Star Wars Desert Scouts - Custom DIY Droid Scratch Build and Diorama
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- A fun DIY how to video - making a Desert Scout Droid to go with the Desert Trooper I painted a while back. This little Desert Scout Droid and his Desert Trooper friend are following the tracks of what I'm sure has something to do with Rebel Troops. And of course a few Final Faction parts!
This is a little scratch building and a little kit bashing and inspiration from Boylei Hobby Time and his amazing work with LEDs. I ran wiring in the base of the diorama to a tea light in the head of the desert droid of a little added effect.
I hope you enjoy this custom DIY Scratch Build!
Thanks for visiting DR Toys, have a great one!
This is outstanding, Dave! I especially love that it's pure scratch building. So many makers now are resorting to 3D printing to get exactly what they want, rather than using imagination and re-purposing. Your builds are something that anyone can do without specialist equipment, and that is a win in my book.
Thank you for your kind words. Is much as I think 3D printers have a place and can do cool things for me personally there's something so rewarding about looking at a pile of recycled part and creating something with just your hands, brains and a little glue! What a rush! 😃💪
Thanks again!
Very cool build Doc. The weathering technique you used works so well, definitely be giving it a go. And the base is perfect just ties it all together, awesome work man.
Thanks a bunch!
Awesome…. Gonna try something like this… I don’t have any Star Wars stuff. Thanks for sharing
No problem 👍 Thanks for watching and have fun doing it! 😃
Looks great! I noticed a small problem with the build though. You used High Galactic for the numbers and should have used Aurebesh. :)
The sticker guy in the Droid shop must have screwed up! LOL
Thanks for watching!
love your content i found you when you made the ramen bot and have been watching you since.
Awesome! Thank you!
@@DRToysCreations no thank you for the amazing content
Lovely build! Absolutely outstanding! Keep it up!
Thank you! Cheers!
I love your builds. Totally underrated channel and needs more attention
Thanks!
I'm playing the long game... Slow and steady wins the race.
A little help from You Tubs algorithm would be nice as well... 😂😂😂
You always come up with some cool ideas and cool builds. :-)
Glad you like them!
Another great build, Doc! 👍
Thanks!😃
This is so cool. I love your build and creativity. The details of the tracks in the sand were the cherry on top, gives it the fully rounded story telling .
Glad you like it!🙏
Very nice as usual - great item very well done
Thank you so much 😊
I like the peacefulness of this diorama. Even if it suggests some fight in the end, now it's so calming. :D
Ooooo, that's a great name for this piece "The calm before the storm"
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@@DRToysCreations Yepp! :)
Another GREAT build!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're too kind! Thanks for all your nice comments!
Absolutely fantastic! I like the scout and the figure with it makes a neat storyline. Thanks for sharing this.
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Turned out awesome man!
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice Desert theme,this is lit🔥🔥
Thanks 🔥
Awesome as usual Doc .
Thanks!😃
You nailed it. The droid looks like it fits extremely well in the Star Wars universe. Great job.
Thank you so much 😀
So cool, how did I miss this one
😄 Thanks, I just did a minor update to the base, planning on taking it to Designer Con in November.
Yesss, that looks very cool
Thanks!
Very cool man!
Thanks... It's been a blast working with you all on this upcoming project!
Cool
Thanks!
Ok,this build is incredible!!!The little droids you come up with are just amazing!
Thank you so much!😃😃
Awesome build! I love the effect of chipping the primer - very clever. Thanks for another great video!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
As soon as the primer hit this it just brought it all together, love the wood usage too
Thanks. The wood grain was a little harder to cover up than I thought it would be but in the end it worked out!
Thanks for watching!
@@DRToysCreations had the premiere set to remind me lol watched right away and looking forward to the next one thank you
Love it
Thanks!
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No words! Amazing work!
Wow, thank you Joe! I really appreciate that!
@@DRToysCreations your welcome, keep those amazing videos coming!
I need this video in my life. Thank you.
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Sorprendente, amazing! Excelente trabajo Dr. Toys. Me gustan sus videos. Admiro sus trabajos.
Thanks so much!
looks awesome!
Dave, love the use of wood and wiring togetehr, AWESOME! I am a new subscriber and I really like your style!
