DeathProof
Well-Known Member
Looking through a lot of these threads, I've been getting a lot of inspiration in building my own Gonk droid. Special thanks goes out to Greedo for his great design: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=241657
Like much of my furniture in my small apartment, if I was to have this guy as an art piece in my house, it would need to be multifunctional. The other caveat would be that it needs to serve a purpose at our 501st booth.
So, it's going to be a case for my mouse droid as well as provide much needed power for troopers at our booth. I'll include USB ports, and various cables to charge iPhones to Aker amps. I will also be designing a sound file that will time with a smoke machine that lets out a brief 'exhaust' when the droid overloads at the 15 minute mark. More on that later.
To date I've trimmed the bins to make them look less like 'bins', wrangled a bunch of old camera parts together (no star wars prop should be without camera parts!) and fixed them to my two bins that are hinged together. I've got a bunch of wires that I will add after I'm done the initial paint colours for the droid. I'm currently building the gonk's "shoes" for the legs (which are screwed in and can be removed for easy travel).
The garage door seal acts as the 'belt' around the droid and actually seals the two halves together nicely.
Paint colours will be a layered silver undercoat with matte navy main coat. Orange details and rust weathering.
Like much of my furniture in my small apartment, if I was to have this guy as an art piece in my house, it would need to be multifunctional. The other caveat would be that it needs to serve a purpose at our 501st booth.
So, it's going to be a case for my mouse droid as well as provide much needed power for troopers at our booth. I'll include USB ports, and various cables to charge iPhones to Aker amps. I will also be designing a sound file that will time with a smoke machine that lets out a brief 'exhaust' when the droid overloads at the 15 minute mark. More on that later.
To date I've trimmed the bins to make them look less like 'bins', wrangled a bunch of old camera parts together (no star wars prop should be without camera parts!) and fixed them to my two bins that are hinged together. I've got a bunch of wires that I will add after I'm done the initial paint colours for the droid. I'm currently building the gonk's "shoes" for the legs (which are screwed in and can be removed for easy travel).
The garage door seal acts as the 'belt' around the droid and actually seals the two halves together nicely.
Paint colours will be a layered silver undercoat with matte navy main coat. Orange details and rust weathering.
