RinnyR... My pleasure and glad your watching. Thank you!

KeavDog... Yes sir I've seen a few beautiful R/C units built, I'm not sure about the one you posted, but a guy here in Covington (I think) built a full sized and functional R/C controlled Wall-E a few years ago and you'ld think it was from the movie, BUT... He spent somewhere in the area of $5000.00 doing it. I've never been into R/C, but admire folks like him that do have the skills to do them! Thanks for the look! Take care all!

Doug

Afternoon all! I received the repair parts for the band saw, made the repair, and started on the tracks...

I kinda decided on this for the initial lay out. It provides a bit of adjustment and alot of strength and stability. Other then the drive wheels purchased at the Local Hobby Shop, all other parts were from second hand toys... OH, the tracks themselves were ordered from E Bay for 1/16th tank.

Alright, here is one asyembled and one being put together.

And thats about it for now, I have to permenently epoxy in place and will try to get painted and weathered so I can start on arms tomorrow! Thanks again...

Doug

This was already out of this world, but making your own tracks from scratch, now that is mind-bending.

Looking amazing, Doug.

Thank you Greg! Hes really starting to take shape now... 

Evening all! Well I was able to paint, weather, and epoxy the track assys in today, and start on the arms and rear hatch cyls...

These will be the clevis anchors which will mount the cylinders to the body.

And here are the cylinders for the arme with clevis and anchors attached. The cylinders are made from 3/4, 5/8, and 1/2 wood dowels. By tomorrow I should have them finished along with the rear hatch cyls. Take care all! 

Doug

Oh wow, love that rusty look. Looks like you could get tetanus just from handling him. 

LOL... Yeah Cliff, Hes a might rough, But I guess not too bad for 700 yrs old! lol...

Any way, I finished the arms today, and as always was a tad slack taking some pictures. I can see the end of this build coming and am starting to forget pictures... BUT, heres what I have today...

Arms assy. early this morning and painted.

OK, the sides (flats) are attached. The hardest thing I've done so far (I think) is the little piece that mounts to the rod with a bit of yellow on it to mount the flat plate to, (its called a stand off) gave me fits. I was cutting and shaping the piece then trying to drill hole for rod and would either drill ogff center or break. Well after doing about 4 sets the light finally came on... DRILL FIRST then shape...DUH! 

Well, my apologies but befor I knew it they were done, painted, aged and weathered and mounted.

The "chrome" of the rods is chrome foil from the local hobby shop, The gland rings "wipers" are just regular ole  o-rings. And thats where we're at for now... The hands will be next... Thanks for looking and have a Blessed Easter weekend!

Doug

Evening all! Hope everyone had a good weekend! OK, I was able to do some more today..

These will be the pieces of his hands. The material is the .220 and .093 plastic taper sanded (along with a tad bit of skin) on the belt sander. Then for the pivots I used a 1/4 in plastistruct tubing. The small pieces of tubing are going to be spacers, and the small bean shasped pieces will connect his "Thumbs" to the hand assy.

This is roughly how they will look when together.

And lastly for now, the clevises are attached to the rod ends. When they set, I'll assy the hands to them and paint a kinda rusty steel color. After that, all I have left is to mount the neck and head, and make him a dio, and I think he'll be about done. Give me a day or two and I'll try to get that done! Thanks...

Doug

He's really coming together Doug!

Between Wall-E here, the new SF/Fantasy issue of FSM, and Pacific Rim Uprising I pulled out my Plamax Gypsy Danger kit...... just what I need is to start yet another project...

Dude!  Are you kidding me????  THAT thing...is AWESOME!!!!

Very....very nicely done!!!!  Wow.....so cool.  Wall-E is way cool.

Can't wait to see it done!

Well Good morning all! I think I can call him done. I worked on the dio for the last two days and finished final assembly last night.

His cooler is made from .010 plastic sheeting, and is trimmed with several other Plastistruct shapes and sizes of plastic. The "junk" is the remains of the toys I disassembled to get to the parts needed to build him, :rusted" and glued to the dio base.

You should have seen the funny looks when I went to the store and asked where the smallest bras were. lol..

Well, thats about all... I want to again, Thank each and every one for the interest, the views, and the comments. Its been a fun and different building experiance for me. I again thank you all for the encouragement and comments and hope you might have got a chuckle and a bit of enjoyment from it. It was fun for me to build and to see just what I was able to do. Take care all!

