"saving" bendy crab droid.

[YPU]

A while ago I grabbed a WotC bendy crab droid from the forum swapping box. Design wise it's not a horrible model but pretty much ruined by spindly legs which in the bendy material go all over the place. Not entirely sure yet what to use this as, maybe even just a run down industrial droid as terrain. I printed new leg segments for it. The prints didn't turn out great but far superior to the bendy stuff.



The legs are pinned into the body with metal rods, the bendy plastic takes these very well turning them into possible joints. without glue.



I switched the smallest legs which were originally the hind legs to the front as this give it a more crabby look imho.





I really like the angles at which the leg segments ended up.



A bottom pic to show the conections, as said all of them swivel.



And finally a scale ref pic with crossover 28mm and a 1/100 (15mm ish) pilot.

[The_Beast]

I had a couple of those droids; the first was immediately cut into seven retro space ships.

Lovely 'swoosh' to them.

As will the other, as soon as I find it... 

Doug

[YPU]

Lovely 'swoosh' to them.

Have to agree, I was considering using a pair of this one's legs as side wings for a scratch build speederbike. 

[Daeothar]

I picked it up a couple of years ago at the bring & Sell at Crisis, but it was already pretty bent and I never got to do anything with it, so into the LAF-box it went...

I'm glad somebody finally got it to look as if nobody actually stepped on it...

Great work on the replacement parts!

[OSHIROmodels]

Is it from Star Wars then 

Looks useful wherever it's from 

cheers

James

[YPU]

Is it from Star Wars then 

Looks useful wherever it's from 

yep, and it's already missing the worst parts.  Having tried to strip the paint from it can't have helped it much either though.

[Damas]

Is it from Star Wars then 

Crab droid from the Clone Wars animated series.

[eilif]

Nice Save.
     You put quite a bit of work in to saving that little bendy fellow.

[YPU]

Nice Save.
     You put quite a bit of work in to saving that little bendy fellow.

Most work is still to come. For now I just drew one leg, copied it 6 times in 3 different sizes and adjusted the angle a bit, not that hard in CAD. Cutting off the bendy legs as a pleasure anyway. Then it was just printing and drilling a couple of holes and gluing the stuff.

I picked it up a couple of years ago at the bring & Sell at Crisis, but it was already pretty bent and I never got to do anything with it, so into the LAF-box it went...

I'm glad somebody finally got it to look as if nobody actually stepped on it...

So it only took one step down the list then?  Yea it really did look like somebody had stepped on it. Some corners etc were also damaged. Still, fine for a battered industrial droid I think.

[YPU]

Done some more work on this and then it took a tumble and managed to break each leg in a different spot.