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Scratchbuilt robot crawler

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  • Member since
    March 2006
  • From: WA
Scratchbuilt robot crawler
Posted by 036hir on Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:13 PM

Had this urge to build a robot and came up with this! Hull is an old mouse (duh!) with the buttons raised up for solar panels. Undercarriage is scratched from sheet plastic. Suspension arms are brass tubing with plastic craft balls for the articulating joints. These fit into brass tubing on the track sections. The tracks were made from old Tiger tank tracks over a scratched-up chassis. Details for these include plastic strip and front and back halves of a tank barrel that was molded with the jacket on. Rear deck detail was solder wire and plastic pieces. Solar panels were made from wedding veil stretched and glued in place then painted black, overcoated with transparent blue, then drybrushed with graphite to highlight the small sections. Weapons were made from an old tank turret under the nose with 1/72 rocket pods for detail. The weapons on the side were made from hand swords (?) from Gundam series figures with plastic and solder details.

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:19 PM

VERY NICE, great job

Will

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Third rock from the sun.
Posted by Woody on Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:25 PM
Very nice! Best use of a mouse ever. Cool [8D]Thumbs Up [tup]

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Newport News VA
Posted by Buddho on Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:50 PM
I love it!

  • Member since
    March 2004
  • From: Fresno, CA
Posted by BlackOps on Friday, September 22, 2006 12:05 PM
OK, that is just freakin' cool!     I really like this one quite a bit  :)
Jeff G.
  • Member since
    December 2002
Posted by SNOOPY on Friday, September 22, 2006 5:34 PM
Killer Mouse on the loose!  Awesome idea and build.  No Monitor Is Safe!
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