I appreciate it! Thanks.
This is REALLY great! With few changes the droid could pass for a combat Walker in 28/30 mm scale
That would be cool! I can totally see that!
Thanks.
Thank you for this awesome video!
This project and a spaceship build recently shared on the Replica Prop Forum really opened my eyes to how I've been thinking more complicated than things sometimess really need. No need to overcomplicate things and construct boxes from styrene and the like when sometimes a piece of wood can make a perfectly fine starting point.
Great to hear! Thanks!
Marvelous!
Now that needs to be sent back to 1977 for the "Look, sir, droids!" scene! =D
😂 Thanks so much!
WOW... Thought to myself why are you looking so smug at the end of the video? Then the build came into shot. Now i see why Amazing.
😂 Thanks so much. It's crazy to start with nothing then at the end have created something with your own hands! I have so much to learn but each build is a step closer (most of the time 😂)
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@@DRToysCreations You Really, really nailed those legs, almost steals the show- creates a lot of potential motion and implied noise, that thing is moving quicker than a chicken walker. Great job
This one is genius! Really cool as I love Star Wars, or at least before it went woke! But yeah, really cool work!
I hear ya! I miss being able to just go and enjoy a good film with a great story line that’s not trying to leverage some agenda…
Great idea , using tile grout, and magnets . Thanks for the vid Bro !!
Thanks.
I absolutely love this! Your work is stunning, 👏🏼
Thank you so much!😃🙏
Very cool. I love making stuff with wood, so it’s very cool to see you do it.
Thanks. I need to do a little more of it…😃
I am addicted to your videos I love your artwork
😂Thanks!
Robot looks amazing , great attention to detail 👍
Thanks. ❤️
Awesome as always. Please make your very own king shark
Cool idea! I saw someone just made one out of a hulk body... 😂
Love it! As usual, great build! 🙌🏻
Thank you!! 😊
Awesome very cool build
Thanks!
This looks awesome! I love the droid!
Thanks!
Awesome droid and diorama Dr T!! I would never have thought to use a block of wood for a droid, but the way you customized it made it work really, really well. The panel lines and added greeblies really brought it to life and made it believable. How did you cover up the wood grain? What was that primer you used??
Great stuff, thanks for sharing, stay safe, and keep on keeping on!!
Thank you very much! I used grey auto primer. its a little rougher than the regular gray primer so I had to sand it down but it covered the wood grain pretty well.
When I'm using wood and have a really porous end grain that really soaks up paint, I'll take and wipe some slightly watered down tight bond wood glue over the end grain and let it dry, it fills and seals and stabilizes the pores enough to get a good smooth finish.
Party.
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Amazing!!
Thanks!!
Amazing
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Wow 👏
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USE A SPADE BIT TO DRILL YOUR HOLES FOR YOUR T LIGHT SOCKETS. MAKES A PERFECT CIRCLE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
I do have some spade bits but the tip that starts the hole drills through the other side of the base because the base is so thin. I hunted around Home Depot but didn't see anything that would work...
Do you know of anything like a spade without the long tip? Thanks.
You can get a set of Forstner bits from Harbor Freight that won't break the bank. That is the type of bit to use in this case. They make a cylindrical hole to a desired depth, where as a spade bit is designed to make a hole completely through the material.
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😀 Thanks!
Brutal... lml
Thanks
I love using wood for scratch building, it takes a little more effort, but you end up with a great end product. My most recent scratch build uses an old hardwood drawer I pulled out of a trash pile for most of my wooden components.
Yeah, I don't have a ton of woodworking tools but enough to get by... 😀
@@DRToysCreations one thing I would recommend getting is the Stanley #12-101 trim plane. It's around ten bucks but it's a super useful tool for scratch building. I even use it to put chamfers on styrene.
@@justindunlap1235 I'll check that out. Thanks.
@@DRToysCreations also I just found out that thinned gesso (a mixture of paint glue and fine chalk) works great for priming wood, you can even tint it. It is also helpful for those plastic parts that don't seem to take a coat of paint no matter how much you sand or degrease.
@@justindunlap1235 That's very interesting! I have used gesso on painting canvas's but never thought of it outside of that. Thanks.