Re-elect Mayor Goldie Wilson, progress is his middle name!
I received my Cassian rank bar for my officer. Even though I hope to go out with a Cassian cospayer most of the time I thought it would be fun to have my rank match his disguised officer rank on Scarif.
The head has been printed! My friend Steven over at
Inland Empire Armory printed my K-2SO head for me. I just supplied the filament and he took care of the rest. All while graciously allowing me to hound him for progress pictures every day.
Head half with the support core.
Deeper and taller.
Only half a brain on this droid.
Printing the wrap around lower head.
All of the pieces coming together.
A very loose test fit. Figuring out how this all goes together.
All of the pieces. I ended up not needing the two core blocks from the center of the jaw. I'll also be modifying the under side to allow the pan/tilt head to operate.
Taping everything together.
It looks great. I have the mouth plate on backwards here but this gave me a feel for how the head will look. I'm planning on mounting my spy camera in the cheek area.
Flipped around the mouth plate. Everything looks good and fits well together.
I plopped the whole thing on top of the pan/tilt head to see if it could handle the weight. Was very happy it can. The pan/tilt head will be relocated inside the head but it can pan and tilt!
Close up of the cheek area.
I'm planning on attaching the camera battery here to the front of the pan/tilt. The cable should reach for the camera but not have the battery weight on the motor.
I also plan to put the camera logic board here where I can see the display light out through one of K2's light up greeblies. I just need to be sure I can still turn it on/off.
Cut away some of the internal structure so the pan/tilt head had more room. Panning isn't a problem, but with the pan/tilt inside the head I needed more space for it to tilt up and down.
I temporarily placed the leftover chin core inside the head to get the pan/tilt placement.
The pan/tilt sits just below this layer of the head.
This means I need to cut away a lot of the lowest layer, the underside of the head.
I'm keeping the front part which will have some of the chin glued to it. The rest will be discarded. I'll create a rim following where the piece was out of a strip of foam. Perhaps put some black cloth in.
Covering the cut point with foam.
Cut out K2's eyes from a milk jug. Still need to wire up the lights.
My garage will not be hosting a care for the next week. This will save me setup time as I work on K2 every night.
12 days!
Expect more updates here.
-Darren