Lynelle's R1 build (or the big green ugly one)

[lynellephi]

So, after CVII I'm planning to start building one of these. I don't think anyone has one, and I kinda like the military look and dorkiness of it. I've been wanting to build one for at least three years now, but with two R2's, a mouse droid, and half a scrubber droid, I've kinda got my hands full finishing the electronics on R2-AL and finishing Goldie. Thus the wait until after CVII.

I plan to make a small paper mache model first just to see how everything fits together. Then I'll probably make it out of cardboard and styrene with a wooden frame to stable it all. I'm planning a treadmill type drive system because it might be the most stable with such a large droid (he's about six feet tall full size). So, I'll keep tabs of my research and ideas here until I'm ready to build.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R1-series...mech_droid