bartzenegger Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 thats impressive ya frightful cad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laserman Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 All I can say is that I'm inspired!!! I have seen these type of coffee cans before, but their potential use as heads did not hit me until now. The robot is just perfect! The only things I would possibly add, and I hate to say this, but the robot needs a smoke unit for exhaust. Also a sound chip with engine sounds would be great.Henk do you have a better picture of the engine detail?awesome. I'd love to have one. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Zerox Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Great work Henk! I thought the box art was superb, but you have out Gustaved yourself with the Robot. It's amazing what you can do with a coffee tin!If you put this one into production you can add me to yourlist now. :D Superb job, well done!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic guy Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Jee Henk,Great! Impressive piece of work.Thats an awfully big bloke. I hope he runs on leadfree??? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry seven Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 :D What a beautiful job! Wonderful! Superlatives, superlatives! -L7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robothut Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 I forsee the first real steam-powered robot. I built several Steam powered robots over 10 years ago. Still have one on display in the Hut. almost All brass.AS for the robot nice work Henk. The picture as you sated are to large as I have to scrole all over the place to see the image and my system will only show me the first 2 pictures that Brian posted. I would have liked to see a p[icture of the robots left side with that chrome pipe and maybe one of the pictures that Brian posted did show it I don't know . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagnott Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Bloody Brilliant Henk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimetrooper Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 All I can say is that I'm inspired!!! I have seen these type of coffee cans before, but their potential use as heads did not hit me until now. The robot is just perfect! The only things I would possibly add, and I hate to say this, but the robot needs a smoke unit for exhaust. Also a sound chip with engine sounds would be great.Henk do you have a better picture of the engine detail?awesome. I'd love to have one. Thanks for sharing!Very cool robot . Is the head really a coffee can ? :huh: Any particular brand ? Maxwell House, Foldgers, Chock Full of Nutz ????? I may stock up on a few LOL ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.I. Gosses Posted May 25, 2005 Author Share Posted May 25, 2005 Why make what is already there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.I. Gosses Posted May 25, 2005 Author Share Posted May 25, 2005 your wish is my command!I agree about the smoker. But then I would be crucified for using "Smoker-parts and I do not know an other source. Also a smoking unit is not independent. It needs some mechanical device to push the bellows. Any source and/or model John Riggs???I do not agree about the soundchip. The thing is noisy of it's own volition. Adding electronically reproduced sound would go "out of idiom".=does not go with the period in the style of which it is made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robobob Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 What a wonderful, wonderful design...An excellent follow-up to Gustav !!(possibly this is his good-hearted, yet freakishly large son?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.I. Gosses Posted May 25, 2005 Author Share Posted May 25, 2005 Thank you all for the kind reactions. It will not be the sucessor to Gustav. It is a "one-off",or possibly a two- or three- or four-off, but no more. There is a lot of work and materials, (for starters the Giant itself) and printing the box, sending the parcel etc is all 4x Gus. It would be prohibitively expensive. It does have a head/face close to the concept of "Meteor"*. Also the colour was mixed for the Meteor.There the idea was to make it two-toned with a pastelised version of the basic colour. This is the darkened pastel of the two. It is also an experiment with the decals which you can indeed get to fit overbulges etc. An artform that is about as easy to master as tightrope walking across Niagra falls.Included a picture of the hatch on top of the head. That is a decal and with a few coats of varnish, that really blends in with the paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laserman Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Henk,Thanks for the picture of the engine. And the more I think about it, the sound chip would not be appropriate. After seeing your creation, I'm starting to look strangely at my Super Giant and its getting nervous...On decals...Micromark (www.micromark.com) has decal supplies including a softening and setting solution to help decals set perfectly around curved surfaces. I have used the stuff many times (not yet on robots) on my projects. They have several additional tools designed to help with decal setting.Not to give these folks a major plug, but if you do a lot of minature model work, they have just about everything you need to make your tasks much easier including resin casting supplies. They have an online catalog, and one they mail out.reference if you want to check their website out:Deluxe decal finishing system # 82400setting solution #82397softening solution #82399 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morbius Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Beyond belief, Henk. How can I look my pair in the (fly) eyes after viewing this materpiece?? OFF WITH THEIR *UNFORTUNATE* HEADS!! :ph34r: Amazing. I've always been such a purist that I never conceived of modifying (especially) such a large toy. Just call it a case of ROBOT ENVY!!2 Thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duxastrogirl Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Just beautiful Henk!!PS: What kind of filters uses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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