Monster Mouse Droid? Maybe?

[kresty]

Part of all that laser work was making a pattern to place all the pipes - and the cutouts for the roof rack straps.

I'd decided that placing them was going to be annoying, so making a template seemed like a good idea.  They cut quick on the laser, but laying them out took most of the 2 hours I spent on CorelDraw.

A couple sheets right off the laser.

I'd had the plywood cut to 10"x42" already, so I just had to tape the stencils to the board.

Masking part locations for upper greeblies

Then a really quick & light spray with black.

Masking part locations for upper greeblies

Since some of the parts would make the stencils fall apart &/or overlapped, I did a 2nd layer of stencil.

Masking part locations for upper greeblies

And with both of them all sprayed.  I hope this'll help a lot and make things faster.  

Masking part locations for upper greeblies

On the left you can see where the darker slots for the straps share the space of a couple of the pipes.  I was a little worried about that, but decided I'd "just" notch the bottom of those 2 pipes on the side for the straps.

On the right side there'll actually be 4 small short pipes vertically where that one black circle is, which is all over the straps, so I decided to raise that a bit on a platform so that the straps and the pipes can coexist.  (Interestingly in JoyMonkey's files, those pipes are recessed, and I'm raising them.)

Oh, that reminds me.  I used JoyMonkey's files as a rough guide.  There's a lot about this that can't be exact, so I'm just trying to get the general idea.