Roto-cast

I have been thinking of building a Roto-cast machine for a long time, and now I have finally started building one! I found a really good webpage how to do it and didn't really have a good reason not to build one: http://www.solsylva.com/cnc/rotomolder.shtml 

I pretty much just translated the plan to metric and started building, I still have to buy some parts to make it work, but all the wood work is done.

Robots at display

My robots are on display in kvarnen in Söderbärke, Dalarna but I'm not there.

I'm no big fan of exhibitions and in this case I just delivered the robots and left, and that's enough for me. It's not that I have a problem meeting people, but I don't see the point in talking about my stuff, I only feel narcissistic. And If I have to stay around it's lost time where I could have been building stuff. 

The two big wood robots

 Gundam and Zaku made of wood sticks and transparent plastic

Optimus Prime made of Wood sticks and transparent plastic. Pink Puzzle Makke made of styrofoam.

Skinny laminated legs Part:3

I decided that I want another shape on my skinny laminated legs, and that means a new jig.

Skinny laminated legs Part:2

I have done some more work on my skinny legs, but when doing the first dry fit I realized that i'm not happy with the shape/bend of the legs... I've had that feeling for a while but hoped that it change when I did the dry fit. I have decided that I have to make another try on a different shape.

Konst i Påsk

I have been preparing my robots for the Konst i Påsk exhibition in Söderbärke.

I have been building small boxes with lights and fixing minor things with the robots.

You might wonder whats up with the new paint job? I had an idea that I wanted the robot to have a slight greyish look. I went to the store and they mixed a formula that they said would give the wood a slight grey"drift wood" feel to it. I went home and painted the robot and got a awful dark bluish grey that I didn't like one bit. I started sanding to get rid of the paint, but after hours of sanding I realized that I would have to live with my mistake. It would take too much time to get rid of all the paint. I'm going to leave it in "shabby chic" state that it's in now and I just have to learn to live with the fact that I hate it!

Gun sight

I realized that the robot needs a good gun sight! I have always loved the look of the reflective gun sights that WWII era airplanes had. I figured out how to make one with a LED, a small piece of a CD and some transparent plastic (and some cosmetic wood). The pictures below only shows a blurred gun sight cross, but it's pretty sharp in real life. I'm very happy with the result!

Headlights

I been thinking about different designs for my headlights and I think I have found a design I like.

I wanted the headlights to have a classic car/ hotrod look. I made a original in Super Sculpey clay that I cast in Smoothcast 310. I used thin aluminium to make the mounting brackets. I will later paint them and make headlight glass.