Thanks everyone! I didn't work from any plans; I roughly scaled up the dimensions (eyeballed it mostly) from my daughter's "U-Repair Wall-E" toy, and just used the toy itself as reference. There are a lot of big empty cardboard boxes where I work, so I took several home - free building material!
I've also been reading the Wall-E Builders Forum for inspiration. Noel On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Mike Hungerford <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Noel Navarro <[email protected]> wrote: >> My current project - a 1/2 scale (roughly) Wall-E built almost >> entirely out of recycled cardboard (in keeping with the environmental >> message of the movie). >> I just completed the weathering test on his back panel tonight. I >> didn't intend to achieve this level of detail in cardboard - my >> daughter will be playing with it after all, and a rough model would >> have sufficed. Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound, as they say. >> >> The only non-card parts are the wheeled base that will go under the >> dummy treads, and PVC pipe elbow fittings for his neck - it needs to >> be sturdy and be able to pivot. >> >> I might use magnets to attach the arms to the body, with thin steel >> strips glued inside the body box, so his arms can achieve multiple >> positions. >> >> Hope you like it so far. My daughter can't wait for him to be finished! >> >> Noel > > Looking good, Noel, and as always it's great to hear from you! :-) > > Are you working from your own "blueprints" or the ones from Elso? > -- > Mike Hungerford > http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html > Fools! I will destroy you all! (Ask me how!) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
