I spent spare time at work removing the old 1995 faded stickers in preperation for a new paint job. My little sister loves bright frog green like mel so I was thinking of doing camouflage but with a brighter base color green..

You're going to be able to start your own mech warrior league lol.

Exactly! Lol we will have three total. It should be fun

My bosses playing with the Rad Robot at work.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKDM6DnO1g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I also found that dry erase board cleaner removed stickers without leaving any residue.

Hey Josh the vid is set as private. :/

Sigh. My mobile app shows it is uploaded but I cant edit it. Then I log in the website and it doesnt even have the video avail to edit preferences like I never uploaded it :/

Its fixed!

I would just like to point out that there are no connectors in the rad. Every connection is soldered so I had to cut all the wires to get each section apart. I am possibly thinking of cutting out the cup holder to make room for a battery but we will see later. Here is rad taken apart minus the arms...

The rad 1.0 looks more feminine than rad 2.0 I have on the way. Since this is a girls mech warrior robot ofcourse it gets a different flavor of paint job....

I do not believe I will leave it solid pink. I was thinking of pink as the base and then camouflage over it. Ive seen this before. Whats everyone s opinion?

Here are general examples of pink camouflage.

That color should show up nicely with EZ-B color tracking... "Automatic targeting enabled, target aquired... FIRE"

Im frustrated at the moment on this rad robot. First coat of paint was fine however today the paint is wrinkled in various spots. This usually happens if the surface is not clean but thats not the case for sure. Camouflage type paint job is the only option at this point. I will try to cut a stencil while this second coat dries.

I tried rotating the pics and reloading but it still showed sideways on the forum

I personally like it without grey so I think im going to spray pink agian and only use white and black with stencil s

From what I see in the photo, the grey actually helps with the real purpose of camo (pattern breaking)... but for your purpose I would think Pink, White and Red would be nice for aesthetics.

I will let this dry overnight and get back to it tommorow when it is warm agian and I can see better.

Due to certain areas not sticking and flacking off I must wait till this fully dries sand it wash it and then use etching primer before painting agian.

Thats a shame it flaked and wrinkled. Im sure the sanding and primer will work the next time. I have the same problem with photos going sideways. I just have to upload them to my laptop first, rotate then post. :/

Yea I hate it came out like that so I will sorta start over but now I have a idea of the pattern im doing and I will make smaller flexible stencils. In the mean time rad got hungry......

I have another rad robot body primed and getting an pink paint job. The previous on you see here had some serious finish problems. This is a robot for my little sister as a toy she is 10 yrs old.

Some say it was silicon contaminants on the other body. The primer has not wrinkled at all so thats a great sign. There is a large gauge on top of the head I will cover up with filler. I did salvage three good darts for the original chest cannon to use on her robot. Updates will come for this project soon as it gets that spot on the head filled

You would think I had a robot assembly line in my apartment ha ha. Least my roomate puts up with me dremeling at 2am.

Ok the robot was primed and now painted watermelon pink. Once this has dried a day or two I will add some accents. Green is what my little sister wants so this robot will have a watermelon theme. It will get a EZ Robot fabric paint stencil in green , Aponi (her name) and I will use the fabric paint to add water melon seed accents speckled all over. I may even make a leafy vine going up each side in green too. As you can tell Im making these as Christmas gifts for us all the play with. She said she didnt want guns but I know better. I have two guns ready for when she says she wants to play mech wars with the boys

Make her bot spit watermelon seeds Then it's not really a gun, but can still compete.. sorta

Ironically I already picked up 6000 bright green bbs to go with the watermelon theme. So I guess she would be shooting seeds lol.

Girlie rad robot gets its paint job-

Yeah, that's pretty in pink lol.

Lol. It is about as girly as it can get.

Nah... it still needs a pink (or green) wig, then it will reach it's full girly potential

Lol like angel wings? I need one of those frilly necklaces girls hang from their mirror and put it around the bots neck too lol

Hmmmmmmm.....

I been posting on trossen robotics for the mech warrior projects because I want to be sure I can compete and no one talks to me. I am getting lots of views but no replies.

I'm going to have to check that forum out. I wonder why youre not getting replies. :/

Because they're not as cool as us... Hey Troy, long time no hear.

Yeah, I got a couple of those for Gunslinger Bob, same idea. How is the girly girl bot coming? Haven't seen any pics or posts in a while.

Girl bot I gave to my little sister for Christmas. She descided agianst airsoft guns on hers

Oh, is she loving it? Did you just keep it remote controlled (original controller)?

Yea original controller. No reason to spend more money to keep original functions.

I bought a couple spare rad 2.0 robots to cut up their base so I could have 4 motors and 4 gearboxs . If thats too difficult I could do the mod I did with the omnibot 2000 gearbox and have two motors mounted agianst one input gear. I would rather have true 4wd powering the tracks though. Im also thinking about modifying the position of the idler wheels so that in the event of track derailment the robot could still move on flat surfaces by the 4 drive wheels.

It's pretty hard to derail those RAD tracks. I think you can leave the idler wheels as they are. However, I do like modding the two bases together like you show. A little fiberlass should fix that up pretty well.

Ok the motors came in. Here is a side by side picture. These motors must be 10 times stronger wow. They feel like they have tons of torque and lower rpm range. Just what you want for tank base.