Robocain - Robocop 2 robot

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How many hours have you put in to this project so far? and many more do you think it will take to complete? I saw before you had mentioned people had made offers for it but I think you should keep it, it's too good to sell imo.

Thank you, 254 hours so far, maybe 600/700 hours total, maybe

 

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Thank you

all together now except for the gun

starting with the main body of it, its got teeth round it so I found a tiny gear, cut the middle out and will mount on the end. This whole piece will be black so a lot of the detail will be lost.

This whole part on the real model is moulded from one lump, so long as I can get close to the shapes i'll be happy!

screw through the top mounts it to the big block

the shute for the ammo

another little thing that sits on the top

mounted up

 

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Thanks

attached the ammo shute via a screw from underneath (hidden)

made a little geared wheel thing thats supposed to be the motor that rotates the gun

and another .... cylinder.. thing, too small for my camera to focus on

all apart again, now on the back it has 2 hydraulic fittings medium and small, which are? ....... thats right 4mm and 5mm. The gun has lots of these fittings, 10+ I havnt counted them all yet! just doing them as I see them.

oh look another fitting

... oh and another, getting like wheres wally

 

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Got everything bolted up now, another little cylinder thing on the back:

making a start on the barrels, settled n 3.2mm for the width of the barrels. I was hoping I could use styrene for them but they seem to want to flex.

trimmed these down and cut a groove in one although I think its too small now looking at the pics

mock up looks ok, im not happy with the styrene so I have ordered some 3.2mm aluminium tube, im all out of 20mm rod so I cant remake the other bit either!

 

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Thanks guys

Where do you order most of the materials from?

95% of stuff comes form ebay

 

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Time for some styrene,

the glue I got is for styrene and it kinda melts it as it sticks so when dry it makes an almost seamless join, like a weld.

this part wasnt really possible in delrin, to machine it out of a solid block would have been unnecessary as it looks to be pretty thin all over.

some paint

mounted up and the two little tags added with super small hex bolts.

 

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Just a thought here but if this model is finished in time (around december time believe), have you considered exhibiting it at summat like the model engineering exhibition in London? It appears to me to be perfect type of thing to put on display, and having been to this exhibition a few times in the past, I reckon its something that'll create a bucketload of interest and also give you a further location to showcase your work and skills. I can certainly imagine the look on most peoples faces if they saw this.
Wadya think?

Hello, yeh I know what your saying, I took my guns to a airsoft meeting once and it was nice to meet a few people but it was a fairly long/boring day. I tend to get a lot of questions and requests for information and quotes, its a lot easier to deal with this on email as I can tackle them in my own time. Plus I dont fancy the risk of having to take the robot somewhere it might get damaged, stolen, etc, its a risk, not a great risk but when you've spent a year making something its easy to be paranoid.

 

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Do the amount of awesome in this thread ever end?

Brilliant work and I second what Droolinggimp said, please

Any chance of a photo of it all together so far? I dont mean 'attached' as is probably awkward to put together, but laying the parts next to each other how they are meant to be together so far if you catch my drift..... with something next to it to give us a read on its size.....

Please....

I will do that tomorrow, I need to have a layout of parts to make sure im on track for the 474mm tall I originally worked it out to be. Im worried my scale might be out.

Just incredible stuff, would love it if you could cross post this over on Britmodeller , you'd have quite an audience there too

might be a bit far into the project now for that, upto you, if you can give me a link to an appropriate section to post in I will, I post in 5 forums as it is so another wont hurt!

 

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Where on earth do you get so much patience?

I have great dicepline.

Since your taking pic requests how about some more topless ones

lol, not with this weather brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

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Gone for a partial assembly to check overall size and im happy to say its more or less on target.

started on the cover for the other shoulder

although it looks the same as the other side its actually wider

 

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Thank you, its made from Delrin, a lot of the black parts are, it'll look ok when done, just like the real thing

 

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He's been making it for close to if not over a year so i say no he wont sell it.

