Robocain - Robocop 2 robot

Jesus christ man...Seeing it in action is just amazing!

How you managed to even think of this is beyond me :)

Excellant man, I really cannot WAIT to see this done, coming along so nicely
 
Forgive me if this has been mentioned in the thread already but B.C do you have any idea how long it took to build the original model for the movie? I ask as your attention to detail is amazing and it's taken you some serious hours to build it, makes me wonder about the time scale for the original model.
 
Now build a bigger one and pass it to me for a month.

Will have that into a mecatronic masterpeice in no time!!!!!

WOO

(would build in some decent hydros and motors and programm it to walk and kill)
 
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Candy's next project? :p
 
My God, this is the best thread on the forum I think! Can't wait to see the finished piece, looking amazing so far.

After this project, could you make this please?
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Pretty please?
 
Thanks for the support chaps.

The original puppet had a lot of plastic parts, a lot of the arms were plastic so they only had to make one then make a mold, easier that way as they needed a lot of them. No idea how long they spent on it though.

Should be pretty much wrapped up by christmas, getting the head mechanism to work was the last big hurdle, so all down hill from here!
 
Building Candy said:
Thanks for the support chaps.

The original puppet had a lot of plastic parts, a lot of the arms were plastic so they only had to make one then make a mold, easier that way as they needed a lot of them. No idea how long they spent on it though.

Should be pretty much wrapped up by christmas, getting the head mechanism to work was the last big hurdle, so all down hill from here!
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I just want to congratulate you (again) on the way the head works, how you even thought of that is ridiculous! Yet bleeding amazing man

Understand what you mean by the plastic parts, so much easier to work with when it comes to duplication...You should invest in an automatic miller thing :p

With regards to build times:

Tom St. Amand said: "Craig built the wooden mock-up I used to make the armature.
I draw 60 or 70 very detailed blue-prints of each part of the puppet to be machined by Blair Clark, Chris Rand and I.
It took us 8 month(s) to build the 8 armatures
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Also:

And finaly, it took approximately four months to build the full-size torso of Robocop II,
a construction with a steel skeleton and a skin of metallic-looking, vacu-formed plastic.
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But as you say, it was all pastic, so a darn site 'easier' you make...And i'm presuming thy didnt have the bazillion little M-63 screws that you use :p (Although naturally a plastic one would still be hard t make)
 
Building Candy said:
lol, yeh plus I dare say there was more than 1 person working on it in their spare time! Im at about 400 hours, so 8 hours a day would be 50 days or 10 weeks.
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Well yes naturally :)

That was their job, this is your hobby :p

I love the work though dude, you should sell your design so it can be manufactured into a boxed buildable profit ;) Been reading that there arent many decent ones out there!

;)
 
Yes thats right, no real models of this to speak of due to the complexity.

Little 2 inch tall model by koto somebody, not bad, its in some of my photos, for scale its a bit naff, the feet are HUGE but it looks ok. There was a kit by argonauts, 1/12 scale that you had to build and paint but this was fairly in accurate, still a good base if you wanted to spend some time on it making it right, adding all the pipes and stuff.

I like making one off's, things that you cant buy else where. The guns I made at the time were of models of gun that couldnt be bought, the WA2000 was quite rare and the only one I could find was £2000! Just seemed like the cheaper option. I would get bored making another Cain or even making molds of it, as you can imagine im getting pretty sick of the sight of it now!
 
Building Candy said:
Yes thats right, no real models of this to speak of due to the complexity.

Little 2 inch tall model by koto somebody, not bad, its in some of my photos, for scale its a bit naff, the feet are HUGE but it looks ok. There was a kit by argonauts, 1/12 scale that you had to build and paint but this was fairly in accurate, still a good base if you wanted to spend some time on it making it right, adding all the pipes and stuff.

I like making one off's, things that you cant buy else where. The guns I made at the time were of models of gun that couldnt be bought, the WA2000 was quite rare and the only one I could find was £2000! Just seemed like the cheaper option. I would get bored making another Cain or even making molds of it, as you can imagine im getting pretty sick of the sight of it now!
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Haha, indeed, will be awesome once its completed though matey, one of the only decent models of it in the world :)...Other than the ones you mentioned, saw them mentioned of on the robocop archive forum thing.

I didn't neccessarily mean you create moulds :p..Could sell the model off and let someone else mass produce it :p...Although not sure how big the fan base would be with regards to sales etc
 
moving onto the other end of the cable, gong to make a sort of worm drive to move the wire up and down

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got me a little motor and a pully from somewhere. Motor turns the big pully which is on the thread/screw. The lump of metal on the right has a thread tapped in it and is stopped from spinning round by the 2 poles, it has no alternative than to move up and down the thread.

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had to do some more work on the colar to get it to meet the head flush, even though it'll be lifted off the collar.


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in place and nearly working, had to modify again, needed a lot more tension on the rubber band thing. It was a bit loose, lost traction and spun, the pulley on the motor got so hot it melted! so now made a lottle alloy pully you can just see it, good huh? :)

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I was curious to find out about that "delrin" stuff you use and knew I'd seen it before. I'm fairly sure its the same stuff that the switch clusters on motorcycle handlebars are made from, and probably other parts are made from it too.
Ain't this thing finished yet btw?:D:p Seriously though absolutely stunning work mate and I still reckon you should try and get on display somewhere so others can see it in the flesh as it were.:)
 
Yeh its good stuff, very rigid, you can machine it like metal.

I took the head apart and started to rub down all the rough edges and smooth the surface out, taking out all the machining marks.

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test fitted to the torso, started to turn the cylinders for teh back of the head, im going to fit them as close to the head as I can.

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and drum roll please! I got my screen! This is the OLED (organic LED) from Australia, took me hours to get to grips with the software and finally get a proper image on the screen, now I know it works I can get on with editing a longer sequence and editing the colours down a bit. I know this looks a little odd but its good for a trial run!

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hey cain, whats happening!

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