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i was thinking of a bag with all white parts in like the brackets and end parts, head body feets.so that you can paint your own robot,in color that you want.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

JustinRatliff · Answer

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!

DJ Sures · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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 ,

Mickey666Maus · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nink · Answer

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)?

Nomad 6R · Answer

Not that i know of

rb550f · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

Hi rb550f i understand what you are saying.i saw that on tv. good tip thanks.

Nink · Answer

@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 ?

DJ Sures · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Mickey666Maus · Answer

Quote:you can feel it to.the parts are cold So true...never thought about it, but so true!

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

here the blue/white adventurebot

JustinRatliff · Answer

The blue really pops! I like it a lot!

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi justin yes it does.especially with the white color.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

one golden ezbv4 and base

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

JustinRatliff · Answer

That gold looks fantastic! He looks very C3PO like!

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Mickey666Maus · Answer

Yaaaaaaaay C3PO goldn boy!

Nink · Answer

What is the EZB mods on the Meccanoid behind C3PO ?

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

justin here the ezbv4 in blue color.  and body six in blue and gold

Steve G · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Nomad 6R · Answer

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.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

David mcsdaver · Answer

Good work on all of your painting!

Nomad 6R · Answer

hi mcsdaver thanks .was really much fun to do.

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

JustinRatliff · Answer

Green and Yellow looks really good like that on JD. Did all Yellow make him look like Big Bird?

Nomad 6R · Answer

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

Nomad 6R

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