Spider Legs

The plugs are in and drilled. The bolts fit just right :)
Now to work on the actual body covering. Time to bust out the ruler and styrene again.

Long Legs

Finished cutting the legs to the right size and put everything together.
I took some left over PVC and made some resin plugs to strengthen where the legs are bolted to the body so they will not crack easily.
PVC does not stick to resin so they popped out easily.
The plugs will be glued into place inside the leg to body connection. This is also where the bolts will be that let you disconnect everything.

Leg joints

I added the four "+" pieces today, once painted it will look like the legs swivel on them like a joint.

Later I will fill the top of the holes with resin so they look solid.

Long Legs

During lunch I went home to and installed the smaller feet pipes and marked them to the length I wanted. I went ahead and took a pic of it with the whole pipe on, it almost touches the ceiling!
I cut them to length the old fashioned way and reinstalled them
Here is a scaling picture with ED in the background so you can see the finished height.
Just need to glue a few more pieces on and the frame is done.

Let there be legs

I finally started putting the spider together for real, scaling every 16th of an inch up to one inch on the toy got me the size I have now. I still have to put the thinner pipe sections in to raise it up another foot but the basic structure is there.
Right now it is only standing on the outer legs but it is pretty solid already.

I finished my B'omarr! Kinda....

It is kinda hard to judge the proportions of the spider with what few pictures there are of it so I bought a toy version of it on Ebay for $6.
Now it will be easier to scale up everything to the size I want.

I bought myself some brains!

People say I tend to over think everything but I bought mesa some more brains anyway.
I bought this brain on Ebay for $17 including shipping.
It is a life sized replica made out of dense foam that I will glue permanently together after weighting the bottom.
It should be here next week.

I also took the time to glue some of the joints together that I knew were right on the money.
Every joint piece has raised writing on them so I am taking the time to cut them off.
A little light sanding and all will be good.

B'omarr Monk

I started some rough set up of a full size B'omarr with Jen who is afraid of spiders LOL.
Remember this is a rough set up and not the finished legs.

It was a hot 16 degrees today when I took all the 1 1/4 inch pipe outside to rough cut.
No it was not snowing, that is just PVC dust.
I slipped the parts loosely together using mostly 45 degree elbows for the upper part of the legs.
When I finally put the legs all the way together I think it will be about this high at 4 foot.
After studying some pictures on wookie-pedia some more I think the length of the center body is to long, I will have to shorten it up a few inches and offset the V shape in the legs.
Jen and Denny really does not like this spider project LOL.