here some idea's i wil post as soon the robot are fully painted.am painting one , yellow and one blue.a awesome brand of paint is the motip.it dry's within 1 hour, covers averything in one layer.here are some pics.the yellow is a diff brand, sencys not very good.it takes 2 days and nights to dry.

blue excelent paint motip

yellow

When you said "bag" and "paint" my first though was "Shake'N Bake", which would probably be bad for painting, so I'm glad that was not your idea! ;)

Did you have to prep the plastic before painting by doing any sanding to help the paint stick? I try to find a plastic spray paint and primer all in one and have good luck with it. But that craft spray looks pretty good Patrick!

Looks good Patrick!

When I made darth Vader, I first prepped the plastic with an etching primer. A very light coat of the etching primer before the paint. It seemed to hold up well.

i used pads from the farmacie chop to make the parts clean and paint it. it looks very good.hopes it stays on.

i will make a video tomorow how i painted and make the parts clean. these are the alcohol pads from the pharmacie store.you can clean the parts ,

Good job...and thanks for the info on the brand, one hour is very fast for drying! Nice! :)

hi mickey

it dry in about 30 min,but i take 1 hour for sure.

here's the video for painting.aldo the parts are dry in about 20 to 30 minutes, it would be good to let it harden for a day or so.you can assemble and calibrate the, robot after 30 minutes.try not to overpaint the parts.the drying proces can be hard.

Hey @Nomad, Very cool. One of my's JD is slowly morphing into a mix of purchased and 3D printed Parts so this a great way to bring them all back to look the same.

JD is a great robot and I like the idea of giving him a makeover. Adding pieces like the JD backback that @JustinRatliff design that you printed to hide some of the wires is great. https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/9352&page=6 and also having servo covers that hide the wires all painted the same color would also be good. (Did anyone ever create any servo/wire covers)?

Not that i know of

Your paint ideas for JD look great. You can make servo wire spiral wraps from drinking straws of any color. Use a kids handheld pencil sharperner. Just crank the straw through and that's it.

Hi rb550f

i understand what you are saying.i saw that on tv. good tip thanks.

@rb550f I was thinking more of covers that hide the servos and wires etc and improve the overall aesthetics of the robot. A bit like NAO or even XLR-One or the Altair. Although not to replace the robot just add covers to the robots servos and wires. This probably involves removing the existing PVC plastic components on the servos and replacing them with 3D printed components that are round smooth and customized for each servo depending on the location on JD.

Today the focus on EZ-Robot is more about functionality and component interchangeability (and JD does this very well) versus a standalone polished clean finished single use robot. Probably not viable from a commercial standpoint but for geeks 3D printing their own covers would fantastic.

Could we make JD look more like this with the addition of 3D printed covers ?

Hey @Nomad, those pieces look great. Something i learned while painting darth vader, is about the paint drying. To really know when paint is actually dry is by smelling it. If the paint has a scent, its not dry. it'll not smell when it's dry

Haha great dj.you can feel it to.the parts are cold.

here is the dome six in duo color.keep the white as it is and paint the dome and, under side.

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you can feel it to.the parts are cold

hi mickey yes indd cold i did some cheking on the motip colors.they have a lot of color,also, with glinters in and dry in 10 minites.my next wil be in gold color.

here the blue/white adventurebot

The blue really pops! I like it a lot!

hi justin

yes it does.especially with the white color.

here is the gold color from motip.also dry in 10 minutes.

i also notest some diff in the screws from the feet of jd. they are smaller heads of the screws.

one golden ezbv4 and base

here he is the golden jd with backpack.dj can you upload a pic from the primer you used.just incase ,its good to prime the 3d print parts.

also here i notest the screws in feets are totally screwed in the hole.easy fix do.

That gold looks fantastic! He looks very C3PO like!

hi justin

i will make a video soon.i made a new sit down too for him wiht the backpack. he also have the gold ezbv4 in his back.

here is the video with the new sit down called ( down ). bolt original works with some adjustment in the motion.

Yaaaaaaaay C3PO goldn boy! :D

What is the EZB mods on the Meccanoid behind C3PO ?

NINK

the mecca has two ezbv4.one for driving and the other is for the head and arms. its the original ARC for jd.all servo's are HDD.it has 4 ping sensors. all movements in the arms like up and down,inwarts or outwarts.turning wrist. two rgb for the eyes.one camera.two batteries and two chargers.

justin

here the ezbv4 in blue color.

and body six in blue and gold

I love the gold JD in post #25. That really does look good against the black parts of the servos. Nicely done with all the paintwork. :)

Hi steve G Thanks i love the gold color too.i would love to do a. chrome one.

testing more colors.

motip chrome.very diff to paint and drying takes 2 days. problems are heavy paint,all paint will drop to the lowest point. grease problems all over.

motip yellow.good paint dry in 1 hour

motip fluo greengood paint dry in 45 minutes .need two layers.

motip green good paint dry in 1 day. need two layers.

here is a red jd robot.painted with the motip .there are 3 difficult colors, from this brand,and that is the red/yellow/green. just by accident i stumbled on these two colors together. also there is a way to paint the the eyes.it looks a little horror to do so. just dril them out from the backside.paint the head.and then in the link, below you find the transparent white disk from 32 mm to cover the, eyes back.they look just desame.glu whit super glu two tiny drops, the disk in place.

here the video red jd

here the link disk

disk

Good work on all of your painting!

hi mcsdaver

thanks .was really much fun to do.

ok i didn like the yellow color,cause it wasn paint good.so i changed that, into green.here are some pics.

Green and Yellow looks really good like that on JD.

Did all Yellow make him look like Big Bird? :P

haha justin

no there where some bad spots,but now there gone.