Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Building up to Maker Faire: The Final Reveal”.
Hi, my name is sean thorson. I make props and costumes for all sorts of different applications and this year to get ready for the maker faire, i’m building a giant bad guy robot from the original robocop movies called ed209. It’S going to be everything i can do to get it done just in time for the event – and here we go welcome back we’re here saturday morning, at the maker faire and just in time me and the crew, we actually managed to get the entire robot here And put together uh, it turns out. We didn’t actually get the whole thing stacked up until about 7 p.m.
On thursday night, and then everyone stood around and stared at it and went wow. It’S really big for about half an hour managed to pull it all. Apart put it on the truck, get it down here yesterday for setup and as you can see, the whole thing is here and impressive: um a lot of the details that really came together in the last minute, which i’m really proud of.
If you take a look, we’ve got these warning labels that were printed up by one of the guys who wasn’t able to actually come out to the shop to help out. But while he’s off at school, he actually went through and photoshopped all little warning labels with all the you know, look out for this and look out for that at some point. One of them says it causes cancer and birth defects and other reproductive harms, like everything.
In the state of california down here, you can see some grease marks that were actually weathered in. This is one of the last little finishing touches. I mentioned in my last article the concept of verisimilitude, and you can see where the grease streaks stop, where the squeegee effect cleans off the hydraulic rams.
It’S another one of those little elements of truth that makes fiction that much more believable. Moving on. You can actually see here a few drops of uh what we’re calling elbow grease again. It’S the same sort of blended mix of acrylic paints, a little more brown sort of ochre rust, color added in to make it look less. Like just plain, you know age and more, like it’s actually used motor oil um moving along uh we’ve got more warning labels more vac form parts. The very last thing to come together was a rocket launcher and you hear a lot of people talk about easter eggs. Hidden in different projects, well, in this case, we have quite literally used easter eggs to simulate the warheads on the rockets, so all told from the very beginning of the very first piece of material being cut for this project, actually getting it here on site. I had 96 days to build the thing uh.
It was a very too close call. There was a lot of times where there was really losing sleep wondering if it was going to happen at all and uh. In the end i got ta say it came together. You .