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Announcements / Re: Forum upgrades, improvemen...

Last post by MrTorso - Today at 06:48:23 AM

Wow!  Looks great!

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Youtube: The Thread

Last post by MartyS (Gromit) - October 24, 2026, 07:26:35 PM

Testing how the new forum update does video.
Two summers back the Battleship NJ was in drydock and they sold tours so you could walk under the ship.
It was awesome, I put a slideshow on YT of my best pictures:

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by LucasM - October 24, 2026, 05:54:28 PM

They definitely look awesome, MartyS!  With all that you've posted (like the Enterprise, before) I've been impressed with your model-building and painting skills.

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Deathsport / Re: DeathSport Is Out Now!

Last post by RVR II - October 24, 2026, 05:08:21 PM

Oh man, I can't wait to see those!

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Deathsport / Re: DeathSport Is Out Now!

Last post by torgosPizza - October 24, 2026, 03:50:08 PM

Too bad there's not a Blooper reel added to this. Those takes would've been classic!

Don't worry, there will be bloopers!

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by MartyS (Gromit) - October 24, 2026, 02:58:46 PM

In reply to MartyS (Gromit)
How long did take you to create the bot parts and assemble them?

I bought the parts for the bots from a seller on eBay.

Many of the parts required trimming, sanding, drilling holes for screws.  Trimming the vacuformed parts was probably the most work.  

I spent several hours a day for about 3 to 4 weeks working on them.  Over 100 hours for sure.

Servo was very easy, Crow has way more parts and the mechanism for moving his eyes is a bit tricky to build and adjust.

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by lunkquill - October 24, 2026, 01:27:18 PM

Well, since I retired no one took over maintenance of the web server I had all my pictures on, and I think this PHP bug scared them into shutting it down, so all my old posts with pictures are blank.  Darn...

I guess this place still only allows pictures from other sites so I can't share pictures of my post retirement projects, a brass lighter I made on my lathe, and a Crow and Servo that took a month to build and paint made from kits bought off eBay.

How long did take you to create the bot parts and assemble them?

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by MartyS (Gromit) - October 24, 2026, 11:29:44 AM

By the way, I'm still on the free plan from Dropbox, so you don't have to pay to use it and share files.
They will of course try to up-sell you constantly.
I think the free plan is limited to 2.25 of cloud storage, for $10 a month you can get 2TB.

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by RVR II - October 24, 2026, 12:02:36 AM

Those bots turned out excellent by the way 

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General (Off-Topic) Discussion / Re: Cool/Interesting/Funny Fan...

Last post by MartyS (Gromit) - October 23, 2026, 06:31:37 PM

Well, since I retired no one took over maintenance of the web server I had all my pictures on, and I think this PHP bug scared them into shutting it down, so all my old posts with pictures are blank.  Darn...

I guess this place still only allows pictures from other sites so I can't share pictures of my post retirement projects, a brass lighter I made on my lathe, and a Crow and Servo that took a month to build and paint made from kits bought off eBay.

Testing if links from DropBox work:


Yes! They do if you modify them, replacing the dl=0 with raw=1

And here's all the parts before putting them all together and painting: