![]() The ring was resting on this little pillow, hidden inside. The only thing that kept me going, was the thought, that injection molded parts would probably lack of some details and here, I could make what I needed. This was the moment when I regretted that I didn’t buy this toy as a base platform. To give you an idea, each of this 2 little parts on photo below was made of 59 separate pieces, assembled together and sanded. It was many of them, especially when making the tracks driving mechanism. I still had to scale their drawings and prepare my own parts for laser cutting in styrene sheets. They did amazing job, their plans were professional with all the dimensions and 3d views, what saved me countless hours watching e Wall E movie on DVD trying to capture the images of the character from all angles. They have all their plans published for free, just sign in, browse and learn. Wall_E builders club reverse engineered this character to build the full scale working robot, some of them can be found on Youtube. When I got the question about making small Wall-E a personalized engagement ring box, I couldn’t say NO. I always wanted to build him as a remote controlled animatronic figure. I built yy very first Wall-E ring box for a gentleman from Los Angeles who found me through my previous work. ![]() Building First Wall-E Engagement Ring Box ![]() ![]() All I need is more space, free time and funds. I have some experience in building at this scale on BB-8 project, but this robot has much more moving parts and everything is more complex. I watch the Facebook group focused on recreating every detail of this character so it is possible. It is my biggest dream to build him as full scale animatronic figure. Wall-E became my favorite robot from the moment I saw him in Pixar movie. ![]()
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