Robocain - Robocop 2 robot

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Thank you all for the support over this past year with only a tiny amount of abuse making this a very un-overclockers like post.

The final build time when I added it up is 600 hours, well under my initial estimation. Im not going to talk too much as your all probably already looking over the pictures! As ever, any questions you have I will answer. The head does work I will film it later and you tube the clip.

The base is oak and the pegs locate the acrylic case that site over it and also house the LEDs to illuminate it, i'll also post some pics of this later on.

 

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Very very impressive. looks so much better all assembled. We going toget a video of the face in motion?

- Pea0n

 

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Thanks guys im glad its done and also a little lost as my routine has been upset a bit. Im gonna relax for a few weeks and do very little before I decide what to make next, get a few jobs done, some easy stuff then when I find something else I want, i'll make it! I will let you all know in here and probably start a new thread.

Will admire my work for a couple of weeks first though!

 

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Thanks again pretty chuffed I got everything done ok, I was worried I wouldnt get the head to work properly but it still seems to work alright.

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Is there a possibility of listing the skills/experience/tools you used to make it? Im not looking to ever do anything like this, but the finished article is like a trying to imagine what a billion pounds is in real notes to someone like me. Its kinda hard to understand how someone could look at the original robot (even with detailed photos) and attempt to recreate it accurately piece by piece - just want to understand how you could even decompose it to a state where you could think Ive got the skills, time and tools here to make this and make it well...

Thanks

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Well now, errr.... skills/experience, as I have said before I dont have any training in engineering, I was not taught how to use the machines I have. When I was little my fav toy was technic lego, i'd build new things out of what I had almost daily. Then the radio controlled stuff, I used to make odd bits and pieces, nothing very adventurous. After wandering around on the internet trying to find that first gun I wanted to buy I found a website of a chap who had made his own out of wood and I remeber thinking it was ok but after going through his build pictures I could see lots of corners that had been cut. It suddenly occured to me that if I tried to make it BUT made each piece perfect, not as good as I could but perfect then it couldnt look anything but perfect. Its hard to explain, this was like a vision for me I was about 23 and all of a suddon it just made sense. I imagined building the first gun piece by piece, first I made the bulk of it in cardboard. Now this in itself can be done to look good or bad. I measured every dimension, scored every fold, allowed for the thickness of the cardboard, made all the corners 90 degrees and it looked good. The metal was just an extension of that, start with one piece and make it as good as it needed to be. Back then I didnt have anything more complex than a hacksaw, vice and pilar drill. It made things slow but the project I had chosen was fairly simple in its shape.

The robot is a long way from that, but it had still been made by men. So if I copied each piece it should look the same. The amount of pictures I have are essential on a model this complex, then it just comes down to guessing the dimensions which I seem to have a knack for.

I dont think I can answer your question, I am able to do these things and I dont know why.

Tools I have now are a Sieg X1 milling machine (£300) a C2a lathe (£350) lots of cutters and 2 vices (£200). then the basics vice, hacksaw, pilar drill, drills, taps and dies, files (about 30!) digital calipers.

these are the 2 machines, mill and lathe.

Awesome, love it, to echo everyone else.

I dont suppose you have the blueprints or links to references you used?

As a future suggestion what about the District 9 mech.

I have all the "drawings" I made when I made it, these can be seen in the background of some of my pictures, far from blueprints! im not an engineer, I just make a sketch and then bang all the dimensions down that I think are right. A lot of what I do I make up as I go along. I will scan in all the drawings soon and offer them to whover wants a laugh.

I dont want to do a robot next, I will do something totally different.

Have no idea how to work out the cost of this thing or if BC has but a price on it already but 600 hours labour could be quite expensive!

If he charged minimum wage then there's £3500 already!

(Edit: I think he mentioned somewhere that this took 600 hours?)

600 yes, but this isnt like flipping burgers. I couldnt make another, this is a one off, im not unique but I would be surprised if someone else could do this

 

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absolutely epic.

