EGL Power Droid

[Jehudah]

Hello there.

I have plans to build several droids to display in a robot museum I hope to open in the near future, but was going to start with the EG Power droid until I suddenly came across a rainwater tank that somehow looked very familiar. A quick search later and I saw it was indeed the same type used for the new EGL power droid. I just had to buy one, and felt quite excited that I could finally catch a break and start building a life-size droid from my favorite movie series just from buying this rainwater tank.

I've seen a lot of complaining about how this droid was made, but seeing as the original "Gonk" was made from a couple of storage bins with greeblies and legs, making a droid from a rainwater tank with greeblies and legs seems to fit right in with how they always made things for Star Wars, and many agree on that too. I thought I should share my project here and all the parts I have identified for it so others can make this droid too, and maybe someone can identify the rest of the parts I haven't found yet. Otherwise we live in the age of 3D-printing where I could fill in the rest anyway.

Reference images for this droid are scarce to say the least, and it is only seen for seconds in The Force Awakens and The Book Of Boba Fett. However there is a very good 3D-model of it in Star Wars Battlefront II that was most likely made through photogrammetry (3D-scanning), seeing as the weathering on the 3D-model even matches the real droid.


Body - - - 100l rainwater tank, also known as a water butt... Several brands seem to use the same shared mold. I got mine from Greenline. The one from Maze has their logo molded into the plastic, so was likely not the one used. Available in black, gray, and green. The whole droid seems to have been painted dark gray, so tank color doesn't really matter.


Face - - - Some sort of tray or storage bin with flat corners that are usually seen on food packaging and other industrial boxes. I haven't identified it yet, but from the Battlefront II textures it seems roughly 5" X 6" (125mm X 155mm) in size. The circular grill part is a sink drain strainer at 80mm wide. Two other details in the tray are likely some sort of male pipe stoppers or hole plugs at 3/4" and 1 1/4" wide.



Righthand corner - - - Seems to be an Airfit screw-fit branch coupling. These are made in several sizes, but after making a template in both 110mm and 125mm, the largest seems to fit the best. The front coupling seems to be for a 40mm pipe rather than the 50mm.


Lefthand corner - - - The Battlefront II model seems to have a drain trap with convex inner walls and other details that I could only find on a Dallmer type 42 drain trap insert, but other reference images makes this part look sort of different, so I am still not sure about this one. The smaller part inside it is a John Guest speed-fit tank connector. These also come in several sizes, but seems to be the 15mm one.

Back - - - Some sort of screw-fit connector I haven't identified yet, but I imagine it is something like in this picture. Again there are two sink drain strainers at 70mm and 60mm, and the top part seems to be a splittable pipe collar for 22mm pipes. (Another image shows this part losing its paint to reveal it was indeed white).

Legs - - - Black flexible spiral-type air duct hose at 4" (100mm). The feet are made of four Stanley Storage boxes (type #3), which coincidentally are sold in 4-packs. The part that connect them on the sides is actually the back of the storage boxes that was cut off. (These were also used for the new KT power droid).


That's all I have found so far, and hopefully we can find the rest. There seems to be an overall theme of plumbing and pipe parts on this whole droid, so maybe the few unidentified parts are related to that as well. Now I just need to figure out the appropriate sizes and buy the parts to put it all together into my first life-size Star Wars droid.