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Title: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: tinman on March 20, 2009, 07:10:56 AM: Hi,
Well I'm new here and just got my Pleo yesterday. It happens that his name is Bob too.
I bought some oilbased clay and some Silicone casting resin a few weeks ago to make a fake hand.
But looks like I have the perfect project for it now.
I have a silicone resin what's called Dragon skin from www.smooth-on.com So fittingly I'm changing Bob(Pleo) into Drakor the dragon.
I think his frame will be perfect for a baby dragon.
I take it that there is no place to plug extra servos for the wings, so that will have to be controlled by sound I suppose.
A high pitched tone with the wing position embedded into the sound. That should work.
All the sensors should still work.
And a few skits with Dragon sounds will work nicely. No fire though. lol.

Once I have the clay done I'll post pictures.
Or if anyone has some good Baby Dragon pics for reference.

Cheers
Tinman
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: gucci_boi7782 on March 20, 2009, 10:48:22 AM: Welcome to the forums, Tinman & Bob!! So glad you could make it!
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: bjoreman on March 20, 2009, 10:49:35 AM: Now there's a neat project! Can't wait to see how it turns out!

And yes, warmly welcome to the forums!
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on March 20, 2009, 03:31:47 PM: Welcome Tinman and Drakor Bob, wow that certainly sounds an interesting project, I don't think anyone has tried that before, certainly not on these forums. Keep us posted on how you are going :)
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: mweed on March 20, 2009, 04:20:00 PM: How do you plan to mount the wings? They'll need to be secured to the back . . .
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: degers on March 20, 2009, 04:55:33 PM: I hjave heard of dragon skin before, Mythbusters used it! GOOD LUCK!
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: fancyfont on March 20, 2009, 06:47:49 PM: Welcome Tinman and Bob the almost dragon. Can't wait to see if this new skin works.
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: tinman on March 20, 2009, 07:06:08 PM: Hi Guys,
Thanks for the warm welcome.
I need to take an inner mould first, So the skin may have to come off or I will just copy it from clay.
I'll have to change the eyes too. I have the clear polyurethane for that too.
I found these cool plastics, rubbers and silicones than can prety much copy or make anything.

So to answer mweeds question. It will be mounted onto his back. I need to see if there are any types of mounting areas already there.

and fancyfont, the dragon skin is a super elastic silicon used for special effects, you will find it will be very much the same what they have used on Pleo.

Tinman
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: justbede on March 22, 2009, 11:31:36 AM: Welcome Tinman and Bob, sweet idea sounds like you know a bit about robotics/animatronics you should start a thread :D you could get quite a business going if you were so inclined i know I'd love to customize Baxter heh.
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: tinman on March 23, 2009, 05:10:15 AM: Hi justbede,
Yeh I have had a bit of a play around in that area,
I'll start a thread when I get started on the project. A bit on my plate at the moment.

Tinman
Title: Re: Making New Pleo Skin.
Post by: allosaurus on March 29, 2009, 04:58:35 AM: Quote from: degers on March 20, 2009, 04:55:33 PM
I hjave heard of dragon skin before, Mythbusters used it! GOOD LUCK!

That's why I'm familiar with it. I'm a major MythBusters fan. ;)