by PurpleDave » Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:26 pm
I agree that they've failed to make a really attention-grabbing Probe Droid, but they can be improved sometimes. I think it was the first version they did where I got a double of the smallest bag in my set, which included all of the black battle droid arms. I used a few of them to make the arms more proportional to the body, and stuck one more on for the short manipulator arm. Not the fanciest, and certainly not kid-proof, but it looks a lot better. I did another one about the same size as yours, completely from scratch, and all in white with clear for the eyes (snow sculpture). And I made one around an original Toa torso as part of my Star Wars Bionicle series.
Ironically, I still have no true sense of scale between the Probe Droid and a human. As such, I don't know if yours is in minifig scale, or if my gut instinct is correct about it being a little on the large side. Obviously, shrinking it even a little will require losing a lot of detail. And that's the ironic part. I can't really make out much detail because of how you shot the video. Inside with more controlled lighting, or even just pointing a portable lamp or two at it to help compensate for the overpowering backlight would really improve the video. Maybe if I was using a computer with a large screen, it'd help in that regard, but the details are pretty much obscured by shadow on my iPod.
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