3dpapermodel.com.tw/freedownload/download-asp/link.asp?ID=free&areana=Robot&page=3
cayman shen
Master Member
Dude! Nice!
OK, I downloaded them, but how do I know what size to print them as? Photocopier trial and error? At any rate, sweet find!
OK, I downloaded them, but how do I know what size to print them as? Photocopier trial and error? At any rate, sweet find!
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cayman shen
Master Member
Yup. Although I wonder if it can then be used as a basis/model for something more durable. I'm guessing you can't bondo cardboard...
I imported a couple of the images to Autocad and scaled them to the proper size (the size they would print at if printed full size which is 12.92" x 18.27").
Just as a guess on the head and one of the lower legs..seems like if you printed these at 3 times the normal size or scaled them up 300%..it might be close.
Unless anyone knows the height of this thing when assembled..thats my best guess.
Might be worth making a few parts from paper (full leg, head etc) just to see how they size up?
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I took the first page with the assembled 3 views of the model and assumed a height overall of 5'-6" (just a guess for reference). Then from that I too the length of the head from top to nose and compared it with the head flat layout that was scaled 3x and it was very close...so to achieve a battle droid approx 5'-6" tall scale the prints up exactly 3 times.
Just as a guess on the head and one of the lower legs..seems like if you printed these at 3 times the normal size or scaled them up 300%..it might be close.
Unless anyone knows the height of this thing when assembled..thats my best guess.
Might be worth making a few parts from paper (full leg, head etc) just to see how they size up?
Edit..
I took the first page with the assembled 3 views of the model and assumed a height overall of 5'-6" (just a guess for reference). Then from that I too the length of the head from top to nose and compared it with the head flat layout that was scaled 3x and it was very close...so to achieve a battle droid approx 5'-6" tall scale the prints up exactly 3 times.
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MarkG
Well-Known Member
According to various sources, Battle Droids stand 1.91m (6' 3"), so that should give you an idea on what to scale up the printouts by.
HTH.
cayman shen
Master Member
Do you up the zoom on your copier and get a big image spread out over several sheets, or do you have a huge copier that can do big sheets of paper?
OB10
Sr Member
There's a stupid material I used a lot in college: Fiber Hair. It's basically Bondo with chopped fiberglass in it. I think I got it from NAPA, but most decent car repair places should have something similar.
I would make a prototype, make a plaster mold, seal it, then I think I usually used Vaseline for a mold release (bad idea!), although I eventually switched to KY Jelly (no joke, it worked pretty well), then mix up some Fiber Hair and slop it into the mold. Wound up with lots of airbubbles, but I had lots of filler and sand paper. The vaseline usually would get mixed in with the resin and never really set, so it would need to be sanded off. And the whole finished product was heavier than it needed to be, because it was a lot thicker than a few layers of regular fiberlass and resin. But it generally worked, sort of.
But it might be another way of reinforcing the cardboard, and you wouldn't have to worry about air bubbles.
As another reference, you could try scaling up the old Battle Droid model, or even the old 12" figure, since I think they're both meant to be 1/6 scale. Also good for checking details, maybe.
Eopie Herder
Sr Member
Yep, the model kit is in 1/6th scale. The Hasbro toy is too, but the model kit is nicer.
cayman shen
Master Member
So, how does one go about fiberglassing a cardboard model?
Check out www.405th.com, they have a lot of tuts on the progress. It´s just using resin to strengthen the paper/cardboard model from the outside and inside. It´s important that you don´t use tape to build up the cardboard model, since the tape´s glue will be dissolved by the resin.
Michael
The way I did it when I made a helmet was ,"on 110lb. card stock", I used the Fiberglass resin on the outside "very thin so the weight wouldnt warp it".
Then after it dried,I used cut up pieces of glass cloth
soaked in resin to cover the inside.
After it dried, Bondo and smooth the outside.
Its a pretty straight forward process.
*Just incase you didnt Know
* BE Warned.. Do it outside,Wear long sleeves,gloves and wear a ventilation mask.
The material OB10 was refering to is kitty hair and good stuff .
Heres a link to a PDF about it:http://www.evercoat.com/imgs/pis/KITTYHAIRPIS.pdf
