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My KX droid, hand painted and weathered. All printed one the Centauri Carbon.

Latest build — protocol droid head. He’s been through a lot lately. Apparently protocol did not include self-preservation. 😂 Next up: getting him moving and lighting up. How’d I do?

Latest build — protocol droid head. He’s been through a lot lately. Apparently protocol did not include self-preservation. 😂 Next up: getting him moving and lighting up. How’d I do?

Finished my Diablo model! He stands about 3 1/2 feet tall and was completely painted by hand. This one took a lot of work, especially getting the skin tones, bone armor, horns, claws, lava, and all the little details on the base to come together.

How did I do? I’d love to hear what everyone thinks.

Finished my Diablo model! He stands about 3 1/2 feet tall and was completely painted by hand. This one took a lot of work, especially getting the skin tones, bone armor, horns, claws, lava, and all the little details on the base to come together.

How did I do? I’d love to hear what everyone thinks.

Finished my Diablo model! He stands about 3 1/2 feet tall and was completely painted by hand. This one took a lot of work, especially getting the skin tones, bone armor, horns, claws, lava, and all the little details on the base to come together.

How did I do? I’d love to hear what everyone thinks.

Looking for some help figuring out pan servo placement for the neck on my KX droid.
The tilt is already working and connected at the base of the head, but I’m having trouble finding a good way to add pan. I can’t really put the servo inside the neck because there just isn’t enough room. The head has room inside but since the tilt is directly connected I’m kind of stuck.
I’m thinking about mounting the pan servo externally and attaching it directly to the neck somehow, but everything I’ve tried so far ends up having too much wobble.
I included two pictures showing the current neck setup and the space I have to work with.
Has anyone built something similar or have an idea for a solid way to mount the pan servo without introducing a bunch of play/wobble? I’m open to belts, gears, bearings, brackets, whatever works.

Looking for some help figuring out pan servo placement for the neck on my KX droid.
The tilt is already working and connected at the base of the head, but I’m having trouble finding a good way to add pan. I can’t really put the servo inside the neck because there just isn’t enough room. The head is empty besides the arduino and servos that control eye movement but since the tilt is directly attached to the head I don’t think that will work.
I’m thinking about mounting the pan servo externally and attaching it directly to the neck somehow, but everything I’ve tried so far ends up having too much wobble.
I included two pictures showing the current neck setup and the space I have to work with.
Has anyone built something similar or have an idea for a solid way to mount the pan servo without introducing a bunch of play/wobble? I’m open to belts, gears, bearings, brackets, whatever works.

He’s over 7 feet tall, completely hand-painted, and his head moves. He has a built-in motion sensor, and if you say “Hey KX,” he’ll respond.

I built an internal AI system for him that lets him talk about his life, his history, and his time spent in a scrapyard. He’s developed a bit of a grumpy personality, which honestly fits him perfectly.

His eyes light up and change color depending on his mood and the questions you ask him.

It’s been a really cool project to build. Next up, I’m planning on making him a nice rifle so he has something to keep his hands busy.

He’s over 7 feet tall, completely hand-painted, and his head moves. He has a built-in motion sensor, and if you say “Hey KX,” he’ll respond.

I built an internal AI system for him that lets him talk about his life, his history, and his time spent in a scrapyard. He’s developed a bit of a grumpy personality, which honestly fits him perfectly.

His eyes light up and change color depending on his mood and the questions you ask him.

It’s been a really cool project to build. Next up, I’m planning on making him a nice rifle so he has something to keep his hands busy.

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****EDIT****

This is insane. Seriously, thank you for all the love — 11k upvotes and 700k views is way beyond anything I expected. I honestly thought I’d get a few hundred views and a thumbs up.

Thank you to everyone who commented, asked questions, and shared kind words. I really appreciate it.

I’m going to post a video of him within the next week, so keep an eye out. If there are certain questions or responses you want to hear from him, drop them below and I’ll ask him a few in the video.

Also, quick clarification: he isn’t meant to be K-2SO. Given what happens in the movie, I wanted this to be another KX-series droid — KX-19 — with his own personality, history, and way of responding. K-2SO is so loved that I didn’t want to just make a copy of him. KX-19 is meant to feel like his own character.

Ok So I posted the other day but didnt put any pics up of my set up. So this is happening different speeds and set ups I have, I posted my .12 set up but they keep detaching from the plate, happens more with taller ones than ones laying down. But its making it impossible to print anything taller. I have ran the leveling 100 times, I have tried different z offsets, new bed plate, tried organic and normal supports. But I have to be missing something, I do a lot of organic prints like dinosaurs, I attached a tail for example, tried to paint extra supports to hold it in place but nada, this happens on things like pipes to for like a gun barrel that is fully touching, eventually the support gets nocked off or the actual print, causing failure. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong, tired of wasting filament...tired of loosing hair I dont have to loose, and if anyone sees anything in my settings that can help with a clean print with less support marks please let me know..Thank you