Project Android

Ok.. she's arrived, and the project has officially started! :D If a passing Don could change the thread title to 'Project Android', It would be much appreciated. I'll do as much work each day as possible, but don't expect the project to go fast. Here are some pics of how she looks now.

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The first stage of the project is to mark out where the panel cuts are going to go, then cut them out. Im then going to sand off the old paint and make the surface as smooth as possible. Being able to have a close look at the bodyshape, it looks like I might need to use PCI riser cards, so as to get the graphics card, souncard and network card lying paralell with the mobo. Im also pleased to say that my local B&Q stock a large range of Aluminnium tubing and shapes. Ive bought some thin flat Alu to make the basic frame, and some Alu tubing to make the fake hydralics in the neck.
 
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Ive now sanded her down and cut her into the commponent panels. The sanding took way longer than I had hoped, and I only found out half way through that my dad has got a detail sander which as it turned out is perfect for the job. Still took me a good 4-5 hours with the detail sander to do half the body.

I did most of the cutting with a dremel cutting wheel. I did try using a dremel tungsten carbide tip as I thought this would be better for corners, but the results with this were terrible. Some of the cutting was quite tough, as the resin thickness varies quite a lot throughout the body.

The next job now is to stitch the panels back together, using some alu strips and glue. The chest panel is going to be hinged, so as to give access to the motherboard, and the skull panel is also going to be hinged, giving access to the harddrive and also the powerswitch etc. Another problem area that I have noticed is right at thew bottom, where the PSU is going to go, as there is a metal rod there. I might have to either try and attempt to remove it, or if there is enough space I might build a 'platform' on it and place the PSU ontop.
 
Top tip for ya

use the cheap dark yellow epoxy primer putty to prime her for spraying. Best resin spray pain going. I use it on all my rockets and have fantastic results

Keeps us going dude. i might have a few bit you'd want for this like the backing bif for the mobo and pci cards
 
benjo said:
This is looking really good :cool:
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Cheers. :)

Dr Jones said:
You "detail sand" off her nipples! oh noes...!!

:P Looking good there~
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She didn't have 'nips' to start with :eek: :p

Drazic said:
Top tip for ya

use the cheap dark yellow epoxy primer putty to prime her for spraying. Best resin spray pain going. I use it on all my rockets and have fantastic results

Keeps us going dude. i might have a few bit you'd want for this like the backing bif for the mobo and pci cards
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Thanks for that tip. So is the epoxy primer putty just like an epoxy modelling putty? Im going to need to use some of this anyway to fill in a few holes where there were air bubbles in the resin, and also for general detail modelling. Thanks for the offer of donations. I might take you up on the offer(Email in trust if you want to chat :) ). I was going to hack an old atx case to pices for the motherboard tray. What sort of pci cards? At the moment I have a passivly cooled GPU, souncard and 2x NICs which need to go in. My fingers are crosse that the height of the pci cards will fit, as its going to be tight. If they don't im going to need pci riser cards, or half height pci cards.
 
Cheers :) Unfortunately I can't do much more work today, as I need some epoxy modelling putty to make flat surfaces inside, so i can attach the alu strips. At the moment im just making and attatching as many alu strips as I can, and doing general planning. Im pleased to say that the mobo and pci cards fill fit nicely, although im possibly going to have to shorten the pci brackets on the two NICs.
 
Nah it's a yelloy ish colored primer that thick and all sortrs but has epoxy in there which is amazing stuff.

It's been used on my rockets and have braken mach 1.6 so it works for hard use!

I don;t think you'd need rasing cards at all
 
The nipples could be the on/off and the other the reset button? Or has that been said already/

Hdd led could possibly be an eye or belly button?

Small stereo speakers in the Ears even....or mouth, ooh u could have a speaker come from the mouth and mics built into the ears, full voice activated be even more realistic!

Ill tweedle off back to my Cave now....
 
Lol, voice activated PC?

I can see this happening:

OP setting up the activate word as e.g. ON.
OP speaks on the phone whilst next to an off PC ".... the footballs on the telly tonight..." and the PC turns on.

Funnier if it's "off" whilst playing CS:S with voice chat, "... get off my range of sight!!..." and PC turns off. Now that's a bumhole.

Logically, OP wouldn't use "ON" and "OFF" as the magic word if there is "voice activated PC" of course.
 
No, its just going to be one speaker. I don't have a 5.1 system, as I do all my music listening on my Sennheiser headphones. Its just going to be so that I can have the windows startup sounds etc, replaced with a voice.
 
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