I friggin love that handgun, I must have one how much do you charge to make custom models ? hehehe

I am sure this has already been answered but what kind of woodwork/metalwork training do you have to be able to do all this kind of thing? Also what kind of reward do you get from it, do you have a job or do you just have a well off family? (no hate)

Hello, I talked a bit about the equipment I have on the previous page http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18113373&postcount=833 as for trainng, none im afraid. Reward? just having what I wanted which is a big ass cain model. I work in computing, most people that know me dont know I make things like this I dont bore people with it but it is nice to occasionally show people what I have made.

As I've already said in this thread, I think what you've done is absolutely amazing, so please don't take this bit of criticism the wrong way, but did you think about making the aluminium colour a little darker/more titanium like?

And you're next project HAS to be ED-209, surely?

Not really, I like its silver look, I think any difference in colour form the film is just in lighting, im sure it'd look more goldy with a lot of lights on it.

Love the pic of the setup, also notice you drink strongbow, is that whilst milling lol.

Amazing work, i can only dream of doing something like that.

lol, forgot about that, people give me drink at xmas normally, thats form 2009! probably should bin it.

 

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Hello! me again, I finally got off my butt and re-made the ammo belt properly.

Started by cutting down a strip of 3mm brass in to 14mm sections

28 of them in fact, then drilled 2 holes through each one and thread wire through them. You can see the bodge job in the background which is just a lump of plastic roughly painted.

next add some detail so it doesnt look so plain, cut a T shape onto each one, zzzzz booooring job

all threaded back together with the end pieces modified to accept tiny M2 grub screws to clamp the wire in place.

all painted black with the raised section in silver

result is a super clean and smooth looking belt

before:

 

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Thanks again people

Looks great!!
Would you sell it and how much would you be asking if you would?

From people emailing me I had a lot of interest, the best offer was 5k but i'd much rather keep him for that, I dare say if it was auctioned properly..... or even ebay on the main page it may attract more offers.

Awesome stuff!! I love how you even have a working screen in there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the film any of the screen scenes would probably have been done with a much larger scale head only model, right? Making it doubly awesome you have the screen in your model's head.

In the film, the warehouse bit, they used a model a bit bigger than mine with a tiny 2inch screen, but they had 1 person to pull the head doors open then push the screen through and twist it , etc. it wasnt automated.

 

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just read the whole thread from start to finish

that in itself is an achievement!

 

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Did Candyman ever sell this? Would be interested to know. Personally it'd take a huge sum to make me part with it.

Hi, nope, still here with me, I was offered quite a lot of money but how could I part with him really

Some new pics and one with me for scale:

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/robocain/Finished/hires/1280/DSC00903.JPG

 

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oooo.....did you make that mini one as well??

nope, thats a little model made by........ kotobukiya or something, cheap but not a bad little model.

 

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You can reenact scenes from the movie now ? stop frame animation

Im getting round to this, I dont think even I have the patience for it but i'll have a go at making a short clip.

Wow, just wow!
Even the wife is ******* impressed and she has no interest in the work or the movie

Appreciate it, thanks

mate you enter this in Robot wars Seriously though you have got some real engineering skills, im just curious what do you work as?

Im a computer tech for an ID card company, I didnt study/train as an engineer, no body taught me how to use the machines I just learnt as I went along, its something I seem to be able to do naturally.

You should do ED-209 or a T800 Endoskeleton next.

been looking at this for a while, I might do one day.

 

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Hello cant believe its been 10 years, where did that time go! Still remember all the support from you guys at the time, it helped a lot.

Cain is still here with me, how could I ever sell him!

I did a walk around video a few years back, got a huge number of views for some reason, might be a bit boring but at the end (4:25) I open the head along with the audio from the film.

As for the Adam savage thing remaking parts in metal is not really a big deal when you think I made it from some photos.