So i'd got it to the point that it opened with the string in the video in the previous post and that reel I had printed off temporarily to check the action I was waiting for a servo and a ripcord to arrive to decide which one. I was also waiting for the lights 2 for the eyes, 2 for the front, 4 for the ends of the arms and 8 long blue ones for the arms themselves.
I then built 4 oblong tubes and attached the lights to test them.
8 of them gave off a fairly decent blue glow, not exactly like being behind the shield but Ok.
I then ran all the wires through the arms to try and make sure none of them got caught up on the mechanism and I added a glass reed switch and covered it in 2mm foam
At this point the ripcord arrived, so i took a screw out to see how i'd attach it and the spring flew out
i tried for an hour or so to put it back in and got close a few times then gave up figuring the servo was a better plan anyway... then the servo arrived which was meant to be a 360 servo however it wasn't but it's ok, i had a 3rd plan up my sleeve.
I had ordered a rechargeable screwdriver, i'd figured it'd have enough guts but was worried it'd be too slow.. it turned out fine
So I placed a rare earth magnet in the back of the shield and all four lights for the end tips and all eight lights along the arms were both on very basic circuits one 5V and one 12V each with a glass reed switch that would activate when they got near the magnet which would happen when the arms extended.
So when I buy Plastidip I just buy it off of ebay I I can often get cans 1/4 price but they're in odd colours...like fleuro orange, perfect
Orange is perfect, it gets covered with matt back anyway but if it gets scratched deep enough then i'm fine with orange showing.
I've shown my paint method a few times in this thread but one more time won't hurt, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but for this particular build I wanted a real Reinhardt just stepped off of the battlefield, not a Blizzard cartoon with fake cuts and a little airbrushing..i wanted real steel, real rust, real weight to it.
So, base black is followed by a layer of rust which is orange/red/yellow acrylic stippled on with a dead brush in the places where you'd expect rust to appear on the metal.
Then you grab hairspray and salt, you spray the area with the hairspray and sprinkle the salt on where you want the rust to show. This salt will prevent paint covering that spot so when you rub the salt off the rust colour will show through.
The next layer is your metal, aluminium in this case. Then before you put your final colour on you use masking fluid where you expect scratches in the paint to be. Then you apply the final colour. In this case blue.
Then at this point i'd normally grab the airbrush and hit it with some shading and weathering with some black tones but my airbrush is on the blink so instead I water down some black acrylic and wash all the parts down liberally. I then let it all dry overnight.
The next morning I wet everything down and with a rag wash and rub away all the masking fluid and salt.