Doug

Holy Wow, Doug-man....

Just stopped in to see how Wall-E is coming along, you're DONE.

You would have made one heck of an engineer, I think. I'm amazed by the creativity and skills you put into this.

Rigidrider

You should have seen the funny looks when I went to the store and asked where the smallest bras were.

That is hilarious!

What are the dimensions of the base? I'm trying to get an idea how big this is (dunno how small the bra is, so that won't work)

Will this be on display at your house or will you give it to your granddaughter? Has she seen it during construction?

Thank you Greg, for the comments and the interest! Lol...I at one time after serving in the USMC  (71-75) started taking mechanical engineering classes in college, but had a few set backs at that time that made going on difficult, and decided to go in a different direction. I later settled into a career in hydraulics, pneumatics and fluidics, which as you know I recently retired from.The grand daughters are likely to get him after Grand dad isn't here any longer.lol... Right now hes sitting on a roll top desk I made about 10 years ago. As to the dimensions his main body is approx. 8in X 8in square and he stands about 15in tall. The base he's on is 18 x 21 in. I figure (not knowing the true dimensions) that he might be about 1\4 scale? I am making a cover to go over the Dio to help fend off the curiosity attacks from our two cats, lol...so until that's done, the door to the den stays closed! 

Fantastic finish. Well done indeed.

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity on those issues, Doug.

I was in engineering school too. I was also a lazy bum, and since I could not learn calculus and chemistry without actually studying, I changed my major to something I could B.S. my way through.

Fantastic!  Lol re the bra.  This thread inspired my wife and I to watch the movie again.  Spot on my friend.  

Hello Doug!

That's a beauty! Congratulations on a fantastic scratchbuilding project!

A plexiglass cover would definitely help here, also to keep the dust off.

Looking forward to seeing your next builds, thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

 Greg...    :D]  

John, Clint... Thank you both ever so much... It means alot comin from your peers, and yes, it actually took me awhile to go in and ask for a bra!  I kept thinking I should wait for my wife but hey...I was there! Lolol... I did show the lady a picture of what I was doing and she just laughed and said what you did... I need to watch that again! Lol...

Pawel... Thank you sir, yes, the cover is going to be trim wood frame with plexi glass windows. I'm also going to put two small LED lights inside being the top will be thin opaque plastic. 

Hey Doug, amazing job there!!! He came out perfect!!!

And love the cooler and using the left-over stuff as junk too!!!

And that thing he's holding- it's a double barrel slingshot...

Holy cow What an amazing job. He looks like an actual movie prop

Sprue one, Great maker.. 

Thank you both very much, I had fun building him, and kinda learned that I could do about anything I set my mind to, and the tools I have are capable of. I'm kinda looking at a table top milling machine and lathe. Just not quite ready to invest that much yet. Thanks again my friends...

Doug

Cliff, Thank you! Yeah the one thing I learned long ago was that, You can build a beautiful model , I mean one without as much as one finger print in the glue somewhere,(grin) and you've built a beautiful model. BUT... Put it on a dio base with detail around it, and you'll bring it to life! Thanks again for the numerous comments and encouragement. Take care.

Doug

I have to say he turned out perfect! So, good, that I had to show my wife. And she gives you two thumbs way up! Fantastic job!

Hogfanfs... Two thumbs WAY up from your wife? Man, I am humbled and honored! lol.... I'm glad you and she enjoyed! Thank you!!!

Doug

Excellent work! The display really makes the model interesting....love Pixar.....

WALL E, YOU PUT THAT DOWN LOL. Totally awesome Rigid. Looks like he rolled right outta the movie. Pixar should be calling soon to offer you a job.

Bucksco... Thank you very much! And yes, Pixar does some amazing movies.

Armornut... Thank you sir! Yeah, I've been waiting for the call... Any time now...lolol. That is my Grand daughters (the two of them) favorite scene in the movie, so that's what we made! Thanks again...

Doug

Doug,

Utterly fantastic! I really love the funny touch with the bra! You really surprised me with that Finishing Touch! It's been a joy to peek in here and watch your progress over the past few weeks. I look forward to seeing many more cool projects from you. As a budding scratch Builder myself, I am in awe of your Ingenuity through this project.