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My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-15-2016

As mentioned in another thread, i am interested in the slicer droid Blue Max.

For those that don´t know what i´m talking about - it´s a little droid from the 70th Han Solo trilogy, stories from his smuggler time, before meeting with Luke. He is hidden inside the chest of the labour droid Bollux.

I started searching Google, but not much to find. These are the ones that fit best to the description in the books, mainly a blue cube:

[Image: Solo_BlueMax_Bollux_Chewie_zpsrtafelbp.jpg]

[Image: BolluxBlueMax_egtd_zpswvn5tn2p.png]

And a slighly different version:

[Image: Bollux-ERC_zpsrijyj1l5.jpg]


I found these pics on Google and hope it´s no prop to use them here. If you see this and they are yours and you want them deleted, just let me know.


There is also a different version out there, but it looks not like the description, more like a bare computerboard.


In this thread i will show a more or less quick build that i started yesterday evening - nothing overly complicated, but nonetheless i hope you will have fun watching it.  Smile

RE: My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-15-2016

OK, no idea why the pics are not showing when using the adress from the gallery. Did it now with Photobucket.

RE: My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-15-2016

Started building a 10 x 10 x 9 cm cube

[Image: 20160714_210903_zpsmw9cr2fv.jpg]


I decided to make the bottom plate doublelayerd, to be able to have access to the inside (if i decide later to add light or whatever). This is the inner layer that will have a big access area.

[Image: 20160714_210913_zpsbqzjdztk.jpg]


Glueing the top, the stainless part is just to add weight to kepp the topplate flat.

[Image: 20160714_214018_zpsnx0lepu5.jpg]


Parts of the underside detailing, both are perfect circles - the wierd look is due the phone camera angle or distance

[Image: 20160715_160845_zps3kdszcy1.jpg]

[Image: 20160715_160859_zpshixnohx7.jpg]

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And a handfull of the preselected greeblies from my part boxes, some of them might be used for detailing the sides of the cube.

[Image: 20160715_160946_zpsrv62z8oa.jpg]


More will follow as soon as i have more to show.  Wink

RE: My try on Blue Max - Paul6700 - 07-15-2016

That is looking cool.

RE: My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-15-2016

I hope you can say that too when i´m ready.

RE: My try on Blue Max - savagecreature - 07-15-2016

Very cool. Love watching stryene come together like this. Now I'm wondering what all your detail parts are Big Grin

RE: My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-16-2016

It´s maybe 1-2% of my greeblie boxes - since many years i´m a model builder

(I had the honor to be granted to make the masters for these Kits, Z-95 Headhunter, Moldy Crow, Gun Turrets)
[Image: Werkzeug004.jpg]

[Image: MoldyCrowDio008.jpg]

and i´m collecting many parts that are left from building or from other stuff that looks interesting.

The round part inside the bottom circles is a cast of a centerplate from the Revell Cylon Basestar, most of the other white parts are cast parts of the Babylon 5 station kit. Other parts are from a cutaway Millenium Falcon (i mainly slaughert it for my big SW Hangar diorama), see detailing on the rear walls:

[Image: MoldyCrowDio023.jpg]

Parts of battleships, planes, harddrives, pencils, ........, whatever looks useable gets thrown into the part boxes.

RE: My try on Blue Max - Lichtbringer - 07-16-2016

Today the green 2 part "Aves Apoxie" was hardened. I really like that stuff cause it sands pretty close to styrene, so if you sand a "apoxied" ara you don´t have the problem that many other have, different takeaway on the styrene compare to the used filling stuff.

First i´ve put it on the lathe to give it a few fast passes, not really spent any time on adjusting, just put it on the chuck and here we go. Due to the used universe look at SW you don´t want it look to "new/clean".

[Image: 20160716_160928_zps3tronybg.jpg]


Next part was adding some details, please refer to the pics at the beginning of this thread. Evergreen offers premade strips and sheet in a lot of variations, for modelkit building and achitects concept buildings.

[Image: 20160716_163946_zpsmnzpvets.jpg]

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For cutting the strips i use this handy tool. It enables to cut angles, and ensures all cut pirces are the same lentgh (not very important here as i planned to sand both ends when the glue has set). But it eases things up and also speeds working up when doing repeating work.

[Image: 20160716_164009_zpsng4rawzm.jpg]


Glued them to the piece, and hang it away for the glue to set.

[Image: 20160716_163933_zpsjewln2lq.jpg]


Here you see it attached to the bottom. I also cut one of my lenses that were also used for the Treadwells eyes, here it will be used as a tiny monitor.

[Image: 20160716_174640_zpsccxxivdk.jpg]

Sorry, that´s all i made today.  Smile

RE: My try on Blue Max - kresty - 07-17-2016

(07-15-2016, 04:59 PM)Lichtbringer Wrote: OK, no idea why the pics are not showing when using the adress from the gallery. Did it now with Photobucket.

I have to click on pix to get the full view with only the picture and then use that

RE: My try on Blue Max - deathproof - 07-17-2016

Is this from the comics or something? I love the movies (the prequels not so much) but I'm not into the cartoons or comics. And I've only read a couple of the books.