Ok so I suppose I should comment as to why I am bothering to do the upgrade. My beloved dog has taken battle damage at cons, and inevitably so will yours. When you first do this you wont necessarily stop to think about all the little safety precautions you could add or you will find you missed a few. I am still choosing to be blind to most of the things I know I could and probably should do to protect him from future repairs. However, I believe repair will be inevitable no matter what, something will always happen.
Lets start with your options for a shell for your K-9. What should you make it out of?
First pick your material. Pick something your comfortable with. If your good with a few how to video's, books or blogs, and feel confident that you can duplicate the process koodos for you. If it stresses you out to think..'what IS fiberglass resin?' you might want to stick to the simpler products. This does NOT make your K-9 any less cool. Remember if your going to to feel you have taken on to big of a project you will either not have fun during the build or never complete it.
Second Choose what plans you want to follow. So far as I know there are 4 Choices at the k-9 builders club there is a set from Dave Everett linked below you should join this group to obtain copies. The Lespaceplie plans, The BBC released plans, and your own imagination.
k9.replicarobots.net - very nice set
lespaceplie.com - web pages currently not working
BBC - These can be found all over the net
In your MIND!
Back tracking threw sites I found that most of the plan links have shut down. Hopefully they will reopen.
That's enough for now see you later with more stuff you wont read. lol
Go back to START do not pass GO!
So the very first step in my quest to upgrade my K-9 is. To go back in time.
Yup, that's right the very first thing you do is research! Go back to all the old you tube builds and watch them again. Go on the hunt for new builds that have popped up in the interim. I have created a video playlist of all the builds I could find. The link can be found Below.
YouTube K-9 Builds
These will help you spot those possibilities that your current funds are available to you. Even the Duct Tape K-9! (Comment if you find one that needs adding. Several videos have sadly been deleted from YouTube and no longer exist as part of my collection, and may have been posted or reposted elsewhere.)
Next go threw that collection of K-9 Bookmarks you have stowed away. I will post a list of all I have in a later post and keep it updated along the way.
As a new builder all of these should prove very useful in ideas and motivation. If your looking to tweak your existing K-9 and perhaps didn't have the funds or the skills for a particular part before you may find its now well within your budget and abilities.
Yup, that's right the very first thing you do is research! Go back to all the old you tube builds and watch them again. Go on the hunt for new builds that have popped up in the interim. I have created a video playlist of all the builds I could find. The link can be found Below.
YouTube K-9 Builds
These will help you spot those possibilities that your current funds are available to you. Even the Duct Tape K-9! (Comment if you find one that needs adding. Several videos have sadly been deleted from YouTube and no longer exist as part of my collection, and may have been posted or reposted elsewhere.)
Next go threw that collection of K-9 Bookmarks you have stowed away. I will post a list of all I have in a later post and keep it updated along the way.
As a new builder all of these should prove very useful in ideas and motivation. If your looking to tweak your existing K-9 and perhaps didn't have the funds or the skills for a particular part before you may find its now well within your budget and abilities.
The Beginning - Sort Of
Hi everyone!
This was going to be a blog of my build. Sadly I am not a blogger.
So I have decided to try again. This will be instead a blog about my upgrade progress and ideas for my K-9.
It will have random posts on parts on my original build to let you know what was and what will be, also to give you a few helpful hints on your own build. In return your helpful hits tips and ideas will hopefully help inspire me to make this upgrade even more spectacular!
Lets be jamming. (crossing fandoms is never to geeky)
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