This will get tricky as not only do I have to create the mechanism to make all of this happen, I will need to find a place to keep all of it as there’s not much room in the body. He will ultimately be mounted to my R2’s drink tray and I will be able to control them both together. The end goal for this guy is to have him remote controlled with a PS3 Navigation wand ( Same controller I use for my R2-D2). I guess we will start with the animatronics. This will allow it to be skinned later by applying latex skin. The limbs are wire armature wrapped in foam, followed by medial tape, followed by coating them in liquid latex. The body is foam wrapped around a metal ring frame. Here’s what I was able to score off of Ian. This was perfect as it forces me to learn a new skill making the body. Although he had no puppets left, he did have some partial parts laying around. I asked Ian if he had any puppets left thinking it would be way easier to add animatronics to an existing shell. Ian had made an amazing Salacious puppet that can be seen here: It also helps that I live only a couple of hours from the super talented Ian Martin (user name here is “Tea”). I’ve always loved Salacious and it was an easy choice for this project. I was totally inspired by Chris Lee’s animated C3PO at the last Celebration and decided it was time to learn some new skills. I decided to branch out from droids and try my hand at animatronics. Nothing at all against the modern day 3D printing, but I’m old school guy and you should get off my lawn. I’ve been doing droid props for the last twelve years, with most of my threads on Astromech dot net.Ī little about me… I’m a scratch builder. I decided to create this build thread in an effort to reconnect with the awesome prop builders community here.
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