A savage H015

[savagecreature]

Seeing Markus' post got me sorta thinking. Also, I had corresponded with Oliver a while back and he had said some things . . . .  anyway, to shorten the story, I started tinkering again, this time with the HO15.

Not a lot to show, yet, but I figured I'd share the process with all of you as it develops instead of waiting for the end and trying to remember what I had done.

Step A was to establish scale. I went with the concept art image as I didn't feel any of the screen sightings gave us anything more accurate.

I assumed a six foot tall figure because that's usually what you assume when you use a person as an indication of scale. The math when comparing to a six foot person is much more straight forward than someone who's, say, 5' 11".   Just under two feet for the droid seemed good, so I'm going to just go with that until someone provides more information.

Once scale is established, the second step is proportion. I set about doing the math based on measurements of edges in the photos we had of the droid and after a short time thought, 'heck with this.  I'll just match move it"

I put the image in a 3D environment and matched a cube to it. Once the cube was established I was able to approximate the focal length of the lens the image was shot with, then I was able to place the remaining large body masses and establish a reasonable match. 

Looking through the camera with the image superimposed looked like this:

Now I have the base structure from which I can measure and modify to create a more comprehensive model and from there a set of plans.

That was all the time I had to play with it today, but I think it's a good start.