Gort

Scoop out that head

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Jan 142009
 

So over Christmas I removed the electronics and  placed it to one side to add back  later.

I carefully examined the dome and marked it up for filler.

The main reason for this is even though it was working quite well a small issue bothered me.

There is a lens where the laser beam shoots out. The angle of this due to  the up down visor had a rather acute angle.

Given that Gort is close to 8ft tall maybe it would not be noticeable.
Well now if I can get the mechanism to work the lens will look like it is at the correct angle.
Here are some pics.

Here is an early version of the head.

An intermediate version

And here what I have now, complete with markups.

A head reshape for Gort

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Jan 112009
 

Over the Christmas break I took a long look at Gorts head and I felt that some parts of it needed to be reshaped. I was not happy with the visor, although I was happy with the movement of the visor.

I made a new visor with different curves.
I reshaped the ears and repositioned one ear. I marked some areas for further touching up, bumps and ruts.

 

 

 


This has taken me a lot of my time to carefully adjust and mark changes.

The pictures here are the newer visor and head the visor was a ‘dry fit’ and so looks a little wonky.

I ripped out all the electronics, with the intention of reusing the circuit once I have the head looking correct.

 

 

 

One of the issues with the old visor was that the angle it was at because of the dome. So I have cut away some area inside the dome to allow the area under the visor to be at less of an angle.

 

Ahead of the head

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Oct 252008
 

Progress on my Gort has stagnated over the last few months. Mostly due to being busy at work, my messing around with Linux but also because I agreed to clean some areas of the basement\garage before continuing work on my Gort. During this time I started thinking about another way of doing the head that [...]

Frickin laser beams shooting out of his head

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May 312008
 

The Gort-Man now has a raising and lowering visor, head tilt action and bright lights

Progress

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Apr 282008
 
Progress

I have not posted much in April, partially because I went backward for a while when I ripped out the first visor. Then second visually you cannot see the progress, finally I have been away during April. There is still a long way to go I am trying to get the electronics and visor(head) finished [...]

AKA….. The Stig!

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Apr 282008
 
AKA..... The Stig!

I thought I should actually post a progress photo. I am having trouble with the height of Gort at the moment, so it’s not put together very often anyway this is the first time I have seen it all together for a while. All I can think of is, if the arms were bent and [...]

New improved visor with go faster stripes

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Mar 222008
 
New improved visor with go faster stripes

I removed the old visor and re-made it to be thinner.

New visor

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Mar 222008
 
New visor

So amongst other things I have been working on replacing the visor and adding some perspex for the eyes. The visor is now done and is thinner than before. I now need to embellish it with the curves. I hope to make it look like some alien metal. Work on the head tilting forward has [...]

Cleaned up visor

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Mar 162008
 

I spent the last week ripping out the old visor and changing it to be a slimmer version of what I had previously, it seems a lot better looking now.I have to work getting the visor looking right at this stage because it will be inaccessible later. While building up the helmet and waiting for [...]

A visor only a mother would love.

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Mar 112008
 

After showing the visor in action last week and looking carefully at it, I thought that the visor may be too thick so I ripped out the visor and have added a new one, it is still not finished yet and I have now come across the reason I chose to make it that thick! [...]

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