Star Wars Shoes 1.2

Toe work done to shoe no2.

Another few hours working last night, mostly on the edges, but also got the front done.
Almost finished.
My friend is VERY excited lol.

Outer feet - motorisation is on it's way 1.1

Whilst waiting for my wheels to arrive, (over a week now!) I've been swotting up on build designs for R5's motorised feet. Also been sourcing material for the new internals. I found some scrap brass bar which I machined up to use for spacer tubes for the motor fixing screws. These can be seen bottom of the pic. The motor has a post-it on it for hole location transfere checking.

I'm planning on having a go at modifying my original internal frame to accomadate the motor and new wheel. The metal plate strip I'm planning on using to locate the new wheel's axel.

Star Wars shoes 1.1

Work on second shoe,
finished off detail to outside face, most work done to inside face....

Another fw hours working on both pairs.

Just to recap how I did these. First I read the comic book from cover to cover lol.

I then cut out 'iconic' images, Vader, Han, X-Wings, Tie's, Stormtroopers etc.
Next, I looked for & cut out enlarged text printed, sound effects etc.
These were added on top of the pictures.

This next bit is just me, I selected what I wanted & where I wanted these main images to go.
I then applied the mod podge onto an area of the shoe.
I started at the back along the seem and applied my first piece.
Some of the larger pieces I cut 'bend cuts' into, to help curve to the shoe. I then applied mod podge onto first piece and overlapped with next picture piece.
Just continued all around the shoe.

After she showed all her friends the work in progress pics,
I now I have a request to make a pair of 'Avengers' heels lol.

More to come on the Star Wars heels..............

Star Wars shoes 1.0

A female friend of mine 'K', who loves Star Wars, wanted a pair of Star Wars heels.
She found a woman on Facebook, who would decorated shoes.
She had asked me (back in September 2013) if I could do it, but didn't have time
or the know how,to make them in time for when she wanted them.

So she 'ordered and paid' this woman to make/cover a pair of heels with Star Wars pics on them. This process is called decoupage and you use a product called 'mod podge'. After waiting months [longer than originally stated], they never arrived and because it was longer than 3 months, Paypal said there's nothing they can now do!
So I said I'd have a look into how to do it.

She also asked for a pic of R5 to appear on them lol.

Before working on them.... Those keen eyes among you will notice this is an old pic ;D

R5's NOT to impressued I'm working on something other than him lol.

Here is where I started....

Pics of shoes, mag and glue

Sunday was May 4th, so as good a day as any to start on K's shoes.

I had read 'how to' sites but was still not sure if I could do 'random' cutting up??
So deliberatly cutting random, cut-n-paste, is new to me............ 
.............well not since I was in primary school, lol.
The pics are ones sent for progress updates & to confirm she was happy with them.

This took about 3hrs to do and I did manage to start on the other shoe.

More to follow.....

Outer feet - motorisation is on it's way 1.0

I've managed to save up some cash and have started seriously looking at electric motors & wheels. I sort of know what I'm after, it's just the matching codes for motors with codes for belts and number of teeth etc lol.

I was looking at having chain driven drives, as my thinking was R5 is heavy. But on talking to fellow builders at last weekends event, I was reassured that the normal rubber belts and motors should easily cope. So I've ordered sets of motor's, wheel's & belts......£36 (UK pounds)

Next up will be alxe's & then, new frame internal's for the motor's.