<shakes head> I'm so lame...

Hi Trevor (and everyone else...),

Thanks a lot for your reply!

My Boba is still very much a work in progress... I got my helmet as the first piece, and have completed the structural, but none of the painting, work. I don't have a shot of the servo mounted inside as yet, but here's the helmet bits:

Inside:


Outside:


RF stalk:


My servo mounts on the four screws embedded into the inside of the helmet, with the servo stalk right on top of the ear mounting bolt. I trimmed down the quad arm that came with the servo:



leaving only one arm to fit on the screw mounted into the range finder stalk. That screw rides through the curved slot I extended into the helmet, you can see in the outside shot above. After some tweaking to get everything to line up, it works very nicely in my tests. Far more complex than your plan, but for some reason I was very hesitant to lop off that ear mounting bolt.

As you can see from the outside shot, no painting yet, but I do plan on using the base surface for the silver "metal" of the final paint job.

Cheers!

why? why are you lame, the is no evidence on this entire thread saying you're lame, if anything, you are better than normal, could a normal person do this? NO!
stop telling yourself that, we are already in the top 5% of costumers....

Good bro and don't be so hard on yourself (trust me you have no reason to be). You are actually attempting something that I have put off for 10 years haha. Watching with interest as I want to put a servo on my led.

It's taken me a year to do Zam. I'm still not done. I have no regrets and I'm not about to beat myself up that I'm not done because I know when it's well and approved, I'm still goingto find something to change for improvement. As far as I know, these costumes are like owning a home: a Lifetime Work in Progress that NEVER gets done.

Now the house I bitch about alot. But it may have something to do with my son drawing with chalk all over the inside brick walls when he was five.....