Just looking to see if anybody's done this sort of thing before:
A little over a week ago, I took on the project of building a replica of Dr. Who's K-9 (robot dog)...within ONE MONTH. It will be used as a prop at ... well... it's kind of like a convention kind of event.
So, I found some Pepakura files for K-9, printed those off onto cardstock, cut them out, and now I'm currently using them to cut out pieces of Sintra to form the body.
Now, it'd be really cool if I could make him mobile. But I've only got a little over two weeks left to finish this and I don't even have his body assembled yet. I'd found a brief build-log for someone's K-9 build from years ago... where they talk about using a Radio Controlled TANK that they had lying around to make K-9 mobile. There was a photo that showed that this person obviously knew their way around the internal workings of such a tank better than I do.
But I was thinking: What if I went out and bought an RC car, truck, or tank? How could I mount a Sintra K-9 onto such a thing.... and create a tight-enough, yet removable "bond" between the two units? I'm sure a lot would depend on how the RC vehicle is put together.
I'm hoping that this Sintra K-9 will only be a couple of pounds, so a large RC car / truck / tank... something with as wide a wheel base as I can find... would probably be able to support the Sintra. But I'm still going over in my mind how I might be able to attach the two together.
Just wondering if anybody's tried this sort of thing before and can speak from experience?
A little over a week ago, I took on the project of building a replica of Dr. Who's K-9 (robot dog)...within ONE MONTH. It will be used as a prop at ... well... it's kind of like a convention kind of event.
So, I found some Pepakura files for K-9, printed those off onto cardstock, cut them out, and now I'm currently using them to cut out pieces of Sintra to form the body.
Now, it'd be really cool if I could make him mobile. But I've only got a little over two weeks left to finish this and I don't even have his body assembled yet. I'd found a brief build-log for someone's K-9 build from years ago... where they talk about using a Radio Controlled TANK that they had lying around to make K-9 mobile. There was a photo that showed that this person obviously knew their way around the internal workings of such a tank better than I do.
But I was thinking: What if I went out and bought an RC car, truck, or tank? How could I mount a Sintra K-9 onto such a thing.... and create a tight-enough, yet removable "bond" between the two units? I'm sure a lot would depend on how the RC vehicle is put together.
I'm hoping that this Sintra K-9 will only be a couple of pounds, so a large RC car / truck / tank... something with as wide a wheel base as I can find... would probably be able to support the Sintra. But I'm still going over in my mind how I might be able to attach the two together.
Just wondering if anybody's tried this sort of thing before and can speak from experience?