Robocop 1987 build "Your move creep!"
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bitbull
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Re: Robocop 1987 build "Your move creep!"
It will be 3 parts actually. Chin piece, back piece and dome.
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Thank's mate.
It will be 3 parts actually. Chin piece, back piece and dome.
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Thank's mate.
Sith Lord
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Blade Walker
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Wow just want to say you're doing a great job! Its so cool to think we can just print stuff like this up in our living rooms now!
Cant wait to see the full bot mode!
By the way in your first pic on the first page it looked like the Prusa isnt tall enough to print that calf out in one shot, I assume you had to do it in sections?
Cant wait to see the full bot mode!
By the way in your first pic on the first page it looked like the Prusa isnt tall enough to print that calf out in one shot, I assume you had to do it in sections?
BTTFSpencer
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Awesome. I can't wait to see it painted. I hope you go for the flip flop paint that they used for the film. 
bitbull
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Re: Robocop 1987 build "Your move creep!"
That's exactly what i was thinking. Haven't yet thought about straps and how to attatch the parts. I did an iron man suit for my son with straps and magnets. I think I'm going to use something simular on this build.
bitbull
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It's crazy what you can print at home. The other day I printed an action figure for my son,with movable arms and legs and an halo style armor.
The printing height of the prusa is about 25cm. I had to print the part in 3 pieces.
bitbull
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Awesome. I can't wait to see it painted. I hope you go for the flip flop paint that they used for the film.
Actually the color from the movie is not a flip flop paint. It is more an illusion. The colors like the purple and blue are painted in specific places on the armor.
BTTFSpencer
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I respectfully disagree regarding the original paint finish, with the exception of the back of Murphy's head. It always seems purple/blue. I have watched some interviews with Peter Weller describing it as a kind of opalescent finish and I believe I saw it shifting colours in an Entertainment Tonight special approximately a year ago.
Your build is your build though, and I hope you enjoy the results that you get with your interpretation of the paint finish. I have seen similar work done and it can look quite beautiful, as I'm sure yours will.
I'll be following with excitement. "Nice shootin' , son".
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From what I've heard the paint was actually a greenish metallic to the naked eye, but looked blue-ish and purple once it was captured on film. At least according to the guys at the Robocop Archive.
bitbull
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I have no plan yet. I was thinking to make the schoulder pieces in black eva foam, or printing the parts and molding them for latex or another rubber like material.
BTTFSpencer
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If we can get that E.T. segment on the making of Robocop I believe it'll show just that, I remember seeing some other colours too.
BTTFSpencer
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I have some experience with it and I can tell you that it isn't always *boom* in your face obvious. It depends on the angle of the light and the colours you select relative to the basecoat.
I'm more than happy to agree to disagree, but I believe flip flop not only to be accurate, but to be an easier method of painting the suit. It comes from a place of totally wanting to help, not criticise.
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BTTFSpencer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgmo74xnuPU
This interview is a great resource for the original Robocop suit in terms of paint finish. Whoever painted it did one hell of a job.
This interview is a great resource for the original Robocop suit in terms of paint finish. Whoever painted it did one hell of a job.
