Dyne's LD-F1 (D-O concept) build

[Dyne]

Wow. This is a pretty fun and exciting (if taxing for you!) build!  I'm loving watching this come together and can't wait to see it.

When i was reading the above post and you mentioned how it looked "in the art" I immediately thought "the final product is very, very rarely exactly like the concept". I guess all I'm trying to say is don't be too hard on yourself if the requirements of making it a real droid that actually 'works' forces you to change aspects of how it looks in the concept art.

Thanks.

Don't worry. At the end of the day, I'm not actually all that fussy about complete accuracy to established props, much less to concept art.  I do put in some effort to make it look good (which is what you're seeing me muse over here), but if I need to adapt things for practical reasons or just want to change things to suit my own tastes, I'm pretty content to let close enough be close enough.

I did some of that in my BB-5M build, for example, which was based on one of Christian Alzmann's BB-8 concept art domes, but after a certain point, I just outright altered or replaced some of his features for my own preferences:  Replaced the PSI with something akin to R2's fiber-optic front logics, made up a three LED PSI wholesale in place of the large "comms box" on the side, altered the antennae just because I had some greebles that would've looked fun, etc.


Note: I've just edited several images into my previous post.  Buildwise, I printed sprockets for an old version of the tracks and a small section of track to make sure the pitch is right, and I've moved to trying to crank out links and traction pads for the tracks now that I've more or less finalized their design. I'm making a push this weekend to try and get most of the body/chassis design done so I can get those parts printed and make a start on getting this thing put together soon.