7 months and I may sell it, but it'd only be for a lot.


got my tube through, 3.2mm aluminium, now cut to size and I had to remake a couple of the disks too as they looked wrong.

all together and straight, tight fit though

This is the 3rd atempt and took 2 hours, I didnt know how I was going to make it so just had to get stuck in! First take a solid bit of bar and turn a shoulder on the end, then the cone, then drill through the middle, then hold the shoulder and cut a slot one was with the slitting saw, then (with plenty of lube) turn 90 degrees and carefully cut the last slot.

so thin at the end, very delicate

now make 5 more exactly the same! they took about 20 mins each, easy when you know how!

mmmmmmm barrell tipsss

mounted up,

 

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Thank you, I appreciate the support!

2 out of the 4 arms on

 

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Thank you all for your continued support, 2 arms done, 2 to go!

Turned the 2 shoulder joints, these fit to the shoulder disks.

cut and shaped to look as close to the picture as I can get

then the end cut flat, drilled and a pin mounted on the disk.

 

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I was originally yes, but I need to do the head first to see if there will be any space left inside the body for it.

better make 2 of these

and one of these

decided to finish off the shoulder cover from the 2nd arm, i forgot about that

back to the 3rd arm

and all fitted together you see where im going with this

 

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I always had ideas of how to make things but never actually did it till I was about 22. As a child I was always making things out of technic lego and things like pop up cards for peoples birthdays and christmas.

 

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Got it fitted up and attached to the shoulder disk

cut 2 blocks for the next parts and turned some disks

spent a bit of time rubbing everything down with 600 gritt to get that satin smooth finish. Most of the other parts ive done I havnt bothered yet but I wanted to do this arm as it would be on the finished model, most of the aluminium will look like this. This arm is tough to make as the original is just a piece of molded plastic so I have to think up ways of joining the parts together without visable screws etc.

again this was hard to do, the tiny screws not real on the puppet, mine using tiny tiny M1.6 mm screws and nuts.

attached, note they are on both sides,

counter sinking holes so the screws, again M1.6, sit flush with the surface.

making another 1 or 2 of these parts, had to use the slitting saw to carefully cut the slot

2 more, nearly done in their pre-rubbed down state.

 

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sunk the tiny screws into the clamp joint parts

had to make some odd parts and disks etc to join everything together

realised it was too short so had a re-design and spaced it out a bit more, this section will be covered so it doesnt need to be as detailed.

This arm has the spot welder thing on it, hard to know where to start on such a complex lump, so after some thought and a lot of measuring im quite happy with this

looks about the right size to me, trim the middle out

and the top, sitting on another turner prize of a diagram that looks like a cross between a babies rattle and a policeman hiding behind a tomb stone

carefully recessed the edges and drilled through so they lign up top and bottom.

 

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meh, I could make that while the kettles boiling

ok cut a groove around the middle and found a good imitation of the stripe around the middle, a cable tie!

more trimming and recessing, here and there

top part

using the end I made earlier, made the small part that will hold the bottom of the ram and cut that top part to shape.

 

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I saw this project when it was only on page 2... I've now just spent the last 2 hours catching up and reading all 17 pages, and even then I glossed over some of the photos - but this is just truly amazing engineering work.

I'm going to try to keep up with this - it's got to be thread of the year for me - just amazing attention to detail!

Thanks for that mate, glad to have you onboard!

The film was on channel 5 the other night, and I couldn't help but stay up and watch it!

Have you thought about adding some working LEDs as the spotlights Robocain has when you first see him? Then you could use him as the worlds greatest bedside lamp!

PK!

I saw it was on! couldnt watch it though, sick of the site of the damn thing!
I thought about fitting the lamps but decided against, I will have one of the best features working though

Loving the spot welder attachment, really nice detail.

Just a couple of questions though, who made the orignal stop motion model for the film and was it made the same way as yours, bit by bit or is it sculptured from material and painted to look metal.

How many individual parts will be in yours including screws ?

The original was made by tippett studios, have a read here:

http://www.robocoparchive.com/info/robocain.htm

They made about 10 of them for the film, a lot of the bits are moulded resin, they would make an original and then the rest from the mould. This whole arm for example is plastic on the original.

No idea on individual parts, a lot

I thought a lot about the arms of the welder, the originals are solid moulded pieces, I eventually settled on this design, when you only have to make one its not so bad to shape it by hand, its when you have to make 2 or 4 the same that this is the harder option.

attached and trimmed to size, needs a hole in it for the electrode oart and the whole thing blending and filing

yeh?