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The factory parts looked too large to me when comparing movie stills so I went with the PE parts and repurposed the originals.

Made some good progress this weekend. Created a PCB of the circuit. Created a new whatever it is called for the top of his head that lights. Drilled the disc in his chest so I can get some flashing lights in there. Finally everything is in primer.

Got some more PE work done and am able to move back to plastic. Woohoo, sanding and puttying! Also included a comparison between the kit and PE part.

Super exciting turn of events for me. I dropped something on the floor and while searching I found the missing discs! Isn’t it always funny that you can look forever with no luck and then suddenly days later there it is right in the open. Having found my missing parts I disassembled the completed Weapons Immobilizer and built a new one. All four are done! They are not perfect but so much better. I can live with these. I have now moved on to the valves and am determining which to make open and closed.

A comparison of what I have done and the original.

You are correct the hole in the disk is just a little bit too big for the rod. But not so big that you have room to do much about it. I am assembling them one at a time. I think the intention was to do them all at once the included jigs let you put them all in place and then insert the rod. That sounds easier than it is, but I have done that. But the problem then is if you try to glue them all at once, you would also be gluing the jig to the assembly so that won’t work. I have disassembled one of them to try again. I took a piece of brass rod and I’m trying a slightly different approach. However, in disassembling the one I lost two of the disc. I guess I can always put this one on the backside. The brass rod seems to fit slightly better just enough that if I put them on one at a time with thick superglue after it has completely dried file away some of the dried glue leave just enough behind as a spacer for the next rod. I’m having success with this approach so I’ll have to disassemble them all and start over, although this time I will try not to lose anymore

Thanks. It is about 7 inches tall.

Great job!

Looks great. Super nice build

Good choice going with the surrey. Turned out nice

Great topic. Looks great.

Looks great. I am a big fan of this era of race cars.

Great job. Looks like it was worth the wait.

Looks like a fun kit to do

Looks good. I love that color.

Turned out excellent

Thanks for the encouragement, sincerely I needed it. Hopefully this long weekend I can work up the courage to do some more.

I hope you are having as much fun with it as I did. I am thinking about doing another following the new box art.

Thanks.

Thanks. I think I have learned the limit of my skills or dexterity. I am suffering horribly with the little discs on the rod. Over an hours worth of work and I have two done and neither one looks as good as it should. Unfortunately I have two more to do. These are proving to just be painful to do. Hope I can move past this step soon so I can start to enjoy this build again.

Struggling with PE. This is my first attempt with PE and the results are mixed. Getting the little discs on the rod is taking a lot of effort and I have not figured out a good way to get them to stay straight while glueing. The PE kit came with a jig to hold them in place but it is not as fool proof as I hoped. Or I am more of a fool than they proofed the jig for.

I did not know those aftermarket parts existed. Thanks. I have been sanding, a lot. Still not done. The leg seams are taking a lot of work.

Have not done a lot. Painted the base, glued and sanded seams for the hands and feet. Glued the legs together today, big seams to deal with. I am also debating adding lights so I played with that also. Made a circuit and figured out how run fiber optics. Still have not made up my mind if I will do it or not.

Great to see that Robby is a favorite for a lot of people. I recently watched Forbidden Planet again and decided about 5 minutes after Robby showed up that he had to be my next project.

This is a completely new endeavor for me. I have never built any sort of figure before. I also decided to try using the PE set to add detail, another first. So I thought I would do a wip with the hopes I could pick up some helpful advice along the way.