Kshatriya – work in progress

Wiring went fine together with all legs parts combined. A quick way to document circuits 😉 Test power-on! ….sooo many wires!!! Looks super-cool!

The goal is to drive all cables through the thighs. I used some spare springs from other Zaku model to secure cables at back of leg joints.Additional red CRLED was added for ambient light. I drilled 3mm wide whole throughout each thigh part, to put there 4 wires (red ambient, blue side thrusters, orange engine…

The details within legs internal structure are just bagging for show. I started to think how to fix leg armor and make it removable… I decided to go with some magnets that will keep armor in place. This is it! Additionally, I added hard plastic rods for legs hinges – in fact I believe that…

The project is getting more and more complicated… I was thinking over night about adding some light to the model…I tried with one 5mm LED and drilled in one of the thrusters – damn… now I need to drill all 12…. Don’t have any idea how to and where I will hide cabling and etc.…

MonoEye, mega particle cannons was quite easy to drill in.Other parts requires more attention and a lot of patience to cut through fragile resin… I did my best – it went how it went…I removed a lot of resin from inside to fit the cabling – general idea is to connect everything within hollow body…

My Kshatriya LEDs are controlled by two Arduinos, during the project I added BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) module, to have ability to control lightning by phone.That worked, I was able to turn on and off LEDs via console application on my iPhone. Some time ago, I took a challenge to program another Arduino board with…

To rebuild the grills I used 0,3mm pla plates from GreenStuffWorld and some photo-etched mesh. It added extra details and looks well when lights are on.

The model is designed with really long peg joints that secures each foot – I was always wondering when looking at finished models about ankles – looks quite awkward and hmmm empty… so I decided to shorten the pegs and limit free space around ankles. After some test fit I found proper lenght. To make…

Additional magnets added to secure rear armor and LEDs with wiring. Bottom three orange leds (in each exhaust) and red ambient added. Butt part secured and generally it looks good!

In fact there will be 12 LED electric circuits. The plan is to put Arduino as a controller and add a bit of life through LEDs lightwork 🙂 After two evenings with Arduino programming – I have initial idea for lights “animation” All electrical circuits need to be somehow combined together within a body of…