spacebobs droids

[spacebob]

Thanks for the words James

Ok Neo here are the numbers.
I didnt have to make plans for this one but tonight i made a little sketch with all vital numbers

heres a couple of work pics


I reinforced the inside corners by gluing in small triangle section beads, when the glue had set the screws came out so i could router the edges round.
the baking tray ended up inside on mine as the lip made it to big (so really you need to make the cutout measurements a little smaller).

 

[NeoRutty]

Hey man, that's awesome. I wish I had my garage so I could start on this RIGHT NOW. heh.


Very curious to see how you use yours as a record player...

 

[Sylendis]

Dude, the Gonk is stellar. I had the toy when I was a kid and he is spot on.

 

[Fuzzual]

The Gonk is perfect man. Stellar job!

 

[hansolo2504]

Love the pit droid! And the gonk! Amazing work! How much did you charge your lucky mate??

 

[TigersClaw]

Awesome work, love them all.

 

[Paul6700]

I found a great pic of artoo, lots of details in this one.

(Clic little pic to make it a super big pic)
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I'm going to get to work on the box straight away, what do you think its made of ?, I'm thinking plywood.
Need a better pic of the writing on the inside of the door.

This droid is actually an R2 Builders droid.

 

[Duncanator]

This droid is actually an R2 Builders droid.

Why do you say that?

 

[spacebob]

Thanks for the kind words peoples, these things take such a long time to make I'm glad they are creating a bit of interest still.


I'd love to see people who aren't experienced with scratchbuilding have a go at building a gonk there really isnt much too it, why start with something complex if the gonks can look good and you can put stuff in them if you want like mine.


In answer to you hansolo2504 they are more on permanent loan to him until I can find someone who might be interested in molding and casting them so there can be more cloned, more robots...more robots...more robots.


And Paul6700 i think you missed my joke, I'll try to be funnier in future. (love treadwell btw)

 

[Paul6700]

Why do you say that?

It was confirmed over at the yahoo group for the R2 Builders or on astromech.net. I can't remember which, there are two R2 Builders working on Episode 7.

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Thanks for the kind words peoples, these things take such a long time to make I'm glad they are creating a bit of interest still.


I'd love to see people who aren't experienced with scratchbuilding have a go at building a gonk there really isnt much too it, why start with something complex if the gonks can look good and you can put stuff in them if you want like mine.


In answer to you hansolo2504 they are more on permanent loan to him until I can find someone who might be interested in molding and casting them so there can be more cloned, more robots...more robots...more robots.


And Paul6700 i think you missed my joke, I'll try to be funnier in future. (love treadwell btw)

Spacebob, you are totally right. I completely missed the joke. I can only read so many words in one post.

 

[Sym-Cha]

Great droids ... and when you start making jokes ... I need an interpretor preferably good at human-cyborg relations, fluidly speaking Bocce and perhaps 6 million other binary languages as well as being programmed for over thirty secondary functions

Chaim

 

[ISBEAR]

In answer to you hansolo2504 they are more on permanent loan to him until I can find someone who might be interested in molding and casting them so there can be more cloned, more robots...more robots...more robots.

Have you asked around in the junkyard/wtb section? Or possibly post over at white whitearmor or the 501st forum, or even ask at the shed of glittering delight on fb, it's an England based prop group.

 

[NeoRutty]

Did this Gonk ever get finished?

 

[spacebob]

Yes NeoRutty on the first page I posted a pic

thought i'd post a pic of the gonk i made because he wont get his own thread and i feel sorry for him,
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he's functional too, he's a record box.

I'm going to post updated pics on his own power droid research thread once I can fix my image hosting issues

 

[TatooineMachine]

Thanks Bob, please do. I'd really like to see more pics of any of your droids, especially the GONK!