MSE-6 Build notes

[Roger Booth]

Ok, so foam board might not be such a good idea for a 1:1 scale MSE-6.

   

Extra pieces were stuck inside the shell to strengthen but I've already damaged the top and a couple of lower edges, nothing that filler wouldn't fix but I don't want to have to keep fixing it. This first attempt in foamboard hasn't gone to waste, I can test fit parts to this before commiting to the finished droid.

The rectangles that form the joining edges to the two halves of the shell was made from layers of thin ply to achieve the correct thickness, both halves were fixed together whilst they were squared off to make sure they matched.

   

I looked for an alternative material to make the shell from and settled on 3mm plywood, it's fairly light, strong and easy to cut/work with, a mix of epoxy and wood flour was used inside to strengthen the joints.

   

   

   

I'm still waiting for the RC chassis to arrive, should be this week.

IC's and IC holders and large PCB boards have been ordered from China, this will probably take a few weeks to come through so more on this later.