This is my first attempt at making a scale robot. It’s T-Hex based, it’s a mech, but no guns yet. 1:24th scale people are more difficult to find than 1:35th, but 1:24th scale fit better. The first thing that needs attention is the servos. I need to vacuum mold some covers that make them look like futuristic power systems or something. lol
Love all the pictures!
By 1/24 scale, you mean there’s a REAL ONE out there, 24 times bigger? :>)
I haven’t seen a full-sized quad-rotor, but there are a lot of really nice scale helicopters out there!
Bell 222
I’m really getting interested in flying one of the small trainers.
Blade CX3.
Alan KM6VV
Hi Jim,
Immediately after your release of this new section I thought of your T-Hex. Very cool indeed! 
I believe there are several robots that has great potential as a scale robot. I do like your detailed camouflage cover, well done. Having access to an vacuum machine is almost a must for these kind of robots.
I do hope to post a suitable robot for this section one time.
Real nice Jim…!
Can you put a picture with something aside to compare the size ?
Does this help. (it’s from the product page on the website)
My bad…
was thinking it was a bigger version …!
No Eric, it’s not full size. It’s a model. bwaaa haaa haaa!!! :mrgreen:
Oh…!
i am sad now… 
T-Hex + AL5D = Timber Jack?
Do not be concerned over your error, Eric. I made a similar mistake the opposite direction. I came home from having my neck stretched with my pain medicine induced neurons firing and supressiing all over the place and saw Jim’s post. I thought, "Wow he has created whole flocks of little miniaturized T-Hexs that can operated in swarms. How did he do that, and can I get a bunch of them?"
Then I lost them for three days and couldn’t find them again until Sunday.
All rise, raise your right hands and repeat after me. “Unless I have an ulimited spare parts budget, I will not attempt to assemble a 4-DOF leg to an SSC-32 with a propane torch. while ingesting more than 15 mg of oxycodone every six hours.” Of course your results may vary.
Robot Dude: Can you give me a source for those great people?. They are unlike any I have seen and would be great on my G-Scale railroad.
I know that 1:24th scale people are harder to trace out as compared with 1:35th. I personally observed that 1:24th scale is best and recommended technique.
Hi FARRELL,
I love it! Looks like you’re closing in on inventing a T-Hex-A-Sketch. Just need some way to feed its output through a Spell Checker for a unique Word Processor.
If you could squirt hot plastic through the pen barrel, you could give Maker Bot a run for their money in the 3D printing arena. (Maybe you might enlist DiaLFonZO to help you with this.)
Will you be using radio control, or LynxMotion PS-2s? Perhaps INNERBREED could help you design animatronic controlls using choke cables.
I’d like to see videos of your progress. Maybe April 1st would be a good phase point. 
Im off topic but in reply to you roboted, I have started initial ideas for a 3d printing hexapod robot. Similar to what matt denton did with his hexapod V4 cnc router hex but with extruder.
Guys…
I agree, 1:24 looks good in the pics… but I want to aim for 1:16 scale. Why that scale?
Its so I can link them up with the HengLong Bb-shooting/IR shooting tanks, and the Tamiya tanks. They are 1/16 scale, and properly a 6’ person is 4.5" tall in the scale, but they always tried to pick Tankers from the smaller guys, right? So the 3.75" Joes and other mini-figs make for perfect posable crew.
The older version of the Kyosho LAV (that used the Half-8 Inferno race buggy chassis) was a gorgeous 1:16 chassis to go with it, though the new version is the same scale (but toy-class chassis/electronics)
And for transport? Tamiya makes a flatbed, and Carson has a Goldhofer lowboy, better than the small one the 1:1 ‘Mantis’ hexapod uses for transport. I’ll take some pics when my T-Hex arrives, hm (as I’ve got both the flatbed and the lowboy)
WhiteWolf
- arguing with the RCU guys about whether mecha is ‘armor’ or robotics… sigh